Design for a Clock. Artist: Anonymous, French, 18th century. Dimensions: 14 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (36.5 x 24.5 cm). Manufactory: French, Sèvres, 18th century. Date: ca. 1781-85.This drawing of a small porcelain mantel clock was made for Prince Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen. When he was appointed governor to the Austrian Netherlands in 1781 he had a new palace built in the city of Brussels. He ordered drawings of the finest examples of Parisian furniture, to decide how best to furnish his new residence. This particular drawing is part of that group and reproduces a Sèvres porcelain clock, which must have been a very popular model at the time. Marie-Antoinette had a version in blue in her apartments at the castle of Versailles, and a similar example with a mechanism by the Master Clockmaker Charles Dutertre is kept in the department of European Sculpture and Decorative Art of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A version in green is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and a lighter blue varia