Perfume vase (one of a pair)

Perfume vase (one of a pair)

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The scenes depict: (left) three nymphs after the painting La Source by Francois Boucher (1703–1770); and (right) Jupiter disguised as Diana with Diana's nymph Callisto, after an engraving by Rene Galliard (1719–1790) of a painting of 1759 by Boucher.


European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.