Chinese sage: Lu Dongbin

Bristol

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This rare British porcelain figure is a close copy of a Chinese original depicting Lu Dongbin, an 8th-century scholar and one of the Eight Daoist Immortals. White porcelain figures from China were greatly admired and imitated in Europe. This figure could have been displayed on a mantle or inside a china cabinet.

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