Plate

Worcester factory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This plate is part of a dessert service made for Prince William, Duke of Clarence and Saint Andrews, who reigned as William IV from 1830 until 1837. The decoration consists of the princes' coat of arms and the jewel and star of the Orders of the Garter and of the Thistle. The interstices between the twining blue and green ribbons on the rim are decorated with roses crossed by thistles, emblems of England and Scotland.

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