title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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: Cephalus and Procris

creator: Vincenzio Vangelisti

medium: Mixed method engraving and etching, printed in brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Rose Sutherland and Ada Clark, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects: Photograph Roses

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


title: Funerary Cone

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: [Paint Churn on Table]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2024


title: View of the Quinta dos Pizões, Sintra

creator: Clementine de Brelaz

medium: Lithograph on chine collé on a larger support sheet

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, 2020


title: Clipper Ship "Dreadnought" off Sandy Hook, February 23, 1854, nineteen days from Liverpool

creator: James E. Buttersworth

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ

creator: Alphonse-Charles Masson

medium: Etching and drypoint on chine collé

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Miniature Dress

creator: Ica artist

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Hammered Silver Pod Ornament

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

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

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


title: Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Lives of Saint Peter and Christ

date: early 300s, with modern restoration

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects: Sculpture-stone Roman

credit_line: Gift of Josef and Marsy Mittlemann, 1991


title: Jar

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain with crackled green glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Broadside with two love ballads (corridos), figures dancing upper left and a woman wearing a shawl and skirt lower right

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: ca. 1918 (published)

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on blue paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946


title: Bottle

medium: Glass

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Marshall P. Blankarn Gift, 1972


title: Fragments of a Canopic Jar Belonging to Senimen

medium: Pottery (Marl A4), paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: James Abbott McNeill Whistler

creator: William Merritt Chase

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of William H. Walker, 1918


title: Vase

medium: Opaque glass with enamel decoration

country: British

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1951


title: White Pagoda, Foochow

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

creator: Painter of Louvre CA 1694

date: ca. 450 BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: John Joseph "Jocko" Fields, Catcher, Pittsburgh, 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: Band

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Administration Fund, 1921


title: Joseph Sold to the Merchants, from "The Story of Joseph"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1965


title: Venus and Adonis (Shakespeare, Poems, Verse 3, line 13)

creator: Charles Rolls

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harriet McDonald, 1941


title: Franz Joseph

creator: Franchini Co.

medium: Glass rod mosaic

credit_line: Gift of George J. Foran, 1911


title: Man Pulling a Curtain Aside

creator: Etienne Parrocel

medium: Black and white chalk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bruno de Bayser, 2000


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Card Number 13, Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Vase

creator: Chesapeake Pottery

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Purchase, Jane D. Kaufmann Gift, 1992


title: Plate 7: the blinded Polyphemus, guarding the entrance of his cavern, with Ulysses and his companions escaping below by covering themselves with ram skins

creator: Bartolomeo Crivellari

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: 24th Wedding Anniversary of Juliana Maria to king Frederick V of Denmark

creator: Daniel Jensen Adzer

medium: Silver

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


title: Hot water platter

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Dog Cart #1030

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Cylinder seal with cultic scene

date: late 9th–7th century BCE

medium: Neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyrian

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


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


title: Rosy Sunset

creator: Wen Tong

date: 16th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Design for painted wall decoration in the Château de Lude, Sarthe

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: gouache on laid paper, inset in blue wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Ostracon

medium: Pottery, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Gold snake ring

date: 1st century CE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Pin

date: ca. 3rd–2nd century BCE

country: Parthian (?)

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1970


title: Covered footed vessel

date: late 6th century

medium: Earthenware with applied-relief decoration under white slip

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Stephen and Patricia Beckwith, in honor of Suzanne G. Valenstein, 2002


title: The King with Anubis, Tomb of Haremhab

creator: Lancelot Crane

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Spice box

date: late 18th century

medium: Silver, gilt interior

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Inkstand

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Bequest of Henry Victor Burgy, 1901


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo III in the Role of a Woman

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: Probably the middle sheet of a triptych or the right-hand sheet of a diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: A Peasant Replying: "Dats niet"

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941


title: María Luisa of Parma (1751–1819), Queen of Spain

creator: Goya

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Piece (one of 116)

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: A Dressing Room at Brighton

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 1, 1790

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


title: Will he be God, a table, or a basin?, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, April 12, 1869

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; third state of three (Delteil)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Pair of candlesticks

medium: Japanese lacquer, gilt-bronze

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Piece


title: Netsuke of Woman's Face

medium: Wood; ivory inlay to represent hair

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Albarello

creator: Masséot Abaquesne

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Earthenware; underglaze painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: A Bear Walking

creator: Leonardo da Vinci

medium: silverpoint on light buff prepared paper

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Gemma pretiosa della virtuose donne, page 14 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Poetry

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

date: February 15, 1783

medium: Stipple engraving and etching; printed in red ink; third state of three

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Fragment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Head of Christ

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Panorama of Roman Campagna, Nov. 12, 1868 (recto, from sketchbook)

creator: Jervis McEntee

medium: Graphite, white gouache, on blue paper

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1982


title: [Avenue, Mess and Capt. Hill's House]

creator: Captain R. B. Hill

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Judgment of Solomon, plate 2 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

creator: Willem van Swanenburg

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956


title: Scarab depicting a rearing ibex

medium: Green glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Mother and Child

creator: Antoine-Emile Plassan

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Margarette A. Jones, 1905


title: Melpomene in the Dumps, or Child's Play Defended by Theatrical Monarchs

date: December 14, 1804

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: The Expulsion from Paradise, from "The Small Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919


title: Hedgehog Scaraboid Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Re

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Sea

creator: John Frederick Kensett

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Kensett, 1874


title: Chanceliere Pierre Séguier

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; first state of four (Petitjean & Wickert)


title: Masquerade

creator: Mariano Fortuny Marsal

medium: Watercolor and gouache over graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Livingston Willard, 1926


title: Dr. Arne

medium: Crayon-manner etching, printed in brown ink; proof before letters


title: Screen

medium: Eight-panel folding screen; colors and gold on silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. P. H. B. Frelinghuysen, 1962


title: Set of Ten Bowls (Hachi) with Egrets

medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Arita type)

