This picture is from The Gamble House gift shop, the best I could manage of things interior. Everything in the shop as well as the house had that Craftsman sense of "useful and beautiful." This beautifully useful clock imitates the "Tree of Life" front entrance doors in another favorite Craftsman medium--tiles. The original tiles were done by Ernest Batchelder. There is still a Batchelder Art Tile Company in Pasadena.
The tiles reflect the mosaic-like windows of the front doors, easily seen here from this outside picture.
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