title: Foot-rule, square and level

creator: Jacques Baradelle

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: "Tract Distributor"

creator: Charles Samuel Keene

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, touches of white gouache (bodycolor)

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: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Wedding bow tie

medium: Silk

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Charles Iseley, 1964


title: Textile Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, 1927


title: [Unidentified Man]

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Palestine. Jérusalem. Mosquée d'Omar

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative

credit_line: Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981


title: Miniature Shrine with the Enthroned Buddha

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Bronze with traces of gilt and lacquer

country: Burma

subjects: Sculpture Burma

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of friends of Jim Thompson, in his memory, 1989


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

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Plate 12: a seated draughtsman to left, a standing shepherd next to him to right, ruins and animals to the right, a tower in ruins to left in the background, from "Various Landscapes" (Divers Paysages)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of two

subjects: Print Landscapes


title: Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, graphite, black chalk

subjects: Architecture Album

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


title: The Virgin seated on a cloud

creator: Federico Barocci

medium: Etching with some engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Breeches

medium: wool

country: British

credit_line: Gift of the family of Thomas Coutts, 1908


title: Chute

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Dressing gown

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. M. Villone, 1937


title: A Mill Near Colchester

creator: John Constable

medium: Watercolor over traces of graphite, with scratching out and a touch of pen and brown ink on the horizon, evidence of squaring for transfer in graphite, with a color wash test verso

credit_line: Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 2007


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Dwarf musician (one of a pair)

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Paten

medium: Gilded silver

country: Spanish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Spanish


title: Streamers From Dancer's Costume

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, bronze bells

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1967


title: Life of Sir John Everett Millais, R.A., from the Histories of Poor Boys and Famous People series of booklets (N79) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Cassetta frame

creator: Italy (Milan)

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Frame
Italian, milan

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Two Nude Male Figures, One Seated and One Reclining

creator: Micco Spadaro (Domenico Gargiulo)

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Dish

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Plate 79 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Truth has died' (Murió la verdad)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching and burnisher

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Plate 28: Arch of Trajan in Ancona (Arco di Trajano in Ancona), from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte di quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Purse

medium: wool, glass, metal

country: German

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carl Robert Sadowsky, 1983


title: Spoon

creator: Jurian Blanck Jr.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goelet Gift, 1989


title: Candelabrum

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: porcelain ca. 1725, mounts 1745–49

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze

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


title: Bodhisattva and Yaksha

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Red sandstone

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of N. H. Heeramaneck, 1928


title: Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

creator: Psiax

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1985


title: Terracotta bowl

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Copto-Arabic Book of Prayers

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Black and red ink on Venetian paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Apostle spoon: St. Peter

creator: William Cawdell

medium: Silver, partly gilded

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Mabon, 1967


title: Feeding cup for infant

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Violin Player Seated in the Inn

creator: Cornelis Dusart

medium: Etching with roulette

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2011


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk, metal thread, linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Pen Box (Qalamdan) with Inscriptions

creator: Hasan Ramadan Shahi

date: early 16th century

medium: Brass; chased, engraved, and inlaid with silver

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


title: Pair of gold earrings with dolphins' heads with emerald, glass, and gold beads

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Gold, emerald and banded glass

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Gift of Christos G. Bastis, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 1995


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Titcomb, Pitcher, New York, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card

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


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Kosode with Pattern of Tea-Ceremony Utensils on a Small Pattern (Komon) of Auspicious Objects

medium: Paste-resist and brush dyeing (yuzen) on a background of stencil-resist-dyed plain-weave silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1966


title: Reverse Copy of Allegory of Louis XVI on the Occasion of his Accession to the Throne of France in 1774

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

date: after 1775

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, silver, copper alloy

country: Sumatran, Batak

subjects:
Krisse
Sumatran, batak

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Plate 26: Psyche enters the underworld giving an offering to Cerberus, with two elderly women at left, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Jar

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Earthenware with slip decoration

country: French

subjects: Ceramic French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment of a Sleeve

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Dish

medium: Earthenware decorated with colored slips

credit_line: Purchase, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, by exchange, 2016


title: Potter's stamp

medium: Terracotta


title: The procession of the casket of St. Genevieve, with clerics and laymen marching in six rows; in the foreground the Archbishop of Paris is carried in a chair, the Chasse in the row above him, and the monks of the monasteries of Paris lead the procession at top

creator: Nicolas Cochin


title: Roundel with Delilah Cutting the Hair of Samson

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: North Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
North netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1980


title: Wedding waistcoat

medium: wool, silk

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Nathaniel D. Clapp, 1985


title: Study of Ruins

creator: Filippo Napoletano (Filippo Angeli)

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Pier

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Fragmentary Bowl

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware with white engobe

credit_line: Gift of Irma B. Wilkinson, in memory of her husband, Charles K. Wilkinson, 1988


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Chrysanthemum and Hoe

creator: Kubo Shunman

date: early 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Openwork furniture plaque with a male youth

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory, gold

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Mocking of Christ

creator: Robert van Audenaerde

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


title: Nymphs Bathing

creator: Georges Reverdy

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Statuette of a sphinx, 5

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

credit_line: Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1924


title: Man

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

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1972


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: R. J. Gatling, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Appliqué, perhaps for a pommel

date: ca. 14th–13th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Hittite

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel, 1985


title: Jug

medium: Glazed earthenware

country: British

subjects: Ceramic British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Stamp, Butterfly

date: 14th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Mexica (aztec)
Butterflies & moths
Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Pitcher

