Clockwise Antique Clocks

ART NOUVEAU MANTEL CLOCK

A French pottery Art Nouveau case decorated with blue Tradescantia within the midnight blue rim. The enamel dial has Roman hour numerals and Arabic 5 minute markers, the dial centre has a gilt centre plaque with Fleur de Lys surround. The hands are blue steel and there is a gilt bezel with beveled glass in the opening door. The 8 day French movement has anchor escapement with Brocot adjustment. There is rack strike sounding the hours and half hours on a bell. The round backplate has the impressed mark
of Vincenti et Cie, Medaille d’argent 1855. c.1880

Stock No: CA 822 Price: £795

ART NOUVEAU MANTEL CLOCK

A stunning Art Nouveau pottery case decorated with yellow and lilac iris on a magenta background raised on a rectangular base with water lilies afloat
on a turquoise pond. The domed top has a brass gallery in the form of stylized flowers and stamens. The cast brass bezel has a floral relief and is set in a brass panel pierced and embossed with the sun and moon & with a cockerel and a bat on the sides. The enamel dial has Arabic numerals with centre decoration of a mandolin, tambourine and flowers. The 8 day movement has anchor escapement and rack strike sounding hours and half hours on a bell. c.1890

Stock No: CA 792 Price: £1250

ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
by Henry Marc - Paris

An 8 day French mantel clock. The ormolu casesurmounted by a young boy riding on the back of abronze dog above floral garlands, palm leaves and ornamental scrolls and standing on scroll feet.The white enamel dial has Roman numerals and is inscribed Hry. Marc a Paris, the hands are blue steel Trefoil pattern. The 8 day round plated movement is stamped on the backplate with the early Hry. Marc Paris oval logo, it has anchor escapement, silk suspension and an early form of key adjustment. The countwheel strike sounds the hours and half hours on a bell. c.1840

Stock No: CA 791 Price: £795

MARBLE & ORMOLU CLOCK GARNITURE
by F. Marti - Paris

A French mantel garniture, the drum clock on marble column supports with ormolu pillar caps on a Sienna marble base and an ormolu Flambeau & Quiver finial. The pendulum has a sun king bob. The garnitures are marble urns with ormolu handles and finials. The enamel dial has Arabic numerals and floral decoration, the gilt hands are fretted and pierced. The 8 day movement has anchor escapement with Brocot adjustment. The countwheel strike sounds the hours and half hours on a bell. The backplate has the imprint ‘F. Marti – Medaille d’Or 1900.

Stock No: CA 790 Price: £895

TORTOISESHELL & ORMOLU MANTLE CLOCK

A fine tortoiseshell veneered case with ormolu mounts and feet and with a floral finial. The bezel has a convex glass in the opening door; the convex
enamel dial has Arabic hour and 5 minute numerals highlighted with coloured floral swags. The gilded hands are pierced and fretted. The 8 day movement has Brocot escapement and suspension and has rack strike sounding the hours and half hours on a gong. The backplate is stamped S. Marti et Cie with Medaille d’Argente 1889.Height 36cms. Width 15cms. Depth 12cms.

Stock No: CA 764 Price: £950

EBONISED TABLE CLOCK
by Thomas Landifield - London

An imposing Georgian table clock in an ebonised case with a bell top and brass carrying handle. The square front door with lock incorporates the round convex glass in a cast brass bezel. The ribbon twist brass casting on either side highlights the front of the clock. The case has full length inspection glasses at the sides and has a glazed back door with lock. There are 4 cast brass flambeau finials on the top corners and the clock stands on 4 cast brass bracket feet. There is a repeat pull cord under. The 8” round convex ceramic dial is set in an inner brass bezel, it is very rare to find a ceramic dial in an English table clock and this dial is up to half an inch thick, it has Roman hour numerals, Arabic 5minute markers and is is signed Thos. Landifield London with the lettering of the ‘London’ very elegantly scrolled. There are blue steel heart hands. The ejght day double fusee movement has anchor escapement and a rack strike with star wheel sounding the hours on an alto bell. The repeat pull sounds the last hour. The rectangular plates have five turned pillars, the back plate is decorated with floral designs which extend to the side fixing brackets and the pendulum suspension bracket. The top rated pendulum also has a similarly engraved pendulum bob. The movement is held firmly in place by the seating platform, the side brackets and by the close fitting dial and dial plate within the inner bezel. Thomas Landifield worked in London c.1770 and was free of the Clockmakers Company in 1772, it is recorded that he retired in 1777. He was also noted as a watchmaker.

