Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,084 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,789 of them are available online. There are 2,338 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Unknown Maker, Italian

Micromosaic Earring

Unknown Maker, Italian

Ring

Unknown Maker, Italian

Ring

Unknown Maker, Italian

Micromosaic Brooch and Earrings

Unknown Maker, French

Ring

Unknown Maker, Italian

Micromosaic Earring

Unknown Maker, Italian

Micromosaic Brooch

Adolphe Braun

Zermatt-Schwarzsee Region: Gorner and Breithorn Glacier

Front of a blue sculpture of a mummy-like figure with hands laid on its chest, with black detailing and hieroglyphic writing trailing down the length of its body laid horizontally.

Unknown Maker, Egyptian

Shabti, 26th Dynasty

Aged, cream wallpaper with repeating motifs of butterflies, diamond bordered, circular landscapes, and two young children, one on a pedestal and the other standing, surrounded by instruments and plants.

Ferrouillat et Cie

Cupid Wallpaper

Unknown Maker, American

I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance Sojourner Truth

Segment of vintage wallpaper featuring a pattern of romantic vignettes of figures. They are set in pastoral scenes framed by blue and pink garlands set against a mottled, terracotta canvas.

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

Arabesques with Cupids Wallpaper

Weathered print of red and white flower garlands surrounding a lined center pillar which holds a circular pendant above. Instruments, flowers, and draping fabric are at the object’s base.

Unknown Maker, French

Arabesques and Flower Wallpaper

Repeating decorative print of white outlined buildings and trees against a white-dotted light blue background. Black and blue floral motifs sit overtop the dotted background and surround the outlined buildings.

Ferrouillat et Cie

Garlands of Flowers Wallpaper

Blue, aged wallpaper with repeating white birds on top of pink flowers, a standing jester, and colorful flower bouquets in elaborate free-standing vases. Winding flower garlands surround the empty space

Jacquemart et Bénard

Wallpaper

Panel of vintage wallpaper featuring a floral pattern of scattered pink flowers, green foliage, and interspersed butterflies throughout; on a stained blue background.

Unknown Maker, French

Flowers and butterflies

Vintage pattern featuring clusters of pink three-petaled flowers arranged in a diagonal grid on a mosaic-like teal backdrop.

Simon

Wallpaper

Painting of one three-legged vase between two round vases which are placed in the archways of an architectural backdrop. The vases and archways are bronze with white patterning against a blue background placed in the archways of an architectural backdrop.

Simon

Wallpaper Dado Arcades and Vases

Pastoral scene of a winged cherub playing in a patch of lush greenery and blooms, contrasting with the rich blue surrounding background.

Dufour et Leroy

Little Allegories Wallpaper

Three, bronze flower bordered cream panels with bronze reliefs of a woman wrapping a leaf garland around a lamb and two repeating motifs of a cane and leaf basket.

Jacquemart et Bénard

Wallpaper Dado