Taking Shape : Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts

Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts. Drawing upon the rich collections of Temple Newsam House in West Yorkshire and the J Paul Getty Museum in California, Taking Shape focuses on the inventive imagination of Baroque and Rococo that dominated sculpture and the decorative arts in the 17th and 18th centuries and presents it in a new light.

Including a diverse range of objects - richly-carved console tables and candle-stands, a spectacular mirror and clock, statuettes, bronzes and busts, etchings and engravings - the works feature all manner of fantastic motifs.

Angels and deities, foliage and flowers metamorphose