Pair of vases

Edouard-Alexandre Dammouse

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Dammouse brothers specialized in stylized floral motifs in the manner of Japanese prints. Their delicately drawn flowers were filled in with polychrome colors in low relief, sometimes outlined in gold. After years of working for others at various factories, the ceramicist Albert-Louis Dammouse and his painter brother Édouard-Alexandre opened their own workshop in Sèvres, where they focused on artistic pottery, porcelain, and glass.

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