Watch with oval medallion of a boy and girl playing with a dog
(18th and 19th Centuries )
This watch has a circular gold case, engraved and inlaid with colored golds. The back cover is set with a medallion in colored enamel; the hands of the watch are set with brilliants. The watch is dated with the letter "C" for 1766. The white enamel dial is inscribed "Bertoud 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. 67); Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Diam: 1 5/8 in. (4.1 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.
58.103