title: Bracelet with Crocodile Heads

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Brass, gilt

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Edo people

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


title: Noah's Sacrifice, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

creator: George Frederic Watts

medium: Wood engraving on India paper, mounted on thin card

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: Anonymous Gift, 1926


title: Chalice

medium: Cloisonné enamel, and gilded silver

country: Hungarian

subjects: Enamel Hungarian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Double vase

date: 18th century

medium: Carnelian and white agate

country: China

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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: Tobacco box

medium: Brass, copper

credit_line: Gift of C. Gustave Mourraille, in memory of his sister, Miss M. Mathilde Mourraille, 1957


title: Westminster Abbey

creator: Nicolaas Henneman

date: before May 1845

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Jean Horblit, in memory of Harrison D. Horblit, 1994


title: Tombeau de Sidi-Ambarek, à Garara

creator: Maxime Du Camp

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005


title: Hatchet

medium: Jadeite

country: France

subjects: Jade France


title: Panel

date: dated 1296

medium: Wood; carved and inlaid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Pouch

medium: glass, linen, silk, leather, metal

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Margaret S. Bedell, 1930


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Snuff Bottle with Antiquarian Design

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Blue glass with rose quartz stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Roses

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro, 1971


title: Wall Pocket

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Gill, 1991


title: Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

date: 15th century (textile); 19th century (chair, with earlier parts)

medium: Walnut, turned and carved; silk

country: Italian

subjects: Woodwork-furniture Italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Tray

medium: Brass (or silver-gilt?), niello

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1963


title: Dagger (Khanjar) with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, jade, gold, ruby, emerald, diamond, silver, pearl, wood, velvet

country: hilt, Indian, Mughal; sheath, Indian, Kutch

subjects: Hilt, indian, mughal; sheath, indian, kutch

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Süleyman the Magnificent

creator: Melchior Lorck

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving; second state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Klong mēng (ฆ้องเหม่ง)

date: late 19th century

medium: Brass, wood

country: Thai

subjects: Idiophone-struck-gong Thai

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Trépied par Gouthières

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching; state three of five (Gonse)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


title: Fragment

date: late 16th century

medium: Cutwork, intagliatela, reticello, punto in aria, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. R.W. de Forest


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 19th–18th century BCE

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Roman


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Shirt of Mail and Plate

date: late 15th–16th century

medium: Steel, iron, copper alloy, silver

country: Turkish, possibly Istanbul

subjects:
Coat of mail and plate
Turkish, possibly istanbul


title: Christ Stripped, from "Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi"

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Design for a Console Table

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1959


title: Sherd

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Fan Holder

medium: Silk, rose quartz

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Roses
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Vase fragment in the form of a face

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Pitcher

creator: Freeman Porter

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Design for the Headpiece of the "Gazette de France"

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

date: 18th century

medium: Black chalk, incised

credit_line: The Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Head of a Saint (profile to the right), after Fra Angelico

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white, on pink-beige paper

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Gift, 1973


title: Miniature Tunic

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Museum Interior (?) with a Man Seated

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Pencil

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Peacock with Pine and Camellia

creator: Zhu Duan

date: dated 1518

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Alan Priest, 1958


title: Towel Ends

medium: Linen, silk, metal wrapped thread; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Evening hat

creator: Atherton Fine Millinery

medium: silk, feather, jet, metal, beads

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Robert S. Kilborne, 1958


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Architectural Study of Classical Entablature

creator: F. or T. Grossbach

medium: Pen and black ink with gray wash over black chalk

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Morrison Heckscher, 2016


title: Man carrying a tray of loaves

medium: Cupreous alloy

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Fichu

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frances Craver Northam, 1946


title: Spouted jar

date: ca. 9th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


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

date: last 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: Harvest Trophy

creator: Charles Monblond

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk, heightened with white.  Pricked for transfer.

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


title: Terracotta plaque

date: 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Cretan

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, cretan

credit_line: Gift of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1953


title: Hans Bol

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, by exchange, 1940


title: Fragment of a Stone Bottle

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Stone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Chain

medium: Nephrite, light sage-green

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

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


title: Plate

creator: Xenon Group

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. James J. Rorimer Gift, 1972


title: Garland (part of a set)

medium: Wood, gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Glass Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Colorless glass

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


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


title: Cameo with Saint John The Baptist

date: 15th century

medium: Sardonyx, silver mount

subjects:
Lapidary work-sardonyx
Italian

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: Teatro delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne..., page 19 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut, engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Design for Side Ottoman, Later Arabesque or Morisco Style

creator: Robert William Hume

medium: Pen and ink, graphite, watercolor

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Jessie F. Hume, 1930


title: "Autophone" Organette

creator: Autophone

medium: Wood, metal, various

subjects:
Aerophone-free reed
American

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: The jovial monarch caught Mrs. Russell's hand in his, and proceeded to dance, illustration to "A Castle in Spain: A Novel"

creator: Edwin Austin Abbey

medium: Pen and ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921, transferred from the American Wing


title: Ewer with phoenix

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stoneware with incised and carved decoration under celadon glaze (Yaozhou ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Jason carrying off the golden fleece

creator: Jean-Baptiste Nolin

medium: Etching and engraving; second state

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


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

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Ewer

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; mold blown and applied decoration, tooled on the pontil

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Susannah and the Elders

date: mid-17th century

medium: Silk on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, silver, gold, copper

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: The Chinese sennin Ch'en Nan (Japanese "Chinnan")

creator: Nishimura Shigenaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper (Urushi-e)

