Vase

Willets Manufacturing Company

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The orchid blossoms on this luxurious vase, which was intended as an object for display, were painstakingly rendered with botanical accuracy in gilded enamels that required multiple firings in the kiln.

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