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Technique: Gilt
Gilt Bronze Clock, 19th Century, Napoleon III Period
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Gilt bronze clock, with its gilt wood base on a blackened wood sicle, signed by Pellegrin in Marseille, 19th century, Napoleon III period
Measures: H: 49 cm, W: 36 cm, D: 17 cm
SM0...
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Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Napoleon III Bronze French Cartel Clock
Located in Berlin, DE
French cartel clock bronze 19th century Napoleon III.
Bronze case, matte gold-plated and polished. Pendulum window. Enamel dial with Arabic. Digit...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Large Gilt Bronze Portico Clock, Restoration Period
By Lepine
Located in Paris, FR
Large gilt bronze portico regulator clock from the Restauration period. It takes the form of an antique architecture with four smooth Corinthian columns with acanthus leaf capitals. ...
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1820s French Restauration Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Jaeger LeCoultre Mid Century Marina Clock Model No. 486
Located in London, GB
Beautiful Jaeger LeCoultre mid century Marina eight day clock with a detailed naturalistic design.
With a polished gilt brass and lucite case with a black background, this clock i...
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Mid-20th Century Swiss Mid-Century Modern Gilt Clocks
Materials
Brass
Sèvres Style Gilt Bronze and Porcelain Carriage Clock
Located in London, GB
This beautiful clock was crafted in circa 1870 in France. Known as a carriage clock, it was designed for use when travelling. Such clocks were crafted on a small scale with handles, ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French Mantel Clock / Pendulum Clock, Fire-Gilt, Around 1870-1880
Located in Berlin, DE
French mantel clock / pendulum clock, fire-gilt, around 1870-1880
Solid bronze, fire-gilded, french around 1870-1880, original French historicism.
An absolute eye catcher.
Finely chiselled gold-plated bronze in the best quality.
Functional clockwork.
The mantel clock stands on an antique wooden base.
Category
1870s French Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Mantel Clock 18th Century Louis XV Period by Diot À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
The Ancient Roman personifications of love and desire, Venus and Cupid, feature on this this fantastic Louis XVI mantel clock. Finely cast in resplendent gilt bronze, they are shown with a dove on Venus's hand, another ancient symbol of love. Venus is shown in draped clothing...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Mantel Clock 18th Century Louis XV Period, by Seigneurel À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
A Louis XV style marble mantel clock. Enamel dial with Roman numerals, signed with a red inscription "Seigneurez A Paris", finely pierced, engraved gold-plated hands, a broken arch (...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Malachite
Antique French Gilt Bronze Cartel Wall Clock
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A stunning Baroque style antique French Cartel wall clock. It is beautifully modelled in gilded bronze in the shape of a shield. To the sides are bold acanthus scrolls with finely fr...
Category
19th Century French Baroque Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Rococo Style Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock with Sèvres Style Porcelain Plaques
Located in London, GB
Rococo style gilt bronze mantel clock with Sèvres style porcelain plaques
French, late 19th Century
Measures: Height 45cm, width 32cm, depth 15cm
This fine mantel clock is a cha...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Mantel Clock 19th Century Styl Empire by Ferdinand Berthoud À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
Ormolu bronze mantel clock flanked by a troubadour and musical instruments, signed 'Ferdinand Berthoud a Paris'.
The end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century was a crucial time in which new technological advances helped to make watches more accurate and more portable. During the 1790s, the production of gilded bronze increased considerably as working conditions improved. The freedom of trade initiated by the French Revolution allowed many casters to develop large factories. The new factory environment gave them a chance to execute all stages of bronze work including drawing, casting, gilding, assembly, and trade of art objects. While the bronzers took creative liberty in creating all kinds of clocks in contrast to the noble and rigorous structure carried by the movement of neoclassicism. Under the reign of Empire, the case designs started gradually to develop away from a proportionate and strict classicism towards a baroque style and revival style. The rediscovery of medieval civilization was one of the intellectual curiosities of the beginning of the 19th century, with much input from the Ancien Régime and its institutions, rites and the medieval churches in which family ceremonies occurred.
