Tag: Clocks

Cathedral clocks in the best Gothic Revival and Neo-Gothic style. Very popular around when Victoria married Albert.

Porcelain cathedral form mantel clock with a light green ground and gilt highlights. The clock face set above faux stained glass windows and the arched doorway painted with a foreground and cathedral in the distance, set on a rectangular base with an imitation marble and geometric floral band design. ca. 1830. French. Dagoty, maker. Maker’s marks: Iron-red stenciled mark “Ancienne Maison Dagoty / Ed. Honore A Paris / 4 Boulevard Poissoniere” to the underside. Image © 1stdibs.com, Inc. 2021. Fair use license. via https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/clocks/mantel-clocks/gothic-revival-dagoty-honore-porcelain-cathedral-form-mantel-clock/id-f_5046143/?gclid=CjwKCAiAsaOBBhA4EiwAo0_AnKUJiOv6z-XjYr5BJwIIo9jC583u7IvpOTr1OinJQC1S_ZkGejOFHxoCBz8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
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Large gilt brass bracket or mantel clock, the case, with engraved floral decoration and applied colored cabochon jewel mounts, encloses a gilt 7″ Roman dial with a finely scroll engraved center and an eight day spring driven movement with anchor escapement chiming the quarters on a nest of two bells. ca. 1870. Gothic Revival. French. The movement having been made in Saint Nicolas d’ Aliermont, by Pierre-Honoré-César Pons and then finished by the Parisian Clock maker, Louis Achille Brocot. Retailed by Hall and Company, Manchester, England. Image © 1stdibs.com, Inc. 2021. Fair use license. via https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/clocks/mantel-clocks/large-19th-century-french-gothic-revival-mantel-clock/id-f_11810171/.
Gilt shelf clock in the form of the west facade of Reims Cathedral. The case of finely detailed cast and fire gilt bronze. The dial of twelve porcelain Roman numeral chapters is in the rose window opening. Blued steel sunburst hands, spring-powered, eight-day time and strike movement that has a silk thread suspension and external count-wheel, the gong mounted in the inlaid wooden plinth being controlled by the movement. ca. 1835. Gothic Revival. French. Maker’s marks: strike movement marked “Cailly Freres”. Image  © 2021 Bidsquare Inc. and Skinner Auctions. Fair use license. via https://www.bidsquare.com/online-auctions/skinner/gilt-reims-cathedral-form-shelf-clock-93474

Gilt Reims Cathedral-form Shelf Clock

People (and one lion) hanging out and getting bored sitting on clocks by French master clockmaker Michel-François Piolaine who is recorded as working in Paris from 1787 to 1810.

"Pendule Portique" clock (lion detail)
“Pendule Portique” clock (lion detail), decorated with columns that simulate beams of lictors surmounted by a terrestrial globe and astrolabe, posed on plinths decorated decorated with military attributes. Base decorated with a lion surrounded by galleries. Enameled dial signed “Michel-François PIOLAINE in Paris” surmounted by a statuette of Mars. ca. 1780-1800. Louis XVI. Gilt bronze, black and white marble, and enamel. Image IVOIRE France ©2020. Fair use license. via https://www.ivoire-lyon.com/fr/lot-1552-158830-190_importante_pendule_forme_portique_br

Mantel clock (Goddess Pomona, the Roman goddess of harvest and abundance detail).
Mantel clock (Goddess detail, probably Pomona, the Roman goddess of harvest and abundance). Clock body raised by a plinth-shaped base with a relief scene portraying four putti and the clock drum containing a circular dial with a partially rubbed signature. Early 19th c. Gilt bronze and ormolu. Image © 1stdibs, Inc. 2020, Fair use license. via https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/decorative-objects/clocks/mantel-clocks/empire-gilt-bronze-mantel-clock-michel-francois-piolaine/id-f_18084411/

Mantel clock (Reading lady detail). The clock having an ormolu drum case surmounted by a cast ormolu eagle with a relief below showing two putti holding a bird under a sunburst flanked by two patinated bronze figures, a writing boy and a reading lady. Marble and ormolu base with gadroon feet and with putti holding a mask among scrolling garlands, flanked by two medallions with female masks. Enamel dial, signed "Piolaine à Paris" in red with gilt brass hands.
Mantel clock (Reading lady detail). The clock having an ormolu drum case surmounted by a cast ormolu eagle with a relief below showing two putti holding a bird under a sunburst flanked by two patinated bronze figures, a writing boy and a reading lady. Marble and ormolu base with gadroon feet and with putti holding a mask among scrolling garlands, flanked by two medallions with female masks. Enamel dial, signed “Piolaine à Paris” in red with gilt brass hands. ca. 1790. Marble, brass, patinated brass, gilt brass and enamel. Image 2020 © Gude & Meis Antieke klokken. Fair use license. via

