Matchless Pieces · 27,104 works
Furniture & Decorative Arts
Singular works of the great ateliers.
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Gundestrup Cauldron
Silver vessel of c. 150–1 BC with Celtic deities.✦
Cellini Salt Cellar
Benvenuto Cellini's gold saliera for François I, 1543.
Mamluk Baptistère de Saint Louis
Inlaid brass basin by Muhammad ibn al-Zayn, c. 1320–40.✦
Ming Blue-and-White Moon Flask
Yongle period porcelain painted in imported cobalt.
Lycurgus Cup
4th-century Roman dichroic glass that changes colour with light.
Stradivarius ‘Messiah’ Violin
Antonio Stradivari, 1716 — the best-preserved violin in existence.
Iznik Mosque Lamp
16th-century fritware lamp for the Süleymaniye Mosque.
Pazyryk Carpet
The oldest surviving knotted pile carpet, 5th century BC, found…
Bayeux Tapestry
Seventy-metre embroidery of the Norman Conquest of 1066.