Vase

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This vase was pressed in two pieces, and a flat disk was used to join the bowl to the stem. This technique is believed to have been largely confined to New England glasshouses. By 1875, a Pittsburgh firm, Atterbury and Company, had developed a process for pressing such forms in a single mold.

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