Looking Glass

John Elliott Sr.

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The looking glass with frame in the full Rococo taste is one of the rarest of American furniture forms. The label of John Elliott on this example refers to the retailer, not the maker.

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