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Julius and Edward Norton

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

During the 1850s, Julius and Edward Norton, like their upstate New York competitors, produced stoneware with designs in cobalt blue slip. Typical of the motifs found on their wares are birds, flowers, stags, dogs, and eagles, executed with little regard to relative scale.

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