Title: Celestial globe with clockwork
Object type: Celestial globe with clockwork
Date: 1579
Artist:  Gerhard Emmoser 
Artist bio: German, active 1556–84
Artist nationality: German
Artist role: Maker
Medium: Case: partially gilded silver, gilded brass; movement: brass, steel
Dimensions: wt. (without mechanism) confirmed: 10 3/4 × 8 × 7 1/2 in., 86.412oz. (27.3 × 20.3 × 19.1 cm, 2450g)
Diameter (globe): 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Clockwork mechanism only, wt. confirmed: 35.27oz. (1000g)
Classification: Horology
Credit line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Pegasus, term: Astronomy, term: Globes