Belt

Michael Erkeder

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Garnets and pearls provide lovely accents for the movable joints of this spectacular girdle. Although its patron is not known, its exquisite quality and similarity in shape to several collars produced for other European aristocrats suggests this piece was made for a Hungarian nobleman.

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.

Metropolitan Museum of Art