Pitcher
New England Glass Company
An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art
The threaded decoration on the lip and the tooled midrib of this classic Empire pitcher are characteristic features of the New England Glass Company’s products. The hollow stem contains an English shilling dated 1817.
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.