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Clock Face

Collection Type

  • Clocks and timekeeping

Date

1815-1840

GUSN

GUSN-2681

Description

An iron lunette form enameled off white and hand painted in polychrome. It shows an elegant young seated shephardess in a pink Empire style gown in a country landscape.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dials
timepieces
enameling
iron (metal)
painting (coating)
Empire (style)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
shepherds
Landscape
Shepherd
Empire
Iron
Enameled
Painted
Clock

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

5 1/2 x 11 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.906

Related Items

Title Clock Face Accession Number 1991.907

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