Card table (from a large set)

Card table (from a large set)

Giles Grendey

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These are from a set of about eighty pieces of furniture, including armchairs, mirrors, candlestands, daybeds, and secretaries with japanned chinoiserie decoration, supplied by Grendey to the Duke of Infantado's castle at Lazcano in northern Spain.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Card table (from a large set)Card table (from a large set)Card table (from a large set)Card table (from a large set)Card table (from a large set)

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.