title: [Maharajah Putteala's State Elephant]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Miss Linthicum, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Shaftsbury Penny

date: 11th century

medium: Silver

country: British

subjects: Coin British

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Band

date: 18th century

medium: Linen and wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

creator: Isidore Pils

date: 19th century

medium: Red and white chalk, traces of black chalk, on beige paper.  Scattered stains.

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989


title: Panel

date: early 16th century

medium: Carved oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Seated bodhisattva Guanyin with an attendant

medium: Porcelain with ivory glaze (Dehua ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Walter Sachs, 1964


title: Scepter

medium: Nephrite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Embroidered net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Gloves

medium: leather

country: French

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Handle (?)

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Metal

country: Coptic

subjects: Metalwork Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Orphreys from a Cope

date: 15th century

medium: Silk, gold thread, silver thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Cap

date: 10th–14th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Arica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Arica
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: The Nativity

creator: Geoffroy Dumoûtier

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: William Ellsworth "Dummy" Hoy, Center Field, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Idol Worship, Easter Island, from the Holidays series (N80) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Maniple

date: second half of 17th century

medium: Needle lace, gros point lace, silk lining

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1910


title: Reliquary crucifix pendant

date: probably 17th–18th century

medium: Gold, enamel, pearls

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


title: Wood, Left Field, Phila., from the Gold Coin series (N284) for Gold Coin Chewing Tobacco

creator: D. Buchner & Co., New York

medium: Commercial color lithograph reproducing drawing


title: Miniature Litter Section

date: 11th–late 15th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Chimú or Chancay

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Chimú or chancay

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Petticoat

medium: wool, silk, cotton

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Albert Ogden in memory of Sheldon Stewart, 1964


title: Ribbon

medium: Velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Albert Blum, 1917


title: Roof tile fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Earthenware with yellow glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H. Fairfield Osborn, 1929


title: Glass pendant

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: [Mosque at Sultaniye, [same as 46] ]

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Charles K. and Irma B. Wilkinson, 1977


title: Collar

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 1888


title: St. Philip, from "Christ and the Apostles"

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Plate

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Figure

date: 2nd–4th century

medium: Ivory (walrus)

country: Punuk

subjects:
Bone/ivory-sculpture
Punuk
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, Bella and Israel Unterberg Foundation Inc. Gift and Funds from various donors, 1981


title: Length of bizarre silk

medium: Silk satin, brocaded, silk and metal-wrapped thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Tab

medium: Silk;  on silk;  bound with silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Box with Cover

date: 20th century

medium: Stoneware with inlaid decoration under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1915


title: Design for a Façade with Statues in Niches and Armorial Trophies

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Dr. Cassock, F.R.S., Inventor of the Noble Puzzle for Tumble Down Horses

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Mantle

medium: wool

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Art Worker's Club, 1945


title: One from a Pair of Solid Anklets with Spiral Decoration

date: 300 BCE–CE 400

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Mission Ridge Scene of Sherman's Attack

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970


title: Portrait of Henri-Louis Le Kain

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Engraving; third state of three (Bocher)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Shard:  Offerer

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

credit_line: Gift of Andrew Hale and Kate Fitz Gibbon, 1992


title: Bronze bangle

date: ca. 7th–9th century CE

medium: Metal

country: Alanic

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Simcox, 1999


title: Plaque

medium: Cloisonné enamel

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Boulogne, from the Fancy Bathers series (N187) 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: Saint Jude in prayer, seen in profile facing left with a staff resting on his shoulder, in an oval frame, from "Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles"

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

medium: Etching; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Acomita polychrome water jar

medium: Clay and pigment

country: Acoma, Native American

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2018


title: Procession, with three men leading three horses

creator: Anonymous, German, 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Sugar Bowl

medium: Blown pattern-molded lead glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Architectural detail

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, washed

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Terracotta onos (leg guard used in carding wool)

date: last quarter of 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Monkey vessel

creator: Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artists

medium: travertine, pyrite, shell

country: Mixtec

subjects:
Stone-container
Mixtec
Shells & molluscs
Ships & the sea

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


title: Armlet

medium: Jadeite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Boss

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1935


title: Cologne Bottle

medium: Free-blown glass

country: Czech

credit_line: Gift of Robert Macauley Jackson, 1920


title: Evening Snow at Uchikawa (Uchikawa no bosetsu), from the series Fashionable Eight Views of Kanazawa

creator: Isoda Koryūsai

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Miniature trivet

creator: David Clayton

medium: Silver

credit_line: The Joseph M. and Aimee Loeb May Collection, 1963


title: Bowl with scholar objects

medium: Porcelain painted in polychrome enamels over a crackled glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: The Athletic Club at Bowling Green

creator: Harry Fenn

medium: Watercolor, gouache and graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Tara, the Buddhist Savioress

date: ca. second half of the 8th century

medium: Bronze

country: Bangladesh (probably Comilla District)

subjects:
Sculpture
Bangladesh (probably comilla district)

credit_line: Gift of John and Evelyn Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1979


title: Monkey Pendant

medium: Gold

country: Carchi-Nariño, Capulí

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Carchi-nariño, capulí

credit_line: Gift of Mica Ertegün, 2008


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Trade Card for T. Sanders, engraver

