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Watch with a village scene painted on ivory
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The engraved gold case of this watch is set with a miniature in watercolor of a village fair scene, signed at right "B" (perhaps Louis Nicholas Van Blarenberghe, 1716-1794). The case is stamped by Pierre de Monchanin, the mechanism by Charles Filon.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870); Tiffany and Company, New York, prior to 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] (on 1893 list, no. 72); Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired before 1931
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
58.109