Beaker

Simon Kontz

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The engraved pattern of elongated leaf motifs on this beaker belong to the ornamental language of the Renaissance, while the openwork and robe bands are reminiscent of ornament from the late Gothic period. Two similar Hungarian beakers were excavated together with an Ottoman bowl and gold coins in 1910 at Makó. They are now in the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest. Literature Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 29, no. 7. References Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, similar to no. 1350 [maker’s mark]. Géza Fehér. Craftsmanship in Turkish-Ruled Hungary. Budapest, 1975, n.p., fig. 59. [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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