The Metropolitan Museum of Art

David Roentgen: Apollo Clock

Abraham and David Roentgen were renowned German cabinetmakers whose workshop was famed throughout Europe for its exquisite marquetry work and complex mechanical devices. Lavishly embellished and expertly crafted, the Apollo clock is one of the best-known pieces of Roentgen furniture.

This clock, from Roentgen-Museum, Neuwied, is featured in the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens (on view October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013).

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Goblet

Date:: late 17th–early 18th century
Culture:: Italian, Venice (Murano)
Medium:: Glass
Dimensions:: H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm); Diam. 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm.)
Classification:: Glass
Credit Line:: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881
Accession Number:: 81.8.19

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: (obverse): SIL(VESTER) VAL(IERUS) D(UX) V)ENETORUM) BE(RNARDUS?) BALBI POD(ESTAS) GIO(VANNI) MA (RCO) LICINI CAM (ERLENGUS) -- [Silverstro Valier, Doge of Venice: Bernardo Balbi, Podestà: Giovanni Marco Licini, Chamberlain.] (reverse): CU(RIATI) M(ARCUS) AN(TONIUS) BRIATI. PA(ULUS) ZIMINIAN(I). A(NTONIUS?) MARINET(TI). P(ETRUS?) SANTINI -- [Councillors (?) Marco Antonio Briati. Paolo Ziminiani: Antonio (?) Marinetti: Pietro (?) Santini.]
Provenance

James Jackson Jarves (until 1881; to MMA)
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What
Glass (16,078)

Drinking vessels (6,031)

Drinking glasses (1,102)

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Europe (150,372)

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Murano (411)
When
A.D. 1600-1800 (67,128)
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Venice and Northern Italy, 1600–1800 A.D.
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