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Item Ships From: Germany
Postmodern Italian Mantel Clock by Michael Graves for Alessi, 1980s
By Michael Graves (b.1934), Alessi
Located in Hamburg, DE
Rare table clock of the Italian manufacturer Alessi after a design by Michael Graves from 1986. A special and rare collector's object of Postmoderne.
The coat Clock is a miniature a...
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1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Metal
Antique Ormolu French Cartel Clock on its Stand, Mantle Clock, Napoleon III Era
By Ecole Boulle, Napoléon III
Located in Bochum, NRW
Antique Ormolu French Cartel Clock on its stand, Napoleon III Era.
This is a good-sized French mantel clock dating from around 1880. It has a waisted case with applied brass decoration and brass and tortoiseshell-style inlaid panels. The white enameled dial has fancy pierced brass hands and a beaded bezel. It is hand-painted with Arab numerals and decorated with garlands of flowers and leaves. The clock has a center window showing the pendulum shaped like a fairy. It drives the movement that seems to strike the hours and halves on a bell.
This gorgeous antique cartel clock...
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Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
19th Century Parisian Mantel Clock in Louis XVI Style, signed Lepine, circa 1870
By Guillaume Denière, Lepine, Samuel Marty
Located in Greven, DE
Mantel Clock in Louis XVI style
Paris
Ormolu, glass, marble
around 1870
Dimensions: H x W x D: 46 x 24 x 17 cm
Description:
Extremely high quality and finely crafted Parisian pend...
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1870s French Louis XVI Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
Biedermeier Mantel Clock, Early 19th Century
Located in Stahnsdorf, DE
Biedermeier Mantel Clock, Early 19th Century
A sophisticated Biedermeier mantel clock, crafted in Austria circa 1810–1830. This exceptional piece combines timeless elegance with out...
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1810s Austrian Biedermeier Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Maple
Early 19th Century Empire Clock, Miniature Matelot "Au Bon Sauvage", circa 1815
Located in Greven, DE
Miniature Empire Bronze Clock - Matelot
Paris
fire-gilded and patinated bronze
early 19th century
Dimensions: H x W x D: 18 x 14 x 9 cm
Description:
Very rare miniature of the famous Pendule Matelot "Au Bon Sauvage". The depiction deals with an important topic of the time, trade with the colonies.
The rectangular base stands on pressed ball feet. Attached to the front, we see two cornucopias filled with exotic fruits and held by a bow.
A young sailor, dressed in a raffia skirt and feather jewellery...
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1810s French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique Wooden Mantel Clock with Eagle, Swiss 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Wooden Mantel Clock with Eagle, Swiss 1900
A great carved linden wood mantel clock with a very detailled carved eagle sitting on a rock with foliage decorations. The porcelaine clockface has handpainted numerals, handcarved in Switzerland - Brienz ca. 1900. The clockwork was overworked by a clockmaker and is in working order. It comes with original key.
Measures:
Width 14.17" (36.0cm)
Height 24.8" (63.0cm)
Depth 5.12" (13.0cm)
Soberly considered mantel clocks are small pendulum clocks...
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Late 19th Century German Black Forest Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood
Early 19th Century French Mantel Clock, signed Ferey au Havre, Ormolu
Located in Greven, DE
Small mantel clock with bas-relief
France
Bronze, enamel
early 19th century
Dimensions: H x W x D: 33 x 19 x 9 cm
Description:
Antique, fire-gilt portal clock with figurative, Gre...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Ormolu
Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clock, Portal Pendule, Paris circa 1820
By Duval
Located in Greven, DE
Antique French round arch portal clock
France (Paris)
Bronze, enamel
Empire circa 1820
Dimensions: H x W x D: 47 x 26 x 12 cm
Description:
Very beautiful, strictly architecturally...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
19th Century French Louis XVI Style "Astronomy" Mantel Clock, circa 1845
By Perrelet
Located in Greven, DE
French mantel clock "Astronomy"
Paris
Bronze, marble
Mid 19th century
Dimensions: H x W x D: 38 x 55 x 16 cm
Description:
A Louis XVI-style figural mantel clock mounted on a two-t...
