Europe, 1750-1900 Flashcards
Combination Table with toilet accessories of Sèvres porcelain
Type: furniture
Materials/Techniques: Oak and pine veneered with tulipwood, sycamore, holly, boxwood and ebony; Carrara marble; gilt-bronze mounts; accessories of Sèvres porcelain, rock crystal, silver gilt, and lacquer
Creator/Culture: Martin Carlin/French
Date/Period: ca. 1775
Style Period: Louis XIV
Repository: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Slave Medallion
Type: medallion, jewelry
Materials/Techniques: ceramic, jasperware
Creator/Culture: Josiah Wedgwood/English
Date/Period: 1787
Style Period: Neoclassical
Plate 50 from Recueil des décorations intérieurs
Type: print
Materials/Techniques: ink, paper
Creator/Culture: Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine/French
Date/Period: 1800-1812
Style Period: Neoclassical
Zimmerbild of the Crown Princess’s Study
Type: work on paper
Materials/Techniques: gouache, paper
Creator/Culture: Anonymous/Prussian
Date/Period: 1844
Style Period: Biedermeier
Bread Plate
Type: tableware
Materials/Techniques: stoneware, encaustic
Creator/Culture: A.W.N. Pugin, manufactured by Mintons/English (Stoke-on-Trent)
Date/Period: 1850
Style Period: Gothic revival/Design reform
“Confident à trois places” (also called “Indiscret”) in Dictionnaire de l’ameublement et de la décoration depuis le XIIIe siècle à nos jours
Type: print
Materials/Techniques: ink, paper
Creator/Culture: Henry Havard/French
Date/Period: 1887-1890
Style Period: Rococo Revival
“Dining Room in the late Renaissance Taste” from Das deutsche Zimmer der Renaissance
Type: print
Materials/Techniques: ink, paper
Creator/Culture: Georg Hirth/German (Munich)
Date/Period: 1880
Style Period: Renaissance Revival (National Historicism)
Strawberry Thief
Type: furnishing textile
Materials/Techniques: indigo-discharged block-printed cotton
Creator/Culture: William Morris (Morris & Co., Merton Abbey Dye Works)/English (London)
Date/Period: 1883
Style Period: Arts and Crafts
Toast rack
Type: tableware
Materials/Techniques: electroplated silver
Creator/Culture: Christopher Dresser (manufactured by James Dixon & Sons)/English (Sheffield)
Date/Period: 1878
Dining Room for Siegfried Bing’s L’Art Nouveau with Murals by Paul Ranson
Type: photograph
Materials/Techniques: print
Creator/Culture: Henri van de Velde (designer); Paul Ranson (painter)/French
Date/Period: 1895
Style Period: Art Nouveau
