Watch

James Vautrollier

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

James Vautrollier was one of sixteen craftsmen who in 1622 petitioned King James I for a charter to form a company of clockmakers in London. The decorative border around the edge of the back plate of the movement is typical of English watches of the earlier part of the seventeenth century. Other features typical of the period are the pinning of the decorative cock for the balance to a tenon projecting from the plate, and the steel ratchet and click device that is used to regulate the mainspring. The case is engraved with a scene of the Adoration of the Magi.

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