Advanced Search
Requires Photography
Watch in shape of two hearts
Swiss
about 1820
Object Place: Europe, Switzerland
Medium/Technique
Metal; gold
Credit Line
Gift of the Misses Delano
Accession Number90.148a
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsJewelry / Adornment – Timepieces
DescriptionIn the shape of a double heart transfixed with an arrow. Both sides open and are the same, except for the different ends of the arrow; main body of brick red enamelled and covered with fine curved lines; a border around of pale blue lines with a row of very fine pearls between. Across each side a garland of green laurel leaves, the berries being clusters of three pearls each (one pearl is missing). Inside plain gold; the face deep prussian blue enamel, lined. The figures in pale blue on a black band. A small gold linked chain for supension. With Key 90.148b
ProvenanceMisses Delano [see note 1]; 1890, gift of the Misses Delano to the MFA.
Notes:
[1] According to donor the watch is a relic of the Hartt family of Boston and finally have come down to the third generation, to the Misses Delano of Norwell (formerly known as the South Scituate), whose mother was a daughter of Edmund Hartt, who built the "Constitution" and the Frigate "Boston."
Notes:
[1] According to donor the watch is a relic of the Hartt family of Boston and finally have come down to the third generation, to the Misses Delano of Norwell (formerly known as the South Scituate), whose mother was a daughter of Edmund Hartt, who built the "Constitution" and the Frigate "Boston."