Pas de Deux

Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The founder of the Ludwigsburg factory, Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg, was also the founder of what is now the Stuttgart Ballet. His enthusiastic patronage of both porcelain and the ballet is manifested in a series of models of single dancers, pas de deux, and pas de trois, all of which are undoubtedly based on the choreography of Jean-Georges Noverre, who created some nine ballets for Karl Eugen between 1760 and 1766.

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