Moorcroft Bee-in-Time Clock Paix 5cm / W 6cm

5cm / W 6cm

Part of Goviers exclusive range of Platinum Jubilee Commemoratives

(Image shows all three sides of the same vase)

giving a real sense of movement to the pieces

Windsor Design

Moorcroft Bee-in-Time Clock Paix 5cm / W 6cmA floriferous rose design on this clock chimes out joyfully in lemon pink hues, as tight to open buds clamber around the clock face. A drone can be found, nestled into the side of the clock, between rose and hive. Interestingly, Ingeborg Beling, a German ethnologist from the early 20th century, discovered that bees have a endogenous clock as described in her 1929 paper "ber das Zeitgedchtnis der Bienen" (On the Time Memory of Bees). The experiment was