title: Saint Jerome in His Study

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Ida Kammerer, in memory of her husband, Frederic Kammerer, M.D., 1933


title: Glass multiple cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

date: 5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) via The Met Open Access.

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Five boys, two satyrs and a goat

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Bracelet

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Gold, carbuncle

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1945


title: Los Angeles

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Carole and Irwin Lainoff, Ruth P. Lasser and Joseph R. Lasser, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Marvin, Martin E. and Joan Messinger, Richard L. Yett and Sheri and Paul Siegel, 1986


title: American Light Brahma, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Terracotta krater

creator: Workshop of New York MMA 34.11.2

date: ca. 775 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1934


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Matrix agate with coral stopper

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Duncan C. Ross, Champion All Around Athlete of the World, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 4 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Pumps

date: late 1880s

medium: leather

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Hannah McAllister, 1947


title: Corset

creator: Royal Worcester Corset Company

medium: cotton, metal, bone

country: probably American

subjects:
Probably american
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of E. A. Meister, 1950


title: Portrait of Pope Marcellus II, right hand raised facing left

creator: Giulio Bonasone

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Toilet box (one of a pair)

creator: Johann Conrad Lotter

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, in memory of Stephen M. Kellen, 2005


title: Female figure

creator: Chupícuaro artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Chupicuaro

subjects: Chupicuaro Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979


title: Terracotta fragment of a bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)?

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Chrysanthemums by a rock

creator: Gao Fenghan

date: 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988


title: Figure of Japanese man

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Bone china "ivory porcelain" with enamel decoration and gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Funerary Cone of the Royal Scribe Userhat

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Embroidered Border Fragment

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Mlle Rordame, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Plate

medium: Lacy pressed opalescent glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Green, in memory of Dr. Charles W. Green, 1951


title: A gentleman walking forward, his face in profile to the left, holding his glove in his right hand and wearing a hat, a fur jacket, and shoes with ribbons, from "The Garden of the French Nobles In Which One Can Pick Up Their Way of Dressing"

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Caddy spoon

date: 19th century

medium: Silver, parcel gilt (?)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel P. Avery, 1897


title: Fibula, boat-shaped type

date: 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: City Hall / New York

creator: Job & John Jackson

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Mandeville Johnston, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. S. Johnston, 1914


title: Plaque with the Crucifixion

date: 14th century

medium: Elephant ivory mounted on wood support, gilded copper frame

country: French or Netherlandish

subjects:
French or netherlandish
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Woman Wearing a Costume Whose Bustle and Headdress are the Shape of Fishes

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: second half 19th century

medium: Watercolor on gray card

subjects:
Fish
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966


title: Drawings for Two Masquerade or Ballet Costumes ('Sospiri' and 'Baci')

creator: Giovanni Battista Paggi

medium: Pen and ink, brush and gray wash

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Library Bookcase, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: The highly ornamented second gondola of Ambassador Giovanni Battista Colloreado entering Venice

creator: Giovanni Antonio Faldoni

medium: Hand colored engraving and etching, mounted on board

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Paul Moore, 1950


title: Lakshmi, goddess of prosperity (Shri Shri Lakshmi

medium: Lithograph with watercolor on paper

country: India, Kolkata, West Bengal

subjects:
Print
India, kolkata, west bengal

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. William J. Calhoun, by exchange, 2013


title: Coffee Urn

creator: Andrew Ellicott Warner

medium: Silver

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1987


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Book 3, Fable 12: Pluto and Proserpina, from "Fables Nouvelles"

creator: Nicolas Henry Tardieu

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Plate 28: Conscript replacement agency, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953


title: Plaque of the Marquis de Lafayette

medium: Wax on wood

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Tutu

medium: limestone, pigment inlay; missing inlay

credit_line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915


title: Basin

date: 15th century

medium: Brass

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-brass German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Piece

creator: Bannister Hall

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Bibi Valentin

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on medium weight dark ivory Japan; second state of two, from the damaged plate (Glasgow)

credit_line: Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library


title: Tiles

date: 17th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware, lustred

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Colored Battery, Petersburg, June

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Portrait of Mr. George Bailey

creator: Richard Dadd

medium: Watercolor

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: Wine container (hu) with mythical creatures

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Earthenware with green lead glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, 1926


title: Tweezers

medium: Steel, gold

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Gothic Leaf Scroll (Top of a Crozier?)

creator: J. Gruenwald

medium: pen and gray ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1925


title: Judith Slaying Holofernes, with Old Woman Servant

creator: Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over black chalk underdrawing.  On off-white paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Jaffe, 1956


title: Landscape with Catacombs

creator: Domenico Beccafumi

medium: Pen and ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Band cup (drinking cup)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: [Hats J72-J78]

creator: William Charles Brown

medium: Woodburytypes

credit_line: Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 2011


title: Priest's Robe (Shichijō)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Terracotta ring-vase

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Collar

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Sacrifice of Iphigenia

creator: Charles de la Fosse

medium: Red, black, and white chalk, on gray-brown paper

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1981


title: Miss Wade, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Ah!... les comètes..., ça annonce toujours quelques grands malheurs!..., from Actualités, published in "Le Charivari"

date: October 30, 1858

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Umbrella

medium: silk, wood, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Seitz, 1951


title: Glass beaker

date: 2nd half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Funerary Cone of the King's Son of Kush Merymose

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Study for an Arched Alcove with a Canapé

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and colored wash

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1970


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mary Humphreys Johnston, 1906


title: The Adoration of the Magi

creator: Correggio (Antonio Allegri)

medium: Red chalk, highlighted with white gouache

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917


title: Autumn from a set of The Seasons of Lucas

creator: Master of the Months of Lucas

date: designed ca. 1535, woven late 17th century

medium: Wool, silk (20-21 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Olivia M. Cutting, in memory of her husband, William Bayard Cutting, 1950


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed, open-work lace paper, chromolithography, colored paper.

