Watch in Pair Case with the Triumph of Mordecai

ca. 1770 Diam: 1 15/16 in. (5 cm) Citation Source image

The case has been deeply embossed with the Triumph of Mordecai (an Old Testament story popularized in Jean Racine's 1698 drama Esther). The composition is taken from a cartoon (preparatory study) for a tapestry painted by Jean-François de Troy in 1739.The movement's backplate...

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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. 79); Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1893 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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