All Ornaments
Amelia Earhart Ornament
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This hand-sewn ornament celebrates the iconic aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Though their paths never crossed, Earhart's charisma, courage, and persistence would have surely wowed trailblazing Isabella Stewart Gardner.
Ornaments of other prominent figures in women's history are also available. Complete your collection of history-inspired ornaments with Amelia Earhart!
Angel Gabriel Ornament
$16.95
For 25 years St. Nicolas has worked with a small Christian charity in Thailand that helps disadvantaged rural women find work in their community, rather than being forced to leave home to work in a factory. Today, some 200 skilled women work at home sewing our decorations, and many of them have been doing so for more than 10 years. All the historical figure decorations are made in this way as well as numerous other designs. The Indian Christmas decorations are made using the traditional method of zardozi embroidery. Zari (meaning gold) embroidery originated in Persia and reached India in the 12th century. It is a highly skilled embroidery technique that traditionally used gold wires and jewels to embellish courtly robes. Zardozi work is a rare and respected craft, the skills of which are handed down from generation to generation.
Ballerina in Blue Tutu Ornament
$16.95
As evidenced by the dancing figures in Mrs. Gardner's collection (seen in works by Edgar Degas, Louis Kronberg, and John Singer Sargent to name but a few), Mrs. Gardner was very taken with dancing of all kinds.
Beautiful in blue en pointe, this ornament is sure to remind you of some of the dancers you may have enjoyed in the Palace!
Ornaments of other subjects and dancers featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with this ballerina!
Ballerina in Gold Tutu Ornament
$16.95
As evidenced by the dancing figures in Mrs. Gardner's collection (seen in works by Edgar Degas, Louis Kronberg, and John Singer Sargent to name but a few), Mrs. Gardner was very taken with dancing of all kinds.
Beautiful in gold en pointe, this ornament is sure to remind you of some of the dancers you may have enjoyed in the Palace!
Ornaments of other subjects and dancers featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with this ballerina!
Bat Ornament
$27.00
This Bat Ornament is a lithographed print of an original hand cut silhouette mounted on old 18th or 19th century papers. The lithographed print silhouette is then put behind beveled glass to prevent fading. The ornament is finished with hand-applied blackened molding and a piece of black ribbon.
Ornament measures 3 x 3 inches
Beethoven Ornament
$16.95
Mrs. Gardner espoused a deep love for music and performance. The Museum keeps this passion for music alive in the present with concerts and music-themed events.
To that end, we present this ornament of the German composer and pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven, complete with his era-specific coattails. In his hand, he clutches a musical score.
Ornaments of other subjects and musicians featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Beethoven!
Benjamin Franklin Ornament
$16.95
The Museum's Blue Room contains a copy of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin from 1900. The book is an unfinished record of the Franklin's life from 1771 to 1790. Upstairs, the Museum's Short Gallery holds a mezzotint of Benjamin Franklin from the late 18th century, while the Long Gallery's Presidents and Statesmen Case holds a letter to William Strahan written by Benjamin Franklin.
This ornament of Benjamin Franklin features the statesman and inventor with his famous kite, which he used to make a lightening rod, dressed in his finery.
Ornaments of other historical subjects featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Benjamin Franklin!
Blue Suffragist Ornament
$16.95
Isabella Stewart Gardner was an ardent supporter of women’s educational and social advancement during her lifetime. Throughout her life, she kept in close company with many female trailblazers.
This ornament of an American Suffragist wearing a Votes for Women banner over her red, white, and blue regalia is a perfect addition to your Christmas tree this holiday season.
Ornaments of other historical subjects featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with this American Suffragist!
Botticelli's Venus Ornament
$16.95
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is home to three of Sandro Botticelli's finest works: The Tragedy of Lucretia, The Nativity, and Virgin and Child with an Angel.
This ornament features the figure of the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown. She is instantly recognizable from Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, currently on display in the Uffizi Gallery in Italy.
Ornaments of other subjects featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Botticelli's Venus!
Burgundy Brocade Cross Ornament
$16.95
This bejeweled cross will be an eye-catching addition to your Christmas tree! The ornament's intricate details are sure to remind you of the iconography and symbolism seen throughout Mrs. Gardner's collection.
4.5 inches long
Captain Wentworth Ornament
$16.95
The perfect ornament for Persuasion fans!
Fellow Persuasion character and Captain Wentworth's love interest, Anne Elliot also available.
Caravaggio Ornament
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Many artists represented within Mrs. Gardner's collection were influenced by the works of the Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
This hand-embroidered ornament of the famous Caravaggio shows him with a palate in one hand, and a sword in the other, representative of his tumultuous life.
Ornaments of other subjects and artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Caravaggio!
Cat Familiar Ornament
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This Halloween Cat Familiar Ornament is a lithographed print of an original hand cut silhouette mounted on old 18th or 19th century papers. The lithographed print silhouette is then put behind beveled glass to prevent fading. The ornament is finished with hand-applied blackened molding and a piece of black ribbon.
Ornament measures 2 x 3 inches
Cello Ornament
$16.95
Complete with silver strings our fantastic Cello decoration will delight music lover!
Ornaments of other subjects and artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with the Cello Ornament!
Cezanne Ornament
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Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work radically changed the landscape of art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although the Museum does not house any of Cézanne's works, we believe Mrs. Gardner would have appreciated his radical approach to the world of art.
Out of the Museum galleries and into your home, this ornament is sure to make your Christmas tree a masterpiece!
