The Collection at the BMA

Featured Works

The seated figure of a woman in unglazed hard-paste biscuit porcelain dressed in classical garb reading a book atop a footed lamp in the form of a canoe-shaped antique oil lamp, this painted with overglaze enamels in a greenish tone that simulates patinated copper (vert bronze), with decorative gilding

Reading Lamp (La Lectrice or L’Etude)

  • Royal Porcelain Manufactory Sèvres, Modelled by Simon-Louis Boizot, Gilt by André-Joseph Foinet
  • Hard-paste porcelain
The Madonna sits on a throne, holding the Christ Child in her arms. They are surrounded by saints on both sides.

Madonna and Christ Child with Angels and Saints Mary Magdalene, Francis, Dorothy and Anthony Abbot

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Sogdian hunter on horseback

Sogdian Hunter on Horseback, from a Tomb Figure Procession

Costume for Egungun Masquerade, Yoruba people, Oyo region, Nigeria, African, textiles, wood, metal

Costume for Egungun Masquerade

St. Elizabeth is shown carrying a ewer and a platter with grapes and bread to give food and drink to the poor.

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Ewer with lobed body, spiral decorated spout, handle, lotus-leaf cover.

Green-Glazed Melon-Shaped Lidded Pitcher with Makara-Spout, Handle and Leaf-Lid

Ewer with lobed cover and grooved knob, garuda spout, spiral handle with carved bo leaf and two applied rosettes.

Glazed Pitcher with Makara Spout, Curled Handle, Lotus Lid and Applied Chrysanthemum Motifs

John the Baptist pours water from a bowl onto Christ who stands in a stream. A Dominican nun kneels in the foreground below John and two angels look on in the background.

The Baptism of Christ

Tall slender figure of a male with a high headdress and a small figure of seated Buddha in center of headdress, hands held in a delicate pose (probably once holding a lotus stalk), hips slightly akimbo. Figure wears a skirt with a knotted belt in front. Eyes are picked out in silver.

Standing Avalokitesvara, Bodhisattva of Compassion with Buddha Amitabha in Hair

Head #01, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Fujicolor Crystal Archive print mounted to Plexiglas

Head #01

Interior scene with a middle-aged bearded man seated to the left with a hat in one hand and his green umbrella leaning against his arm. A Scottish terrier is at his side, to the right. A young woman is seated at right with her right arm resting on a table with red tablecloth. Her knitting is on the table and the ball of yarn is on the floor. A cabinet with dishes is on the wall between the couple. A door is at far right and a straw bonnet and plaid shawl hang from a peg to the left of the door.

Barking Up the Wrong Tree