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Chelsea Keramic Art Works

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This rare example of domestic tableware by Chelsea Keramic Art Works exemplifies the taste for Far Eastern motifs during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Its angular forms and honeycomb surfaces emulate the shape and hand-hammered texture of Japanese metalwork but also reference the designs of Christopher Dresser. The soft celadon glaze is the successful result of the firm’s extensive experiments to imitate and perfect the monochromatic glazes found on Chinese ceramics.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.