Vase with cover (vase urne antique)

Sèvres Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

It is known from the factory sales records that only two vases of this form with this type of decoration were sold between 1755–57. Each sold for the impressive sum of 960 livres; one was purchased by Madame de Pompadour and the other by Count Moltke, a friend and court official to the Danish king, Frederik V.

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