Dish (one of a pair)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gilded flowers and foliage within boldly-conceived rims frame a high-embossed, gilded fruit arrangement in the center of each hexagonal dish. The fact that the engraved coat of arms, with a laurel wreath and an inscription, are squeezed between two of the large flowers indicates that they may have been added at a later date. These dishes were possibly made as stock pieces rather than for a special commission. Literature European Silver. Sale cat., Sotheby’s, Geneva, May 12, 1983, p. 45, no. 105. Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 69, no. 47. Exhibited Régi ezüstkiállításának leíró lajstroma. Exh. cat. by Károly Csányi. Országos Magyar Iparművészeti Múzeum. Museum of Applied Arts. Budapest, 1927, p. 16, no. 83. References For an example of a hexagonal dish in serpentine, see Gert-Dieter Ulferts, Sächsischer Serpentin: Sammlung Jahn. Berlin, 2000, pp. 58-9, no. 30. [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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