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Blown and cut glass

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1967


title: Ortus Sanitatis/ De herbis et plantis/ De Animalibus & reptilibus ...

creator: Johann Prüss the Elder

date: before 1497

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1944


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; stamped

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


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

subjects: Print Birds


medium: Terracotta


title: Marble fragment of an Ionic column base from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

date: ca. 3rd century BCE

subjects:
Architecture
Stone sculpture
Greek

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926


title: Ensemble

creator: B. Altman & Co.

medium: wool, leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Meta Suckau Reincke, 1940


title: The Actor Ogino Isaburō in the Role of Katorihime

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I

medium: Urushi-e (lacquer) print

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Column Base

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Ceremonial Handle (?)

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Jade (jadeite/omphacite)

country: Maya

subjects: Stone-sculpture Maya

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


title: The Three Fates

creator: Luca Cambiaso

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver

date: ca. 627 BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Mezzetin

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: The Betrayal of Christ

creator: Léonard Limosin

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Lime dipper

creator: Calima (Yotoco) artist

date: 100 BCE–700 CE

country: Calima (Yotoco)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Calima (yotoco)

credit_line: Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991


title: Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver for establishment of a harranu-partnership, Egibi archive

date: ca. 550 BCE

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1879


title: Steamship Niagara, Ward Line, from the Ocean and River Steamers series (N83) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Tinsel and metal thread

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Barrel from a Ceremonial Musket

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Iron, gold, copper, silver

country: Tibetan

subjects:
Firearm part
Tibetan

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2005


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of animals for offering, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 609 BCE


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

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Virginie

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Trivet

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


title: Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles III of Spain, from the World's Decorations series (N30) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Netsuke of Noh Dancer

date: 19th century

medium: Red lacquer

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Designs for the painted decoration of ceiling timbers; one monogrammed: "LB"

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: pen and ink, watercolor, and gold paint

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Girl Drying Herself after Her Bath

creator: Isoda Koryūsai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Lamellar Helmet

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Iron, leather

country: Mongolian or Tibetan

subjects:
Helmet
Mongolian or tibetan

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of William H. Riggs, by exchange, and The Sulzberger Foundation Inc. Gift, 1999


title: Collection de Meubles et Objets de Goût, vol. 3

creator: Pierre de La Mésangère

medium: Engraving, hand-colored

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Elevation and Section of the Catafalque for Anna Cristina, Wife of Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972


title: Spring

creator: François Joseph Belanger

medium: Wood, carved and gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Terracotta fragment of a plate?

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Plaque with the Lion of Saint Mark

date: 14th century

medium: Basse taille enamel, silver

subjects:
Catalan
Enamels-basse taille

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Spear

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, silver

country: Philippine, Jolo

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Philippine, jolo

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Three cupids in front of a facade with pilasters, one holding a trident and another a large shell

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

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Architecture
Print
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Jar

date: 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Warren A. Silver, 1954


title: Inkstand

date: last quarter 18th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Document Box with Illustrated Books

medium: Lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e on nashiji ground

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Figure of standing woman

date: ca. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Ivory

country: Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Procession of draped women leading captives and animals, at left Envy rides a lion, at right Silenus rides a donkey, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dances

creator: Pierre Brebiette

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Chess Piece, Pawn or Backgammon Piece

date: 9th–11th century

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: probably American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Probably american

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1935


title: Al C. Hungler, Pitcher, Sioux City Corn Huskers, 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: Ostrakon with a Letter from Sabinus to Paham

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Madame Frederic Breyer (Fanny Hélène Van Bruyssel, 1830–1894)

creator: Gustave Courbet

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Triumph of a Roman Emperor (left side)

creator: Antonio Tempesta

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


title: Fountain, Place du Château d’Eau, Paris

creator: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 2016 Benefit Fund, and Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2016 (2016.613)


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Collar

medium: cotton

country: Belgian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry C. Taylor, 1979


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

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Theseus restoring Helen to the brothers Castor and Pollux

date: early 19th century

medium: Carnelian and gold

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Cele H. and William B. Rubin, 1961


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle

date: 4th–6th century

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Seated Nude Youth, facing left (recto); Bearded Nude Male Figure in a Half-Kneeling Pose, Holding Drapery Behind his Back (verso)

creator: Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi)

medium: Pen and (iron gall) brown ink (recto and verso)

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Maurice Everett Hall Jr., also known as Michael Hall, 2021


title: Coin

date: dated 1028 AH/1619 CE

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Broadside celebrating Cuba's victory over Spain in the Spanish American War, soldiers holding the Cuban flag and flanking the alleogorical figure of Cuba

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on yellow paper

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


title: Thomas Alva Edison, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Rosette

date: dated 1540

medium: Brass

country: German

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
German

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Fragment of animal figurine

date: ca. 8th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Edomite

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1977


title: Caire près du Mokkatam

creator: Félix Bonfils

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Crucifix

date: 13th century

medium: Champlevé enamel and gilded copper

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 13r)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Porta della fabrica of the Farnese Palace, Caprarola, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: Design for a Round Porcelain Table with Polished Bronze

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache

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


title: Snowy Landscape

creator: Toki Tōbun

medium: Fan mounted as a hanging scroll; ink, gold wash, and mica on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2018


title: Teabowl and saucer

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Alexander VIII (Pietro Ottoboni,1610–91, Pope 1689–91)

creator: Ferdinand de Saint Urbain

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Michael Hall, 1967


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Vase fragment

credit_line: Gift of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1923


title: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi, 1599–1667; reigned 1655–67)

creator: Melchiorre Cafà

credit_line: Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1957


title: Prick Spur

date: possibly 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Copper alloy (bronze)

country: possibly Roman or Celtic

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Possibly roman or celtic

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Jupiter and Danaë, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Ritual Crown with the Five Transcendent Buddhas

date: late 14th–early 15th century

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on board

country: Tibet

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Jeffrey Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1985


title: Foot (?)

