Creampot

Joseph Edwards Jr.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Three-legged creampots with elongated pouring lips and scrolled handles are among the most charming hollowware forms produced in mid-eighteenth century America. Joseph Edwards Jr. was born into a family of successful Boston silversmiths, under one of whom he likely trained.

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