Views of Vienna

Views of Vienna

Anton Kothgasser

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Light screen consisting of four leaves, each consisting of two topographical views of Vienna, identified by inscriptions beneath, in translucent enamels on glass, set into a frame of blond wood trimmed with darker wood with a wood panel in the lowest register set with a framed, mother-of-pearl, shaped cartouche.


European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.