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1840s French Louis XVI Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
French Louis XV Style Bronze Three-Piece Garniture Clock Set
Located in Barntrup, DE
Large Louis XV or Rococo style bronze mantel clock and a pair of five-light candelabra, France, 1920s.
Decorated with floral and scrolled leaf motif throughout. Brass dial with indi...
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1920s French Louis XV Vintage Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique Mantel Clock with Eagle and Chamois Family, ca. 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Mantel Clock with Eagle and Chamois Family, ca. 1900
A large Black Forest wooden carved mantel clock with an eagle on top and a chamois defending her child. The clock is embedded in a handcarved wood pile. A masterpiece of Brienz woodcarvings which brightens up any chimney piece. The clockwork is cleaned and overworked by a clockmaker - working order.
Soberly considered mantel clocks are small pendulum...
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Late 19th Century Swiss Black Forest Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood
Rare Gilt-bronze French Empire Charles X Sunflower Mantel Clock
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Gilt and patinated bronze. The original movement has been cleaned and revised and is in perfect working condition (runs for around one week). Overall authentic condition with its ori...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Empire Portal Clock, France, Early 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Portal clock on a rectangular, stepped base in mahogany veneered with small bun feet. The stepped architrave is supported by four smooth columns, the capi...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis XVI Style Mantel Clock of a Lion Signed Festeau Le Jeune
By Festeau Le Jeune
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
The clock is signed by the Clockmaker Festeau Le Jeune. The case after a design of François Vion in form of a lion supporting a cylindrical case draped with ribbon tied laurel swags ...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Black Mantel clock with Benjamin Franklin in Bronze, 2nd Half 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
A mantel clock with a black case and gilt bronze appliqués. The dial with Roman hours. With a figural finial in the shape of a seated Benjamin Franklin.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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 Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Bronze
French Empire Ormulu Bronze Mantel Clock, Lepaute, Thomire, Paris, circa 1815
Located in Greven, DE
Ormulu pendule with depiction of friendship and love
Paris (Lepaute, Thomire)
fire-gilt bronze
Empire around 1815
Dimensions: H x W x D: 44 x 36 x 13 cm
French pendulum movement with eight days duration. Thread suspension and lock disc striking movement with strike on bell on the half and full hour.
White enamel dial with Roman hour numerals and Breguet hands.
Signature: LePaute & Fils / Hrl. du Roi (Pierre-Basile Lepaute (1750 - 1843) with his son Pierre-Michel Lepaute (1785-1849); from 1811 in joint workshop).
Description:
The extremely high quality pendulum shown here takes up a profound theme: Friendship, which combines with love and can thereby outlast time and death. As it is typical for the epoch of classicism, personifications and symbols are taken from the fund of ancient mythology and art and then developed further.
The main figure is a young woman in an antique, girded garment, standing barefoot and with crossed legs next to an altar, on which she is leaning with her left elbow. She gracefully bows her head towards a tempestuously approaching Cupid, grasps his right hand with her left and draws him to her bosom, the seat of the heart. The delicate ambivalence of flying towards and being held culminates in the trustingly intimate look that the two cast at each other.
The young woman personifies friendship, the winged Cupid love. As a sign of their intimate connection, two burning hearts appear on the altar next to the two, framed by the puffed scarf, which are closely bound together by a chain of flowers.
Next to them, on the altar slab, one can see an erected book with the title "Amitie" (French: amitie, friendship). Supporting the book is a pomegranate held by a ring of pomegranate flowers. The bursting seeds spill out of the cracked skin. Since ancient times, the pomegranate and its blossoms have been dedicated to the goddess Persephone, symbolizing the underworld and death, but also life and fertility. The myrtle interwoven in the pomegranate flower wreath of "friendship" also has a far-reaching symbolic power: the plant was dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, stands for virginity, and was and is therefore obligatory in the bridal wreath...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Art Deco Mantel Clock with Bird Sculpture, Marble, France circa 1930
Located in Regensburg, DE
Original, well-preserved Art Deco mantel or table clock from France around 1930.
