French Rococo Revival Carved Wooden Grandfather Clock with Cherubs
Located in BŘECLAV, CZ
Exceptional Italian grandfather clock in the French Rococo Revival style, dating to the early 20th century, masterfully crafted from richly stained wood and adorned with highly elabo...
Bronze
Antique Rococo Revival Grandfather Clock, Hand-Carved Wooden Case
Located in BŘECLAV, CZ
Antique Rococo Revival grandfather clock featuring an exceptionally ornate hand-carved wooden case with rich sculptural detailing.
Brass
Pendulum clock, floor clock with lacquered and painted wooden case, France
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Antique Pendulum Clock, old floor clock, grandfather clock with lacquered and painted wooden case with floral decorations.
Walnut
1870 Dated Spanish Swiss Painted Standing Clock Wooden Housing
Located in Marbella, ES
1870 dated Swiss painted standing clock wooden housing.
Wood
Clock, France, 19th C., after Charles Cressent 'France, 1685-1768'
By Charles Cressent
Located in Madrid, ES
Wooden box grandfather clock in which palo santo, rosewood and others are combined, enhanced with a series of gilt bronze appliques, which combine with the curved and counter-curved ...
Bronze, Other
1820s French Wooden Floor Clock
Located in High Point, NC
A wooden floor clock from France, produced circa 1820.
Brass
Danish 19th Century Bornholm Wooden Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
An exquisite Danish 19th century "Bornholm" wooden clock dry scraped to the original orange Terracotta paint with square face, dentil molding, thin half columns flanking the body, Sw...
Wood
18th Century Swedish Wooden Floor Clock
Located in High Point, NC
Step into the world of antiquity with this 18th Century Swedish wooden floor clock, an embodiment of the grace and craftsmanship of a bygone era. Its towering frame, crafted from age...
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Wooden Clock
Located in High Point, NC
This antique wooden clock combines a striking silhouette with a muted patina. Built in Sweden in the early 1800s, the elegant simplicity of the design reflects the Gustavian style in...
Metal
Early 19th Century Swedish Wooden Clock
Located in High Point, NC
This antique wooden clock combines a striking silhouette with a muted patina. Built in Sweden in the early 1800s, the elegant simplicity of the design reflects the Gustavian style in...
Metal
Early 19th Century Swedish Wooden Floor Clock
Located in High Point, NC
This early 19th Century Swedish wooden floor clock is a rustic treasure, echoing the simplicity and durability of Scandinavian design. Its aged wooden surface, bearing the warm, redd...
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Wooden Floor Clock
Located in High Point, NC
This early 19th Century Swedish wooden floor clock stands as an enduring icon of antique elegance and craftsmanship. The clock boasts a body painted in a delicate, faded hue, reminis...
Wood
Swedish 19th Century Wooden Tall Case Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish 19th century wooden clock dry scraped to the original brown tone paint. This clock retains it's original metal face, hands and movement. This Swedish clock is topped with...
Glass, Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Wooden Floor Clock
Located in High Point, NC
This early 19th Century Swedish wooden floor clock stands as a towering testament to the enduring elegance of Scandinavian design. Its tall, slender body is shaped from wood that bea...
Wood
Swedish 19th Century Wooden Clock with Bonnet Crest
Located in Atlanta, GA
A 19th century Swedish clock. This exquisite Swedish clock features an elegant and rich wood finish. It is capped with a signature bonnet style crest. The linear profile is echoed in...
Pewter
Antique Wooden Wall Clock, Brown Richly Decorated, 1800, Italy
Located in Cuneo, Italy (CN)
Antique wooden wall clock, richly decorated and hand carved with volutes and very wavy, almost baroque motifs, handmade in 1800 in Italy, measuring cm length 62 x height 95, depth ab...
Wood
19th Century Fryksdahl Wooden Swedish Clock with Gilded Accents
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a 19th century Fryksdahl Swedish wood clock from Värmland, which is often referred to as a Mora Clock. This clock retains it's original metal face, hands and movement. This ...
