desk clock, Tiffany & Company

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Tiffany & Company, desk clock
Tiffany & Company, desk clock
Tiffany & Company
desk clock
circa 1930
desk clock, circa 1930
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: silvered metal; lapis lazuli
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 7.6 x 9.8 x 3 cm
Object Height/Width/Depth (Height x Width x Depth): 3 x 3 7/8 x 1 3/16 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Patrons and Benefactors Fund
Accession number: 1976.0035
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Quilts: A Thread of Modernism," Aug-2005, Debra Thimmesch and Barbara Brackman The Art Deco style became popular almost immediately following its debut at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes held in Paris in 1925. The term has been used only since the late 1960s, however, and often mistakenly in the context of objects that were not produced strictly in the French style. True Art Deco works, like this Tiffany desk clock, have a more restrained, geometric appearance than do their Art Nouveau equivalents. While motifs from nature still play an important role in Art Deco designs, the tendrils and climbing stems of Art Nouveau have been replaced by stylized, subdued, and elegantly ordered forms.