Like the Getty, we’re “Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts”

July 17 2009, 5:20pm

While reading the catalogue for the Getty Museum’s current exhibition, “Taking Shape, Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts,” we came across a drawing by Franz Xaver Habermann for a “Rococo Design,” now in the National Gallery of Scotland (figure 1). Habermann’s drawing is unmistakably related to a vase in our collection from Potsdam, circa 1735 (figure 2).