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Objekt 11

Gold enamel clock

Description

The overcase shows in chased gold a depiction of Ulysses taking leave, inside the clock is the Churchill family coat of arms, an upraised lion and in the upper left corner a red cross on a white background.

Object description

Maker: L. Leroux (movement), probably Jean-Pierre Huaud (1655-1723) (case)

London and Geneva, around 1710

Gold, silver, brass gilded, steel partly blued, enamel, glass, textile

Signatures: L. Leroux, Charing Cross London (work), Pier. Huaut pinx. Invnt (case)

Deposit Dr. Eugen Gschwind Foundation, Basel, G.107

Inv. 1983.1107.

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