THE KAISERS WONDERFUL CLOCK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12609, 25 June 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE KAISERS WONDERFUL CLOCK.

■ ~<m —— —- More than ■ a year ago, -when Germany b# ;| gan to make prepa rations tor tJio";Si! Louis'-. ;'• Exposition, the Kaiser gave orders that th* .. German house at the Exposition'should J*sM ornamented with a large clock which would Ufjp rval if not excel the wonderful work of art '',*« made by Cassieri, which may be L seen by ■';■ /'.;.■ visitors to Versailles. ■ His Majesty called together a committee with. Professor. Ottojf.:££ Rohloff at its head, and several times he v ~ met the members of the committee and ex : ; >' . pounded to them, his views as to ; how the clock should •be vmade/; placing before themllpi numerous drawings by bis ' own 4 hand- The£|£ clock is now readT. and the' Kaiser has seen it and pronounced it the' finest work of it* kind in the world. It will 'decorate the GrepAf&i man house during the Exposition; and wiR then be a prominent ornament in the Berlin palace. The clack'is built in. oasic '< .' baroque style and is made of fire ; nld*t' bronze. It rests in a socket of green Greek r; marble. From the centre 'of tho lour feet supporting it rises a knotty German oak with ]■,'.- » dragon at ■ its roots " The t re?, grows ,'•, higher, and .in it* upper branches is-M-';- : . eagle's nest, the eagle and its brood statin?§ijs'' at the rising sun. This represents morning. On another branch are two. owls--»s. ; ' : ; symbols of night. Joining th" fou. feet.'is '■„;. an imperial crown with the initial " W. IIOn , the coloured glass forming the doors', of the body of the clock ore: depicted littw.;| : -.;g> cupids swimming about the. clouds. jjl'i' ■'^fOfl&i ill is ■ <:< iiiliiiii