Mantel Clock in the Form of a Lyre

ca. 1780-1800

29.2 cm 61 cm 15.2 cm

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French clockmaking at the time of Louis XVI is unsurpassed in the delicacy and grace of its decoration and in the imagination displayed in its forms. Perhaps the most elegant shape was that of the lyre, derived from the ancient Greek musical instrument. It was introduced as ea...

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Lord Willoughby d'Eresby; E. M. Hodgkins [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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