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{
    "localId": "39881",
    "label": "Watch with Floral Decoration",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.182"
}

{
    "id": "39881",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.182",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Watch with Floral Decoration",
    "description": "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.",
    "provenance": "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.”",
    "date": "1750-1751",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/58.182",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Timepieces, Clocks & Watches",
        "watches",
        "watchcases"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.182_Fnt_NG_1112.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.182_Fnt_NG_1112.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_58.182_Fnt_NG_1112.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.4,
            "height": 4.6,
            "depth": 2.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H with stem & loop: 2 1/2 × Diam: 1 13/16 × D: 7/8 in. (6.4 × 4.6 × 2.2 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Watch maker’s mark] engraved on backplate: LeFauchuer A Paris / N 1025 hogr. du Roy; [Case maker’s mark] stamped on inner edge of bezel: FG; [Case maker’s mark] stamped on interior back of case: FG [surmounted by a six-petal florette or pinion]; [French discharge hallmark] stamped on interior back of case: [stag's head] [discharge mark of Julien Berthe",
        "the sous-fermier 1750–1756]; [French year hallmark]: stamped on interior back of case: K [surmounted by a crown] [for 1750–1751]; engraved on regulator: Avance / Retarde; scratched on the inner edge of the bezel: 237 M  134CL; scratched on interior back of case:  3826 / 12141 / S/C 204/2 / Sc 202 / HM36 / 97446"
    ],
    "med": "gold, enamel, steel, copper alloy, silver, gilding",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1984",
        "15464"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3334"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_58.182_Fnt_DD_T15-tms.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8f72b7ca7c4a2bd7"
}