Chandelier

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

On top is the royal crown of Savoy with the inscription Vive Le Roy Protecteur des Ars (Long live the King, protector of the arts). This chandelier comes from the Palazzo Chiablese in Turin which was modified and decorated about 1740 for Carlo Emanuele III, duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 until 1773. The palace is named after Carlo Emanuele's second son, Benedetto Maurizio, duke of Chiablese (1741–1807), who received the palace from his father as a gift.

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