Table clock - Antique Wood, Brass - 1800-1850, 1850-1900

Biedermeier Table Clock, mahogany, double chimes, 1840 - Germany
Type: Desk clock
Movement: Paris
Period: 1840s
Country: Germany
Materials: Mahogany, brass
With key
No expert review
Double chime
Good condition considering its age and use
Dimensions: 36 x 29.5 x 11.5
Elegant table clock crafted in mahogany with gilt brass decorations in the Biedermeier style, made in Germany in the 1840s.
It presents a rectangular base from which rises a structure that frames the dial. The dial shows Arabic numerals and gilded brass hands in a delicate filigree needle shape. It does not have the glass that covers it. As a finish, it features a miniature eagle. At the back there is an opening through which we can observe the Paris movement that powers the clock. It has double chimes. It comes with the original key and pendulum.
About the Biedermeier style
This style characterizes German and Austrian furniture from 1815 (Vienna Congress) to 1848, with the onset of revolutionary movements. Its main features are simplicity and functionality. As an origin, "Biedermeier" took on, for the first time in this territory, a pejorative connotation. The word comes from "Bieder," or "simple" and from "Meir," one of the most common German surnames at the time and the name of a "simple" character in a comedy by Eichrodt. This term signified the small bourgeois conservative, concerned only with his own family reality. Although pejorative, the term precisely represents the new sociopolitical situation in which the bourgeois is obliged or resigned to abandon the aspirations for democracy and freedom. The center of life thus becomes the home, which is no longer characterized by unbridled luxury but by comfort and practicality.
As a result, Biedermeier furniture is functional, comfortable, and easy to obtain. The style is an evolution of the Empire Style toward greater simplification, with no ornamental and outdated elements, lighter forms, straighter and curved lines, and lighter colors.
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