Style of Whieldon type – Teapot – British, Staffordshire – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199433
Carter, 1944 Object Number: 44.39.30a, b Florence Bates Carter (until 1944; to
Carter, 1944 Object Number: 44.39.30a, b Florence Bates Carter (until 1944; to
In ancient Egypt, objects created with faience were considered magical, filled with the undying shimmer of the sun, and imbued with the powers of rebirth.
Faience may have been developed to simulate highly prized and rare semi-precious
Curator Adela Oppenheim focuses on the architecture of The Temple of Dendur as a setting for the cultic worship of Isis.
The brothers were believed to have drowned in the Nile, a manner of death that could
Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain Credit Line: The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B.
Seymour Fund and Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1997 Object Number: 1997.216a, b
Classification: Ceramics Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1917 Object Number: 17.118.16a, b
Georges de La Tour’s Fortune Teller is one of the painter’s early masterpieces. It has been variously dated between 1620 and 1639, and it is most likely from the 1630s. The canvas is signed at top right: G
It has in fact been suggested that the Fortune Teller may have been a pendant to
Three conservators at The Met share what they discovered when they examined William the hippo up close.
objects, we’d only admired William through a glass case, so it was exciting to have
Along with the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (The Met 14.40.633), the Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) is one of two exceptional paintings by Albrecht Dürer in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum
Could the Salvator Mundi have served a similar purpose in Dürer’s workshop?
The most musical tree in the world.
Which you kind of have to be. I mean, it’s a crazy idea.