title: Halberd

medium: Steel, wood

country: German

subjects:
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Dulcimer

date: 18th century

medium: wood and various materials

country: Spanish

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: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cabin Among Trees

creator: Hanns Lautensack

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Col. G. Creighton Webb, 1936


title: Six terms, four female and two male, with Hercules at far right, plate 1, from Caryatidum [...] sive Athlantidum multiformium ad quemlibet Architecture ordinem Accommodatarum centuria prima [...]

creator: Hans Vredeman de Vries

medium: Etching; first state of two (Hollstein)

subjects: Architecture Print

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


title: Terracotta stemless kylix (drinking cup)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Lent in 1906 by Junius Spencer Morgan (1867-1932) and given by his heirs in 1958-59


title: Gold pendant in the shape of a vase

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek or Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek or cypriot

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


title: Wineglass

date: late 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: chous (jug)

date: last quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment of the Top Surface of Siptah's Canopic Chest

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Aeneas and Mercury (from "The Works of Virgil: Containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis," 1697)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching and engraving; fifth state of five, the plate reduced, as published in 1697 or 1698

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


title: Bowl

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Mimbres

subjects: Mimbre Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1964


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Simon Lord Lovat

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Part of a funerary papyrus showing the judgment before Osiris

medium: Papyrus, ink

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and The Guide Foundation Inc. Gift, 1966


title: Title-page from Pelbartus de Temesvar

creator: Johann Otmar

medium: Metalcut (?)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Shark, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print

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


title: Reproduction of a Scythian plaque

date: 19th century, after 4th–3rd century BCE original

medium: Electrotype

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Trade Card for John Lodge, Copper Plate Engraver

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Corner console

medium: Carved and stripped wood; marble

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Gold earring with convex disc

date: 2nd century CE

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman


title: Scarab stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd century BCE

medium: Steatite

country: Seleucid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Landscape with Mountains and Hills (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

country: American

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Shabti of Amenhotep III

medium: Ebony, yellow paste

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: John Pickering

creator: Alvan Clark

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Kitchen Staff (recto); Mountainous Landscape with Hiker (verso)

creator: John Leech

medium:
Recto: watercolor, pen and brown ink over graphite
Verso: watercolor over graphite

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Necklace

medium: Gypsum alabaster, carnelian, shell, bitumen

country: Iran

subjects:
Iran
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, by exchange, 1957


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Ornament with Six Bells

date: early 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

country: North China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
North china

credit_line: Gift of Katherine and George Fan, 2003


title: Ste. Anatolie, vierge et martyre (St. Anatolia, Virgin and Martyr), July 9th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Tassel

date: 17th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: Steatite rectangular prism

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Jahangir Visiting a Holy Man

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Empire State. C. Grove

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Funerary Mask Turban

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Wood, paint, gold, cloth, shell

country: Ica

subjects:
Wood-ornament
Ica
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Two alternate projects for a Cornice

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown, gray wash over leadpoint, with riled and compass construction; framing lines in pen and brown ink; scale at bottom of design, in pen and brown ink over lead point

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Home Cooking

creator: Fred Becker

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Panel (one of a pair)

medium: Carved oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910)

creator: Gustave Courbet

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Oeuvres de Joseph Vernet...representant divers ports de mer en France et d'Italie

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Plates: etchings and engravings

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Mlle Montaubry[?]; Mlle Rousseau

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri


title: Shield bearer

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Piece


title: Young Woman Climbing a Ladder

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: The Francis Lathrop Collection, Purchase, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Bonsai

creator: Shibata Zeshin

medium: Lacquer on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Les Mesureurs de Grains (The Grain Measurers)

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1940


title: John Greenleaf Whittier, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: “The Tomb of King Mausolus” (Ajia-shū Maurirya-ō keibo), from the series Newly published Dutch Perspective Pictures (Shimpan Oranda uki-e)

creator: Utagawa Kuninaga

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

credit_line: Purchase, Tomoko Trust Gift, 2025


title: Apron

date: probably 19th century

medium: wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: King's attendant

date: second half 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta head and wooden limbs; body of wire wrapped in tow; silk and satin garments with silver thread and glass buttons; cotton turban; brass sword

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Characters, from Jack and the Giant Killer, Plate 7 for a Toy Theater

creator: Benjamin Pollock

medium: Lithograph

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


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

date: 440 BCE


title: Belt Hook (?)

date: Undetermined

medium: Ivory, metal

country: Inuit

subjects:
Bone/ivory-ornament
Inuit
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Carved Bead

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Water dropper in the shape of bird

medium: Stoneware with green glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Birds

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


date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Cuneiform tablet: school exercise tablet, Urra=hubullu, tablet 1

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Toothpick Holder

creator: Richards and Hartley Flint Glass Co.

medium: Pressed yellow glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Partial View of an Architectural Interior (recto); Undecipherable Sketches (verso)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with dark brown ink over traces of graphite; framing outlines in brush and gray wash (recto); black chalk sketches (verso)

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Naval Dispatch, United States, from the Naval Flags series (N17) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea


title: Study of Two Heads

creator: Peter Paul Rubens

medium: Oil on wood

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


title: A soldier on horseback, holding a musket in his right hand, in profile descending a slope towards the right, other soldiers on horseback to right in the background, plate 12 from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Engraving; state unknown (clipped impression)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Skirt

medium: Cotton

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of  Arturo and Paul Peralta-Ramos, 1955


title: Fragment of a Carved and Painted Dado Panel

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Stone (probably alabaster); carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Saint Paul

