Bank

Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The hollow knop below the bird finial on this bank contains a five-cent American silver piece dated 1833. A ten-cent coin of the same date lies in the hollow stem. As is typical of glass of eastern Massachusetts origin, the form and style of decoration suggest an English antecedent.

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