Plate with Jacob Is Shown Joseph’s Coat

Gironimo Tomasi

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The scene is based on a woodcut in an illustrated Bible published in Lyons in 1553 and republished in Italian in 1554. Similar work was done in Urbino, Pesaro, and Lyons itself. The more meager quality of the tin glaze suggests Venice as the probably place of manufacture of this example.

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