About the Artwork
Mantel Clock
ca. 1745 - 1770
Charles Balthazar (Maker) French, active 1717 - 1772 Johann Joachim Kändler (Modeler) German, 1706-1775
Ormolu, glass, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel and mirrored glass
Overall: 27 13/16 × 23 3/8 × 14 1/8 inches (70.6 × 59.4 × 35.9 cm)
Timepieces
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II
73.272
Public Domain
Markings
On clock face: "Balthazar a Paris"; Engraved on back of clock mechanism: “CH.les Balthazar Paris”
Provenance
Jacques Frank of Ramsay (Paris, France).1968-1974, Anne and Henry Ford II (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);
1974-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Charles Balthazar; Johann Joachim Kändler, Mantel Clock, ca. 1745 - 1770, ormolu, glass, hard paste porcelain, vitreous enamel and mirrored glass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II, 73.272.
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