Chalice

Johann Christoph Heyne

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

With its tall baluster stem and convex moldings, this chalice displays the elegant proportions of the Baroque style. It bears the mark of the German-born Moravian minister and pewterer Johann Christoph Heyne, whose chalices and other church vessels are among the finest examples of liturgical pewter made in eighteenth-century America. They were supplied primarily to Lutheran and Moravian churches in south central Pennsylvania.

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