
Plate
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
This plate and its mate (see 06.384b) were part of a table service pointed with views of Italy. The service was presented by Czar Alexander I to his sister Catherine, who married the King of Württemberg in 1816.
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.