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Apron

medium: wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Morning cap

medium: linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Alvah E. Reed, 1966


title: Ein new Modelbuch..., page 7 (recto)

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

date: October 22, 1524

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of  Herbert N. Straus, 1929


title: Métabus

creator: Louis Jean Désiré Delaistre

medium: Engraving and etching on chine collé

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Dinner fork (one of twelve)

creator: Bayne and Napier

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, by exchange, 1988


title: Standing Figure of Re-Harakhty

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: From the Dogs series (N47) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1914


title: Compartmented stamp seal

date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Udyana, Image of Buddha

medium: Wood, polychrome

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1941


title: Lectern

medium: Wood, polychromy

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-wood French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. S. H. P. Pell, 1924


title: Sampler

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: From the Collection of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper, Bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper, 1957


title: Wine Cup

creator: Samuel Edwards

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Amphora, miniature

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: The Farnese Hercules, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Jacob Bos

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Design for a Fireplace Grate

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960


title: Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Wild Boar, from the Wild Animals of the World series (N25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Terracotta fragment of an open vase

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Forest view in the Menterschweige district near Munich

creator: Heinrich Dreber

medium: Pen and brown ink, over a sketch in graphite

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, the Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2009


title: Woman and Child

creator: Kate Greenaway

medium: Graphite with touches of watercolor

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1942


title: Vest

medium: linen

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Statuette of a Youth

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Bird of paradise (quetzal) (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

subjects: Birds Ceramics-porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976


title: Fragment of a kylix: band-cup (drinking cup)

creator: Elbows Out

date: ca. 540 BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: The Departure from Wakefield, from "The Vicar of Wakefield"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: Two Men Seated at the Foot of a High Rock

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Sichel, 1966


title: James J. Mutrie, Manager, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Englishman, from World's Smokers series (N33) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Fra Giovanni Cornaro, Venetian Benedictine of the Abbey of Praglia, Abbot of Santa Giustina of Padua 1507-14

creator: Unknown

credit_line: Gift of The Mark and Lottie Salton Trust, 2021


title: Shabti of Hor

medium: Faience

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Oval Basin

medium: Nephrite, spinach-green mottled with light and dark browns

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Visit of the Grand Duke of Würtzbourg to the Mint. 1810.

creator: Nicholas Guy Antoine Brenet

date: 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of Hon. Levi P. Morton, 1885


title: Jug

date: 16th century

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Bequest of James J. Rorimer, 1966


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Saint Nicholas Providing Dowries

creator: Bicci di Lorenzo

medium: Tempera and gold on wood

credit_line: Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Landscapes

creator: Zhang Zhiwan

date: dated 1875

medium: Album of twelve leaves; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986


title: Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-1) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Chair

medium: Mahogany, maple

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Sarah V. Gayley, 1988


title: Card Number 110, Maggie Mitchell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Appliqué Figure of the Apostle Philip

medium: Gilded copper alloy

country: North German

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
North german

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Bowl

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze (Hirado ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Mandola

creator: Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

medium: Spruce, maple, mahogany, ivoroid, mother-of-pearl, nickel silver

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2013


title: Textile Sample Book

creator: Morant and Co.

medium: Textiles-Sample Books

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-sample book

credit_line: Gift of Aaron Davis, 1933


title: Piece

credit_line: The Nuttall Collection, Gift of Mrs. Magdalena Nuttall, 1908


title: Hat

medium: straw

country: American or European

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1971


title: Miss Edith King, from the Actresses series (N665) promoting Our Knocker Cigars

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Riding habit

medium: wool

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, 1940


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James A. Cole, 1978


title: Terracotta statuette of a seated youth

date: 3rd century BCE

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, cypriot

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Fragment


title: Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560)

creator: Hans Holbein the Younger

medium: Oil and gold on oak

credit_line: Bequest of Edward S. Harkness, 1940


title: Architectural Capriccio with Roman Monuments and Washerwomen

creator: Hubert Robert

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, brush and brown wash, and watercolor

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: The Admiralty, Paris

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching on laid paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Windowpane

creator: Henry William Stiegel

medium: Free-blown glass, lead

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Leaf from a Kalpa Sutra (Jain Book of Rituals)

creator: Bhadrabahu

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: A View near the Arco Scuro, looking towards the Villa Medici, at Rome

creator: Francis Towne

medium: Watercolor over graphite with pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2010


title: Fontana di Trevi

creator: Eugène Constant

medium: Albumen print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: The Castellan Tomb in Saint Germain-des-Prés

creator: Jean Chafourier

date: 1724 (before)

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, brush and black, beige, green, gray, and orange wash

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971


title: [Transports, Tennessee River]

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Cañon of Kanab Wash, Looking South

creator: William H. Bell

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005


title: Collar

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Sword

date: probably mid-to late 19th century, in the style of the 15th century

medium: Bronze, mercury, gold, horn, copper

country: Italian

subjects: Sword Italian

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes(drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Mohonk (from Sketchbook)

creator: Daniel Huntington

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of S.B. Luyster, 1936


title: Folding Fan with Scene of Figures in a Courtyard Garden

medium: Paper and metal

credit_line: Gift of Laurent Oppenheim Jr., in memory of Laurent and Amy Oppenheim, 1964


title: Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Terracotta squat alabastron (jar)

date: ca. 13th century BCE

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

credit_line: Gift of Bess Myerson, 2001


title: St. James the Great, from "Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title:
“Gold-decorated Leather with Figure of a Chinese Boy” and “Patterned Leather,” from the series Famous Leathers, Inrō, and Netsuke Meibutsu kawa, inrō, netsuke)
From the Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 2

creator: Kubo Shunman

medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Winged Hippocamp supporting a Vase (recto); Figure Studies and Architectural Design (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century

date: 16th–early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over red chalk

