Window Sash

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Small windows with diamond-shaped panes of leaded glass were used widely in America until the end of the seventeenth century. Window glass had to be imported from England and was extremely expensive. Similar windows are displayed in an appropriate architectural setting in the American Wing's Hart Room.

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