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: Fragment of a Handle from a Vessel

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Finger Bowl

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

country: American or British

subjects:
Ornament & design
American or british

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Maurice Blin, 1978


title: Sallet "in the Venetian Style"

date: ca. 1460; decoration, probably 17th century and later

medium: Steel, gold, copper, textile, leather

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
Italian

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


title: Plate

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1911


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 27v)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Arrowhead

medium: Sandstone, chert or flint

subjects: Stone Japan


title: Scarab of Ramesses II

medium: Steatite


title: Teapot

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Worker Shabti of Henettawy (C), Daughter of Isetemkheb

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: A Lion in Profile Facing to the Left ("Leo")

creator: Giulio Romano

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

credit_line: Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 2008


title: La Gloria et l'Honore di Ponti Tagliati, E Ponti in Aere, page 9 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Mold for Persea Fruit bead

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: [Major Jones and Lady Canning]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Réprésentation du feu terrible à nouvelle Yorck, que les Américains allumé pendant la nuit du 19. septembre 1776 (Representation of the terrible fire at New York, that the Americans lit during the night of September 19, 1776)

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Hand-colored etching and engraving

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


title: Brooch

date: 8th century BCE

medium: Copper alloy

country: European Bronze Age

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
European bronze age

credit_line: Gift of Josef and Brigitte Hatzenbuehler, 2007


title: Reverse Copy of Thetis and Chiron

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1963


title: Fragment of a Dish

date: probably 11th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Shard

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1992


title: Order of St. Vladimir, Russia, from the World's Decorations series (N30) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: A Rotation Office

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching and aquatint; printed in brown ink

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


title: Gold earrings with pendant vase and ring

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Signalement Des Chouans et Autres Contrevolutionaires

medium: Etching

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


title: Zelia de Lussan, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Top of an Oil Lamp in the Form of a Head

date: 11th–13th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Carpetbag

medium: wool, leather, metal, cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mae Schenck, 1963


title: Arrowhead

medium: Flint

country: Frankish

subjects: Stone-flint Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Suit

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1964


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


title: Sauceboat

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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: Revelers at a Table in the Countryside

creator: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

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

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Terracotta jug

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Cowroid bead

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), silver

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Bes Amulet

medium: Faience, deep brown

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Gloves

date: early 19th century

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of the family of Thomas Coutts, 1908


title: Marble leg of a table with a tiger's head

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Roman Procession

creator: Polidoro da Caravaggio

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Wedding dress

medium: cotton, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress

credit_line: Gift of Francis Hartman Markoe, 1920


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, silver, brass, paste jewels

country: Madurese

subjects: Krisse Madurese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Study of Drapery

creator: Pierre Paul Prud'hon

medium: Black and white chalk with stumping on blue paper, some squaring in black chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2008


title: Console

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Lime wood, carved and painted (?); marble top (?)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Young man facing three quaters right wearing a fur headdress with a plume, jewel and a headband, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Gold aureus of Julius Caesar

date: 46 BCE

medium: Gold

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Gift of Joseph H. Durkee, 1899


title: Maffet Ledger: Drawing

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and crayon on paper

country: Southern and Northern Cheyenne

subjects:
Paper-drawing
Southern and northern cheyenne

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Poissonerie, Caen

creator: Edmond Bacot

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1995


title: Riverscape with a Double Bridge

creator: Lucas Gassel

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Ribbon

date: 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Cravat end

date: late 17th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Bowl with rocks and trees

medium: Hard-paste porcelain with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Kakiemon type)

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain-export Trees

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


title: Scissors

creator: Pedro Diaz

medium: Steel

credit_line: Bequest of Henry Victor Burgy, 1901


title: Lintel with Carved Figures

medium: Stone

country: Cambodia

subjects: Sculpture Cambodia

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1936


title: Ceiling on the North Side of the Transverse Hall of Nakht's Offering Chapel

creator: Norman de Garis Davies

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Cooking House of the 8th Hussars

creator: Roger Fenton

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Sakanoshita, from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Banko, a Chinese Sage

creator: Yashima Gakutei

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: James William "Jim" Keenan, Catcher, Cincinnati, 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: Bowl with cover

medium: Nephrite, white with faint grayish tint

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Funerary Cone of the Overseer of the Seal Min

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Josie Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes


title: Winter Sunlight

creator: Glenn Stuart Pearce

medium: Pastel on paper

credit_line: Gift of Pennsylvania W. P. A., 1943


title: Christ Carrying the Cross

creator: Caspar Fraisinger

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and red wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink, possibly by the artist; framing lines in gold

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2008


title: Dressing Glass and Box

medium: Walnut, walnut veneer, white pine; mirror glass; brass

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Cecile L. Mayer, 1962


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Hanuman before Rama and Lakshmana: Folio from the dispersed “Mankot" Ramayana series

