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Watch with onyx plaques and brilliants
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This unusual watch has a circular case of silver, overlaid with gold, pierced and set with plaques of onyx and studded with brilliants. The dial is enamel. The back plate is engraved "I Joly a Paris."
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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. 34); Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.3 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.
58.82