clock
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1870
name: label: Producer
content: Alphonse Giroux & Cie, 1799–1867
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Paris, France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through bequest of Mrs. John Innes Kane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1986-30-1
objectType: label: Type
content: timepieces & measuring devices
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: clock
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: gilt bronze
label: Dimensions
content: 46.6 x 25.5 x 19.5 cm (18 3/8 x 10 1/16 x 7 11/16 in.)