Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. Of these objects, 2,177 of them are on view in the museum now. 82,911 of them are available online. There are 919 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. They are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Chinese

The Four Accomplishments, 1800s

German

Textile fragment, 1750-1800

Enrique Chagoya

The Pastoral or Arcadian State, Illegal Alien's Guide to Greater America, 2006

Italian

Textile fragment, late 1500s

Chinese

Universal Mountain Censer, 100–200 CE

Flemish

St. Margaret and Dragon, late 1400s - early 1500s

Rina Banerjee

Dangerous World, Lava and Erasable Flower, Oil and Radiation Filled with Power..., 2010

American

Fashion plate from Godey's Lady's Book, December 1878

Ludwig Emil Grimm

Portrait of Godfried Scharpf, Leopold Stein, and Gerhardt Thomas, 1815

Japanese Meiji

Happi or Hanten (worker's jacket), late 1800s - early 1900s

English

textile fragments; textile fragment

Édouard Manet

La Queue Devant La Boucherie (Siège de Paris 1870-71), 1871

William Hogarth

The five orders of PERRIWIGS as they were worn at the late CORONATION measured Architectonically, 1761

Korean

Amitabha Triad, late 1600s - 1700s

Roman

poison bottle; bottle, 300s CE

Roman

Double Cosmetic Jar (Unguentarium), late 3rd century CE-4th century CE

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