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Clock
B.E. Co. - Enlarge image
Clock
- Place of origin:
Shanghai, China (made)
- Date:
ca. 1935 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
B.E. Co. (maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Wood and steel
- Credit Line:
Given by Pamela Marchant
- Museum number:
FE.565:1, 2-2007
- Gallery location:
China, room 44, case 58
This Art Deco-style clock was made in Shanghai, the most fashionable Chinese city in the 1930s, and also the most technologically advanced. It is not known if B.E. Co. was a foreign firm trading in China. The consumer would have been either a Chinese eager to adopt a western life style, or a Westerner living in China at that time.



