Chocolate pot

Meissen Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This form of porcelain chocolate pot, based on a silver model, was made at the Meissen factory in the mid-eighteenth century; most surviving examples can be dated 1735 to 1745. The far larger number of extant Meissen pots for coffee and tea from this period attests to the greater popularity of those drinks in Germany.

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