id:			438932
accession number:	2020.421.1
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.421.1
updated:		2023-01-13 16:30:24.608000

Clock for a Garniture Set, 1736–1770. Chinese hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze, enameled metal; overall: 54 x 20.2 x 20.2 cm (21 1/4 x 7 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Horace Wood Brock 2020.421.1

title:				Clock for a Garniture Set
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creation date:			1736–1770
creation date earliest:		1736
creation date latest:		1770
current location:		216B French and German
creditline:			Gift of Horace Wood Brock
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culture:	
technique:	Chinese hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze, enameled metal
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Furniture and woodwork
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measurements: Overall: 54 x 20.2 x 20.2 cm (21 1/4 x 7 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Previously exhibited at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Frick Collection, New York.

* <em>Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection</em>. Museum of Fine Arts Boston (January 22–May 17, 2009).

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PROVENANCE

	Horace Wood Brock, Gloucester, MA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020-
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fun fact:
A set of vases and clock, connected visually by the use of the same materials, often adorned a mantlepiece or the top of a large piece of furniture, such as a commode or console, within a room.

digital description:
The fascination with Chinese porcelain among aristocratic circles increased during the reign of Louis XV. In reaction to the perceived excesses of elaborate naturalistic ornament of the 1750s, mount makers increasingly turned to neoclassical designs, known as <em>Goût Grec</em> (Greek taste) in the 1760s and 1770s. These beautifully chased gilt-bronze mounts feature classical Greco-Roman motifs such as lion masks, acanthus and laurel leaves, and pilasters.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Clifford Ackley, et al. <em>Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Art and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection</em>. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009.
	page number: 	Reproduced:  cover
	url:		https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/297567397

	Clifford Ackley, et al. <em>Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Art and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection</em>. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009.
	page number: 	Reproduced:  Cover.
	url:		https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/297567397

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