Repeater watch

Johann Wutky

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Breslau, which in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries had been a major center of metalworking, was by about 1680 still p roducing a type of watchcase that was fashionable in South Germany around 1600. (Unlike the earlier watchcases, this one shows no evidence of ever having been gilded.) The movement, however, was more up-to-date; indeed, Breslau’s reputation for watchmaking was such that the Swiss clockmaker Jacob I Enderlin (1628–1689) appears to have gone there in order to learn the craft of watchmaking before returning in 1658 to his native city of Basel.

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