Edging

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gorgeous Apparel The work of professional female lace-makers from Genoa was highly sought-after in the seventeenth century throughout Europe. The ornately worked cuffs and the edgings displayed here are reminders of the textile layering used in the finest fashions of the period, as seen in the painting of Princess Elizabeth hanging nearby.

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