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969


title: Pig

date: 6th century

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Schloss, 1985


title: Biface

medium: Flint

country: Acheulean

subjects: Tool Acheulean

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and Friends of Arms and Armor Gifts, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, and funds from various donors, 2018


title: Arrowhead

date: possibly 15th–17th century

medium: Iron

country: probably Tibetan

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Probably tibetan

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2011


title: Three dancers

creator: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory

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

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


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


title: Standing female kithara player

date: 4th century BCE

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


title: Royal or divine figure with high conical headdress

date: ca. 18th–17th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Ecce Homo, from Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1919


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Edith Pond, 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: Portrait of John Paul Jones, after medal by Dupré

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Belt

date: early 18th century

medium: leather, silk, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Ford Goulding, 1969


title: Key

date: 15th century

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Drawing for the Street Elevation of a Town House

creator: Andreas Schneidmann

medium: Pen and black ink, and watercolor. Framing lines in black ink.

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: "The Derelict" or "The Lost Boat"

creator: Arthur Wesley Dow

medium: Color woodcut; working proof

credit_line: Gift of the Dowd-Gallogly Family and Allan E. Dowd, 2016


title: Albert, King of Saxony, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-1) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Walking leopard

date: 18th century

medium: Sardonyx, mounted in gold as a pin, subsequently gouged

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1939


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: Ridged Umbel Mold

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: The College Gate

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Piece

date: 19th 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: Clipper Ship "Dreadnought" off Tuskar Light, 12 1/2 Days from New York on her Celebrated Passage into Dock of  Liverpool in 13 Days 11 Hours, December 1854

creator: Charles Parsons

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: [Self-Portrait]

creator: Robert E. Peary

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Eight Spring Victoria (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Teapot

creator: John Astbury

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

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


title: Designs for Two Chairs

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Armchair

date: mid-18th century

medium: Pine, carved, painted and gilded; velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Jar with high handle

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Court suit

medium: silk, metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Henry Dazian, 1933


title: Scarf

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick van Beuren Joy, in memory of Mrs. Jacob Harsen Halsted, 1983


title: Side chair (one of a pair)

creator: Josef Danhauser

medium: Beech and pine wood, cherrywood veneer, ebonized mahogany framing strips; modern silk upholstery

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1996


title: Portrait of a seated lady

date: late 18th century

medium: Wax, colored

subjects: Sculpture-miniature Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Captain and Mrs. William G. Fitch, in memory of their son, Clyde Fitch, 1910


title: Tassel

date: 17th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a lid

date: 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: Jug

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Parrot

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Bowl

date: unknown

medium: Stoneware with turquoise and purple glazes.

country: Chinese (?)

subjects: Ceramic Chinese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Cruet

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 7r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)

creator: Jean Henri Riesener

medium: Oak veneered with ebony and 17th-century Japanese lacquer; interiors veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, and ebonized holly; gilt-bronze mounts; marble top; velvet (not original)

credit_line: Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920


title: Armchair

medium: Walnut veneer; coniferous and walnut secondary woods

credit_line: Bequest of Patti Birch, 2007


title: Key

date: 1st–4th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Roman

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Landscape

creator: Eugène Boudin

medium: Black chalk on gray laid paper heightened with white chalk

subjects: Drawing Landscapes


title: Coin

date: probably 10th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Sleep Escaping from the Wrath of Jupiter – "But gentle Night to whom I fled for Aid (the Friend of Earth and Heaven), Her Wings Display'd" (Pope's Iliad, Book 14, line 293)

creator: John Flaxman

medium: Pen and black ink over graphite

credit_line: Gift of Scott & Fowles, 1918


title: Vase

date: 13th century

medium:
Stonepaste; glazed
Type: black-white-blue ware

credit_line: Gift of Marquis de La Bégassière, 1960


title: Nécessaire

medium: Copper, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890


title: Wedding bonnet

medium: cotton, silk

country: American

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


title: Panel

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs and Mr. Peter G. Sachs, in memory of Miss Edith L. Sachs, 1978


title: Bottle with dragon

medium: Soft paste porcelain with incised decoration (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Portrait medal of Giovanni Giovano Pontano

creator: Adriano Fiorentino (Adriano di Giovanni de' Maestri)

date: model last quarter 15th century (cast 16th century)

medium: Bronze (Copper alloy with brown patina and remnants of black lacquer or wax).

subjects: Medal Portraits


title: Fish and Lotus

creator: Kano Yasunobu

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Fish Painting Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

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: Bottle

medium: Glass; mold-blown, applied, combed, and marbered decoration; pewter

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


title: Chiyoda Inner Palace: No.20 Flower Arranging in Turn (Chiyoda no Ōoku: Chanoyu mawaribana)

creator: Hashimoto Chikanobu

date: August 1895

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Handkerchief

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: linen, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Charlotte R. Stillman, 1951


title: The Beggars

creator: Louis Léopold Boilly

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1987


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: 2nd to mid–1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Glass double bead

date: ca. 2nd–4th century CE

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Fragment of a Box

medium: Ivory: carved

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Canopic jar of princess Any

medium: Limestone, blue paste in inscription, linen, possibly human remains

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Stole

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Emily T. Clay and Ellen Thomas, 1961


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


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Piece

date: late 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: View from Fishkill Looking To West-Point (No. 15 of The Hudson River Portfolio)

creator: John Rubens Smith

medium: Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; first state (Koke)

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


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


title: Book cover with geometric and floral pattern in red, yellow, and green

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948


title: Cap fragment

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Phaeton (unnumbered)

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Scarab Inscribed Hatshepsut United with Amun

