Watch with a village scene painted on ivory

ca. 1770 Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm) Citation Source image

The engraved gold case of this watch is set with a miniature in watercolor of a village fair scene, signed at right "B" (perhaps Louis Nicholas Van Blarenberghe, 1716-1794). The case is stamped by Pierre de Monchanin, the mechanism by Charles Filon.

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