Ewer

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Part of a service presented to François I on one of his visits to Savignies (1536, 1540, 1544), this piece, with its inverted bell shape, pedestal foot, and architectural handle, imitates contemporary silver ewers. The silver mounts were probably added in the seventeenth 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