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19th Century Ormolu and White Marble Mantel Clock by Linke
By François Linke
Located in London, GB
Late 19th century ormolu and white marble mantel clock by Linke
French, Late 19th Century
Height 56cm, width 39cm, depth 25cm
This impressive mantel clock commands attention with i...
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
A Eureka Four Glass Electric Mantel Clock
Located in Amersham, GB
A superb example of a Eureka Clock made c1912.
The electromagnetic movement is regulated by a large, slowly oscillating bi-metallic balance wheel, with t...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
French Porcelain Mantel Clock by Raingo Freres, Paris
By Raingo Frères
Located in Norwich, GB
French Porcelain Mantel clock by Raingo Freres, Paris
French porcelain mantel clock housed in an arch top case with raised stepped plinth and resting on scroll feet. Outstanding hand painted panel to the front with gilt surround depicting two maidens attending a fatally wounded knight. Beautifully decorated to all sides with flowers, birds and butterfly on a white ground with gilt decorative border to the plinth.
Chased gilded bezel, silvered dial with Roman numerals and original ‘blued’ steel Moonpoise hands signed Raingo Fres, a Paris.
French eight day movement with silk suspension, anchor escapement and outside countwheel, striking the hours and halves on a silvered bell. The backplate signed Raingo Fres, a Paris and numbered 301. C.1850
Raingo Freres worked from Rue Vielle Du Temple c.1829, also from Rue De Saintonge between 1840 to 1850. The company continued trading in Paris until the early 1900’s.
Source: Dictionnaire Des Horlogers Francais, Tardy.
Raingo Freres began with Zacharie Joseph Raingo ( 1775-1847) a clockmaker born in Belgium in 1775. He specialised in creating astronomical...
Category
1850s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Porcelain
French Empire Gilt Bronze Mantel Clock with Venus and Cupid
Located in London, GB
French Empire gilt bronze mantel clock with Venus and Cupid
French, early 19th Century
Measures: Height 53cm, width 37.5cm, depth 13.5cm
This fine Empire period mantel clock is crafted from gilt bronze. The clock includes a sculptural surmount of Venus accompanied by Cupid. Venus sits atop the square clock...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
Unusual French 24 Hour Four Glass Mantel Clock
By Japy Frères
Located in Norwich, GB
Unusual French 24 Hour Four Glass Mantel Clock
French four glass clock housed in a bow fronted brass case with beautifully figured marble top ...
Category
1910s French Vintage United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble
Large Sevres Porcelain & Bronze Dore 3 Piece Clock Garniture Set
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in London, GB
This superb quality Sevres style porcelain and ormolu clock garniture consists of three vases, one of which has been mounted with an exquisite jewelled clock dial. This set comprises...
Category
1880s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Fine Georgian Eight Day Bracket Clock
Located in London, GB
A fine Georgian walnut bracket clock by John Greaves of Newcastle (born c.1725 and active between 1745-94) with an eight day five pillar twin train fusee movement and anchor escapeme...
Category
Mid-18th Century English George III Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Walnut
French Empire Ormolu and Marble Mantel Clock of Cupid
Located in London, GB
French Empire Ormolu and marble vert mantel clock of Cupid whispering. Wonderful original fire gilded mercury ormolu. The quality of the casting and chasing is superb, from the indiv...
Category
1810s French Empire Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Antique 19thc French 8 Day Bell Striking Red Shell & Inlaid Boulle Mantle Clock
Located in London, GB
A superb quality French boulle tortoishell mantel clock. Red ground with fretted brass boulle inlay. The front glazed panel with a visible Louis IV pendulum. ...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
French Ormolu Mantel Clock with Champleve Decoration by Japy Freres
By Japy Frères
Located in Norwich, GB
French gilt ormolu mantle clock with beautiful champlevé decoration with turned pilasters, architectural pediment with four turned finials.
Gilded chapter ring with Roman numerals...
