Highlights
Clock with Meissen figures
- Artist
- Johann Joachim Kaendler, Johann Friedrich Eberlein, Peter Reinicke, Jean-Baptiste van Mour, Nicolas Lancret, Antoine-Robert Bunon
- Locality
- Meissen Porcelain Factory, Vincennes Porcelain Factory, Paris (mounts)
- Date
- between 1744 and 1787
- Material
- Hard-paste porcelain, soft-paste porcelain, bronze, gilded
- Dimensions
- H. 55.5 cm
- Location
- Gallery 37
- Inventory Number
- 66/211
- Acquisition
- Gift of the Freundeskreis des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums e.V. in 1966
- Epoch
- Baroque and Rococo
Description
In the 18th century, Parisian luxury goods retailers created a new fashion. They had combined various luxury goods, including Meissen porcelain figures, with fire-gilded bronze mountings and French porcelain flowers to form decorative ensembles. This resulted in the creation of elaborate candlesticks, writing sets or mantel clocks whose individual parts were not necessarily contextually connected. Here a pair of Turks playing music flank a lady in courtly costume feeding a parrot with cherries. A harlequin standing behind her mockingly imitates the lady, thus alluding to the piquant symbolism, as the cherry was considered a symbol of virginity that should not be given away lightly.
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