About the Artwork
Mantel Clock
late 17th or early 18th century
Baltasar Martinot II
1636 - 1714
French
Unknown
Ormolu, tortoiseshell, wood, brass, steel, glass, silk and velvet
Overall: 23 7/8 × 13 5/8 × 6 1/4 inches (60.6 × 34.6 × 15.8 cm)
Timepieces
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of C. Edmund Delbos
49.401
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed on front and back: "Baltasar Martinot, A Paris"
Provenance
C. Edmund Delbos [1879-1949] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1949-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Payne, Elizabeth H. "Clocks from the Delbos Bequest," Bulletin of the DIA 29, no. 3 (1949/50): pp. 65-69, p. 66 (ill.).
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Baltasar Martinot II, Mantel Clock, late 17th or early 18th century, ormolu, tortoiseshell, wood, brass, steel, glass, silk and velvet. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of C. Edmund Delbos, 49.401.
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