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Description:
Massively Impressive all original Morbier Tall Case Clock in amazingly original condition. Made from pine with faux grain painting and hand painted floral scenes. Clock works have been regularly serviced and runs perfectly. This is a double striker and repeats the hour chime. Has a huge brass pendulum that is visible through the glass in the door. I am including a brief Morbier history below.
The French Morbier clock is known as a privincial clock, to distinguish it from clocks made in major urban centres, primarily Paris. The clock was named after the village of Morbier, located about 30 miles North to North-West of Geneva on a trade route, la route nationale 5, between Paris and Geneva. Morbier was a rural, agricultural (dairy) community in the Jura Mountains of the Franche-Comté region, near the French border with Switzerland, famous for their Morbier cheese. Starting in the second half of the 18th Century, farmers began to manufacture clock parts during the cold winter months. These clock parts were purchased by finishers, who would assemble the parts to create a clock. The clocks were then ostensibly sold to travellers passing through town. Morbier clocks are also known as Comtoise clocks because of the Franche-Comté region where they were produced. Production stopped around 1914. Tourism is a significant part of the local economy nowadays, supplementing income from agriculture as the production of clocks once did.
The dimensions are: 18'w x 92"h x 8",9",11"d.
Hard to show how impressive this clock looks.
More picures are available upon request.
| Status: For Sale |
Reference#: hmc08 |
| Condition:
Excellent Original |
Year:
Ca.1790
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| Country:
French |
Maker:
Morbier |
| Height:
92 in. (233.68 cm) |
Depth:
11 in. (27.94 cm) |
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Width: 18 in. (45.72 cm)
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| Title:
Early French Morbier Faux Grained Hand Painted Tall Case Clock Ca. 1790 |
Style:
French Morbier |
| Materials:
Pine |
Type:
Morbier |
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