Vase

Chelsea Keramic Art Works

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This striking red vase from the Chelsea Keramic Art Works demonstrates the firm’s highly experimental "sang de boeuf" or "oxblood" glaze. The mottled red and black glaze has a slight iridescence and pronounced textured surface, similar to that of an orange peel. Such vibrant red glazes, often found on simple forms, were inspired by Asian porcelains, widely accessible to an American market for the first time in the late nineteenth century.

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