Flowerpot and stand

Flowerpot and stand

James Pottery

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

An exceptional example of sgraffito hollowware, this flowerpot was made for Tacy Lewis of Newtown, Pennsylvania. She would have been thirty-one years old in 1824, and the presentation piece was presumably made in honor of a birth or wedding. The elaborate ruffled border on both the pot and the stand is characteristic of the Chester County region.

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.