WATCH
Creator(s): F. C. (Watchmaker)
On view in: French Drawing Room
About this object
The watch is decorated with its sides, stem, rim and borders, front and back being pave in pearls and turquoise. The front has a small dial enameled in white with black Roman numerals for the hours. The rest of the front has a Swiss landscape enameled in colors. Against this is a four-color gold relief with a young man and a young woman each playing a musical instrument. The back cover is enameled with the half-figure of Ceres (Demeter), the harvest goddess. She faces the right and holds her left arm above her head with a scarf entwined in the fingers. She holds a sheaf of wheat in her right arm. The inner back cover is enameled with a group of musical instruments and a Chinese parasol in colors on a light green ground. Also, S M for seconds and musical.
- Object name:
- WATCH
- Made from:
- Gold -- enamel -- pearls -- turquoise
- Made in:
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Date made:
- c. 1810
- Size:
- 6.4 x 6.7 cm (2 1/2 x 2 5/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 16.15
- Class:
- TIMEPIECE
- Signature marks:
- MARK inside stamped: FC No. 5629; inner back cover: SM; front border: 5629
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973