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952


title: Fragment

date: possibly 1818

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Spencer Bickerton, 1933


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Bowl with handles

medium: Nephrite, white with very light greenish tint

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1914


title: Card Number 84, Agnes Miller, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Saint Lawrence Standing and Holding the Grill, Instrument of His Martyrdom

creator: Marcantonio Franceschini

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, highlighted with white, on beige paper; squared in black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Flask

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Edward Holbrook Collection, Gift of Mrs. Edward Holbrook and John S. Holbrook, 1921


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Camp of 34th Massachusetts Infantry near Fort Lyon, Virginia

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Mars (Mars in Capitolio), from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

date: 16th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title:
Mug
 with portrait of Frederick I (1688–1740), King of Prussia (1713–40)

medium: Glass; coin

subjects: Glass Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Child Carrying a Puppy on his Shoulder

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; first state, with printed tone

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Scarabs

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: The Revenge of the Sorcerer Virgil

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1920


title: The Virgin seated with the Christ Child on her lap embracing her, Joseph seen through an archway at left, after Reni

creator: Ventura Salimbeni

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century


title: Piece

date: late 16th century

medium: Metal thread on satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: A man jumping up after pricking his finger on a cactus

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: ca. 1880–1910  (a later impression)

medium: Type-metal engraving

subjects:
Print
Cacti & succulents

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Dress

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Lozier, 1948


title: Suit

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin L. Pabst, in memory of her parents, Louis Lemp and Agnes Walsh Lemp, 1960


title: Bowl

medium: Pottery (Nile B), paint


title: A Large Elephant Recently Imported from Overseas (Shinto hakurai no daizō)

creator: Ichiryūsai Yoshitoyo

date: 1863 (third month)

medium: Diptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Bottle for Sweets

medium: Clay covered with glaze (Takatori ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Handkerchief

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 1888


title: Furniture element

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, in memory of George D. Pratt, 1936


title: Minnie Palmer, from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 2) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Breeches

medium: leather

credit_line: Purchase, The German Fur Federation Gift, 1981


title: Pair of Triangular Ear Clips with Circular Openings

date: second half of the 8th–second half of the 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: The Samuel Eilenberg-Jonathan P. Rosen Collection of Indonesian Gold, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg and Gift of Jonathan P. Rosen, 1998


title: Plate (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield Foundation, 1951


title: Ùrhọ̀tọ̀ (altar tableau) with an iyọ́bà (queen mother) and attendants

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 18th century

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Edo people

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, 1991


title: Boots

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss Hannah McAllister, 1941


title: Fragment of lace

medium: Textiles-Laces

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John McKesson, 1908


title: [Itmad-Ud-Daulah's Tomb, Agra]

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Matthew Dontzin, 1985


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pendant Medallion

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ornament

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Japan

credit_line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891


title: Piece

date: 12th–14th century(?)

medium: Silk

country: China or Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China or japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Painted Cactus Forms

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Moche

subjects:
Moche
Cacti & succulents
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


title: Souvenir with portrait of Stanislaus II, King of Poland

creator: Joseph Kosinski

medium: Gold, mother-of-pearl, ivory

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Portraits


title: Pelike

creator: Darius Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Laura W. Andre, 1948


title: Pastorale 2

creator: Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

medium: Etching and aquatint; first state

credit_line: Bequest of Joan G. Smith, 2024


title: Venus Crouching

medium: Engraving; first state of two (New Hollstein)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


creator: Makron

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Waistcoat

medium: linen, silk

credit_line: Catharine Breyer Van Bomel Foundation Fund, 1978


title: Fan

medium: Mother-of-pearl, paper, metallic

country: Spanish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Samuel Israel, 1941


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Lady Alphonsene, from the Actresses series (N203) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Plate I, from Rules for Drawing Caricaturas

creator: Francis Grose

date: February 26, 1788

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962


title: Clarinet in D

medium: Boxwood, brass

country: German

credit_line: Purchase, Barbara Kahn Gift, in memory of Richard S. Kahn, 2010


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Fountain at the Villa Panfili, Italy

creator: Stephen Riou

medium: Drawings

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


title: Partisan

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, wood (pine)

subjects:
Shafted weapon
French

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Bowl with cover

date: probably 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Shepherd Asleep on a Hummock

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Etching; second state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Spanish Dancer (Second State)

creator: Edgar Degas

date: modeled probably ca. 1884, cast 1920

medium: Bronze

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Calf in a Papyrus Marsh, Palace of Amenhotep III

creator: Norman de Garis Davies

medium: Tempera on Paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Reconstructed lotiform chalice

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 (26.7.979); Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915 (30.8.153); Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1985 (1985.163.5-.7); Purchase, Nathaniel Spear, Jr. Gift, 1986 (1986.18.2-.4)


title: Captain Concay (?) Commanding The New (?) Santa Maria (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium:
Graphite on wove paper with gilt edges, bound in a leather
 cover

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Pipa (琵琶 )

medium: Wood, lacquer, bamboo, composition, mother-of-pearl

country: Chinese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Six of Clubs, from the Transparent Playing Cards series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Brigadier General John Glover

creator: Henry Bryan Hall, Sr.

medium: Stipple engraving; proof before letters

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Card Number 628, Hattie Robins, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Beads

