Floral print with figures

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

In prints of this type the pattern is stamped on the cloth from woodblocks dipped in chemical; when the dyed the parts so treated do not take the dye and the pattern is left on the undyed cloth. Red prints of this character are called toile de Normandie. Rouen was the center for dyeing in turkey red.

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