Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,435 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,129 of them are available online. There are 1,863 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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A side view of a clear glass jar featuring a latch on lid tightly packed with sunflower seeds.

Ai Weiwei 艾未未

Kui Hua Zi (Sun Flower Seeds)

Glossy ceramic vessel with handles and a centered, blue and white panel of a village scene framed by brown glaze. A tan sheet of ceramic is attached to the back.

Grayson Perry

May My Ashes Blow Away on the Winds of Change

Diagonal front view of a rectangular gray ceramic sculpture featuring a row of horizontal loops threaded and protruding from the surface. The back features forms organized in a similar manner.

Paul Briggs

Crystal Stair (Poetry Series after Mother to Son--Langston Hughes)

Diagonal view of an abstract, gray, rectangular form. A row of horizontal knots are laced across sides of the front periphery. The backside is rounded featuring a row of forms.

Paul Briggs

Bridges (Poetry Series after The Hill We Climb--Amanda Gorman)

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Fox, Edo Period

Edward Mitchell Bannister

Portrait of Christiana Carteaux Bannister

A densely illustrated historic map depicting interconnected regions with mountains, lakes, towns, and intricate architectural details in muted earth tones and blues.

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Famous Places of the Kisokaidō at a Glance (木曽街道名所一覧 Kisokaidō meisho ichiran), Edo Period

William Morris

Immediacy of Distance

Round, blue glazed vessel with dark thin swirling patterns on body. Two thin handles flare upward. Interior and four feet are brown, unglazed clay.

Unknown Maker, Chinese

Incense Burner, Ming

Unknown Maker, Japanese

Censer

Bronze-colored sculptural object with incised design. Top half is teardrop shaped with a crescent moon shape on top. Cylindrical vessel on bottom.

Unknown Maker, Pakistani

Incense Burner

A dark brown teapot in the shape of a figure wearing a hat.

Unknown Maker, American

Snuff-Taker Toby Teapot

A box in the shape of a shell with mottled dark brown pattern. Silver band around bottom edge.

John Wakefield

Snuffbox

Silver sculpture in the shape of a palm tree, sitting inside an urn.

Andreas Blytt

Incense Burner

Sculpture of a caricatured Chinese figure wearing a floral garment and black hat. The figure holds a small animal on their lap.

Johann Friedrich Eberlein

Incense Burner in the Form of a Chinese Man

Unknown Maker, German

Incense Burner

A green sculpted tile of a figure with long hair and beard, holding a stick-like object.

Unknown Maker, German

"Wildman" Stove Tile

A figure dressed in historical clothing, holding a box in one hand and consuming something from the other hand.

Johann Joachim Kändler

Snuff Taker

A sculpture in the shape of a small white house, covered in different colored flowers.

Unknown Maker, English

Pastile Burner in the Form of a Cottage

Unknown Maker, Persian

Hookah Base, Safavid