Large oval box (one of a pair)

Gottlieb Satzger

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The boxes and accoutrements of a toilet service were often made for stock; so, rather than being specially commissioned, a service might be assembled from pieces that were already on the shelf. The whole was usually supplied in a fitted leather case; as a household moved from country to city for the annual season, they transported their silver as well. Gottlieb Satzger was a younger brother of Johann Martin Satzger I, who marked the smaller boxes of the same model.

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