Traveling set

I.F.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This compact set is similar to another in the museum's collection, acc. no. 2010.110.79a–i. However, here the case-maker, a separate craftsman from the goldsmith, has positioned the egg cup and spice box so that they frame and intensify the crowded impression of the utensils stored in between. Such egg cups had a double function: hard boiled eggs lying horizontally could be cut up in one bowl, and soft-boiled eggs could be served upright at the opposite end. Literature Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, no. 662 [maker’s mark]. Catalogue of Fine European Silver. Sale cat., Sotheby’s, Zurich, May 16, 1979, p. 24, no. 57. Judit H. Kolba. Hungarian Silver: The Nicolas M. Salgo Collection. London, 1996, p. 107, no. 84. References Elemér Kőszeghy. Magyarországi ötvösjegyek a középkortól 1867-ig / Merkzeichen der Goldschmiede Ungarns vom Mittelalter bis 1867. Budapest, 1936, nos. 662 [maker’s mark] and 658 [similar town 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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