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India, Punjab Hills, kingdom of  Mankot

subjects:
Painting
India, punjab hills, kingdom of mankot

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1976


title: Flask

creator: Keene Marlboro Street Glassworks

medium: Free-blown molded green glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Bonnet

medium: cotton, silk, metal

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: The Fort of L'Esseillon, Val de la Maurienne, France

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Stone Beads

medium: Stone, probably jet; painted and incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: The Company of Undertakers

creator: Dent

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Handle with two heads of ducks

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Bone

country: Assyrian

subjects:
Assyrian
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Landscapes of the Four Seasons

creator: Kano Tan'yū

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

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015


title: Horn

date: late 19th century

medium: animal horn

country: African

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
African

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cylinder seal with hunting scene

date: late 9th–early 7th century BCE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Ostrakon

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Covered vessel in the shape of an ancient ritual bronze

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Rock crystal

subjects:
Hardstone
China
Minerals & gems
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Tassel

medium: Metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Piece

medium: Applied

credit_line: Gift of Julia Chester Wells, 1910


title: Textile Fragment

date: 2nd–6th century

medium: Silk; plain weave (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Governor Beaver, Pennsylvania, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-1), issued by Duke Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Design for an Urn

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, graphite

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1963


title: Elevation of an interior wall decorated with a chimney piece surmouted by a mirror and flanked with painted panels

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite, pen and ink, wash, watercolor, and gold paint on wove paper; mounted on cardboard

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Portrait of a Youth

date: 17th century

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)


title: Dish with Three Lions

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Armet

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects: Helmet Italian

credit_line: Gift of Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1949


title: Carnelian engraved scarab

date: late 7th–early 6th century BCE

medium: Carnelian

country: Greek

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1942


title: Terracotta fragment of a votive relief

country: Greek, South Italian, Locrian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian, locrian

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Apothecary jar (albarello)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Faenza

subjects:
Italian, faenza
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Seal with knob in the shape of a wheel

date: dated 1424

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ivorie China

credit_line: Purchase, Harrison Cady Bequest, by exchange, and Erich O. Grunebaum Bequest, 1994


title: Lucidario di Recami, page 11 (recto)

creator: Iseppo Foresto

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Pair of hanging niches

medium: Carved and gilded wood, composition, and caning

credit_line: Gift of Bernard M. Baruch, in memory of his wife, Annie Griffen Baruch, 1962


country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Two Young Men Resting on a Pier

creator: Calvert Richard Jones

date: late 1840s

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Pair of casters

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1954


title: Seated Buddha

date: ca. late 7th century

medium: Bronze

country: Sri Lanka

subjects:
Sculpture
Sri lanka

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


title: Dagger

date: probably 3rd century

medium: Iron, copper alloy, silver

country: Late Roman

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
Late roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: L'Ermite Sous Les Arbres (The Hermit Under The Trees)

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Etching; first state of two (Van Gelder)

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1952


title: St. Ignatius in Ecstasy

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Design for an Altar with Red Marble to be set against a Wall

creator: Anonymous, Flemish

medium: Pen and brown ink with red and brown wash

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2014


title: Lamp Shade

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Stone; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Volute-krater fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Motif for an Iron Balcony

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


title: Reliquary Arm of St. Valentine

date: 14th century

medium: Silver, gilded silver, and a sapphire

country: Swiss

subjects: Metalwork-silver Swiss


title: The Chōjiya Pleasure House by Day (Chōjiya hiru-mise)

creator: Chōkōsai Eishō

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Strip

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: "Kai Kavus Falls from the Sky", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Monroe C. Gutman, 1974


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


title: Shekel, Simon Barcochab, 131 A.D., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) 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: Tool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Madonna of the Rose

creator: Johann Christian Teucher

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Roses

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Cathedral Rock

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Husband-Confessor

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Brush and brown wash over light black chalk underdrawing

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


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


title: View at Bangkok

creator: John Thomson

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Incense Burner

medium: Clay covered with a crackled glaze and decorated with enamels and gold (Satsuma ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Cream Pitcher

medium: Stoneware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Screven Lorillard, 1953


title: Fruit dish (compotier coquille) (one of four) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Fruits

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sampler

creator: Mary Jones

medium: Linen embroidered with silk and cotton, with paper and gold leaf

credit_line: Gift of Barbara Schiff Sinauer, 1984


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: Scarab Inscribed with the Name Sehetepibre

medium: Dark blue faience


title: Cranes, peach tree, and China rose

creator: Shen Quan (Shen Pin)

date: 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China Roses Trees

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 Crucifixion, (reverse) Saint Francis of Assisi; The Resurrection, (reverse) An Abbot Saint, Possibly Saint Benedict

creator: Northern French Painter

medium: Oil on wood

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


title: Terracotta head of a grotesque man

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: St. Peter

date: late 15th century

medium: Oak, traces of polychromy

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-wood French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Armor plate

date: ca. late 8th–late 7th century BCE

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Teabowl and saucer

creator: Cozzi Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Virgin and Child in a Landscape

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Judith with the Head of Holofernes and Her Maid

creator: William Sheldon

date: probably made between 1561 and 1613

medium: Wool, silk, silver-gilt thread (24 warps per inch, 10 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, 1942


title: Mustard pot

creator: Louis-Gaspard Thévenot

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Card 647, Miss Leicester, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Coin with Sign of Leo

date: dated 1033 AH/1624 CE

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined closed shape

date: 6th century BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric

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


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Bronze kylix (cup)

