Chimneypiece

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chimneypiece in the Louis XVI style with gilt-bronze egg-and-dart moulding under shaped marble top surmounting the frieze set with gilt-bronze scrolling trails of roses tied in the center with a ribbon. The two rounded projecting ends of the frieze are set with gilt-bronze wreaths of roses tied with ribbon knots. Under these projections, the two uprights are each fitted with a patinated bronze term of a partially draped infant crowned with wreaths of oak leaves and acorns. These figures are supported on tapering fluted marble pilasters, their flutings filled with gilt-bronze chandelles, resting on rectangular marble plinths, the tops of which are set with gilt-bronze beribboned laurel-leaf-and-berry mouldings. The fireplace opening is trimmed at the top and sides with gilt-bronze leaf mouldings.

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