Jewel cabinet with watch

Purveyor James Cox British
 After a design by Antoine Watteau French
 After a design by François Boucher French

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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. 1761–66). Additional scenes are based on engravings after François Boucher (1703–1770) and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1670–1733). With characteristic inventiveness, Cox included a hidden drawer above the more obvious drawers inside; a jeweled button on the back of the cabinet opens the secret drawer.

Jewel cabinet with watch, James Cox (British, ca. 1723–1800), Case: agate, mounted in gilded copper and gilded brass and set with painted enamel on copper plaques, and fruitwood; Dial: white enamel, British, London

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Jewel cabinet with watch, James Cox (British, ca. 1723–1800), Case: agate, mounted in gilded copper and gilded brass and set with painted enamel on copper plaques, and fruitwood; Dial: white enamel, British, London
Jewel cabinet with watch, James Cox (British, ca. 1723–1800), Case: agate, mounted in gilded copper and gilded brass and set with painted enamel on copper plaques, and fruitwood; Dial: white enamel, British, London
Jewel cabinet with watch, James Cox (British, ca. 1723–1800), Case: agate, mounted in gilded copper and gilded brass and set with painted enamel on copper plaques, and fruitwood; Dial: white enamel, British, London
Jewel cabinet with watch, James Cox (British, ca. 1723–1800), Case: agate, mounted in gilded copper and gilded brass and set with painted enamel on copper plaques, and fruitwood; Dial: white enamel, British, London
Jewel cabinet with watch, James Cox (British, ca. 1723–1800), Case: agate, mounted in gilded copper and gilded brass and set with painted enamel on copper plaques, and fruitwood; Dial: white enamel, British, London

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