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan


title: Man Shading His Face with a Tricorne

creator: Giovanni Paolo Panini

medium: Brush and pale brown wash, over graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Renaissance-style statuette of the Baptism of Christ

medium: Bronze, alabaster base (modern)

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


title: Tile with a head of a Mesopotamian captive from the palace of Ramesses II

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Edward S. Harkness Gift and by exchange, 1922, 1929, 1935


title: Hiranyakashipu, The Demon-King

medium: Wood with cloth and polychrome

country: Southern India, Tamil Nadu, probably Thanjavur district

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift and The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation Fund, 2015


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Peter Jay "Pete" Sweeney, 3rd Base, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Roller

date: ca. 18th century BCE

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, Norbert Schimmel and Schimmel Foundation Inc. Gifts and Rogers Fund, 1980


title: Hip-joint armchair (Dantesca type, associated with 1975.1.1976 a,b)

date: 16th century, partly; late 19th or early 20th century

medium: Walnut, carved; silk cut velvet, metal.

country: Italian, American (United States)

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
Italian, american (united states)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: To First Officer of Ship Dirigo for Rescuing the Shipwrecked

country: American

subjects:
American
Ships & the sea

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


title: Russia, from Flags of All Nations, Series 1 (N9) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Funerary Cone

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Pair of wall lights

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

medium: Hard-paste porcelain and gilt bronze; brass

credit_line: Wrightsman Fund, 2002


title: Basin (so-called Temperance Dish)

creator: François Briot

date: (model), Montbéliard, late 16th century

medium: Pewter


title: Column Shaft

date: 20th century

medium: Cement

country: European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Temple Monument in a Park on a Lake

creator: Peter Speeth

medium: Aquatint

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2011


title: Rodrigues, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes


title: Bowl

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Josephine Atterbury, 1945


title: Two-light wall bracket

date: after 1799

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Souvenir spoon with profile portraits of Queen Victoria

creator: Saunders & Shepherd

medium: Silver, silver-parcel

subjects: Metalwork-silver Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1900


title: Frontispiece for Champfleury's "Les Amis de la Nature"

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1922


title: Square

date: 4th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1926


title: Plate (one of a pair)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Ancient Ruins in the Interior

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Stamp

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Standing Ceramic Figure

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


title: Order of the Crown of Oak, Luxembourg, from the World's Decorations series (N44) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects: Architecture Photograph


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Dagger (Bichuwa)

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Steel

country: Indian, Central Indian

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, central indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Lillian Smith, Champion Female Glass Ball Shot, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Agate scepter head

date: ca. 950 BCE

medium: Agate

country: Cypriot

subjects: Glass Cypriot

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


title: Inlay fragment, rosette

date: ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Elbow Defense (Couter)

country: Italian

subjects:
Italian
Armor parts-elbow plate

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Bequest of Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Pendant

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Stone; carved, incised, and pierced

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


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


title: Rocking Melodeon

date: second quarter 19th century

medium: Wood, metal, leather

subjects:
Aerophone-free reed-harmonium
American

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Chair

creator: James Wyatt

medium: Mahogany, leather

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1970


title: Equal-Arm Brooch with Cross Decoration

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Vessel inscribed for King Qaa

medium: Limestone, organic material (?)

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901


title: Netsuke of Luohan with a Tiger

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory with metal disc

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Bowl

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Copper, bronze

country: Iran

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


title: Evening dress

creator: Catherine Donovan

medium: silk, linen, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of George R. Cook III, 1980


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Arrow

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Blossoming Cherry Trees by a Stream

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

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

subjects: Print Japan Trees

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Antefix with Head of a Male Deity

date: 9th century

medium: Terracotta

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of friends of Jim Thompson, in his memory, 1990


title: Two bronze handles

date: late 6th–early 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: The Times, Plate 2

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: The Chase

medium: Silk and wool on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Wall mirror

medium: Carved and gilded oak

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


title: Fan, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 4) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamels (Kakiemon ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Covered sugar bowl

creator: William W. Gilbert

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Moore, 1923


title: Limestone votive relief with a “master of lions”

date: 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Stockings

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: 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 volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Carnelian

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Gift of Frederic Newlin Price, 1959


title: Tile with three horse riders

medium: Earthenware

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Youth with two old Men

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Seated Male (after Van Dyke); Soldier on Horseback; Soldiers on Horseback; Dying Figure; Soldiers on Horseback; Dead Figure; Military Scene (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: "Portrait of Shaikh Mu'in al-Din Hasan Chishti", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

date: recto and verso: early 19th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

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


title: Seal

medium: Ivory

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of A. W. Bahr, 1958


title: Dog Cart Phaeton  #138

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor, graphite  and ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Westminster Watchman

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Joe Thompson, "The Leviathan", from the Celebrities and Prizefighters series (N174) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Alcove ornament

creator: Kimura Sakujiro

medium: Pottery, faience decorated with polychrome enamels

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. V. Everit Macy, 1923


title: Pitcher

medium: Earthenware, spatterware

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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: Mortar and pestle

creator: Wedgwood and Bentley

medium: Unglazed fine stoneware, wood

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lazarus A. Orkin, 1978


title: Adoration of the Magi, after Rubens

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2013


title: Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver, Esagilaya archive

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Six chair seat covers with the story of Rebecca

