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Box with Watch
(18th and 19th Centuries )
A watch is mounted in the top of this octagonal box formed of thin slices of agate framed in gold. The box’s base is a hinged plate that opens to reveal an open interior compartment, which may have been intended to hold pills or candies. The maker of the watch, Thomas Broome, was admitted to the Clockmaker's Company in London in 1652.
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Provenance
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Collection of Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov [Anatole Demidoff], 1st Prince of San Donato (1813–1870), Florence, Italy, by 1870 [mode of acquisition unknown]. Acquired by Tiffany & Co., New York, by 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown] [1]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1897; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
[1] Catalogue de montres exposées chez Tiffany & Co. ayant fait partie de la collection Demidoff, Prince de San Donato (New York: Tiffany & Co., 1893), no. 33 “Montre sur bonbonnière, agate pommes et or.”
Exhibitions
| 1984 | Objects of Vertu: Precious Works of the Eighteenth Century. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 7/22/2004 | Treatment | cleaned |
Geographies
United Kingdom, England, London (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 2 7/16 x W: 2 3/16 in. (6.2 x 5.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, after 1893
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.
58.240