Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Watch with Floral Decoration
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The circular case of this gold watch is enameled "en plein." The workings are engraved "J.B. Baillon a Paris, no. 3015." The hand is not original.
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. 40); Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2015-2016 | Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco. |
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H with stem & loop: 2 5/16 × Diam: 1 7/8 × D: 13/16 in. (5.9 × 4.8 × 2.1 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.
58.124