Woman and her tailor

Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

An early example of Capodimonte soft-paste porcelain, produced only between 1743 and 17589. Gricci derived this group from the engravings "Le Tailleur pour Femme" by Charles Cochin le Jeune. The paste is as yet somewhat impure. The colored decoration includes oriental flower motifs and a blue border recalling the stamped decoration adopted by the Ginori factory in Doccia near Florence.

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