Tumbler

Bakewell, Page & Bakewell

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This was one of probably three tumblers embellished with sulphide portraits (here of Andrew Jackson) presented to the marquis de Lafayette in 1825 by fellow Frenchman and Pittsburgh resident Felix Brunot. The engraved boughs with leaves and flowers frame Masonic symbols on one side and Lafayette’s interlaced initials on the other.

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