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Marble portrait head of a woman

date: early 3rd century CE

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Lewis M. Dubroff Gift and Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2013


title: Marble stele (grave marker) of Sostratos

medium: Marble, Pentelic

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Card 292, Agnes Folsen, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Smith and Wesson .38 Caliber Safety Third Model Double-Action Revolver, serial no. 83097, with Case

creator: Smith & Wesson

medium: Steel, silver, enamel, nickel, wood, leather, copper alloy, gold

country: American, Springfield, Massachusetts and New York

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, 2013


title: Dress

medium: wool, cotton

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 Grace Coleman, 1927


title: Sutra Cover

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: A Girl with an Attendant

creator: Isoda Koryūsai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Fragment of an Inscribed Block

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Limestone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: [Three Painters with Brushes and Paint Cans]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Coralie Brache; Sanlaville; Marie Laurent

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Pair of teabowls and saucers

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: ca. 1720, decorated ca. 1740–45

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Putti Harvesting Wheat

creator: Piat Joseph Sauvage

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962


title: Dessert fork (one of twelve)

creator: John Linney

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, by exchange, 1988


title: Serpentine blossom bowl

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Minoan
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Bess Myerson, 2001


title: Jacob Peter "Eagle Eye" Beckley, 1st Base, Pittsburgh, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Perpetual calendar with lunar and solar tables

medium: Steel, silver details

subjects: Astronomy Horology

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Mitts

date: second quarter 19th century

medium: Linen

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


title: [Manor House with Two Towers Seen from Grounds]

credit_line: Gift of Walter Schatzki, 1955


title: Hedgehog on box pendant

date: perhaps 4th century–30 BCE

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cowroid seal

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1987


title: Console table

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Carved and gilded oak (?), portor marble

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Harbor Scene

creator: Thomas Sutton

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2013


title: Sheet Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Linen, wool

country: Coptic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Falstaff and His Friends, "The Merry Wives of Windsor," from "The Art Journal," opposite p. 84

creator: William Greatbach

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924


title: Terracotta collared jar with four lug handles

medium: Terracotta

country: Cycladic

subjects: Vase Cycladic

credit_line: Gift of the Safani family, in honor of Edward Safani, 2004


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


title: Music Mountain From Truxton Springs, Arizona Territory

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986


title: Christ and Saint Peter

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1947


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

date: second half of the 6th century BCE


title: One of a Pair of Temple Pendants, with Two Birds Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Leaf and Rosette Motifs (back)

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel, gold

country: Kyivan Rus’

subjects:
Architecture
Kyivan rus’
Birds
Enamels-cloisonné
Trees

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bowl with fish and lotuses

medium: Faience

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Design for a Candlestick

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Plate

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1962


title: Bowl with zoomorphic motifs

creator: Paracas artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, post-fire paint

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Iron baluster

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Miss Benney, 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: Portrait of a Child

creator: German Painter

medium: Ivory

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


title: Helmet

medium: Steel, copper alloy

country: Turkish

subjects: Helmet Turkish

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Cupid

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, graphite?

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 23 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Onesimos

date: ca. 490 BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Ruins in Columbia, South Carolina

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970


title: Mirror with eight-point design

date: 1st century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Mirror China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Serpentine blossom bowl

medium: Serpentine

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1924


title: Saint Adalbert and Saint Procopius

creator: Master of Eggenburg

medium: Oil on spruce, gold ground

credit_line: Gift of William Rosenwald, 1944


title: Design for the Left Half of an Altar

creator: Mauro Antonio Tesi

medium: Pen and deep brown ink, brush and brown wash

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


title: Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Turnip

date: mid-17th century

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: Full-length portrait of actress wearing draped costume, from the Transparencies series (N137) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

date: late 1880s

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print
Portraits


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Embroidered Border Fragment

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Camelid hair

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Tile with Floral Cartouche Design on Ebru (Marble Imitation Pattern) Background

date: late 16th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramics-tile
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902


title: Jeweled Bracelet (one of pair)

medium: Gold, silver, pearls, amethyst, sapphire, glass, quartz

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-gold Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Initiation Card (Tsakalis): Chenresi (Avalokiteshvara)

date: early 15th century

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 2000


title: Allen, Shortstop, Pittsburgh, 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: Glass network mosaic bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Gournah, Nécropole de Thèbes

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment of a wall decoration with a flying bird

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Sasanian

subjects: Sasanian Birds

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Gaming Piece

date: probably 8th–12th century

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Icon with Virgin and the Christ Child

date: ca. 1500 or later

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Russian or Greek

subjects:
Russian or greek
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Figurine

date: ca. 150 BCE

medium: Ceramic, paint

country: Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Teapot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware with underglaze “scratch blue” decoration

