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Watch with an enamel panel of a genre scene
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This watch is in a round gold case, engraved and set with colored stones and an enamel plaque. The plaque depicts a genre scene of an interior with a woman and child playing with a dog. The movement is French, and the backplate is engraved "Gudin a Paris."
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. 11); Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France
(Place of Origin)
Switzerland (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.
58.107