Decanter

Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

In 1867, after twenty-two years of employment as factory superintendent of the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company, William E. Kern received a retirement gift of more than fifty pieces of glassware including this decanter. (See 67.7.1–.14, .16, .24, .25, .27–.44 for the set of matching glassware.)

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