Decorative Arts Collection

The Decorative Arts collection encompasses furniture, ceramics, glass, metals, and folk art objects. Its emphasis is on Louisiana-related artifacts from 1790 to 1890. The museum looks to expand its 20th-century collections as well as those artifacts related to under-represented groups in Louisiana history.

Decorative Arts Collection

Marble-top parlor table. William McCracken, c. 1860. Marble, rosewood. Louisiana State Museum 1982.001.35.

Furniture

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Cup. Christopf Christian Küchler for Hyde & Goodrich, New Orleans, 1853–1858. Silver. Gift of the Friends of the Cabildo, Louisiana State Museum 1980.066.

Silver

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Teapot with incised decoration, 1906. Newcomb Pottery. Louisiana State Museum 1975.001.51 a-b.

Newcomb Pottery

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Pots de crème set used on a Louisiana plantation. French, ca. 1820. Porcelain. Gift of the Friends of the Cabildo, Louisiana State Museum 1983.1.2.

Porecelain

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Collections of the Louisiana State Museum

Madame John’s Legacy, William Woodward, ca. 1910, oil on canvas, Louisiana State Museum 12231

Visual Arts Collection

King Oliver's band playing on the sidewalk, Walter C. Allen, 1921. Gift of the New Orleans Jazz Club. Louisiana State Museum 1978.118(B).00665.

Jazz Collection

This woolen coat was worn by U.S. Army Lt. Col. William Sutherland Hamilton who saw action in the Great Lakes early in the War of 1812, and possibly in skirmishes near New Orleans in 1815. Hamilton later became a prominent planter and politician in West Feliciana Parish, serving in the Louisiana Legislature and running unsuccessfully for governor in 1830. (Louisiana State Museum)

Costumes & Textiles Collection

Airplane Exhibit at Wedell-Williams Aviation and Cypress Sawmill Museum

Science & Technology Collection

Little Miss Muffet mug, Newcomb Pottery, 1928. Louisiana State Museum 2007.104

Decorative Arts Collection

Louisiana Colonial Documents

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