The Story of Ancient Mantle Clocks
Today one can purchase antique clocks almost in any antique shop. Collecting of antique clocks is mostly a hobby for rich people.
On the turn of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries mantelpiece and room clocks began often to be found. The first material for clocks was iron and the winding system of such clocks was founded on weights. The layout and components were similar to usual tower clocks the same as the look.
In the XV century period clocks were inserted walls' consoles. Centuries later wooden console appeared as the element of the clocks' body. The style of it conformed to the entire design of the clock. Room clocks played an important role in the decoration of a room. In every house clocks played an important role. They were a part of the stylistic composition that was adhered to the fashion of an age. Later on professional clock masters appeared. Such persons as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann started to work over the view of their clocks. Their clocks were really magnificent and there were no analogues in the world. But in the eighteenth century diverse clockmakers began to copy the prototypes of the most remarkable clocks.
Mantelpiece and desktop clocks have different types of form. Artistic taste and aim of clocks dictated the form to a master. And when the Baroque epoch came specific shapes of the clocks' frame appeared. Christian emblems were also used when the impact of the church on social life increased. The most famous emblems were the cross and ciborium that was used as the form of some clocks. On our website you can get as many antique mantel clocks, even antique 1880's cuckoo clocks as you wish.
Floor clocks usually separated to the independent group of clocks. Diverse epochs left their impresses on the shapes and forms of this kind of clocks. Clockmakers started to produce them in the middle of the XVII century and now they are still made due to their design features. The specificity of the structure made this type of clocks of a great height. Two hundred and seventy centimeters was a normal height for such clocks in the XVIII and XIX centuries. Age-old clocks were definitely lower.
The style of the cabinet shows the epoch when this or that clock were made. But sometimes you can see the clocks of the nineteenth century that are similar to clocks of the earlier times. It occurs because clock masters went back to the designs of previous ages. The first periods of clock making are notable for smooth and slim cabinets of clocks. It included widened base and lucerne for the device on the top with the glassed-in clock dial plate. The wide part of the cabinet was created for extra space for pendulum. The surface of such cabinet was impregnated with oils and had a color of ebony.
On the European continent the most popular stuff for clocks was oak. It was applied for its low price and solidity. People made from it frames and plywood for clocks. Provincial clock masters made cheap products and faced them with soft timber that has a look of marble. You may also get German antique clocks on our online site.
