Objekt 10
Gold enamel clock
Description
With over 40 examples, gold enamel clocks of the 17th and early 18th centuries form a specialty of the Dr. Eugen Gschwind-Stiftung clock collection. The invention of this technique is attributed to the goldsmith and enamel painter Jean Toutin from Blois and dated around 1630. This unsigned clock has a case that can be attributed to Jean Toutin or his school. It is thus one of the early examples with this technique.
Object description
France, around 1630
Gold, enamel, brass gilded, steel partly blued, glass
Deposit Dr. Eugen Gschwind Foundation, Basel, G.58
Inv. 1983.1058.