Tankard

Vienna

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Representations of coopers, appropriate for figural handles of barrel-shaped tankards, are known on six surviving examples made at Du Paquier. Barrel-shaped tankards in three sizes are frequently mentioned in the list of prizes in a lottery of Du Paquier porcelain held in 1735 and are almost always referred to as Wermuth-Fass or Wermuth-Vässel (literally, “Wermuth barrel”). Wermuth was a popular type of beer or wine flavored with bitter wormwood.

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