Longcase regulator with mounts emblematic of Apollo

Lietaud, Balthazar (died 1780)

Caffieri, Philippe, II (1714-1774)

Berthoud, Ferdinand (1727-1807)

Item type:

furniture

Date of creation:

18th century

Height:

254.0 cm  (100 in.)

Width:

60.3 cm  (23 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oak veneered with various woods and mounted with gilt-bronze on marble plinth

Description

Plaque on upper right side of clock contains a depiction of a flute, recorder, oboe, bassoon, lyre, and an open music book.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flute [3955]
Recorder [4039]
Oboe [4232]
Bassoon [3795]
Lyre [3501]

Musical works

illegible music notation

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Furniture in The Frick Collection: Italian and French Renaissance, French 18th and 19th Centuries (New York: The Frick Collection, 1992) part 1, vol. 5.

RIdIM record id

1655