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Research in Progress

Elaborate gilt bronze form composed of a stepped domed top with ball finial and scrolling elements supported by four baluster-shaped columns on a stepped circular base on four spherical feet. The whole embellished with realistically rendered gilt bronze beetles of various types and sizes. In the center a spherical clock, the face with numerals represented by different beetles in graduated sizes in a circular arrangement, the smallest at the one o’clock position, the largest at twelve o’clock; minute and hour hands in the form of stick insects; two circular openings for winding keys.