Objects of Desire (Clocks)
1-2 Christoph Schöner, Heinrich Eichler, Johann I Bartermann, Johann Valentin Gevers, Johann Andreas Thelott Augsburg, around 1700 Wood, silver, partly gilded, glass stones, ruby glass, turquoise, Hans Conraedt Breghtel (1609 -75) Movement by Adrian Van Den Bergh, compare detail of filigree with other caskets. The first Key piece in identifying European Filigree
3-4 A Chinese gilt bronze, enamel and paste set quarter-striking musical table clock with automation waterfalls and spinning flowers and acrobat, 19th Century Guangzhou workshop, Howell And James Mantel Clock
5. Louis XVI style French gilt bronze mantle clock
6. Portico Clock, 1780-1790, French, gold
7. Benjamin Vulliamy (1747-1811) Mantel clock 1789-90 Marble and gilt bronze clock case with biscuit porcelain figure
8. Louis XVI style gilt and patinated bronze mantle clock, 19th century, in the style of charpentier, retailed by Black, Starr, and Frost
9. France, c.1712 by Boulle\
10. A late 19th century French gilt bronze and Sevres style porcelain mounted mantel clock
