Ball Wall Clock, Model 4755
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Howard Miller Clock Company, American, founded 1926
- Designer
- George Nelson, (American, 1908–1986)
- Irving Harper, American, 1916 – 2015
- George Nelson Associates, American, founded 1947
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- White-painted circular wooden body with twelve steel rods radiating from the perimeter, each rod with a wooden ball at the end. Central black hour hand in the form of an arrow; minute hand is a thin black strip with an oval near the end; second hand is a slim red strip with a small circle at the short end.
- Credit Line
- Gift of The Mel Byars Collection
- 1948
- Accession Number
- 1991-26-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- timepieces & measuring devices
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- clock
- Type
- clock
- Medium
- wood, paint, steel, sheet metal
- Dimensions
- Diam x D: 33.3 x 6.5 cm (13 1/8 x 2 9/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Zeeland, Michigan, USA
- designed in
- New York, New York
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1991-26-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4294d97a1-42e4-47da-b1a9-0f52818084b8
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