The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Surrounded by foliate scrolls and volutes, four oval medallions contain figures representing the Seasons: Spring holds flowers, Summer with sickle and sheaves, Autumn with grapes and wine glass, and Winter with log of wood and ax.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.