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Le Nove Porcelain Manufactory

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

When discharging its function as a container for liquid, this object also completed the allusion of the decoration, two small boys perched by a pool from which one may be presumed to have filled his bottle. The playfulness and the style of the rococo survived together in Italian ceramics to the end of the eighteenth century.

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