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Armlet

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Copper alloy

country: Celtic

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Celtic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Beads

medium: Faience, Egyptian blue

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1961


title: Souvenir

medium: Gold, enamel, mother-of-pearl


title: Woman with Fan on the Banks of the Sumida River

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print (hashira-e); ink and color on paper

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


title: Wooded Landscape with Figures on a Road

creator: Jacob van der Ulft

date: mid-17th–late 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2005


title: Plate with Geese in a Lotus Pond

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922


medium: Terracotta


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Chelsea Keramic Art Works

medium: Earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris III, 1982


title: The Making of Silk Floss

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936


title: View of ruins showing the corner of a building with two arched windows, in a landscape with a stream in the foreground, from a series of four plates showing ruins of a single building

creator: Karel Dujardin

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Figure of a charioteer

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Enid A. Haupt, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 1993


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Chair (one of a pair)

medium: Walnut, cane

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Basle, part I, plate 5 from "Liber Studiorum"

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching and mezzotint; first state of six (Finberg)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Horse Tack Ornament

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Copper alloy, possibly gold

country: Roman-German

subjects:
Ornament & design
Equestrian equipment-bit
Roman-german

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Flask

date: 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Piece

date: 18th 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: The Harvesters

creator: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

medium: Oil on oak

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Priming Flask with Sundial and Compass

date: late 16th century

medium: Brass, gold, silver, steel

country: German, probably Nuremberg

subjects:
German, probably nuremberg
Firearm accessories-flask & primer

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2012


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vase fragment ?

medium: Faience, green glaze

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Nebuchadnezzar, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Gorget

medium: Steel, leather

country: German

subjects:
German
Armor parts-colletin

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Venus Urania

creator: Giambologna

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Bronze, fire-gilt

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


title: Book cover with stripe, geometric, and floral pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Vase

medium: Black serpentine

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Handkerchief

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Eva Vida, 2009


title: Man, Fox and Maiden in a Landscape

subjects: Glass Landscapes

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: A Gentleman Greets a Lady, from "Das Bossenbüchlein"

creator: Mathais Beitler

medium: Engraving

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


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Cohen, 1929


title: Strip with phoenix and Qilin (one of a pair)

medium: Silk tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Cart and barrels

medium: Wood, iron, string

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1969


title: Horn

date: late 19th century

medium: ox horn

country: African

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
African

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Dancer Putting on Her Stocking (First State)

creator: Edgar Degas

date: modeled probably ca. 1896–1912, cast 1920

medium: Bronze

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


title: An Irish Compliment

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Blouse

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Bergen Glover, 1961


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, silver, wood

country: Balinese, Scabbard, possibly Javanese or Madurese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Jérusalem, Porte de Jaffa, Vue générale

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005


title: Wine Cup on a High Foot (Tazza)

medium: Gilded silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of the Museum of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1946


title: Incised Painted Bowl

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Peasants Carousing in a Barn

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

date: late 1630s

medium: Pen and brown ink and brown, gray, and reddish brown wash over black chalk.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Seal

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Edward B. Bruce, 1924


title: Covered Jar

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Bosanquet Painter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Head-shaped bell

creator: Mexica or Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artists

medium: Gold (cast)

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Mexica (aztec)

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1974, 1977


title: Paten cover

date: 16th century

medium: Silk, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Greenman Stillman, 1931


title: Annie Robe, 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: Portrait of Marc'Antonio Cusano

creator: Giovanni Battista Bonacina

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Souvenir spoon with view of a landscape and arms of Genoa

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

subjects: Metalwork-silver Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1908


title: Saint Jerome and Mary Magdalene

creator: Monogrammist VBL

date: first half of the 17th century

medium: Black chalk, pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2021


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

creator: Painter of London D 12

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


creator: Douris


title: Piece

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: Tile

date: second half 17th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Angel

date: second half 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta head; wooden limbs and wings; body of wire wrapped in tow; various fabrics

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Standard Banner (Sashimono)

date: probably late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk, pigment

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Scarab of the Lady Mereret

medium: Obsidian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: A sudden awakening, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Charivari, November 1, 1865

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: November 1, 1865

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry woven

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Moon flask with white grape leaf motifs

creator: Grainger

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Crucifix

medium: Rock crystal, silver, enamel

subjects:
Minerals & gems
Natural substances-rock crystal

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Figure Pendant

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Stone

country: Mixtec

subjects: Stone-ornament Mixtec

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


title: Collar

date: early 19th century

medium: linen

country: Croatian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1935


title: Spring (part of a set of four)

creator: Neale & Co.

medium: Enameled earthenware

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


title: Shawl

date: ca. 19th century

medium: Wool, metal wrapped thread; embroidered on surface

credit_line: Gift of Genevieve Breed, 2017


title: Mlle Rousseau; Mlle Mercier

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005


title: Apelles standing profile looking at a tablet of geometric figures

creator: Nicoletto da Modena

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Wineglass

date: 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Samuel L.M. Barlow, 1883


title: Servants Filling Urns

creator: Francisco Vieira de Mattos (Il Lusitano)

date: 18th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Julien Stock and Gloria Gallucci, 2010


title: Manuscript Leaf with Marriage Scene, from Decretals of Gregory IX

medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

country: Italian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1955


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

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Variety Act 5: The Avenger of His Honor (Varietenummer 5: Der Rächer Seiner Ehre)

creator: Moriz Jung

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Hammered Silver Miniature Spatula

date: 11th–late 15th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Chimú or Chancay

