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Floor clock

Creation period

the mid-19th century

Place of сreation

Saint Petersburg, the Russian Empire

Dimensions

227x44,7x23 cm

Technique

wood, metal, glass; mahogany veneering, engraving

Collection

Rybinsk Museum-Reserve

Exhibition

Rybinsk in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

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A floor, or grandfather, clock is a large, pendulum clock housed in a tall wooden casing. Typically, the height of a floor clock ranges from 1.8 to 2.4 meters, and its cabinet is often adorned with carved decorations.

Until the early 20th century, grandfather clocks served as the primary timekeeping device for households and businesses. Their steady ticking provided a background sound that was an integral part of people’s daily lives in their homes.

Many works of fiction feature descriptions of clocks. For instance, in Mikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin’s story “The Complicated Case” we can find the following mention,

Ivan Samoilych felt that each tick of the clock’s bell carried a profound meaning, reproachfully telling him, ‘Every swing of the pendulum represents a minute of your life that is lost forever… what has your life has become, and what is your entire existence? ’.

Here is the excerpt from the story “The Watch” by Ivan Turgenev,

Only the pendulum of our old clock ticked gravely and drowsily in the dining-room and there was an even drawn-out sound like the hard breathing of people asleep.

In Ivan Goncharov’s novel Oblomov, we read,

Once, the stillness in nature and the house was absolute; there was no clattering of carriages or slamming of doors. The pendulum clocks rhythmically ticked away in the hallway, and canaries sang, but this did not disrupt the tranquility, rather it imbued it with a certain sense of life.

The clock on display at the Rybinsk Museum was manufactured in St. Petersburg by the company “D. Macmillan”. It features a traditional English-style body in the shape of a tall three-part tower. The lower section, which resembles a pedestal, is supported by small spherical legs. The middle section, a narrow cabinet with a hinged door, houses the weights and the pendulum. The upper section, in the form of a rectangular case with glazed doors and rectangular glass inserts, includes the dial. The case has a semicircular arched edge that transitions into a cornice at the corners. Round cones adorn the upper corners.

A notable feature of this clock is its dual-dial design. It was often used in commercial establishments to allow for timekeeping in multiple time zones, facilitating trade across geographical locations.

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Floor clock

Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Floor clock

Creation period

the mid-19th century

Place of сreation

Saint Petersburg, the Russian Empire

Dimensions

227x44,7x23 cm

Technique

wood, metal, glass; mahogany veneering, engraving

Collection

Rybinsk Museum-Reserve

Exhibition

Rybinsk in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

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