Dish

Joseph-Théodore Deck

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The decoration of this dish is derived from Turkish ceramics made in the town of Iznik between the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Iznik ceramics were an important source of inspiration for Deck, who studied them at the Musée de Cluny in Paris, which opened to the public in 1843. Although Deck borrowed Iznik colors and motifs, he did not make exact replicas of their designs. Instead he loosely adapted motifs, creating designs of his own invention, typically in a more symmetrical pattern than Turkish prototypes.

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