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Chimú or chancay

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


title: Card 766, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Saint Christopher Carrying the Infant Christ

creator: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967


title: Limestone statuette of a boy with a kausia

date: late 4th century–late 1st century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Buckle

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Vietnam (North)

subjects:
Jewelry
Vietnam (north)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg, 1998


title: Janus-headed bottle

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Plaque

creator: Jean-Baptiste Guillibaud

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Antependium

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Self-Portrait as Monsieur Prudhomme

creator: Henry-Bonaventure Monnier

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Eric G. Carlson, in honor of Patricia Mainardi, 2015


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Figure Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: Dish

date: early 16th century

medium: Brass

subjects: Metalwork-brass German

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Samples (8)

date: first half 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Man and Woman Sacrificing a Goat, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: published ca. 1599–1622

medium: Engraving; third state

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Bowl

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: [Salisbury Cathedral]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1946


title: Holy Family with Saint Anne

creator: Paulus Pontius

medium: Engraving; second state of two

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


title: Takore Sahib of Morvi, India, 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: The Holy Family with the infant Saint John holding an apple

creator: Pietro Testa

medium: Etching


title: Boot glass

date: late 16th or early 17th century

medium: Colorless (gray) and opaque white nonlead glass. Blown, "vetro a retorti", trailed, applied and impressed parts, gilt.

country: Venetian or façon de Venise, probably south Lowlands or Germany

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Part of a door from a bed tent

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Bronze shield boss

date: 7th century BCE

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Dwelling among mountains and clouds

creator: Gong Xian

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1983


title: Bearded Man with a Velvet Cap

creator: Govert Flinck

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Lion amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Bertine Robison, 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: Vase fragment

country: Neolithic, Thessaly

subjects:
Vase
Neolithic, thessaly

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: The Angel shows Saint John the Fountain of Living Water, from the Apocalypse

creator: Jean Duvet

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Designs for an Ewer and Clock

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache

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


title: Model Basket from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

medium: Basketry (grass)

subjects:
Architecture
Grasses & sedges

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Disk ornament

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Colombia

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Colombia

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1891


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Panel from a Mosque Frieze Bearing the Name of a Sultan

date: 11th century

medium: Terracotta; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Linen; embroidered in silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Master Billy's Procession to Grocers Hall

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Design for a sepulchral monument with a portrait bust

creator: Hendrik-Frans Verbruggen

medium: Pen and brown ink, red and brown wash, red chalk, over black chalk or graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2010


title: Bertha

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Bequest of Henrietta Seligman, 1910


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Cylinder seal with three-figure contest scene

date: late 8th century BCE

medium: Veined and flawed neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in memory of Charles Dikran and Beatrice Kelekian, 1999


title: Salt

creator: Robert Cruickshank

medium: Silver and gilding

country: Canadian (British)

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Three Salvers

creator: René Boyvin

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


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: Courtesan with Branch of Seri

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Landscape with Tree and a Village in the Distance (from Cropsey Album)

creator: Jasper Francis Cropsey

medium: Pen and iron-gall ink, white gouache, and graphite on heavy, light brown wove paper

country: American

subjects: American Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Oscar at the Sea-Shore (published in "Harper's Bazar," August 26, 1882)

creator: Thomas Nast

date: originally published 1882

medium: Relief print and electrotype

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Nast Jr., Mabel Nast Crawford and Cyril Nast, 1933


title: Louis XIV

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; fourth state of six (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Standing Apostle

medium: Alabaster with traces of paint

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-stone German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Piece

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ichikawa Danjuro V in Ceremonial Robes

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

credit_line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936


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


title: Ostracon

medium: Pottery, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Rosy Milkweed Vine/Asclepias Rosea

date: late 18th century

medium: Watercolor on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kamran Anwar, in loving memory of Mr. Anwarullah Khan and Amjad Rashid, 2017


title: Feet on a plinth

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

date: first half 19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

credit_line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936


title: Quilt, Nine Patch pattern variation

creator: Rebecca Davis

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Galbraith Carey, 1980


title: A Young Woman and a Cavalier

creator: Cornelis Bisschop

date: early 1660s

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Love Instructed By Mercury

creator: Pierre François Basan

date: 18th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Barber's basin

creator: Veuve Perrin Factory

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Pot

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic


title: Drachm

date: ca. 100–50 BCE

medium: Silver

country: Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


title: Diana in the Straw, or A Treat for Quornites

date: January 1, 1804

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Jérusalem, Vallée de Hinnom, Inscription tumulaire grecque, 2

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005


title: Hooded wall clock with calendar

creator: Ahasuerus I Fromanteel

medium: Case: ebony and oak veneered with ebony, ebonized wood, gilded brass; Dial: gilded brass with silvered-brass chapter ring; Movement: brass, steel

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakazashi)

date: blade, 1819; mounting, 19th century

medium: Steel, wood, rayskin (samé), textile (silk), lacquer, red coral, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), silver

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sword
Japanese
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Gift of Brayton Ives and W. T. Walters, 1891


title: Box Wagon #573

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Mercury, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

creator: Master I.B.

