Table or bracket clock

Table or bracket clock

John Andrews

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This type of clock movement has a short pendulum, enabling the clock to be small enough to sit on a shelf or a bracket. The clock has an engraved back plate that was fashionable in late seventeenth-century London. The engraving was done by a relatively small group of specialists who had varying degrees of skill. Their work is unsigned and for the most part remains anonymous. The signature here is that of the maker of the movement, the clockmaker John Andrews.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.