Coffeepot

Denys Frankson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

In 1545 François I founded the Hôpital de la Trinité to shelter abandoned children. Among the trades taught was silversmithing, taught by a worker who had been favorabley passed on by the wardens of the guild. In recompense for his introduction the teacher-worker could be received as a master silversmith at the end of eight years. Denys Frankson registered his first mark in 1765 in this way. In 1773, bailed in the usual way as a Paris master, he canceled his first mark and registered his second one which is found on this piece.

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.

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