Ancient Hall Clocks
Today you may purchase antique clocks almost in any antique shop. You may see that this is a type of avocation for rich persons.
The first strides in making mantel clocks were found in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. They were created of iron and were wound with the help of weight. Firstly they didn't differ from tower clocks by their scheme and construction elements.
In the XV century people applied walls' consoles where clocks were placed. Wooden console became a component of the frame of clocks after a few ages and it was stylized to the entire clocks ensemble. In aristocratic homes it was one of the decor components of premises. In each apartment clocks played a significant role. They were a part of the design ensemble that was adhered to the fashion of an age. A few centuries later appeared clock masters. They tried to give face to each clock they made. We can mark out such remarkable persons as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann. They made real works of art and at that time they were unequalled clocks that had no analogs in the world. In the eighteenth century appeared clock masters that began to make remakes from the most wonderful clocks they saw.
There are different shapes that mantel and desktop clocks have. Artistic taste and aim of clocks ordered the form to a clockmaker. And when the Baroque epoch came specific shapes of the clocks' body appeared. Great influence of the church was reflected on the applying of Christian symbols. The cross and ciborium forms were used for some clocks. You may select among a large number of different antique mantel clocks, even antique hall clocks that are represented on our website.
One more independent kind of clocks is floor clocks. This type of clocks outlived different styles and forms of the ages when they were done. Clockmakers began to produce them in the middle of the seventeenth century and now they are still done owing to their design features. These clocks were very high, that was a specificity of their construction. Two hundred and seventy centimeters was a usual height for such clocks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The very first models of floor clocks were 160 centimeters height.
The style of the cabinet shows the epoch when this or that clock were made. But the XIX century was the period of time when clock masters returned to styles of the preceding centuries. For the first period of floor clocks the smooth and slim cabinet is usual. There were glazed clock dial plates, wide base and lucerne in the cabinet. The middle part of the cabinet was made so that the space for pendulum was created. Clockmakers saturated the face of the cabinet with oils and then it looked like ebony.
In Europe the most popular material for clocks was oak. It was a cheap and solid material for clocks and it was applied not only for frames but also for plywood making. Cheap floor clocks were manufactured by provincial clockmakers and were revered with soft timber that was looked like marble. You may also purchase antique German wall clocks on our online site.
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