Two Tritons

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This cameo reproduces the lower right section of an ancient onyx (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) that allegorizes Octavian’s naval victory over the forces of Mark Antony at the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C. Evoking antiquity in tantalizing fragmentary form, it was apparently conceived as a deliberate forgery.

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