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised


title: Epitaph for Huangfu Dan (died 604)

date: 20th century

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Rubbing China

credit_line: Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1977


title: Saint Matthew, from "Christ and the Apostles"

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Two-handled cup with cover

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Ogden Livingston Mills, 1937


title: Hanging for birthday celebration

medium: Embroidery and gold painted inscription in silk satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Ballantine, 1947


title: La politesse Françoise, or the English ladies petition to His Excellency the Mushroom Ambassador

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

subjects:
Print
Mushrooms & fungi

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)


title: The Old Farm Gate

creator: Frances Flora Bond Palmer

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952


title: Blue Flask

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; blown

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


title: Kylix, eye-cup

creator: Essen Group

date: last quarter of 6th century BCE

credit_line: Gift of F. W. Rhinelander, 1898


title: Cup

medium: Porcelain, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Water Dropper with Slip-Inlaid Design

medium: Porcelain with green glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Purchase, Josephine and Oscar Tang Gift, 1994


title: La Sainte-Chapelle

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1944


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Fragment of a terrracotta plaque

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Cretan

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, cretan

credit_line: Gift of Archaeological Institute of America, 1953


title: View of Chepstow, Wales

creator: John Scarlett Davis

medium: Watercolor over graphite with stopping out and gum arabic

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Gordon and PECO Foundation Gifts, 2008


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Incense Box

date: mid-19th century

medium: Nashiji lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Block

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: The Pleasures of Fatherhood

creator: Louis Philibert Debucourt

medium: Etching and aquatint, printed in color

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Earring-hook type with amethyst and paste settings

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold, amethyst, glass paste

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Saltcellar

date: 18th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Fragment

date: early 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mme. Chatron, 1906


title: Sealing fragment

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

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


title: The Nativity

creator: Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

medium: Tempera and gold on wood

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate III

creator: Bernard Baron

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Esemplario di Lauori..., page 5 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

date: August 1, 1532

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Axe head

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: M'lle Marriott, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Glass monochrome inlay fragment

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

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


title: Case for knife and sharpener with represntation of the Three Graces

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: In Honor of Adolf Bachofen von Echt, as President of the Ornithological Society of Vienna

creator: Anton Scharff

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Medal and plaquette
Birds

credit_line: Gift of Baron Bachofen von Echt, 1896, through S. Oettinger


title: Shawl

medium: silk

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Clarence L. Hay, 1970


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Samuel John Stump

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962


title: Vase

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Clouds

creator: Thomas Cole

medium: Oil on paper laid down on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 2013


title: Armchair

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Purple incense wood

subjects: Furniture China

credit_line: Bequest of Florance Waterbury, in memory of her father, John I. Waterbury, 1968


title: Samuel Low

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Frances A. De Vinne, in memory of her sister, Emma A. De Vinne, 1920


title: Bracelet

date: 1st–3rd century CE

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Reverse cassetta frame

date: mid-17th century

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Bologna

subjects:
Frame
Italian, bologna


title: Sculpture of an Enthroned King

medium: Limestone

country: North Italian

subjects:
Sculpture-stone
North italian

credit_line: Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness Fund, 1922


title: Herbert

creator: Morton Schamberg

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Gift of Jean Loeb Whitehill, 1973


title: Arrowhead

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Ancient Sacrifice

creator: Philippe Louis Parizeau

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Russian Lancers Escorting the Regimental Cassonne

creator: Johann Christoph Erhard

medium: Etching; second state

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


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, incised and splashed with polychrome glazes under a transparent glaze (sgraffito ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Brush washer

medium: Porcelain with clair de lune glaze

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


title: Tenor cornett

date: 19th century

medium: Brass

country: Probably French

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Probably french

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Linen, wool

country: Coptic

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


title: Pontoon Bridge, James River

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Bead

date: 7th–6th millennium BCE

medium: Jasper

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Mlle. Nordrum, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Terracotta fragment of a Little Master cup (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Le Grand Russe

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: King Clothar II and an Attendant

medium: Oak, painted

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-wood French

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Hughes, Pitcher, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Festival Scenes

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, 1945


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Woman with a Pear

creator: Ferdinand Bol

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; third state

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1979


title: Sealing wax case (étui)

medium: Varicolored gold

credit_line: Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1937


title: Two axle pins

date: 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Stockings

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John G. Milmoe, 1993


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix

date: 6th century BCE?

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


title: Glass hemispherical mosaic bowl

date: 2nd–mid-1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, probably Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, probably eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Sketches of Sculptured Decoration. Entablatures and a Frieze with Human, Animal and Floral Ornaments

creator: Agostino (Stanzani) Mitelli

medium: Pen and brown ink, over traces of leadpoint or graphite

subjects: Drawing Flowers

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


creator: Makron


title: Mother-of-pearl shell adornment

date: ca. 7th–9th century CE

medium: Shell (Mother-of-pearl)

country: Alanic

subjects:
Alanic
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Simcox, 1999


title: Eskimo Sled

creator: Léon Cogniet

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965


title: Reclining calf: lid attachment

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Ewer

medium: Earthenware; slip-covered, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Card Number 619, Flora Walch, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

subjects: Botany Photograph

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


title: Divan (Collected Works) of Mir 'Ali Shir Nava'i

creator: Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper; lacquer binding

