Tankard

Vienna

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Monochrome decoration ornamented Du Paquier porcelain from the beginning; indeed, it is one of the manufactory’s defining characteristics. It is found in several colors, including a lovely iron red. The name of the artist who painted this tankard is not known; his hand is found, however, on a number of other early pieces made at Du Paquier as well as on a Chinese bowl in the Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, so it is likely that he both was employed within the factory and performed freelance, or Hausmaler, work.

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