Carrying Case and Enameled Watch with Flowers

ca. 1640 (Baroque) Inner case diam: 1 1/4 in. (3.1 cm) Citation Source image

Enameled watches from the first half of the 1600s are exceedingly rare. These watches were purchased for their cases, as show pieces; the movements inserted in them were of a lower quality and poor timekeepers even for the period.

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George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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