A Bracket Clock

MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Details

A Bracket Clock
Meiji Period (late 19th Century)
With gilded brass front and back plates chased with peony sprays and four turned corner pillars, a shallow bell and a fixed pointer; the face a rotating brass dial with the Chinese characters 9 to 4 engraved on adjustable plates and the Arabic numerals 1 to 12 engraved in a circle inside the Chinese, above the dial two square openings for the date in Chinese characters; in a wood casing glazed and resting on a low wood base; a brass loop handle on the top of casing; in running condition
Clock 4½ x 3.11/16 x 2in. (11.4 x 9.3 x 5.1cm.)

Provenance

Meade Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

Exhibited

Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, Florida, "Reckoning Tokyo Time: A Look At Japanese Clocks, Calendars, and Chronology," 1999.10.12--2000.1.9

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Bernard P. Stoltie and Carol A. Frost, "Ima Nan-ji Desu Ka? (What time is it?)--A Brief Introduction to Japanese Clocks," Daruma 17 (Winter 1998): figs. 14-15, p. 36.

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