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: Still Life, Gladiolas

Chaim Soutine’s passion for painting led him from a Lithuanian Jewish ghetto in modern Belarus to the art academies of Minsk and, ulti...

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: Cup

    This cup comes from the burial of a woman named Nesikhonsu. She was the daughter of one high priest of the god Amun-Re, the Wife of another,...

     

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    Plate, "Elizabeth Medeira/Her Very Own"VaseFlaskCup and SaucerSide ChairSide ChairSide Chair"Cinderella" Table (edition of 20)Sweetmeat DishIce PitcherCreamerSugar BowlCoffee MakerArmchairSalt ShakerStand
     
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    Recent Comments

    "This camera is made almost entirely out of bakelite plastic. Metal and glass cannot be used as a primary description. What kind of curation is this?"
    By Nicholas West

    "Mark is Laughlin 588, not 481. Size/dimensions and base molding closely match beakers by RB [Robert Bonynge] of Boston, Mass. Mark also known from a 5-6" saucer and a 9"-range basin. This "IW" is likely an early or mid-18thc Boston pewterer, not John Will of New York."
    By david kilroy

    "Thank you for your inquiry. This plate was hand-painted on a French blank by a Brooklyn artist, John Mackie Falconer who was born in Scotland and came to the United States in 1836. It was manufactured in France, and as you know, it was retailed by John Edwards. "
    By R. Ibrahim

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