Commode

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The undulating lines of the front and sides suggest that its creator had seen the swell-fronted painted or lacquered commodes made in Venice in the mid-eighteenth century. The carved motifs are thought to have been carried out in the studio of Ferdinand Tietz (1708–1777). He is known to have provided large stone figures for the gardens of Seehof Castle, whence came this piece.

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