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Mahakala Panjaranatha (Protector of the Tent)

date: late 14th–early 15th century

medium: Steatite with color and gilding

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Jug

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware, pewter

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


title: Side Chair

medium: Mahogany, brass, ebony, ash and maple

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Sample of Fibrolite

date: 20th century

medium: Fibrolite

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, 1981


title: Collar

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: A King Seated on His Throne

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Gift of Daniel J. Slott, 1977


title: Candlestick from a Set of Five-Piece Altar Set (Wugong)

medium: Cloisonné enamel on copper

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Relief of Thutmose III

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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: Two Horse Heads

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; first state

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Table lamp

creator: Tiffany Studios

medium: Leaded Favrile glass and patinated bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr., 2011


title: A Stallion

creator: Habiballah of Sava

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, The Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection, Edward J. Gallagher Jr. Bequest, and Richard S. Perkins and Margaret Mushekian Gifts, 1992


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1970


title: Head of a cow goddess

medium: Porphyritic diorite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Weight in the shape of a duck

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

medium: Stone, black

credit_line: Gift of Louise Crane, in memory of her mother, Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1980


title: Table Valance with Autumn Garden

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metal thread, and feather tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Edna Bahr, 1962


title: Reliquary  in the shape of a stupa

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Rock crystal

country: Sri Lanka, central or western regions

subjects:
Sculpture
Sri lanka, central or western region
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Barry Fernando, M.D. and Coleene Fernando, M.D., 2010


title: Terracotta miniature vase with one handle

date: 7th–6th century BCE

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, laconian

credit_line: Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1924


title: Tweezers

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Au Bon Marché-Exposition et Grande Misé en Vente des Nouveautés Hiver 1891–92

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: The rest of the Holy Family on their flight to Egypt

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th–7th century CE

medium: Stone

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Sketches Reproduced from Works of Famous Artists

creator: Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎

medium: Ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Hakone

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Snuffbox with miniature representing battle scene

creator: Louis Nicolas van Blarenberghe

date: late 18th century (?)

medium: Silver, gold, painting

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


title: Silver tetradrachm

medium: Silver

country: Greek

subjects: Coin Greek

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1905


title: Civility

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: The Elysian Fields; set design from 'La Monarchia Latina Trionfante'

creator: Mathäus Küsel

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Border Fragment

date: 17th or 18th century

medium: Tapestry weave in wool with highlights in off-white silk.  Modern brown and off-white guard

country: Italy or France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italy or france
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Tricorne

medium: wool

country: probably French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Martine Weaver, 1950


title: Design for Landau, No. 3492

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Textile Fragment with Scorpion

date: ca. 9th century

medium: Wool and linen; tapestry woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Bequest of Carolyn Kane, 2015


title: Border

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Sheet with overall striped pattern with circles

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Brayette and Buttock Defense

date: 16th century

medium: Steel, copper alloy (latten)

country: German

subjects: Mail German

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Design for Three Chairs with Armorial Ornament on Backs

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Headrest or headboard

creator: Tellem artist

medium: Wood

country: Tellem peoples

subjects:
Wood-furniture
Tellem people

credit_line: Gift of Lester Wunderman, 1977


title: Inkstand

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Plate (part of a dining service)

creator: Martin-Guillaume Biennais

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Audrey B. Love, in memory of her husband, C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1974


title: Buckle Shank

date: 7th century

medium: Copper alloy, tin

country: Visigothic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Visigothic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Hat

date: probably 5th–8th century

medium: Wool

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Adze

medium: Nephrite

country: Russia (Bering Sea Coast of Siberia)

subjects:
Jade
Russia (bering sea coast of siberia)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Half Elevation and Half Ground Plan for a Catafalque for a Duke

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972


title: Rosette

date: dated 1575

medium: Brass

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
German

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Smith, Pitcher, Baltimore Orioles, 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: Incense Burner

medium: Bronze flecked with gold

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: The Aller Church in Sønderjyllands Amt (Denmark), seen from the North

creator: Johan Christian Dahl

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Graphite, brush and brown wash; framing lines in graphite, probably by the artist

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange, 2008


title: Fall of Man

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving; second state

credit_line: George Khuner Collection, Bequest of Marianne Khuner, 1984


title: Shrine

creator: Matthias Walbaum

medium: Ebony, silver, gilded silver, gouache on parchment

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Archer's ring

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1916


title: Designs for painted panels

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite, watercolor, and gold paint on wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Hammered Gold Half Band

medium: Gold (hammered)

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-ornament Peruvian

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


title: Temple at Kamakura

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: Textile

medium: Linen

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


title: Terracotta statuette of an emaciated woman

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Asia Minor, Smyrna

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, asia minor, smyrna

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: The Entrance Hall of the Regensburg Synagogue

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Walter T. Rosen, in memory of his mother, Mrs. Flora Tower Rosen, 1932


title: Caster

creator: Josephus Pasperger I

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education, New York, in memory of Nicolas M. Salgo, 2010


title: The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame Stamp

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Bunch of grapes

medium: Faience

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first quarter of the 4th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Hexagonal Faceted Covered Box

date: 14th–ca. mid-16th century

medium: Earthenware with cream white glaze and iron-brown underglaze decoration

country: Thailand (Si Satchanalai)

subjects:
Ceramic
Thailand (si satchanalai)

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of friends of Jim Thompson, in his memory, 1989


title: Pair of Ear Clips

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Plasma scaraboid seal set in a gold band

