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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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Tankard

Possibly by Jeremias II Flicker (master ca. 1610, died 1647)

Date:: 17th century
Culture:: German (Augsburg)
Medium:: Silver gilt
Dimensions:: H. 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
Classification:: Metalwork
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1912
Accession Number:: 12.35.4

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Marking: [1] I F in circle, possibly maker's mark of Jeremias II Flicker, m. ca. 1610, d. 1647 (Seling no. 1246) [2] Pinecone (Augsburg) possibly Seling no. 52 (1630) [3] N R S in shield [4] 12 D in shield [3] and [4] are probably marks of redecorating in Vienna. Location of marks: [1] IF, stamped underneath base [2] pinecone stamped underneath base [3] stamped on flaring base [4] 12.D stamped on flaring base and on rim of cover
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Who
Jeremias II Flicker (1)
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Metal (59,364)

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Silver (14,056)

Gilt (9,043)

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Europe (148,586)

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Bavaria (988)

Augsburg (403)
When
A.D. 1600-1800 (66,179)
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European Sculpture and Decorative Arts (43,257)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Central Europe (including Germany), 1600–1800 A.D.

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