Category
1870s French Victorian Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Fine 19th Century French Ormolu and Bronze Mantel Clock with Marble Case
Located in Worcester, GB
Fine 19th Century French Ormolu and Bronze Mantel Clock with Marble Case
A finely cast French mantel clock dating to the third quarter of the 19th century, in the Louis XVI revival s...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Louis XVI Terracotta Striking Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
A FINE LOUIS XVI TERRACOTTA AND SIMULATED-MARBLE STRIKING MANTEL CLOCK, THE TERRACOTTA BY JOSEPH-CHARLES MARIN, CIRCA 1785.
The drum case modelled as a wine cask supporting a seated...
Category
18th Century Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Terracotta
Fine 19th Century Belgium Slate Perpetual Calendar Clock
Located in Lincolnshire, GB
A Belgium slate perpetual moon phase clock with visible brocot escapement to the enamelled dial.
The enamel dial to the calendar beautifully painte...
Category
19th Century Belgian Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Slate, Enamel, Ormolu
French Gilt Mantle Clock Napoleon III Figurine
Located in Potters Bar, GB
You are viewing a gorgeous French Napoleon III mantle clock
Crafted from marble and ormolu including the elegant figurine reclining on the top
Great look to this collectors piece
Pur...
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1890s Napoleon III Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Giltwood
19th Century Marble mantle clock and calendar.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality 19th Century black and rouge marble mantle clock with calendar. Having a gilded ormolu foliate mount to the top, a gilded clock face with an eight day, hour and h...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Breccia Marble, Ormolu
John Leroux, London. Twin Fusee Balloon Clock
By John Leroux
Located in Amersham, GB
An 18th century balloon shaped bracket or table clock by John Leroux of Charing Cross, dating from circa 1790. The waisted case surmounted by a brass pineapple finial over a drum housing the movement. The dial is behind a hinged convex glazed cast brass bezel to front and brass carrying handles to sides, over hipped concave-sided section forming the base. The front has an applied mount of a sunburst mask, the rear with keyhole shaped door incorporating fine scroll-pierced sound fret set within the frame of the case, on generous cavetto moulded skirt base incorporating break-arch recess to apron and with ogee bracket feet.
The five knopped pillar twin fusee bell striking movement with rounded angles to the rectangular plates and anchor escapement regulated by a long bob pendulum with an effective length of approximately 11.5 inches, the backplate signed J. Leroux, London to centre, the 7 inch circular single sheet silvered brass Roman numeral dial signed Leroux, Charing Cross to centre, with fine pierced steel hands and Arabic five minutes to outer track.
An identical clock is illustrated in English Bracket and Mantel Clocks by Andrew Nicholls...
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18th Century English George III Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Mahogany Mantel Clock by Hampton & Sons, Pall Mall
By Winterhalder and Hofmeier
Located in Norwich, GB
Mahogany cased mantel clock in a serpentine top case with carved decoration, standing on a stepped plinth and resting on brass bracket feet.
Glazed door opening to the silvered dial with raised chapter ring, Roman numerals and original ‘blued’ steel hands signed ‘Hampton & Sons, Pall Mall...
Category
1880s German Victorian Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Mahogany
Goliath Four Glass Clock
By Samuel Marti
Located in Amersham, GB
This exceptionally rare table regulator of oversized proportions is deceptive in scale, from the movement and escapement to the pendulum every aspect o...
Category
1880s French Late Victorian Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Enamel, Ormolu
Japy Freres Louis XVI Antique French Gilt Bronze Clock Set
By Japy Frères
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A beautiful, classically designed antique French gilt bronze clock set by Japy Frères. It features oval panels to the sides showing Fortun...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
French Sevres style porcelain vase / mantel clock.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th Century French Sevres style porcelain lidded vase / clock. Having wonderful gilded ormolu mounts, a cherub finial and monopodia handles, an enamel faced...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Porcelain
French Clock, Directoire Period, Portico Form, Signed Revel Paris
Located in London, GB
A French Directoire ormolu mounted black marble portico clock of Egyptian temple form. Set upon ormolu toupee feet with a rectangular black marble base. Black marble columns rise up ...
