Islamic Clocks

French Mantel Clock and Candelabra Garniture in Islamic Style, circa 1880s. Clock measures 13.5 by 10.5 by 6 inches.

A Fine & important French bronze statue 8 day clock garniture in the Orientalist style, circa 1880. The 8 day clock with a time and strike mechanism, sounding the hours and half hours on a pleasant mellow sounding bell. The clock is house in a lavish bronze case heightened with silver gilt, to the top is an engraved 'Minaret' shaped finial and below a gallery of silvered and gilt bronze leaves. The white enamel clock dial having black Arabic numerals, the center of the dial with a bas relief of palm trees and figures below the sun and a fort to the background. The front of the clock is shaped like a Mihrab (a niche in a mosque), to the base is another bas relief an East Indian scene with gilded bronze figures holding muskets and spears, with an elephant and tiger...

Square table clock with rounded corners in 925/1000 sterling silver with fire-enamelled Art Deco design. Dimensions cm. 11.8 x 11.8. Silver weight gr. 449. Swiss mechanical movement with 8-day charge and alarm. Designed by Giorgio Salimbeni in 1976 inspired by objects designed by Louis Cartier around 1920 and manufactured in Florence in various specimens, also in parure with other objects, in the Salimbeni company headquarters with completely manual execution by artisan artists with thick slab and large reinforcements suitable for supporting numerous high-fire enamelled firings at about 800° C. About cooperation Salimbeni and Cartier. Our first meetings with the Cartier USA Company took place through the Giorgini Company, the first "Buying Office" set up in Florence immediately after the Second World War, which had the purpose of bringing together Florentine, and also Italian, producers with American buyers, who especially appreciated the artistic objects still manufactured by artisans who still took inspiration from the Italian Renaissance, using techniques handed down from generation to generation. Mrs. Gina Pestelli, wife of a Florentine retail jeweller, was in charge of contacts with Cartier USA, above all an employee, while her daughter, also for Giorgini, took care of the fashion that in those years was affirmed in Florence with the events of "Pitti ". With their help, we began to supply frames and boxes in sterling silver gold plated with malachite and other semi-precious stones. At the same time, the official buyer of Cartier, Mr. William Smith, began to appreciate and commission the first objects with fired enamels, a process of which we have always been specialists. In 1975 we began exhibiting at the prestigious New York Jewellery Association Show, which we participated in both the February and July editions, for a good 26 years until 2001. In New York in those years the "Art deco style" was still very much appreciated, still mindful of the beautiful early 20th century architecture of the great buildings such as the "Crysler" or the "Empire State". We then began to produce frames, boxes, evening bags, "objets de vertu" and other objects in "art deco style" which were very popular with Mr. Smith who gave us some photocopies of Louis Francois Cartier drawings to reproduce them. Thus, numerous cigarette cases, powder compacts, evening bags, frames and table boxes were created exclusively for Cartier USA which, at the time, had the prestigious "Silver Department" on the first floor of the Cartier store on Fifth Avenue. An evening bag, with matching cigarette case and powder compact, were redone on the design created for a gift given to Mary Pickford at the time. In a 1986 Cartier...

An Unusual French Louis Philippe Ormolu and Jeweled Clock Made for the Ottoman Turkish Market, circa 1840. The scrollwork case suspending a ribbon-tie...

A beautiful English hard stone gilt bronze and silvered mantel clock, late 19th century, attributed to Howell James, the design by E Finley, circa 1871. Possibly made for the Turkish market.   The clock surmounted by a minaret with moon crescent centered by a star. The oval case decorated with ruby coloured and agate hard stones and centered by a circular enameled white dial with moon hands and Roman numerals, flanked to each side by a large silvered elephant head attached to the case by chains, and skirted by a decorative engraved and fluted panel, on a stepped rectangular base, on four bun feet. Condition: This rare and unusual clock...

Polychrome alloy bronze garniture. Orientalist style, 1860. Machine clock signed 1570.

A Monumental Antique French Orientalist/Islamic 3-Piece Silvered Bronze Clock Garniture with candelabras made for the orientalist or ottoman mark...

Gilt bronze and onyx garniture. Orientalist style, France, circa 1890. Dimensions of the clock: 60 cm height, 20 cm depth, 37 cm width.