Perfume burner in the form of a dove-cote

Perfume burner in the form of a dove-cote

Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A model produced in both the red and gold anchor periods at Chelsea but apparently in very limited numbers. The chamber for burning perfumed pastilles was in the dovecote, closed by a conical roof.


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.