Mantel clock (putti and goddess detail). 1780-1800.
Mantel clock (putti and goddess detail). 1780-1800. Marble, gilded bronze and enamel. Acquired by President Vincent Auriol of France for presentation to the White House in 1952. Image © Collections of the White House, Washington, DC. Fair use license. via https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/mantel-clock/3wFaBh_sW_IjQA

Mantel clock with a profiled plinth with a relief of musician putti
Mantel clock with a profiled plinth with a relief of musician putti and a watch house flanked by putti riding dogs and eagle heads, surmounted by a coronation goddess with cornucopia that symbolize prosperity and abundance.A French Louis XVI mantel clock by M. F. Piolaine. Fire-gilded bronze and white marble. Profiled plinth with relief of musician putti. The watch house flanked by dogs riding putty and eagle heads. Coronation goddess with cornucopia symbolizing prosperity and abundance. The white enameled dial being marked “Piolaine A Paris”. ca. 1780-1790. Louis XVI. White marble, fire-gilded bronze and enamel. Image © 2008-2020 Bukowski Auktioner AB. Fair use license. via https://www.bukowskis.com/en/auctions/556/1074-bordspendyl-av-michel-francois-piolaine-mastare-i-paris-1787-louis-xvi

Art Deco clocks to sit on your desk and make any day pass more quickly. French. Where else.

Desk clock. Carved lapis lazuli clock face with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and openwork hands. Stepped agate surround with a lapis lazuli and gold base with coral. ca. 1929.
Desk clock. Carved lapis lazuli clock face with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and openwork hands. Stepped agate surround with a lapis lazuli and gold base with coral. ca. 1929. Exhibited at the Les Arts De La Bijouterie, Joaillerie, Orfèvrerie, Musée Galleria in June 1929. Boucheron, maker. Image © 2019 Symbolic & Chase. Fair use license. via https://www.s-c.com/Collection/ByReference/43C0079/BOUCHERON–An-Art-Deco-agate–lapis-lazuli-and-coral-desk-clock

Clock. Case with an orange dial supported by malachite phoenixes. 1920's. Chinoiserie in style.
Clock. Case with an orange dial supported by malachite phoenixes. 1920’s. Chinoiserie in style. Silver case with black lacquer and gold detailing.Black onyx, gold, malachite and diamond. Smoked agate abase. Case by Verger Frères. Retailed by Osterag, Paris. Image © Bonhams 2001-2019. Fair use license. via https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/15718/lot/375/?category=list

Mystery clock in the Chinoiserie style.
Mystery clock in the Chinoiserie style. Art Deco. ca. 1931. Gem-set with mother of pearl. Mosaic by Vladimir Makovsky. Pierre Gravoin, Paris, designer for Black, Starr & Frost, New York. Image © Siegelson and ©2019 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. Fair use license. via https://www.townandcountrymag.com/style/jewelry-and-watches/news/a6062/bergdorf-goodman-siegelson-jewelry/

Clocks that could almost double as sculptures by Dutch artisan J. C. Stoffels, a member of the Nieuwe Kunst movement, the Dutch take on Art Nouveau. Magnificent and so much more interesting than those round things they had on the wall in school.

Three piece clock set. Bell with enameled figures and two candlesticks.
Three piece clock set. Bell with enameled figures and two candlesticks. Undated. Brass. Image © 2009-2019 Venduehuis Dickhaut. Fair use license. via https://www.veilingmaastricht.nl/ViewAuction/Details/77641/

Pendulum clock. 1904.
Pendulum clock. 1904. Silver and brass. Designed by J.C. Stoffels for Onder Den Sint Maarten. Image © Kunstconsult, Amsterdam. Fair use license. via http://www.kunstconsult.com/Clocks/J.C.-Stoffels.-Rare-Dutch-Art-Nouveau-brass-pendulum.-with-engraving.-glass-stones-and-colored-enam

Design for a chimney clock. 1902-1903.
Design for a chimney clock. 1902-1903. Watercolor. Part of an exhibition at the Drents Museum. Fair use license. via https://www.vvnk.nl/author/arjen/page/5/

Clock. ca. 1904.
Clock. ca. 1904. Brass with an enamel dial and open worked medallion with a green stone.Attributed to Stoffels execution attributed to Onder den Sint Maarten. Image © 2006-2019 by Botterweg Auctions Amsterdam B.V. Fair use license. via https://www.botterweg.com/Stoffels_J_C/Onder_den_Sint_Maarten/tabid/234/lotid/31238/Lot-31238.aspx?language=en-US