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Plasma, gold

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

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


title: Group statue with a Bes-image plucking a lyre

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Helmet (Khula Khud)

medium: Steel, silver, brass, textile

country: Persian, Qajar

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
Persian, qajar

credit_line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902


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: Axe

medium: Steel, wood, iron, brass

country: Indian, Chota Nagpur

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Indian, chota nagpur

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Incised bowl with felines

date: 7th–5th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: Dancer (one of a pair)

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: The Fair

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph; first state of two (Chicago, incorrectly listed as second state); printed in black ink on cream laid paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Flip or toddy glass

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Relief fragment

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Obviously I resemble him!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, January 29, 1866

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: January 29, 1866

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Hand Bell

date: ca. late 13th–14th century

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Temperance (Temperancia)

medium: Engraving

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Pitcher

date: ca. 2nd century CE

country: Roman

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert S. Chapin, in the name of Robert S. Chapin, 1954


title: Evening bodice

creator: Worth and Bobergh

medium: Silk

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Roland A. Goodman, 1966


title: Battle of the Sea-Gods (right portion of frieze)

creator: Andrea Mantegna

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Tabernacle Door

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: Spanish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Spanish


title: Rhetoric, from The Seven Liberal Arts, plate 3

creator: Monogrammist B

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fibula, fragment

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Amber

country: Etruscan

subjects: Miscellaneous-amber Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


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


title: The Oude Waag in Amsterdam Seen from the North-East

creator: Martinus Rørbye

medium: Graphite, gray, blue-gray and brown wash

credit_line: Karen B. Cohen Fund, 2014


title: Breastplate

creator: Hans Prunner

medium: Steel, leather

country: Austrian, Innsbruck

subjects:
Austrian, innsbruck
Armor parts-breastplate

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Wrought Metal Foliate Ornament with Grotesque Masks

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: A Manuscript of Five Sections of a Qur'an

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper; leather binding, stamped and gilded

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of George Blumenthal, by exchange, 1982


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta pithoid jar

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

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


title: Bronze forceps or tweezers

date: ca. 1st century CE

subjects: Bronze Roman


title: Two of Clubs (black), from the Playing Cards series (N84) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Mrs. Russell (Mariana Mattioco della Torre)

creator: Auguste Rodin

date: modeled 1888, cast 1979

medium: Silvered bronze, black marble base

credit_line: Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 1986


title: Plateau

creator: Claude Borne

date: dated 1736

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Prisoner's Fire, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Coat

medium: Silk, metal

country: China

subjects: Outerwear-womenswear China

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy A. Gordon and Virgina A. White, in memory of Madge Ashley, 1973


title: Terracotta statuette of a woman reclining on a couch

date: probably late 3rd–2nd century BCE

country: East Greek

subjects:
Terracotta
East greek

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: A Delicate Finish to a French Usurper

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Scholars of the Liuli Hall

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 13th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Sheila Riddell, in memory of Sir Percival David, 1977


title: Trade Card for John Hancock, Engraver, Letter Press & Copper Plate Printer

creator: Anonymous, British, early 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Border Fragment with Musical Angel

medium: Pot-metal glass with vitreous paint

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1980


title: Vase with cover (vase pot-pourri triangle) (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Forearm Defense (Vambrace)

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian


title: Male Moderator

medium: Etching


title: Angel

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

country: British

subjects: Glass-stained British

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Terracotta statuette of a doll

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian, tarentine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Manuscript Leaf from a Book of Hours Showing an Illuminated Initial D and Christ Bearing the Cross

medium: Parchment, tempera, ink, metal leaf

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1923


title: The Angelic Child

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

medium: Etching and stipple engraving; second state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta lebes gamikos (jar with lid, foot, and handles associated with weddings)

creator: Group of New York 28.57.10

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Latch

medium: Wrought iron

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1949


title: Broadside with 48 scenes relating to the life of Giuseppe Garibaldi

creator: Juan Llorens

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Durga and Kali Approach the Gathered Armies of Chanda and Munda: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya

medium: Graphite and ink on paper, pricked for transfer

country: India (Himachal Pradesh, Guler)

subjects:
Drawing
India (himachal pradesh, guler)

credit_line: Purchase, The Research Institute of the Scripps Clinic Gift, in honor of Lita Annenberg Hazen and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 1995


title: A Mounted Grey Horse Being Schooled in Piaffe

creator: Philips Wouwerman

date: after 1646

medium: Black chalk, graphite, brush and gray wash; framing lines in black chalk or graphite, by a later hand

credit_line: Fletcher and Frits and Rita Markus Funds, 2013


title: Manuscript Leaf from a Bible

medium: Tempera and gold on parchment

country: North French

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
North french

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Wixom, 1994


title: Scenes from the Story of the Seven Sacraments, Matrimony and Extreme Unction

medium: Wool warp, wool and silk wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1907


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: Hercules driving off the cattle of Geryon, at the right are the nymphs of Hesperides

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving and etching

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


title: Scarab with Hathor-like Canaanite Goddess

date: ca. 1640–1500 B.C. (Middle Bronze Age IIB-IIC)

medium: Green glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Sanitas, from "Proposopographia"

creator: Philips Galle

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Sculptures extérieures du Sanctuaire de granit du Palais de Karnac (Ammon assurant la couronne sur la tête de Philippe-Aridée)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Cover for 'Las Nueve Jornadas de los Santos Peregrinos', Holy Family in the manger

