Bowl with cover (part of a set)

Meissen Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The ensemble (1982.60.248–.251) is an assembled one, although one cup and saucer, both painted with riverscapes, are a fairly close match and are by the same hand. The xecond cup, also by the same artist, depicts an architectural landscape on one side, a winter skating scene opposite. On the saucer is a garden pavilion painted by a different artist. One cover is a modern replacement. The porcelain is of the Böttger type. Similar cups and saucers are dated 1720–25 by Rückert,[1] but a slightly later date is suggested here by the incipient romanticism of the decoration. It is to be noted that, of the several known examples of cups of this model and decoration, the finials of the covers of all but these are in the form of a three-branched twig. Footnote: [1] Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, 1710–1810 (exhib. cat.), Munich, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, 1966, cat. no. 130.

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.

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