Ornaments of other artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of artists with our handsome Michelangelo!
Copper Cottonwood Leaf Ornament
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This ornament contains a real Cottonwood leaf that has been carefully selected, sized and preserved. The preserved leaf is then dipped in iridescent copper lacquer and transformed from nature into treasure.
Measures 3.5 x 3.5 inches
*Does not include ribbon
Copper Ginkgo Leaf Ornament
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This ornament contains a real Ginkgo leaf that has been carefully selected, sized and preserved. The preserved leaf is then dipped in iridescent copper lacquer and transformed from nature into treasure.
Measures approximately 3 x .5 inches
*Does not include ribbon
Copper Oak Leaf Ornament
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This ornament contains a real Oak tree leaf that has been carefully selected, sized and preserved. The preserved leaf is then dipped in iridescent copper lacquer and transformed from nature into treasure.
Measures approximately 2 x 2.5 inches
*Does not include ribbon
Copper Redwood Sprig Ornament
$15.95
This ornament contains a real Redwood sprig that has been carefully selected, sized and preserved. The preserved sprig is then dipped in iridescent copper and transformed from nature into treasure.
Measures approximately 3.5 inches in length
*Does not include ribbon
Copper Sugar Maple Leaf
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This ornament contains a real leaf that has been carefully selected, sized and preserved. Dipped in precious metals and transformed from nature into treasure.
*Does not include ribbon
Approx. 3 x 3.5 inches
Sugar Maple leaf with copper lacquer
Dante Alighieri Ornament
$16.95
Isabella Stewart Gardner was fascinated by the works of Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Her collection contains his work, including a 15th century copy of his Divine Comedy, as well as records pertaining to the Dante Society of Cambridge, MA. The Dante Society gifted Mrs. Gardner a plaster copy of Dante's death mask as a gift in 1885.
This dazzling ornament of the world renowned poet shows Dante holding one of his manuscripts.
Ornaments of other subjects and writers featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Dante!
Edgar Allen Poe Ornament
$16.95
Within the many books held in Museum's Blue Room–where Isabella Stewart Gardner welcomed concert goers and held ladies' receptions–are three titles by Edgar Allen Poe: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque, Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque: Volume I, and Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque: Volume II.
This ornament of author Edgar Allen Poe features Poe holding a copy of The Raven–one of his most well-known works–while the titular raven perches on his shoulder.
Ornaments of other literary figures featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Edgar Allen Poe!
El Jaleo Ornament
$16.95
During his travels in Spain in 1879, John Singer Sargent was mulling over a major work of art in which he could express his love of Gypsy music, dance, and picturesque costumes. On his return to Paris he set to work on a wide horizontal picture whose proportions simulated the shallow stage space of popular musical establishments. He named the painting El Jaleo to suggest the name of a dance, the jaleo de jerez, while counting on the broader meaning jaleo, which means ruckus or hubbub.
The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1882 with the more explicit title El Jaleo: Danse des gitanes (Dance of the Gypsies). The painting was purchased by American businessman and diplomat T. Jefferson Coolidge in 1882, and was given to Mrs. Gardner as a gift in 1914. Then, as now, El Jaleo resides in the Spanish Cloister of the Gardner Museum, just off the famous Courtyard.
This ornament captures the central figure of Sargent's work, the semi-veiled flamenco dancer, in fluid motion with her skirt in one hand while the other flourishes with the music. Have Sargent's El Jaleo dancer gracefully twirl her way onto your Christmas tree this holiday season!
Ornaments of other subjects and artists featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with the El Jaleo dancer!
Eleanor Roosevelt Ornament
$16.95
St. Nicolas specializes in bespoke handmade hanging decorations. For over 25 years, they worked with a small charity in Thailand that helps disadvantaged rural women find work in their community, rather than having to leave home. Today, some 200 skilled women work at home hand sewing the decorations and many have been doing so for more than ten years!
As their business grew, more innovative designs were needed, so they began working with a partner in India. The Indian-made ornaments use the traditional method of zardozi embroidery, an intricate sewing technique that was developed to embellish courtly robes with gold wires and jewels. Zardozi work is rare, but because of the skill that is needed to create the ornaments, it continues to be handed down from generation to generation.
Elizabeth Bennet Ornament
$16.95
Elizabeth Bennet—also known to friends and family as Eliza or Lizzy—is the protagonist of the 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
Ornaments of other characters from Jane Austen's novels—including Lizzy's love interest, Mr. Darcy—also available.
Ornaments of other subjects and literary figures featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Elizabeth Bennet!
Ernest Hemingway Ornament
$16.95
This ornament features American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Ernest Hemmingway with his pipes and a copy of his famous short story The Old Man and the Sea, written in 1951.
Ornaments of other prominent literary figures are also available. Complete your collection of history-inspired ornaments with Ernest Hemingway!
Fanfare Angel Ornament
$16.95
Mrs. Gardner espoused a deep love for music and performance. The Museum keeps this passion for music alive in the present with concerts and music-themed events.
Ornaments of other subjects and musicians featured in the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with the Fanfare Angel!
Frederick Douglass Ornament
$16.95
American social reformer, abolitionist, public speaker, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, escaping in 1838. After gaining his freedom, he became the national leader of the abolitionist movement.
This ornament of Frederick Douglass shows the man himself, holding his 1835 autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. He stands stoically, dressed in period-appropriate attire.
Ornaments of other subjects and historical figures associated with the Gardner Museum also available. Complete your collection of Gardner Museum-inspired ornaments with Frederick Douglass!
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