Clock

1896-1901 circa

CHARLES FRANCIS ANNESLEY VOYSEY (1857-1941)

This aluminum clock represents one of Voysey’s most innovative creations

IN DETAIL

Dimensions

49,5 x 26,7 x 17,8 cm

Technique

Aluminium, with the circular plate, the writing «TEMPUS FUGIT» and the copper hands, the hooks in the iron rear opening

Description

Voysey’s clock was recently studied by Helen Ritchie, when the Valsecchi collection was on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

Ritchie clarified how Voysey’s clock from the Valsecchi collection is part of a series with two others made of aluminium, and probably in the same casting, which are in the Victoria & Albert Museum (inv. CIRC.519-1962) and in the collection of John Scott, sold through the Fine Art Society in 2014-2015.

Bibliography

Charoltte Gere, Michael Whiteway, Ninteenth Century Design. From Pugin to Mackintosh, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1993, pp. 236-240, pl. 302; Designers & Jewellery. 1850-1940. Jewellery and metalwork from the Fitzwilliam Museum, exhibition catalogue (Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, 31 luglio-11 novembre 2018)curated by Helen Ritchie, Philip Wilson, London-New York, 2018, pp. 57-61, n. 24, p. 148.