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Pocket watch
Lost Art-ID
210329
Artist
Title
Pocket watch
Datierung
1650-1700
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
silver : tortoise shell / studded (piqué work)
Diameter
5.50 cm
Inventory number
Ahv 114
Description
Silver pocket watch in a tortoise-shell watch case studded with silver (piqué work); the hours are displayed on the upper half of the openwork dial, the course of the sun and moon on the lower half; signed on the case: "Quaré London".
Provenance
Originally owned by duke Ernest I of Saxe-Gotha; according to the 1858 inventory, it was then owned duke Ernest I (?) of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and later given to the Kunstkammer.
Literature / Source
Inventar 1830, fol. 6r, Nr. 125; Inventar 1858, Bd. II, Kap. I, Nr. 14; Aldenhoven Geräth und Schmuck, Goldschmiedsarbeit Nr. 114
Published since
Contact
Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein
Gotha
Schlossplatz 1
99867 Gotha
Germany
Phone
0049 (0) 03621 8234-0
Fax
0049 (0) 03621 8234-290
Contact
Dr. Timo Trümper
Position
Kustode für Gemälde und Plastik
Phone
+49 (0) 3621 8234 553
Contact
Dr. Tobias Pfeifer-Helke
Position
Stiftungsdirektor
Phone
+49 (0) 621-8234 100
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