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Barometer Clock (Boulle)
''Barometer Clock (Boulle)'' by André-Charles Boulle is a late seventeenth-century French clock created out of ebony, turtle shell, brass, gilt bronze, and enamel. The clock case is decorated on all sides and was intended as either a centerpiece or for display on a mantel in front of a mirror.Edey, Winthrop. French Clocks in North American Collections: Exhibition at the Frick Collection, November 2, 1982 - January 30, 1983. The Frick Collection, 1982. pgs. 40-44. The centerpiece of the clock is a relief of "Father Time Carrying Off Truth."“Magnificent Timekeepers: An Exhibition of Northern European Clocks in New York Collections” by Clare Vincent, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, February/March 1972. This late seventeenth-century clock also functions as a barometer; the "two doors on the rear of the clock open to reveal a glass tube containing mercury and a float to which thread is attached." The semicircular barometer dial indicates five weather conditions from one extr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barometer Clock (Boulle) Back
''Barometer Clock (Boulle)'' by André-Charles Boulle is a late seventeenth-century French clock created out of ebony, turtle shell, brass, gilt bronze, and enamel. The clock case is decorated on all sides and was intended as either a centerpiece or for display on a mantel in front of a mirror.Edey, Winthrop. French Clocks in North American Collections: Exhibition at the Frick Collection, November 2, 1982 - January 30, 1983. The Frick Collection, 1982. pgs. 40-44. The centerpiece of the clock is a relief of "Father Time Carrying Off Truth."“Magnificent Timekeepers: An Exhibition of Northern European Clocks in New York Collections” by Clare Vincent, Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, February/March 1972. This late seventeenth-century clock also functions as a barometer; the "two doors on the rear of the clock open to reveal a glass tube containing mercury and a float to which thread is attached." The semicircular barometer dial indicates five weather conditions from one ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frick Collection
The Frick Collection is an art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection (normally at the Henry Clay Frick House, currently at the 945 Madison Avenue#2021–present: Frick Madison, Frick Madison) features Old Master paintings and European fine and decorative arts, including works by Giovanni Bellini, Bellini, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Fragonard, Goya, Hans Holbein the Younger, Holbein, Rembrandt, Titian, J. M. W. Turner, Turner, Velázquez, Vermeer, Thomas Gainsborough, and many others. The museum was founded by the industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), and its collection has more than doubled in size since opening to the public in 1935. The Frick also houses the Frick Art Reference Library, a premier art history research center established in 1920 by Helen Clay Frick (1888–1984). History The Frick Collection became a public institution when Henry Clay Frick bequeathed his art collection, as well as his Upper East Side residence at 1 East 70th Street, to the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winthrop Kellogg Edey
Winthrop Kellogg "Kelly" Edey (1938–1999) was a noted collector and horologist who lived in Manhattan, New York City. His well-regarded collection of timepieces is now in the Frick Collection. Edey is the subject of several '' Screen Tests'' by Andy Warhol and early ''Screen Tests'' were likely filmed at his Manhattan townhouse. Life and career Through his mother's family, Kelly was an heir of Morris W. Kellogg, founder of a major engineering and petroleum services company. He grew up in Upper Brookville, Long Island and graduated from Amherst College. His father, Maitland Edey, was an author and editor of Time-Life Books; his mother, Nancy Winthrop Edey was a psychiatrist and activist in the field of women's reproductive rights. Over five decades, beginning when he was a boy, Edey assembled a significant collection of clocks, watches and associated research materials that he donated to the Frick after his death. He was a noted scholar of timepieces, and executed repairs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thuret Family
The Thuret family of clockmakers established themselves as one of the outstanding craftsman-dynasties in 17th- and 18th-century Paris. Their clocks are signed "Thuret", and distinguishing which member of the Thuret family made a specific clock is sometimes an unrewarding effort. History Isaac II Thuret (1630–1706), one of the first French clockmakers to make pendulum clocks, held the royal appointment. His son Jacques III Thuret (1669–1738), was appointed clockmaker to Louis XIV of France in 1694. A perquisite of the royal appointment was the use of workshops in the Galeries du Louvre, where since the time of Henri IV, the outstanding artists, designers and craftsmen were granted workshop spaces, fostering cross-fertilisation among the arts. As one consequence there are numerous clocks by the Thuret dynasty in cases of rich tortoiseshell and brass marquetry designed by André Charles Boulle; one such remarkable clock by Jacques Thuret or his father is at the Metropolitan Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Objects In The Frick Collection
Object may refer to: General meanings * Object (philosophy), a thing, being, or concept ** Object (abstract), an object which does not exist at any particular time or place ** Physical object, an identifiable collection of matter * Goal, an aim, target, or objective * Object (grammar), a sentence element, such as a direct object or an indirect object Science, technology, and mathematics Computing * 3D model, a representation of a physical object * Object (computer science), a language mechanism for binding data with methods that operate on that data ** Object-orientation, in which concepts are represented as objects *** Object-oriented programming (OOP), in which an object is an instance of a class or array ** Object (IBM i), the fundamental unit of data storage in the IBM i operating system * Object (image processing), a portion of an image interpreted as a unit * Object file, the output of a compiler or other translator program (also known as "object code") * Object, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
