Cutout
Lockwood de Forest
ca. 1892
Medium
Brass; chased
Dimensions
H. 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm) W. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm)
Classification
Metal
Department
Islamic Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Frank and Patricia Goss, 2014
Accession Number
2014.680.4
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
Flowers
About the Artist
Lockwood de Forest · 1850–1932
American painter, interior designer and furniture designer. A key figure in the Aesthetic Movement, he introduced the East Indian craft revival to Gilded Age America. His father was Henry Grant de Forest, and his son worked professionally as Lockwood de Forest, Jr., though the son's birth name is Lockwood de Forest, III.