MAKE A MEME
View Large Image
| View Original: | Sketch_of_a_French_Empire_style_clock._The_Three_Graces.jpg (369x480) | |||
| Download: | Original | Medium | Small | Thumb |
| Courtesy of: | commons.wikimedia.org | More Like This | ||
| Keywords: Sketch of a French Empire style clock. The Three Graces.jpg en Watercolour gouache and pen and ink on laid paper Numbered 11 Dimensions 92 8 cm by 50 8 cm To be executed in gilt bronze mounted cut crystal; enamel dial Surmounted by a crystal vase of basket form cut with hobnails in a trellis pattern supported by three female caryatids holding floral swags standing on individual crystal socles decorated en suite the clock dial within bound oakleaf bezel resting on two of their shoulders the whorled pendulum bob also of crystal; on similarly cut crystal cylindrical plinth on beaded feet The Three Graces were the personification of grace and beauty often represented as the handmaidens of Venus sharing several of her attributes including the rose which could be arranged here in the glass bowl According to Hesiod their names were Aglaia Euphrosyne and Thalia Seneca described them as standing for the threefold aspect of generosity giving receiving and reciprocating; the Renaissance saw them as the three phases of love beauty arousing desire leading to fulfilment or as personification of Chastity Beauty and Love Here such evocations of Love may be taken to symbolise the bond between king and people the caryatid figures supporting the cup of the nation overflowing with the flowers with which it is meant to be filled This design may be a development of the Three Graces centerpiece forming part of a sourtout de table exhibited by GĂ©rard-Jean Galle at the 1819 Paris exhibition http //watercolours-drawings com/details asp subGalID 5 index 25 author circa 1820 PD-Art French Empire style mantel clock Sketches | ||||
