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Longcase clock

David Roentgen | Hermann Achenbach | Johann Schmidt | Reusch | Thomas Chippendale

ca. 1774–75

Medium

Case: oak veneered with maple, burl woods, holly, and hornbeam (all partly stained), and other woods; mother-of-pearl; gilded bronze; and brass; Dial: partly gilded and partly silvered brass and enameled and painted copper; Movement: brass and steel

Tags

Zodiac Astronomy

Dimensions

Overall: 122 1/2 × 27 × 16 in. (311.2 × 68.6 × 40.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Edgar Worch, in memory of her husband, 1975

Classification

Horology

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

German, Neuwied am Rhein

Rights

Public Domain

About David Roentgen

1743–1807 • Germany

German, Herrnhaag 1743–1807 Wiesbaden, master 1780

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