Embroidered sampler

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This sampler includes multiple alphabets and floral motifs in a green, brown, and tan color scheme. The motifs include acorns, birds, bunches of grapes and both sprigs and potted flowers. The letters IEO and the year 1685 are stitched onto the linen foundation fabric, most likely the initials of the sampler’s maker and the year in which she completed her work.

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