Louis XV Cartel D'applique

An exquisite Louis XV style gilt and patinated bronze cartel clock. The eight-day two train bell striking movement, with vertically planted platform cylinder escapement and stamped with S. Marti et Cie MEDAILLE D'ARGENT. 1889 roundel and serial number 647 to backplate. The dial formed as a deep blue and gold flecked enamel dome applied with gilt Roman numerals and stars set within billowing clouds interspersed with sunburst rays. Applied with three patinated bronze cherubs in flight, around the dial attending to a floral garland. Amongst the clouds can be found a pair of doves, a horn and arrows, a quiver and bow. This coupled with the cherubs and flower garland would suggest this clock was made as a love token or wedding present. The symbolism of love, marriage and fertility, the cherubs representing the three Greek Erotes...

A superb example of a Eureka wall clock made c1911. The electromagnetic movement is regulated by a large, slowly oscillating bi-metallic balance wheel, with the correct battery these clock will run for the duration of the battery life. Housed in a mahogany dial clock case with turned dial frame and brass bezel, the movement is visible through a cut out in the dial so the oscillation can be seen. The movement is numbered 5676 and stamped with the patent no 14614/1906 Made in England. The dial retains its original painted finish (cracked in places). This is the only model of wall clock Eureka made and is one of the rarer designs as they mostly concentrated on mantel clocks. The Eureka clock...

A Chronometerwerke Hamburg type 5 two day marine chronometer by Wempe numbered 5077. The free-sprung spotted movement with blued steel helical hairspring to a cut and compensated bim...

A fine regency longcase clock, with an eight day weight driven two train movement with brass bound weights, a heavy lenticular adjustable pendulum suspended from a T bar with an elli...

Louis XV style Cartel clock in gilt bronze with painted porcelain dial. The case has been re-gilded, and features typical rocaille ornament such as laurel leaves and berries, flowers...

Cartel d'applique d'époque Louis XV par Julien Le Roy à Paris Bronze doré et ciselé, cadran émaillé à chiffres romains et arabes Meccanisme Napoleon III signé aussi Le Roy

Clock, Cartel in Louis XV style, 19th century, Napoleon III period. Measures: H: 45 cm, W: 22 cm, D: 14 cm.

Cartel from the Louis XV period in brown tortoiseshell and inlaid with brass signed in enamel Jean Louis Delisle in Paris and on the movement, strikes the hours and half-hours revise...