Box

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This box has an elaborate cast escutcheon of the type found on high-style case furniture, yet its painted ornament—consisting of various spray and vine designs—appears to have been the work of an amateur. Inscriptions on the interior suggest that the original owner was Rebecca Lynde (d. 1716) of Saybrook. She may also have been responsible for the decorative painting.

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