Item:Q34032: verschil tussen versies
Verklaring aangemaakt: beschrijving (P113): The aperture of this watch stand was intended to hold a pocket watch. Since clocks were reasonably expensive and not common accoutrements for every room of a house at this time, watch stands served the purpose of transforming a portable pocket watch into a temporary clock, as the watch could be transferred from pocket to watch stand and from room to room, in this instance creating from a simple timepiece an elaborate and decorative clock. So use... |
Verklaring aangemaakt: beschrijving (P113): This rococo watch stand is of an unusual and unrecorded form. More common is a narrow, elongated model, which, inspired by European porcelain examples, sometimes is applied with either molded garlands of flowers and foliage, as on the watch stand in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, illustrated in Lunsingh Scheurleer 1984, p. 235, ill. 146; or with additional modeled putti, as on the example illustrated in Aronson 1993, ill. 14; and in Agenda Oude Ku... |
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This rococo watch stand is of an unusual and unrecorded form. More common is a narrow, elongated model, which, inspired by European porcelain examples, sometimes is applied with either molded garlands of flowers and foliage, as on the watch stand in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, illustrated in Lunsingh Scheurleer 1984, p. 235, ill. 146; or with additional modeled putti, as on the example illustrated in Aronson 1993, ill. 14; and in Agenda Oude Kunst- en Antiekbeurs Delft 1980 (Aronson Collection). (Engels) | |||
| eigenschap / beschrijving: This rococo watch stand is of an unusual and unrecorded form. More common is a narrow, elongated model, which, inspired by European porcelain examples, sometimes is applied with either molded garlands of flowers and foliage, as on the watch stand in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, illustrated in Lunsingh Scheurleer 1984, p. 235, ill. 146; or with additional modeled putti, as on the example illustrated in Aronson 1993, ill. 14; and in Agenda Oude Kunst- en Antiekbeurs Delft 1980 (Aronson Collection). (Engels) / rang | |||
Normale rang | |||