Artist: Ferdinand Berthoud
ημερομηνία: 1755
μέγεθος: 36 x 35 cm
μουσείο: Royal Collection (London, United Kingdom)
Τεχνική: Bronze
French striking longcase clock with engraved gilt bronze centre dial plate in shaped upright case inlaid with marquetry. Decoration of gilded cherubs, lions heads, fruit; on claw feet. Surmounted by a figure of Time with a scythe in his hands. For a patron with the knowledge of clocks and clockmaking that George III certainly possessed, the appeal of a clock of this type lay in the equation of time movement constructed by one of the leading French horological theorists of the day, Ferdinand Berthoud. It may also be fair to say that the handsomely mounted case, one of the most felicitous creations of the cabinet-maker and sculptor Charles Cressent, would also have aroused the King
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