Stock No: CA 661 Price:£3950

BRONZE & ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
by Vinceti & Cie

An exceptionally fine mantel clock, the ormolu case with well cast applied ormolu decorations of shells, flowers and leaves. The front is inset with superb Petra Dura white marble depicting a butter-fly and there are triangular coloured insets above the bezel.The clock sides also have Petra Dura panels of white marble inset with geometric patterns of coloured marble. Also on the sides are symbolic emblems cast onto the ormolu. The exquisitely crafted dial has a rouge marble chapter ring and green marble centre separated with a circle of cream marble, the Roman numerals are painted onto the chapter ring The fretted ormolu hands are Trefoil pattern. The dial is protected by a twist off ormolu bezel with ball rim. Above the case is a bronze socle with a beautifully cast bronze bust of a young maiden with floral drapes on her head and shoulders, the bronze is engraved MARIN and the monogram A.D can also be found. The eight day movement has Brocot escapement and pendulum suspension adjustment. The countwheel strike sounds the hours and half hours on an alto bell. The round back plate has a Vincenti & Cie
Medaille d’Argent imprest and the A.D monogram. The clock stands 460mm high, 230mm wide and 150mm deep at the widest point. Vincenti & Cie were the successors to M. Vincenti, a Corsican who set up a factory in 1822 at Montbeliard for the manufacture of clock movements for which he was awarded the Silver Medal at the 1824 Paris Exhibition. This clock is therefore post 1824.The A.D marks on the clock, case and bronze are the monograms of the casemaker. Joseph Charles Marin (1759 – 1834) was a Rococo sculptor who worked in Paris and has works on display in the Louvre museum.

Stock No: CA 684 Price: £5250

A FINE BOULLE CLOCK

A good quality waisted case with red boulleork on the front and sides. There is a glass front panel showing the faceted brass pendulum bob. There are cast brass swags with floral motifs framing the brass bezel with convex glass, the top swag has a central female masque.The clock has decorative cast brass feet and an inverted bell top with brass finial. The segmented enamel dial has Roman hour and Arabic minute numerals with blue steel fretted hands. The eight day movement has anchor escapement and rack strike sounding the hours and half hours on a mellow gong. The back plate has the imprint of G. Megnin who was working in the Montbeliard region of France circa 1800

Stock No: CA 621 Price: £1100

SKELETON TIMEPIECE
A compact A frame with a line driven single fusee movement with anchor escapement There is an annular silvered dial with Roman numerals and fretted quarter points. The spade hands are blued steel. The clock stands on a polished mahogany base in which is set the holdfast screw. The movement is protected by the squared glass dome and the clock stands on four brass
caddy feet. 19th century.

Stock No: CA5101 Price: £1050

SMALL NIGHT TIMEPIECE
An unusually small night timepiece on a turned brass stem with a marble centrepiece and base.The frosted glass globe dial has Roman numerals and moves around the the steel time pointer. The globe dial is set on a small brass drum which contains the remarkably compact thirty hour movement with crown wheel and verge escapement operating the miniature pendulum.
A small night light candle can be set in the holder under the globe to illuminate the dial at night. 19th century.

Stock No: CA5100 Price: £750

PORCELAIN CLOCK GARNITURE
A superb Carl Thieme Potschappel (Dresden-1875) flower encrusted porcelain clock. The balloon case is surmounted by three putti, below is a painted scene of a seaside fishing port, the clock sides feature maidens modelled with baskets of flowers and fruits. The porcelain dial has Roman numerals in gold set within circular cartouches, the centre has a beautifully painted angel. The dial is inscribed Bailey, Banks and Biddle, Philadelphia. The gilt brass Fleur-de-Lys hands within the ormolu convex glazed bezel. The 8 day French movement has Brocot suspension and escapement with rack strike sounding the hours & half hours on a bell. The back plate is inscribed E.M. The two accompanying unsigned garnitures are in the form of candlesticks with coronet covers. Bailey, Banks and Biddle were famous American clockmakers founded circa 1878. E.M. is the monogram of Edouard Maurice, a fine French maker of movements and carriage clocks later as E.M.& Co. Rue Charlot, Paris
Measurements of clock: Height 45 cms. Width 20 cms. Depth 14 cms.

