What are animalier bronze horses?

Animalier bronze horses are nineteenth-century sculptures focusing on realistic equine forms. These pieces portray horses in active poses, such as jumping, racing, or standing. French ateliers produced numerous variations, capturing the muscular detail and temperament of the animals through metal casting.

How do I identify Marly horses?

Marly horses depict rearing animals held back by handlers, based on famous monumental public sculptures. They often appear in matched pairs cast in bronze. Look for the characteristic rearing posture and the presence of an attendant figure struggling with the reins.

Were these horses used in clocks?

Clockmakers integrated bronze horses into mantel clocks, placing the equine figures atop sienna marble clock housings. These functional objects combined timekeeping movements with sculptural bronze groups. Such pieces served as decorative centrepieces in nineteenth-century interiors.

What is the Palais Royal connection?

Palais Royal horse-drawn sewing companions and trinket boxes incorporate miniature equine elements into novelty desk accessories. These small items combined gilt brass, bronze, and opaline glass. They reflect French nineteenth-century ingenuity in creating functional luxury novelties.

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These antique french bronze horses capture equine power in metal, offering collectors dynamic animalier sculpture rooted in nineteenth-century French ateliers.

A Fine French Gilt Bronze & Silver Plated Bronze Clock, Depicting Napoleon Bonaparte on His Charger.

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A Fine French Gilt Bronze & Silver Plated Bronze Clock, Depicting Napoleon Bonaparte on His Charger.

From Peter Harris Clocks & Militaria

£1,550

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Bronze Sculpture by Charles Crozatier

From Devonshire Antiques

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Large Pair of 19th Century Bronze Marly Horses, After Coustou

From Patrick Moorhead Antiques

£3,800

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Bronze Sculpture of Monkeys Racing on Horses by Paul Joseph Gayrard

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Bronze Sculpture of Monkeys Racing on Horses by Paul Joseph Gayrard

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A Fine French Gilt Bronze & Silver Plated Bronze Clock, Depicting Napoleon Bonaparte on His Charger.

Bronze Sculpture by Charles Crozatier

Large Pair of 19th Century Bronze Marly Horses, After Coustou

Bronze Sculpture of Monkeys Racing on Horses by Paul Joseph Gayrard

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