Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Ladies Hunting Case Watch
(18th and 19th Centuries )
An 18K gold case with translucent enamel over guilloché surface (revealing engraved patterns). Enameled in the face of the case is a putto with flowers, and on the reverse is finely engraved gold ground covered with brown transluscent enamel and set with a half-pearl.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Rebecca Ulman Weil, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase (?); Henrietta Lehmayer Moser (1898-1960), Baltimore, 1936, by inheritance [from her aunt]; Liz and Peter Moser, Baltimore, 1958-1959, by gift [from his mother]; Walters Art Museum, 2006, by gift.
Geographies
Switzerland, Le Locle (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 1 11/16 x D: 3/8 in. (4.29 x 0.95 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Liz and Peter Moser, 2006
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.
58.287