Teacup and saucer

Höchst Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This partial tea and coffee service is distinguished by its relative completeness and its two components (the coffee pot and the hot milk jug) signed by the painters who decorated them—Joseph Angele and Johann Heinrich Usinger, respectively—a rarity on 18th-century porcelain. [Jeffrey H. Munger, 2009]

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