Tobacco box

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The box is oblong with rounded ends. The lid's central field depicts a couple in a landscape, the man offering a flower to the woman. At either end, surrounded by leaf scrolls, is the following inscription: Daar is het roosien/ rnij suijker doosie (There is my rosie / my sweetie pie). The underside shows a similar landscape in which the same couple reach out to each other. Inscribed at left and right: Daar is mij troul / o soeten iuffervrou (There is my faithfulness / o sweet miss). The rims are lined. The front side is engraved with a hunting scene. The rounded ends and back side show chevron ornament.

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