Stock No: CA540 Price: £1500

FRENCH MANTEL CLOCK
A fabulous 18th century French mantel clock in an ormolu and bronze case featuring the names aof Lepine and Javelot. The bronze figure of a putti is based on a design by F. Boulez; here he is reclining against the clock and is holding a stylus and a scroll engraved with a cartoon, he is seated on the ormolu volumes of books with drapes, bows and swags surrounding the clock case. The squared ormolu case has fluted sides and the top has a sundial and a square and compasses and a celestial globe pivoted on a six armed stand. The opening cast ormolu bezel has oval and twist decor. The convex enamel dial has Roman hours and Arabic five minutes markings and is signed Lepine Place de la Victoire No. 12. The gilded hands are finely pierced and fretted. The back of the clock has a closefitting fluted door opening to reveal the drum movement, the backplate is engraved JAVELOT PARIS, the countwheel has engraved numerals and stroked the hours and half hours on a bell, there is anchor escapement and Brocot suspension replacing the original silk suspension. There is an intriguing marking on the back of the dial "A la Cressoniere".

Javelot was making high quality clocks in Paris from 1787-1789 but there is no note of him after the revolution. The Lepine family were renouned for their clocks, Jean Antoine Lepine b. 1720 d. 1814 was pre-eminent making clocks and watches for Louis XV, Louis XVI, Napoleon and Josaphine. There are also clocks by him in Buckingham Palance. Height 29cms width 30cms depth 12.5cms

Stock No: CA4106 Price: £4450

MANTEL CLOCK
A finely cast ormolu elephant with engraved signature and carrying on its howdah a small timepiece with arabic numerals on a gilt dial with blue steel hands. The 30 hour key wind movement has cylinder escapement and is stamped JJB and Metal Dore on the casing. Height 10cms.

Stock No: CA445 Price: £695

PAINTING ON IVORY CLOCK
A miniature painting on ivory titled IL CAMPANILE VENEZIN with a timepiece set in the tower. The ivory is set in a gilt metal frame standing on a marble base. The 15 jewel watch movement is key wound, the watch and backplate are signed Didisheim Goldschmidt Fils & Co. Swiss. Metal Dore. Height 10cms

Stock No: CA3114 Price: £995

MANTEL CLOCK
An unusual oblong ebonised case on turned feet with vertical brass banding, brass carrying handle and bezel displaying the glass fronted 4 1/2" Roman dial with blue steel cathedral hands. The 8 day movement has anchor escapement with patent suspension and countwheel strike sounding hours and 1/2 hours on a bell. The round back plate has the anchor trademark and is signed Farcot Bté à Paris. Farcot was an innovative maker best known for his patent conical pendulum of 1872 and various patent suspensions. Height 28cms, Width 18cms, Depth 9cms.

Stock No: CA31014 Price: :£750

PORCELAIN CLOCK
A fine porcelain case with a clock tower surrounded by dogs, chickens and other animals and encrusted with foliage and vines. the porcelain is marked with a faux Staffordshire gold anchor and the Samson signature. The clock in the tower has the original 30 hour cylinder movement. Height 18cms. Width 18 cms. Depth 13cms

Stock No: CA332 Price: £895

ORMOLU CLOCK
A very beautiful early 19th century chariot timepiece in ormolu mounted on a green velvet and ebonised wooden base under a glass dome. The chariot has a lions head masque holding the traces to the two mythical horned creatures. The charioteer is a lightly clad youth with laurels in hi hair and carrying vine fruits and reigning in the team. The clock face represents the chariot wheel with ormolu spokes radiating to the annular enamel dial with Roman numerals and signed M. Gentilhomme, Palais Royal. The hands are bright steel. The chariot is set on an ormolu base decorated with vine leaves and fruits standing on 4 adjustable feet. The small 8 day French movement has silk suspension. Baillie lists Gentilhomme Paris in 1810. Height with dome 38cms. width 32cms. Depth 19cms

Stock No: CA31010 Price: £2750