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Annular Mantel Clock with Figures Emblematic of the Passing of Time

Dateca. 1770
MediumGilt bronze on wood
Dimensions21 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (54 x 26.7 cm)
Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest
Accession number1914.6.13
Collection History

Sir John Murray Scott, Bart., Paris, 1897. Bequeathed by him to Josephine Victoria, Baroness Sackville, Paris, 1912. Jacques Seligmann, Paris, 1913. Frick, 1914 (through Elsie de Wolfe, acting as intermediary).

Source: Furniture in The Frick Collection: French 18th- & 19th-Century Furniture (Pt. 2) & Gilt Bronzes. Volume VI. New York: The Frick Collection, 1992.

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