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The MET: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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Public domain works from the Met's European Sculpture and Decorative Arts department. This account is not associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Watering can squat, molded flower petal shaped in cream glaze. Squat cream glazed main body, lightly molded as a flower petals, with ¾ open top with wavy rim and a thin gold band around outer edge of rim, short neck with raised diaper pattern painted in gold and copper above main body. At one side a long trumpet shaped spout with decorative gold and copper dot bands at mid point and at join to main body, end of spout with regularly spaced pierced holes, painted in gold; opposite a curved, ridged gold colored handle with ram’s head at one end where handle joins main body. The gold and copper colored paint decoration applied irregularly and overrun visible on one side. Size: 6 1/8 x 9 ½ x 6 ¼ in. (15.6 x 24.1 x 15.9 cm) Medium: Porcelain

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Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire), Jean Henri Riesener, 1783, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920 Size: Overall: 57 × 43 × 16 in. (144.8 × 109.2 × 40.6 cm); Length (key): 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm) Medium: Oak veneered with ebony and 17th-century Japanese lacquer; interiors veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, and ebonized holly; gilt-bronze mounts; marble top; velvet (not original)

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/194622

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