Pitcher

United States Pottery Company

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Porcelain objects with white figures in low relief on a blue ground recall eighteenth-century Wedgwood wares. This pattern, known as "Paul and Virginia," is a copy of an English design.

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