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David Roentgen: Nemours Clock

Abraham and David Roentgen were renowned German cabinetmakers whose workshop was famed throughout Europe for its exquisite marquetry work and complex mechanical devices. Proportioned for a stately public room or library, this musical clock is likely to have been the first Roentgen object to reach the United States, belonging to Gouverneur Morris, one of the nation’s founding fathers. Not only does it tell time, but it also displays the interior works, which are hidden in most clocks.

This clock, from The Nemours Foundation, 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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Cup and Saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe)

Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740–present)

Decorator:: Jean Bouchet (active 1757–93)
Decorator:: Gilt by Boileau jeune (active 1783–89)
Date:: probably 1784
Culture:: French, Sèvres
Medium:: Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions:: Cup (.5a): H. 2 3/8 in. (6.0 cm.) Saucer (.5b): Diam. 4 3/4 in. (12.1 cm.)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Gift of Mrs. George Clinton Gênet, in memory of "Citizen" Edmond Charles Gênet, 1909
Accession Number:: 09.129.5a, b

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