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Perspectival Drawing of a Cradle

creator: Peter Flötner

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray, and a reddish brown chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2007


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Head of a young man in profile, from "Various Portraits" (Recueil de Diverses Piéces Servant à l'Art de Portraiture)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain decorated in red-orange, blue, green and gilt (Arita ware, Imari style)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward H. Wells, 1953


title: L'Escalier aux  Quatre Bornes

creator: Hubert Robert

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Broadside with 48 scenes relating to the life of a dog told by himself

creator: José María Marés

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Armand Guéraud of Nantes, printer and man of letters

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching in tin; first state of four

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Spring

date: modeled 1745

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze mounts

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1943


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Card 821, Lillie Grub, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: A Rider on a Black Horse with a Pair of Balances in His Hand; and A Pale Horse with Death as Its Rider, from an Apocalypse blockbook, 2nd edition

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century

medium: Woodcut printed in dark brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Dr. F. H. Hirschland, 1954


title: Helmet (Kabuto)

date: 17th century

medium: Iron, leather, lacquer

country: Japanese

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Headdress Ornament

medium: Enamel, gold-sheet, pearls, and semi-precious stones

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry

credit_line: Purchase, 2017 NoRuz at The Met Benefit, 2018


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Earthenware; incised decoration through white slip and coloring under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Preparatory Study for Plate 41 in "Maisons de plaisance," Vol. II

creator: Jacques François Blondel

date: 18th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1986


title: Two-Hand Sword

medium: Steel, gold, wood

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Sword
Italian, venice

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


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


title: Saucepan

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Pair of Mittens

medium: Native-tanned skin, silk

country: Cree or Cree-Métis

credit_line: Ralph T. Coe Collection, Gift of Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, 2011


title: Sturgeon, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print


title: Belt plaque

date: 16th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: New York, from Flags of the States and Territories (N11) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 5th/early 4th century BCE

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Acute-angled core for blades

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Plate 11: An old man sitting on the ground to left, seen from behind, a peasant woman seen from behind to right in background, from "Caprice faict par de la Bella"

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: View of a Pond

creator: Marcel Blairat

medium: Etching

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


title: Captain, from the Occupations of Women series (N502) for Frishmuth's Tobacco Company

creator: Frishmuth's Tobacco Company


title: View of Antwerp from Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum

creator: Joris Hoefnagel

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1961


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer


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

creator: Tony Johannot

medium: Intaglio

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Equine-shaped belt buckle

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century

medium: Bronze

country: Korea

subjects: Metalwork Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Mourning fan

medium: wood, silk, mother-of-pearl, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Amelia Beard Hollenback, 1966


title: Card 835, Pauline Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Souvenir spoon with finial in form of an academic or peer

medium: Silver, parcel-gilt

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


title: [Man]

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Les Noces de Cana (The Wedding at Cana), from Les Quatre Banquets (The Four Feasts)

creator: Jacques Callot

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Faience amulet of a seated cat

medium: Faience

country: Egyptian or Levantin

subjects:
Miscellaneous-faience
Egyptian or levantin

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


title: Capital

date: second half 15th century

medium: Botticino stone

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Plate 22: a beggar woman with three children, one child on her shoulders, one child in her arms, and one child who walks in front of her to left, from "Diversi Capricci"

medium: Etching; third state of four (De Vesme)


title: Decanter

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Strip

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Chess Set

date: 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; molded and glazed

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1971


title: Spear of Emperor Ferdinand I (reigned 1558–64)

date: dated 1558

medium: Steel, wood, textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Poetry, a woman with a laurel crown

creator: Raphael Morghen

medium: Engraving; fourth state of five

credit_line: Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941


title: Orbiculus (Roundel) with Grapevine Inhabited by Two Purple Birds Emerging from a Pot

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Birds

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Snuffers tray (part of a toilet service)

creator: I. H., London

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1963


title: Ornament cone

subjects:
Ornament & design
Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Fishing Nets and Chidori in Flight

medium: Lacquer, roiro, gold hiramakie, metal wire, aogai inlay; Interior: nashiji and fundame

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Panel

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Jelly mold

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: [The Salon of Baron Gros]

creator: Baron Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gros

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, Louis V. Bell Fund, Alfred Stieglitz Society and W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gifts, 2010


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Su Shi Riding a Donkey

creator: Bokudō Sojun

date: early 15th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and gold on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Henning

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Copper ingot

medium: Copper

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: A Two O'Clock Ordinary

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: The Last Supper

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Etching, first state of two

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


title: Square Dish

medium: Painted enamel

country: China

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Model Spear

medium: Wood, copper

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917


title: Appliqué

date: 19th century

medium: Bone

country: European (Byzantine style)

subjects:
Bone
European (byzantine style)
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Cladostephus spongiosus

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Traite des Nègres (The Slave Trade)

creator: Frédéric Etienne Joseph Feldtrappe

date: early 19th century

medium: Cotton, roller printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Ewer

medium: Plated base metal

credit_line: Purchase, 1885


title: Fan

medium: Silk, ivory, silver

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a volute-krater?

creator: Hunt Painter

date: mid-6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, laconian

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


title: "How a Braggart was Drowned in a Well", Folio 33v from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

creator: Nizami

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Well Cleaner

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

medium: Etching with some engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Abraham Entertaining the Three Angels (Genesis 18:1-15) (recto);  A Couple Embracing, and Other (verso)

creator: Francesco Lamarra

medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk (recto and verso)

credit_line: Gift of H. M. Calman, 1961


title: [Photo Collage: Dog Jumping at Man]

creator: Juan Pedro Chabalgoity

medium: Albumen silver print, lithograph

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


title: Crucifixion

date: late 15th–early 16th century, with later additions

medium: Basse-taille and painted enamel on silver; enamel en ronde bosse on silver; silver gilt; rubies; pearls

