Brooch

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This heart-shaped brooch, which secures William Duguid’s ruffled shirt in a portrait (2010.105) by Prince Demah Barnes, descended in the family of the sitter. Brooches of this type were popular accessories in eighteenth-century England and America and were customarily set with deep red garnets, a gemstone associated with love.

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