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Gold watch with a relief of a bagpiper and children
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This watch is in a circular gold case, engraved on the back, and decorated with a relief of a bagpiper and children. The background to the scene is enameled in green and yellow, the figures appear to be in silver. The movement is French. The dial is a later replacement.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 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.
58.78