Marble base in dark (Porto) and light marble. At the top a spelter cast of an albatross bird sculptur...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Brass, Spelter
Boch Frères Keramis Royal Blue Three-Piece Clock Garniture, Early 20th Century
By Boch Freres Keramis
Located in Barntrup, DE
An impressive antique Belgian Boch Frères Keramis pottery 3-piece clock set includes a clock and two vases on ornate bronze bases and is decorated with lion heads on the sides. This ...
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Early 20th Century Belgian Louis XVI Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Bronze
19th Century Miniatur Mantel Clock, Gare La Bombe, Cupido, France, Gilded Bronze
Located in Greven, DE
Pendulette "Gare La Bombe"
France
gilded bronze
first half 19th century
Dimensions: H x W x D: 20 x 15 x 7 cm
Description:
Antique miniature mante...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Antique Mantel Clock with Herdsman Family, Goats and Cattle
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Mantel Clock with Herdsman Family, Goats and Cattle
A Black Forest wooden carved mantel clock with a lovely herdsman family with their goats and cattles. A masterpiece of woodcarving which brightens up any chimney piece. The clockwork is replaced by battery driven one - working order.
Soberly considered mantel clocks are small pendulum clocks with feet...
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Late 19th Century German Black Forest Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood
Mantel Clock in Malachite, 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
This elegant mantel clock features a rectangular case entirely clad in deep green malachite. Fire-gilded bronze decorations in the form of floral festoons and lyres adorn the case. T...
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19th Century Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Bronze
Viennese Portal Clock, 1st Half 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
An elegant Viennese portal clock resting on a rectangular mahogany base. The ebonized case is richly adorned with fire-gilded bronze appliqués. Flanking the clock are carved decorati...
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Early 19th Century Austrian Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Antique Mantel Clock from around 1850, France, Fire-Gilded
Located in Berlin, DE
Antique mantel clock from around 1850, France, fire-gilded.
Fire-gilt and partially black-brown patinated bronze. Figurative attachment in the form of a poet leaning against a tre...
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1850s French Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Great Lodge Style Antler Mantel Clock 1900
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Great Lodge Style Antler Mantel Clock 1900
A rare antique lodge style mantel clock. Oakwood case, richly decorated with antlers from the deer and fallow deer, mountain goat antlers ...
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Early 20th Century German Black Forest Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood, Antler
French Empire Ormolu Mantel Clock by Deverberie a Paris, Fire-Gilded
Located in Berlin, DE
French Empire mantel clock from DeVerberie a Paris.
Fire-gilded.
Age-related condition.
Category
19th Century Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Early 19th Century Empire Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock by Claude Galle
By Claude Galle
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Claude Galle, (1759–1815, master in 1786) is one of the most renowned bronziers active during the Napoleonic period, such as Pierre-Philippe Thomire, André-Antoine Ravrio and Louis-S...
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Early 1800s French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Early 19th Century Pendule Portefaix, Mantel Clock, Paris and Brussels, c. 1810
By J. J. Hanset Bruxelles 1
Located in Greven, DE
Empire Pendule Portefaix
Paris, Brussels
Bronze, enamel
Empire around 1810
Dimensions: H x W x D: 36 x 28 x 11 cm
Description:
Beautiful, fire-gilded and patinated bronze mantel c...
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Early 19th Century Belgian Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Enamel
Important German Neoclassical Table Clock by David Roentgen
By David Roentgen
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
An important and rare table clock from the workshop of David Roentgen. The case with an oval stepped plinth top with gilt bronze handle, decoration of the case with ormolu mille raie banding, beaded edges and brass fluted columns to the front flanking the square brass dial, foliate engraved spandrels to the corners, centred by the white enamel Arabic chapter ring, signed Delolme, pierced brass hands, convex glazed bezel, square plated eight-day movement with four back-pinned pillars, verge escapement, silk suspension, rack and count wheel strike, striking the hours and quarters on two bells above, the back plate also signed, glazed side panels.