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Address-card of the printseller, Rochoux

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching from two plates; fifth state of five

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial S, from an Antiphonary

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: German

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

credit_line: Gift of Miss Alice M. Dike, in memory of her father, Henry A. Dike, 1928


title: Wayside Temple Near Seville

creator: John Bagnold Burgess

medium: Graphite

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of James B. Hammond, 1909


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Bunting

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Nehebkau (snake deity) holding a wedjat eye

medium: wood

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


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


title: Band

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Breast Defense (Peytral) from a Horse Armor

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Leather, iron, brass or copper alloy, silver, gold, shellac, pigments, textile, hair (yak)

country: Tibetan or Mongolian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor for horse
Tibetan or mongolian

credit_line: Purchase, Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, by exchange, 1999


title: Study of Cupid (from Sketchbook)

creator: John Quincy Adams Ward

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Edward R. Grove, 1985


title: Collar

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. John Roebling, 1970


title: Design for an Altar

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over leadpoint (?)

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Landscape

creator: Aelbert Cuyp

medium: Black chalk, gray and green wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

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


title: Water Plants

creator: Hugh R. Hopgood

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Quel est le plus heureux?

creator: Marguerite Eléonore Lingée

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Gift of Helen J. Baker, 1937


title: The Baptism of Christ (with Two Ducks in the Water at Lower Right)

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Tomb Design

creator: Ignaz Günther

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray brown, and pink wash.  Laid down on  paper mount with NILSON written below drawing now erased.  Gold and black boardering.

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1964


title: Actress wearing military-inspired costume, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Courtesan

creator: Kaigetsudō Dohan

medium: Monochrome woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Belt fragments with deities on bulls and lions

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Urartian

credit_line: Rogers Fund,  Littauer, Straka and Colt Gifts, 1971


title: The Queen of Beauty -- Langorous

creator: Paul Gauguin

medium: Woodcut on transparent wove tissue paper laid down to bristol board

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Darabukka

date: late 19th century

medium: Clay

country: Algerian

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / goblet drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Schön Neues Modelbuch (Page 6 recto)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: The Cross of the Sailors–Dieppe

creator: Horace Vernet

medium: Lithograph; only state

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cartonnage fragment

medium: Linen, stucco, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Vase (one of a set of three)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1971


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Portrait of Eleazor Swalmius

creator: Jonas Suyderhoef

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian,1966


title: Roundel with the Adoration of the Magi

creator: Hans Memling

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: South Netherlandish or Lower German

subjects:
Glass-stained
South netherlandish or lower german

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1983


title: Bratina

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver, parcel-gilt

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Fork (one of five)

creator: Isaac Callard Jr.

date: 18th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of George D. Widener and Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, 1958


title: Medal:  Tiberio Deciano

creator: Giovanni del Cavino

date: model 1549 (cast 16th century)

medium:
Bronze (copper alloy with warm brown
patina).

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Bronze nails

date: 7th/6th centuries BCE

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


title: Enthroned Virgin

creator: Goro di Gregorio

date: first half 14th century

medium: Terracotta

country: Italian

subjects: Sculpture-ceramic Italian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection and Rogers Fund, 1998


title: Tu Marcellus Eris

creator: Charles Simon Pradier

medium: Etching and engraving on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950


title: Hamlet and the Corpse of Polonius

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph; second state of four

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Fragment of a votive bracelet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: Afternoon apron

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous gift, 1944


title: Terracotta loom weight

date: 6th century BCE or later

country: Lydian

subjects: Terracotta Lydian

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


title: Silver denarius of M. Junius Brutus

date: 43–42 BCE

country: Roman

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Purchase, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, Philodoroi, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran, and Patricia and Marietta Fried Gifts, 2026


title: Spring Morning

creator: James Tissot

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009


title: Reclining Female Nude

creator: Domenico Tintoretto

date: early 17th century

medium: Black and white chalk on blue paper.


title: Plate 1: Ferdinand as Mars, standing on a pedestal; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

creator: Pieter de Jode II

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


title: A Nightmare

creator: Giovanni David

medium: Pen and black and gray ink with gray and brown wash, heightened with white and yellow, over black chalk, set within a fictive mount, drawn with a blue wash border and black ink framing lines

credit_line: Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, 2018


title: Foliate Border Section

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

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1926


title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

date: 19th century

medium: Leaded brass with pigment and gilding, lost-wax cast

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Florance Waterbury, in memory of her father, John I. Waterbury, by exchange, 2009


title: Piece

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Bottle with a reed boat and paddler

creator: Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip, post-fired pigment

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

subjects:
Lambayeque (sicán)
Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of John Wise, 1956


title: Coffee spoon (?) or egg spoon (?)

medium: Silver, parcel gilt

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


title: Counterproof of an impression from a name plate for Edward D. Adams

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Counterproof of an etching

credit_line: Gift of Edward D. Adams, 1921


title: Creamer and Teapot

creator: Matthew Boulton

medium: Etching

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


title: Strip

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Brigandine Plate

medium: Iron alloy

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Pedestal

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Marble, gilt bronze

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Embroidered darning sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Ariadne

creator: Asher Brown Durand

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1897


title: Taweret statuette

medium: Red jasper

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


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: Skanda (Chinese Weituo)

medium: Gilt brass; lost-wax cast

country: China

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Bronze statuette of Herakles

