Jewel cabinet with watch, After a design by Antoine Watteau, probably ca. 1765–70

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Jewel cabinet with watch, probably ca. 1765–70, British, London, Case: agate, mounted in gilded copper and gilded brass and set with painted enamel on copper plaques, and fruitwood; Dial: white enamel, Overall: 13 1/2 × 9 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. ( × × cm), Horology, After a design by Antoine Watteau (French, Valenciennes 1684–1721 Nogent-sur-Marne), After a design by François Boucher (French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris), This cabinet bears the signature of the London jeweler and entrepreneur James Cox. On its doors are enameled personifications of Winter and Summer after compositions of the Four Seasons by the British painter Robert Pyle (act

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