Pair of corner shelves

Bernard II van Risenburgh

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Consists of three segmental shelves, with shaped fronts linked at back by a central vertical support, triangular in section, and along outside edges by elaborately pierced C-scrolls, alternately concave and convex, that join with central support at top and bottom; shelves of different sizes, smallest at bottom, largest in middle; distance between upper and middle shelves is greater than that between lower and middle; central support, with shaped ends, veneered on front with tulipwood inlaid with pendants of flowers and leaves in end-cut kingwood; pierced C-scrolls veneered on the front and sides with tulipwood.

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