This early nineteenth-century figural mantel clock is surmounted by a medieval musician. To be more precise, it is a french troubadour. Troubadours were known for composing and performing lyric poetry for the nobility back during medieval times. The clock is featuring a chiselled bronze troubadour, dressed in medieval fashion while holding a flute, playing a tune from sheet music called "Du Troubadour" that is resting on top of the rectangular clock case. In addition to that, the clock features a gilt bronze lute or vielle resting on a small stool on the opposite side of the clock’s case. The white enamel dial features the inscription Berthoud and is underlined by a bronze entourage chiselled with palmette motif, plus encompassed by c-scrolls and wreaths. The original hands are in blued steel and encircled by Roman numerals indicating hour next to Arabic numerals indicating minutes.
The small details that adorn the hexagonal plinth are reliefs, depicting two water fountains or basins on both sides with a lyre in between. The sculpted image of a lyre raised above the background features also foliage garlands tied on top with ribbons. The clock rests on seven spinning feet.
The clock was made in the well-known workshop of the Berthoud’s family that was recognized for their excellent work by the King.
Berthoud Clockmakers History.
Ferdinand Berthoud was a horologist and author of extensive treatises on timekeeping as well as a Swiss clockmaker serving the king of France, that produced many marine clocks, including a weight-driven version that inspired the first American sea-going clock. He was born in Plancemont, Switzerland, the son of an architect and judiciary. In 1741 he began a three-year apprenticeship as a clockmaker under his brother, Jean-Henri. He made his first marine chronometer in 1754 (sent for trial in 1761) and in 1764 was appointed a member of the Royal Society, London and Horloger Mécanicien de Sa Majesté et de la Marine ayant l'inspection de la construction des Horloges Marines. In 1769, Ferdinand Berthoud sent for his nephew Pierre-Louis Berthoud (1754–1813), commonly known as Louis Berthoud, a talented young watchmaker and clockmaker, inviting him to come to Paris from Couvet, Switzerland, to pursue his apprenticeship. Louis helped Ferdinand manufacture and repair the sea clocks...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Huge Mantel Clock in Bronze Style Neoclassical
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very unsual clock in the style neoclassical in ormolu bronze each detail on the side bronze clock and front are stunning.
Category
1930s French Neoclassical Vintage Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French 19th Century Ormolu and Porcelain Clock Set
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive late 19th century French gilded ormolu and cobalt blue porcelain urn clock set, the clock having seated putti holding garl...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
French 19th Century Gilded Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock Caron Le Fils A Paris
Located in Vilnius, LT
Antique 19th century French gilded bronze and white marble mantel clock.
The clock is decorated with beautiful female figures holding floral garlands and vase with flowers on the t...
Category
19th Century French Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Restoration Period Clock in Gilt Bronze with a Young Woman
Located in Paris, FR
Clock in gilded and chiseled bronze representing a young woman sitting sideways dressed in the antique style, wearing a laurel crown and flowers, holding a veil above her head. She i...
Category
1830s French Restauration Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Mantel Clock 19th Century Styl Empire by Drouot Place Moubert
Located in Warsaw, PL
The clock is in excellent and perfect working condition. In addition, it was recently cleaned and serviced by a professional clockmaker who specializes in maintaining museums.The eig...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique 19th Century French Gilded Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in Vilnius, LT
Large antique 19th century French gilded bronze mantel clock surmounted with two angels holding the dial.
The enamel dial numerals are hand...
Category
19th Century French Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
French 19th Century Louis XVI Gilded Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock
Located in Vilnius, LT
Antique 19th century French gilded bronze and white marble mantel clock of the period Louis XVI.
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Enamel
Mantel Clock 18th Century Louis XV Period
Located in Warsaw, PL
Mantel clock 18th century Louis XV by Picard, Henry (French, FL. 1831-1864)
Henri Picard was a prestigious 19th century fondeur and doreur, who worked in Par...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Bronze Cartel Clock
Located in Bronx, NY
This vintage mid 19th century French Louis XV style cartel (wall) clock is beautifully designed. The dramatic sculpted bronze large clock is decorated with sweeping scrolled leaves &...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
The Clock is in a Excellent and Perfect Working Condition, Also it Has Recently
Located in Warsaw, PL
Portico clock signed “Persevalle à Reims”
This refined portico clock crafted in transitional Louis XVI – Empire style from ormolu and black marble is signed on the dial “Persevalle à Reims”. The Empire style was based on elements of the Roman Empire and its culture, which had been rediscovered starting in the eighteenth century. Bronze was the main material used in Empire style timepieces and both the patina and ormolu techniques were vastly used for ornamentation during this period. As for the source of inspiration for decorative motifs of Louis XVI style, it was coming from nature and antiquity thus many characteristic elements would reoccur in architecture, interior decoration and furniture. Many ornaments were borrowed from flora, and this love for nature appeared into decoration by the presence of a wreath of roses, baskets, palmettes, bows and ribbons.