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Engraving

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


title: The Nativity with Saints

creator: Ridolfo Ghirlandaio

medium: Oil on wood

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


title: Saddle bag

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Fireworks at Ikenohata

creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Sebastian and Miki Izzard, 2016


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Connecticut Village (Going to School)

creator: Julian Alden Weir

date: after 1891

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Dish with sailing-boat

date: mid 18th-century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)


title: Clara Vincent, 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: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Caster

creator: Adrian Bancker

country: American

credit_line: Sansbury-Mills Fund, 1972


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Landscape

creator: Anonymous, British, early 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Brush and gray wash, touches of black pen and ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Max J. H. Rossbach, 1967


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Card Number 384, Emily Fenn, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Design for a Wall-mounted Epitaph

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with gray, yellow, and pink wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Four Oiran of the House Called Kadokana-ya Playing the Game of Ko-awase (Incense Game)

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Pin with spherical head

date: ca. 14th–13th century BCE

country: Hittite

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Stirrup

medium: Opaque and translucent enamel and gilded copper

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Enamels-cloisonné

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: A Rest by the Way (Open Landscape with Figures, Donkey and Horses)

creator: Thomas Gainsborough

medium: Black chalk, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: Siames Female Musician

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Panel Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Ko-Tze

date: late 19th century

medium: bamboo, gourd

country: Chinese

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Chinese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Basin

date: early 14th century

medium: Brass; inlaid with silver

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


title: Incense burner

medium: Nephrite, light greenish-grey

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


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

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: A Peacock Perched on a Maple Tree

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print

subjects: Print Japan Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Water Filter

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: –By God, Catherine.... –Monsieur, this Zouave is a healer... it's just for my health!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, September 18, 1867

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 18, 1867

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

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1954


title: Table fork

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, brass

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Model adze

medium: Copper, wood, animal hide

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917


title: Plate 124: Hecuba and the Trojan Women Murdering Polymestor (Hecuba Polymnestori oculos ervit), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

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


title: Presumed portrait of Angelo Soliman (1721–1796)

creator: Johann Martin Bückle

medium: Red wax on slate

subjects: Sculpture-miniature Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gift, 2025


title: Galloon

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Posting in Scotland

creator: James Gillray

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

credit_line: Gift of Jill Spalding, 2022


title: Suit

creator: J.B. Johnstone

medium: wool

country: British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Designated Purchase Fund, 1983


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


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: Shallow bowl depicting the Suicide of Dido

creator: Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered

credit_line: Gift of V. Everit Macy, in memory of his wife, Edith Carpenter Macy, 1927


title: The Muse of History

creator: Johann Heinrich von Dannecker

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Paul E. Manheim, 1969


title: The Assumption, plate 10 from "Les Tableaux de Rome, Les Eglises Jubilaires" (The Paintings of Rome, The Churches Jubilee)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Engraving; second state of three (Lieure)

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


title: Medallion

date: first half 19th century

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Stained glass window

creator: John Scott Bradstreet

medium: leaded glass

credit_line: Purchase, Sansbury-Mills and Friends of the American Wing Funds, 2010


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

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


title: Band

date: 19th century

medium: Silk on canvas

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Goatherd on the Hill

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Tassel

medium: Linen

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


title: Painting of Peacocks, Pines, a Waterfall, and a Roll of Red Fabric

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Kingfisher, from the Birds of America series (N4) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Ring Weight

medium: Glass; tooled and stamped


title: Side Chair

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: Gift of H. D. Perine, 1925


title: Fear

creator: Louis Léopold Boilly

medium: Hand colored lithograph

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1991


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bowl

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1976


title: Jack "Peach Pie" O'Connor, Catcher, Cleveland, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Fragment

medium: Silk on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: "The Emperor Shah Jahan with his Son Dara Shikoh", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

creator: Nanha

date: verso: ca. 1620; recto: ca. 1530–50

medium:
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Margins: Gold and opaque watercolor on dyed paper

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955


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

creator: Penelope Painter

medium: Terracotta


title: Urn on square base (one of a pair)

medium: Egyptian Imperial porphyry; gilt bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Grate basket and fender

creator: Thomas Blockley

medium: Steel, cast iron

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Fibula, fragment

medium: Bronze

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, cypriot

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


title: Cup with Cover

creator: R W

medium: Mother-of-pearl, with gilded silver mounts

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive inventate, ed incise da Giambatista Piranesi Architetto Veneziano fra gli Arcadi Salcindio Tiseio; Lettere di Giustificazione a Milord Charlemont plates, which were adapted to appear in the Opere Varie; Opere Varie; Grotteschi; Carceri; Archi Trionfali, and Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Rosette

date: dated 1585

medium: Brass

country: Italian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Italian

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Gothic Harp

medium: Wood, metal

country: Probably German

subjects:
Chordophone-harp
Probably german

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 49 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Sample

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Spoon

creator: Joseph Moulton

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: The Sense of Sight

creator: Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Card Number 59, Miss Mattie Vickers, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Erminia and the Shepherds (a scene from Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk on light tan paper

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: "Snapper" Garrison, Jockey, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Button

