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The very first steps in creating mantel clocks were found in the XIV and XV centuries. They were made of iron and were wound with the help of weight. The layout and elements were similar to average tower clocks the same as the look.
In the XV century period clocks were inserted walls' consoles. Years later timber console became the element of the clocks' body. The style of it corresponded to the whole style of the clock. Of course, in the Renaissance epoch and later it was one of the most important parts of a room's decoration. They were a part of the whole decoration composition where all the details had to be done due to the dominating style of the age. The most prominent asters of applied art such as Roentgen, Goutier and Benemann, also worked over the artistic view of their clocks. They worked on their personal models and created clocks in the unique prototypes. Only at the end of the eighteenth century the remakes of the most remarkable models were found.
The form of mantelpiece and desktop clocks is different. The shape of clocks depended on the artistic taste and purpose of clocks. For example carved elements appeared with the commencement of Baroque epoch. With the augmenting of the impact of the church on life of people, various Christian emblems appeared on clocks. The most popular emblems were the cross and ciborium that was used as the shape of some clocks. Our company may suggest you different types of old antique mantel clocks, even antique hall clocks.
One more independent group of clocks is floor clocks. This type of clocks experienced various designs and shapes of the epochs when they were done. This kind of clocks appeared in 1650-1660 and after two hundred years they were continued to produce and saved their constant elements of design. The specificity of the construction made this type of clocks of an amazing height. In XVIII and XIX centuries the height was approximately 270 centimeters. Age-old clocks were definitely lower.
The architecture of the cabinet reveals the age when this or that clock were made. But sometimes you can find the clocks of the nineteenth century that are similar to clocks of the earlier times. It happens because clock masters returned to the designs of preceding centuries. For the first period of floor clocks the smooth and slender cabinet is typical. There were glazed clock dial plates, wide foundation and lucerne in the cabinet. The midst section of such cabinet was a carcass to make a space for pendulum. The surface of such cabinet was saturated with oil and had a color of ebony.
Oak was spread on the European continent. It was a great and rather low-priced material that is appropriate not only for frames of the clocks' cabinets but also as plywood. Provincial cheap clocks were done of soft wood. The manufacturers gave them an appearance of marble facing. You may also purchase German antique clocks on our online source.
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