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on beige paper

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


title: Ciborium

date: 16th century

medium: Gilded silver

subjects: Metalwork-silver Spanish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sconce

medium: Tin, glass

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: A White Macaw

creator: Itō Jakuchū

medium: Reproduction of an original Jakuchū design; woodblock print, ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Reproduction Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bottle

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; free blown; tooled on the pontil

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Man in profile facing right, wearing a fur hat, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Hills around the Bay of Moulin Huet, Guernsey

creator: Auguste Renoir

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Julia W. Emmons, 1956


title: Dress

medium: [no medium available]

country: European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Fragrant Garden under a Hazy Moon

creator: Nakabayashi Chikutō

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2019


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojō III as Wappa no Kikuō in a Woman’s “Asahina Armor Pulling” (Asahina no kusazuri-biki) Scene

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

date: 1780 (An’ei 9), 1st month

medium: Left sheet of a diptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Pan reclincing near a large vase set in a landscape

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Chalcedony scaraboid seal

medium: Chalcedony

country: Greek

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Andiron

creator: Revere and Son

medium: Brass, iron

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1930


title: Belt hook

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Iron inlaid with gold and silver

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Back of Nefertiti / female

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Footed Goblet

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Glass; cast and facet cut

credit_line: Gift of Renée E. and Robert A. Belfer, 2012


title: Necklace

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: [Tinsmith with Coal Heater and Sheet of Tin]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Richter's Werke  (binder's title)

creator: Adrian Ludwig Richter

medium: Steel engravings, wood engravings, photoprints


title: Collar

medium: cotton

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Coupé # 641

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Jean Perrault

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Mold for Making Jewelry (Chhapa)

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Probably brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Cup-Hilted Rapier

medium: Steel

country: Spanish

subjects: Sword Spanish

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Button

creator: Jacob Ulrich Holfeldt Tostrup

medium: Silver filigree

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harriette M. Arnold, 1906


title: Signet ring

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Ewer

date: first half 14th century

medium: Brass; inlaid and engraved with silver, copper, and black compound.

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


title: Allegory of History, with Time

creator: Vittorio Maria Bigari

medium: Black chalk, stumped, highlighted with white chalk, on dark blue paper

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1979


title: Gold Belt Mount (Miscast and Unfinished)

country: Avar

subjects: Metalwork-gold Avar

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Soldier Carrying His Pike at the Slope

creator: Jacques de Gheyn II

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash; incised for transfer

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1993


title: Bodice

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Pair of earrings (part of a set)

date: 18th century

medium: Silver, jewels

credit_line: Gift of Marguerite McBey, 1980


title: Sofa

creator: Auguste-Emile Rinquet-Leprince

medium: Applewood or pearwood, ebonized walnut, beech, gilt-bronze mounts; original under upholstery and show cover

country: American or French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Douglas Williams, 1969


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Table with book carrier (cheveret)

creator: John McLean and Son, London, England

medium: Rosewood, gilt bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Priestesses and Dancers

creator: Hugh R. Hopgood

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Sixteen designs for the painted decoration of interiors

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite and pen and ink on various papers; mounted on cardboard

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Silver swivel ring with sard scarab

date: 8th–early 7th century BCE

medium: Silver, sard

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gems
Cypriot
Minerals & gems

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Le Pate d'Anguilles, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine.  A Paris, de l'imprimerie de  P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

creator: Jean-Baptiste Patas

medium: Etching; first state of three (Cohen)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Crucifix

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Mother of pearl; incised

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Door and Hardware

medium: Wood and iron

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


title: Nail

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Hunting Scene; Mural design for a lunette in the library of the Chateau de Lude (Sarthe)

date: second half 19th century

medium: Oil paint on canvas


title: Scarf

medium: Muslin, satin


title: Phaeton #3008

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Door Mount

date: possibly 11th century

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-iron French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: Phaeton #701

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor


title: Vatican Tournament, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Master HCB

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Bowl within Sagger

medium: Pottery (hard Jun type)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Garden in Indigo Districts

creator: Captain R. B. Hill

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Statuette of an old woman

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Pin

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Oinochoe

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Trade Card for John Steell, Carver, Gilder, and Printseller

creator: Anonymous, British, late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Large sculpture gallery built on arches and lit from above... (Galleria grande di Statue, la cui struttura è con Archi e col lume preso dall'alto...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Portrait of Emma Hart, Later Lady Hamilton (1765–1803)

creator: Nathaniel Marchant

medium: Smoky chalcedony, silver-gilt

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems
Portraits

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: Pyx

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Silver with gilded interior

subjects: Metalwork-silver Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Design for a Stage Set with Two Thrones (recto); Landscape (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Sepia pen and wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Pitcher

creator: American Pottery Manufacturing Company

medium: Earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Maude B. Feld and Samuel B. Feld, 1992


title: Paris Fireman, French Army, 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: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Saint Michael and the Dragon

creator: Spanish (Valencian) Painter(?)

