Table Clock with Orpheus Frieze

Probably Nuremberg, Germany1560/80 with later movement

Details

Title: Table Clock with Orpheus Frieze
Creator: Probably Nuremberg, Germany
Date Created: 1560/80 with later movement
Physical Dimensions: 3 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (8.89 × 24.77 cm)
Type: table clocks
External Link: See more at collection.mam.org
Medium: Gilt brass, brass, steel, and blued steel with silver and blue enamel
Art Movement: classicism, Northern Renaissance
Depicted Topic: Animalia, Aves, figures (representations), forests, landscapes (representations), letters (signs), lyres, male, men, metaphor, music, musical instruments, musicians, mythology, Nature, numbers, numerals, time
Technique Terms: casting, engraving (incising), gilding
Place Made: Noremburg
Physical Attributes: circles (plane figures), cylinders (solids), dials, feet, friezes (ornamental bands), hands (indicators), numbers, numerals, vivid yellow
Material Terms: brass (alloy), enamel, gilding, gold, silver, steel
Image Source: Milwaukee Art Museum, John Nienhuis
Credit Line: Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of Richard and Erna Flagg M1991.84

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