Watch Pendant Painting

Description The decoration on the dail and back of this platinum watch recalls the jasperware plaques made by Josiah Wedgwood. The figures may depict the four seasons: summer and fall on the dial, and spring and winter on the reverse.

Exhibitions

• Bedazzled: 5,000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2006-2009.

Provenance Mr. George Harold Edgell [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mrs. Jean Walters Delano Edgell [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mr. Henry Walters Edgell, Manchester, New Hampshire [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Mrs. Elizabeth Edgell, February 9, 1986, by gift [from her husband, Mr. Henry Walters Edgell]; Walters Art Museum, 2010, by gift.

Inscriptions [Inscription] On dial: France; [Signiture] On back: Paillet

Credit Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Edgell, 2010