Teapot

Thomas Whipham

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Repoussé decoration was achieved by hammering silver from the inside to create brilliant, raised textural effects on the outside. Silver vessels in inverted pear shapes were popular in the mid-eighteenth century, and the asymmetrical arrangement of flora and fauna seen here is typical of the Rococo style.

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