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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Watch with Floral Decoration
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Alexandre Le Faucher, the maker of this watch, was appointed "horloger" or clockmaker to Louis XV, the King of France, in 1746, just a few years before he created this timepiece.
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Provenance
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Acquired by Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov [Anatole Demidoff], 1st Prince of San Donato (1813–1870), Florence, Italy [date and mode of acquisition unknown]. Acquired by Tiffany & Co., New York, by 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1897; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
[1] Catalogue de montres exposées chez Tiffany & Co. ayant fait partie de la collection Demidoff, Prince de San Donato (New York: Tiffany & Co., 1893), no. 2 “Montre Louis XV, fond or fleurs émail. Horloger, Lefaucheur, H’ger. du Roy à Paris.”
Exhibitions
| 2015-2016 | Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. |
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H with stem & loop: 2 1/2 × Diam: 1 13/16 × D: 7/8 in. (6.4 × 4.6 × 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, after 1893
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
58.182