Presentation chalice

Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This chalice may have been made by Lutz, a glassmaker for the Boston and Sandwich Glass Company famous for his flower compositions and his fine threaded stemware. Tradition has it that he presented the piece to a fellow employee before the company shut down in 1888.

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