A Lantern Clock

EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

A Lantern Clock
Edo Period (19th Century)
With a deep semi-spherical bell and a horizontal bar balance, the front and side plates brass and incised with foliate scroll and the back plate with a geometric diaper pattern; the circular rotating face lacquered red and black with the Chinese characters 9 to 4 with a fixed gilt-brass hour pointer cast as a rooster with its head stretched upward, its beak forming the pointer; the tall casing rectangular with hinged door at the front, the side panels with open lattice work and backed with netting, the back panel solid and undecorated, the removable top also undecorated, the vertical and horizontal struts decorated with red lacquer floret bands; the tall stand with slender square legs and decorated with an openwork chysanthemum on four sides of the raised pedestal and with elborate scrollwork and with phoenixes, large peonies and floral scroll in gold, red and green lacquer; running condition
Clock 9½ x 3½ x 3½ in. (24.1 x 8.8 x 8.8cm.), stand 435/8 x 9½ x 9½in. (110.5 x 24.2 x 24.2cm.)

Provenance

Meade Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusets

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. Forest, "Ima Nan-ji Desu ka? (What time is it?) -- A Brief Introduction to Japanese Clocks," Daruma 17 (Winter 1998): fig. 2, p. 31.

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