Footed beaker

Jeremias Jekel

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This beaker documents the adaptation of styles and motifs created thousands of miles apart. The vessel is covered in a sophisticated ornamental system of dense scrollwork with abundant fruit clusters, and suspended baldachins—the ultimate symbol of royal or ecclesiastical power–surmount the three oval reserves. The three figures engraved in separate ovals represent the theological virtues Faith, Hope, and Charity. They derive from prints by Jacob Matham (Dutch, 1571–1631), who engraved drawings by Henrick Goltzius (Dutch, 1558–1617). Literature Tihamér Gyárfás. A brassai ötvösség története. Brassó, 1912, p. 103, no. 148. Gold Boxes, Objects of Vertu and European Silver. Sale cat., Sotheby’s, London, July 6, 1981, p. 42, no. 161. Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 71, no. 49. References A beaker by the same maker was sold at auction by Dr. Fischer Kunstauktionen in Heilbronn. Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, no. 193 [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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