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Pendant with St. George and The Dragon

medium: Silver and gilded silver

country: Swiss or German

subjects:
Metalwork-silver
Swiss or german

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Bowl

creator: Eiraku Hozen

medium: Porcelain decorated with red under the glaze; bottom unglazed (Kyoto ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Turkey, from the National Flags series (N195) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Plaque with a Dancer and a Vina Player

date: 1st century BCE

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

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


title: Folding Fan with Scene of Figures in a Landscape

medium: Silver, brass, paper, and silk

subjects: Fans Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Heyward Cutting, 1942


title: Finger Ring

date: 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-gold Byzantine


title: Earring

date: ca. 7th century

medium: Gilt copper

subjects: Jewelry Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: The Clear-day Mountain Wind of the Fan

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Robinson, Catcher, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Mantua

medium: silk, metal

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Isabel Shults Fund and Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1991


title: Two Studies of a Kneeling Male Figure (recto); Handwritten letter (verso)

creator: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Purse

medium: silk, metal, glass

credit_line: Gift of Richard Weinberg, from the private collection of Hilde Walborg Weinberg, 1977


title: Year End Fair at Kinryuzan Temple

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

subjects: Architecture Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Goblet

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran


title: Accessory set

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Bequest of Matilda Alice Shaw, 1948


title: Candlestick

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Bacchus accompanied by a Bacchante and a faun

creator: Carlo Faucci

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Medal

creator: Hans Reinhart the Elder

date: 16th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


title: Fukui Bridge in Echizen Province (Echizen Fukui no hashi), from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Coin (Ducaton)

country: Dutch

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
Dutch

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1922


title: The Foolish Virgins Conversing

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Thread

date: 1st century CE

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek or roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Drapery Study for a Bishop (lower register); verso:  Sketch of a sleeve; (studies for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

creator: Isidore Pils

medium: Black chalk, stumped, white and red chalk, on dark gray paper (recto); black chalk (verso)

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989


title: Portrait of a Lady

date: 17th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Plate with face, fragmentary

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cloister Arcades with Double Capitals

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Burning of the Sidewheeler Henry Clay

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Lappet

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Portrait of a Man, Anne-Claude-Philippe de Tubières de Grimoard, comte de Caylus, 1692–1765

creator: Jean-Baptiste Nini

date: second half 18th century (before 1786)

medium: Medallion: cast terracotta (terre de Chaumont); frame: gilt wood

subjects: Sculpture-miniature Portraits

credit_line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1949


title: Double vase

date: 18th century

medium: Carnelian and white agate

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Canopy for Holy Place

medium: Silk, metallic thread; bordered in silk; raw silk ruffle; silk band; rawhide

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: The Young Bacchus, holding a flute

creator: Anton Joseph von Prenner

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


title: Velvet Panel with Rows of Flowers

date: mid-17th century

medium: Silk, cut and voided velvet, with continuous floats of flat metal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Flowers
Textiles-woven

credit_line: The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1991


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved; painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Martha leading Mary Magdalene up a flight of stairs to Christ who is seated at right at the entrance to a temple

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: Juglet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


date: first half of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3230

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Seated Male Deity (?)

date: 15th–early 16th century

medium: Stone, stucco

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Mexica (aztec)

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Sheet with floral pattern with a repeating line background

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Parasol

medium: cotton, wood, metal

country: probably European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Sally Victor, 1945


title: Bowl

date: 12th–9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Olmec

subjects: Olmec Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Carol R. Meyer, 1991


title: Ceramic Whistle in the Form of a Standing Figure

date: 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Chorrera or Bahia

subjects:
Chorrera or bahia
Ceramics-musical instrument

credit_line: Gift of Margaret B. Zorach, 1980


title: Mercury

creator: Gert van Egen

medium: Alabaster, partly polychromed and gilded

credit_line: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Fund, 2008


title: Wall Pocket

medium: Stoneware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1944


title: Communion cup and paten

creator: Valerius Sutton

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Design for 2 seat Phaeton, no. 3034

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


title: Drapery Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

date: 19th century

medium: Black chalk, stumped, white and red chalk, on light gray paper

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989


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

date: blade, early 17th century; mounting, 1858

medium: Steel, wood, lacquer, rayskin (samé), paper, silver, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper, gold

subjects: Sword Japanese

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Covered Sugar Bowl

creator: United States Pottery Company

medium: Mottled brown earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stanley Herzman, 1984


title: Plate

creator: Chantilly

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Coffee service

creator: Johan Henrik Blom

medium: Silver, parcel gilt, enamel, wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Design for Dog Cart or 2 Wheeler, no. 4076


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic


title: Tannehill, Washington, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Necklace pendants and beads

date: ca. 17th–16th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Terracotta oil lamp

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

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


title: Erotic Print

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) With Flower Basket Motif (花籠透鐔)

creator: 石黒政明 Ishiguro Masaaki

date: first half 19th century

medium: Iron, copper-silver alloy (<i>shibuichi</i>), gold, silver, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese
Flowers

credit_line: Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, 1919


title: Seated woman winding yarn

creator: Giuseppe Canale

medium: Etching

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


title: Fan Print of the Actor Segawa Kikunojo III

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: ' ’s Konings Tuin met de Klosbaan, achter de Stallingen gezien", in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld

creator: Carel Allard

medium: Color engraving (à la poupée)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: The Young Sophocles Leading the Chorus of Victory after the Battle of Salamis

creator: John Talbott Donoghue

medium: Bronze


title: Galloon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 9 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut


title: Portrait of an old man with a beard

creator: Carl Gottlieb Rasp

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: General Robert E. Lee

creator: Mathew B. Brady

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Roundel with the Virgin

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
South netherlandish
Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Eight landscapes

creator: Lu Han

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

country: China

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

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


title: Strip

medium: Embroidered net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Administration Fund, 1921


title: Piece

medium: Silk on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

date: dated 1645

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: First View of the Surroundings of Bayonne

creator: Joseph Vernet

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Watch

creator: Abraham Bobinet

medium: Rock crystal, gilded brass, silver, blued steel

subjects:
Horology
Minerals & gems


title: Piece

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: A Saxon Prince on Horseback