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Stone; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Jug

date: probably 10th century

medium: Earthenware; covered with slip and incised, unglazed


title: Butterfly, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths


title: Brooch with Assyrian human-headed winged lion

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023


title: Four-Cornered Hat

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: The Hatters, from Crafts and Trades

creator: Jan Georg (Joris) van Vliet

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1985


title: Section of a Composite Bow from a Crossbow

date: 15th century

medium: Baleen, horn, tendon, bark (birch)

country: European

subjects:
Archery equipment
European

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Bookplate with the coat of arms of Konrad Peutinger

creator: Hans Burgkmair

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


title: Swallow and Wisteria

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Piece

medium: Silk


title: Figure of a horse

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with pigment

country: China

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth D. Bowen, in memory of Florence Winifred Blyth, 1967


title: Feather and uraeus attachment for the crown of a large statue of Osiris

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Tiger

creator: Gan Ku

date: early 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Il Goffredo ovvero Gerusalemme liberata

creator: Torquato Tasso

medium: Printed book with intaglio illustration.

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1996


title: Ornament (one of a pair)

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1930


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920


title: Fragment

credit_line: Gift of Lady Alan Johnstone, 1920


title: Ono Waterfall on the Kisokaidō (Kisokaidō Ono no bakufu), from the series A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

subjects: Print Japan


title: Fragment from scene of Queen Neferu having her hair done - see 26.3.353-5

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Vieillard Assis Dans un Intérieur (Old Man Seated in an Interior)

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Etching

credit_line: The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1950


title: Card Number 359, Nellie Chossay, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: New Modelbüch (Page 45r)

creator: Andreas Bretschneider

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Harpoon head

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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: Standing Ganesha

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Wood with traces of polychrome

country: Nepal, Kathmandu Valley

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal, kathmandu valley

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1961


title: Page 13r, from "Eyn New Kunstlichboich"

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Lough Erne Shrine

date: early 20th century (original dated 11th century)

medium: Bronze with gilding

country: Irish

subjects: Irish Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fiore D'Ogni Virtu Per le Nobili Et Honeste Matrone, page 27 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Life of Abraham

creator: Gerard de Jode

date: third quarter 17th century

medium: Silk on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Fragment of a Seated Buddha on a Throne

date: ca. 8th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Kalimantan)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (kalimantan)

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Goetz, 1995


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Silhouette of Lady Carstairs, Hyde Park, London

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor, gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: The Glenn Tilley Morse Collection, Bequest of Glenn Tilley Morse, 1950


title: Kalamkari Hanging with Figures in an Architectural Setting

medium: Cotton; plain weave, mordant-painted and dyed, resist-dyed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Architecture
Textiles-painted and/or printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum, 1920


title: Centennial of Washington's Inauguration

medium: White metal

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wait, 1907


title: Russian Bassoon in C

creator: Cuvillier

medium: Wood, brass

country: French

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Design for a Silver Vessel (Wine Cooler?)

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Black and white chalk, brush and colored wash, heightened with gouache, over graphite

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1981


title: Head of a Man

creator: Gilles Demarteau

date: mid-18th century

medium: Crayon-manner engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Walton Butterworth, 1979


title: A shepherdess, accompanied by her dog, dancing to the sound of a musette

creator: Abraham Bosse

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Portrait of Oboshi Yuranosuke Yoshio (The Leader)

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Crescent-shaped attachments with bulls' heads

date: ca. early 1st millennium BCE

medium: Gold

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia

creator: William Barber

medium: Bronze and gold leaf


title: Rosette

date: 14th century

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Italian

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Quarter repeater watch

creator: Jean Baptiste Dutertre

medium: Gold, diamonds, emeralds, rubies

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Plaque Inscribed with the Name Nefertari

medium: Steatite, glazed

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Pendant

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Indonesia

subjects: Jewelry Indonesia

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


title: View of a Mosque and Gateway at Motijhil

creator: Sita Ram

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2002


title: Beatrice Cameron, 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: Salvator Rosa frame

date: late 17th century

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Turin

subjects:
Frame
Italian, turin
Roses

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: [William Jacob Hays, Sr.]

creator: Whitney & Paradise

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Collection, Gift of the Centennial Committee, 1970


title: Beggar

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Tassel

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Boutonnière

medium: silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Cyril Andrade, 1924


title: Statue of Official

medium: Wood, painted and gilded

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1934


title: Betty Lamp

medium: Iron

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


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, gros point lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Seal-top spoon

creator: I. F., London

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Goblet vase

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Dish

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: A Prisoner at Avignon, from "Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, Shortly Before the Revolution"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


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

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Pieces (4)

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sir H. Davy, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Illustration for a Book:  Reception of a Bishop Leading an Army at a City Gate

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Engraved copies of The Little Passion

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


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

creator: Cleveland Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Scarab Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Re

medium: Blue glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Cup with Floral Scrolls

date: late 12th century

medium: Silver with chased and repoussé decoration

subjects: Metalwork China Flowers

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: View Near Albury

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Deep Pot (Fuka-bachi)

medium: Earthenware with cord-marked and incised decoration

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 1992


title: Shabti of the Divine Consort Mutemhat Mehytenweskhet

medium: Faience

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


title: Piece

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Cole Younger, 1959


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

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


title: Beads, 14

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Profile Face

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Mercury Appears to Aeneas in a Dream