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Glass; drilled

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Swept frame

medium: Oak lower moldings; lime upper moldings. Carved, gilt; orange bole.

subjects: Frame French

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fullmer, Catcher, Baltimore Orioles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Apollo and the Serpent Python

creator: Pseudo Francesco Antonio da Brescia

date: 16th century

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1926


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953


title: Clarinet in C

creator: Graves & Company

medium: Grenadilla, ivory, silver

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Barnard College, by exchange, 1997


title: Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

creator: Cosimo Rosselli

medium: Tempera, oil, and gold on wood


title: Livery

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium:
a,b) wool
c) silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Text on the back of Xuanbita Bei (1977.375.17)

date: 20th century

medium: Ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Rubbing China

credit_line: Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1977


title: Table Spoon

creator: Koenraet Ten Eyck

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Ear Ornament

date: 14th–15th century or earlier

medium: Gold

country: Mindanao

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Mindanao

credit_line: Gift of F. William L. Villareal, 1994


title: Fragment of a marble neo-Attic relief with Peitho

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Marble, Pentelic

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: A Standing and a Lying Goat Near a Small Tree

creator: Pieter Gerardus van Os

date: early 19th century

medium: Black chalk

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Brooke Russell Astor, 2007


title: Nathanael Greene

creator: Charles Willson Peale

medium: Watercolor on ivory


title: Miss Louison, from the Actresses series (N203) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Weymouth Bay

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Cup

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted with polychrome enamels over the biscuit and white glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: New York from the Harbor Showing the Battery and Castle Garden

creator: Alfred Copestick

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954


title: The North Woods

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Color lithograph; watercolor facsimile, proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Boots

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the D. A. R. Fort Greene Chapter, Brooklyn, 1924


title: Candlestick

date: late 15th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: German or South Netherlandish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German or south netherlandish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Insertion and edging

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Cup

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Terracotta fragments of undetermined shapes

date: 6th–4th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Nail

medium: Bronze

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Pitcher

creator: Edward Lycett

medium: porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Emma and Jay Lewis, 2014


title: The Fable of the Miller, His Son and the Donkey  No. 3

creator: Elihu Vedder

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Bracelet

date: 19th century

medium: Jadeite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Alfred W. Hoyt Collection, Bequest of Rosina H. Hoppin, 1965


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Triptolemos Painter


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Funerary Cones

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Card Number 209, Marie Burroughs, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Le Panier Mistérieux

creator: Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950


title: Alabastron

date: ca. mid-1st millennium BCE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Der Spiegel des Menschlichen lebens

creator: Rodericus Zamorensis

medium: Woodcuts

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Pellet Crossbow

date: probably 1550–1600

medium: Steel, wood (rosewood), iron alloy, copper alloy

country: Italian or possibly Southern German

subjects:
Archery equipment-crossbow
Italian or possibly southern german

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, 1929


title: The Descent of the Holy Ghost

creator: Hans Rottenhammer I

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2003


title: Administrative Seal

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Library Table, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Passementerie

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Jar

date: late 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Portrait of actress in profile, from the Actresses series (N668)

subjects: Photograph Portraits


title: Landscape with a Ship and Jonah and the Whale

creator: Lucas Gassel

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects:
Print
Landscapes
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchase, Howard A. Fox Gift, Chester Dale Bequest, by exchange; A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1999


title: Girl Playing Croquet

creator: William Stephen Coleman

medium: Watercolor with gum arabic

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings


title: [Tent Wards, Harewood Hospital, Near Washington, D.C.]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Iron tripod

medium: Iron

country: Etruscan

subjects: Miscellaneous-iron Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Rape of Proserpine

creator: Orléans Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1967


title: Aux Trois Quartiers, Nouveautés Élégantes, Hiver 1887–88

medium: Lithograph and wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lincoln Kirstein, 1946


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Galloon

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Band cup (drinking cup)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Border

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: The Nuttall Collection, Gift of Mrs. Magdalena Nuttall, 1908


title: Charlotte Corday

creator: Goupil & Co.

medium: Photogravure

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ellen Robinson, 1960


title: Design for Wagon, no. 821

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, wtaercolor and gouache with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: An Emaciated Horse Led by His Master

date: late 16th century

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Piece

date: 18th century


title: Le Nouvéliste

creator: Jean François Janinet

medium: Wash manner

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Bracelet

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Brass

country: Yoruba peoples, Ijebu group

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Yoruba peoples, ijebu group

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, 1991


title: Case

medium: metal

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Miss Genevieve Karr Hamlin, 1942


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Mace

medium: Steel, wood, copper

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Chinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Geraldine Ulmer, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Marie-Josephe-Louise, Countesse of Provence, Madame

creator: Marie Louise Adélaide Boizot

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Watch

creator: Charles Oudin

medium: Gold, enamel, silver

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Lady May Fletcher-Moulton, 1926


title: World’s Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal

creator: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2018


title: Coffer with inlaid monogram

medium: Ebony, various marquetry woods, ivory, stained horn, mother-of-pearl, on poplar wood, mahogany; modern velvet; brass hardware; gilt-bronze handles

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: [Six Men in a Round Boat, Baghdad]

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hershkowitz, in memory of Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr., 1987


title: [Group Portrait of Five Adults and Two Children in a Garden]

creator: Franz Antoine

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1948


title: Embroidered Border Fragment

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Engaged Column Shaft

date: 11th–13th century

medium: Stone

country: Italian or French

subjects:
Architecture
Sculpture-architectural
Italian or french

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1922


title: The Submersion of Pharoah's Army in the Red Sea, from twelve blocks: 'Block I, below Block H', showing the sea and a dog defecating

creator: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953


title: Molly Mack, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Ichikawa Komazō III in the Role of Kameō with Iwai Kumesaburō in the Role of Kameō's Wife, Oyasu, from the Play Shunkan futatsu omokage

