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Wall clock

Wall clock

Edouard Lievre (French, 1829–1886)
L'Escalier de Cristal (French, active 1802–1923)
Lahoche, Pannier et Cie (French (Paris), 1867 – 1885)
about 1880
Medium/TechniqueBronze, gilded bronze, enamel
DimensionsOverall: 95.6 × 40.3 × 24.8 cm (37 5/8 × 15 7/8 × 9 3/4 in.)
Credit LineFrank B. Bemis Fund and William Francis Warden Fund
Accession number2018.2110
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsFurniture
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1883, possibly William Henry Vanderbilt (b. 1821 – d. 1885) and Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt (b. 1821 – d. 1896), New York [see note]. About 2010, acquired in New York by Margot Johnson Gallery, New York; 2018, sold by Margot Johnson to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 26, 2018)

NOTE: Either this clock or a nearly identical clock—possibly the example at the Art Institute of Chicago—once hung in the Japanese parlor of the Vanderbilt home at 640 Fifth Avenue in New York, as illustrated in Edward Strahan, Mr. Vanderbilt's House and Collection (Boston, 1883-1884) and shown in an 1883 photograph.

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Les femmes savantes
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about 1763–68
Group shot: 65.1859a-b, 65.1860a-b
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Sèvres Manufactory
1763–68
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about 1725, with later decoration
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Meissen Manufactory
about 1725, with later decoration
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about 1817
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about 1790
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late 18th century