Love and Innocence

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This clock representing Love and Innocence corresponds closely to a watercolor drawing in the Museum’s collection (67.548.3). This drawing may have formed part of the catalogue of models belonging to a bronze caster to be shown to prospective clients. would have been executed in gilt bronze and a number of clocks of this model are known. As indicated by the yellow wash, the entire case The winged cupid holding a lyre symbolizes love while the seated female with her arms crossed over her chest is emblematic of innocence. The front of the plinth, decorated with a relief of flaming torches, billing doves and embracing figures further emphasizes the theme of love.

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.

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