Seth Thomas mantle clock painted in black and gold. The clock has stepped sides and the black and gold are painted to give the sense of skyscrapers. In each corner of the white clock face there is a triangular design. Instead of numbers there are somewhat fanciful shapes of human beings. Very small black marquis shapes separate the ‘numbers”.

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Object Timeline

	We acquired this object.
1923	Work on this object began.
1933	Work on this object ended.
2017	We photographed this object. We exhibited this object.
2024	You found it!

Object ID #907214089

This is a Mantle Clock.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Collection of John C. Waddell as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated ca. 1928. Its medium is painted and gilded wood.

Seth Thomas’s Sutton Mantle Clock enabled the consumer to introduce modern design into the home with a modestly priced object of skyscraper form and Cubist-inspired decoration.

It is credited Collection of John C. Waddell.