Coverlet, Four Snowballs pattern with Pine-tree border

Coverlet, Four Snowballs pattern with Pine-tree border

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This double cloth coverlet is woven in two panels from undyed cotton and dark blue, light blue, and salmon-colored wool. It is seamed at the center and hemmed at the top. The bottom edge is finished with a natural fringe.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Coverlet, Four Snowballs pattern with Pine-tree borderCoverlet, Four Snowballs pattern with Pine-tree borderCoverlet, Four Snowballs pattern with Pine-tree borderCoverlet, Four Snowballs pattern with Pine-tree borderCoverlet, Four Snowballs pattern with Pine-tree border

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.