Drawing, Design for a Cartel Clock Case, 1715–25, Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1715–25
Wall clock with trophy above including a scythe and snake coiled around a globe from which is suspended a bust in profile and an allegorical figure below holding a torche and a cock seated on a bracket decorated with two rams heads on either side. Object Type: painting. Date: 1715–25. Dimensions: 31.6 x 13 cm (12 7/16 x 5 1/8 in.). Medium: brown ink, brush and watercolor, pen and black ink, watercolor on off-white laid paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Design for a Cartel Clock Case, 1715–25 (CH 18170555)