A rare blue and white glazed flask, influenced by Chinese and Near Eastern ceramics, comes from the late sixteenth-century Medici workshop in Florence. Fewer than eighty examples survive. The pieces featured in this installation include a salt cellar, a candlestick, and a cup adorned with the royal arms of France. The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden, located on the National Mall between Third and Ninth Streets at Constitution Avenue, NW, are open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5.p.m. The Gallery is closed on 25 December and 1 January.
Admission is free.