Objekt 13
Pocket watch
Description
The fine enamel painting with inlaid gold plates, so-called "gold paillons", is framed by pearls and shows two young ladies next to a garden monument. In the Far East, depictions of women in Western dress were as fascinating and exotic as images of women in Chinese or later Japanese costume were in the West.
Object description
Manufacturer: Frères Esquivillon & Dechoudens (active 1765-1830)
Geneva, around 1790
Gold, enamel, pearls
Bequest Marie Bachofen-Vischer, Basel
Inv. 1919.288.