medium: Etching

subjects: Astronomy Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Jasper

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1962


title: Epitaphios

medium: Silk and metal thread on linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Staff Officer, England, 1879, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: [Birds on Roof of Small Building]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Birds

credit_line: Gift of Matthew Dontzin, 1985


title: La marchande d'oignons aux Halles

creator: Louis Vert

medium: Gelatin silver transparency on glass

credit_line: Purchase, Jay H. McDonald Gift and funds from various donors, 2026


title: The Pentecost

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher

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


title: Card Number 11, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Piece

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


title: (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Drawings in pen and ink, graphite, gouache, and black chalk on off-white and toned wove and laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970


title: Corset

medium: silk, baleen, leather, cotton

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Funerary Cone of Amenhotep and His Wife Ren

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Silk on linen

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


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Cupid prepares to shoot an arrow as Venus looks over her right shoulder, from "Sport of Love" (Scherzi d'amore)

creator: Odoardo Fialetti


title: Dress

medium: cotton, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., 1953


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: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 13v)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


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

date: 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: Traveling clock with alarm and calendar

creator: Joseph Paulet

medium: Case and dial: silver, partially gilded; backplate of movement: brass, silver partially gilded; steel

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Fragment of Shoulder Band

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Chalice veil

date: 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk backed with linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Collar

date: late 19th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: Belgian

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


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

date: early 5th century BCE


title: Box

medium: Silver, parcel gilt

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Vase with lions

medium: Cloisonné enamel

country: China

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Design for T-Cart, no. 3378

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Bell

medium: Gold

country: Greater Nicoya, Central Region (Costa Rica), Greater Chiriquí, or Greater Coclé

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Nathaniel Spear Jr., 1978


title: Shirt

medium: cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Franklin W. Hopkins, 1928


title: Model of a Stupa

date: ca. 15th century

medium: Bronze inlaid with silver and copper

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1985


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: St. Paul

creator: Laurent de La Hyre

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Textile Fragment

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922


title: Card 291, Annie Danscomb, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Savitri

medium: Lithograph

country: India, West Bengal, Calcutta

subjects:
Print
India, west bengal, calcutta

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2020


title: Captain's Love Letter

creator: Abraham Bosse

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

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


title: Using Muffle Stoves for the Firing of Porcelain in a Cantonese Workshop

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Watercolor on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1955


title: Bronze helmet

date: late 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek, Cretan

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, cretan

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Soup plate (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Jar with plum trees

medium: Porcelain with light blue glaze

subjects: Ceramic China Trees

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Striding Thoth

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Joseph Making Himself Known to His Brethren

creator: Jan Swart van Groningen

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: S.S. Brown, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22a) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Portrait of a Man of the Moncheaux Family

creator: Northern French Painter

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

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


title: Sieben Gegenden aus Salzburg und Berchtesgaden Geordnet nach den sieben Tagen der Woche, verbunden durch zwey allegorische Blätter (Seven Places in Salzburg and Berchtesgaden, Arranged According to the Seven Days of the Week)

creator: (Johann Heinrich) Ferdinand Olivier

medium: Lithographs printed in gray and again with a light beige tone stone mounted on painted and gilt board with attached titles printed on brown paper. Printed portfolio with green ribbons.

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, 2004


title: Dish

medium: Stone

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Caricatured Burmese figure, 1/8 Rupee, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 2) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Jug

medium: Earthenware, slip decoration

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (white mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pope Gregory XIII (r. 1572–85)

date: 16th century

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: Neck-amphora, Tyrrhenian fragments

creator: Prometheus Painter

credit_line:
Gift of Miss Matilda W. Bruce, 1907 (07.156.7)
Gift of Mario Astarita, 1956 (56.128)


title: Bobbin

medium: Wood

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. C. Edwin Linville, 1981


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th century BCE


title: Tunic

creator: Chuquibamba artist

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Inca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Inca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Angel (one of a pair)

date: late 15th century

medium: Bronze, fire-gilt


title: Riding habit

creator: T. Miller & Sons, New York

medium:
(a,b) wool
(c,d) silk
(e) cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Louis G. Smith, 1940


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Pillowcase

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1923


title: Card table

creator: John Townsend

medium: Mahogany, maple, chestnut, tulip poplar

credit_line: Egleston Fund, 1927


title: Colt Model 1861 Navy Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12240

creator: Samuel Colt

medium: Steel, brass, wood (walnut)

country: American, Hartford, Connecticut

subjects:
American, hartford, connecticut
Firearms-pistols-revolver

credit_line: Gift of John E. Parsons, 1955


title: Peignoir

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ernest D. Roth, 1940


title: Dog

medium: Faience, traces of blue glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cylinder seal

date: mid-2nd millenium BC

medium: Hematite

country: Cypriot

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: L'ornement des tissus : recueil historique et pratique

creator: A. Dupont-Auberville

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: Moses receiving the tablets of the law on Mount Sinai, after Raphael's Stanza di Eliodoro, from a series of 15 plates, depicting Raphael's works for the Vatican stanze and the Sistine Chapel tapestries

creator: Pietro Santi Bartoli

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: Figure with Incense Burner

date: 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Colima

subjects: Colima Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of The Andrall and Joanne Pearson Collection, 2005


title: Jupiter and Antiope

creator: Léon Davent

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Landscape with Temple

creator: Joseph Wagner

subjects: Architecture Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Courtier on Horseback (obverse); Landscape with Trees (reverse)

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Lacquer, fundame, nashiji, gold and colored hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Mlle. Tissot, 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