Category
1790s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Belgian Black Marble, Ormolu
Neoclassical Style Gilt Bronze and Malachite Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
Neoclassical style gilt bronze and malachite mantel clock
French, late 19th Century
Measures: Height 47cm, width 19cm, depth 19cm
This wonderful Louis XVI style mantel clock is designed in malachite and gilt bronze—with the malachite being a later veneer. The clock takes after a famous original 1775 model by Brécourt, known as 'Vase pendule...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu
Antique Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Figurative Mantel Clock by Dasson
By Henry Dasson
Located in London, GB
Antique patinated bronze and ormolu figurative mantel clock by Dasson
French, 1888
Measures: Height 30cm, width 30cm, depth 13cm
This fine mantel clock is by the celebrated make...
Category
1880s French Belle Époque Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French Oval Four Glass Mantel Clock with Champleve Decoration, Le Roy, Paris
By Japy Frères
Located in Norwich, GB
Oval champleve decorated four glass mantel clock.
French four glass mantel clock housed in a brass oval shaped case with sky blue ch...
Category
1880s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Quality Antique French Ormolu. Marble Lyre Clock Set Garniture by Vincenti & Cie
By Vincenti et Cie
Located in London, GB
This stunning French clock set from the 19th century boasts a beautiful combination of marble and bronze materials, with intricate designs in white statuary colour.
The clock comes...
Category
1850s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Late Empire Period Clock of Chronos Carrying Away Time
Located in London, GB
A fine model of Chronos carrying off time. The superbly modelled and cast figure of Chronos with scythe in one hand and carrying the clock under his arm. Set on a fine marble base wi...
Category
1820s French Empire Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
French Four Glass Mantel Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
French four glass mantel clock
French four glass mantel clock with large bevelled glass panels housed in a patinated bronze case with...
Category
19th Century French Victorian Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
French Louis XVI Style Mantel Clock + Candelabra, 19th Century
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality mid 19th Century French gilded ormolu Louis XVI style mantel clock with a matched pair of classical five brach candelabra, with putti supporting cornucopia. The c...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
French Empire Bisque Porcelain and Ormolu Mantel Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
French Empire Ormolu and Bisque Porcelain Mantel Clock
French Empire ormolu mounted Bisque porcelain mantel clock surmounted by a winged...
Category
1780s French Empire Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Porcelain
French Rosewood Campaign Clock, Savoine a Paris
By Japy Frères
Located in Norwich, GB
Rosewood Campaign Clock, Savoine a Paris
Rosewood campaign clock with satinwood line stringing and floral marquetry standing on a moulded plinth. Glazed viewing aperture to the to o...
Category
1850s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Rosewood
Ormolu and Porcelain Panel Mantel Clock, A.B.Savory, Cornhill
By Jean-Baptiste Delettrez
Located in Norwich, GB
Ormolu and Porcelain Panel Mantel Clock
Ormolu figural mantel clock with beautifully cast maiden in flowing robes holding a bunch of grapes towards a ...
Category
1860s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
French Porcelain Mantel Clock by Dagoty and Honore
By Edouard Honoré 1, Dagoty
Located in London, GB
This beautiful Gothic Revival style porcelain clock was made by the prestigious French firm Dagoty and Honore, founded by the esteemed porcelain makers Pierre-Louis Dagoty and Edouard Honore...
Category
Early 19th Century French Gothic Revival Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Porcelain
French Green Tortoiseshell Boulle Clock by R & C, Paris
Located in Norwich, GB
Fine French Tortoiseshell Boulle Clock
Straight sided case with green ‘tortoiseshell’ inlaid with fine brass decoration surmounted by an ormolu finial, ormolu mounts throughout and standing on raised bracket feet.
Gilded and chased dial with individual cartouche blue enamel numerals and gilded centre with fine ‘blued’ steel hands.
Eight day movement striking the hours and halves on a silvered bell marked R & C Paris and London and numbered 5374. C.1880
Richard et Cie were one of the smaller Parisian based manufactures known for innovation having a paper published regarding temperature compensation and precision timekeeping. The firm received several awards at the grand exhibitions...
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1880s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Tortoise Shell
French Napoleon III blue porcelain and ormolu clock
Located in London, GB
A very fine & attractive French porcelain & gilt bronze mantle clock. A superb dial & very finely painted urn surmounting the clock. To each side of the dial further painted panels. ...
