Dish

Vienna

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Three twelve-sided dishes with decoration similar to that on this example—remnants of one of the earliest services produced by Du Paquier—survive at the Residenz in Munich. The dessert service was acquired for the Bavarian court in 1722–23. Serving dishes such as this one may have been intended to hold pyramids of candied fruit, one of the staples of the dessert table. It is not known if the Museum’s dish belonged to the Bavarian service or is slightly later.

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