The portico clock is mainly crafted from black marble and ormolu bronze embellishments, which with their minimalistic touch compliments one another. As mentioned before, the source of inspiration for this portico clock derived from antiquity. The columns which are a key feature of portico clocks are constructed in Greco-Roman architecture. The two front black pillars are made in Tuscan style with gilded capital and base, they are also entwined with an acanthus spiral around the pillar. The back columns, in contrast to the front one, are square and has only a face adorned with a gilded bronze floral garland. The four columns are connected on top with an entablature with a cylinder-shaped dial in the middle cast from bronze. The entablature is adorned on both sides with gilded lyres and flower vases.
The dial of the clock is signed ‘Persevalle à Reims’ and consists of blue Breguet-style hands that indicate hours laid out in Roman numerals and minutes in Arabic numerals on the enamel dial. The Breguet hands have a circle with a filled crescent shape on the side and have been featured its founder's watch hands for over two centuries now. This unique shape is sometimes referred to by the French word for apple, pomme.
Above the dial is situated a small black marble plinth and a marble medicis vase...
Category
Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Mantel Clock 19th Century Styl Empire by Chaussee D'aulin À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
Very beautiful Empire clock on the theme of music. rare model, signed “Caillouet in Paris” Watchmaker referenced in the Tardy at the date of 1810. Scene decorated with a musician sit...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Gilt Bronze Clock with Winged Genie, Charles X Period
Located in Paris, FR
A Charles X period ormolu clock representing a winged genie playing the lyre in acanthus leaves populated by dolphins. The dial, decorated with two nymphs carrying a lyre on an altar, indicates the hours in black Roman numerals. The oval base is decorated with music trophies...
Category
1820s French Charles X Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Fine French Louis XV Rocaille Style Sevres Porcelain Gilt Bronze Ormolu Clock
Located in Forney, TX
A stunning fine quality Napoleon III Second Empire Period (1852-1870) doré bronze (gilt bronze ormolu) shelf clock with signed Japy Freres eight-day time and strike movement.
Born in Paris, France in the third quarter of the 19th century, exceptionally executed in luxurious 18th century Louis XV Rocaille taste, the curvacious sculptural case...
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19th Century French Rococo Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Mid 19th Century French Gilt Bronze Clock, Rococo Style
Located in Vaughan, ON
Measures: 3 4/5 inch/ 350mm High
Made in France, Mid 19th century, Gilt Bronze Rococo style standing clock in perfect condition, functions well
This magnificent 19th century masterpiece was proudly obtained by Redstone Antiques...
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Mid-19th Century French Rococo Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Important Pre Numbered Thomas Cole Calander Strut Clock
Located in London, GB
Antique Thomas Cole strut clock with calendar. High quality strut clock by this eminent maker. Early model being pre-numbered. In leather carry...
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1840s English Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Very Fine Directoire Style French Gilt Bronze and Marble Mantel Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
A very fine French Directoire style gilt bronze and marble (Rosso Levanto) Mantel Clock. 19th Century.
movement stamped 1075.
Measures: height 16 1/2" x width 18" x depth 5 1/2"
C...
Category
1860s French Directoire Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Mantel Clock 18th Century Louis XV Period
Located in Warsaw, PL
The clock is in excellent and perfect working condition. In addition, it was recently cleaned and serviced by a professional clockmaker.
The eight-days going movement has a wire sus...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Swedish Carved and Parcel Gilt Eagle Form Mantel Clock
Located in Dallas, TX
Very fine carved giltwood eagle form mantel clock. Exceptional carving and take notice of the elaborate face of the clock featuring decorative numerals and a cherub. An exceptional p...
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19th Century Swedish Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Metal
Mantel Clock 19th Century, Napoleon III Period
Located in Warsaw, PL
A beautiful clock made of bronze and malachite in an intense green and blue color. The clock stands on four decorated feet in the shape of paws. At the foot of the dial there is a cu...
