Double-spouted vase with cover

Reinhold Vasters

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Although not a literal copy of an Italian Mannerist object, the vase is strongly reminiscent of Milanese lapidary work of the late sixteenth century. It was, in fact, included in the 1893 Paris sale of the collection of Frédéric Spitzer as an Italian work of the sixteenth century, but Vasters's drawings of the vase unquestionably identify it as a work of the nineteenth century.

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