Standing cup with cover

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The engraving on the bowl probably depicts Hungarian Hussars (with curved sabers) in combat with Prussian troops (with tricorn hats). When Maria Theresa came to the throne in 1740, Frederick the Great seized the opportunity to invade Silesia to wrest it from her.

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