Collection record · Time & mechanics
Tall Clock
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated c. 1880. Recorded culture or place: America, New York.
Explore the object recordOBJECT RECORD
A closer look at the details.
- Museum title
- Tall Clock
- Date
- c. 1880
- Culture / origin
- America, New York
- Materials and technique
- mahogany, teak with dial faces of gilded and patinated metal, glass
- Dimensions
- Overall: 247.3 x 66 x 36.5 cm (97 3/8 x 26 x 14 3/8 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Tiffany & Co. (America, New York, est. 1837)
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1992.70
FROM THE MUSEUM
In the museum’s words
The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
In 1879, Louis Comfort Tiffany joined several other artisans to create an interior decoration firm called Associated Artists. The firm was very influential in advocating a rejection of historical styles in favor of the new fashion from more eclectic sources of inspiration, including the Islamic world and Japan. One of Tiffany's partners, Lockwood De Forest, traveled extensively in India to find carved wood and other decorative accessories that could be used in their designs. This clock's design was one result of this collaboration. The heavily carved panels on the clock were likely purchased in India during this time and assembled with a clock mechanism from Tiffany's father's shop, Tiffany and Co., whose name appears on the clock face.
FOLLOW THE SOURCE
Text and image sources
The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund · CC0
The summary is based on public collection data. Refer to the museum’s latest record for the title, date and attribution.
Open the complete museum record View the open-access policyTHE VISITOR BOOK
What caught your eye?
Opening the visitor book…
