Object Details
- Description
- A clock designed as a carved nephrite Chinese Imperial guardian lion and a young lion, the carved lion embellished with black enamel and gold mane and red enamel toenails, with eyes of cabochon emeralds for the large lion and cabochon rubies for the young lion, supporting a circular clock with carved citrine face, rose-cut diamond-set hands in the shape of a dragon and black enameled chapter ring with rose-cut diamond Arabic numerals stylized as Chinese calligraphy, the red enamel border studded with pearls, all atop a carved coral ball resting on a pearl-fringed saddle blanket atop the guardian lion, beside a carved coral branch with carved stone leaves and pearls, supported by a base of black-enameled gold accented with calibre-cut corals; mounted in platinum and gold; with original green leather Cartier case.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Producer
- Maurice Coüet, French, 1885-1963
- Cartier, French, founded 1847
- Date
- 1929
- Credit Line
- Lent by Private Collection
- Medium
- Carved nephrite, enamel, gold, cabochon emeralds, cabochon rubies, carved citrine, rose-cut diamonds, carved and calibré-cut coral, pearls, carved stone, platinum
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 17 × 9.3 × 16.2 cm (6 11/16 × 3 11/16 × 6 3/8 in.)
- Type
- timepieces & measuring devices
- Exhibitions
- Object Name
- Mystery Clock
- Type
- Mystery Clock
