Beaker

Master S.I.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The gracefully curved, tapering sides of this beaker are characteristic of late sixteenth-century examples. The engraved coat of arms displays a rampant lion and the name of a patron, Stephanus Akossi, whose precise identity has yet to be established. Literature Fine European Silver / Belles Pièces d’orfèvrerie européenne. Sale cat., Christie’s, Geneva, May 16, 1984, p. 27, no. 43. Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 31, no. 9. References A similar beaker with snakeskin decoration was sold by Dr. Fischer Kunstauktionen in Heilbronn, sale no. 161, no. 448. Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, no. 1507 [maker’s mark]. See a similar beaker formerly in the collection of Yves Saint Laurent in Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé, Orfèvrerie, Miniatures et Objets de vertu. Sale cat., Christie’s, Paris, February 24, 2009, p. 134, no. 167. [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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