Tureen

Paul de Lamerie

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This tureen, made to serve a spicy game stew known as oille, shows the design influence of French silver of the 1730s. It may have been made for the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, a great Francophile who was so enamored of French cuisine that he hired a well-known French chef, Vincent La Chapelle, who introduced to England a new style of cuisine, richly sauced and subtly seasoned.

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