Mirror

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stylized representations of the king and queen were popular in embroidery after the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. The figures in the lower border are presumably portraits, though they have not been identified. The animals and floral motifs are derived from contemporary pattern books.

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