Standing cup with cover

Friedrich Winter

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

In 1687, a glass engraving studio set up under privilege of Count Christoff Leopold von Schaffgotsch granted to Friedrich Winter, to engrave glass in the manner of crystal. Technique was "Hochschnilt," difficult and rare cameo relief done with aid of water mill specially set up in 1690-91 at Petersdorf in the Hirschberger Tal on the Silesian side of the Riesenbirge mountains. Fir-tree and pine cone, devices of the Schaffgotsch, often figure in the decoration

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