Covered bowl

Covered bowl

David Haring

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This double-walled covered bowl features decorative piercing on its outer wall. It may reference more refined pierced creamware examples by the Leeds Pottery in England. This piece, one of the largest known in the technique, would have been extremely difficult to make.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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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.