Armchair (one of four)

Royal Manufactory Beauvais 1664-1789

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

These chairs are from a set of six armchairs and two settees supplied to the third Duke of Ancaster (1714–1778) for Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire. The set was originally partially gilt and upholstered with Gobelins coverings (now Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) after designs by Francois Boucher. The present coverings were applied between 1934 and 1858.

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