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut; second state of two (Hollstein)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Tomb Marker, in the Shape of a Stepped Trapezoidal Prism

date: 12th century

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1930


title: Dressing table mirror

creator: André Aucoc

medium: Silver gilt, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Pectoral

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Gold

country: Calima (Yotoco)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Calima (yotoco)

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1966, 1977


title: Ein new getruckt model Büchli...Page 4, verso

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger


title: Sector

creator: Michael Butterfield

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Bronze support for a mirror

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek, South Italian, Locrian ?

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, south italian, locrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Kris with Sheath

medium: Steel, wood, silver, gold

country: Balinese

subjects: Krisse Balinese


title: Coin

medium: Coins

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Gun Hook

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Box with Courtly Lovers

medium: Incised, tooled, painted, stamped, and gilded leather (cuir bouilli) with brass fittings over a wood core

country: French

subjects: Leather French

credit_line: Purchase, Michael O'Neill Gift, and The Cloisters Collection, 2025


title: You find spring too cold this year... next year you will perhaps find it too hot, from "News of the day"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Hoboken, from World's Dudes series (N31) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Tabernacle

medium: Gilded copper with champlevé enamel

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Lamp Shade

medium: Free-blown glass

credit_line: Gift of J. A. Lloyd Hyde, 1933


title: L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Watteau Pientre du Roy en son Academie Roïale de Peinture et Sculpture Gravé d'après ses Tableaux & Desseins originaux...par les Soins de M. de Jullienne, Volume III

creator: Antoine Watteau

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert N. Straus, 1928


title: Study of a Head

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Graphite on gray paper

credit_line: Gift of the artist, 1892


title: Jahangir Watching an Elephant Fight

creator: Farrukh Chela

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Hunting from a Chariot, Tomb of Userhat

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

date: 1922; original ca. 1427–1396 BCE

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Creation of Eve

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving; first state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Willard Eben Mains, Pitcher, St. Paul Apostles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: River Landscape

creator: Xiang Yuanbian

date: dated 1578

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

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


title: Cup and Saucer

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Kōrin Picture Album (Kōrin gafu) 光琳画譜

creator: Nakamura Hōchū 中村芳中

date: 1826 (reprinted posthumously)

medium: Woodblock-printed book (orihon, accordion-style); ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: "Bizhan Receives an Invitation through Manizha's Nurse", Folio 300v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1970


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Emmao (King of Hell) Seated on Chair (obverse); Seal and Inscription (reverse)

medium: Lacquer, kinji, gold and red hiramakie, metal inlay; Interior: red lacquer, nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Lamp in the Form of a Mask

date: probably 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Earthenware; molded

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


title: Baron de Rothschild, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22a) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Śankh

medium: Shell (Turbinella pyrum), brass, wax

country: Indian

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: Purchase, The Barrington Foundation Inc. Gift, 1986


title: Double-handled vessel

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Stoneware

country: Korea

subjects:
Ceramic
Korea
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997


title: Poke bonnet

medium: straw

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Scarab Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut), with Nekhbet Vulture Wearing the Double Crown

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Poetic maxim in clerical script

creator: Zheng Fu

date: dated 1691

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

credit_line: Gift of Julia and John Curtis, in memory of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill, 2015


title: Terracotta fragment of a plate?

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Saint Michael

creator: Pietro di Giovanni d'Ambrogio

medium: Tempera and silver on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Marble akroterion of the grave monument of Timotheos and Nikon

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Plate 8: Vendor of baskets

creator: Simon Guillain II

medium: Etching

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


title: Fragment of a Dish

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Earthenware; incised decoration under green glaze


title: The Last Supper

creator: Léonard Limosin

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Boy Saint John

creator: Giovanni della Robbia

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Terracotta, enamelled and painted

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Neck of a Wide-Mouthed Hathor Jar

medium: pottery, slip, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Kohl tube, incised

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Vase with flower and rock

date: 19th century

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

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Handkerchief

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Cap crown

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum, 1953


title: Two Women Conversing

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Francis M. Weld, 1948


title: Tabernacle door with the risen Christ

creator: Pietro Paolo Nardi

date: mid-17th century

medium: Bronze, fire-gilt; iron (lock mechanism)


title: Moving the Vatican Obelisk, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Natale Bonifacio

medium: Etching, printed from three plates

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Heraldic Shield

medium: Stained glass

country: British

subjects: Glass-stained British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: The Slave Market (Le Marché d'esclaves)

creator: Jacques Callot

date: early 17th century

medium: Etching; first state of six (Lieure)

credit_line: Gift of Paul J. Sachs, 1917


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Sake Ewer with Decoration of Chrysanthemums on a Stream Bank

date: 17th century

medium: Gold and silver maki-e lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: An experience with equilibrium, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: February 20, 1868

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Burgonet for the Farnese Guard

medium: Steel, gold, copper alloy

country: Italian

subjects: Helmet Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Collar

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss Jessie Rosenfeld, 1943


title: Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Amenemhab

medium: Pottery

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


title: Serpentine (?) pendant fragments with transverse grooves

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

medium: Serpentine?

