Clock with Chinoiserie Pattern
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, German, active from 1710 to the present
- Attributed to
- Johann Gottlob Kirchner, German, 1706 - after 1737
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Lantern-shaped clock case raising from tall concave sockle on roughly square base. Two satyrs seated on scrolls support arched cornice above which a ribbed, scrolled and wrinkled top raises, crowned by a cat. Clock in center framed in metal and covered with glass. Polychrome and gold chinoiserie scenes and scrollwork.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Irwin Untermyer
- 1730–1733
- Accession Number
- 1955-163-13
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- clock
- Type
- clock
- Medium
- hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel, gold, metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 42.3 × 22.5 × 12 cm (16 5/8 × 8 7/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Place
- Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1955-163-13
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq446a060db-6a01-4539-8472-a36e30ee00c2
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