Chest with drawer

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The painting technique employed on this chest is that of the Guilford-Saybrook, Connecticut school of painted furniture. Originally painted on yellow ground—a bit of which is still visible at the top of the left side—the floral elements are more limited and the compositions more formulaic than in earlier examples, (10.125.15; 10.125.16) suggesting a waning tradition.

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