Gustavian mantel clock
A mantel clock like a classical temple, with gilt bronze, marble and a movement from Stockholm or Paris.
The pendule, as the French called it, was a clock for the drawing room, where the case mattered as much as the movement. In Neoclassicism it took the form of temples, altars and columns.
Stockholm had a clockmakers’ guild with masters such as Petter Ernst, and many cases and movements were imported from France. The name on the dial is the maker’s or the retailer’s.
Materials: Gilt bronze, white marble, enamel dial; brass movement
Manufacture: The movement was made by clockmakers in Stockholm or imported from Paris; the case was cast and gilded.
Columns, urns and garlands in gilt bronze.
The white enamel dial with the maker’s name.
The striking train that sounds the hours and half-hours on a bell.