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Clockmaker:
Jolie, Julien
Case maker:
Saint-Germain, Jean-Joseph de
Table clock with 8 day movement supported on a bronze rhinoceros base.
Dial: One piece white enamel dial with black markings, roman numerals for the hours and arabic ones for every five minutes, elaborately pierced and shaped gilt brass hands. Signed in the dial centre ‘JULIEN JOLIE A PARIS'.
Movement: 8 day circular movement striking hours and half hours on a bell. The original silk suspension for the pendulum replaced with a Brocot type adjust¬able spring suspension.
Case: Of Louis XV design. This consists of a rococo ormolu base on which stands a very finely modelled bronze rhinoceros.This supports the rococo ormolu clock surround which is surmounted by a seated figure of an Indian child. The whole is of very fine quality. The case is signed on the base ‘S.Germain'.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Lady Mildred Fitzgerald
Height: 63 cm
Height: 24 7/8 in
Method of acquisition: Given (1957) by Fitzgerald, Mildred, Lady
18th Century, third quarter
Circa
1750
-
1760
Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain
Dial
composed of
enamel
( white and black)
Case
composed of
ormolu
Rhinoceros
composed of
bronze
Base
Case And Base
Accession number: M.2-1957
Primary reference Number: 140587
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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