Category
1880s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze and White Marble Clock, François Linke
Located in London, GB
This playful Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and white marble clock, made by François Linke after a Clodion design, late 19th century.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Ships Clock By Gay Vicarino, retailled by Pascall Atkey of Cowes.
Located in Amersham, GB
An exceptional Ships Clock set in a ships wheel in a heavy cast brass chromed case, striking the hours and the half hours. This eight day movement striking on a coiled blued steel go...
Category
1880s French Industrial Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Steel, Chrome
French Napoleon III mantel clock in ormolu and pink porcelain
Located in London, GB
A most attractive French porcelain and ormolu mantel clock with a profusion of porcelain panels. The original gilding is in excellent condition and there are lovely silver highlights...
Category
1870s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
Gilded Brass French Strut Mantel Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
Gilded Strut clock with intertwined ribbon decoration, the front embellished with turquoise pastes, gilded bezel with bevelled glass.
Silvered engine turned dial with Roman nume...
Category
19th Century French Victorian Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Arts & Crafts Oak Cased Mantel Clock with Copper Dial
Located in Norwich, GB
Arts & Crafts oak cased mantel clock. Two columns with brass capitals support either side of the dial with brass inlay decoration to the front panel.
Copper dial...
Category
1880s German Arts and Crafts Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Copper
Champleve enamel mantle clock, 19th Century.
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A fine quality late 19th Century French gilded ormolu Champleve enamel mantle clock, having an urn finial to the top, columns supported by winged sphinx's. The eight day duration clo...
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Enamel, Ormolu
Striking 19th Century Carriage Clock with a Gilt-Brass Corniche Case by Grohé
Located in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Striking carriage clock with a gilt-brass corniche case by Grohé, circa 1880.
A most attractive eight-day striking carriage clock, signed on...
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
French Charles X Musical Ormolu Mantel Clock of Gaius Marius Signed Robert Houdi
By Robert Houdin
Located in London, GB
An extremely rare antique French Charles X period ormolu musical mantel clock of Gaius Marius amidst the ruins of Carthage by the noted maker Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. The superb an...
Category
1820s French Charles X Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu
A Diminutive Bracket Clock by Adams of Lombard Street
By Adams
Located in Amersham, GB
A rosewood and ormolu mounted bracket clock. With an eight day twin fusee movement, signed Adams of Lombard Street on the 5 inch silvered dial and movement back plate. Striking on a ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English William IV Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass, Ormolu
Lemerle-Charpentier & Compagnie Red Marble, Gilt and Patinated Bronze Clock Set
By Lemerle-Charpentier & Cie
Located in London, GB
This fine and ornate antique clock set by Lemerle-Charpentier & Compagnie comprises a clock and two flanking candelabra. The asymmetrical clock is set on a red marble base with ormolu feet and features a central relief panel in patinated bronze. The circular red marble clock...
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Late 19th Century French Neoclassical Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
French Romantic Period Antique Vert Marble, Ormolu & Patinated Bronze Clock
Located in London, GB
Antique mantel clock from the french Romantic period in patinated bronze, gilt bronze and antique very marble. On bracket feet and antique vert marble base the clock is surmounted by a superb patinated bronze sculpture of a seated Cupid with gilt bronze bow and quiver...
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1830s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large Gilt-Bronze and Malachite Charles X Style Mantel Clock
Located in London, GB
Large gilt-bronze and malachite Charles X style mantel clock
French, 19th Century
Height 74cm, width 53cm, depth 24cm
This superb and impressively large mantel clock...
Category
19th Century French Charles X Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Malachite, Ormolu
French Gilt Champleve Decorated Clock Garniture
By Samuel Marti
Located in Norwich, GB
French gilt champleve clock garniture
Rectangular case standing on a stepped moulded base with turned feet, applied frieze decoration below a beaut...
Category
19th Century French Victorian Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Rococo style gilt bronze and marble mantel clock
Located in London, GB
Rococo style gilt bronze and marble mantel clock
French, c. 1870
Height 44cm, width 20cm, depth 15cm
This Rococo style gilt bronze and olive-green mantel clock...
