Metropolitan Museum Journal 2002 Volume 37

NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002. — 314 p.This volumes of the Metropolitan Museum Journal results from a spontaneous desire on the part of many to honor curator Clare Le Corbeiller upon her retirement. In 2000oo, she tendered her resignation (it was accepted with the greatest reluctance), having served forty-one years in the department now known as European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. Her presence continues to be felt through the number and significance of her accomplishments, as well as through the frequent visits she still pays us, to the delight of her colleagues.
It is an extremely rare occurrence at the Museum, perhaps too rare, that we salute a coworker in this fashion. However, in view of Clare's steadfast devotion to the institution and the mark she has made on the decorative arts through her irreproachable curatorial habits and her inspired teaching, we make the exception wholeheartedly. I join my voice in tribute with the Journal's Editorial Board and with those who have contributed articles from far and wide, to whom many thanks.
This is also the proper place in which to reiterate thanks to Romano I. Peluso and his family for their generous support of the Journal. Without it we could hardly have embarked on a project as complex as this Festschrift, nor have hoped for results as rewarding.Foreword
Philippe de MontebelloThoughts of Clare Le Corbeiller
James David DraperThe Publications of Clare Le Corbeiller An Early Greek Bronze Sphinx Support
Joan R. MertensFramed in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Suzanne BoorschAn Early Meissen Discovery: A Shield Bearer
Designed by Hans Daucher for the Ducal Chapel in the Cathedral of Meissen
Wolfram KoeppeA New Drawing byJean Cousin the Elder for the
Saint Mamas Tapestries
Perrin SteinA Sixteenth-Century Lacquered Chinese Box
James C. Y. WattMiss America's Brother and His Club
Helmut NickelSome Seventeenth-Century French Painted Enamel Watchcases
Clare VincentMigration and Metamorphosis: The Transformation of Shapes, Ornaments, and Materials
Bernhard HeitmannJapanese Porcelain at Burghley House: The Inventory of 1688 and the Sale of 1888
Oliver ImpeyMeissen Porcelain for Sophie Dorothea of Prussia and the Exchange of Visits between the Kings of Poland and Prussia in 1728
Maureen Cassidy-GeigerWilliam Bradshaw: Furniture Maker and Tapestry Weaver
Geoffrey BeardA Pattern of Exchange: Jan Luyken and Chine de
Commande Porcelain
Christiaan JorgThe Reign of Magots and Pagods
Danielle Kisluk-GrosheideThe Development of Repertoire in Mennecy
Porcelain Sculpture, circa 1738-65
Aileen DawsonA Drawing by Canaletto of Richmond House Terrace
Katharine BaetjerThe Spaghetti Eaters
Meredith Chilton"I'm No Angel": A Terracotta Model of Saint Vincent Ferrer by Giuseppe Sanmartino
Johanna Hecht