Pair of candlesticks

Edward Wakelin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These candlesticks reflect the enthusiasm of the 6th Earl of Coventry for the neoclassical style. His silversmith, Edward Wakelin, adapted a design from a pattern by William Kent, one of the first architects to supply designs for furniture and interior fittings as well as for buildings.

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