Fig. 1. View of the New York Alcove in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1934, showing a grisaille painted kast, two eighteenth-century rush-seated "York" chairs stamped by their maker; Michael Smith, and one of a pair of candlesticks made about 1700-1710 by the New York silversmith Cornelius Kierstede (1675-1757). Metropolitan Museum of Art photograph.