The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Guide to the Loan Exhibition
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The rest of the Sevres porcelain 124 GALLERY TWENTY in this gallery is ornamental or table ware, and shows the various styles of shape and decoration popular until the Empire. 125 GALLERY TWENTY-ONE THE COLLECTION OF WATCHES T, HE COLLECTION OF WATCHES,' both in quality and quantity, is the greatest collection of such material ever gathered together. It is composed for the most part of specimens from two large private collections, that of Carl Marfels, one of the most expert students of horolog...y in Europe, and that of the late F. G. Hilton Price, a most enthusiastic collector. This collection gives the student a complete illustration not only of the gradual and steady progress of horological art, but also of the beauty of some of the finest examples of it in existence. The industry of watchmaking was begun shortly after the dawn of the sixteenth century. Peter Henlein (Hele), a locksmith of Nuremburg, invented a clock with a Mainspring, which permitted its use in traveling, and the demand for smaller portable timepieces was soon created.
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