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Elkington & Co.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This electrotype is after a seventeenth-century original (1604/5) in the treasury of the Kremlin, Moscow. It was formerly in the collections of James I and Charles I, sold in 1626, acquired by Tsar Mikhail Romanov in 1629.


European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.