Pair of bed curtains

Pair of bed curtains

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The focal point for textile furnishings in the traditional house in the Cyclades was the bed in an alcove or on a raised mezzanine. The main bed was curtained off, and it was the curtains plus cushions and bolsters that comprised the bulk of domestic fabrics. This panel is embellished with columns and rows of double-leaf and complex triangular forms once considered typical of embroidery attributed to Patmos but now thought to represent Cycladic manufacture.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.