Tankard

Dietrich Mayer

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The arms on the lid (Rahn impaling Escher) are those of Hans Heinrich Rahn (1593–1669), who married Ursula Escher in 1612. He became a Burghermaster of Zurich in 1655. The personification of Faith, Hope, and Charity are variants of the figures in an engraving by Dietrich Meyer. Better known as painter and engraver, Meyer is thought to have learned the verre eglomise technique from the Zurich master Hans Jakob Sprungli.

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