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1988


title: Ice pail with cover (Seau à glace) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Vue des Ouvrages de Peinture des Artistes Vivants Exposés au Museum Centrale des Arts en l'An VIII de la Republique Françoise

creator: Antoine Maxime Monsaldy

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


title: Cane

medium: wood, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Miss M. Smyth, 1957


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Tile Panel

date: early 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome underglaze painted


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Egg cup

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Piece

medium: Cotton


title: Seal

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Portable Altar and Two Side Panels

date: 9th–12th century and/or later

medium: Elephant ivory, shell gold, wood box, stone inset on lid

country: European

subjects:
European
Ivories-elephant
Shells & molluscs


title: Stove Plate

creator: Hibernia Furnace

medium: Cast-iron

credit_line: Purchase, The Dobson Foundation Inc. Gift, 2006


title: Fragment of a terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Gift of Nicolas Koutoulakis, 1960


title: Silk bobbin

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Scarab of the Steward of Cusae, Senebtifi

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Corner Shelves

medium: Poplar

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


title: Design for a Wagonette, no. 3159

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Buckle

date: 18th century

medium: Jade, gilt bronze

country: China

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Tomb for a Bishop

creator: Anonymous, German, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown and gray ink, and brush and gray wash over traces of red chalk

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2001


title: Pair of Shoes

date: 3rd–9th century

medium: Leather; gilded trim

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1926


title: Mlle. Jane May, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Knob from the lid of a neck-amphora, joins lid of 17.230.14

date: ca. 540 BCE

credit_line: Gift of J. D. Beazley, 1927


title: Terracotta jug with griffin protome handle

date: 1st half of the 6th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Yayoi Goto

creator: Asano Tōshichi

medium: Wood, silk

country: Japanese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


creator: Poseidon Painter

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


title: Spatula

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Card Number 40, Miss Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Landau #889

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache


title: Kneeling Nude Youth with Raised Clasped Hands

creator: Etienne Jeaurat

medium: Red chalk, heightened with white, on beige paper.

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1989


title: Seated Figure Censer (Incensario)

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Maya

subjects: Maya Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Carol R. Meyer, 1982, 1983


title: St. Gregory and St. Sebastian

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

date: 15th century

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


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


title: Landscape with solitary figure

creator: Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)

medium: Album leaf; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

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


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

date: first quarter of the 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Earring with lotus and filigree

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek


title: Landscape with a domed church, near Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 38 recto)

creator: Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash, over graphite

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Blackware Vessel with Incised Patterns

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paraca
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Architecture Françoise, 4 Volumes

creator: Jacques François Blondel

medium: Books

subjects: Architecture Book

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alexander McMillan Welch, 1946


title: Study for the Rotunda of a Palace

creator: Jacques de Lajoüe

medium: Red chalk with red chalk wash, with framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: Purchase, Anne Stern Gift, 1978


title: Panel with Lantern and Streamers

medium: Silk and metal thread tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Eilnor Merrel, R. H. Ellsworth Ltd., Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill, Jean Mailey, Janice T. Hamburger and Barbara Teague Gifts, in memory of Michael Abraham, 1988


title: Miniature chamber candlestick

creator: George Middleton

medium: Silver

credit_line: The Joseph M. and Aimee Loeb May Collection, 1963


title: Study after the Belvedere Torso

creator: Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari)

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Joseph M. Lichtenauer, 1890


title: Card Number 258, Miss Mills, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Serrated Harpoon

medium: Copper

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

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


title: Edging

date: 16th century

medium: Macrame

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Jar rim sherd

date: ca. late 3rd millennium BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


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

creator: Aegisthus Painter

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 14th–12th century BCE

medium: Hematite

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


title: Grande Pagode - Edicule extérieur Sud

creator: Emile Gsell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Meiping vase with flowers

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stoneware painted in black over white slip (Cizhou ware type)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Door

date: 14th century

medium: Wood, iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Glass eye bead

date: ca. 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman (?)

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Pouyat

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Tea caddy

creator: D. W. Rehtmeier

date: probably 1807

credit_line: Bequest of Alfred Duane Pell, 1924


title: Vase

creator: William J. Walley

medium: Stoneware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2018


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: late 18th century

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Teapot

creator: Hugh Wishart

credit_line: Gift of George P. Cammann, 1917


title: Tassel

date: 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Design for Ceiling Decoration

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

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


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Tureen with Cover

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and wash

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


title: [Female Nude from the Back]

creator: Unknown

medium: Platinum print

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1943


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Bobbin

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; carved and incised

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Coq de ferme; race commune, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Life of Charles Stewart Parnell, from the Histories of Poor Boys and Famous People series of booklets (N79) 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: Female musician with drum

