IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140587 accession number: M.2-1957 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 1 February 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dial: One piece white enamel dial with black markings, roman numerals for the hours and arabic ones for every five minutes, elaborately pierced and shaped gilt brass hands. Signed in the dial centre ‘JULIEN JOLIE A PARIS'. Movement: 8 day circular movement striking hours and half hours on a bell. The original silk suspension for the pendulum replaced with a Brocot type adjust¬able spring suspension. Case: Of Louis XV design. This consists of a rococo ormolu base on which stands a very finely modelled bronze rhinoceros.This supports the rococo ormolu clock surround which is surmounted by a seated figure of an Indian child. The whole is of very fine quality. The case is signed on the base ‘S.Germain'. object type: table clock with 8 day movement supported on a bronze rhinoceros base. title: table clock NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Lady Mildred Fitzgerald STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140587 CATEGORIES ------ category: clocks DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Jolie, Julien maker: Saint-Germain, Jean-Joseph de DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 63 dimension: Height units: in value: 24 7/8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art 1500-1860 CITATIONS -------- The Rhinoceros in European Ceramics Old French & English Furniture Objects of Art and Porcelain The Wrightsman Collection III: Furniture, Snuffboxes, Silver Cinq années d'enrichissement du Patrimonine national 1975-1980 Recent Acquisitions 1997 Fine Furniture, Clocks and Tapestries The Jaime Ortiz-Patino Collection of French Furniture and Decorations, Succession d'un Amateur Mobilier et Objets d'Art Bel Ameublement, collection de M. et Mme Delplace, Ancienne collec¬tion René Weiller et divers amateurs --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_2_1957.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 578 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_M_2_1957.jpg height: 657 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/M_2_1957.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 578 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_M_2_1957.jpg height: 329 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/799/large_M_2_1957_200704_fitzphoto_mas.jpg height: 1346 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/799/mid_M_2_1957_200704_fitzphoto_mas.jpg height: 657 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/M.2-1957_200704_fitzphoto_mas.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/799/preview_M_2_1957_200704_fitzphoto_mas.jpg height: 329 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/504/799/M_2_1957_200704_fitzphoto_mas.ptif height: 3543 pixels width: 2696 pixels