Armchair

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This armchair is significantly larger than most made in this period and exudes a confident monumentality. It was made in the 1750s, when the taste for naturalistic ornament—mostly leaves and shells—was first being grafted onto the curvilinear Queen Anne forms of the 1730s.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art