Ewer

Elkington & Co.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

In 1882 the English historian Alfred Maskell traveled through Europe to catalogue "the best of human kind in precious metal work." The original of this ewer and basin, acquired by the Museum in 2005. On Maskell's recommendation electrotypes were made in England, of which the Museum acquired a whole set including the ewer and basin. This electrotype is after a seventeenth-century original in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, at the time of reproduction. The original ewer and basin are also in the Museum's collection (see 2005.62.1, .2a, b).

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