Clock

ca. 1750

63 cm 101 cm 32 cm

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This clock is a fine example of French rococo design, the highly ornamental style that usually involves asymmetrical compositions of scrollwork, foliage, shells and other decoration that rose up in Italy and France in the 1720s and 1730s and continued to be popular across Euro...

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Said to be owned by the King of Saxony, the Royal Schloss in Dresden; purchased by Jacques Seligman and Co., New York, before 1924; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, November 29, 1924; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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