Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)

Martin Carlin

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nine nearly identical coffers on stands are known (three in the Museum's collection) that are either stamped or attributed to Marin Carlin. Working in Paris, this successful German cabinet maker specialized in making small and elegant pieces for a fashionable and distinguished clientele. Between 1765 and 1778, Carlin made some eighty pieces of porcelain-mounted furniture.

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