Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Watch with Case
(18th and 19th Centuries )
On this watchcase, translucent layers of "basse-taille" enamel have been applied over a guilloché engraved surface that has been cut into the gold. The decoration consists of engraved floral and rocaille scrolls, and a basket of flowers suspended by a ribbon.
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. 22); Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
58.69