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@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social Sep 19, 2026, 2:48 PM

This #Golden clockwork figurine (c 1600, by Matthias Walbaum; see alt for card info), "Diana on a Stag", is in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, #Toronto, Canada.

25 Oct 2022

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This is a fanciful, tabletop clockwork figure showing a female huntress sitting on the back of a much larger deer stag, the stag outfitted with regal livery, holding one front leg in the air.

Smaller figures, 3 dogs, a lizard, and another hunter on a horse, are on the ornate base of the work. A key for winding the mechanism is visible protruding from the left of center of the base.

From the card about the item:

"Diana on a Stag"
This work is typical of German Mannerist goldsmithing. The stag's head is removable; the body is a wine jug. A clockwork mechanism and wheels make the figure move in a programmed pattern.

Silver, partly gilded and jewelled.
South German, Augsburg, c. 1600
By Matthias Walbaum

This is a close-up view of the stag's head on this golden figurine, "Diana on a Stag", described in the alt text of the first photo.
Particularly, note that the eye of the stag is a small, faceted, light-blue gem.

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