Bronze finial of bowl of fruit sits on square pediment; rectangular body with rounder shoulders, on four scrolled bronze feet; bronze human mask at center front; underneath is clock face; white ceramic disks have blue painted Roman numerals I-XII; figured brass face, two spear-like arms; body of clock case black lacquer with pierced, scrolled brass plates covering surface; back door opens revealing workings.
mantel clocks
timepieces
bronze (metal)
lacquering
piercing
tin (metal)
fruit bowls
Bronze
Tin
Fruit Bowl
Mask
Pierced
Lacquered
CLOCK
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
France
12.75 x 6 x 4.125 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1340
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