Cupboard

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Said to have been owned by Governor Robert Treat (ca. 1622–1710) of Milford, this cupboard represents the school of joinery that produced the most sophisticated case pieces in seventeenthcentury Connecticut. It has a prominent paneled door and sides with central cruciform and is decorated with applied bosses and half spindles. The applied decoration was made of several different woods, which originally gave the piece a livelier, varicolored surface.

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