Attached please find a couple more pictures of the clock face and the back of the unit. We have all the parts. The inside of the back has “1599” stamped on it.

Thanks

Hi Thomas,
The photos don't seem to have attached - can you please send them to [email protected] and ask them to attach them manually to this appraisal?
I'll give our support dept the heads up to expect them.
Many thanks and sorry for the delay - I promise to look at this again as soon as I see photos.
Delia

Hi Thomas,
My support department has forwarded a PDF of an auction catalog with related clocks and a photograph of what looks like this clock between two candelabra. I understand you’d like some clarification/explanation of my valuation, which I’m happy to do but I have two questions:
- what was the name of the auction house and date of that sale (I want to research the results) and
- having a pair of candelabra significantly increases the value of a mantel clock - do you have a total of TWO mantel clocks, the one I appraised and ANOTHER identical one?
Thanks to confirm on both,
~ Delia

Delia,

Those photos I sent you were from Sotheby’s. We have pretty much the same type of units. Two Candelabras and a clock. I’m having trouble understanding how the vale can be so dramatically different? Appreciate your input, thanks.

Bests,

Thomas A. Baribeau

Hi Thomas,
Thank you for the additional information.
The Sotheby's sale took place in 2009, when the market was very different; the 3-piece garniture in that sale was made by one of the most well-known and respected clockmakers (Henri Picard) who supplied works to Emperor Napoleon III's apartments at the Louvre, and who was reputed for its fine quality decorative production of pièces de table (table pieces) and garnitures de cheminée (mantel pieces). Though the three-piece garniture sold at Sotheby's for $53,125 in 2009, it would almost certainly only bring a fraction of that price if offered today, perhaps closer in the ballpark of just $10,000-15,000.
YOUR clock, on the other hand, was made about 40-50 years later by a clockmaker who did not enjoy nearly the same level of patronage or reputation. I stand by my valuation of $1,200-1,800 but that value was given WITHOUT knowledge that it was accompanied by a pair of candelabra and was a set...which changes things but in order for me to fully update this appraisal, I need to see additional photos of the candelabra - please send them to the same address you sent photos previously and ask that those photos be attached to this appraisal.
ALSO, if you have a total of two clocks and four candelabra, please specify...I want to make certain I get everything correctly identified once and for all.
Many thanks!
Delia

Hi Delia,

Greatly appreciate your response. I have two clocks and two candelabras. The second clock I will attach some separate photos of, but here are the photos of the candelabras. Very much appreciate your assistance.

Best,

Thomas A. Baribeau

If you're taking additional photos of the second clock, can you get a clear photo of the clock dial (or tell me what it says).
Do the candelabra go with the marble/gilt metal clock with the reclining figure or with the separate (smaller) clock? Are they marked/signed?

Delia,

As shown in our photos the candelabras go with the large clock. Attached please find close up photos of the smaller unit, thanks again for your help.

Best,

Thomas A. Baribeau

I've appraised the figural clock with the two candelabra that seem to go with it.
For me to include the second clock in this appraisal, can you please tell me what the dial says (I've enlarged the photo but it's too fuzzy to read) and give me the dimensions? Does it have marble/stone in it too or is it just all metal?

Delia,

Here are additional photos of the smaller clock. Thanks for your help.

Hi Thomas,
I still need dimensions and to know if this smaller clock is all metal or includes some marble or stone.
Thanks!

Delia,

The small clock is 14” wide x 20” tall x 7” deep. The dark material around the bottom of the clock (photo attached) seems to be marble. I also have a couple other French Items I would like you to appraise, please find attached photos. The pieces are 18” square. Greatly appreciate your assistance in this regard.

Thanks,

I've appraised the clock and updated this appraisal.
The two paintings (are they painted porcelain) need to be submitted under a new / separate appraisal.
Thanks again for your help with this appraisal.

Delia, what was the value of the three pieces together? The large clock and two candelabras?

The two clocks and the two candelabra - all together -have a value of $5,.000-7,500. My appraisal should show that the single clock was $1,000-1,500 while the other clock with the candelabra was $4,000-6,000.