Object Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Clock, Shelf |
Catalog Number |
72.2.1 |
Collection |
Timepiece |
Date |
c.1875 |
Description |
8-day time and strike brass movement. Modified Seth Thomas movement that sounds the Angelus at 6am, 12 noon, and 6pm. Label on inside of door reads, "Angelus Domini / To Be Repeated At or About / 6A.M., 12 Noon, and 6P.M." Prayers and indulgences also printed on this label. Gillen & Nagle are listed as printers. Label inside case reads, "Thos E. Cahill, President / John L. Rogers, Sec & Treas / Angelus Clock Company / Office Philadelphia." Wood case is painted to look like stone. Cross mounted at top of pointed arch case is very loose. Half teardrop finials on sides of case. Lower glass tablet is painted depiction of the Annunciation. The angelus is a devotion of the western church that commemorates the Incarnation. A smaller cased model was also available from the Angelus Clock Co. |
Maker |
Angelus Clock Company |
Material |
wood, brass, glass |
Place of Origin |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
Notes |
The clock is decorated to look like stone with a cross mounted at the point of the archeds case. The glass door is painted with a depiction of the Annunciation, an event in the Christian religion when the angel Gabriel came to the Virgin Mary and told her she would bear the Son of God. Inside the door are a copy of the prayer to be said and a list of the indulgences given for consistent prayer. The Angelus Domini, translated as "Angel of the Lord," is a set of prayers recited at certain times during the day. For those who regularly recite this prayer at the given time, it is said that a partial indulgence is granted. (Information taken from Sacred exhibit, 2016) 12 slides in slide cabinet 1 |