Object Details
- Producer
- Alphonse Giroux & Cie, 1799–1867
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Elaborate gilt bronze form composed of a stepped domed top with ball finial and scrolling elements supported by four baluster-shaped columns on a stepped circular base on four spherical feet. The whole embellished with realistically rendered gilt bronze beetles of various types and sizes. In the center a spherical clock, the face with numerals represented by different beetles in graduated sizes in a circular arrangement, the smallest at the one o’clock position, the largest at twelve o’clock; minute and hour hands in the form of stick insects; two circular openings for winding keys.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane
- ca. 1870
- Accession Number
- 1986-30-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- timepieces & measuring devices
- Decorative Arts
- clock
- Medium
- gilt bronze
- Dimensions
- 46.6 x 25.5 x 19.5 cm (18 3/8 x 10 1/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
- manufactured in
- Paris, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1986-30-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq47b49da80-6ffa-4cf2-a742-614766b71ce9
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