Sugar box

Vienna

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Du Paquier manufactory made sugar boxes in four basic shapes, including this oval, which is also known in Meissen porcelain and likely was influenced by Baroque silver. Surviving Du Paquier tea, chocolate, and coffee services always have sugar boxes but never milk jugs, an indication that the Viennese preferred their tea sweetened but without milk.

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