Chocolate beaker and saucer

Vienna

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Naturalistic flower painting was outstanding at Du Paquier because of the careful use of different techniques to distinguish the textures of flowers, fruits, gourds, reptiles, and small mammals. Fruits such as peaches and grapes were often painted with dots of color, in the miniaturist style that was a specialty of the manufactory; the gnarled skin of melons and gourds was enhanced by fine lines in black ink.

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