Use of Paris workshop
Use of Paris workshop is a gondola cup in lead-glazed earthenware, made 1600–1650. It is held by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts collection, accession 2025.744. It entered that collection as Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gift, 2025. It measures confirmed: 3 3/8 × 7 1/4 × 4 5/16 in. (8.5 × 18.4 × 11 cm).
Overview
What the sources state
• Accession number: 2025.744 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 924793, consulted for Use of Paris workshop)
• Acquired: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gift, 2025 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 924793, consulted for Use of Paris workshop)
• Made: 1600–1650 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 924793, consulted for Use of Paris workshop)
• Collection: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 924793, consulted for Use of Paris workshop)
• Dimensions: confirmed: 3 3/8 × 7 1/4 × 4 5/16 in. (8.5 × 18.4 × 11 cm) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 924793, consulted for Use of Paris workshop)
• Medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 924793, consulted for Use of Paris workshop)
• Object: Gondola Cup (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 924793, consulted for Use of Paris workshop)
• Held by: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 924793, consulted for Use of Paris workshop)
• Title: Venus and Mars Gondola Cup (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 924793, consulted for Use of Paris workshop)
Sources
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Museum record · Institutional or primary · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access collection record 924793, consulted for Use of Paris workshop
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