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Plate 4: Robert Macaire, discount broker, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Color lithograph on wove paper; third state of three (Delteil)

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Pot

date: 6th millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1962


title: In the Park (from the series A Love)

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching and engraving; third edition; state five of seven

credit_line: Gift of Dr. F. H. Hirschland, 1952


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Bonn Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Border

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: The Nuttall Collection, Gift of Mrs. Magdalena Nuttall, 1908


title: Vessel leg in the form of a bird

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

country: China

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Birds
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Vase

date: early 19th century

medium: Clay covered with a mottled glaze

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891


title: Mexico, from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving and hand coloring (watercolor)

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Sherbet Dish

medium: Blown satin white opaque glass

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Ushiwaka-maru in Armor

date: 19th century

medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Tripod incense burner

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware with green and yellow glaze

subjects: Ceramic China


title: Seated Buddha

date: first quarter of the 5th century

medium: Sandstone

country: India (Uttar Pradesh)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (uttar pradesh)

credit_line: Gift of Evelyn and Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, in memory of Anthony Gardner, 1992


title: Saucer

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995


title: Pattens

medium: wood

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Brooklyn Museum Collection


title: The Entombment

creator: Sir Edward Burne-Jones

medium: Green, blue, brown and touches of reddish bodycolor, heightened with white  gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Darwin S. Morse, 1963


title: Wine Pot and Cup

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai


title: Design for Wagon, no. 706a

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Head of a statue of an older man

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1947


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: mid-1st–early 2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Burgonet

medium: Steel, copper alloy, leather

country: German, probably Augsburg

subjects:
Helmet
German, probably augsburg

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, 2015


title: Button

medium: glass

country: French

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Design for a Ceiling

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th or early 19th century

medium: Brush with brown, gray, and pale red wash, over graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Hieroglyphic Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Illustrated Poem Book (Katsura kasane}  かつらかさね

creator: Nichōsai 耳鳥斎

date: 1803, eighth month (Kyōwa 3)

medium: Set of two woodblock printed books; one volume ink and color on paper, other volume ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013


title: Saint James the Greater

creator: Gil de Siloe

medium: Alabaster with paint and gilding

country: Spanish

subjects: Sculpture-alabaster Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1969


title: Nyastaranga

medium: Metal, spider web

country: Indian

subjects:
Membranophone-mirliton
Indian
Spiders & arachnids

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Sofa (canapé à confidents)

creator: Jean-Jacques Pothier

medium: Carved and gilded beech, modern silk lampas

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976


title: The Ascension from a set of The Passion

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Wool, silk, metal thread (20 warp threads per inch, 8 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911


title: Jar rim sherd

date: ca. late 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Illustration for a Book:  Meeting Between Two Generals (?) before a Fortified Town

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Black chalk.   Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Dish with Parasol Ladies

creator: Cornelis Pronk

medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under and colored enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Imari type)

credit_line: Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry Collection, Bequest of Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry, 2000


title: Side Chair

medium: Walnut, yellow pine

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bracelet

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Silver and gold

credit_line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891


title: The Jesuits' Lament

creator: Francis Raab

date: before 1854

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1953


title: Landscape of the Four Seasons (Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers)

creator: Sōami

date: early 16th century

medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1941


title: Furniture plaque carved in relief with a winged female figure and a “sacred tree”

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory, gold

country: Assyrian

subjects: Assyrian Trees

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1957


title: Rank Badge with Mandarin Duck

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1946


title: Halberd

medium: Steel, wood

country: American, Medway, Massachusetts

subjects:
Shafted weapon
American, medway, massachusett

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1929


title: Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

medium: Silk (warp and weft), pashmina wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Flowers
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Lamentation over the body of Christ

creator: Orazio Borgianni

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Tiger Lying at the Entrance of its Lair

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Etching, drypoint, roulette; between fourth, fifth and sixth states

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Cup with cover

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 18th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 57 (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Uncle Sam's Annual Celebration, Fire-Works of the Period, from "The Judge"

creator: Thomas B. Worth

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Entry into Madrid

creator: Bertrand Andrieu

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of Hon. Levi P. Morton, 1885


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Seated actress, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Canopic Coffin in the Form of Duamutef

medium: Wood (sycamore), paint, stucco

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Miss Stetson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Beaker (part of a garniture)

creator: Bristol

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

country: Japan

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: M'lle Crocette, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Moon flask

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china with enamel decoration and gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Naval Battle

creator: Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; state II

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1960


title: Sheep, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 11th century

medium: Earthenware; tin enameled luster-painted


title: Irish Stew: Not All Hot – Rather Too Much So

creator: Mssrs. Fores

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Temple a Denderah

creator: Antonio Beato

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John L. Swayze, 1981


title: Still Hunt

creator: Edward Kemeys

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Double cup

medium: Gypsum alabaster

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Funerary Cone of the Royal Scribe Menkheperreseneb

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Dish

medium: Brass

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-brass German

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


creator: Ambrosios Painter

medium: Terracotta


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Lamentation for Christ

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Bowl with cover (Écuelle)

creator: Nicolas II Fauveau the Elder

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Vase

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1955


title: Tile

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora of Nicosthenic shape (jar)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Marble grave stele of a woman

medium: Marble, Pentelic

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Side chair (sgabello a dorsale)

date: late 16th century

medium: Walnut, carved.

country: Italian, Rome or Florence (?)