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: [Paul Friedrich Meyerheim]

creator: Loescher & Petsch

date: after 1867

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Collection, Gift of the Centennial Committee, 1970


title: Vase with a River God in an Oval Medallion

creator: René Boyvin

date: 17th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Scholarship Medal

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


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

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–8th century

medium: Linen, wool

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Byzantine
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of  Nanette B. Kelekian, in honor of Nobuko Kajitani, 2002


title: Ceramic Fragments

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Pierrot and Scaramouche show the portrait of Harlequin

creator: Claude Gillot

medium: Etching, second state

subjects: Print Portraits

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


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


title: Capital

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Private, Vicksburg Southrons, Mississippi Militia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 24v)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Priam Supplicating Achilles for the Body of Hector

creator: Giuseppe Girometti

medium: Onyx, gold

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Forearm against support with Aten cartouche

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Old Manji's Cursive Picture Album (Manjiō sōhitsu gafu) 卍翁艸筆画譜

creator: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Plate with flower basket

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Vignaux, Billiards, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Design for Astor's Hotel, New York

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Lithograph with watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Netsuke of Group of Mice

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Portrait of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany

creator: Paolo Toschi

credit_line: Gift of Carl J. Ulmann, 1924


title: Charles Grolier, provost of the merchants of Lyon (1650–73)

creator: Claude Varin

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: William Walter "Wally" Andrews, 1st Base, Omaha Omahogs/Lambs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Dish

creator: Samuel Kilbourn

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, in memory of her husband, 1941


title: Textile Fragment

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Linen


title: Huqqa Mat

medium: Silk, cotton, velvet, and canvas; embroidered with metal wrapped thread, sequins, and beads

credit_line: Purchase, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, and The Irene Diamond Fund Gift, 2014


title: Untitled

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Reel


title: Karaki Masaemon

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 20 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Shirtwaist

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Valerie Dreyfus, 1957


title: Wooden Spindle

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Wood, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-implement

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Amatory Brooch

medium: Gold and freshwater pearl

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-gold German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1986


title: Folio from a Bestiary and Herbal

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

subjects:
Codice
Medicinal & herbal plants

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 1965


title: Armorial panel

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Cap

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool; sprang technique

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Swallows and Budding Wild Cherry

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Medal:  Bust of Massimiano Gonzaga

creator: Pastorino de Pastorini

date: model ca. 1554 (contemporary cast)

medium:
Bronze (Copper alloy with brown patina
over a yellow patina)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Splendore delle virtuose giovani, page 3 (recto)

creator: Iseppo Foresto


title: Bataglia de L'Amazone, from "Battles of Different Nations" (Capricci di varie battaglie)

creator: Johann Wilhelm Baur

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: At Dinner

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 5, 1792

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Bottle

medium: Glass; mold blown

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Miniature jar with loop handles

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with molded decoration and three color (sancai) glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Bronze handle attachment

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1900


title: Glass cup in the form of the head of a Black African

date: 2nd half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Lemuel Shaw

creator: Southworth and Hawes

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1938


title: Bellona

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Coupé #810

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: After the Battle

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: The J.B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1951


title: Earring with Wire and Granules

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Soba cup

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hizen ware)

subjects: Ceramic 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: The Age of Bronze (L'Age d'airain)

creator: Auguste Rodin

date: modeled 1876, cast in reduced size 19th century

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Vanderpoel Clark, 1967


title: Wall casing

medium: Limestone, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Double Capital

date: late 15th century

medium: Marble


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Bookshelves, Study for "Edmond Duranty"

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Dark brown chalk, heightened with white chalk, on blue laid paper, faded to beige

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Lion (Chi'lin) in a Landscape

date: late 16th century

medium: Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Scarab seal

medium: Steatite, white

credit_line: Gift of Harris D. and H. Dunscombe Colt, 1934


title: Fragment of Woman's Trousering

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Daniel Webster "Dan" Shannon, 2nd Base, Omaha Omahogs/ Lambs, 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: Miniature tureen with cover

creator: Thomas Howell

medium: Silver

credit_line: The Joseph M. and Aimee Loeb May Collection, 1963


title: Bread knife

medium: Steel, gilt bronze, mother-of-pearl, bronze

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Warrior with Shield

date: first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

medium: Fresco transferred to canvas

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Paintings-fresco

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1957


title: Dish

date: 15th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Rapier

medium: Steel, copper wire

subjects: Sword German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Pelerine

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, 1978


title: Petronella Elias (1648–1667) with a Basket of Fruit

creator: Ferdinand Bol

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Fruits

credit_line: Purchase, George T. Delacorte Jr. Gift, 1957


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: stone

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Bowl

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Porcelain with reddish-brown glaze (Dangyangyu ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Knife (Pichangatti) and Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, horn, silver, brass, wood (rosewood), coral

country: Indian, Kodagu (Coorg)

subjects:
Knive
Indian, kodagu (coorg)
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Sheet with pattern of flowers and circles

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Seated Vishnu

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

credit_line: Purchase, Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift, 1985


title: Solid Undecorated Bangle

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Dinner Plate

creator: Dihl et Guérhard

medium: Porcelain

country: French, for American market

credit_line: Purchase, Solomon Grossman Gift, in memory of Berry B. Tracy, and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1994


title: Wash Basin

creator: United States Pottery Company

medium: Mottled brown earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Herzman, 1983


title: Miss Worth as "Clear the Track," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Iron baluster

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: From the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 39 (recto)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Throne fragment with inscription referring to king and queen

