All Decorative and Craft Objects

Individual works whose primary material is woven or worked textile, fired clay, worked glass, or worked metal: carpets, tapestries, ceramic vessels, art glass and metalwork or jeweled objects recognized as significant individual works, the umbrella craft-object genre one level above the fiber-versus-ceramic/glass/metal medium split the American Craft Council and Getty AAT object-genre facets also draw within it. Belongs here: carpets, tapestries, embroidered and printed textile works, ceramic vessels, art glass objects, and metalwork or jeweled regalia recognized as significant individual objects. Does not belong here: paintings, sculptures in stone or wood, and architectural or built works, which are grouped under the other work subcategories.