Pair of urns with covers with hunting scenes

Pair of urns with covers with hunting scenes

Pierre-Jules Mêne

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mêne was a gifted animalier who realized considerable success with these oft-repeated a urns because of their superb rustic ornament, each having twisted branches of oak that serve as handles and frame the reliefs of hunting subjects. One urn has a hooded falcon for a finial; the other is topped by a heron. The picturesque effects are generically baroque; Mêne porobablv thought of them as being in the stylistic vein of the Louis XIII period.

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.