Chintz appliquéd quilt

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The quilt top, binding, and backing are made from white linen fabric. The top is decorated with chintz appliques and a chintz border. The central floral medallion and the four corner ovals are printed in shades of pink, red, brown, and blue-green. The chintz border is printed with roses on a vermicelli background. There are fine double shells quilted in the central area and parallel diagonal lines quilted in the border.

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