Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 6

French blue celeste porcelain and ormolu mantel clock

$4,733.50
£3,450
€4,111.36
CA$6,635.92
A$6,737.73
CHF 3,819.47
MX$82,079.61
NOK 45,174.15
SEK 45,187.28
DKK 30,731.75

About the Item

French blue celeste porcelain and ormolu mantel clock. Very good condition with original ormolu and no damage to the porcelain panels, some of which have neo-classical influence. Two birds heads are each side of the ormolu mounted blue celeste urn to the top of the clock. The clock has an arched pediment with scrolls to the sides. Toupee feet and fine scrolls to the base moulding. Below the dial is an arcadian scene painted in the sevres manner. The base porcelain panel and the finely decorated dial are in the neo-classical style. Japy freres movement with backplate also stamped Platanuer Freres, Paris. It is an 8 day keywound movement with brocot steel suspension for the pendulum and strikes the hours and halves on a bell.
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 14 in (35.56 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)Depth: 4.25 in (10.8 cm)
  • Materials and Techniques:
  • Place of Origin:
  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    1870
  • Condition:
    Wear consistent with age and use.
  • Seller Location:
    London, GB
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2015332030932

More From This Seller

View All
French Napoleon III blue porcelain and ormolu clock

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

Antique 1880s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

French porcelain and ormolu mantel clock with silver highlights mantel clock

French porcelain and ormolu mantel clock with silver highlights mantel clock

Located in London, GB

French porcelain and ormolu mantel clock with silver highlights mantel clock. A superb Napoleon III clock in the Louis XVIth style. The original fire/mercury gilt ormolu in very good...

Category

Antique 1860s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

French, rare Champleve enamel and ormolu mantel clock

French, rare Champleve enamel and ormolu mantel clock

Located in London, GB

French antique, rare Champleve enamel and ormolu mantel clock. A very rare model with two good figures of cupids holding up the platform on which the clock face rests and the swags a...

Category

Antique 1890s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Enamel, Ormolu

French Porcelain and Ormolu Mantel Clock Stamped in Bronze H. Picard

French Porcelain and Ormolu Mantel Clock Stamped in Bronze H. Picard

By Henri Picard

Located in London, GB

French Ormolu and porcelain mantel clock of Classical design dating from the mid-19th century stamped in the mint and original Ormolu H. Picard. Numbered in the bronze, 1297. The original ormolu is in quite pristine and totally original condition. The case inset with painted porcelain panels with fruit and floral decoration in the classical style. The clock surmounted by a Bacchanalian mask and two handled vase with grapes, standing on six vase shaped feet on a velvet plinth...

Category

Antique 1850s French Napoleon III Mantel Clocks

Materials

Ormolu

You May Also Like

French Porcelain and Ormolu Mantel Clock

French Porcelain and Ormolu Mantel Clock

Located in Norwich, GB

French Porcelain and ormolu mantel clock with gilded toupe feet supporting a raised plinth with an inset blue decorated panel below gilded acanthus moulding. Turquoise porcelain w...

Category

Antique 19th Century French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Porcelain

19th Century Sevres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock

19th Century Sevres Style Porcelain Mantel Clock

Located in Brighton, Sussex

A very good quality 19th century French gilded ormolu and Sevres style porcelain mantel clock. Having a blue porcelain urn to the top with ormolu swags, scrolling gilded ormolu folia...

Category

Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Mantel Clocks

Materials

Ormolu

Napoleon III Mantel Clock in Bleu de Sèvres Porcelain & Chased Ormolu - 21.2 in

Napoleon III Mantel Clock in Bleu de Sèvres Porcelain & Chased Ormolu - 21.2 in

Located in SANT ADRIÀ DE BESÒS, ES

A magnificent Napoleon III period mantel clock, dating to around 1865–1875, crafted in deep bleu de Sèvres porcelain and richly decorated with finely chased gilt bronze (ormolu). Thi...

Category

Antique 19th Century French Napoleon III Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze

Fine Quality Sèvres-style Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze and Porcelain Mantel Clock

Fine Quality Sèvres-style Louis XVI Gilt-Bronze and Porcelain Mantel Clock

Located in New York, NY

The fine quality Sèvres-style Louis XVI gilt-bronze and jeweled porcelain turquoise mantel clock. Surmounted with a twin handled urn with grapes, the central enamel dial with Roman n...

Category

Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI More Clocks

Materials

Bronze, Enamel