Commode (one of a pair) (part of a set)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fuhrlohg, a Swedish-born cabinetmaker, trained in Paris before moving in 1767 to London, where he made marquetry decorated furniture strongly influenced by French transitional forms. Sets of three commodes are extremely rare in eighteenth-century English furniture; this is the only known set by Fuhrlohg. The central medallion, showing a seated muse, is based on The Triumph of Venus by Angelica Kauffmann (1741–1807).

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