Tall Clock
c. 1880
Tiffany & Co.
Tiffany & Co. (American, New York, est. 1837)
Decorative Art and Design
Tall Clock, c. 1880. Tiffany & Co. (American, New York, est. 1837). Mahogany, teak with dial faces of gilded and patinated metal, glass; overall: 247.3 x 66 x 36.5 cm (97 3/8 x 26 x 14 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1992.70 Associated Artists assembled this clock using imported carved wood panels from India. For an American owner, the motifs suggested decorative styles from faraway places.
- Maker/Artist
- Tiffany & Co.
- Classification
- Furniture and woodwork
- Formatted Medium
- 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.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: lower dial face inscribed: Tiffany & Co., Makers.
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 1992.70
- Credit Line
- The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Exhibitions
- Selected Acquisitions, Passion for the Exotic: Lockwood de Forest, Frederic Church, Passion for the Exotic: Lockwood de Forest and Louis Comfort Tiffany, CMA, 1993: "Selected Acquisitions," Bulltin 80 (Feb. 1993), p. 67, repr. p. 61.<br>Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsomian Institution, New York, NY (12/12/2014 - 9/1/2015): "Passion for the Exotic: Lockwood de Forest, Frederic Church"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
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