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Ladies Hunting Case Watch
1840-1849
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
An 18K gold case with translucent enamel over guilloché surface (revealing engraved patterns). Enameled in the face of the case is a putto with flowers, and on the reverse is finely engraved gold ground covered with brown transluscent enamel and set with a half-pearl.
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Details
- Title: Ladies Hunting Case Watch
- Creator: Movement: Mathey Peytieu
- Date Created: 1840-1849
- Subject Keywords: putto; flowers; enamel; guilloché
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Clockmaker: Movement: Mathey Peytieu, Artist: Swiss
- Provenance: Rebecca Ulman Weil, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase (?); Henrietta Lehmayer Moser (1898-1960), Baltimore, 1936, by inheritance [from her aunt]; Liz and Peter Moser, Baltimore, 1958-1959, by gift [from his mother]; Walters Art Museum, 2006, by gift.
- Object Type: watches; cases
- Medium: gold, translucent enamel over guilloché surface, rose diamonds, rubies, half-pearl
- Dimensions: Diam: 1 11/16 x D: 3/8 in. (4.29 x 0.95 cm)
- Credit Line: Gift of Liz and Peter Moser, 2006
- Classification: Timepieces, Clocks & Watches
- Accession Number: 58.287
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