Chest

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chests used for household storage were common in seventeenth-century homes. This lift-top chest is embellished with carved motifs that are characteristic of the decorative vocabulary of the earliest New Haven joiners, including the carved arches in the panels, the lunettes on the upper rail, the paired leaves on the lower rail, and the rosettes on the stiles.

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