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: "Hare", Folio from the Mantiq al-wahsh (Speech of the Wild Animal) of Ka'b al-Ahbar

creator: Ka'b al-Ahbar

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

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


title: Pair of commodes

creator: François Rübestuck

medium: Oak, japanned black and gold; gilt bronze, marble

credit_line: Gift of Mary Hayward Weir, 1966


title: Miniature club

creator: Chimú or Chancay artist(s)

medium: Silver, copper

country: Chimú or Chancay

subjects:
Metal-implement
Chimú or chancay

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


title: Watch in the form of an Egyptian lyre

creator: Michael Ranna

medium: Case of gold and enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Spear

medium: Wood

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1970


title: Souvenir spoon with view of a medieval town hall and arms of Belgium

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver, parcel-gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1901


title: Wine Glass

creator: Bakewell, Pears and Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Waiting for Calls on New Year's Day (from "Harper's Bazar," Vol. II)

creator: Winslow Homer

date: January 2, 1869

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Cup or Bowl

date: second half 2nd century

medium: Champlevé enamel, bronze, silver liner and bottom

subjects: Roman Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Plate 17: Aides marching in the funeral procession of Archduke Albert of Austria; from 'Pompa Funebris ... Alberti Pii'

creator: Cornelis Galle I

medium: Etching with hand coloring

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


title: Coin

medium: Copper

country: Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Duck

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching; proof

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964


title: Arline Stanley, 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: Morton Schamberg

creator: Morton Schamberg

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Gift of Jean Loeb Whitehill, 1973


title: 14th century Ornament from Blickling Church, Norfolk

creator: Richardson Ellson & Co.

medium: Graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing


title: Schizonema Grevillii

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Warrior Figure

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper, turquoise

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

credit_line: Gift of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1981


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: Copper Knife with Sickle Shaped Blade

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

country: Vicús (?)

subjects: Metal-implement Vicú

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


title: Mug

medium: Free-blown lead glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred Joltin, in memory of Major Henry Gordon Opdycke, 1971


title: Valentine - Mechanical floral scene - a man on a horse offers a woman a rose - symbol of love.

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Heavy card-stock, die cut card stock, chromolithography, paper for hinges

subjects: Ephemera Flowers Roses

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Fan

medium: Parchment, paper, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Cat

creator: Wang Li

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

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


title: The Kunibert Tower near Cologne [copy]

creator: Abraham Aubri

date: after 1644

medium: Etching by Abraham Aubri

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Immortal raft

date: late 18th century

medium: Bamboo, wood stand

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Ellen Barker, 1942


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 14 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Catharine of Aragon and Cardinal Wolsey

date: 19th century

medium: Silk and wool on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Jane A. Wallace, 1902


date: late 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Edward VI (r. 1547–53)

creator: The Royal Mint

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Rowel Spur

medium: Iron alloy

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Hercules Fighting Against the Trojans, from "The Labors of Hercules"

creator: Sebald Beham

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Side chair

medium: Mahogany, maple

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Design for a Square Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling with the Four Evangelists

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and blue-gray wash, over black chalk, with ruler, and compass-work; glued onto secondary paper support

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


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Ewer

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Bronze plaque

date: ca. 247 CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: [Reproduction of The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David]

creator: Unknown

medium: Intaglio print from daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of Michael S. Sachs, 2022


title: Cairo, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) 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: Double Spout and Bridge Bottle in Feline Shape

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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


title: "Burzuya's Mission" Folio 5v, 6r from a Kalila Wa Dimna of Bidpai

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1981


title: Les Petits Buveurs de lait (The Little Milk Drinkers), from Suite d'estampes gravées par madame la marquise de Pompadour d'après les pierres gravées de Guay, graveur du Roi

creator: Madame la Marquise de Pompadour

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hartshorne, 1924


title: Edna Wallace-Hopper, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Figure 25: Not an expression of pain

creator: Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation Gift, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors; Harris Brisbane Dick and William E. Dodge Funds; and W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift, 2013


title: Gold Ornament from a Sword Grip

country: Langobardic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gold
Langobardic

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Fragment of a Sleeve

date: 4th century

medium: Wool; tapestry woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Dish with cover (Écuelle)

creator: Olérys Factory

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Vase

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Porcelain, decorated with pâte-sur-pâte technique

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Plate with Geese and Waves

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hizen ware, Kakiemon type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


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: Strip

date: 16th century

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1906


title: John Good "Long John" Reilly, 1st Base, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Breeches

medium: leather

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Thurston Thacher, 1954


title: Gospel Book

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on parchment; modern leather binding

country: Carolingian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Carolingian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection and Director's Fund, 2015


title: Key

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, De Souhami Collection, Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Teapot

creator: John Astbury

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1945


title: Fan-shape 'Persian' bottle with handles (one of a pair)

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware ("Minton's Majolica")


title: Mitts

medium: silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Helen Rice, 1946


title: Funerary Figure of Akhenaten

medium: Granite

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Josephson, 1982


title: Nyckelharpa

medium: Wood, various materials

country: Swedish

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, by exchange with The New York Public Library, 1976.


title: Gold earring with disc and pendant

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Covered jar with plum blossoms (one of a pair)

