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, square with a round clockface with roman numerals, toped by a portrait bust of a woman with a crescent moon on her head (probably the Greek and Roman goddess and personification of the moon, Selene/Luna), flanked by putto holding chains connected to dogs, and a festoon of flowers. The whole is decorated with scrolling leaves (rinceaux), fleurons, fluting, gadrooning, and running pattern moldings, and a central frieze with quiver of arrows, a bow, and a crescent moon. 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: 1921-6-310-25
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching and engraving on paper