Objekt 5
Gold enamel clock
Description
This is the largest known clock of the Huauds. On the dial there is a landscape, on the back of the case in an allegorical representation of the French King Louis XIV and his mistress Madame de Maintenon.
Object description
Makers: Andreas Fichtner (Master 1681) (movement), Jean-Pierre Huaud (1655-1723) and Amy Huaud (1657-1724) (case)
Dresden and Berlin, around 1695
Gold, brass gilded, silver, steel partly blued, enamel, glass
Signatures: Andreas Fichtner Dresdae (work), les deux frères Huaut pintre de son A. E. de B. à Berlin (case)
Deposit Dr. Eugen Gschwind Foundation, Basel, G.44
Inv. 1983.1044.