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk and wool

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1963


title: Page from Eyn Newe kunstlich moetdelboech alle kunst (Page 11r)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Plate

creator: Pierre-Clement Caussey

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Tar

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, metal

country: Algerian

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / frame drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Snuffbox

creator: Jean Ducrollay

medium: Gold, enamel


title: Theatre Danse IV 17

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

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


title: Mountainous Landscape with Hermits

creator: Marco Ricci

medium: Gouache on kidskin

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Cup

medium: Amethyst quartz

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: The F.O. Matthiessen Collection, Gift of Mrs. Emma Matthiessen, in memory of her husband, 1903


title: Textile ornament

creator: Nasca artist(s)

medium: Gold

country: Nasca

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Nasca

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


title: Coffee cup (part of a service)

creator: Caughley Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Garbat, 1961


title: Jar

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Stoneware with dark blue and green glaze (Shanxi ware)

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


title: Decorated Fan for the New Year

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

date: 19th century

medium: Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan


title: Pull of Engraved Firearm Ornament

creator: Galopin

medium: Ink, paper

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French

credit_line: Purchase, Gift in Memory of Herbert G. Houze, 2025


title: Lillian Russell, 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: Coin

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: [Unidentified Company of Soldiers at Ease, Seated on Ground in Tented Camp]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Pair of armchairs

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Carved and gilded walnut, with crimson and gold silk cannelé fabric (not original)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Landscape near Rome (recto); Fountain (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink and some brush and brown wash, over black chalk (verso); framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Harold K. Hochschild, 1940


title: Dish with a Swimming Duck

medium: Stonepaste; painted in blue under transparent glaze (Kubachi ware)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 1968


title: Ornament

date: 13th century

medium: Glass

country: Syrian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Glass-vessel
Syrian

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


title: Speciman of Mortar from the Great Pyramid

date: ca. 2550 BCE

medium: Mortar

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: A beggar, seated on the ground holding a stick

creator: Mariano Fortuny, 1838–1874

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co.


title: Door from the cabinet intérieur of Étienne-François, duc de Choiseul (1719-1785), at his château of Chanteloup

medium: Wood, carved, painted white and gilded

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Design for an Alcove with a Coat of Arms Flanked by Putti Bearing a Crown, Supported by Pilasters with Human Heads in Capitals

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray, brown-pink and yellow wash over traces of graphite; framing lines at lower edge in pen and brown ink

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


title: Hettich (ou Hettig). Eugène. 17 ans, né le 6/1/77 à Paris XXe. Cocher. Anarchiste. 16/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Portrait of Louis XVI

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: late 18th century

medium: Color stipple engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1956


title: Pheasant and Snake

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Ink and color on paper

subjects:
Painting
Japan
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Annette Young, in memory of her brother, Innis Young, 1956


title: [Rural Group with Horse]

medium: Salted paper print


title: Shofar

medium: horn

country: Russian

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Russian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Afternoon dress

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Marion Fisher, 1952


title: Christ Crucified, Attended by the Virgin, Saint Mary Magdalen, and Saint John the Evangelist

creator: Lazzaro Tavarone

medium: Pen and brown ink, pale brown wash, over black chalk, on gray-green paper. Squared in black chalk

credit_line: Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. Gift, 1973


title: Figures in a Landscape with Classical Ruins (recto); Six Figure Studies (verso)

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Pen and brown and black ink on cream laid paper (recto); pen and brown ink (verso); fragments of framing lines

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Stone, gray

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1985


title: Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 13r)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953


title: Candlestick

creator: Ripley and Company

medium: Glass, pewter

credit_line: Gift of Wilmont and Arlene Palmer Schwind, 1993


title: Soldier of the Line, Sweden, 1886, 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: Ornament (ruyi)

date: 18th century

medium: Coral

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jade
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Fruit basket

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Fruits

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


title: Picking Tea in Autumn Heat

medium: Woodblock print; ink on paper with additional hand coloring

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Emily Byrne Curtis Fund, 2025


title: Panel

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 37r)

creator: Peter Quentel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Miniature tazza

creator: David Clayton

medium: Silver

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


title: Coatimundi Pendant

date: 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Quartz, feldspar

country: Colima

subjects: Stone-ornament Colima

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift and Gift of Mrs. Gertrud A. Mellon, 1970


title: The Diamond Sutra

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Woodblock printed book with handwritten and hand-painted sections

subjects:
Illustrated book
China

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1947


title: Corset

creator: Madame J. H. (Johan Adolph) Rutherford

medium: Cotton, metal, bone

subjects:
American
Skeletons & bones

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


title: St George on Horseback with the Dead Dragon

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first half 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: Objects from Theban Tomb MMA 840

medium: Electrum, carnelian, amethyst, lapis lazuli, turquoise

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1913


title: Virgin and Child, and Saint John the Baptist (recto); Summary sketches, possibly the Virgin and Child (verso)

creator: Jacob de Backer

medium: Brown and black oil with white heightening (recto); black chalk (verso)

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2002


title: An Artist at the French Academy in Rome (?), pl. II from "Recueil de caricatures"

creator: Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Carolyn Bullard Gift, in honor of E. John Bullard and funds from various donors, 2014


title: Effigy bottle

creator: Wari artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Wari

subjects: Wari Ceramics-container

credit_line: Purchase, Mary R. Morgan Gift, 1987


title: Rank Badge with Silver Pheasant

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Ensemble

medium: wool, linen, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-menswear

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn and Mrs. Alice Lewisohn Crowley, 1939


