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Clock case with Arachne and Athena
Also titled Klokkast met Arachne en Athene
Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur
1727
- Medium
- metal, gilding (material), porcelain
- Classification
- mechanical clock
- Dimensions
- height 14 cm x width 8.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of de Vereniging Rembrandt, het Mondriaan Fonds, het Nationaal Aankoopfonds van het ministerie van OCW, de VriendenLoterij en de heer H.B. van der Ven
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This clock case is one of the Meissen porcelain factory’s most ambitious models from its early years. It is a piece of furniture executed in porcelain and designed as a small building. The two women crowning it represent the weaver Arachne and the goddess Athena. Athena was so jealous of Arachne’s skill that she transformed her into a spider.
