The Concert from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenes

The Concert from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenes

John Vanderbank the Elder

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

John Vanderbank was head of the Great Wardrobe workshop in London from 1689 to 1717, with responsibility for weaving and repairing tapestries for the British crown. During the early 1690s, he provided tapestries "designed in the Indian manner" for Queen Mary's apartments at Kensington Palace (the queen was an avid collector of Chinese porcelain). Thereafter, he appears to have developed a variation of these designs—of which The Concert is typical—for commercial sale, which were woven many times in the early 1700s.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Concert from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenesThe Concert from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenesThe Concert from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenesThe Concert from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenesThe Concert from a pair of Indo-Chinese scenes

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.