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Rain God Riding in Clouds on a Horse

creator: Kano School

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Kris

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Ebony, silver

country: possibly Bornean

subjects:
Krisse
Possibly bornean

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Stamp seal (scarab) with animal

date: 9th–7th century BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Phoenician (?)

credit_line: Purchase, 1899


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Photography Studio]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Panel with grotesques, from a set of bed hangings

creator: Cornelis Floris II

medium: Silk, wool, silver and silver-gilt thread (20-22 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Cann

creator: Myer Myers

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base) or a kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Glass Globe

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of New York Clearing House, 1963


title: Vase with floral and geometric ornaments

date: late 18th century

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

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Design for Wagon, no. 768

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Fan

date: 20th century

medium: Paper and metal paint / Paint

subjects: Fans Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek

subjects:
Vase
East greek

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926


title: Cover for 'La Paloma Azul : Coleccion de Canciones Modernas Para 1901', two couples dancing while a dove flies in between them

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress in red and black on tan paper

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


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: H.N. Hurd. Real Estate & Loans, Cherokee, Iowa]

creator: C. R. Williams

medium: Albumen silver print


title: Mourning hat

medium: silk, cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Phillip H. Gray, 1950


title: Cup-Hilted Rapier

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, brass

country: possibly Flemish

subjects:
Sword
Possibly flemish

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


title: Cap crown

date: early 19th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Advertisement for the Müller Potteries at Ivry

creator: Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

medium: Bronze, cast, single

credit_line: Gift of Victor D. Brenner, 1903


title: Frontispiece: Gaigne Petit, plate 1 from "Le Cris de Paris" (The Cries of Paris)

creator: Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

date: 18th century

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Angular Painter

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: L'Assommoir, ou scène de brasserie

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Drypoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Woman's Sleeveless Jacket with Butterflies

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Tapestry-woven silk and metallic thread (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Butterflies & moths
Costumes-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1945


title: Rock Tombs at Telmissus

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

credit_line: Exchange, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1960


title: Bowl

creator: Willets Manufacturing Company

medium: Belleek porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, 1992


title: Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

date: 16th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


title: Chinese Children Playing with a Parrot

creator: Louis Antoine Crozat, Baron de Thiers, Paris

medium: Etching

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


title: Verdure with animals and landscapes

medium: Wool (9-11 warps per inch, 4-5 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Landscapes
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Lady Maud E. Marriot, Mrs. Margaret D. Ryan, Roger W. Kahn and Gilbert W. Kahn, children of the late Otto H. Kahn and Addie W. Kahn, 1956


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Judith

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Brush washer with twin dragons

date: 14th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2014


title: Two Dancers

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Dark brown wash and white gouache on bright pink commercially coated wove paper, now faded to pale pink

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


title: Girls at a Window

creator: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Four Dancing Muses

creator: Gian Marco Cavalli

medium: Engraving


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

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Temperance

creator: Giovanni Caccini

medium: Marble

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1967


title: Ewer

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; painted

credit_line: Gift of Rodman Wanamaker, 1919


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton on linen

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


title: Suit

medium: silk

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1961


title: Cup

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Portrait of the Emperor Aurangzeb

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Slippers

medium: silk, leather

country: Chinese

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 1980


title: Sandpiper, from the Game Birds series (N13) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Annie Sommerville in Colors of Hoboken Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N140) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Buckle

medium: Bronze, patina

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Sample

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of F. J. Schaetzel, 1919


title: Funerary Cone of the Inspector of Scribes Ineni

medium: Pottery

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


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

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


title: String of 6 Beads

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Madonna and Child in a niche

creator: Luca della Robbia

medium: Glazed terracotta with gilt and painted details

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Knife

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Steel, ivory, silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1962


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 44 (verso)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Tea or hot water urn

creator: John McMullin

medium: silver with ivory handle

credit_line: Purchase, Sansbury-Mills Fund and Frank P. Stetz Gift, 2009


title: Harkins, Pitcher, Baltimore Orioles, 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: Memorial Card for Mr. Barak Longmate, genealogical editor and heraldic engraver

creator: Anonymous, British, late 18th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Vitré: The Canal

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping, printed on black ink on ivory laid paper; only state (Chicago)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Faience workshop refuse

medium: Low-fired whitish clay

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton, woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Cane

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1943


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


title: The Sorcerer, a man with a gun confronting a bird with the face of a man

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1929


title: La vera perfettione del disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 3 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Human Figure

date: 100 BCE–200 CE

medium: Clay

country: Maya

subjects: Maya Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Undersleeves

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. David J. Colton, 1964


title: Brayette

medium: Steel

country: German

subjects:
German
Armor parts-brayette

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Card 60, from the Girl Cyclists series (N49) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


title: Covered Bowl

medium: Earthenware

country: Mexican

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


title: Miniature Litter Section

date: 11th–late 15th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Chimú or Chancay

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Chimú or chancay

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China or Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China or japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Design for Screen

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Edna Wallace-Hopper, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

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


title: William Hogarth's Trade Card (modern reproduction)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Photo or lithographic reproduction of etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Bottle

date: 7th–8th century

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

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Plain Panel with Sewn Silverfish and Danglers

date: 11th–13th century

medium: Cotton, silver

country: Central coast (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Central coast
Textiles-woven


title: Bag

medium: metal

country: French

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Fragment

date: late 18th century

medium: Applied

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


title: Kang Rug

date: second half 17th century

medium: Foundation: cotton warp and weft;  wool knotting

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Plate (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Card Number 43, Vernona Jarbeau, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Stone Penate Figure

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stone

country: Mixtec

subjects: Stone-sculpture Mixtec

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Pedestal Bowl

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Carchi

subjects: Carchi Ceramics-container

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Stamp seal (scarab) with anthropomorphic figure

date: late 8th–early 7th century BCE or later

medium: Mottled green glass

country: Phoenician

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941