Cup with two handles and cover

Cup with two handles and cover

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The taste for such luxuriant pierced silver cups, lined with a gilt sleeve, had its origins in Germany and the Baltic countries, and was short-lived in England. Many of the surviving cups, made by foreigners who worked "under the table," are unmarked. The delicate naturalism of this cup is the work of a highly trained chaser.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.