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Sharing artworks from Brooklyn Museum's Decorative Arts department. Not associated with the Brooklyn Museum. Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 7m

Pair of Spurs www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

A pair of silver spurs said to have been copied from an old pair now in the Museo Nacional in Mexico which belonged to Mr. Algara's family. There is no definite proof of this, however. They were made by William Spratling. They are engraved and decorated with relief carvings of dogs along the edges. Each rowel has twelve points and there is a silver chain in back of each spur.

Condition: good

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 4h

Vase www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Vase

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 4h

Lamp Shade www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Lamp Shade

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 8h

Lowestoft Bowl with Masonic Decoration www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Lowestoft Bowl with Masonic Decoration

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 21h

St. Mark Figure www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

St. Mark Figure

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Child's Double Relish Bowl www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Child's Double Relish Bowl

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Buffet Plate, Heaven Pattern www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

"Heaven" pattern. Circular plate with wide rim in white porcelain with vitreous glaze and transfer-printed decorations. Rim is decorated with irregular bands of blue, which in places spills onto plate. Three comic cherubs in pink outline fly across top of plate.

CONDITION: Undamaged.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Plate from a Twelve Piece Tea Service www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Plate from a Twelve Piece Tea Service

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Child's Chair www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Upholstered in leather. French provincial style. Rounded barrel back with arms sloping in continuous downward movement from back and terminating in boldly articulated knuckles upholstered over on leather. Has checkered woven seat and back, red and green interwoven cotton strapping. Back and sides stitched; threads exposed. Drop-in seat cushion also upholstered in leather; with buttons. Front seat rail of wood; slightly bowed. Front legs square in section; outsides slightly curved; inner sides undulated with widest point at juncture of flat, shaped front stretcher. Side and rear stretchers plain; rectangular. Each chair leg has a metal caster.

CONDITION - Good, right rear leg replacement; plastic wood added; wood considerably worm eaten; upholstery good.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Serving Dish www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Serving dish, silver-plate on nickel silver (white metal). Circular dish with deep bouge; flat rim with plain applied band. Edge of rim articulated in eight sections alternating serpentine scallops and flat, slightly rounded sections. Bouge and rim showing unplanished hammer marks in the arts-and-crafts manner.

CONDITION: Much wear and surface scratches, otherwise fine.

BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bell Bowl www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Bell Bowl

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Vase www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Hard paste porcelain, white glaze, long cylindrical neck, flaring lip, short bulbous body.

CONDITION: Good.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Vase www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Opalescent or "Favrile" glass vase, pyriform shape with flaring lip and footed base in silvery green-blue iridescence on a mottled yellow ground with scalloped blue, brown and purple bands.

CONDITION: Broken and repaired; the break is about a half inch from the foot and continues all around the piece. Another crack goes up to the side and encircles the shoulder and neck. (lab report 4/4/97)

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Dish www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Highly polished round pewter plate with wide rim that curves upward at edge. Incised line around rim, about 1/4" from edge, and around center.

CONDITION: Poor; shows heavy use with deep scratches and pitting all over; rim has cracks that have been mended; rim is bent in several places; bottom of plate dented / misshapen such that plate does not sit level.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Satyr, Shape 1440 www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Satyr, Shape 1440

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Candle Holder, One of Pair www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Candle holder, chromed metal and colorless glass; one of a pair. Flat rectangular metal base with three vertical stems; each stem consists of two squared metal rods aligned from front to back; in between the rods and running across the width of the object are six stacked glass cylinder rods that slide from side to side; on top of each stem is a flat metal square supporting a candle cup with flaring rim.

Condition: Good; some spots and light scratches on metal surfaces, small chips at ends of glass rods, crack in middle candle cup.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Watch-case Design www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Watch-case Design

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lambeth Delft Charger www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Lambeth Delft Charger

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Platter www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Oval form, off-white body with overall black glaze to front decorated with applied, raised abbreviated facial features. Outer rim of platter with eleven raised buttons at bottom and six at upper proper right separated by raised zigzag design along border.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sphinx-Shaped Doorstop www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Sphinx doorstop, sewer pipe clay. The reclining sphinx is on a pedestal base and is a loose interperatation of the well-known Sphinx of Egypt. About three-quarters of the object was painted in a dark maroon color.

Condition: Good overall condition. Minor loss to the item around the nose and hair. Firing cracks to the base.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Child's Chair www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Doll's or Child's Side Chair: wood, plywood, brass tacks. Two turned front legs with rings in center and near juncture with seat rail are joined by a turned, double-ringed stretcher above midpoint and by a plain front seat rail. Two plain stretchers on each side and one plain stretcher connecting rear legs. Rear stiles form rear legs then cant backward to support back; connected at top by arched crest rail. Back and seat formed by continuous piece of three-ply plywood with shaped edges at back, connected to frame by six brass tacks at front seat rail, six brass tacks at crest rail and two brass tacks at each rear stile near where rear seat rail would be. Seat pierced with star in circle in rectangle; back pierced with the word "PET' below pierced crest and above "Y" under arc.

Condition: Some joints loose. Plywood splintered at mid-section of proper right edge of seat. Stain on finish of seat. Some splintering around pierced holes on underside, especially at seat and near central hole near crest. Oxidation to brass tacks. General wear.

BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Entree Dish, One of Pair www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Entree Dish, One of Pair

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Plate www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Plate

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Pitcher www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Gray saltglazed stoneware pitcher, oval body, cylindrical neck, loop handle, leaf and flower decoration in blue.

