Teapot Stand

Paul Revere Jr.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This elliptical teapot stand and its matching fluted bail­handled sugar basket (33.120.544) were originally part of a larger service ordered from Paul Revere Jr. in June 1796 by Jonathan Hunnewell (1759–1842). Fashioned in the prevailing neoclassical taste and engraved with delicate bright­cut swags and tassels, they closely resemble other tea wares supplied by Revere in the mid­ to late 1790s. Hunnewell’s order also included a silver teapot, a second teapot stand, and four salt shovels. The individual pieces are itemized in Revere’s ledgers, along with their weights and costs

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