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As objects for daily use, works of decorative art allow a close insight into cultures of the past. Among its holdings, the National Gallery has an extensive collection of European furniture, tapestries, and ceramics from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as well as medieval church vessels. In addition, the museum possesses a fine selection of eighteenth- century French furniture and a large group of Chinese porcelains, primarily from the Qing Dynasty of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Most of these objects were gifts of the Widener family of Philadelphia. (continue)
Chinese Porcelains French Renaissance Ceramics Italian Cabinet Galleries Italian Renaissance Ceramics Medieval Metalwork and Enamels Neoclassical Decorative Arts of the Late 1700s Production of French Decorative Arts in the 1700s Rococo Decorative Arts of the Mid-1700s
Art Noveau, 1890-1914
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