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Masete de Normandie

creator: Charles Errard le fils

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Wrathful Eight-Armed Goddess Slaying a Demon

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Ivory

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1985


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Miss Marie Mali, 1906


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Zither

medium: Wood, metal, gut.

country: German

subjects: Chordophone-zither-plucked German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Drilled square plaque seal

medium: Stone, gray pink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

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


title: Young herdsman on horseback

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Rowel Spur

date: second half 16th century

medium: Iron alloy

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Design for Sideboard, Louis Quatorze Style

creator: Robert William Hume

medium: Pen and ink, graphite, watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Jessie F. Hume, 1930


title: Two Women in an Interior Listening to a Young Musician in Antique Times

creator: Kristian Zahrtmann

medium: Charcoal; framing line in charcoal, by the artist

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Coffeepot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

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


title: Gold and copper alloy spiral

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Gold, bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Glass cinerary urn with lid

date: 1st–early 2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Eli Joseph, 1923


title: Skirt

date: early 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1961


title: Bracelet

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

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: Esemplario di Lauori..., title page (recto)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

date: August 1, 1532

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Beads from a Necklace

date: second half 15th century

medium: Gold, cloisonné enamel, pearls; filigree

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cap

medium: wool

country: British

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


title: Seated Amitayus

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

country: Mongolia

subjects: Sculpture Mongolia

credit_line: Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1992


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

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


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1954


title:
The Life of
 President Grant in Japanese

creator: Utagawa Kunisada III (Kunimasa IV)

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015


title: Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Rows of Lozenges and Pearls Framed by Interlacing Garlands of Branches

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Storm Clouds over Water (Long Island Sound?) (from Sketchbook)

creator: Henry Ward Ranger

medium: Graphite, ink, on paper

credit_line: Gift of Frederick K. Detwiller, 1930


title: Poultry vendor with leather cap and two chickens in netted basket

date: 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta head and wooden limbs; body of wire wrapped in tow; cotton and leather garments or accessories; wicker basket with mixed media

credit_line: Gift of Linn Howard, 2024


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Rycroft Painter

date: ca. 510 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 4166

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pile Game Cock, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Cup

creator: Charles Cartlidge and Company

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris, 1988


title: Asia (one of a pair)

creator: Johann Joachim Kändler

medium: Porcelain, gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Douglas Dillon, 2009


title: A Slug

creator: Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne

date: late 17th century

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine G. Curran, 2008


title: Diptych

date: 14th century

medium: Elephant ivory with metal mounts

country: French

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

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


title: Terracotta jug

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Headscarf

date: 19th century

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss Isabel Hapgood, 1911


title: Double flask

date: 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise. 1810.

creator: Franz Stuckart

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)

creator: Otterlo Painter

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Gold earring with head of a lion

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek


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

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Owl Tab Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: The Lament of the Art of Painting

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving; two plates printed on two sheets

credit_line: Charles Z. Offin Fund, 1988


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Hexagonal Tile

date: first half 15th century

medium: Composite body; underglaze painted

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Henri-Louis Habert de Montmor

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; first state of three (BN)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Tray

medium: Bluish-grey agate

country: China

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Statuette of Isis and Horus

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Mug

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Staff for the ọ́bà's representative

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Edo people

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


title: L'Oeil Vigilant (The Vigilant Eye), plate 2 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching and letterpress; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Octagonal food box with Chinese immortals and floral design

medium: Lacquered wood; mother-of-pearl inlay, gold leaf application on black ground and gilded metal net inserts

country: Japan (Ryūkyū Islands, now Okinawa Prefecture)

subjects: Japan (ryūkyū islands, now okinawa prefecture)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2019


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware, slip decorated

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Liturgical shoe

medium: Silk, metallic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Inkstone with phoenix design

creator: Gu Erniang

medium: Limestone

subjects: Inkstone China

credit_line: Gift of Lily and Baird Hastings, 1989


title: Probably a Counter

date: 5th–8th century

medium: Bone; carved

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1937


title: Vauxhall Illustrated: Scrapbook of miscellaneous British 18th and 19th century prints, including Vauxhall Gardens

medium: Illustrations: hand colored engraving, etching.

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Books of Flowers and a Writing Brush

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


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: Souvenir spoon with finial in form of Irish harp

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver, silver gilt and inlaid stone

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1900


title: Mlle Pancaldy - Italiens

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Rocks and Flowering Peach, Representing Spring; from Set of four Panels Representing the Four Seasons

medium: Silk, paint; on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Edna Bahr, 1962


title: Terracotta stamped mortarium fragment

date: late 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, North Syrian

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Roman, north syrian

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


title: Poem Commemorating an Imperially Bestowed Feast

creator: Dong Qichang

date: dated 1632

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1979


title: Plate 22: two nude figures wearing veils

creator: Bartolomeo Crivellari

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Scene 11, from Jack and the Giant Killer, Scenes for a Toy Theater

creator: Benjamin Pollock

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Crochet Work

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Comb

medium: [no medium available]

country: probably German

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ridgely Hunt, in memory of William Cruger Pell, 1906


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Jade

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro, 1971


title: Limestone funerary bust of a woman

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: A New Method of Macarony Making as Practised at Boston in North America

creator: Anonymous, British, late 18th century

date: October 12, 1774

medium: Mezzotint

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Paul Robert

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Virgin looking up to the left, in bust length in an oval frame, after Reni

creator: Guillaume Vallet

medium: Engraving

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


title: Finger Bowl

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Blown amber glass with applied threaded decoration

