Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,137 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,605 of them are available online. There are 2,180 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Jyoti Bhatt

Haryana Women Making “Sanjhi” at Craft Village New Delhi

Martin Munkacsi

Fashion photograph

Side-view of a tilted, light-teal, stout glazed bowl, featuring green-blue floral motifs on the exterior, and a faded floral pattern on the interior, along with a narrow foot.

Unknown Maker, Korean

Bowl, Koryo

Side-view of an arched four-legged dragon with a lean body, open mouth, horned head, scaly back and a thin tail. The paint has worn into patches of browns and reds.

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Dragon, Northern Wei Dynasty

White octagonal tile with relief of intricate, flowing dark and light blue floral patterning overlaid with a stippled form of a gazelle at its center and bordered in blue.

Unknown Maker, Persian

Wall Tile with Gazelle, (Ilkhanid Period, 1256-1353)

Eugène Delacroix

Femmes d'Alger (Women from Algiers)

Side view of the tan bowl, showing that part of the bowl shaped as the tail of a fish extends further outwards than the rest of the bowl. It is slightly tilted.

Unknown Maker, Egyptian

Cosmetic Dish, New Kingdom

Allison Kyner

Sweeter Beauty

Unknown Maker, American

Portrait of Isabel Homer Pegram as a young girl

Unknown Maker, American

Portrait of Isabel Homer Pegram (1843-1892)

Bronze urn with leave-like handles that extend across its body. Below, a group of winged babies pull back a goat. Detailed carved lines surround the body and handles.

Unknown Maker, French

Classical Vase Wallpaper

Brown-toned landscape painting with a large pillared archway in front of a fenced lawn containing plants and several sitting and standing figures sprawled throughout, all against a blue background.

Unknown Maker, French

Gardens of the Palais Royal (Jardin du Palais Royal) Wallpaper

Weathered, dark blue wallpaper with repeating, pillared railing that circularly surrounds roosters standing on top and around a circular basket, and a yellow stone “housed” well below it.

Unknown Maker, French

Landscapes Enclosed in Ovals Wallpaper

Weathered, dark-brown rectangular painting of a decorative vase containing red flowers and large leaves, between two mythological winged figures, on a turquoise table with etched winged babies and gold embellishments.

Joseph-Laurent Malaine

Vase of Flowers Wallpaper

Weathered, long rectangular white panel with symmetrical accents above a small three-legged table, holding a blue and orange horizontally striped container, on top of a patterned black and red box.

Etienne de Lavallée

Design for a Wallpaper Panel

Large and extravagant arrangement of pink and blue flowers with foliage spilling out of a gold and teal-accented vase set on a gold-trimmed marble pedestal, set against a muted backdrop.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper with Bouquet of Flowers

Multiple incomplete designs of borders with pink and purple flowers, yellow scroll details, and blue ribbon between graphite guidelines.

Unknown Maker, French

Designs for Wallpaper Borders

A brown-green patinated metal bowl with decorative engravings on its onion-shaped body, sitting on a three-legged stand. Metal-cast winged horses dance along the rim of the bowl’s domed lid.

Unknown Maker, Campanian

Bowl (Dinos)

Gray metal sculpture with a green patina of a crowned nude woman standing on a circular pedestal, one arm down, grasping an object, and the other curled towards her shoulder.

Unknown Maker, Greek

Aphrodite, Hellenistic

Frank Gallo

Running Girl