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

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


title: The Persian Sibyl; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

medium: Engraving; first state of three (BLL)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Goodwin M. Breinin, 1984


title: S. Michel, archange (St. Michael, Archangel), September 29th, 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


creator: Angular Painter

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Aeneas's Farewell to Dido

creator: Jean Le Pautre

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Charles Stern Gift, 1963


title: Hammered Silver Diadem with Dangles

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Silver

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-ornament Chimú

credit_line: Gift of H. L. Bache Foundation, 1969


title: Ptah

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: The Deer Hunt of Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa and Ubaldino Ubaldini

creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carolyn R. Vietor, 1964


title: The Judgment of Solomon, after Raphael

creator: Biagio Pupini

medium: Charcoal, brush and gray wash, highlighted with white, on blue paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Gift of Samuel G. Ward, 1875


title: Plowing

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Two children

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1971


title: Robert Monckton

medium: Oil on glass

credit_line: Gift of Miss Isabella Barclay, 1927


title: Terracotta head of Pan

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

country: Greek, Asia Minor

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, asia minor

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Cupid wrestling with Pan, amongst the clouds, with two allegorical women seated at left

creator: Jacob Matham

medium: Engraving; second state of five

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Sculpture of a Winged Ox

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stone

country: French

subjects: Sculpture French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: The Landlady at Your service Sir. – You will find your Bed well Air'd as I slept in it my Self last night: Sketches of Character, no. 5

creator: William Heath ('Paul Pry')

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Gift of Jill Spalding, 2022


title: Openwork plaque with a hybrid tree

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

subjects: Assyrian Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Reliquary casket

creator: Lorenzo Ghiberti

medium: Gilt copper and champlevé enamel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1981


title: Civil-Official Hyungbae (Rank Badge)

date: late 19th century

medium: Silk embroidery on silk damask

country: Korea

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Korea
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Rank badge with crane

date: 19th century

medium: Pearls, coral and glass beads, and silk embroidery on silk satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Corals & anemones
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Harness ring

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

country: Mexican

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Nippon, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) 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: Half mask (Menpō)

medium: Iron, lacquer, silk

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Relish Dish

creator: Adams and Company

medium: Pressed yellow glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Door Knocker

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: American Partridge, from the Game Birds series (N40) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds


title: Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

medium: Wool warp, wool, silk, and metallic wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Casey, Pitcher, Philadelphia, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card


title: Card Number 98, Kitty Wilson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Gamble, Pitcher, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Actress wearing feathered costume, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Landscape with Figures on the Bank of a River

creator: Gaspard Dughet

date: 17th century

medium: Red chalk

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Didier Aaron Inc. Gift, 2003


title: Theatrical jacket with peacock feather design

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and metallic thread embroidery on silk satin, brocade borders

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Scarab Inscribed for Menkheperenre (Thutmose III)

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Drum and Bass Drum, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: Standing dish

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: St. John

date: 16th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1931


title: Incense Burner in Three Parts

date: ca. 6th century

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara) or north India

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


title: Evening cape

medium: silk, fur

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Rodman A. Heeren, 1966


title: Water Pipe Top

medium: Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, inlaid with brass (bidri ware)

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

subjects: Print Portraits


title: Band

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


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


title: Soubrié. François. 39 ans, né à Livignac-le-Haut (Aveyron). Brûleur de café. Anarchiste. 14/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: An apostle with a long beard looking down at an open book, in an oval frame, from "Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles"

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

medium: Etching; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Achilles Painter

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Teapot (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Saint Christopher with the Christ Child on his shoulders

creator: Orazio Borgianni

medium: Etching


title: View of Lambeth from Whitehall Stairs [copy]

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Vase with cover (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1952


title: Boucher présenté à Madame de Pompadour (Boucher presented to Madame de Pompadour), from "Le Monde Illustré"

creator: Henry Linton

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2013


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: late 6th century/early 5th century BCE

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


title: Underwear

medium: Wool, cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of The Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)


title: Ball gown

date: late 1860s

medium: silk, cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn and Alice L. Crowley Bequests, 1981


title: Design for a Ceiling with Lion and Lioness

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

credit_line: Gift of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1961


title: Textile with Foliated Ornament and Eagle's Head

date: 14th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

country: Italian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-woven-brocade

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Gorge d'Estaubé prise des gloriettes d'Héas, St-Sauveur

creator: Joseph Vigier

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Copies after the 'Livre contenant passement de moresques' (plate 11)

creator: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Etching (?)

credit_line: Purchase, Susan Schulman Printseller Gift, 2014


title: Fruit basket

creator: David Willaume II

medium: Silver gilt

subjects: Metalwork-silver Fruits

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 4th century BCE


title: Paperweight

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Free-blown glass

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1983


title: Tazza

medium: Glass, blown with filigrana a retortoli decoration

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


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

date: 5th century BCE


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Christmas in Merry England, from the Holidays series (N80) 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: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta pyxis (box with lid)

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Jar

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

medium: Marble

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Gold double lion's head earring

date: last quarter of the 4th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Boyle, Pitcher, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (obverse: The Potato Peeler)

creator: Vincent van Gogh

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

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


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton, embroidered net

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


title: Border

medium: Drawnwork, linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Nativity

creator: Andrea della Robbia

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Glazed terracotta

credit_line: Museum Accession


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Design in Elevation for the Façade of a Building

creator: Cigoli (Ludovico Cardi)

