Fireback

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fireback: a rectangular plaque with a broken arch at the top surmounted by a vase with flames issuing from the top, and below, scrolls with depending husk ornament framing a double coat of arms in relief depicting an oval shield (sinister), barry, and an oval shield (dexter), charged with three pine cones, 2 and 1, with rampant lion supporters and surmounted by a coronet with alternating strawberry leaves and fleurs-de-lis, below the arms, a scrolled plinth ornamented with a grotesque mask. The arms are unidentified.

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