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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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Merton Abbey Tapestry Works (British, founded 1881)

Designer:: John Henry Dearle (British, 1860–1932)
Maker:: Workshop of Morris & Company (British)
Date:: designed 1887, printed 1887–1917
Culture:: British, Merton Abbey
Medium:: Cotton
Dimensions:: L. 82 x W. 65 inches 208.3 x 165.1 cm
Classification:: Textiles
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, and Gift of Adele Pharo Azar, in memory of her late husband Jemile Wehby Azar, by exchange, 1987
Accession Number:: 1987.160

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