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: late 1st–mid-2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Newes Modelbuch in Kupffer  (Page 53r)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

credit_line: Gift of Charles R. Richards, 1929


title: The Huntsman

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Water Pot

medium: Clay covered with a transparent glaze (Takatori ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893


title: Card Number 213, Frances Donalds, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes


title: View of the Tiber (Tivoli) (Prospectus Tyburtinus), from "The Large Landscapes"

creator: Johannes van Doetecum I

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Box Lid with a Phoenix

date: ca. 5th century

medium: Schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Bequest of Samuel Eilenberg, 1998


title: Black-breasted Barbet, from the Song Birds of the World series (N23) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Pommel-scroll (guri)

medium: Lacquer, guri, red, brown, black, grey layers; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Award of Merit to the Hammond Typewriter Co.

creator: George Hampden Lovett

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of James B. Hammond, 1909


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 58 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Jardiniere

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Winslow Durkee Mileham, 1954


title: Pifferaris

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment

date: ca. 7th–4th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: 'De Fontein van Hercules, met die van de Groote Sprong, voor 't Amphitheater', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld

creator: Carel Allard

medium: Color engraving (à la poupée)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Scelta di architetture antiche e moderne della citta di Firenze opera gia data in luce, misurata, disegnata, ed intagliata dal celebre Ferdinando Ruggieri architetto fiorentino

creator: Ferdinando Ruggieri

medium: Printed book with engraved and etched illustrations

credit_line: New York University Institute of Fine Arts Fund, 1958, transferred from the Library


title: Porte missel

date: probably first half 16th century

medium: Leather, iron (tinned)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Nightgown

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. E. V. Anderson, 1943


title: Pair of Earrings (Chand Bali)

medium: Gold with inset jewels

credit_line: Gift of Princess Shamina Talyarkhan, 2024


title: Foundation figure of king Shulgi of Ur, carrying a basket

medium: Copper

country: Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: S. Eutrope, évêque et martyr (St. Eutropius, Bishop and Martyr), April 30th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

date: late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

medium: Glass

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


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Elevation of a room with designs for the decoration of walls and wainscot

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Graphite on wove paper

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Candlestick

medium: Silver plate on copper

credit_line: Bequest of Fannie Randolph Gaunt, 1948


title: Recumbent deer

medium: Stoneware (Yixing ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Antique Roman Sculpture with Nude Winged Boy at the Center and Leaves and Vines

creator: Thomas Hardwick

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: View of Azuma Wood

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Face Mask Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper, turquoise

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: Fan

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


date: late 6th century/early 5th century


title: Bead

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Fish
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; central coast

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


title: Pouring vessel for water (yi)

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Wineglass

date: 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Stela with a seated figure of Re-Harakhty

medium: Wood, paint


title: Jar

date: ca. 17th–16th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Famous Themes for Painting Study Known as “The Garden of Painting” (Gaen)

creator: Kano Tan'yū

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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: Lord Robertson

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Venus, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Glass fragmentary bottle

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Pharmacy Jar

date: second half 15th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Netsuke

date: 19th century

medium: Wood inlaid and polychromed

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Temple of Artemis, Sardis (134. Sardes. 1843. T. de Cybèle.)

creator: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

medium: Daguerreotype

subjects: Architecture Photograph

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 2016 Benefit Fund, and Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2016 (2016.615)


title: [Boy and Girl Holding Hands]

creator: Bennet

credit_line: Purchase, W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift, 2004


title: Woman Combing Her Hair

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Pastel on light green wove paper, now discolored to warm gray, affixed to original pulpboard mount

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nate B. Spingold, 1956


title: Gilet

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. J.P. Morgan (1868-1925), 1938


title: An Angel Bringing Food to a Hermit

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

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


title: Watch

medium: Copper gilt, iron

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: White-Tailed Wildebeest, from the Animals of the World series (T180), issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Glass mosaic inlay fragment


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

credit_line: Henrietta Seligman Lace Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Jesse Seligman, 1910


title: A soldier raising his rifle to hit a woman (The Fifth of May)

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

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

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Tea Caddy, named Tall (Seitaka)

creator: Nonomura Ninsei

date: second half of the 17th century

medium: Stoneware with iron glaze (Kyoto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936


title: Design for an Elaborate Doorway with a Vaulted Ceiling Behind, and a Curtain Drawn Across the Opening

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with gray, mauve, and yellow wash, over ruled and compass constructions in lead point or graphite; framing lines in graphite or leadpoint

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Design for a bed

creator: Daniel Hopfer


title: Cuneiform tablet: administrative document, Esangila archive

date: ca. 139 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Shoe Buckle

medium: Steel and silver plate on copper or brass

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Plate with Lion of Saint Mark

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Man with a Magnifying Glass

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

date: early 1660s

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Japan lamp for ceiling

creator: Matthew Boulton

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954


title: Weaving tool

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922


title: Design for Stanhope Phaeton, no. 4044

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

country: American

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: letter

date: ca. 7th–4th century BCE


title: Two women grieving

creator: John Flaxman

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Catherine G. Curran, Jeffrey L. Berenson, PECO Foundation, and Susan H. Seidel Gifts, 2007


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Johann Gottlieb Glume

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: L'amour européen

creator: Pierre François Basan

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Cliford A. Furst Bequest, by exchange, 1974


title: Wedding slippers

medium: Silk, wax

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer and Mrs. W. Kingsland Macy, 1957


title: The Crucifixion used in Missale Traiectense (Utrecht Missal), Leiden, 1514

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Woodcut printed on vellum with letterpress type printed in black and red on verso

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2009


title: Two Children, One Playing the Drum

creator: Louis Antoine Crozat, Baron de Thiers, Paris

medium: Etching and Engraving

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


title: Bident Spearhead

medium: Steel, gold

country: Persian

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Persian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Schooner Yacht, from the Types of Vessels series (N139) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Fichu

medium: [no medium available]

country: probably European

credit_line: Gift of Professor Ethna Byrne Costigan, 1974


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Tucker Factory

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: VIEW from RUGGLES/ HOUSE. NEWBURGH./ HUDSON RIVER./ W.R.

creator: William Ridgway & Co.

