Oval Locket with the Four Elements

ca. 1650 (Baroque)

4.5 cm 7.2 cm 0.5 cm

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This very refined painted enamel represents female personifications of the four Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. It was probably produced in the French city of Blois, possibly in the Toutin family workshop, which had developed new techniques that permitted the use of a w...

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George Robinson Harding, London; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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