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
Italian, rome or florence

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragments

date: 19th century

medium: Silks, satins, etc.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Maria P. James, 1911


title: Arrowhead (<i>Yanone</i>)

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

credit_line: The Collection of Giovanni P. Morosini, presented by his daughter Giulia, 1932


title: Bronze statuette of a hound gnawing a bone

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

country: Greek

subjects:
Bronze
Greek
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1936


title: Pair of plates

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Souvenir

medium: Jasper, gold, mother-of-pearl, diamond; ivory

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Book 2, Fable 1: the Two Oracles (Les Deux Oracles), from "Fables Nouvelles"

creator: Nicolas Henry Tardieu

medium: Etching and engraving


title: View on the Creek, Nagasaki

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005


title: L'Enfant blanc

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Unguentarium

date: ca. 1st century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Nabataean

credit_line: Gift of the American Expedition to Petra, 1967


title: Fibula, boat-shaped type

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Dress

creator: House of Worth

medium: [no medium available]

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Paul G. Pennoyer, 1964


title: Geisha, probably a Singing Girl

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Axe or mace head

country: Hattian

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955


title: Ritual wine warmer (Jue)

date: 18th–19th century

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Water buffalo and reclining Chinese figure (one of a pair)

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Tortoiseshell ware (glazed earthenware)

credit_line: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973


title: Bobbin

medium: Wood, metal and beads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: The Nuttall Collection, Gift of Mrs. Magdalena Nuttall, 1908


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Ichikawa Danjūrō VII (1791–1859) in the Role of Konoshita Tokichi from the Scene "Mountain Gate" in the Play Yakko Yakko Edo Hanayari

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Mrs. J. Watson Webb, 1930


title: Amulet with a Military Saint

date: 6th–9th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Barrel bead

medium: Lapis lazuli

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bust of The Marquis de Lafayette

medium: Parian porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Charles W. Green, 1947


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Seated limestone kourotrophos

date: 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Vase

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Free-blown Favrile glass

credit_line: Gift of Robert and Gladys Koch, 1999


title: Christ Nailed to the Cross, from "The Small Passion"

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975


title: Archangel Holding a Lily in a Landscape with Clouds Bearing Putti (Fragment of a Scene of the Annunciation)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink; traces of framing outlines in pen and brown ink from the old mount on drawing surface

subjects: Drawing Landscapes Lilies

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Crescent Ornaments

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Copper

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979


title: White Mahakala

date: ca. 18th century

medium: Distemper on cotton

country: Tibet

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Stephen and Sharon Davies Collection, 2018


title: Bead

medium: Glass with yellow interior

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-bead Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: "The Wilde Woman of Aiken," from the "Aiken and Vicinity" series

creator: James A. Palmer

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2018


title: Saucer

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Bowl

creator: Redwood Glass Company

medium: Blown glass with applied decoration

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Allegory of Religion (God the Father above, Faith, Hope, and Charity below)

creator: Ludovico Lana

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and rose-brown wash, highlighted with white, on brownish paper

subjects: Mythology Drawing Roses

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Terracotta plate

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Cup in the shape of gold ingot

date: first half of the 19th century

medium: Porcelain covered with gilt (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Ivory disk of a pyxis with rosette

date: 13th–12th century BCE

medium: Hippopotamus ivory

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Cypriot
Skeletons & bones


title: Finger Ring

date: 3rd century

medium: Gold, carnelian intaglio

country: East Germanic

subjects:
Metalwork-gold
East germanic


title: Standing Female Figure

date: 100 BCE–400 CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Nayarit

subjects: Nayarit Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1963


title: Terracotta fragments of calyx-kraters (bowls for mixing wine and water)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Futon Cover with Turtle, Crane, Pine, Plum, and Bamboo

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Cotton

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennan Ford, 2004


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1914


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th century CE

medium: Agate

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1962


title: Maud Harrison as "The Chanticleer," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Spindle

date: 2nd–7th century

medium: Thorn, ceramic, thread

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-implement

credit_line: Bequest of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1986


title: Saint John the Evangelist

creator: Southern Netherlands

medium: Alabaster

country: Southern Netherlands or Northern France

subjects:
Sculpture-alabaster
Southern netherland or northern france

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Island of Povegila, with British Naval Officers Embarking

creator: Giacomo Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea


title: Martyrdom of a saint

creator: Sir Nicolas Dorigny

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Embroidered band sampler

date: 17th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: From the Collection of Mrs. Lathrop Colgate Harper, Bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper, 1957


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Copper alloy (sentoku), enamel, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Pitcher

medium: Earthenware, spatterware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1933


title: Needle ?

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Abiud

medium: Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint, and lead

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Cover

date: early 19th century

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Buckle Shank

date: 5th–7th century

country: Visigothic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Visigothic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Beaker

date: first half 14th century

medium: Silver and gilded silver

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-silver German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2025


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Waves on Moonlight

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Four Designs of Costume Accessories

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, graphite, gouache

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Architecture
Ornament & architecture

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957


title: Fragment

date: 8th century

medium: Plain cloth

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Plate 41: Onion and garlic vendor

creator: Simon Guillain II


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th–7th century CE

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Spaniard, from World's Smokers series (N33) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Terracotta rim fragment of an open shape

date: 3rd century BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


title: "La Maison Brulante"

creator: Petitpierre et Cie

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Tile from a Frieze

date: early 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; molded, glazed