There is only a small series of comparable table clocks from the workshop of David Roentgen known. The present clock seems to be the first example of the cooperation between David Roentgen and the court clockmaker Delolme in Brunswick. The case is meticulously crafted and both case and movement are of superb quality.
David Roentgen, called the "most celebrated ébéniste in Europe" by his contemporaries, was a successful entrepreneur who transformed the business founded by his father, Abraham Roentgen...
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Late 18th Century German Neoclassical Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Biedermeier Portal Clock, probably Vienna ca. 1820/30
Located in Greding, DE
Biedermeier portal clock in an architecturally structured walnut case with alabaster columns, bronze fittings and mirrored rear wall. The clockwork with date and sound spiral. Pendul...
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1820s Austrian Biedermeier Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
18th Century Louis XVI Ormolu and Marble Obelisk Mantel Clock
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
Signed: Joseph Gay Horloger du Roy A Turin
The movement is contained in a white marble obelisk which is surmounted by an armillary sphere finial. The front with a panel chased wit...
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Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Mantel Clock with Genre Scene, Vienna 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Mantel clock in a gold-patinated wooden case with enameled clock face and octagonal pedestal with paw feet. The clock case rises above it in the shape of a wooden hut with a pointed ...
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19th Century Austrian Biedermeier Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood
French Pendulum Clock / Mantel Clock, Boulle Style Paris, circa 1870
Located in Berlin, DE
French pendulum clock / mantel clock, Boulle style Paris, circa 1870.
Paris, circa 1880
The waisted case, veneered with red tortoiseshell and...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Mantel Clock, Allegory of the Sciences, France around 1830
Located in Greding, DE
Fireplace clock made of fire-gilt bronze with a rectangular base with a relief depicting winged putti with the attributes of the various sciences. Above it is a clock case in the sha...
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1830s French Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Empire Mantel Clock with Putto in Chariot, signed Thiery à Paris, Early 19th C.
Located in Greding, DE
Empire mantel clock made of fire-gilded bronze. The scene shows a putto in a richly decorated chariot pulled by a jumping poodle. The clockwork is elegantly integrated into the wheel...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Charles X Fire-Gilt Mantle Clock, France, 1830s
Located in Greding, DE
Fire-gilt bronze mantle clock with an amphora-shaped case on an octagonal stand and applied decorations in the form of ears of grain, velaria, laurel wreaths and butterflies. The ena...
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1830s German Charles X Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Charles X Pendule, France around 1830
Located in Greding, DE
Portal clock on rectangular stepped base in mahogany veneer with small squeeze feet and fire-gilded applications in the form of rose festoons. The stepped...
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1830s French Charles X Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Fireplace Clock Onyx 1889 L.Marti et Cie Napoleon III
Located in Berlin, DE
French fireplace clock onyx 1889 L.Marti et Cie Napoleon III
Onyx marble case with fire-gilt fittings circa 1889. The movement is signed with the inscription "L.Marti et Lie ,, Meda...
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1880s French Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Royal Empire Mantel Clock / Pendulum Clock, Fire-Gilt, Around 1805-1815, Paris
Located in Berlin, DE
Royal Empire mantel clock / pendulum clock, fire-gilt, around 1805-1815, Paris
Solid bronze, fire-gilded, Paris around 1805-1815, original French Empire from the first period.
...
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Early 1800s French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
19th Century, Napoleon III Style Bronze Pendulum Chimney Clock
Located in Berlin, DE
Great empire pendulum / chimney clock, circa 1830-1840 bronze.
