Mantel clock with a priestess and Cupid offering a sacriffice to Venus / Joseph Buzot
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- Accession Number
- 2001/2.82
- Title
- Mantel clock with a priestess and Cupid offering a sacriffice to Venus
- Artist
- Joseph Buzot
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Medium and Support
- gilded bronze, ebony, porcelain, and glass
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1780
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Île-de-France (region)
- Ville de Paris, Département de (department)
- Paris (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Île-de-France (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Ville de Paris, Département de (department)
- Creation Place 5
- Paris (inhabited place)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Louis XVI style
- Dimensions
- 43 cm x 29.5 cm x 13.2 cm (16 15/16 in. x 11 5/8 in. x 5 3/16 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Primary Object Type
- clock
- Secondary Object Classification
- Sculpture
- Secondary Object Type
- casting
- Physical Description
- The dial of this elaborately decorated clock stands upon a two-tiered base. The lower tier consists of a hollow base made of ebony and adorned with a frieze of gilded bronze scrollwork and palmette motifs. The upper tier, made entirely of gilded bronze, features six fluted pilasters with a decorative panel centered on the front below the dial. This panel is composed of a pair of doves touching beaks before a crossed quiver of arrows and a flaming torch framed by leaves. A woman in long flowing robes stands to the right of the dial and empties a small cup onto a dove held by a winged putto who lies on a rocky projection. Behind the dove burns a fire on a small altar inscribed "Altar of Venus" [Autel à Venus].
- Subject Matter
- This lavishly embellished mantel clock is surmounted by a scene of a priestess and Cupid anointing a dove as a sacrificial fire burns on an altar between them. The clock was a collaborative work produced by Joseph Buzot, who manufactured the movement and signed the dial, but who subcontracted work for the base and the figures, a practice typical for the period.
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 892 x 1298
- File Size
- 154 KB
- Record
- 2001/2.82
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"Mantel clock with a priestess and Cupid offering a sacriffice to Venus; Joseph Buzot." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2001-sl-2.82/2001_2.82.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
