Sugar bowl

James C. Mackley

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mackley worked with Anthony W. Baecher before the latter moved to Virginia. The close similarity of the work of the two potters is seen here in the applied stylized leaves and the floral elements in high relief.

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