Tabernacle with pocket watch deposit. Briar - Fine woods, ebony columns and profiles, fully decorated with silver.Gilt-bronze figures, capitals and parapet. Realized for Vicenzo Grimani (see the heralding coat of arms on the top-figure and on the door.

Period: last quarter of XVII° century.

Anonymus.

Note :Vincenzo Grimani (1655 – 1710).
Diplomatic and politic-man: negotiated the pace between Leopold I (Austrian Emperor) and Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy; he had the “Cardinals hat” in 1697, he was vice-King of Naples from 1708 till the death.
The tabernacle is published on “Storia degli orologi” by Adriana Crespi Bartolini at page 84.