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Translucent glass object which transitions to green around the base featuring an underwater scene with fish and aquatic plants. The gray backdrop glows white around the bottom, illuminating the piece.
Edward Hald, Vase. Gift of the Estate of William E. Brigham

Decorative Arts and Design Galleries

Translucent glass object which transitions to green around the base featuring an underwater scene with fish and aquatic plants. The gray backdrop glows white around the bottom, illuminating the piece.
Edward Hald, Vase. Gift of the Estate of William E. Brigham

Museum Galleries, Decorative Arts and Design

Introduction

Works of decorative arts and design are integrated into many galleries throughout the Museum, with concentrations presented in the Lucy Truman Aldrich Porcelain Gallery, featuring 18th-century porcelain figures and tableware; the Mrs. Alexis B. Hafken Farago Bridge Gallery, featuring Asian and European ceramics from the 17th to the 19th centuries; and the Happy White Pendleton Bridge, featuring European and American glass from the 16th to the 20th centuries.

Elizabeth Williams, David & Peggy Rockefeller Curator, Decorative Arts

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An earthy green sculptural vessel with rabbits and turtles leaping and circling around the rim. The body is lightly etched with flowing line drawings of rabbits in motion.

Kenneth Ferguson

Untitled (Hare Basket)
Ceramic bowl with a short pedestal base, jagged rim, and draped folds along the sides. The surface is glazed with muted gold and dry-brushed patches of white.

Colin Pearson

Untitled
Cylindrical beige vessel with a lightly weathered surface and an uneven rim featuring a prominent chip. Two irregular oval openings expose smooth, pale gray embedded fragments beneath the surface.

Peter Voulkos

Elephant Foot
Delicate white basket-like cup constructed of intersecting lattices forming an airy woven grid with narrow open slats and a dark gray edge around the opening.

Malene Müllertz

Untitled

Aaron Decker

Die! No! Bomb!
Rectangular ceramic sculpture with a pale, whitewashed surface flecked with rust colored specks, divided by a thin horizontal line above a rough, weathered red-brown base.

Michael Cleff

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A spherical vessel with a narrow opening, patterned with muted beige, gray, and cream patches intersected by faded gold bands that create an abstract geometric pattern.

James Richard (Rick) Dillingham

Untitled

Kaori Juzu 珠数 かおり

Deep Below Shadows Brooch
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