The Met Store Winter Clearance Items You Won't Want To Miss

For art enthusiasts looking for the lowest possible prices on jewelry, home decor, apparel, and books, The Met Store's full selection of clearance and sale items offers a wide variety of options.

The clearance section of The Met Store is an excellent place to find gifts for anyone who supports The Metropolitan Museum of Art or could benefit from some aesthetic motivation in their daily lives.

Japanese Netsuke Hand-Painted Glass Ornament Set

This set of three hand-painted glass ornaments is inspired by three Japanese netsukes from the 19th century and is displayed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nearly a thousand netsuke, small, intricately carved toggles, are on display at the museum. These were traditionally used to attach pouches containing items like tobacco and medicine to a traditional Japanese kimono's obi or belt. Netsuke was made to be worn every day. They were usually carved from solid materials like ivory or wood and usually showed scenes from nature.

Cardinal Glass Ornament

Put this colorful glass cardinal on your Christmas tree this year, or keep it out and look at it all year. The Cardinals are shown in John Jay Audubon's (American, 1785–1851) The Birds of America, a series of beautiful aquatints between 1827 and 1838.

Greek Sphinx Tee

This cool shirt has a picture of a sphinx on it, a creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. From the Bronze Age onward, people in the eastern Mediterranean region drew different versions of mythical creatures. The Greeks drew the sphinx as a female with wings who stood guard over graves. This red, black, and blue-tinged Greek sculpture from around 530 B.C. was carved separately from the capital it stands on.

Louis C. Tiffany Peacock Feather Travel Jewelry Case

Louis Comfort Tiffany (American, 1848-1933) personified the Gilded Age's creative spirit. In the early 1890s, he invented a new technique for blending colours in glass while it was still molten, and he named the resulting luminous style "Favrile." The opalescent peacock feather motif from a famous Favrile glass vase from around 1900 on display in The Met's collection inspired the design of our travel jewelry case.

Venus Pearl Pendant Necklace

Venus Pearl Pendant is a stunning way to add some Baroque flair to your neckline. This white glass pearl and 18K gold-plated brass necklace is the perfect way to elevate a business casual ensemble for a night out on the town. You can count on this piece to last for many seasons. Indeed, it is fit for a goddess.

Chinese Dragons and Lotuses Square Silk Scarf

The classic color scheme on our scarf is an example of one of the most innovative changes in the history of ceramics around the world. In China in the 14th century, it became popular to paint cobalt blue pictures on white porcelain. After that, potters all over the world took up the style. The dragon-and-lotus pattern here reminds me of a painted porcelain dish from the early 1600s that was made in China during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and is kept at The Met.

Iranian Flora and Fauna Small Vase

The Met's large blue-glazed jar is decorated with swooping birds, leaping animals, and reaching foliage. Scholars have found similarities between this Iranian vessel's ornamentation and Silk Road-traded Chinese silk tapestries. The jar also has verses suggesting it held wine: "Air and earth raging, happy heart. Drink!" This remarkable object is now a modern vase.