Tea and coffee set (teapot, coffeepot, milk jug, sugar bowl)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Similar in shape to black-glazed English wares of the eighteenth century, this Namur tea and coffee set is distinguished from them by its somewhat coarser potting. The ultimate inspiration for European black wares was Chinese "famille noire" porcelain—first imitated in Delft in the late seventeenth century.

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