Chandelier

Clark, Coit and Cargill

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This chandelier with four burners and an urn-shaped oil reservoir is one of the few surviving examples documented to a New York retailer. Thomas Webster illustrates a closely related example, which he calls a "suspended Argand lamp," in his "Encyclopaedia of Domestic Economy" (1845), describing "the chains very ornamental, and the branches concealed by very rich brass work."

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