Clock with case of tortoiseshell inlaid with brass, Paris
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
late 17th century
The case of tortoiseshell with marquetry of brass, mounts of chased gilt bronze and glass panels, mounted in ormolu; the inlay is of foliated scrollwork. The side panels are arched and glazed, with a wooden rear door.
The case rests on four claw feet, and decorated with enriched mouldings and corner mounts of acanthus foliage, surmounted by a bell-top supporting a tripod vase of ormolu. Ormolu dial, 20.3cm in diameter, decorated in relief with foliated strapwork, terminating in monsters, with a bust in a laurel leaf below and two squirrels above. Roman hour figures I to XII are each in blue on a convex white-enamel plaque inset in the dial.
The dial is glazed, with an applied gilt-bronze medallion 9.2cm in diameter, with an embossed head of Louis XIV in low relief and inscribed ''LVDOVICVS MAGNVS FRANCORV. REX. 1677', and signed 'Bertinet'. Plates are 15.3cm wide, 12.7 cm high, the backplate signed 'Gaudon Paris'. The pendulum is 27.9cm long, with brass-cased lead lenticular bob 7cm in diameter.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 2
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Dimensions
- Height 66.7 cm; Width 31 cm; Depth 17.5 cm
- Materials and techniques
- Case of tortoiseshell inlaid with brass, mounts of chased gilt bronze, and glass panels. Dial of ormolu decorated with foliated strapwork.
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- Paris
Identification
- Candidate id
- vam-O108408
- Museum object number
- 4:1 to 3-1903
- Source note
- Facts transcribed from the linked single-object source. Wider type attribution and authenticity have not been independently verified.
Catalogue references
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