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Print, Designs for Clock Cases and Bronze Figures

This is a Print. It was designed by André-Charles Boulle and published by Jean Mariette and Pierre Mariette and engraved by André-Charles Boulle and print maker: André-Charles Boulle. It is dated ca. 1715 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is etching and engraving on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

Its dimensions are

Sheet: 24 × 36.5 cm (9 7/16 × 14 3/8 in.) Platemark: 21 × 29.8 cm (8 1/4 × 11 3/4 in.) Image: 20.5 × 29.2 cm (8 1/16 × 11 1/2 in.)

It is signed

Lettered in plate, lower left: Mariette excudit

It is inscribed

Lettered in plate, along upper border from left to right: Petite Pendule de cabinet; Grande Pendule à /Secondes; Pendule propre/ pour une chambre; Pendule à reveil et à/ repetition: lettered lower right: Groupe de bronze sur/ son piedestal; numbered lower right: 2; lettered lower left: Figure de bronze/ sur son piedestal

Cite this object as

Print, Designs for Clock Cases and Bronze Figures; Designed by André-Charles Boulle (French, 1642 – 1732); Published by Pierre Mariette II (French, 1634 - 1716), Jean Mariette (1660–1742); France; etching and engraving on laid paper; Sheet: 24 × 36.5 cm (9 7/16 × 14 3/8 in.) Platemark: 21 × 29.8 cm (8 1/4 × 11 3/4 in.) Image: 20.5 × 29.2 cm (8 1/16 × 11 1/2 in.); Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-449-2

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