Scrolling design with griffin and a bear's mask

Scrolling design with griffin and a bear's mask

Dr. Antonio Salviati Company

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The confronted heads of the griffin and boars in gold introduced into the acanthus-scroll decoration may refer to a marriage of two families who bore these emblems as armorial crests.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Scrolling design with griffin and a bear's maskScrolling design with griffin and a bear's maskScrolling design with griffin and a bear's maskScrolling design with griffin and a bear's maskScrolling design with griffin and a bear's mask

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.