Enameled Watch with the Holy Family and Saint John

Movement, case backs: 1640-1660; Case rims: ca. 1710 (Baroque)

6 cm 8.2 cm 3.2 cm

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This watch is a mixture of the work of a number of different makers from France and Switzerland. The circular gold case of this watch is enameled and painted with a scene of the Holy Family and St. John the Baptist. The watch strikes the hours and the half hours.

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