country: Minoan

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Baker Blowing Horn

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Button

medium: ivory, metal, diamond

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Swallows

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Michael Cornelius Dorgan, Right Field, New York, 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: Louise Montague, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Scraper

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Garrit Furman

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederic F. Durand, 1930


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze and colored enamels (Arita ware, Imari type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Sugar sifter

medium: Silver

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


title: Altar Cloth

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Phillip H. Rubin, 2006


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


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

date: 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: Grace Stewart, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Rank Badge with Decoration of Two Cranes among Clouds

medium: Silk embroidery on silk damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Korea
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1953


title: Tile from marsh scene

medium: Polychrome faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Front and back covers printed on the same sheet for a collection of love letters (number 1)

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on yellow/orange paper

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


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk / Tapestry

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Bowl

date: ca. 1st century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Nabataean

credit_line: Gift of the American Expedition to Petra, 1967


title: Piece

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emele T. Littell, 1948


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Bronze statuette (of a woman?)

date: 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Sword-Hilt Collar (Fuchi)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: Piece

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: letter order, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 487 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Medal

date: late 19th century

medium: Gold; red ribbon with yellow stripe

subjects: Medal Japan

credit_line: Gift of Edward D. Adams and Jacob H. Schiff, 1906


title: Ribbon

medium: Silk and linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Frances M. Brennan, in memory of Alice Lee Herrick Myers, 1987


title: Wagonette (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: hand colored lithograph

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Bedspread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: The Batter, from the Girl Baseball Players series (N48, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Page 14v, from "Eyn New Kunstlichboich"

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Sample

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of F. J. Schaetzel, 1919


title: Mold for small ring ornaments

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Battle Scene

creator: Lelio Orsi (called Lelio da Novellara)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk; squared in black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Anna Mont, in memory of Frederick Mont, 1998


title: Topographical Map of the City and County of New-York and the Adjacent Country

creator: David H. Burr

medium: Engraving with additions in wash and black chalk

subjects:
Maps & charts
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Rook or Pawn Chess Piece

date: 12th century

medium: Whale ivory

country: Scandinavian

subjects: Scandinavian Ivories-whale

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 2013


title: Anklet

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Jug

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Still Life with Teapot and Fruit

creator: Paul Gauguin

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Fruits

credit_line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1997, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002


title: Design for an Epitaph with a Variant, flanked by Terms and surmounted by statues of Cherubs

creator: Abraham van Diepenbeeck

medium: Pen with brown and black ink over traces of black chalk, black charcoal, brown and gray wash

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2014


title: [Sydney Smirke]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: "L'Aerostat dans le Parc du Château"

creator: Jean-Baptiste Huet I

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Conical Game Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Headquarters, 10th Army Corps, Hatcher's Farm, Virginia

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Covered jar with landscape and flowers

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

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Juglet

medium: Egyptian blue

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


title: Pen-etration

creator: James Gillray

date: August 6, 1799

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: James Thomson

date: October 1, 1829

medium: Stipple engraving


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

creator: Briseis Painter

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


title: Clock

creator: Bouchet

date: early 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Terracotta fragment of a bowl

date: 5th century BCE?


title: Portrait of Laure Bosc, wife of Adolphe Balguerie

creator: María del Rosario Weiss Zorrilla

medium: Graphite

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 2024


title: Trade card for Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor, publisher and printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Commercial lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Six Figure Studies, including four for "The Poor Italian Family"

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Magical Water Jar of Sithathoryunet with Lid

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Saint Florian

creator: Casper

medium: Woodcut; hand colored, mounted on the separated inner front cover of a leather bound volume

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: A helmet and a figure's lower body

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

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

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Mlle Plunkett

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

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


title: A Common Indian Nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus)

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 2004


title: Purse Mount in the Form of a Bird

date: first half 6th century

medium: Copper alloy, "tinned" surface

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish
Birds

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ribbon

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Miss Harriet Abbe, 1920


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 4th–5th century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

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


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; mold blown, tooled on the pontil

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


title: Finial of a marble stele (grave marker)

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic


title: Plate 105: Diane Killing Chione (Chione ob linguae procacitatem a Diana transfigitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

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


title: Standing female figurine

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Louis XIII and Anne of Austria Presenting the Dauphin to the Virgin

creator: Grégoire Huret

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Gold earring with disc and pendant

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman


title: Seated Padmapani

date: 10th–11th century(?)

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Sumatra)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (sumatra)

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


title: A woman on horseback descending a hill, a large tree to the left, landscape of Florence in the background, from "Four large landscapes" (Quatre grands paysages en hauteur)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; fourth state of four

subjects: Print Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Mace head

medium: Stone

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Bit Boss with the Rape of Europa

date: first half 17th century

medium: Copper alloy, gold

country: German or Netherlandish

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
German or netherlandish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Sketch Page of Facial Studies, likely Maharao Kishor Singh

medium: Ink on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Kotah)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, kotah)

credit_line: Gift of Subhash Kapoor, in memory of his parents, Smt Shashi Kanta and Shree Parshotam Ram Kapoor, 2008


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Robert Cooper

date: February 1809

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Plate 138: Acmon and his Friends Changed into Birds (Comites Diomedis indignatione veneris in aves Diomedeas), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

subjects: Print Birds


title: Fragment

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


title: Morning dress

medium: cotton

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Eleanora Eaton Brooks, 1975


title: Frieze with Centaurs Fighting at Center with Human Riders

creator: Sebald Beham

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Pauli)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Vision

creator: Chez Huquier

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Cherry Stone from a Tomb

medium: Cherry stone

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bottle

creator: Daniel Greatbatch

medium: Mottled brown earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Painter of Heidelberg 209

