Wall mirror

Johann Michael Hoppenhaupt

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The exuberant amalgam of design details reflect the interior decorations and furnishings of the palaces in Potsdam and Berlin about 1745–1760. Similar feathery rocaille, naturalistic trellis-work, and the heron motifs are synonymous with the personal taste of King Frederick the Great (r. 1740–86), the monarch after whom the style was called "Friderizianisches Rococo." [Wolfram Koeppe, 2014]

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