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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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Plate depicting a lady with parasol

After a design by Cornelis Pronk (Dutch, Amsterdam 1691–1759 Amsterdam)

Date:: ca. 1734–37
Culture:: Chinese
Medium:: Hard-paste porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)
Dimensions:: H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.); Diam. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm.)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1968
Accession Number:: 68.153

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 201

Description

The Dutch East India Company, which dominated the export of Chinese porcelains to Europe in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, commissioned the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk (1691–1759) to supply designs that could be copied on porcelain intended for export. This design of a lady with a parasol was one of Pronk’s most popular compositions, and was employed by Japanese porcelain painters as well.
Provenance

[ Chait Galleries , New York, 1968; sold to MMA ]
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A.D. 1600-1800 (67,128)
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China, 1600–1800 A.D.
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