Clock with two putti

Sculptor: Paul Scheurich

Year of creation: 1920

Height: 42 cm

Limited edition: 5 pieces per year

As with many creations of Scheurich, this clock was not immediately conceived in porcelain. The famous painter and sculptor started making sketches of figures of children in large quantities already before 1915.

The first version of this clock was made in bronze in 1916, although the order of the owner of the magazine "German art and scenery", who obtained the drawings of the sculptor, provided the production to be in porcelain.

As only a few copies of the bronze version of the clock were sold but the demand for them continued to grow, the Meissen manufactory commissioned the sculptor to make a model for future plaster molds for making the clock in porcelain in 1917, but the first clocks were only produced in 1920 at the Meissen manufactory.

They first came out with gold and cobalt painting (pendulum and pillows, on which the children figures sit) at the request of Scheurich himself.

Later on, the painting changed. By 1931 some 85 copies were sold already. Nobody could have expected such a success and popularity of porcelain clocks.

The two putti supporting the clock face with Arabic numerals are very similar to each. However, the sculptor depicted children of different sexes, and also their capes, their posture, foot position, the degree of openness of the forehead look different, because there is no symmetry in this clock, even if this may seem so at first glance. All these peculiarities give a very interesting charm to this creation.

Scheurich tried very hard that these children figures were not perceived as putti, because over time he began to consider that their use in art was something unnatural.

This clock is very expressive and simultaneously laconic. You can obtain them from our website or in our salon in Karlovy Vary. Become their owner and add them to the comfort and sophistication of your home décor.