Collections: Decorative Arts

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Soul in Bondage

In this brooding Symbolist subject titled Soul in Bondage, the American expatriate Elihu Vedder brought together his key interests in ideali...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Amulet of Rabbit

    Living persons wore only one or a few amulets at a time, but mummies usually bear many amulets. The Ma’at amulet (no. 2) and heart sca...

     

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    Rocking ChairTable"Cinderella" Table (edition of 20)Side ChairSide ChairSide ChairCup and SaucerTeapot from Raymor Modern Stoneware line"Rocking Beauty" Hobby HorseJugSide Chair"Mandarin" Armchair Prototype"Numero Uno" ArmchairSalesmans Sample of Kensington TilesSalesmans Sample of Kensington TilesFolding Chair (Model S88)
     
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