Glass, Wood, Fir
Late 18th Century Swedish Wooden Clock with Bonnet Shaped Crest
Located in Atlanta, GA
A late 18th century Swedish wooden clock. This Swedish rectangular head wooden clock features a bonnet shaped crest, over an exquisite pewter ring face with single hand. This clock r...
Glass, Wood
Swedish 19th Century Fryskdahl Wooden Clock with Rose Carved Crest
Located in Atlanta, GA
A 19th century Swedish clock. This Swedish Fryksdahl painted wood clock features a stylized rose carved crest, serving as a focal point. The neck is decorated with rosettes on each s...
Wood
19th Century Fryksdahl Painted and Carved Wooden Floor Clock, Sweden
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish Fryksdahl painted and carved wood floor clock from the 19th century. This antique Fryksdahl clock from Sweden features it's original metal face with hand painted numbers, a...
Wood
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H 95 in W 20 in D 8.5 in
Swedish Early 19th Century Carved Wooden Mora Clock with Original Blue Paint
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish wooden Mora clock from the early 19th century, with original blue paint and carved crest. Born in Sweden during the 19th century, this Mora clock was originally handcrafted...
Glass, Wood
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H 84 in W 21.5 in D 7.75 in
Swedish 19th Century Blue Wooden Clock with Nicely Carved Crest and Feet
Located in Atlanta, GA
A 19th century Swedish painted wood clock. This Swedish clock has round overhanging crest above its face. Its raindrop shaped body leads down to a nicely carved base. This Swedish cl...
Wood
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H 93 in W 21 in D 11 in
Swedish 19th Century Wooden Clock with White Color and Subtle Blue Undertone
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite Swedish 19th century white with a slight blue undertone and gilded accents clock is a lesson in subtlety. This clock retains it's original metal face, hands and moveme...
Glass, Wood
19th Century Wooden Swedish Grandfather Clock
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is a 19th century Swedish painted wood grandfather clock, which is often referred to as a Mora clock. A. Tyner Antiques possesses one of the best collections of original 19th ce...
Wood
19th Century Wooden Swedish Grandfather Clock with Carved Crown
Located in Atlanta, GA
This exquisite mid-19th century wooden Swedish grandfather clock is a light grey beige with white and blue undertones and a darker trim.
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Wooden Floor Clock
Located in High Point, NC
Behold the charm of this early 19th Century Swedish wooden floor clock, a masterpiece of antiquity that captures the essence of its time. Its sturdy oak construction stands tall, wit...
Wood
Early 19th Century Swedish Wooden Floor Clock
Located in High Point, NC
Embrace the whispers of history with this early 19th Century Swedish wooden floor clock, an objet d'art steeped in a sense of time and tradition. Its stately presence is accentuated ...
Wood
19th Century Gustavian Painted Wooden Clock Face
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Decorative clock face in original Gustavian paint on wood, Sweden, 1820s.
Wood
Late 19th Century Swedish Wooden Long Case Clock
Located in Middleburg, VA
Late 19th century Swedish long case clock. Exaggerated shape with round face. All retaining the original painted finish and the original clockworks. Sweden, circa 1870. Measures: ...
Wood
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H 72 in W 11.25 in D 11.5 in
Unique Art Deco Era, Industrial Aviation Design Airplane Propeller Wooden Clock
Located in Lisse, NL
Large and unique work of time telling art. If you are looking for the rarest of the rare when it comes to clocks or aviation related antiques then this amazing and highly decorative...
Brass, Bronze
18thc Hand Made Wooden Grandfather Clock
Located in Pasadena, CA
18thc Hand Made Wooden Grandfather Clock. Wonderful festooned ornate decoration.
Metal
Minature Grandfather Clock, Cerca, 1890
Located in London, GB
A 19th century, miniature and wooden carved grandfather clock, with a carved wooden floral centre, and a roman numerical face, typical of the English clock design.
Wood
19th Century French Boulle Longcase Clock
By André-Charles Boulle
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A very good quality late 19th Century French boulle inlaid longcase clock, having wonderful scrolling gilded ormolu mounts, an ebonised case with tortoiseshell brass inlaid panels, T...
