Oval Cased Verge Clock-Watch
Artist
Marc Beron
(French, active 17th century)
DateSecond quarter of the 17th century
CultureFrench; Angers
MediumGilded copper, brass, silver, and iron
ClassificationDecorative Arts
ProvenanceEmile Gavet, Paris (cat. #677, Pl. LXXII), approximately 1870s-1880s; sold to Mr. and Mrs. William K. and Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt, Gothic Room, Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1889-1982; transfered to Mrs. Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont in divorce; purchased by John Ringling, 1928; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN1436.14
On View
On viewLocation
- Museum of Art, Gallery 03, Case Left
Collections
HEIGHT: 2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm)
Pope Clement XI
Case: late sixteenth or early seventeenth century; Wax: eighteenth century
