High chest of drawers

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Contrasting light and dark wood banding creates a lively surface treatment on this high chest of drawers. Few chests with this type of herringbone-banded drawer border are known, and the exact place where this high chest was made has yet to be firmly decided, though one of its secondary woods, chestnut, suggests manufacture in eastern Connecticut or Rhode Island rather than New York, where some scholars have suggested.

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