Jug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The heavy, simplified form and bold ornament of this jug are typical of the pottery of Teruel, one the earliest centers of Islamic ceramic production in Aragon and one that continued to flourish after the Reconquest. Its traditional bicolor scheme of dark green (from copper oxide) and purplish black (from the oxide of manganese), used for tablewares in al-Andalus from the tenth century, was maintained by potters in Aragon, Valenica, and Paterna for centuries after.

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