Lac de Lugano (from the Service des vues Suisses)

Sèvres Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

All of the plates in this service were decorated with views of Switzerland; this example illustrates the lake of Lugano. The service is notable for the use of transfer printing to establish the outlines of the landscape scenes, which were then painted with polychrome enamels. Transfer printing was seldom used at Sèvres, and it appears that this service was the first in which it was employed for the primary decoration rather than just for more minor decorative motifs.

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