Mantel Clock Design
date: label: Date
content: 1775–94
name: label: Designer
content: Jean François Forty, active 1775 – 1790
label: Print Maker
content: A. Colinet, French, active 18th century
label: Publisher
content: Jacques-François Chéreau, French, 1742–1794
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Design for a mantel clock supported by two female herms columns, with their feet at the base. The clock face has roman numerals and is framed by a laurel leaf running pattern molding and putti morphing into scrolling acanthus leaves, holding a winged hourglass on the top. The whole is decorated with neoclassical motifs and ornament including scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fruits and flowers, cornucopia, festoons of leaves, and rosettes. The plate is numbered and signed.
place: label: made in
content: France
label: published in
content: Paris, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-310-21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on paper