Fire gilded
Fire gilded table clock
A tall table clock with a fire gilded (ormolu) surface. It is standing on four feet and looks like a tower with columns at the corners and a balcony in the middle. It is 43 cm high. The base is 21 cm wide but the tower itself is only about 12 cm wide. On the wall of the tower is a white clock face. The top of the tower is round with vertical decorative details.
The table clock is made of bronze and copper that has been fire gilded to look like gold. The clock is richly engraved. It is probably from the second half of the 1600s. This is a typical status object from an age when clocks were luxury items. Preferably they had a fancy appearance so as to impress the viewer and demonstrate that the owner was rich.
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