The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Pair of vases

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Reading, Writing, and Roentgen

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Carolyn Sargentson, independent art historian and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, outlines how changing social practices altered the designs and styles of furniture, both for the nobility and the lower classes.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens on view October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition and catalogue are made possible by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

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Pair of vases

Nikolai Stepanovich Vereshchagin (ca. 1795–1813)

Date:: ca. 1795–1800
Culture:: Russian (Archangelsk)
Medium:: Walrus and elephant ivory
Dimensions:: H. 8-5/8 in. (21.9 cm.); Base, 3 x 3 in. (7.6 x 7.6 cm)
Classification:: Natural Substances
Credit Line:: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1998
Accession Number:: 1998.13.1, .2

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 553

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