CONDITION: Good.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Encaged Marble Necklace www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

A circular necklace formed from a curved wire neck piece, open at the front, which hooks at each end into a horizontal patinated wire coil. The coil encases a mobile, yellow stone sphere.
copyright transferred to Brooklyn Museum by Charles L. Russell

BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Augustus Graham Medal www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Circular medal. Obverse: 3/4 bust of man facing right, surrounded by text "AUGUSTUS GRAHAM." Reverse: branches of laurel framing (inscribed) blank, text around edge "BROOKLYN INSTITUTE / INCORPORATED NOV. 20 1824."

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Covered Dish, Poppytrail Line, Freeform Shape, California Aztec Pattern www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Glazed earthenware, white with gray flecks, thick-walled covered dish (a) and lid (b). Dish is a biomorphic, oval shape with one end pulled to a point and a molded rectangular handle with oval cut-out attached at rim on long side. Transfer-printed decorative band along inside edge opposite handle consisting of dark gray ribbon pattern superimposed on light gray band of elongated oval shapes. Conforming flat lid has two molded indented finger grips in center and same decorative band along side. When lid is turned so that the decoration is at top, lid resembles an anthropomorphized head.

Condition: Very good.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pitcher www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Pitcher

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sugar Bowl www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Sugar Bowl

BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Steelite #5, Lamp www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Table lamp, "Steelite #5". Steel, fiberglass, wood, rubber, thread. Welded steel base of trapezoidal form raised on four rounded black rubber feet; on top of base, round black rubber socket with oblong clear light bulb at center; flanking light bulb are two tall metal rods attached near top by horizontal metal rod inside wooden tube, from which is suspended a black mesh shade of trapezoidal shape joined by thread, wire rods, and tiny black rubber washers; black industrial electrical cord attached to underside at base.

CONDITION - Excellent.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pair of Spurs www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Pair of Spurs

BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wine Glass www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Wine glass, molded etched colorless glass; U-shaped bowl, stepped rectangular stem, low pyramidal seamed rectangular base etched on underside in two repeats of shooting star motif. Etched decoration on bowl consists of motif repeated three times: ridged six-pointed star enclosed by four graduated star outlines contained within four concentric circles; shooting star motif with two stars flanking tail moves from top left to bottom right of each circle.

CONDITION: Very good.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pitcher www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

"American Modern--Sea Foam" pattern. Earthenware pitcher, blue-green body, vitreous glaze. Elongated and flattened pear shape, sides of top opening are folded over to form sweeping spout; thick, ear-shaped strap handle.

CONDITION: Excellent.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Highboy (High Chest of Drawers) www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Highboy (High Chest of Drawers)

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Watch-case Design www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Watch-case Design

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pyramid Armchair www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Pyramid Armchair

BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dish, with Unidentified "Love" Touch www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Highly polished round pewter plate with wide rim that curves upward at edge. Incised line around center.

CONDITION: Good; scratches and pitting, especially in center; dark spots of discoloration around rim; few dings in center.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Lorelei" Vase www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

"Lorelei" Vase

BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Theater Marquee Alphabet Letter "S" www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Theater Marquee Alphabet Letter "S"

BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Fish Decoy, Trout www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Fish Decoy, Trout

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Creamer www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Creamer

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Clamp Table www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

"Clamp Table" with four metal legs and square tabletop of plywood, MDF, paralam, and acrylic strips. Silver-colored, hollow, brushed metal rectangular legs with metal and rubber disk feet; legs connected near top by flat rectangular stretcher across sides and upright rectangular stretcher across front and back. Set into front and back stretchers is thick, square tabletop which is narrower than the width between legs; a large bolt is screwed through top of each leg and presses against the side of tabletop (as if "clamping" it together). Tabletop consists of uniform rectangular bands that run length of table, between a thin metal plate at each side; each band composed of strips of, from one side to the other: plywood, blue plastic, orange plastic, frosted colorless plastic, white plastic, multicolored plastic, plywood, colorless plastic, a different type of plywood. Surface of table slightly uneven, as if strips are not properly aligned.

CONDITION: Good.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Large Circular Plate www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Large Circular Plate

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Plate www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Plate

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Porringer www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Pewter porringer; squat, bulging round bowl with flared lip. Flat trefoil shaped handle soldered onto side of bowl, decorated with openwork (cut-outs in shape of hearts and crescent).

CONDITION: Good; tarnished, a few pit marks and light scratches on interior and exterior of bowl.

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Plate "The City of Brooklyn- Brooklyn Waterfront below Brooklyn Bridge" www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Plate "The City of Brooklyn- Brooklyn Waterfront below Brooklyn Bridge"

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Snuff Box www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Snuff Box

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kettle, Model 9091 FM www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Kettle, Model 9091 FM

BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Panel with design of Flowering Plant in Vase, No. 30 www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Panel with design of Flowering Plant in Vase, No. 30

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BM: Decorative Arts (Bot) @bmdecorativearts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Salesman's Sample of a Parlor Cabinet/Bed www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…

Salesman's sample for convertible bed in form of a parlor cabinet; walnut, other woods, silvered glass. Upright rectangular case with fake slant-topped cabinet below; scrolling pediment at top of case with lost finial in center; stepped cornice around top edge; paneled sides. Front of cabinet has two arched mirrored windows in top section with molded strip in between; there appears to be a lost piece at the top of this strip which probably served as a handle for opening the bed; scrolling brackets in each top corner of front section. Hinged slanted top opens to empty space down front of unit (perhaps for storing bed linens). Bottom section of case with arched panels. Entire front of cabinet pulls down into a bed: the brackets fold down to form legs at the foot of the bed and support a rectangular box bed frame; removable box spring formed by joined slats of bent wood and springs; headboard across open back of cabinet with scrolled top edge.

Condition: Good; some lost pieces including finial at top of cabinet, handle device, and slats in box spring; large crack in proper left lower front panel; scuffs in wood and losses in silver of mirrored glass.

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