Side table

John Yenn

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A drawing related to the decoration of this, and two similar, tables has been attributed to John Yenn, a pupil and draftsman of the architect Sir William Chambers (1723–1796), who may have been responsible for their design. The Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne on the Isle of Naxos, after a composition by the Italian painter Guido Reni (1575–1642), is depicted on the table's top. The monogram G IV R, for George IV Rex incised on the back, shows this to be one of the few pieces of furniture in the collection with an English royal provenance.

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.

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