Clock sits on footed base, lower panel decorated with palmette motifs. At left, a winged cupid gazes at a mask of Medusa spouting water into a basin. A quiver stands beside basin. Above, a dial with a footed bowl at top.
Credit: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
1800-1825
Brush and yellow and red watercolor, black wash, graphite, on cream laid paper
1931-71-10
Image and text © Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2020
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