Flowers in Art
From Dutch Golden Age still lifes to Japanese woodblock botanicals, flowers have carried meaning far beyond decoration — vanity, devotion, mourning, and desire. Nearly fifteen thousand works across six museums trace how artists turned petals into language.
14,764 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download
The Magnolia Vase
Tiffany & Co., ca. 1893
Shoes
菊桐紋蒔絵提子|Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin|Edme François Bouillat père|Sèvres Manufactory, ca. 1776
Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille)
Vincennes Manufactory|Jean-Claude Duplessis, 1754
八橋図屏風 |Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)
Ogata Kōrin, after 1709
老梅図襖|Old Plum
Kano Sansetsu, 1646
Silk Kashan Carpet
청자 상감 국화 물가 풍경 무늬 합 고려|靑磁 象嵌菊花柳蘆水禽文 盒 高麗|Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus
Irises
Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Embroidered coverlet (Colcha)
Doña Rosa Solís y Menéndez, 1786
The Anhalt Medallion Carpet
Carmencita
William Merritt Chase, 1890
Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses
Paul Cézanne, ca. 1890
Lady Lilith
Dante Gabriel Rossetti|Henry Treffry Dunn, 1867
Tapestry Room from Croome Court
Joseph Rose|François Boucher|Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins|Maurice Jacques|Louis Tessier|John Mayhew|William Ince|Jacques Neilson|Jacques Germain Soufflot|Joseph Wilton|John Wildsmith|Thomas Blockley|Sefferin Alken|Peter Langlois|John Hobcraft|Ince and Mayhew|Robert Adam, 1763–71
Goa Stone and Gold Case
Vase
John Bennett, 1882
Wildflowers
Ellen Robbins, 1875
Wardrobe
Herter Brothers, 1875–1883
Quilt (or decorative throw), Crazy pattern
Tamar Horton Harris North, ca. 1877
Pitcher
American Pottery Manufacturing Company, 1833–50
Secretary
Martin Carlin|Sèvres Manufactory|French, ca. 1781–85
Suit
Ceramic Horn
Waistcoat
Anna Maria Garthwaite|Peter Lekeux, 1747
Footed Bowl and Plate
Cabinet on stand
Jan van Mekeren, ca. 1700–1710
Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises
Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants
Flower-Style Box with Drawers
Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design
Crown Milano Covered Ewer
Mount Washington Glass Company, ca. 1892–93
Embroidered Sampler
Barbara Landis, 1827
Plate
Heinrich Roth, 1793
Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole)
Jean-Claude Duplessis|Sèvres Manufactory|Charles Nicolas Dodin, 1757
Palampore
The 'Nigde' Carpet
Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms
Ewer (Brocca)
Medici Porcelain Manufactory, ca. 1575–87
Dish Depicting Two Birds among Flowering Plants
Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll
Tapestry with Dragons and Flowers
Nocturne
John La Farge, ca. 1885
A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)
Edgar Degas, 1865
[Flower Study, Rose of Sharon]
Adolphe Braun, ca. 1854
The Flower Girl
Charles Cromwell Ingham, 1846
Jacket