Coffeepot (part of a service)

Meissen Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The pieces of this service (1974.356.424–.430) come from one of the most richly decorated Meissen tea and coffee services. The gold background was added after the enamel was fired, either at the factory or in Augsburg, where the gilt-silver mounts were applied. This model was the most commonly produced at Meissen in the 1720s and 1730s. The design of the low octagonal sugar box dates to the earliest years of the factory; this example can be assigned to 1726–27 based on stylistic grounds as well as the factory mark KPM on the base.

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