Bronze, fire-gilt partially dark brown patinated. Staggered rectangular base on elaborat...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Rare 18th Century Louis XVI Ormolu and White Marble Inclined Plane Mantel Clock
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
An extremely rare Louis XVI mantel clock 'a cremaillere', a movement driven by its own weight, where the moving drum barrel is running down an inclined whi...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Rare Late 18th Century Neoclassical Louis XVI Ormolu Mantel Clock
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
The circular white-enameled dial signed ”Detour Paris” with Roman hours and Arabic quarter marks, a further inner Arabic chapter ring for the day of month. Pierced gilt hands and a b...
Category
Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Enamel
Unusually Large 18th Century Louis XVI Ormolu and Marble Obelisk Mantel Clock
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
The movement is contained in an unusually large (67 cm!) white marble obelisk which is surmounted by an armillary sphere finial. The front with a panel chased with nymphs supporting ...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
18th Century Viennese Dark Green Painted and Giltwood Mantle Clock
Located in Berlin, DE
18th century Viennese dark green painted and giltwood pendule of unusual size in the form of a classical urn, the gilt-bronze dial with Roman numerals, surmounted by giltwood flowers...
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1790s Austrian Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Giltwood, Wood
Early 19th Century Vase Pendule, Pendulum-Clock, Tardy à Lyon, Empire circa 1820
Located in Greven, DE
Antique vase clock
France
Fire gilded bronze
Empire around 1820
Dimensions: H x W x D: 41 x 13 x 12
Description:
Beautiful all gilt French mantel clock.
The basic form is in the shape of an urn vase with lid...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Exquisite 19th Century Mantel Clock – Planchon Paris
Located in Stahnsdorf, DE
Exquisite 19th Century Mantel Clock – Planchon Paris
This exceptional mantel clock, crafted by the renowned Planchon manufactory in Paris during the second half of the 19th century,...
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1890s French Napoleon III Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Elegant Swiss Art Deco Table Clock by Imhof Green Onyx Marble
By Arthur Imhof
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
An elegant table clock made of polished green veined onyx with broad gilded bronze indices, manufactured by the renowned Swiss manufacturer Imhof in the 1930s.
Category
1930s Swiss Art Deco Vintage Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Onyx, Marble
20C Le COUTURE LUXOR BRASS CLOCK
Located in Berlin, DE
Luxor Fire place clock high quality
gilted clock
Luxor
Category
20th Century European Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Mantel Clock with small Satyrs, 1st Half 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Mantel clock on an oval marble base, adorned with fire-gilded bronze appliqués. The clock is supported by fully sculpted satyr figures carrying an overflowing gilded fruit basket. Em...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Table Clock with Calendar, Ebonized Wood, France, circa 1840-1860
Located in Greven, DE
Antique mantel clock with calendar in ebonised wood.
France
Wood, brass
Mid 19th century
Dimensions: H x W x D: 37 x 22 x 17 cm
Description:
French mantel clock from around 1840-1860.
The case is made of ebonised wood with brass thread inlays.
On the front we see behind glass the white dial with black roman numerals and gilded bezel. Also gold-plated are the beautiful original arrow-shaped hands.
The hands of the two-part calendar are also in the same design. On the left is the day of the week and on the right the day of the month.
On the back is a wooden flap that protects the movement from dust. If we open the flap, we see the high-quality French 14...
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood
19th French Empire Mantel Clock, Pendule, Mercury, Gilded Bronze, circa 1815
Located in Greven, DE
19th century French pendule, mantel clock - Mercury the messenger of the gods
France
Bronze gilded
Empire around 1815
Dimensions: H x W x D: 37 x 30 x 10 cm
Description:
French Empire...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Early 19th Century Ormolu Mantel Clock, Atala freeing Chactas, Paris, circa 1810
Located in Greven, DE
Mantel Clock "Atala and Chactas"
Paris
Bronze (fire-gilt and patinated), enamel
Empire around 1810
Dimensions: H x W x D: 40 x 32 x 11 cm
Description:
Very rare and extremely high quality French mantel clock, so-called Pendule Au Bon Sauvage.
Depicted are scenes from the love story "Atala or the love of two savages in the desert" written by Francois René Vicomte de Chateaubriand in 1801. At the beginning of the 19th century, this was probably the most famous love story in Europe, but today it has been forgotten.
