Urn Clock

ca. 1774

24 cm 44.5 cm

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A serpent indicates with its tongue the hours and minutes on the bands revolving around the urn.Clockmaker Jean-André Le Paute began to work for Louis XV in 1751 and eventually made clocks for a number of royal châteaux.This clock demonstrates how Sèvres porcelain plaques were...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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