Category
19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
Mantel Clock 19th Century Styl Empire by Lefevre De Belle
Located in Warsaw, PL
The clock is in a excellent and perfect working condition. Also it has recently been cleaned and serviced by a professional clock maker.
The eight-days going movement has a wire su...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Gilt Mantel Clock with Winged Cherub, Silk Suspension, circa 1830
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A beautiful early French Cherub mantel clock, circa 1830 with gilt brass case, the ceramic dial is in excellent condition with no chips or cracks, with breguet hands, the bezel is decorated with flowers above a pair of foliate swags with a standing crane to the centre. The rectangular base is decorated with flowering foliate swags and a central cartouche with a maidens head...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Brass
Small Clock with Elephants
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Desk clock with elephants, early 20th century, Art Nouveau.
Measures: H: 16 cm, W: 21 cm, D: 8 cm.
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Vintage Gilt Clocks
Materials
Metal
Antique French Neoclassical Revival Mantel Clock & Urn Garniture Set
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent turn of the late 19th / early 20th century French three piece mantel set, retailed by the renowned Bailey Banks and Biddle, with movement by Samuel Marti of Paris.
The stunning antique...
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Early 20th Century Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
19th Century Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze Pendule Clock
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
An elegant French mantel clock/pendule, made of gilt bronze. The whole in Louis XV style. The clock is made in France 1880-1890. Fine bronze case with typical asymmetric floral motifs in Rococo style. The dial is enameled, at the Roman number VI is a small damage on the enamel. The clock is in good condition and workin order, it have the original gilding. The clockwork have a 8-day movement and strikes every half our on a bronze silver plated bell.
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1880s French Rococo Revival Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
French Directoire Pendule, Black Marble, Firegilded Bronze, circa 1800
Located in Greven, DE
Antique portal clock
France
marble, bronze, enamel
Directoire around 1800
Dimensions: H x W x D: 46 x 28 x 14 cm
Description:
Antique portal c...
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Early 19th Century French Directoire Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Bronze
Mantel Clock 19th Century Transitional Period
Located in Warsaw, PL
The clock is in excellent and perfect working condition. In addition, it has been cleaned and maintained by a professional watchmaker specializing in museum maintenance. The eight-da...
Category
Early 18th Century French Industrial Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Rare Model Empire Clock Depicting Faustulus Discovering Romolus and Remus
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
The highest quality late French Empire/Charles X mantle clock in terms of bronze casting, chasing, and gilding. The partially clad figure of Fau...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Griotte Marble, Bronze
Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and Glass Mantel Clock by Francois Linke
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A very rare Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and glass, Pendule a cage, by Francois Linke, with a white marble base.
Linke Index no. 076'.
Linke Title: 'pendule a cage'.
Signed to th...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Mantel Clock 19th Century, Napoleon III Period
Located in Warsaw, PL
Late 19th century neoclassical style clock crafted from gilt bronze with The malachite clock case is supported by ormolu toupie feet, which were very common in that period of time.Th...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
19th Century Tortoiseshell / Ormolu Westminster Chiming Mantle Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very impressive and fine quality late 19th Century English bracket / mantel clock. Veneered in red Tortoiseshell and having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts and mouldings. Having fla...
Category
Late 19th Century English Louis XVI Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Mantel Clock 19th Century Styl Empire by Petit Pizze À Dijon
Located in Warsaw, PL
Early 19th century Empire clock crafted of gilt bronze, or ormolu, featuring an allegorical scene with a woman sitting at her work table play...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Gilded Ormolu and Bronze Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
An impressive late 19th century French gilded ormolu and patinated bronze mantel clock. Having three putti mounted to the top each playing musical instruments. The clock having an ei...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Mantel Clock 19th Century, Louis Philippe Charles X Style
Located in Warsaw, PL
Mantel clock 19th century Louis Philippe Charles X period ormolu pendulum with malachite plinth. This stunning clock is surmounted by a gilded bronze figure of a Greek god – Apollo playing on a lyre, seated on the malachite square...
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Early 19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
Antique Belle Époque Sculptural Three-Piece Clock Set after Auguste Moreau
Located in London, GB
Antique Belle époque sculptural three-piece clock set after Auguste Moreau
French, early 20th century
Measures: Clock height 81cm, width 40cm...
