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Tree of Knowledge Clock

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Anonymous as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated ca. 1930. Its medium is mother-of-pearl, diamonds, enamel, malachite, lapis lazuli, rock crystal, abalone, coral, onyx, gold.

This clock combines strong lapidary skills in the lapis rams and water centered by a mosaic created by Vladimir Makovsky, a Russian émigré in Paris, who worked in mixed mother-of-pearl, rock crystal, and hardstones, which he also used for panels set into cigarette and vanity cases.

It is credited Lent by Siegelson, New York.

Clock, Lotus and Koi Pond
rock crystal, mother-of-pearl, abalone, gold, hardstone, coral, jade,....
Siegelson, New York.
61.2016.3

Chinoiserie Clock
mother-of-pearl, lapis lazuli, nephrite, abalone, diamonds, platinum,....
Lent by Siegelson, New York.
61.2016.4

Pendant Necklace, Timken
emeralds, sapphires, diamonds, platinum.
Lent by Pierre Chen, Taiwan.
8.2017.1

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A mother-of-pearl and rock crystal mystery clock, so called for its hidden mechanisms by Maurice Coüet, created in Paris for Black, Starr & Frost in New York in 1930. A rectangular mother-of-pearl frame is inlaid with lapis lazuli birds, turquoise foliage and gold branches with leaves, which surround a bevelled rock crystal square clock face with dimond-encrusted hands and numerals. The rectangular frame is surrounded with lapis lazuli volute shapes inlaid with emeralds which appear to grow from each side and the top, with the two side pieces attached to two crystal arches which reach the base in a spherical ring encrusted with diamonds. The clock and the volute frame rests on a rectangular onyx base, with a mother of pearl inlet inlaid with two lapis lazuli birds sitting on a golden branch with leaves on the front, the base sits on four lapis lazuli cuboid feet.

Mystery Clock, ca. 1930
rock crystal, diamonds, mother-of-pearl, lapis lazuli, gold, turquoise, onyx,....
Lent by Siegelson, New York.
61.2016.8

Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 17.8 × 5.1 × 16.5 cm (7 in. × 2 in. × 6 1/2 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2oaHbK/
Accession Number 61.2016.7
Object ID 907214235