Pl. XI. Wall ties, colonial New York State, c. 1726 or 1738. Cast iron; length 16, width 5 inches. These decorative wall ties were once part of the house of Wyntie and Hendrick Briese at East Greenbush in Rensselaer County, built in either 1726 or 1738 and demolished c. 1939. Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of William McMillen in memory of Loring McMillen.