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Watch in Pair Case with Country Landscape
(18th and 19th Centuries )
John Henry Borrell signed his works with both his own name and that of his predecessor Marwick Markham. Much of his production was intended for sale in the Ottoman Empire. The numbers on the dial are "Turkish." A landscape is painted on the enameled case.
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Provenance
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
United Kingdom, England, London (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
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.
58.138