Watch with Scenes of Europa and the Bull and a Satyr and Sleeping Nymph

ca. 1690

6.4 cm 7.6 cm 4 cm

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In the 1600s watches with painted enamel covers that depicted either religious or well-known amorous stories from antiquity were popular as much for personal ornamentation as for telling time.

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Acquired by Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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माध्यम
gold and enamels
विधा
watches

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