Brass
1940's American Paint Decorated Grandmother's/Pencil Clock
By Colonial Furniture Company
Located in Morristown, NJ
20th c., USA, a paint decorated Grandmother's/Pencil clock with the dial marked "Colonial", circa 1940, Colonial Manufacturing Co., Zeeland, Michigan. Hand painted in Adams style wit...
Wood, Paint
$3,800
H 81.5 in W 21.88 in D 8.38 in
19th-Century Swedish Mora Longcase Clock, Pine, Folk Art, Circa 1800
Located in Mckinney, TX
Handcrafted in the early 19th-century, this longcase clock embodies the rural craftsmanship and folk traditions of central Sweden. The pine case features the classic Mora silhouette ...
Pine
$2,320Sale Price|39% Off
H 99.5 in W 18.5 in D 14.5 in
Late 18th Century Liege Burled Walnut Tall Case Clock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A stately late 18th century Belgian, Liege, tall case clock case having a period Black Forest clock workings with wooden enameled dial and hand-painted fruit decoration, the original...
Bronze, Enamel, Iron
19th Century French Comtoise or Morbier Grandfather Clock
Located in Winter Park, FL
A 19th century Country French comtoise, or grandfather clock, with polychrome painted pine case and embossed brass pendulum. Seven day Morbier movement, professionally cleaned and in...
Brass, Enamel
French 19th Century Tall Case Clock
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This French 19th century banjo shaped case clock is an eye catching piece in any space. Topped by an ornately carved cornice above the dial faced door. Supported by an intricate bras...
Metal, Brass, Bronze, Iron
$9,100
H 104 in W 17 in D 11 in
18th Century Elegant French Louis XIV Hand Carved Tall Case Clock with Rooster
Located in Lisse, NL
Stunning and completely original, antique oak grandfather or lantern clock, circa 1750. This very old grandfather clock is one of the tallest we have ever seen and it has an amazing...
Brass, Bronze
French 19th Century Painted Case Clock
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This French 19th Century banjo shaped case clock is an eye-catching piece in any space. Topped by a smartly carved cornice above the dial face door. Supported by an intricate brass r...
Metal, Iron, Brass
Antique grandfather clocks and longcase clocks are staples of old-world design sensibilities, and, along with their storied history, these statuesque timepieces can bring a feeling of warmth to living rooms, dining rooms and other areas of your home.
Longcase clocks, which originated in England and were manufactured in the United States beginning in the 1700s, refer to tall clocks with a face and clock works positioned high in the housing while a large swinging pendulum movement is tucked inside the case, which is supported by a carved base called a plinth.
While guests making their way through your foyer (another ideal location for such a furnishing) might typically refer to your longcase clock as a “grandfather clock,” there are actually three varieties of these stylish floor clocks, which include granddaughter clocks (the shortest, generally not one solid piece of wood and around three to five feet tall), grandmother clocks (the slimmer middle ground, between five feet and six feet tall) and grandfather clocks, which are typically between six and seven feet tall.
Sculptural and statement-making, antique grandfather clocks created by the likes of the Seth Thomas Clock Company, the Howard Miller Clock Company, Hermle or other clockmakers are an alluring choice in filling up space in a room, while the shorter longcase clocks are just as useful if you need an element that is comparatively muted or you’re working with limited space.
Each generation of artisan clockmakers, working in various furniture styles over time, contributed its own flourishes to the design of longcase clocks. Antique grandfather clocks in the Georgian style share commonalities with neoclassical design. They were often made in dark woods such as mahogany and feature intricate carving. Mahogany is also common for Victorian-era grandfather clocks, although examples of this style can be found in oak and walnut too. Designers of contemporary grandfather clocks are using a range of materials.
It’s easy to get confused when determining the origins or value of an antique grandfather clock or other vintage longcase clock. While an antique appraiser will be able to tell quickly, searching for a manufacturer’s name engraved on the face and dial of the clock may be an easy way to learn about the history of your clock.
Find a distinctive variety of antique grandfather clocks and longcase clocks on 1stDibs, and browse our collection of unusually beautiful clocks, wall clocks, desk clocks and other vintage clocks too.
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