Clock
ca. 1781-1793 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
The figures formed as Bacchus and Cupid; Mounts: Clock dial signed 'Cardinaux à Paris'
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Biscuit porcelain figures, with hard-paste porcelain panels painted in enamels and gilt; gilt bronze mounts and enamelled dial |
| Brief description | Clock of porcelain panels painted in enamels and gilt with enamelled dial, made by Duc d'Angoulême's porcelain factory, Paris, about 1781-1793 |
| Physical description | The figures formed as Bacchus and Cupid; Mounts: Clock dial signed 'Cardinaux à Paris' |
| Marks and inscriptions | 'Manufacture de Msr le Duc D'Angouleme a Paris' painted in gold on central porcelain panel (The clock movement is a later replacement: Tardy's Dictionnaire de Horlogers francais records Cardinaux as active 1800-1830.) |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Arthur Russell Johnson |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | Régine de Plinval de Guillebon. Les Biscuits de Porcelaines de Paris, XVIII – XIX siecles, Editions Faton, Dijon, 2012. Another version of this model is illustrated fig. 177, 194p and discussed 199p. The caption to the illustration gives the date as about 1790. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.126-1965 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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