Tumbler

Bakewell, Page & Bakewell

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The cameo portrait in the base of this tumbler depicts the Marquis de Lafayette, whose visit to the United States in 1824 and 1825 provided the impetus for Bakewell’s production of commemorative sulphide glass. Developed in France, the technique of embedding a high-fired ceramic material into a bubble of glass, which was then deflated, was complicated and costly.

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