Dinner Plate

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Eight Chinese immortals standing on stylized clouds ornament the border of this plate, which surrounds a Chinese landscape featuring a variety of foliage, landforms, and architectural structures. The gold monogram, DWMC, combines the initials of DeWitt and Maria Clinton of Albany, New York, the owners of the service.

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