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Artist and engraver Peter Scheemakers III French
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Plate 4 (numbered 10) of a series of six designs for clocks inspired by Antiquity. This design is characterized by the two serpents slithering out of the vase at the top of the design and by the sphinges used as caryatides on either side of the clock.
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Title: Plate 10, from "Antique Clocks, 2nd Part" (Pandulle à l'Antique. 2.me Partie)
Series/Portfolio: Antique Clocks, 2nd Part (Pandulle à l'Antique. 2.me Partie)
Artist and engraver:
Peter Scheemakers III (French, died 1765)
Date: before 1765
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions:
Plate: 8 1/4 × 5 15/16 in. (21 × 15.1 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/16 × 6 5/16 in. (23.4 × 16.1 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
Object Number: 54.512.5(4)
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