WordNet
n. a work of art of some artistic value; "this store sells only objets d'art"; "it is not known who created this piece" [syn: objet d'art, piece]
Usage examples of "art object".
A worshiped cave-bear skull is not an art object, nor is a burial, or a flaked tool, in the sense that I am here using the term.
He was referring to an art object by a medieval German sculptor, which I had located after it had been lost for four hundred years.
The only Chinese art object was a life-size, carved-wood statue of a gentle-faced, robed woman holding what appeared to be an inverted bottle or a gourd.
It was three apartments, really, every one crammed with every sort of art object.
A huge globe of Arrakis stood in one corner, an art object any noble family would have coveted.
We had both been looking for a missing art object, and some of the good doctor's activities toward this end might not have struck his scholarly colleagues as precisely proper.
The defendant shot him while in the act of stealing an art object worth half a million dollars.