Objekt 3
Gold enamel clock in the form of a smelling bottle
Description
All surfaces of the golden clock case are decorated with elaborate enamel paintings: inside two landscape scenes, on the upper lid a Dutch inn scene after David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690), on the lower lid outside an enamel painting after the painting "The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne" by Annibale Caracci (1560-1609). The edges show lush floral tendrils on a white enamel background. A key is used to wind the clock via the movement, for which the movement and dial are folded out of the case.
Object description
Maker: Auguste Bretonneau (c. 1608-1683 proven) (work), attributed to Pierre Huaud I (1612-1680) (enamel painting)
Geneva and Paris, around 1665
Gold, silver, brass gilded, steel partly blued, enamel
Signature: A Bretonneau à Paris
Deposit Dr. Eugen Gschwind Foundation, Basel, G.39
Inv. 1983.1039.