Tureen and stand

Vienna

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Du Paquier produced a number of services decorated with animal or hunting scenes painted in black enamel in the style of a print or monochrome drawing. All these so-called hunting services were also embellished with black ornamental borders highlighted with gold. This type of decoration, known as Schwarzlot, was one of the manufactory’s most distinctive styles. While certain services can be distinguished by the design of the border, it is not clear to which service this tureen and stand, with its somewhat stiff and naive painting, belonged.

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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