Minerva clock

Matthew Boulton

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The clock shows Minerva unveiling a vase with an oval medallion depicting Prudence making libations at the shrine of Time. The design for the case is found in Boulton's Pattern Book. The movement by Theodore Rodel (recorded 1840) and Vincenti et Cie (recorded 1831–90) is a replacement for the original and was probably sold in Paris about 1840.

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