Plate or tray

Plate or tray

Olérys Factory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This plate or tray belonged to a service a service made for Madame de Pompadour, ordered in 1745. An accompanying écuelle with cover (17.190.1893a, b) is also in the Museum's collection.


European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.