Sack bottle

Lambeth Factories

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pear-shaped delftware bottles were produced in the potteries of Southwark and Lambeth, England, throughout the seventeenth century. Many of these simple bottles were inscribed with just the name of the spirit and the date in blue underglaze. This example once contained sack, a dry, sweet wine from Spain or Portugal.

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