# Triumphal-Chariot Clock [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN GOLDSMITH, German]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Ebony, silver, gilt bronze, 31 x 41 x 17 cm ## Commentary Triumphal-Chariot Clock c. 1610 Ebony, silver, gilt bronze, 31 x 41 x 17 cm Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan This triumphal-chariot clock called "The Chariot of Diana" is an automaton table clock \(Tischautomat\) intended to impress dinners guests moving from one to another. A real expensive item, result of collaboration between a clockmaker and a goldsmith, it was made in Germany around 1610. The case of this curious clock is of ebony, forming a triumphal chariot drawn by two panthers. On the chariot the hunting Diana is sitting. On the back of the chariot a little monkey can be seen. Diana, the goddess of hunting, seated on a throne, is about to shoot an arrow. Two panthers pull the chariot and a monkey is seated behind. As an inner mechanism drives the wheels of the chariot, the two panthers rise and fall, simulating a bounding movement, their heads move, as the monkey's one. On the throne there is a clock and every second Diana's eyes move. ## Related artworks - [Agraffe with a Depiction of the Virgin and Saints]() - [Altar frontal]() - [Amulet]() - [Arm reliquary of St Lawrence]() - [Arm Reliquary]() - [Book cover]() - [Book Cover]() - [Book Cover]() - [Book cover]() - [Book Cover]() - [Bust reliquary of Charlemagne]() - [Candelabra with seven arms]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()