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Table Clock

CultureFrench

Date1917-1918

MediumGilt wood and brass

DimensionsOverall: 13 3/8 × 9 1/4 × 5 3/4 inches (34 × 23.5 × 14.61 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: the Lillian M. Diveley Fund

Object number2025.44.1,2

SignedSigned p.r. back: "GBardyère"

On View

Not on view

Terms

DescriptionPendulum-driven mantel clock made of carved, gilded wood. The face comprised of Arabic numerals with an hour and minute hand.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Possibly Exposition Internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, Paris, France, 2025

Likely Salon d’Automne, Paris, 1928, no. 127 (as part of an ensemble featuring various objects of furniture)

Provenance

The designer, Georges de Bardyère;

By inheritance within the designer’s family; [1]

With Galerie Apaganthe, Bizanos, France, by 2024;

Purchased from them by Oscar Graf, Paris, 2024; [2]

Sold by him to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2025.

NOTES:

[1.] Email communication, Oscar Graf to William Keyse Rudolph, June 19, 2025.

[2.] Email communication, Oscar Graf to William Keyse Rudolph, June 19, 2025.

Published References

Henri Rapin. La sculpture decorative moderne, documents réunis.... Paris: Editeur Ch. Moreau, 1925: pl. 8 (ill.)

B. Delisle, “G. de Bardyère.” Mobilier et décoration 2 (juillet-décembre 1929): 234–236 (ill. p. 235).

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