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: Arrowhead

medium: Sandstone, chert or flint

country: Japan

subjects: Stone Japan

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: Netsuke of a Man Holding a Small Bottle in One Hand and Drinking from a Cup

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Bacchante

medium: Bronze

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


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Juvenile Tricks (Liber Studiorum, part V, plate 22)

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

date: January 1, 1811

medium: Etching and mezzotint; first state

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


title: Zodiac figure: dragon

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in enamels on the biscuit (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Birgit and Peter Morse, in memory of Betty and Sydney Morse, 1992


title: In the Generalife

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor, wax crayon, and graphite on white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1915


title: Earring

date: 8th–early 9th 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: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Sidney Douglas Farrar, 1st Base, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 13r)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: They are Polishing Him Up (Y se las pulen)

creator: Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

medium: Pen and dark brown ink with brush and gray-brown wash; composition outlined with pen and dark brown ink on all sides; traces of black chalk underscript under inscription

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1939


title: Mitts

medium: silk, metal, cotton

country: British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Expedition 1921, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1921


title: Vase with chrysanthumum and dragon handles

medium: Stoneware with applied decoration under colored glaze

credit_line: Bequest of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1960


title: Coat

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Warren Brewer, 1982


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Linen and silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Button

medium: Jadeite, dark brownish-red

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Claret Glass

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Panel (Apparel?)

date: 17th century (?)

medium: silk; metal

country: Italian or Spanish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian or spanish
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Youthful Bodhisattva

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42)

creator: Paolo Gerolamo Piola

medium: Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on blue-green paper

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1983


title: Germany, from the Races of Mankind series (T181) issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Ridged earring with an Egyptian Late Period hieroglyphic plaque as ornament

date: perhaps 3rd century CE

medium: Green jasper plaque on gold earring

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Mountain Artillery, Spain, 1853, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes


title: Dagger (Jambiya) with Sheath and Cord

medium: Steel, ivory (elephant), wood, velvet, silver, silk

country: Persian, Qajar

subjects:
Dagger
Persian, qajar

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Ornament Containing Kneeling Boy and Turkey

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

medium: Graphite with pen and black ink

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Entrance of the Polish Legation into Rome

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching, state i


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekanis lid (covered dish)

date: second quarter of the 6th 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: 9 of Collars, from The Cloisters Playing Cards

medium: Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-paper
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1983


title: So, what do you think... will it be difficult getting a good price for this sketch?, from 'The artists,' published in Le Charivari, January 19, 1865

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: January 19, 1865

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: View of the gate of the residence of the Queen Mother, from "Views and new perspectives, drawn from the most beautiful places of Paris and environs" (Veües et perspectives nouvelles, tirées sur les plus beaux lieux de Paris et des environs)

creator: Claude Goyrand

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

date: early 16th century

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Ruth Stetson, from the Actresses series (N665) promoting Our Knocker Cigars

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry

creator: Edward Sheffield Bartholomew

medium: Marble

credit_line: Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund, and Gift of William Nelson, by  exchange, 1996


title: Alexander the Great

date: 16th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: The Erich Lederer Collection, Gift of Mrs. Erich Lederer, 1986


title: Ring

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, from Das Plenarium

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut (hand-colored)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Mijwiz (Meijiwiz)

date: late 19th century

medium: Bone, bamboo, waxed cord.

country: Syrian

subjects:
Syrian
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Jug

medium: Lustered creamware

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Terracotta fragments of undetermined shapes

date: 5th century BCE


title: Wait for Escort, from the Parasol Drills series (N18) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Russian peasant girl

creator: Peter Carl Fabergé

medium: Jasper, sapphire, purpurine, nephrite, jade

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1954


title: Miniature Tunic

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Foot

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


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

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Les Oies

creator: Félix-Hilaire Buhot

medium: Drypoint; fourth state of four

credit_line: Bequest of Joan G. Smith, 2024


title: Grill

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Teabowl

date: 19th century

medium: Pottery covered by a glaze; metal rim (Kiyomizu ware, Tenmoku style)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: The Farm-Yard with the Cock (Liber Studiorum, part IV, plate 17)

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching and mezzotint; third state of three (Finberg)

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


title: Cup

medium: Buff ware decorated with white slip, black lines and covered with a transparent crackled glaze (Kyoto ware)


title: Sheperd with his Flock and a Dog

creator: Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

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

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Embroidered map sampler

medium: Silk embroidery on wool

subjects:
Maps & charts
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Palette

medium: Grey stone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Slippers

creator: Hellstern and Sons

medium: leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward A. Morrison, 1944


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

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


title: Limestone statue of a lion

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Button or Bead or Spindle Whorl

