Kazak rug

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This rug is a handsome and wholly appropriate example of the type of scatter rug used in late-nineteenth century American homes. It is in use as a hearth rug in the 1884 stairhall by McKim, Mead, and White in the American Wing.

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