This clock has a layered, terraced shape like a pyramid or ziggurat. The staggered, angular forms seem to rise up and out from the stepped, footed rectangular base. The flat faces of some forms are decorated with bright robin’s egg blue, deep ultramarine blue, or black enamel; the rest of the clock is bright silvered bronze. The shape leading up to the round clock face is a tall narrow deep blue rectangle. Two flanking shapes, in bright blue and deep blue, angle out diagonally beneath the clock face. Small shapes in black and bright blue crown the top of the clock face. The small round cream-colored clock face has pale pink, deep blue, and black dots and triangles indicating the hours. Narrow triangles at 12, 4, and 8 point in toward the straight black clock hands. These shapes are repeated in the two patterned round accents below the clock face, with enamelled angular lines, circles, and half-circles in bright blue, deep blue, white, and black. The clock is incised at bottom right with the signature [JEAN GOULDEN].

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Object ID #907130271

This is a clock. It was designed by Jean Goulden. It is dated 1928. Its medium is silvered bronze and colored champlevé enamel.

Parisian enamelist Jean Goulden was noted for the superior quality of his enamel work and his devotion to modernist design. This clock from 1928 reflects his interpretation of analytical Cubism in three dimensions.

It is credited Stephen E. Kelly/Kelly Gallery, New York.

Analogue clock. Base is black, resembling a bracket facing upward, holding the rectangular shape of the clock's body. The sides and top are metal, as are the hands of the clock. The numbers are black and surrounded by a red border, whose shape resemebles grooves or gears of a watch. From the edges of the clock to the red border are shapes resembling triangles whose tips get cut off by the red circle. The shapes go around the red borer and alternate between grey and tan. Separating each of these shapes is a small, black rectangle placed along the adjacent edges of two shapes.

M-1, Type B2 Clock, ca. 1928
chromium-plated and enameled metal, molded bakelite, brushed-burnished silver.
Gift of George R. Kravis II.
2015-41-1

Clock
H x W x D: 26.5 x 25.5 x 9 cm (10 7/16 x 10 1/16 x 3 9/16 in.).
1979-56-2-a,b

Clock
glazed earthenware and metal.
Gift of Victor Wiener.
1997-170-29

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Clock (France)
glass, plastic, metal.
Gift of Geoffrey N. Bradfield.
1997-9-1

Its dimensions are

L x W x D: 36.2 × 25.4 × 12.7 cm (14 1/4 in. × 10 in. × 5 in.)

It is inscribed

Inscribed JEAN GOULDEN LIV 1928

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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Accession Number 38.2016.2
Object ID 907130271