Any idea who the clock maker is...

[CarriageHouse]

We're hoping someone can help us identify the maker of this clock...please and thank you.

[KC]

Hi!  Can you give any history on it?

It appears to have Follot.  There was a French clock maker names Paul Follot up until the mid 1900's.  However, you will see that most examples of this work aren't this traditional French style of porcelain and ormolu.

[Ipcress]

Can't see the F for it to be Follot, KC ?

Can you take another image of what's written before that word ? The porcelain panels are strange for a clock - birds carrying off lambs, a wolf type animal staring at a lone lamb, a fox and a crane...

[mart]

That scenario on the images does not sound like something the French would have done !! 

[KC]

That's what I was thinking...and researched it more...and can't find any instance so far.

I have been collecting and researching French for a long, long, long time...and this is a first!

[mart]

Pics are so huge that it crashes my computer so I can`t see them !!  Tried 4 times before I could get to the reply page !! Going to leave this one to you two !!  Would be nice to see it though !!

[cogar]

Mart, those pictures are imbedded hyper links in his/her 1st post so .....

Click on the "page" and open up a new window, any window ,.... like Google

Go back to the top of that 1st post and click on the "quote" tab upper right.

That opens a "reply" window with all the imbedded links for each of those pictures

So just copy n' paste the picture's url from the quoted text .... to the http area of that new window like so..........

[ur*l]this area ONLY is the picture url to copy and paste[/url]

Then click the refresh or go-arrow and it will upload those pictures in that new window for you to see.

Remember ..... don't copy the [url] at the front and end of those embedded links.

[Ipcress]

The panels seem to be interpretations of Aesop's fables, KC.

 The stork and the fox - the stork eating from his narrow necked vessel



The eagle and the jackdaw, where an eagle swoops off with a lamb


the wolf and the lamb

[mart]

But why would that have been put on a clock by this maker ??  The sig  does not look like any I saw on his clocks !! And honestly the quality on this one doesn`t look good !!

[Ipcress]

What signature ? Who's clocks ?

We have seen no signature or makers name / mark.

[gg27]

Clock makers & clock cases were usually different makers.  Could easily be a lesser quality case with a better quality mechanism.  I have an egyptian revival clock that is nice but not nearly as good as the fusee mechanism in it.  Many clock collectors walked by this clock in a shop because they never expected that mechanism.  GG

[frogpatch]

There may be a mark on the porcelain face on the back or on one of the other porcelain pieces. It looks a lot like a Sevres porcelain face. Did you look at the decoration closely to be sure that it was entirely hand painted? I think I am seeing brush strokes there but I am not sure. The clock itself is not as elaborate as a Freres. It may have been made in the early 20th century in the style of Sevres/Freres. I believe it is Aesops fables. The theme was used in every country in Europe in the 18th and 19th century and later.

[mart]

I mean the writing in pic 9 where you can see the "llot" and KC suggested it might be Follot !!

[Ipcress]

That's on the porcelain and probably related to that alone.

[mart]

Mmm,, didn`t look close enough,, you are right !!  But even if just the porcelain,, it didn`t match any I saw !!  The decorative work on this clock is just not well done !!  Looks ok from a distance but not up close and that's taking moderate age into consideration !!  If I saw this in a shop I would immediately think "copy" !!