French ormolu mantel clock with young and butterfly, circa 1800

C. Elegant pendulum in gilded bronze, mercury-style, with an allegorical scene of a child with a butterfly.
Cm 36 x 12 x 45

D. Dial in white enamel with “Roman” hours and minutes, gilded style hands.

M. mechanical with hours and half on bell, anchor escapement, silk suspension.

Place of origin: France

Epoca: 1800

Venetian table clock signed Bartolomeo Ferracina, Venice, 1750
Clock from the collection of the Poldi-Pezzoli museum in Milan

C. Baroque Venetian style case, light blue lacquered with gold highlights.
Cm. 35 x 16 x 65

D. Silver-plated brass dial with engraved Roman hours interspersed with lilies and Arabic minutes of 5 out of 5. Velvet support.

M. three train movement with a chain at the time and fixed barrels engraved for hour and quarter tones. Engraved rear platen. Signed on the movement: Bartolomeo Ferracina in Veneto, famous watchmaker born in Solagna- Bassano(VI) (1692 – 1777).

Place of origin: Italia

Epoca: 1750

Mantel clock “the hunter”, Vienna ca.1850

C. case in a single block of gilded wood depicting a hunter who reloads the rifle. The hunter’s eyes are mobile and follow the pendulum.
Cm. 30 x 14 x 50

Q. white enamel ring dial with only hours painted with Roman numerals, and view of the mechanism. Pear hands.

M. Viennese mechanics hours and half with synchronous swinging eye device with the pendulum.

Place of origin: Vienna, Austria

Epoca: 1850 c.a.

French mantel clock with dame, France, half ‘800

C. French mantel clock in gilded mercury bronze with a young lady wearing a veil in her hair.
Cm. 32 x11 x 42,5

D. small enameled white dial with Roman numerals for the hours and Arabic numerals for the minutes in blue enamel. Breguet style steel hands.

M. ringtone for hours and half hours on bell, anchor escapement, wire suspension.

Place of origin: France

Epoca: half ‘800

Portico clock in gilt bronze and marble, signed Piolaine a Paris, France circa 1800

C. Parisian pendulum table with portico in black marble and gilded mercury bronzes. Many grapevine branches with bunches of grapes surround the dial. Two sittin lions on the top sides, angels with trunphets in the bottom. Brass pendulum in the shape of a sun.
Cm 40 x 14 x 56

D. Dial in white enamel with Roman hours and minutes, pierced and gold-plated hands.

M. ringtone for hours and half hours on bell, anchor escapement, silk suspension.

Place of origin: France

Epoca: 1800

Venetian wooden mantel clock, Venice, first of ‘700

C important Venetian case with inlaid and lacquered wood in gold and sage green, with a cherub on the top. Similar case in Ferracina watches in Venice in 1750.
cm 41,5 x 18 x 75

D dial in white enamel with Roman hours and Arabic minutes.

M early 18th century French rectangular mechanism with verge escapement, hours and half ringer.
Signed in the inner plate: Viet Paris.

Place of origin: Italia

Epoca: first half of the 18th century

Precision table regulator clock, France, 1870 anonimus

C.  Chased gilt-bronze case with bevelled glass on all four sides allowing view of movement. Front and rear door.
Cm 26 x 20 x 44

Q. Large enamel dial with Roman numerals for the hours. Breguet style black-steel hour and minute hands. Seconds dial at 12 o’clock. Ormolu turned bezel.

M. mechanics 30 days autonomy, spring charge, Graham deadbeat escapement  and anchor levers in transparent agate stones.

Place of origin: France

Epoca: 1870

Mantel Clock three-piece in alabaster, France, 1890 – 1900

C. Mantel Clock Triptych in alabaster with inserts in blue and golden glaze. Decorations in golden bronze.
Central part cm. 28 x 11 x 32
Columns cm. 13,5 x 8,5 x 23

D. Enamel dial and golden bezel. Special painted Arabic numerals.

M. Parisian clock with ringtone the hours and half hours. 8 days power reserve.

Place of origin: Francia

Epoca: 1890 – 1900

French ormolu mantel clock, Paris, 1840 unsigned

C. Particular french Louis Philippe ormolu mantel clock depicting oriental scene with altar in the center with figures that rotate. Wooden base that hides the music box device.
Cm 34 x 24 x 72

D. Dial in white enamel with Roman hours. Breguet style hands.

M. Parisian mechanics with two different junctions during the ringing of the hours:
– upper junction rotates every hour with a rare carillonl device placed above the clock with six samurai scenes inside a small and elegant mirrored tabernacle.
– lower junction free the chime of the music box placed in the wooden base that supports the clock. Ringing of the hours on the bell accompanied by a large music box and ringing of the half on a bell.
Anchor escapement, wire suspension. 15 days charge.

Place of origin: Paris, France

Epoca: 1840

Mantel Clock in White Marble, London, Mid ‘800

C. mantel clock with impressive case in white marble and gilded bronze
Cm. 23 x 16,5 x 28,5

D. golden brass dial with central floral engravings. Roman numbers. Signed Barraud & Lunds 41 Cornhill, London 2440.

M. mechanical English with charge chain transmission and conoid. English lever escapement. Ringing of the hours.

Place of origin: UK

Epoca: half ‘800