Table

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The manner in which the top of this table is attached to its frame—by dovetailing cleats to the underside of the top and securing them to the end rails—is a northern European method of construction that is associated in American furniture primarily with craftsmen of Germanic background working in Pennsylvania.

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