Description
The gold case of this brooch is rectangluar with cut (champhered) corners and is bordered with small pearls. Inset in the blue steel face are the watch dail and a balance set with brilliants.
Exhibitions
Jewelry - Ancient to Modern. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1979-1980.
Objects of Adornment: Five Thousand Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota. 1984-1987.
Jewelry from the Walters Art Gallery and the Zucker Family Collection. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987.
Provenance
Anatole Demidoff, Prince of San Donato (1812-1870) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Tiffany & Co., New York, 1893, lot 46; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1893, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Inscription] On reverse: Tourney les E...illes/Rémontés/à gauche; [Initials] R.A.
