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Turtle Automaton with Neptune in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2020


Turtle Automaton with Neptune as Vintner
1626
Leodegar Grimaldo
Object Details
Title: Turtle Automaton with Neptune as Vintner
Artist: Leodegar Grimaldo (1601–1638)
Date: 1626
Culture: German, Stuttgart
Medium: Wood (painted), silver (gilded), iron, tortoiseshell
Dimensions: 9 1/16 × 4 5/16 × 7 7/8 in., 400.667oz. (23 × 11 × 20 cm, 11360g)
Classification: Horology
Credit Line: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Leodegar Grimaldo created amusements that merged natural materials and man-made sculpture. This hybrid was a wedding present from Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg, to a courtier in 1631. It would have scuttled across a table to deliver wine to a guest, who was then obliged to empty the cup shaped like a pack on Neptune’s back before winding the piece up and setting it on its way toward another guest.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/774551
1626
Leodegar Grimaldo
Object Details
Title: Turtle Automaton with Neptune as Vintner
Artist: Leodegar Grimaldo (1601–1638)
Date: 1626
Culture: German, Stuttgart
Medium: Wood (painted), silver (gilded), iron, tortoiseshell
Dimensions: 9 1/16 × 4 5/16 × 7 7/8 in., 400.667oz. (23 × 11 × 20 cm, 11360g)
Classification: Horology
Credit Line: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Leodegar Grimaldo created amusements that merged natural materials and man-made sculpture. This hybrid was a wedding present from Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg, to a courtier in 1631. It would have scuttled across a table to deliver wine to a guest, who was then obliged to empty the cup shaped like a pack on Neptune’s back before winding the piece up and setting it on its way toward another guest.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/774551
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