Watch

Wetherell & Janaway

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The design of this watch, with its pearl-encircled, pure white enamel dial and easy-to-read Arabic numerals, is an unusually elegant one for the period. The case, too, is forward looking: it is slimmer than most contemporary watches, although not so thin as to be unable to accommodate a verge escapement.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art