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Lls in the triangular gap left between the circular face and the square
outline of the case. Some clocks have four of these, others such as this
one only two. These ornaments were roughly cast in brass and afterward
more carefully lacquered and finished by the clockmaker himself.
Sometimes, however, we find them crudely executed as if they had been
taken direct from the mold. Clockmakers of that time were not so
inventive as we; neither had they had training in design, and as a
result we see little variety in these brass ornamentations. At one
period all these spandrels took the form of cherub's heads, an idea that
may possibly have been copied from the Italians. Later a pattern with
two cherubs supporting a crown was popular; and at a still later date
the head of the cherub set in a scroll is found. That is the pattern on
this one. The brass basketwork across the top is a relic of the old
bird-cage clock which just preceded this one, and was cast by the
metalsmith and then purchased by the clockmaker as were the spandrels.
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