Item:Q34032: verschil tussen versies
Verklaring aangemaakt: beschrijving (P113): Decorated on the front with a profusion of flowers and foliage on an iron-red ground reserved with a grass- edged cartouche painted in brown monochrome with Cupid scantily-draped, seated on clouds with a small globe between his feet, holding a baton in his right hand, and a label inscribed VH in his left hand, the upper section painted with a central blue shell within elaborate rocaillerie surmounted by a molded scrollwork finial, and pierced be... |
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... |
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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 useful was this form, that watch stands sometimes were an element of rococo inkstands, as discussed in the following entry. (Engels) | |||
| eigenschap / beschrijving: 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 useful was this form, that watch stands sometimes were an element of rococo inkstands, as discussed in the following entry. (Engels) / rang | |||
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