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Early 20th Century French Belle Époque Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Metal, Enamel, Spelter
Clock in Gilt and Patinated Bronze
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Clock in gilt and patinated bronze, period Napoleon III, 19th century.
Good working condition
Measures: H: 38 cm, W: 28 cm, D: 8 cm.
Category
1870s French Napoleon III Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Silvered Bronze / Rouge Marble Clock Garniture Set
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Mid 19th Century French silvered bronze and rouge marble three piece decorative clock garniture set . The clock features a classical figured woman with draping garments and flanked by two matching urns...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Silver Leaf
19th Century American Standing Clock by J.E Caldwell & Co
Located in Vaughan, ON
A very fine 19th century American standing clock by J.E Caldwell & Co, made in Philadelphia, USA. This item is of very high artistic merit due to its gilt bronze finishes with Enamel...
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Mid-19th Century American Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Clock Garniture de Cheminee by Etienne Maxant
By Etienne Maxant
Located in Montreal, QC
This set is a particularly fine example of this sort mantle ornament; The clock, surmounted by a Cupid with bow and arrow, is flanked by a pair of Campa...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Charles X Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figural Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
The dial signed 'Ritter Aîné à Rouen',
The case surmounted by a seated figure of Mars holding a scroll marked 'Marathon', seated on a cushioned throne with lion-paw feet, below hi...
Category
19th Century French Charles X Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Wall Clock 18th Century Boulle
Located in Warsaw, PL
This magnificent cantilever clock was made in France in the 18th century during the reign of Louis XV. The clock exhibits many decorative elements and features from the reign of Loui...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
C.1895 French Sedan Carriage Clock with Miniature Portraits
Located in Greenlawn, NY
Maker:
R & Co., Paris – Clockmaker
Cotton – Artist
Case:
The large cast Rococo style gilt-bronze sedan style case is elaborately decorated with s...
Category
Early 20th Century French Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Onyx / Gilt Three Piece Clock Garniture
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Mid 19th Century French Onyx with gilt brass and patinated metal three piece clock garniture set . The clock features an 8 day brass design time and ...
Category
1850s French Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Onyx, Brass
Fantastic Early 19th Century Empire Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Mantle Clock
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic Early 19th Century Empire style gilt and patinated bronze mantle clock
A large gilt bronze, beautiful woman sitting upon a griffin bergere chair, leaning on pillows an...
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Early 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XV Style Gilt Bronze and Crystal Mantel Clock Garniture
Located in Montreal, QC
This fine garniture is of the spirit and period of the Belle Epoque It is certainly Belle, the barrel movement is supported by an extremely elegant acanthus and leaf-form frame, and ...
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1890s French Belle Époque Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Mantel Clock 18th Century Louis XV Period by Kinable À Paris
Located in Warsaw, PL
"Late 18th Century - Kinable A Paris"
Along a winding dirt path, the blind Belisarius carries his young guide. The boy has been bitten by a snake, which remains coiled around his bleeding leg. With his right arm wrapped limply around Belisarius's neck and his eyes closed, the youth balances precariously between life and death. Belisarius's eyes are also closed, but guided by his stick he moves forward with determination and purpose. He rises heroically against the spectacular sunset, a monumental figure creating a powerful outline against the sky. But the flaring sunset also signals a chill night and the uncertainty of the path ahead.
Belisarius was a popular Byzantine general of the Roman Empire whose promising career was sabotaged by the jealous Emperor Justinian I. In 1767, a novel by Jean-François Marmontel revived interest in Belisarius. In Marmontel's novel, the emperor has the heroic general blinded, reducing Belisarius to begging. He is eventually rediscovered and aided by former officers and his family. This dramatic tale of patriotism, injustice, and redemption was widely embraced in revolutionary and post-revolutionary France and was a popular subject for artists--including Jacques-Louis David (François Gérard...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Rococo Style Mantel Clock
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th Century French gilded ormolu Rococo influenced mantel clock, having wonderful scrolling foliate decoration, the clock face having enamel Roman numerals, an e...
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Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
19th Century French Ormolu Mantel Clock, Christie's 2014 Auction
By Susse Freres
Located in Vaughan, ON
Christie's The Opulent Eye - 19th century Furniture, sculpture & works of art, London, Sep 18th, 2014. Christie's sale No.1554, Lot 259
Original receipts from Christie's will be provided to the buyer when the product is sold.
A French Ormolu mantel clock...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Gilt Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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