Cup and saucer

Worcester factory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The cup and saucer are from a breakfast service made for George, Prince of Wales, regent during the illness of George III, who later reigned as George IV (1820–30). The cup and saucer are enameled and gilded with the Prince's crest, encircled by the Order of the Garter, and ensigned by his badge of three ostrich feathers within a prince's coronet and the motton "Ich Dien" (I serve).

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