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Sebastianus Aurifaber

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The former northern Hungarian town of Lőcse had a vibrant cultural scene and prospering economy until the end of sixteenth century. It was a center of humanist learning and Reformation thinking and a printing press was established there as early as 1624. Aurifaber is mentioned in public records as the first goldsmith master of the local guild in 1575. Literature European Silver. Sale cat., Sotheby’s, Geneva, May 12, 1983, p. 45, no. 107. Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 27, no. 5. References Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, possibly no. 1170 [maker’s mark]. [Wolfram Koeppe 2015]

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.

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