Dinner Plate

Dihl et Guérhard

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This now-partial dinner service originally contained more than 125 pieces, including dinner and soup plates, sauceboats, tureens, platters, serving dishes, and butter dishes on stands. Porcelain dinner services made in Europe and Asia for the American market typically included motifs that resonated with consumers in the United States.

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