Coverlet, Lilies of France pattern with Eagle and Liberty borders

Peter Sutphen van Doren

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Undyed cotton and dark blue wool are woven together to form this coverlet. The field has repeating floral medallions, and the border has emblematic eagles in tassel-and-swag borders, with LIBERTY woven forward and in reverse above each of their heads. The coverlet is woven in two panels and seamed at the center. It is unfringed.

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