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Stone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: The New York Drawing Book, Containing a Series of Original Designs and Sketches of American Scenery, by F. Palmer, No. 1

creator: Frances Flora Bond Palmer

medium: Illustrations: lithographs

subjects: Book Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1954


title: Miniature Headdress

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1924


title:
[Merchants' Carnival Portrait: P&W Cigar Factory, P. A. Rasmus Photography Studio,
C. Bogardus Loans and Real Estate, and Eastern Illinois Register, Paxton, Illinois]

creator: P.  A. Rasmus

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gift of the Shimshak Brenner Family, in memory of Robert Shimshak, 2024


title: Papyrus

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Book or Sutra Cover with Lady Bearing a Conch

medium: Plain weave silk with supplementary silk weft patterning

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1956


title: Study for a Raising of Lazarus (recto); half-length study of bearded nude male figure, and a man and woman with donkey (verso)

creator: Salvator Rosa

medium: Red chalk highlighted with white chalk

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Uninscribed Heart Scarab

medium: Stone

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


title: Waistcoat

date: 18th century

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1943


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman


title: Hat

medium: silk

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. John Kimball, 1945


title: Marie Halton, from the Actresses series (N246), Type 1, issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sporting Extra Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Jean-François Garand

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Souvenir

medium: Gold, ivory, steel


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Plaque with Standing Yakshi

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Wood

country: India (West Bengal)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (west bengal)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1999


title: Hopscotch, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Marianne

creator: Gilles Rousselet

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Blue-painted Storage jar

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1955


title: Arch Cittern

creator: Jean Francois Tiphanon

medium: Wood, ivory

subjects: Chordophone-lute-plucked-fretted French

credit_line: Gift of Helen C. Lanier, 1982


title: Kicking Up a Breeze or Barrow Women Basting a Beadle

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: February 10, 1814

medium: Hand-colored etching; reprint

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


title: Shadow player

medium: Donkey skin, cord

subjects: Leatherwork China

credit_line: Gift of H. J. Tei, 1920


title: Coin

date: dated 191 AH/806 CE

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: The Guardian Angel, stepping off a cloud and putting his arm around a young boy at left while a demon walks away at right

creator: Nicolas Gabriel Dupuis

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Glass

country: Byzantine

subjects: Glass Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Fortune, plate 1 from "Virtues and Vices"

creator: Zacharias Dolendo

medium: Engraving; New Hollstein's first state of two

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


title: Pilate at the left washing his hands (left side of sheet)

creator: Andrea Andreani

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks printed in green-brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Gumbert, Pitcher, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Caddy (part of a set)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941


title: Prospectus for Queen Victoria Opening Parliament

creator: George Baxter

medium: Letter press and Baxter process: aquatint key plate with oil colors printed from wood engraved blocks

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Fruit-Shop, Paris (Greengrocer's Shop, Paris)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint; only state (Glasgow); printed in black ink on buff laid paper

subjects: Print Fruits

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1991


title: Plate

creator: Thomas Danforth Boardman

medium: Pewter

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Joseph France, 1943


title: Cow plaque

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Head of a God

medium: White Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Mercury and Argus

creator: Simone Cantarini

medium: Etching


title: Terracotta scyphus (drinking cup)

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1915


title: Libro quarto. De rechami per elquale se impara in diuersi modi lordine e il modo de recamare...Opera noua, page 3 (recto)

creator: Alessandro Paganino

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Towel border

medium: Drawnwork, embroidery, crochet, linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Greenman Stillman, 1931


title: Earrings

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: metal

country: European, Eastern

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Lamp

creator: J. & I. Cox

medium: Gilt bronze and brass, with blown glass half-dome shade

credit_line: Purchase, Dr. and Mrs. Burton P. Fabricand, Mrs. Daniel Fraad, and Jan and Warren Adelson Gifts, 2000


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Waka Poem: Moonlit Flower

creator: Masanari Shirakawa

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Calligraphy Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Beaker with inverse face

creator: Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

medium: Gold

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

subjects:
Metal-container
Lambayeque (sicán)

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1974, 1977


title: Steatite octagonal seal

date: 8th century BCE

medium: Steatite, gray

country: Greek

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Bellona Seated on her Trophies

creator: Léon Davent

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


title: The Philosopher (Bearded Old Man Copying Book)

medium: Etching and aquatint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Winged Pendant

date: 10th–16th century

medium: Greenstone

country: Tairona

subjects: Stone-ornament Tairona

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Handkerchief

medium: silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. C.W. Lester, 1940


title: A Short History of General Quincy Adams Gilmore, from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Purse

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Tea caddy

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: An American Sailing Ship off Arai

creator: Utagawa Yoshimori

date: October, 1872

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Print
Japan
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Two joined lappets

date: mid-18th century

medium: Linen, bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Donald P. Spence, in memory of her mother, Mrs. William Redmond Cross, 1979


title: Study for an Allegory

creator: Augustin Terwesten

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Red chalk, heightened with white chalk

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2011


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic


title: Reliquary with Contents

date: ca. 1st–3rd century

medium: Schist with objects of copper, bronze, gold, and crystal objects

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin N. Haas, 1987


title: Sample

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of F.J. Schaetzel, 1919


title: Wine cup

medium: Nephrite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Stone

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Seated Falconer

date: mid-to-late 6th century

medium: Earthenware with red and white pigments

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Music, from The Seven Liberal Arts, plate 6

creator: Monogrammist B

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Glass phalera (medallion) with imperial portraits

date: early 1st century CE

medium: Glass, blue

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Watch

medium: Enamel, brass, silver


title: Fan

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Gold, tortoiseshell, parchment, paint, gilt, sequins, glass

credit_line: From the Collection of Ella Wolcott Clark Rogers, Gift of Ella Mabel Clark, 1948


title: Galloon

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Length of Very Sheer Linen Cloth

