Basket

John Edwards II

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Silver baskets, often referring in their design to wicker prototypes, were made in pairs as part of a dinner service and were used for serving bread or cake. This basket and its mate were part of a large acquisition of silver made by the 8th Earl of Exeter to furnish the Elizabethan manor Burghley House.

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