Cabinet Clock with Musical Movement

Description Agate panels framed by elaborate rococo cage-work form the body of this miniature cabinet, which contains a complex musical mechanism and supports a clock. Although the cabinet is unsigned, it is undoubtedly the work of the noted London goldsmith and entrepreneur James Cox, many of whose creations were destined for Eastern markets. The clock was made by James Hagger, probably at an earlier date. This particular example is said to have belonged to the dowager empress of Russia, Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928). Fabergé produced a copy of this clock in silver and nephrite, now in the collection of the Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington D.C. The velvet-lined leather box for this clock, which the Walters also owns, shows that it was likely originally crowned by a jeweled finial that was later replaced with the small flame that now tops the piece.

Conservation

Examined in preparation for up-coming exhibition/re-installation.

Cleaned and repaired in preparation for exhibition.

Date	Description	Narrative
	Examination	Examined
3/17/1959	Treatment	cleaned
7/24/1986	Loan Consideration	examined for loan
9/15/1986	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation; repaired
4/06/1988	Examination	examined for condition
5/13/1994	Loan Consideration	examined for loan
7/22/2004	Treatment	cleaned
10/05/2007	Loan Consideration	examined for loan
7/15/2015	Treatment	Cleaned, repaired
3/08/2016	Examination	Examined.

Exhibitions

• Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effects. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1959.
• Objects of Vertu: Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1984.
• Carl Fabergé in Context. Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munchen. 1986-1987.
• Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. 2015-2016.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Mark] Engraved on top of clock: N.95

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters