Mahogany clock case with painted and gilded decoration, English, 1896. Designed and painted by Charles Annesley Voysey.
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1895; 1896-1901
Mahogany case made by F. Coote and painted and gilded by C.F.A. Voysey. Movement made of brass and steel, by Camerer, Kuss & Co. It is decorated with the childlike, flat patterns that its designer, C.F.A. Voysey (1857-1941), used for his textiles and wallpapers.
Voysey's original design for this clock, dated 1895, shows conventional roman numerals on the face. In 1896 he exhibited a clock with that type of face at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London. By 1901 he had exchanged the numerals for the Latin phrase tempus fugit ('time flies'), a characteristically neat reminder of the clock's function. An almost identical clock belonged to Mary, Countess of Lovelace (1848-1941), an Arts and Crafts enthusiast.
This design for a clock was illustrated in The Cabinet Maker, 1896/7, p. 143, reprinted in Bennett, Daryl, LIberty's Furiture 1875-1915.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 1
- Photograph views
- 2
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Dimensions
- Height 50.8 cm; Width 27.1 cm; Depth 17.2 cm
Technical characteristics
- Place recorded
- England
Identification
- Candidate id
- vam-O9685
- Museum object number
- W.5:1-1998
- 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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