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1940


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

credit_line: Gift of Kihei Hattori, in memory of his father, Kihei Hattori, 1920


title: Choga

date: late 19th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-menswear

credit_line: Gift of Aline Bernstein, 1950


title: Deep Vessel with Decorative Handles

medium: Earthenware with incised decoration

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975


title: Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

creator: Polygnotos

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: The Actor Arashi Rikaku II as Isogai Tōsuke, from the series Lives of Men who Carried Out Revenge for Loyalty or Filial Piety

creator: Hasegawa Sadanobu 長谷川貞信

medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper; vertical chūban

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2011


title: Vase ornament for console

medium: Wood, gilt

subjects:
Ornament & design
Woodwork

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Design for Phaeton (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Fisher Houses, Chiem See, Germany

creator: Andrew Fisher Bunner

medium: Black ink and graphite traces on light buff wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899


title: Dress

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Flounce (one of a pair)

creator: Georges Martin (Compagnie des Indes)

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: The Presentation in the Temple

date: early 16th century

medium: Silk and metal-wrapped thread on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Architecture
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1931


title: Upper Part of a Statue of a Man

medium: Gabbro

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Manuscript Leaf with the Betrayal, from a Book of Hours

medium: Tempera, ink, and shell gold on parchment

country: Netherlandish

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Netherlandish
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931


title: Delphine Gay

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2003


title: Arrowhead

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Bottle

date: 6th–14th century

medium: Green glass

subjects: Glass-vessel German

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Tomb of Louis XVI and his family, with hidden silhouettes

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: The Burning Shame

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3110

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache


title: Death of Princess Charlotte memorial handkerchief

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment, content uncertain

date: ca. 7th–4th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Winter

creator: Höchst Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Linen mark (Type XII)

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Entryway to Schloss Epstein

creator: W. Becker

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Gift of Morrison Heckscher, 2013


title: Rocky Landscape with St. Jerome

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Sichel, 1966


title: Earflare, Warrior

medium: Gold, silver, stone

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool; plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Theatrical Drawing of an Actress (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite, pen, ink, and watercolor on paper

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of William Gedney Bunce, by exchange, 1979


title: Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

creator: Gotō Mitsuyoshi (Shinjō)

date: early 19th century

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), silver, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Kihei Hattori, in memory of his father, Kihei Hattori, 1920


title: Nude bust of a boy painting (La Peinture) (one of a pair of designs for lock-plates)

creator: Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

medium: Bronze, cast, oblong, rectangular, single

credit_line: Gift of Victor D. Brenner, 1903


title: Phaeton #728

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Fille de Sootchow (Suzhou Girl)

creator: Raimund von Stillfried

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Sleeves

date: 17th century–18th century

medium: wool, linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Portrait of Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), French Impressionist painter

medium: Bronze, cast, oblong, rectangle, single

subjects:
Medal and plaquette
Portraits


title: Design for a Coffered and Painted Ceiling in Rust and Olive Green, with a Quatrefoil Motif

creator: John Gregory Crace

medium: Graphite, watercolor and gilt

credit_line: Dodge and Fletcher Funds, 1967


title: Chocolate cup (part of a service)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, 1939


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Fibula

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Khalil Rabenou, 1951


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Ornament for deity

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold with precious stones

country: Nepal

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Nepal

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Serving Spoon

creator: Joel Sayre

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Small pot with remnants of green glaze

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 4r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Section of a Diptych in Linga Form, Interior Depicting Shiva, Parvati, and the Calf Bull

date: 7th century

medium: Chlorite schist

country: India (Jammu and Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987


title: Buckle

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Bronze, gold, patina

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, 1929


title: Stamp seal (oval conoid, pin preserved) with cultic scene

date: late 8th–6th century BCE

medium: Flawed neutral and red Agate (Quartz), copper/bronze pin

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Hanging Shelves, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Martin Folkes

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Apparel

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Rod Finial Clip with Foliate Design Creating Demon Mask

date: Second half of the 9th–first quarter of the 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: The Samuel Eilenberg-Jonathan P. Rosen Collection of Indonesian Gold, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg and Gift of Jonathan P. Rosen, 1998


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet


title: Boy with Bagpipe

creator: François Boucher

medium: Silk, wool (22-25 warps per inch, 9-10 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)

date: second quarter of the sixth century BCE


title: Coin

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Hand Warmer

medium: Painted enamel

country: China

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Jungle Fowl, from the Birds of the Tropics series (N5) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Rooks, Left Field, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Trammel Hook (Crémaillère)

date: late 15th or early 16th century

medium: Wrought iron

country: French or Spanish

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
French or spanish

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Andrew J. Werner, 1978


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: [Young Woman with Earrings]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1985


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Neck Chain with Badge

medium: Gold, brass

country: Turkish

subjects: Mail Turkish

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Miseries of Human Life: While Deep in Study and Lost in Thought in the Complicated Profession of a Taylor and All on a Sudden Disturbed by the Shrieks of a Woman Crying Cucumbers

creator: Nicolaus Heideloff

date: October 1807

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in honor of Olga Raggio, 2002


title: Elizabeth Maria Church

creator: John Vanderlyn

medium: Probably Conté crayon on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Ella Church Strobell, 1917


title: Three Girls Playing at Ball at the Seaside

creator: James W. Allen

medium: Pen and purple-brown ink, brush and pink wash

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


title: Side Chair

creator: Léon Marcotte

medium: Maple, pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. D. Chester Noyes, 1968


title: Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Maya (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Maya

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Arch of Septimius Severus, panel, elevation (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Dark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Mark J. Millard Gift, 1968


title: Hatfield, 3rd Base, New York, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card


title: Fan

medium: Ivory, paper, silk, mother-of-pearl, metal, metallic

country: possibly French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Sarah F. Milligan and Kate Milligan Brill, 1940


title: Double Flageolet in D

creator: William Bainbridge

medium: Wood, ivory, silver

country: British

subjects: Aerophone-blow hole-end-blown flute (vertical)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Maria P. James, 1911


title: Star-Shaped Tile

date: 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; molded, glazed

credit_line: The Grinnell Collection, Bequest of William Milne Grinnell, 1920


title: Fan

medium: ivory, paper, mother-of-pearl, metal

country: Spanish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Samuel Israel, 1941


title: Blade

medium: Obsidian

country: Teotihuacan

subjects: Glass-implement Teotihuacan


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Terracotta dish

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian, Teano

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian, teano

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stole

country: possibly Irish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Theodora Wilbour, 1947


