Longcase clock
Mario Gambelli
1766 · Case: partly gilded walnut and pine with later additions of various woods; Dial: brass; Movement: brass and steel · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The clock strikes hours and quarters on two bells, with the previous hour repeated at the first, second, and third quarter on the lower-pitched bell. The hours struck are one through six, registered four times a day, in a system that was current in Italy in the eighteenth century.
- Artist
- Mario Gambelli
- Date
- 1766
- Medium
- Case: partly gilded walnut and pine with later additions of various woods; Dial: brass; Movement: brass and steel
- Culture
- Italian, Bologna
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Madame Lilliana Teruzzi, 1971
