Editing Decorative arts (section)

{{Short description|Arts or crafts concerned with the design and manufacture of functional, beautiful objects}}
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[[File:Bowl with cover MET SF06 377ab img2 (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Le Nove porcelain]], [[Tureen#Écuelles and saucières|Bowl with cover]], 1765–70, painted with ruins, [[soft-paste porcelain]]]]
[[File:Germania occidentale, croce detta di lotario, 1000 ca, con base tardogotica (XV secolo) 01.jpg|thumb|right|The front side of the [[Cross of Lothair]] (''c.'' 1000), a classic example of "Ars Sacra"]]
[[File:Chinese - Wine Pot - Walters 44569 - Side (cropped).jpg|thumb|''Wine Pot'',  {{circa|18th century}}, China, [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_-_Wine_Pot_-_Walters_44569_-_Side_(cropped).jpg Walters Art Museum]]]
The '''decorative arts''' are arts or crafts whose aim is the [[design]] and manufacture of objects that are both [[Beauty|beautiful]] and functional. This includes most of the objects for the interiors of buildings, as well as [[interior design]], but typically excludes [[architecture]]. [[Ceramic art]], [[metalwork]], [[furniture]], [[jewellery]], [[fashion]], various forms of the [[textile arts]] and [[List of glassware|glassware]] are major groupings.

[[Applied arts]] largely overlap with the decorative arts, and in modern parlance they are both often placed under the umbrella category of [[design]]. The decorative arts are often categorized in distinction to the "[[fine arts]]", namely [[painting]], [[drawing]], [[photography]], and large-scale [[sculpture]], which generally produce objects solely for their [[aesthetics|aesthetic quality]] and capacity to stimulate the [[intellect]].