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Late 19th Century French Rococo Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Edwardian Chinoiserie Decorated Mantel Clock, John Bagshaw, Liverpool
By Buren
Located in Norwich, GB
Edwardian Chinoiserie Decorated Mantel Clock, John Bagshaw & Sons, Liverpool
Break arch case with raised chinoiserie scenes on an ebonised groun...
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Early 1900s Swiss Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Fruitwood
Fine and Early Bronze and Sienna Marble Horses, Mare Tending Her Foal circa 1820
Located in Belper, Derbyshire
A beautiful, original and early clock depicting a mare tending her foal. Beautifully and delicately modelled in bronze, full of life and movement with a lovely antique patina. The cl...
Category
Early 19th Century French Restauration Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Siena Marble, Bronze
French Charles X Malachite, Lapis Lazuli, and Gilt Bronze Figurative Clock
Located in London, GB
French Charles X malachite, lapis lazuli, and gilt bronze figurative clock
French, c. 1830
Measures: Height 75cm, width 53cm, depth 23cm
This fine mantel clock is a superb example of the Charles X style. The clock, wrought from malachite, lapis lazuli, and gilt bronze, features the distinctive feature of most Charles X period clocks: a large sculptural surmount. In the present clock, the sculptural surmount depicts Urania, Greek muse of astronomy. She is accompanied by a lapis lazuli globe...
Category
1830s French Charles X Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Malachite, Bronze, Ormolu
Fabulous Quality Early 19th Century Marble and Bronze Mantle Clock
Located in Martlesham, GB
A fabulous quality early 19th century French marble and bronze mantle clock, the bronze with Napoleon being helped to mount his horse by...
Category
1820s French Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Swiss Mantel Alarm Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
Vintage mantel clock resting within a gilded strut frame supphandsorting a circular dial surrounded by rope decoration.
Silvered dial with o...
Category
1970s Swiss Other Vintage United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Brass
Copper Arts & Crafts French Mantel Clock
Located in Norwich, GB
Copper arts and crafts mantel clock Arts and Crafts mantel clock housed in a copper case with domed outswept top with beaded decoration resting on a beaded plinth with four copper ba...
Category
1910s French Arts and Crafts Vintage United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Copper
Antique early 19th century French red marble and ormolu clock garniture
Located in London, GB
An impressive early 19th Century French bronze & ormolu Clock Garniture comprising a pair of campana shaped Urns with satyr mask carrying handles supported on red marble plinths with...
Category
Early 19th Century French Empire Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Large French Empire Period Gilt Bronze Figural Mantel Clock of Exceptional Quali
Located in Benington, Herts
A large and impressive French Empire period gilt bronze mantel clock of exceptional quality and colour.
French (possibly retailed in Italy) - Circa 1820.
The finely chased and original gilt bronze case depicting Orpheus playing his lyre with an eight-day bell striking movement, outside countwheel, backplate initialled and numbered 'A C D 1516’.
The dial with Roman numerals and inscribed Riccardo Pacinoti of Lavourne. It is a French movement (silk suspension) striking the hour and half hour. The case in the form of an oblong pillar cast with anthemium and cornucopia beneath a draped urn and a laurel wreath, flanked by the figure of Orpheus playing his lyre, the stepped plinth cast with wonderfully detailed underworld scenes, on leaf scroll feet.
In excellent condition the clock case has been cleaned with the movement completely overhauled and serviced to the highest standard by a specialist restorer.
In general 19th century French bronze clocks...
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1820s French Empire Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze
Early 19th Century French Bronze and Ormolu 8 Day Mantle Clock
Located in London, GB
An early 19th Century French bronze & ormolu 8-Day striking Clock with silver dial (stamped Douon on inner plate and one spring dated 1824) mounted in unusual bronze & ormolu case depicting centurion slaying dragon...
Category
19th Century French Regency Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French Empire Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Mantel Clock Signed Vaillaint a Paris
Located in London, GB
Superb quality French Empire ormolu and patinated bronze mantel clock in a beautifully restrained case. The casting and gilding of the finest quality. A classically dressed maiden st...
Category
Early 1800s French Empire Antique United Kingdom Mantel Clocks
Materials
Ormolu, Bronze