Vase with cover (vase à panneaux or à perles) (one of a pair)

Sèvres Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The French names for these vases (see also 58.75.84a–c) "à panneaux" and "à perles" refer to the paneled reserves, here with painted pastoral scenes after compositions by the Dutch painter Nicholaes Berchem, and to the three-dimensional pearl motives on the lid and running down the sides. The plaster model for this type of vase, which was available in two different sizes, has been preserved in the archives of the Sèvres manufactory. The Museum's pair is an example of the smaller size. [Jeffrey H. Munger, 2006]

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