Fan-shaped dish

Vienna

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This dish and its Japanese prototype show a creative amalgamation of form and decoration from several sources. The shape is a Japanese invention, with precedents in paintings on fans and in fan-shaped paintings pasted on screens. The Three Friends motif of pine, bamboo, and plum has its origins in Chinese literati painting. The Du Paquier factory made the only known copies of this Japanese model in Europe.

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