Coffeepot

Robert Peaston

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The New York silversmith Myer Myers made the sugar bowl, creampot, and tongs (2012.244.2–.4) to accompany this English coffeepot, echoing its repoussé Rococo ornament of sinuous C-scrolls and floral motifs. All four objects bear the initials of Dorothy Remsen, who married Abraham Brinckerhoff of New York in 1772. Such commissions were an important way for domestic silversmiths to familiarize themselves with the prevailing European styles.

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