The story, set in present-day Louisiana (USA), is roughly rewritten about the forbidden love between Chactas, a young Indian, and Atala, the beautiful daughter of a Spaniard.
Chactas is captured in a battle between two Indian tribes, chained to a palm tree and is to be sacrificed. Atala wants to save his life and convert him to Christianity. She unties him from the palm tree at night and they flee together into the wilderness of North America. Their love for each other grows stronger and stronger and they have prospects for a future together.
The story takes a tragic turn when Atala, who must remain a virgin due to a vow made by her mother, can no longer withstand the conflict of her feelings and commits suicide.
The main group of characters thus shows Chacta's liberation through Atala. Atala is leaning against a pile of logs. The animal fur thrown over the logs and the weapons leaning against the stack on the right give the impression of a night camp.
The bronze is of rarely beautiful quality, finely chiselled and makes the scene appear very lively. The contrast of fire-gilded and patinated bronze adds tension to the composition.
In the base we see the Entombment as the end of the tragic love story. This bronze work is also very detailed, the interplay of bright and matt gilding makes the flat relief appear much deeper than it is.
The depiction of the mantel clock presented here shows that the exotic was only known from stories and that the bronzier had his own ideas about the appearance of this distant world. The Indian, for example, has very European facial features and his skin was not black in reality, of course. The palm tree was also certainly not found in the North American wilderness.
The heart of the clock is a French pendulum movement, integrated into the wooden pile, with an eight-day power reserve and a lock plate striking a bell on the half and full hour. The pendulum is suspended on a thread, typical of the period. The classically shaped hands, so-called Breguet hands, are also typical of the time.
The enamelled dial has black Roman hour numerals, Arabic quarter hours and bears the signature: Le Roy hr. de Madame A PARIS.
Interesting facts:
The period from 1795 to about 1815 saw the creation of probably the most spectacular group of bronzes: The "Au bon Sauvage" pendulums - depictions of the "Noble Savage".
Today's viewers react to these objects with both fascination and irritation. Enthusiastic on the one hand about the obvious quality of the detailed bronzes and the allure of the exotic, on the other hand distanced and cautious because of the possible discrimination that is suspected behind them. The ambivalence of this feeling motivates the search for the conditions of origin of these pendulums.
Europeans found their new ideal of the natural man primarily in fictional and realistic travelogues about the Indians of North America...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Willy Rizzo Lumica Clock Bicolor 1970s
By BD Lumica, Willy Rizzo
Located in Cork, IE
This is a rare find! We are delighted to bring this glamourous 1970's cubic mantle clock designed by Willy Rizzo and produced by Lumica to the market.
In overall good condition wit...
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1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Empire Mantel Clock - La Bibliotheque, Ormolu, France, Paris, circa 1820
By Le Roi
Located in Greven, DE
Mantel Clock - La Bibliotheque - In the study room
Paris
fire-gilt bronze, enamel
Empire around 1820
Dimensions: H x W x D: 38 x 28 x 19 cm
Description:
Scenery mounted on an oval...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Mantel Clock with Apollo, Early 19th Century
Located in Greding, DE
Large fire-gilded bronze pendulum clock on lion's paws with a rectangular pedestal featuring lyre and torch motifs. Above it rises the full-figure depiction of the god Apollo with a ...
Category
Early 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Royal fire-gilded mantel clock/Pendule Napoleon III, 1870, Paris, signed Lantier
Located in Berlin, DE
Royal fire-gilded mantel clock/Pendule Napoleon III, 1870, Paris, signed Lantier
A fantastic masterwork of perfection with beautiful fire-gilded bron...
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1870s French Napoleon III Antique Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Mantel Clock with seated Benjamin Franklin, France, 20th century
Located in Greding, DE
Large bronze mantel clock with a gilded pedestal with rocaille decoration, cartouches with scrolls and books and an enamel dial with Roman nu...
Category
20th Century French Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
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 Germany Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
