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Watch with an enamel panel of a youth and a woman before an alter
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The circular case of this watch is engraved gold inlaid with colored gold, stones and an enamel medallion. Inside is stamped "C and T Paris." The movement is French. The dial is inscribed "L'Epante a Paris," refering to Jean Andre Lepante (1709-1789). The watch is Swiss, made for the French market.
Inscription
Provenance
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Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870); Tiffany and Company, New York, prior to 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] (on 1893 list, no. 12); Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Switzerland (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 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.
58.106