Watch
Robert Smith
ca. 1650 · Case and dial: silver and gilded brass; Movement: gilded brass, steel, partly blued, and silver · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Naturalistic flowers in formal arrangements similar to those engraved on the dial of this watch were introduced by models in engravings of ornament during the middle years of the seventeenth century. The form of the case was inspired by the shell of a sea urchin.
- Artist
- Robert Smith
- Date
- ca. 1650
- Medium
- Case and dial: silver and gilded brass; Movement: gilded brass, steel, partly blued, and silver
- Culture
- British, London
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
