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Detail of the Automaton Clock with Bacchus Figure in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2020
Automaton Clock with Bacchus Figure and Case
late 16th century
German, Augsburg
Object Details
Title: Automaton Clock with Bacchus Figure and Case
Date: late 16th century
Culture: German, Augsburg
Medium: Iron, brass, copper (gilded), cold painting, opals, glass stones, leather
Dimensions: 20 1/16 × 22 7/16 × 9 13/16 in. (51 × 57 × 25 cm)
Classifications: Metalwork, Horology
Credit Line: Esterhazy Privatstiftung, Burg Forchtenstein - Esterházy Schatzkammer
Prince Paul I Esterházy personally led his guests through his Kunstkammer, operating lavish mechanical marvels like this one for their amazement. Once this curious conveyance is set in motion, the wine god toasts the astonished observers with his cup, rolls his eyes, and sticks out his tongue, while the birds on his head excitedly flap their wings. The maker synchronized the movements of Bacchus and the other figures to a chiming mechanism inside the chariot that marks the quarter hours. A separate drive propels the six-wheeled car forward on its own. The clock, which came to Forchtenstein Castle in the second half of the seventeenth century, still has its original traveling and storage case.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/759719
late 16th century
German, Augsburg
Object Details
Title: Automaton Clock with Bacchus Figure and Case
Date: late 16th century
Culture: German, Augsburg
Medium: Iron, brass, copper (gilded), cold painting, opals, glass stones, leather
Dimensions: 20 1/16 × 22 7/16 × 9 13/16 in. (51 × 57 × 25 cm)
Classifications: Metalwork, Horology
Credit Line: Esterhazy Privatstiftung, Burg Forchtenstein - Esterházy Schatzkammer
Prince Paul I Esterházy personally led his guests through his Kunstkammer, operating lavish mechanical marvels like this one for their amazement. Once this curious conveyance is set in motion, the wine god toasts the astonished observers with his cup, rolls his eyes, and sticks out his tongue, while the birds on his head excitedly flap their wings. The maker synchronized the movements of Bacchus and the other figures to a chiming mechanism inside the chariot that marks the quarter hours. A separate drive propels the six-wheeled car forward on its own. The clock, which came to Forchtenstein Castle in the second half of the seventeenth century, still has its original traveling and storage case.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/759719
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