Decorative Arts

Mint Museum Uptown

Perhaps more than any other art form, decorative arts have the remarkable power to connect with us almost instantaneously. You may not own a 17th-century Chinese teapot or a sideboard once owned by a North Carolina plantation owner, but you can view artifacts like those in the museum, and quickly associate them with objects of similar type or function in our own households. Perhaps the museum objects will even remind us of special occasions or daily routines in which our own possessions were utilized and enjoyed.