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Madame Abdala (from Le Café Concert)

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Brush and spatter lithograph with scraper printed in black on laid Japan paper; only state; from deluxe 1893 edition

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Cassetta frame

date: early 17th century

medium: Poplar. Gilt; dull orange-brown bole.

country: Italian, Bolognese

subjects:
Frame
Italian, bolognese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Drum or Container

medium: wood (birch bark, white pine root)

country: Native American (Mi’kmaq)

subjects:
Idiophone-struck-vessel
Native american (mi’kmaq)
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Two Sketches of Venice: San Nicoletto a Lido; Redentorre from Lido

creator: Andrew Fisher Bunner

medium: Black ink on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899


title: Prairie Titlark. Anthus hypogaeus [current name: American Pipit. Anthus rubescens], from "The Birds of America," plate 80 [later LXXX]

creator: John James Audubon

medium: Hand-colored etching, aquatint and engraving

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Michael and Elyn Stubblefield, 2024


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: Rug

medium: Foundation: cotton warp and weft; wool knotting

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-printed

credit_line: The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

date: ca. 8th century

medium: Bronze

country: Plai Bat II Temple, Lahan Sai District, Buriram Province, Thailand

subjects: Architecture Sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Calligraphy

creator: Li Qiao

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

subjects: Calligraphy China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Capitol of Massachusetts in Boston, from the General Government and State Capitol Buildings series (N14) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Shamisen

medium: Wood, cloth, skin

credit_line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, by exchange; and Gift of Mark H. Handwerk, in memory of Mary Lewin Wethered Clark Handwerk, by exchange, 1990


title: Terracotta amphoriskos (oil flask)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Bequest of George Kenneth Graham, 1961


title: Glass indented jug

date: 4th–5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Limestone head of a snake

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Dessert fork (one of twelve)

creator: John Linney

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, by exchange, 1988


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

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


title: A Doge of Venice with a Cardinal, a Councillor and Servants Bearing the Train

creator: Bernardino Rodriguez ("Bernardino Siciliano")

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Edging

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Card 399, Sadie Bigelow, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Madame Medori

creator: Mathew B. Brady

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mrs. Walter Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 2005


title: Sutra Cover with Floral Pattern

date: 16th century

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
China
Flowers
Textiles-woven

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


title: Gold Drinking Bowl with Handle

medium: Gold

country: Avar

subjects: Metalwork-gold Avar

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Five grotesque heads, plate 4 from "Friezes, foliage, and grotesques" (Frises, feuillages et grotesques)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Pair of Hussar Rowel Spurs

medium: Iron alloy, copper, leather

country: Hungarian

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Hungarian

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


title: Terracotta head of a youth

date: early 3rd century BCE (?)

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Design for a Title Page - Angel of the Resurrection

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

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

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Earthenware; slip-painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Earring

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Sheet gold with granulation

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Piece

medium: Silk, hemp and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Knob with an eight-petaled rosette

medium: Ceramic, paint

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Group of cherub heads

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Oak (?)

credit_line: Gift of Adrienne Minassian, 1997


title: Study of the Right Leg of a Male Child

creator: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk and stylus underdrawing

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2002


title: Glass Fragments

date: 4th century

medium: Glass (clear)

country: Coptic

subjects: Glass-vessel Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


medium: Graphite and watercolor

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Bronze bowl

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Bead

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Shell

subjects:
Jewelry
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Mlle. Theo, from the Actresses series (N669) promoting Big Four Cigars

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: William Gifford Palgrave

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

date: June 1868

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Actress wearing hand-colored pink dress, from the Actresses series (N668)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Shabti of Siptah

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Glass beaker

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

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


title: Length

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of the Museum of the City of New York, 1985


title: Pounce pot

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902


title: Design for Omnibus or Wagonette, no. 4132

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Gold Funerary Mask

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Gold, pigment

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Lambayeque (sicán)

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Modesty, from The Virtues

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941


title: Tinian

creator: Bromley Hall Printworks

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Gerry, 1984


title: Poland, from Flags of All Nations, Series 2 (N10) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Jar Inscribed for the Mayor of Thebes Sennefer

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Foulds, 1925


title: Armor of Henry Herbert (1534–1601), Second Earl of Pembroke

creator: Royal Workshops at Greenwich

medium: Steel, gold

country: British, Greenwich

subjects:
Armor for man
British, greenwich

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Antimenes Painter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Cross-shaped Pendant and Four Other Motifs

creator: Giovanni Battista Costantini

medium: Blackwork and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted?


title: Medallion

creator: Christian Gobrecht

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Terracotta askos (vessel) in the form of an animal

subjects:
Vase
Cypriot
Ships & the sea

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


title: Architectural Model with Figures

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Boneys Broken Bridge

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)


title: Gilpins Mills / on the Brandywine Creek

creator: Enoch Wood & Sons

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

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


title: Maximillian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527–1576)

creator: Antonio Abondio

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1989


title: Wall vase with landscape

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels, gilt, and relief decoration (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1906


title: Plan for Garden Pavilion

creator: Robert Morris

date: early to mid-18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Apparel

