Charming Desk Clock, Vintner Theme, C 1850

A French folk-art figural mantel clock in carved wood and composite commemorating a fighting unit “Les Sections du Temple” in the French Revolution. The clock depicts a single figure “sans culots” with a walking stick flanked on one side by a drum and on the other by a black mortar...

A nice collection of apothecary bottles, some with labels and traces of gilt decoration, circa 1850, hand-blown with polished pontil marks on base, and retaining their original glass...

A nice “S-scroll” roll top desk in golden oak by Derby Co. of Boston, circa 1920, with double banks of drawers, interior compartments and paneled on all sides. Nice old finish in gre...

A charming French gilt bronze inkwell in the form of a dog house with the roof on a hinge to store the ink bottle.

A white glazed ceramic “cachepot” with braided handles, French, circa 1870.

A blue-glazed French Faience confit pot, circa 1870 with 2 handles.

A combined timepiece, weather station and globe desk piece industrial clock. Constructed of onyx and silvered and gilt bronze. The white onyx base with timepiece in shaped bronze case, and rotating...

Having a tree-house form case, this French bronze clock has a 3.5" dial with applied Roman numeral lozenges, gilt dragon hands, agricultural tools and sheaves of grain on the base. T...

Origin: Scandinavia. Wood: Oak. Dimensions: Height 227 cm.    

FACTORY / HOUSE: Mimo for J. E. Caldwell STYLE / REFERENCE: Art Deco Pocket Desk Clock METAL / MATERIAL: 14kt Yellow Gold and Kiln Fired Enamel CIRCA / YEAR: 1930's DIMENSIONS / SI...

A Surinam-themed Amsterdam long-case clock The Netherlands, 1746-1756, dial signed Nicolaas Weylandt/Amsterdam The case of the clock is made of Rio palisander veneer and snakewood, with the arch showing a painted scene of the harbour of Paramaribo, Fort Zeelandia and Dutch ships in anchorage, the spandrels decorated with figural representations of the four continents, the centre of the dial painted with Mercury, the god of trade, seated on a bale signed VCS (Vereenigde Compagnie Suriname), and one of the barrels bearing the initials “RBS,” on the left the river god of the Surinam river, with a Dutch three-master in the background. Measures: H 259 x W 60 x D 35 cm (case) Diameter 32 cm (clock dial) This exceptionally rare long-case clock probably was ordered by one of the many wealthy families living along the Amsterdam canals that owned or had shares in plantations in Surinam. It’s a successful marriage of the work of an accomplished 18th century Amsterdam clockmaker, a Dutch cabinetmaker working with exotic tropical timbers, a woodcarver familiar with both Dutch Rococo design and Surinamese iconography, and a painter with knowledge, whether first- hand or through other visualisations, of the Paramaribo waterfront. In the production of this Gesamtkunstwerk, only the name of the clockmaker is known: Nicloaas Weylandt (circa 1700-1754), who had a business situated on the Nieuwendijk near the Haarlemmersluis in Amsterdam from 1742 until his death. The case is made of imported timbers from Surinam; Rio-palisander and snakewood. A very similar clock-case, veneered in walnut, is illustrated in J. Zeeman, De Nederlandse staande klok...

Fancy antique wall clock, circa 1850. Octagonal-shaped and black-framed body with glazed door. White dial. Hand-inserted inlaid brass elements in...