Locket with Watch and Chatelaine
Artist
Maker unknown
(Swiss)
Datec. 1870
MediumSilver, niello, enamel, steel
Dimensions120.7 x 36.5 x 12.7 mm
ClassificationsT&E FOR TIMEKEEPING
Credit LineProctor Collection, Thomas R. Proctor Watch Collection
Terms
Object numberPC. 257
DescriptionNIELLOED SILVER OVAL LOCKET WITH WATCH AND MATCHING CHATELINESwiss
CASE: hinged oval locket with glazed interior compartment and lid fitted with bar pattern cylindre movement, enhanced with pattern of scrolls and animals enclosing white enamel dial with roman chapters; the chatelaine consisting of a sheild shaped and a scroll panel linked to the locket by bails in the form of straps and buckles; with a key suspended from a short chain.
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Label TextMakers sometimes incorporated watches into large pieces of jewelry. By mid-nineteenth century many pieces of jewelry were fitted with a compartment to hold a lock of hair from a deceased loved one. Memorial or mourning jewelry, as it was known, was especially popular in the last half of the nineteenth century when Queen Victoria and her subjects went into deep mourning after the death of her husband, Prince Albert, in 1861.