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James F. Lawrence, 1965


title: Tremissis of Theophilos - 7

medium: Gold

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-coin Byzantine

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Design for Ornamented Stair Railing

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1961


title: "Solanki Raga", Folio from a Ragamala

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Shaft-tailed Bunting, from the Song Birds of the World series (N42) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: A Man Pushing Two Women on a Swing

creator: J. Cariven

date: nd

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959


title: Candlestick and Candle

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Design for 2 seat Phaeton, no. 3274

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Shah of Persia, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-2) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Cabinet

creator: Melchior Baumgartner

date: ca. 1655–59, engraved decorations ca. 1825–50

medium: Oak, pine, walnut, cedar, ebony, and rosewood; ivory veneer and silver veneer; silver; silver-gilt moldings; gilded yellow-metal mounts; the drawers lined with aquamarine-colored silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: [A.S. Howard Building Under Construction]

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Cartouche of Akhenaten

medium: Diorite or granodiorite

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper, silver

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929


title: Garment Plaque in the Shape of a Coiled Panther

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Eastern Kazakhstan

subjects:
Metalwork
Eastern kazakhstan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, 2002


title: Schwartz. Auguste. 31 ans, né à Paris Xlle le 23/1/63. Maroquinier. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Pendant in the shape of a dragon

date: 11th–10th century BCE

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Turned Armchair

medium: Maple

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)

creator: Peter Peck

medium: Steel, gold, wood (cherry), staghorn

country: German, Munich

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Dickey

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Goddard and Josephine du Bois, 1965


title: Spiral

date: 3rd Millennium BC (?)

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Jacques Chalmin and Jean-Luc Chalmin, 1986


title: Hair Parter

medium: Elephant ivory

country: European (Medieval style)

subjects:
European (medieval style)
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of the late J. Pierpont Morgan, 1918


title: Cape

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Houghton Trott, 1954


title: The Trinket Seller

creator: Johann Joachim Kändler

date: 1745–50, after model of ca. 1738

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Porringer

creator: Samuel Casey

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Samson Rending the Lion

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Friedman, 1965


title: Dish with Temptation of Adam and Eve

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2014


title: Sherds

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Palais de Karnak, pilier devant le sanctuaire de granit

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print


title: Monocle and Eye (blue), from Jocular Ocular series (N221) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Silver bracelet with gold calf's head finial

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Gold, Silver

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1986


title: Seal

date: 9th–12th century

medium: Stone; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Bottle

medium: White porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels (Arita ware, Kakiemon type)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Vase

medium: Yellow agate

country: China

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Marriage of Napoleon III

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Mildred R. Mottahedeh, 1984


title: Sculptors

creator: Henri-Charles-Antoine Baron

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


title: Personification of America

medium: Lead and gilding

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Bead ornaments, 10

date: late 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek, South Italian

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek, south italian

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Rowel Spur

date: 17th or 19th century

medium: Iron alloy

country: possibly German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Possibly german

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Card Number 743, Miss Bella Biltar, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Butter dish with cover

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: The Triumph of Bacchus

creator: Anonymous, Italian?, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951


title: Miss Wilson, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes


title: Terracotta fragment of a pot; glazed on the inside

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Hammered Silver Petal Ornament

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Cummings, 1964


title: The Chess Players

creator: Antoine-François-Jean Claudet

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1973


title: Caricature of a windblown woman on the beach at Rottingdean, Sussex

creator: Sir Edward Burne-Jones

date: August 1893

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020


title: Perspective of a Church's Interior

creator: Pietro Bosio

date: 18th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Card Table

creator: Duncan Phyfe

medium: Rosewood, mahogany, gilt brass

credit_line: Purchase, The Edgar J. Kaufmann Foundation Gift, 1968


title: Door Handle

medium: Steel

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1918


title: Fragment of a Closed Vessel

date: probably 7th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed and applied

subjects:
Ceramic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: The Fortune Teller

creator: Robert Loftin Newman

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Wallace Sawyer, 1921


title: Polychrome terracotta head vase

date: ca. 4th–3rd century BCE

country: Italic, Canosan

subjects:
Vase
Italic, canosan

credit_line: Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2024


title: Bronze statuette of Hercules

date: ca. 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: French Painter

medium: Vellum laid on playing card (one diamond showing)

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: The Moses Lazarus Collection, Gift of Josephine and Sarah Lazarus, in memory of their father, 1888–95


title: Design for Stanhope Phaeton (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Box

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Ivory disk of a pyxis with rosette

date: 13th–12th century BCE

medium: Hippoptomus ivory

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Cypriot
Skeletons & bones


title: Landscapes, Figures, and Flowers

creator: Chen Hongshou

date: dated 1618–22

medium: Album of twelve leaves; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China Flowers Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Far Eastern Art Gifts, 1985


title: Saint Jerome Penitent in the Wilderness

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Partial design for a ceiling with alternative patterns for the borders

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite on wove paper; inlaid in blue wove paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Vase with Dragons

medium: Rock crystal

subjects:
Hardstone
China
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Pair of wall brackets

medium: Carved and gilded wood

credit_line: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973


title: Warrior

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Klejman, 1962


title: Apostle's Well (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950