A late 19th century, French, scarlet tortoise shell and cut brass inlaid ‘Boulle’ mantel clock in the Louis XV style. The case of waisted form mounted with ormolu, the shaped glazed front with visible starburst pendulum and inlaid interior. The eight day movement with Brocot suspension rack striking the hour & half hour on a bell. The circular gilt dial with enamel roman numeral tablets. Movement numbered 2081.
Height 16″ (41cm)
Width 8 1/2″ ( 21.5cm)
Depth 5″ (13cm)
French
Circa 1880
Vincenti & Cie Medaille D’Argent 1855
A late 19th century green tortoiseshell and cut brass inlaid clock in the Louis XV style. Of small waisted form, the case finely inlaid to three sides and with original gilt bronze mounts. The eight day Vincenti & Cie movement rack striking the hour and half hour on a bell with Brocot suspension. The gilt dial with enamel cartouche roman numerals. Movement numbered 7897.
Height 12” (30.5cm)
Width 6 1/2” (16.5cm)
Depth 4” (10cm)
French
Circa 1880
A French Régence style ormolu mounted cut brass inlaid tortoiseshell bracket clock signed after Martinot, from the late 19th century. The waisted pediment with urn finial above glazed side panels, the finely inlaid case with crisp cast gilt mounts. The eight day twin barrel movement striking the hour & half hour on a bell, with anchor escapement, blued steel hands & starburst pendulum. The ormolu dial with enamel Roman numeral cartouches, signed to enamel plaque below ‘Martinot/Paris’.
Height 28″ (71cm)
Width 15″ (38cm)
Depth 7″ (18cm)
French
Circa 1895
A pair of late 19th century, French, gilt bronze & carrera marble cassolettes. Each having a reversible lid above a marble body hung with floral garlands and with three supports headed by bacchic masks with hoof feet, standing on a circular plinth base with pineapple finial to the centre. Mounts regilded.
Height 11″ (28cm)
Width 4 1/4” (11cm)
Depth 4 1/4” (11cm)
French
Circa 1880
A pair of Napoleon III gilt bronze and carrera marble cassolettes. The marble tops with acorn finials inverting to a candle sconce, above an ovoid body hung with floral swags and rams head masks, standing on circular plinths with beaded decoration. Retaining the original gilding.
Height 10″
Width 3 1/2″
Depth 3 1/2″
French
Circa 1870
A pair of Napoleon III gilt bronze and carrera marble cassolettes. The marble tops with pinatum finials inverting to a candle sconce, above an ovoid body hung with floral swags and rams head masks, standing on circular plinths with beaded decoration. Retaining the original gilding.
Height 11 1/2” (29cm)
Diameter 4” (10cm)
French
Circa 1870
A pair of late 19th century, French, onyx & ormolu mounted cassolettes in the Louis XVI style. The removable lids concealing a single candle sconce, above an ovoid body hung with floral swags and supported by rams heads and triform base standing on a circular plinth with beaded rim. Retaining the original gilding.
Height 8 3/4″ ( 22cm)
Width 4″ (10cm)
Depth 4″ (10cm)
French
Circa 1890
Billiet & Cottebrune Paris
A late 19th century, French, brass inlaid scarlet red tortoiseshell and ormolu mounted mantel clock. The finial modelled as a basket of fruit above a waisted shaped case, the sides and front inlaid with engraved scrolling brass and mounted with rococo gilt bronze. The circular gilt dial with twelve piece enamel tablets, an eight day movement with brocot suspension, rack striking the hour and half hour on a bell. Movement and pendulum numbered 8559.
Height 12″ (30.5cm)
Width 6 1/2″ (16.5cm)
Depth 4″ (10.3cm)
French
Circa 1880
Aubert et Klaftenberger
Genève
A late 19th century red tortoiseshell and cut brass inlaid ormolu mounted Boulle clock. The circular gilt dial with white enamel centre and roman numeral tablets inset a waisted Louis XV style case with scrolling cut brass marquetry. The eight day movement rack striking the hour & half hour on a bell, numbered 10037.
Height 11 3/4″ (30cm)
Width 6 1/4″ (16cm)
Depth 3 3/4″ (9.5cm)
French
Circa 1880
A late 19th century, French Regence style rosewood, tulipwood crossbanded and ormolu mounted four drawer commode of small size. The original shaped marmo di Brescia marble top with moulded edge above four graduated oak lined drawers, with heavy leafy cast brass handles, flanked by brass fluted rounded corners and book veneered sides. The locks stamped ‘V.F’ for Vachette Freres, they first used this stamp in 1874.
Height 35 3/4″ (91cm)
Width 30″ (76cm)
Depth 16″ (41cm)
French
Circa 1890
T Cox Savory Paris
A Napoleon III red Boulle and ormolu mounted mantel clock in the Louis XV style. Of waisted form the shaped case with allover cut brass and tortoiseshell marquetry, mounted with finely cast and chased gilt bronze. The eight day movement with Brocot suspension, rack striking the hour and half hour on a gong. The circular gilt dial with enamel Roman numeral tablets marking the hours. Movement and case numbered 7059.
Primarily a retailer and silversmith, Thomas Cox Savory is recorded at 47 Cornhill, London in 1838 when he exhibited in his front window a mystery clock by Robert-Houdin. Loomes records him there 1851-1857 and also as having premises in Paris from the mid to late 19th Century.