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Silk and metal thread on velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1933


title: Pair of models of perfume burners

date: 18th century

medium: Painted and gilded wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: The Rendezvous

creator: Attilio Simonetti

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


title: Charles Andrew "Duke" Farrell, Catcher, Chicago, 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: Capital (one of a pair)

medium: White marble

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural


title: The Susquehanna at Nanticoke (River Walk on the Susquehanna)

creator: Thomas Addison Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1974


title: Dish with eight trigrams

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

subjects: Ceramic China


title: Portrait of a Young Woman

creator: Pieter Jansz. Pourbus

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Charles B. Curtis Fund, 1939


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Belt Fittings

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Bronze; cast

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome A. Straka Gift, 1979


title: View of the Gift of the Emperor's Gift Cup

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

medium: One sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Salver

creator: W. D.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Fragment of Dish

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed and luster-painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: "Arjuna Battles Raja Tamradhvaja", Folio from a Razmnama

creator: 'Abd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad Bairam Khan Khan-i Khanan

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Papa...., viens donc voir ce qui est exposé là-bas!....', from Le Salon de 1857, published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Terracotta stemmed dish

date: 6th century BCE

country: Lydian

subjects: Vase Lydian

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


title: August (Augustus)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching

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


title: Doublet

medium: leather, silk

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1982


title: The Author Writing the Layenspiegel; The Trinity and the Virgin at the Upper Center, from "Der Neue Layenspiegel"

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: The Medici vase, a large vase to right decorated with a representation of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, on a garden terrace, a teenage boy seated to left with a pen and paper with a drawing of the vase, cyprus trees and an obelisk to left in the background, from "Six large views, four of Rome, and two of the Roman countryside" (Six grandes vues, dont quatre de Rome et deux de la Campagne romaine)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of two

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Mittens

date: late 17th century

medium: leather, metal, bone

subjects:
Accessory-hand and arm wear-menswear
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Fragment of Wall Painting with a Scene of Two Horsemen Slaying a Serpent

date: early 20th century

medium: Gypsum plaster; painted

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1952


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, gold

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Trade card for William Taylor, engraver, embosser and printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Color lithograph with embossment

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: American Cottage Home, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

creator: The Giles Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: [Photo Collage: Musician Playing Triangle]

creator: Juan Pedro Chabalgoity

medium: Albumen silver print, lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Drew Knowlton and William L. Schaeffer, 2017


title: Medallion with Double Portrait

date: 18th century (4th century style)

medium: Verre églomisé

country: Italian

subjects:
Italian
Glass-verre églomisé
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Woman

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: 'Den Omval, den Amstel', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld

creator: Carel Allard

medium: Color engraving (à la poupée)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


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

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: Pendant with chains and balls

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


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: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Console table

creator: Franz Adam Weber

medium: Gilded lindenwood, pine; green marble (not original)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts and John B. Ritter Gift, 2006


title: Spouted vessel

date: ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Parthian

subjects:
Parthian
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


title: A: Fragments of a chasuble

date: 17th or 18th century

medium: silk; metal; linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Clock ornament

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Pluto, Neptune, Minerva, and Apollo, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738–39) at Fontainebleau

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: [Prof. Maillefert and Naval Officers Employed to Remove Gunpowder from Confederate Torpedoes, James River, Virginia]

creator: Egbert Guy Fowx

date: April 1865

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects:
Photograph
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Ribbon-lacing tool

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Madame Lilliana Teruzzi, in memory of her mother, 1973


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 4th–5th century CE

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Fragment

date: second half 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Fashion illustration, no. 2224

creator: Jules David

date: July 1885

medium: Watercolor

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

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


title: Terracotta fragments of an open shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Sample

date: first half 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 15th–13th century BCE

medium: Steatite

country: Cypriot

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Morning, or, the Man of Taste

creator: Henry William Bunbury

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Gift of Adele S. Gollin, 1976


title: Wardrobe

date: late 16th or early 17th century

medium: Wood with inlay of mother-of-pearl, amber, glass, ivory, and other materials

subjects: Furniture China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert H. Wiggin, 1951


title: Hand mirror

creator: André Aucoc

medium: Silver gilt, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Coin of Basil I

date: 9th century (867 or 868)

medium: Copper alloy (catalogue card says bronze)

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: Covered vase

creator: Worcester factory

medium:
Soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome
enamels, gold

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: The Flagellation

creator: Master of Forlì

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground


title: Bandō Hikosaburō III as Sagisaka Sanai in the Play "Koinyōbō Somewake Tazuna"

creator: Tōshūsai Sharaku

medium: Woodblock print; ink, color, white mica on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Savitri, emblematic of ideal womanhood

medium: Lithograph, printed in black and hand-coloring with watercolor and selectively applied glaze

country: India, Kolkata, West Bengal

subjects:
Print
India, kolkata, west bengal

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021


title: Relief Fragment from the Tomb of Neferu or Khety

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Set of four lion masks

date: 17th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Well, if you look very closely, you might end up finding some quality! The color seems to be good, from 'Sketches from the Salon,' published in Le Charivari, June 16, 1865

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph and pen and brown ink on newsprint; first state of two (proof)

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1956


title: Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: The Nativity

creator: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Study of a Female Nude

creator: Henri Lehmann

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: The Whitney Collection, Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003


title: The Blacksmith

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping; second state of three (Chicago); printed in black ink on cream laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1985


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: I Dream of Her to the Sound of the Waves

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph; first state of two

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


title: Sampler

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Indigo Bird, from the Song Birds of the World series (N42) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


date: first half of the 4th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic