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The Avignon Clock
  • Mantel clock
  • The Avignon Clock
  • Pierre Gouthière (1732 - 1813) , Case Maker
  • Louis-Simon Boizot (1743 - 1809), Designer, (model of case)
    Nicolas-Pierre Guichon Delunésy (active between: c. 1764), Movement Maker
    Joseph Coteau (1740 - 1812), Enameller, (dial)
    Pierre Masson (active between: c. 1767), Spring Maker
  • France
  • 1771
  • Gilt bronze, Levanto rosso marble, modern pink silk, brass, glass and enamel
  • Object size: 68.5 x 59 x 33.8 cm
  • Inscription: 'BOIZOT FILS / SCULPSIT / ET / EXECUTE / PAR GOUTHIERE / CIZELEUR ET DOREUR / DU ROY / A PARIS / QUAY PELLETIER / A LA / BOUCLE D'OR / 1771' Engraved
    Inscription: 'Delunésy / A PARIS' Painted
    Inscription: 'Coteau / 1771: 10 Oct.' Painted
    Inscription: 'RUE DE L'ARBRE SEC VIS A / VIS CELLE BAILLET' Engraved
    Inscription: 'Delunésy A PARIS / no 614' Engraved
    Inscription: 'Masson Janvier 1771' Scratched
    Stamp: 'DUVOYE BTE S.G. DU G'
    Stamp: '614'
    Inscription: '(3) 754 754' Scratched
  • F258
  • Not on display
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  • Commissioned by Ange Aubert on behalf of the consular assembly of the city of Avignon, 1771; presented to Marquis de Rochechouart, 30 December 1771. Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, by 1865.