Document Details Derek Roberts Antiques - Winter 1986/87:
Number of documents found: 4
- Title: Automaton of Marie -Antoinette, La Joueuse de Tympanon (The Dulcimer Player) - Catalog No. 38, 1782-1784; Conservatoire Arts et Metiers Paris
SubTitle: 122x122x58cm, royal commission of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, plays music by Christoph Gluck,the automaton is a likeness of Marie Antoinette - Author: David Roentgen, Achim Stiegel, Peter Kinzing
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Keywords: musical
Other Keywords: Roentgen Kinzig
Language: ENG
Edition: 38 -- Copyright: 1782
Kind: Chapter
Type: Mechanical music
Geographic area: Germany
Topic: NA/Other
Organization: Exhibition
Pages: 146-148
Entered By: fortunat
BHM No: 18018
Parent Document ID: 18015 - Parent Document Title: Extravagant Inventions - The Princeley Furniture of the Roentgens - [Catalog of the Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, Oct 30, 2012-Jan 27,2013]- Title: Berlin Secretary Cabinet [with clock and music box] - Catalog No. 34, ca.1778-1779, 1786; complicated wooden cabinetry, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
SubTitle: 359x152x88 cm, precision clock with seconds hand, lunar dial and music box- Author: David Roentgen, Achim Stiegel, Peter Kinzing
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Keywords: clock
Other Keywords: Roentgen Kinzig
Language: ENG
Notes: Precision clock integral to the furniture - Catalog No. 34, made ca. 1778-1779, modified 1786; owned by Kunstgewerbemuseum Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; 359xa52x88 cm, clock from the Kinzig workshop (including a musicbox playing " Andante - Menuett - Polonaise, Allegro" is integrated in a central and very visible position in theis 'showpiece' desk, one oth the most elaborate baroque pieces of furniture ever created, Catalog entry has 6 color phopographs (incl. 2 showing the clock).
Edition: 34 -- Copyright: 1778
Kind: Chapter
Type: Floor clock
Geographic area: NA/Other
Topic: NA/Other
Organization: Exhibition
Pages: 134-139
Entered By: fortunat
BHM No: 18017
Parent Document ID: 18015 - Parent Document Title: Extravagant Inventions - The Princeley Furniture of the Roentgens - [Catalog of the Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, Oct 30, 2012-Jan 27,2013]- Title: Extravagant Inventions - The Princeley Furniture of the Roentgens - [Catalog of the Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum, Oct 30, 2012-Jan 27,2013]
SubTitle: [includes detailed description of 7 clocks and 1 mechanical music dulcimer automaton by Roentgen/Kinzing]- Author: Wolfram Koeppe, David Roentgen, Peter Kinzing
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Keywords: catalog highgrade luxury clock
Other Keywords: Roentgen Kinzig
ISBN: 978 1 58839 474 3 -- Library of Congress: NK 2554.R6K64 2012 -- Dewey: 749.0943'0747471-dc23
Language: ENG
Notes: Richly illustrated (color photographs) scholarly catalog of the 2012/2013 temporary exhibit at the Met Museum in NYC, encompassing 69 extraordinary pieces of furniture (including 7 clocks plus one mechanical Music automaton) from the workshops of Roentgen (and his clockmaking partner Kinziing)., index, bibliography,
Edition: 2012 -- Copyright: 2012
Kind: Book
Type: Clock (general)
Geographic area: Germany
Topic: History
Organization: Exhibition
Pages: 292 -- Height in cm: 31
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: fortunat
BHM No: 18015- Title: Other German Makers[Dolol, Kinzig, Seyffert,Gutkaes,Reichel, Klug, Wolf, Knoblich, Franken, Kutter, Felten, Denker, Bosch, Ammann, Lange, Stuebner]
SubTitle: [A chapter from the Derek Roberts Trilogy on Precision Pendulum Clocks]- Author: Derek Roberts, Peter Kinzing, Johann Heinrich Seyffert, Friedrich Gutkaes, C. Reichel, Jacob Klug, F. Wolf, Theodor Knoblich, A.G. Franken, E. Kutter, H. Felten, F. Denker
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Keywords: highgrade precision oeuvre clock pendulum
Other Keywords: Dolol, Kinzig, Seyffert,Gutkaes,Reichel, Klug, Wolf, Knoblich, Franken, Kutter, Felten, Denker, Bosch, Ammann, Lange, Stuebner
Language: ENG
Notes: Precision Pendulum clocks by other German makers, Dolol, Kinzig, Seyffert,Gutkaes,Reichel, Klug, Wolf, Knoblich, Franken, Kutter, Felten, Denker, Bosch, Ammann, Lange, Stuebner, listed and described with color photographs
Edition: 12
Kind: Chapter
Type: Clock (general)
Geographic area: Germany
Topic: History
Organization: Maker
Pages: 178-202
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 10341
Parent Document ID: 5567 - Parent Document Title: Precision Pendulum Clocks - France, Germany, America, and Recent Developments - Publisher:
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