Philippe Caffiéri / Longcase Regulator Clock with Mounts Emblematic of Apollo / 1767

Philippe Caffiéri
Longcase Regulator Clock with Mounts Emblematic of Apollo
1767
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Creator Name: Caffiéri, Philippe
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: bronze decorations
Creator Dates/Places: 1714-1774
Creator Name-CRT: Philippe Caffiéri
Creator Name: Lieutaud, Balthazar
Creator Role: clock case
Creator Dates/Places: d.1780
Creator Name-CRT: Balthazar Lieutaud
Creator Name: Berthoud, Ferdinand
Creator Role: clock mechanism
Creator Dates/Places: 1727-1807
Creator Name-CRT: Ferdinand Berthoud
Title: Longcase Regulator Clock with Mounts Emblematic of Apollo
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Creation Start Date: 1767
Creation End Date: 1767
Creation Date: 1767
Object Type: Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Classification Term: Furniture
Materials and Techniques: carcass of oak; veneered on the exterior with tulipwood and kingwood and inside the pendulum case with amaranth and snakewood; mounts of gilt bronze; plinth of gray marble veined with rose and brown
Dimensions: H. overall 100 in. (254 cm.); W. of marble plinth 23 3/4 in. (60.3 cm.); D. of plinth 14 5/8 in. (37.2 cm.)
Inscriptions: Stamped, under the front of the hood and on the back of the base: B. LIEUTAUD; signed and dated, on a bronze plaque mounted below the sculptural group at the top: Les Bronze Par Caffierj L'aine 1767; inscribed, on the clock dial: FERDINAND/ BERTHOUD.
AMICA Contributor: The Frick Collection
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 15.5.46
Credit Line: Henry Clay Frick Bequest
Copyright: Licensed for non-commercial, educational use.
Rights: http://www.frick.org
Related Document Description: New York, The Frick Collection. A Guide to Works of Art on Exhibition [checklist]. 1997, n.p. New York, The Frick Collection. Art in the Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts [cat.]. Comps. C. Ryskamp, et al., 1996, p.198. New York, TheFrick Collection. An Illustrated Catalogue. Vol.5 Furniture. [cat.]. 1992, pp.314-322.
AMICA ID: TFC_.19155046
AMICA Library Year: 1999
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Frick Collection, New York, 1999

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