Chandelier

John Gumley

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of a pair supplied to James, third Viscount Scudamore (d. 1716) for the State Apartments at Holme Lacy, Herefordshire, this chandelier is in the "French arabesque" manner of William III's architect Daniel Marot (ca. 1663–1752). The court cabinetmakers Moore and Gumley specialized in finely carved gilt-gesso furniture. Holme Lacy later descended to the Earl of Chesterfield. In 1910 he moved much of the contents, including this chandelier, to Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire, where it remained until 1958.

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