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Rita Dove's poem on the clock, "Ode on a Negress Head Clock, with Eight Tunes" was included in Dove's 2009 collection, Sonata Mulattica. [5] [6] It was also published in 2009 in The Kenyon Review. The poem is about the clock and a child playing the song "Marlbrough s'en va-t-en guerre" ("Marlborough Has Left for the War") for his late father. [7]
Shop the best loud alarm clocks for heavy sleepers on Amazon and more that are recommended by our editor, who tested several of them, and a sleep psychologist. 7 Best Alarm Clocks for Heavy ...
Art Deco Mantel Clock from Amboina Wood around 1930. Mantel clocks—or shelf clocks—are relatively small house clocks traditionally placed on the shelf, or mantel, above the fireplace. The form, first developed in France in the 1750s, can be distinguished from earlier chamber clocks of similar size due to a lack of carrying handles. These ...
A c. 1825–30 lighthouse timepiece by Simon Willard. A lighthouse clock is a type of mantel clock manufactured in the U.S. from 1818 through 1830s by the American clockmaker Simon Willard, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body.
French ormolu mantel clock (around 1800) by Julien Béliard (1758 – died after 1806), Paris.The clock case by Claude Galle (1758–1815) Ormolu (/ ˈ ɔːr m ə ˌ l uː /; from French or moulu 'ground/pounded gold') is the gilding technique of applying finely ground, high-carat gold–mercury amalgam to an object of bronze, and objects finished in this way.
According to the Canadian Clock Museum, "approximately sixty-five catalogued models of mantel clock are known, as well as sixteen models of wall clock (with variations) and seven models of grandfather (hall) clock." [8] Rare samples exist of Pequegnat clocks built into a sideboard, or a grandfather clock/gramophone combination. Pequegnat was ...