Everyone knows the merits and demerits of the hundreds of clocks of
commerce, and it isn't for me to go into the subject of
grandfather-clocks, bracket clocks, and banjo clocks, when there are so
many excellent books on the subject. I plead for the graceful clocks of
old France, the _objets d'art_ so lovingly designed by the master
sculptors of the Eighteenth Century. I plead particularly for the wall
clocks that are so conspicuous in all good French houses, and so unusual
in our own country.
[Illustration: A PROPER WRITING-TABLE IN THE DRAWING-ROOM.]
Just as surely as our fine old English and American clocks have their
proper niches, so the French clocks belong inevitably in certain rooms.
You may never find just the proper clock for this room, but that is your
fault. There are hundreds of lovely old models available. Why shouldn't
some manufacturer have them reproduced?
I feel that if women generally knew how very decorative and
distinguished a good wall clock may be, the demand would soon create a
supply of these beautiful objects. It would be quite simple for the
manufacturers to make them from the old models. The late Mr. Pierpont
Morgan gave to the Metropolitan Museum the magnificent Hoentschel
collection of _objets d'art_, hoping to stimulate the interest of
American designers and artisans in the fine models of the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries.
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