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Mr. Foote in the Character of Major Sturgeon, in the Mayor of Garratt

creator: Johann Gottfried Haid

medium: Mezzotint; proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Head of the Buddha

creator: Thai

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Copper alloy, some with traces of leaf gilding.

country: Thai

subjects: Metalwork Thai

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Card 401, Esmerelda, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Box

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Tortoiseshell, silver

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Red sheet with two borders with a white floral pattern atop a black lace pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of D. Lorraine Yerkes, 1961


title: Pictures from Italy

creator: Charles Dickens

medium: Illustrations: wood engraving

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2004


title: Stone Blockade off Charleston, South Carolina (from Confederate War Etchings)

creator: Adalbert John Volck

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: The Annunciation, Adoration of the Shepherds, and Adoration of the Kings

creator: Anonymous Workshop, British

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk, wool, silver-gilt thread (18-22 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Nose Ornament

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Salinar (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Salinar

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


title: Hat

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

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


title: Chute

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Bronze spearhead

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Cypriot


title: Venerable Idleness, Queen of Cockaigne; a fat woman seated on a movable toilet chair being waited on and fed by seven women

creator: Nicolò Nelli

medium: Engraving

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: A woman at the bath, another woman washing her right foot and an old woman behind her holding her clothes

creator: Louis Surugue

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


title: The Building of Westminster Bridge

creator: Samuel Scott

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Charles B. Curtis Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1944


title: Design for the decoration of the dining room, 20 rue Matignon

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Gouache on wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Roller Stamp

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Atlantic watershed
Ceramics-implement


title: Pair of masks

date: 17th–18th century


title: A Lock on the Stour

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: George F. "Piano Legs" Gore, Center Field, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Two Standing Soldiers and Six other Figures

creator: Salvator Rosa

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Two Philosophers Watching an Eclipse

creator: Pierre Brebiette

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1975


title: Sconce (one of a pair)

medium: Enamel on brass

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Shell

medium: Silver

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Beaker with figure and Spondylus shell

creator: Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

subjects:
Metal-container
Lambayeque (sicán)
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1966, 1977


title: Gold boat-shaped earrings

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Self Portrait of the Artist and Coat of Arms of the Artist

creator: Augustin Hirschvogel

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Tile

medium: Delftware (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Vase fragment

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Band

medium: Drawnwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece from a Kosode with Plum Blossoms and Cloud

medium: Resist-dyed silk satin damask (rinzu), embroidered with silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Flowers
Textiles-dyed and embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennan Ford, 2008


title: Christ before Caiaphas, from "The Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: Pair of finials

date: early 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Two table valances with dragons

date: 19th century

medium: Silk velvet with gold thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-velvet


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Samyutagama Sutra, chapter 25, from the Jinsushan Tripitaka

creator: Unidentified artist

date: datable to 1060s–1080s

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Corset

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mr. J. C. Hawthorne, 1946


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Scarab with Papyrus Plants and Signs

medium: Green glazed steatite


title: Valentine

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Arm Defense for Right Arm

medium: Steel, gold

country: German, probably Augsburg

subjects:
Armor part
German, probably augsburg

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


title: Head Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: [Camp of Construction Corps, U.S. Military Railroad at City Point, Virginia]

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


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: Urban VIII (Pope 1623–44)

creator: Gasparo Mola

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


title: Pontoon Bridge at Deep Bottom, James River


title: Portrait du Sénateur Donato dell'Antella (Portrait of Senator Donato dell'Antella)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Le Feu d'Artifice sur l'Arno (Fireworks on the Arno), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)


title: Sketches of Bodices with Bows and a Bouffant Skirt

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, and graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Ornament & architecture

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


title: Design for Console Table

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite; framing lines in graphite

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


title: Apples

creator: Gustave Courbet

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Vase in Meiping Shape

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stoneware with white glaze (Cizhou ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Imperial Counsellor, from the Occupations for Women series (N166) for Old Judge and Dogs Head Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Corset

date: late 18th century

medium: linen, wood

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1970


title: Conical Beaker

medium: Mold-blown glass

country: German

subjects: Glass-vessel German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection and Rogers Fund, 1991


title: [Freedman's Barracks, Alexandria, Virginia]

creator: Unknown


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


title: St. Francis

creator: Willem Pietersz Buytewech

medium: Etching with engraving; second state of two (with the number and Visscher's address scraped away)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: The Adoration of the Shepherds

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving

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


title: Kiln Rod

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Gift of Noel E. Baker, 1952


title: Halberd of Emperor Matthias (reigned 1612–19)

date: dated 1612

medium: Steel, wood

subjects:
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Denarius of Mariniana, 258 A.D., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Fragment of Necklace

date: 3rd century

medium: Gold, garnets

country: Pontic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Pontic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ring

date: ca. late 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Sihu (四胡 )

medium: Redwood, snakeskin, bamboo, horsehair

country: Chinese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Fragment of an Icon with the Crucifixion

date: 12th century

medium: Steatite (gray-green)

country: Byzantine

subjects: Steatite Byzantine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Watch

medium: Silver, enamel, glass


title: Glass mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Travelling in a Snowstorm

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Terracotta fish-plate

creator: Bastis Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian or Sicilian

subjects: Greek, south italian, campanian or sicilian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Shard

date: 15th century

medium: Pottery

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of John and Betty Menke, 1978


title: Clara Pilvois

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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