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1998


title: Khandoba and Mahout on an Elephant

medium: Brass

country: India (Maharasthra)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (maharasthra)

credit_line: Gift of Jeffrey and Denise Figiel, 2008


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: Album Page with Two Christian Subjects

date: late 16th century

medium: Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2012


title: Ewer

date: 15th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: German

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: The Chronicles Being Read to the King, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

creator: Arthur Boyd Houghton

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1926


title: Steatite rectangular prism

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Abyssinia, from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Calm

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Wall paneling

creator: Pierre Ranson

medium: Oak, painted

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Tea jar with cover

medium: Shigaraki ware; includes box, bag and extra bag

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Fragment of a votive bracelet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: On the imperiale, "At one's feet one can observe the swarming of a human ant-hill," from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

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


title: Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Embroidered net, buratto

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


title: Card Number 729, Mrs. Sheridan, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Side Chair

medium: Mahogany, maple, cherry, white pine

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Russell Sage Gift, 1909


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: early 18th century

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Crocker (Elizabeth Masten), 1937


title: Figures in an Outdoor Tavern

creator: Jan Asselijn

medium: Black chalk, brush and brownis-gray wash, heightened with white; framing lines in brown ink, on blue paper

credit_line: Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2006


title: Perveche Desséchée, from "Les Fleurs Animées"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engravings and lithographs, hand-colored

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: quittance

date: ca. 20th–19th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, 1966


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


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: Coin

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Terracotta oon (egg)

creator: Washing Painter

credit_line: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1971


title: A Day in Winter; Two Ladies and a Child in a Garden

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Limestone statuette of Herakles as an archer

date: middle or 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Elaine

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952


title: Fiore D'Ogni Virtu Per le Nobili Et Honeste Matrone, page 15 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Reverse ripple frame

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Pine back frame with poplar upper moldings.

country: Southern Italy (?)

subjects:
Frame
Southern italy

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Chamber candlestick (one of a pair)

creator: Pehr Zethelius

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


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


title: Bead in the Form of a Mandrake Fruit

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Cuneiform tablet: allocation of dates for fodder, Ebabbar archive

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

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


title: Yoshida on the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Yoshida), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Fragment of a limestone group of wrestlers

date: 6th century BCE


title: Study after Michelangelo's Giorno (recto and verso)

creator: Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

medium: Black and white chalk on blue paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with two high handles)

date: late 8th–early 7th century BCE

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1935


title: Marble cinerary chest

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Gift of Mr. S. Paul Jones, 1947


title: Candlestick (one of a pair)

creator: Johan Jorgen Schowert

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Officer, 69th Regiment, New York State Militia, 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: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with carved ivory

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Bowl

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Glass; impressed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Square

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Wall Elevation with Three Arches

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1964


title: Cup and saucer with birds in micromosaic decoration

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur), Berlin

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

subjects: Birds Ceramics-porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Richard Baron Cohen, 2019


title: Bowl

medium: Clay, light brown crackled and pitted glaze (Hagi ware)

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Winged Pendant

date: 10th–16th century

medium: Stone

country: Tairona

subjects: Stone-ornament Tairona

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Leaves from a Beatus Manuscript: Bifolium with part of the Genealogy of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi

medium: Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment

country: Spanish

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Spanish

credit_line: Purchase, The Cloisters Collection, Rogers and Harris Brisbane Dick Funds, and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1991


title: Four criminals standing in a line flanked by officers, relating to the impending executions of Luis Izaguirre, Bruno Martinez, Francisco Guerrero, and Alberto Fernandez, who were connected with a theft at La Profesa

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Inrō with Goose Flying across the Full Moon

creator: Hara Yōyūsai

medium: Lacquer, kinji, gold, silver, and black hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, and togidashi

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Candelabrum

date: 16th century

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


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: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Glass pendant in the shape of a Black African’s head

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Mabel Jordan Dressed as a Lady of Havre, from the set Actors and Actresses, Second Series (N71) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: St. Priac, France, from the Surf Beauties series (N232), issued by Kinney Bros.


title: Night Table

creator: Herter Brothers

medium: Cherry

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Paul Martini, 1969


title: Fruitlet spoon

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silver gilt


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Square dish with long-tailed birds and camellias

date: first half of the 14th century

medium: Carved black lacquer

country: China

subjects: Lacquer China Birds

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware, slip decoration

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Kemençe

creator: Baron Baronak

medium: wood, pearl, tortoise shell

country: Turkish

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted
Turkish
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Miss Hewitt, 1906


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, The German Fur Federation Gift, 1981


title: Pair of earrings

date: 18th century

medium: Silver, pink-foiled stone

credit_line: Gift of Marguerite McBey, 1980


title: Shabti of Djedhor

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Imported Silk Reeling Machine at Tsukiji in Tokyo

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

date: 4th month, 1872

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Snuff Bottle

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Agate with glass stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Shawl

date: mid-19th century

medium: wool

country: Indian

credit_line: Gift of Kate C. Lefferts, 1973


title: Roundel

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Linen, wool; ; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909