Commode

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This commode in the French taste belongs to a group of commodes with marquetry decoration of musical trophies, swags of husks, and bouquets of flowers variously attributed to and documented by John Cobb, who continued (after the retirement of his partner, William Vile, in 1764) to run one of the most successful cabinet-making firms in London until his death.

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