Height 35cm
Width 23cm
Depth 14cm
French
Circa 1880
Achille Brocot and Delettrez
A late 19th century green tortoiseshell and engraved brass inlaid clock in the Louis XV style. Of small waisted form, the case finely inlaid to all four sides and with original gilt bronze mounts. The eight day movement stamped ABD for Achille Brocot and Delettrez, rack striking the hour and half hour on a bell with Brocot suspension. The gilt dial with enamel cartouche roman numerals. Movement and case numbered 22176.
Jean-Baptiste Delettrez (1816-1887) went into business with A Brocot at 62 Rue Charlot in Paris in 1851. They exhibited together at the 1857 Universal Exhibition.
Height 11 3/4″
Width 6 1/2″
Depth 4″
French
Circa 1880
A late 19th century, French, ormolu mounted tortoiseshell, brass and pewter inlaid Religieuse clock in the Louis XIV style. The stepped top with balustraded frieze containing the bell, above a glazed door flanked by turned columns and outset corners, standing on toupie feet. The circular gilt dial with Roman numeral enamel tablets and minute markers, with a twin train spring driven movement rack striking the hour & half hour on a bell. Month going movement.
Height 16 1/2” (42cm)
Width 12” (30.5cm)
Depth 5 1/4” (13.4cm)
French
Circa 1880
A late 19th century red tortoiseshell and engraved brass inlaid mantel clock in the Louis XV style. The waisted case of small form inlaid to the sides and front with brass and mounted with gilt metal. The eight day Charles Vincennes movement with Brocot suspension, visible starburst pendulum, striking the hour & half hour on a bell. The movement numbered 33677. Mounts regilded.
Height 12 1/4″
Width 6 1/2″
Depth 4″
French
Circa 1890
A pair of late 19th century, French, marble and gilt bronze cassolettes. The carrera marble body with removable lid inverting to a candle sconce, supported by three splay legs headed by male masks joined by floral swags, and standing on a circular plinth base with beaded rim. Mounts regilded.
Height 9 1/4” (23.5cm)
Width 3 5/8” (9.2cm)
Depth 3 5/8” (9.2cm)
French
Circa 1900
A pair of 19th century patinated bronze spill holders in the form of a beggar and his wife. He leaning forward resting on a tree stump with his cap in his hands, a wicker basket on his back. His wife walking aided with a stick leaning forward carrying a bag on her back. Both supported on square sienna marble plinths and with original dark patination.
Height 7″
Width 3″
Depth 3″
Continental
Circa 1860
A Napoleon III, French, red tortoiseshell and cut brass inlaid Boulle clock, with gilt metal mounts. The clock case of waisted form in the Louis XV style, decorated to the front and sides with boulle marquetry and mounted with scrolling acanthus gilt bronze. The Japy Freres & Cie movement with circular white enamel dial and roman numerals, with eight day brocot escapement striking the hour & half hour on a gong, with sunburst bob. Numbered 5714. The Japy Seal struck with ‘GDE Med D’Honneur’, which they won at both the ”Expo Universelle Paris’ in 1855 and 1867.
Height 12″
Width 6 1/2″
Depth 4″
French
Circa 1865
J B Delettrez
Probably retailed by Charles Frodsham
A late 19th century red tortoiseshell and engraved brass inlaid clock in the Louis XV style. Of small waisted form, the case finely inlaid to all four sides and with original gilt bronze mounts. The eight day Delettrez movement rack striking the hour and half hour on a bell with Brocot suspension. The gilt dial with enamel cartouche roman numerals. Movement stamped JBD and numbered 33044. The rubbed dial signed Chas Frodsham.
Height 11 3/4″
Width 6 1/2″
Depth 4″
French
Circa 1880
Jean Baptiste Delettrez
A Napoleon III red Boulle and ormolu mounted mantel clock in the Louis XV style. Of waisted form the shaped case with allover cut brass and tortoiseshell marquetry, mounted with finely cast and chased gilt bronze. The eight day movement with Brocot suspension, rack striking the hour and half hour on a gong. The circular gilt dial with enamel roman numeral enamel tablets marking the hours and Arabic 5 minutes. Movement and case numbered 31542.
Jean-Baptiste Delettrez (1816-1887) went into business with A Brocot at 62 Rue Charlot in Paris in 1851. They exhibited together at the 1857 Universal Exhibition. This innovative and fruitful partnership continued until the death of Brocot fils in 1878, after which event Delettrez continued on his own. His typical later product was a conventional 8-day mantle clock that struck the hours and half-hours, still based on the standard Brocot escapement and suspension that he had helped to refine. These elegant and much-admired timepieces were typically made to order for retailers, including several in Britain, with dials carrying the name of the retailer rather than that of their maker, but whose mechanism was stamped with the cartouche (JBD).
Height 35cm
Width 23cm
Depth 14cm
French
Circa 1880
J B Delettrez
Retailed by Klaftenberger
A late 19th century green tortoiseshell and engraved brass inlaid clock in the Louis XV style. Of small waisted form, the case finely inlaid to all four sides and with original gilt bronze mounts. The eight day Delettrez movement rack striking the hour and half hour on a bell with Brocot suspension. The gilt dial with enamel cartouche roman numerals. Movement and case numbered 26533.
Height 11 3/4″
Width 6 1/2″
Depth 4″
French
Circa 1880
