Four-light candelabrum

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Solid ivory furniture, ornaments, and candlesticks after English models were produced in the Bengal district of Murshidabad beginning in the second half of the eighteenth century. They were commissioned by nawabs to furnish their reception rooms for the convenience of their English guests or sometimes presented as gifts to esteemed East India Company officials. This candelabrum exhibits numerous elements of English Neoclassical style but handled in an Indian manner.

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