Clock — IN ON TIME 4, Matsumoto, Hideo, Japan, 1994
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
1994
Clock — IN ON TIME 4, Matsumoto, Hideo, Japan, 1994 is an object recorded by Victoria and Albert Museum, dated 1994. The museum's brief description reads: 'IN ON TIME 4' wall clock, porcelain, by Matsumoto Hideo (1951-), Japan, 1994.
Museum description: Wall clock of porcelain. Square panel with small curved and circular components attached to the four corners; battery operated clock mechanism fixed behind, hour/minute/second hands of brass; pair of black foam spacers glued to lower part of reverse. Slab-built porcelain with hand-modelled corner components; abstract patterning executed in purplish blue ceramic pigments and oxides; transparent lime-fluxed glaze on front; oxidation fired to 1240 degrees centigrade in an electric kiln.
The museum record gives material recorded as porcelain; measurements Width 35.3 cm; Height 35.6 cm; Depth 4.0 cm; place associated: Japan; maker recorded: Matsumoto, Hideo. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.
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- Catalogue references
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- porcelain
- Dimensions
- Width 35.3 cm; Height 35.6 cm; Depth 4.0 cm
Technical characteristics
- Technique
- Porcelain, painted and glazed
- Maker recorded
- Matsumoto, Hideo
- Place recorded
- Japan
Design
- Inscriptions recorded
- Maker's mark impressed on reverse
Identification
- Museum attribution
- Matsumoto, Hideo
- Museum object name
- Clock
- Museum object number
- FE.18-1995
- Museum system number
- O483284
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
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