Salver

Thomas Hamersley

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The original owner of this salver was the wealthy and distinguished Gerardus Beekman. The initials on the salver represent Gerardus and Mary Beekman, their daughter Elizabeth Beekman, her daughter Emily Maria Livingston, and her daughter Emily Maria de Peyster, charting the descent of the salver through the family. The salver descended in the de Peyster family.

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