Console table (one of a pair)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The carved decorations on this pair of console tables represent the Four Seasons. On 1974.356.127, the fire-spitting dragon symbolizes Summer, and the head of the wind god, Boreas, Spring. On 1974.356.128, the boy's head with fur hat and collar symbolizes Winter, and the grapevine, Autumn. Both tables have been regilded.

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