Pieces (8)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Delightfully fanciful silks were produced for the wide-skirted dresses of the eighteenth century, especially in France and England. This one, with its naïve yet striking combination of familiar and unusual motifs, does not fall into any of the established categories. Possibly it was woven in Spain, whose silk industry was revived by weavers from Lyons in the middle of the eighteenth century.

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