Charles X Clock Crystal Gilded Bronze France About 1830
Features
Style: Charles X (1824-1830)
Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900
Origin: France
Material: Gilded Bronze , Crystal
Description
Charles X temple-shaped clock in gilded bronze with cut crystal columns. In the framing decorations, in the capitals and in the vegetal motifs appliques there is a shiny gilding and an opaque gilding to create play of lights that highlight the attention to details with which the clock has been created and planned. Bronze face with Roman numerals numbers closed in a wreath in bronze decorated with floral motifs. Compensated pendulum with a wedge suspension and Bechot mechanism.
Product Condition:
Object in good condition. Wear consistent with age and use. Mechanism revisioned in December 2020.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 42
Width: 22
Depth: 14
Certificate issued by: Enrico Sala
Additional Information
Style: Charles X (1824-1830)
Referring to a very short period, the Charles X style denomination is nonetheless significant because it allows us to detect some specific elements of the taste of the time.nIt can be considered the last phase of the stylistic research of the Restoration, in which bourgeois requests and needs are welcomed, and opens up to a taste for the Gothic.
nCharacterized by wavy and wavy lines, which oppose the more squared ones of the Empire, it mainly uses light woods with darker threads and very few metal applications.