Dish with tree, flowers, and birds

Vienna

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This large twelve-sided dish was originally part of the first service made by the Du Paquier factory—also regarded as the first porcelain dinner service produced in Europe. The decoration of birds in flowering branches was a popular theme in East Asian decorative arts.

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