Stand

William Sprats

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Certain features of this stand are peculiar to furniture made in the Norwich area of Connecticut. The idiosyncratic knee carving, a symmetrical arrangement of flat, overlapping leaves, the bottom ones extended on the sides in high-relief scrolls, and the fluted colonette with carved Corinthian capital are features found on other furniture credited to Norwich.

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