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


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

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


title: Whistling Bottle

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Linen; embroidered in silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: 大高檀紙见本帖

credit_line: Gift of Friends of the Thomas J. Watson Library


title: Pastoral Vase

creator: Isaac Broome

medium: tinted porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2011


title: Sketch of Mountain Scenery (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: mid-4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian


title: Compote

creator: Benjamin Bakewell & Co.

medium: Blown-molded and engraved glass

credit_line: Purchase, M. B. and Fannie Finkelstein Foundation Gift, 1983


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 11th century

medium: Earthenware; slipped, glazed, splashed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Papyrus Fragment of a Letter

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Hab.t de l'Acadie, from the playing cards (for quartets) "Costumes des Peuples Étrangers"

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Goblet

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Piece

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: Miseries of London, or a Surly Saucy Hackney Coachman

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Cupid chained to a rock

creator: Giovanni Pichler

date: late 18th century

medium: Onyx and gold

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1939


title: Border

date: 16th century

medium: Silk on linen


title: Imperial seal

medium: Jade

country: China

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Tassel

date: 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, 1921


title: Esemplario di Lauori..., page 6 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

date: August 1, 1532

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Ribbon

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Door and Lock: Figures

creator: Dogon blacksmith

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood, iron

country: Dogon peoples

subjects:
Architecture
Wood-architectural
Dogon people

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1969


title: Appreciation of Painting, from a set of the Four Accomplishments

creator: Kano School

medium: Four of eight panels mounted on sliding-door panels; ink, color, gold, and gold leaf on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in honor of Ambassador and Mrs. Michael Mansfield, 1989


title: Dish depicting The Death of Saul

creator: Medici Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain decorated in underglaze blue

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1941


title: John Thomas Pickett, Shortstop, St. Paul Apostles, 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: Shirt

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert S. Morrow, 1937


title: Design for a Stage Set or Illustration in a Fête Book with a Blank Scroll Above

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over lead or graphite; vertical ruled line in graphite at center; framing lines in graphite and in pen and brown ink; glued onto secondary paper support

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


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta lid of a stamnos (jar)

creator: Menelaos Painter

date: ca. 450 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Fan

date: late 19th century

medium: feathers, plastic

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Janos Scholz (Helen Marshall), in memory of her aunt, Mrs. Lytle Hull (Helen Dinsmore Huntington), 1978


title: Terracotta statuette of a woman leaning on a pillar

date: 2nd century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian, tarentine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Cup with cover

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Group of rustic figures

medium: Polychromed wood, gesso and stiffened cloth

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Bever, in memory of Professor Rudolf Berliner, 1993


title: Coffee cup (part of a service)

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Knife with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, jade, gold, turquoise, coral, lapis lazuli

country: Chinese

subjects:
Knive
Chinese
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: New Ideas for Designs (Shin’an ishō chigozakura) 新案意匠知古佐久良 （しんあんいしょうちござくら）

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1985


title: Sibylle Erythréenne, from "Douze Sibylles"

creator: Gilles Rousselet

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


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


title: Rattle?

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, 1968


title: In Clichy: wondering if the repeal of the sentence will be quickly ratified, to allow him to see the exhibition, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, June 18, 1867

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Painting

creator: Marie Madeleine Igonet

medium: Etching and engraving


title: Card 518, Mary Anderson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Haystacks, Morning, Eragny

creator: Camille Pissarro

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Douglas Dillon, 2003


title: Terracotta oinochoe (wine jug)

creator: Chigi Group

date: ca. 625 BCE

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Lover's Eye Bracelet

medium: Watercolor on ivory set in a gold bracelet

country: Probably British

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2024


title: Bathing suit

medium: cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1977


title: Satirical Drawing of the Sâr Joséphin Peladan

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Pen and brown ink, watercolor

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


title: Embroidered whitework sampler

medium: Silk on linen

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Garland (part of a set)

medium: Wood, gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Limestone statue of a man holding a mask in the form of a bull's head

date: 2nd half of 4th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtis, 1953


title: Design for Two Vases

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown and gray ink, watercolor, and black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1961


title: Coupé #3983

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes(drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Covered Bowl

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Gold hook type earring with discs in filigree

medium: Gold


title: Carnelian Amygdaloid

medium: Carnelian

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Monastic Saint

medium: Oak

country: Netherlandish (?)

subjects: Sculpture-wood Netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: [Tinsmith in Front of Painted Outdoor Backdrop]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: The Diplomat, man seated holding hat facing left

creator: Mariano Fortuny, 1838–1874

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co.


title: Plate

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Robert L. Isaacson, 1989


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, 1943


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Band

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Trade Card for W. Baker, Engraver, Lithographer & Stationer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Brocaded

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Tobacco Pipe

medium: Bronze, wood, silver

subjects:
Smoking equipment
Japan

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


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: Flagon

creator: I. B. (the pewterer)

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta spouted jug with high handle and slip lid

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Lydian

subjects: Vase Lydian

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Exploration of Sardis, 1914


title: Full Moon at Kanazawa, Province of Musashi

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Henry L. Phillips Collection, Bequest of Henry L. Phillips, 1939


title: Plaque with Two Portuguese Merchants

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Edo people

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


title: Funerary relief

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Bequest of Armida B. Colt, 2011


title: Landscape

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 16th century or later

medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Little Arthur

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching; fourth state of four (Glasgow); printed in dark brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Casson, 1994


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, 1929