title: Elizabeth Page Bakewell and her Grandson, Frank B. James

creator: John Plumbe Jr.

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Cuneiform tablet: balag

date: ca. 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Seleucid or Parthian

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: Purchase, 1886


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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: Panel

creator: Friedrich Egermann

date: late 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Zita Spiss, 1991


title: The Delaware Valley

creator: George Inness

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Several Gentlemen, 1899


title: Mrs. Phineas Miller (Catherine Littlefield)

creator: Joseph-Pierre Picot de Limoelan de Cloriviere

medium: Watercolor on ivory

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


title: Panel from a Minbar

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory and wood, traces of paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Tobit, from "Landscapes with Biblical and Mythological Scenes"

creator: Hieronymus Cock

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print Landscapes

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


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

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: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1926


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain painted in famille verte enamels with blue, red, and gold

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Tiger Claw Jewel

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Stone

country: Japan

subjects: Jewelry Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Dish with Stone Wall

date: first half of the 18th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamels, gold (Arita ware, Imari type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Diptych with Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Coronation of the Virgin

date: 14th century

medium: Elephant ivory with metal mounts

country: French

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Scene of Fishing and Fowling

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel, 1985


title: Gaiters

medium: cotton, linen, horn

country: British

credit_line: Catharine Breyer Van Bomel Foundation Fund, 1978


title: Sheng ( 笙 )

medium: Aerophone-Free Reed-mouth organ

country: Chinese

subjects:
Aerophone-free reed-mouth organ
Chinese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Portrait of a woman with a feathered hat, from the "Girls" series (T66), issued with Hunter Dog Cigarros by S. Monday & Sons

creator: S. Monday & Sons, Brooklyn, New York

medium: Commercial photolithograph

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Young Adams Catechised by Parson Adams, from "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

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


title: Bag

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Inca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Inca
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Gloves

medium: leather, silk

credit_line: Gift of Theodore Fischer Ells, 1975


title: The Flagellation; (reverse) The Madonna of Mercy

creator: Girolamo Romanino

medium: Distemper and oil(?) on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Bequest, by exchange, 1989


title: Platter

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alan W. Carrick, 1967


title: Actress on fur rug, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Plate 21: a poor woman to left, seen from behind, enveloping her child in a shawl, another woman seen from behind to left in background, a woman atop a horse and a man to right in background, from "Diversi Capricci"

creator: Stefano della Bella

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

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Actress seated in chair, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco


title: River Landscape with Mountains

creator: Herman Saftleven II

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk, black, brown and blue wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Plate 36: Men with heraldic flags and horses from Zutphen and Namur marching in the funeral procession of Archduke Albert of Austria; from 'Pompa Funebris ... Alberti Pii'

creator: Cornelis Galle I

medium: Etching with hand coloring

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Comb with a horse

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Openwork Belt Fitting

date: 6th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish


title: Wall Pocket (one of a pair)

creator: Worcester Porcelain Factory (Warmstry House Period, 1751–1783)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, underglaze blue decoration

country: Worcester

subjects:
Porcelain
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
European decorative arts
Ceramic

source: Art Institute of Chicago

source_id: aic

rights_statement: Public Domain — CC0 via the Art Institute of Chicago Open Access programme.

credit_line: Joseph Maier and Arthur Lewis Liebman Memorial: Gift of Kenneth J. Maier, M.D.


title: Seneca

creator: Lucas Vorsterman (Flemish, 1595-1675)

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

country: Flanders

subjects:
Engraving
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Fund


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt, possibly Akhmin

date: 5th-6th century

medium: Linen and wool, slit tapestry weave

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Linen (material)
Slit tapestry weaving
Coptic (historically identified as)
Weaving
Wool (textile)
Roman period (egyptian)

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Slit tapestry weaving
Linen (material)
Coptic (historically identified as)
Weaving
Roman period (egyptian)
Wool (textile)


title: Saint Catherine Disputing with the Philosophers

creator: Livio Agresti

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream laid paper, pieced

country: Italy

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Brush and ink
Brush and wash
Drawing (visual works)
Paper
Print and drawing
Gouache
Chalk
Chalk with ink

credit_line: Gift of John A. Bross in memory of Louise Smith Bross


title: Sleeve Pieces

creator: France

medium: White taffeta with cut work pattern

country: France

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Saint Charles Borromeo Entering the Town of Pavia: Design for a Wall Decoration

creator: Cesare Nebbia

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on buff card

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Brush and ink
Brush and wash
Drawing (visual works)
Paper
Print and drawing
Graphite


title: Design for a Salt Cellar or a Table Fountain

creator: Attributed to Livio Agresti

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and blue wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, perimeter mounted to buff wove paper, prepared with a brown wash

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Brush and ink
Brush and wash
Drawing (visual works)
Paper
Print and drawing
Chalk
Chalk with ink


title: Saint Charles Borromeo Venerating the Relics

creator: Workshop of Cesare Nebbia

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over graphite, on cream laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Brush and ink
Brush and wash
Drawing (visual works)
Paper
Print and drawing
Gouache
Graphite


title: Saint Charles Borromeo Supervising the Opening of a Crypt


title: Saint Catherine in Prison Converting the Empress Faustina to Christianity, Flanked by Saints Saturnius and Simon

creator: Federico Zuccaro

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache, on blue laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Brush and ink
Brush and wash
Drawing (visual works)
Paper
Print and drawing
Gouache


title: A Castle on a Crag in a Mountainous Landscape

creator: Joos de Momper

date: late 1590s

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown ink wash and touches of black ink wash, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Flander
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Paper

credit_line: Suzanne Searle Dixon Endowment


title: Philip IV Appointing Prince Ferdinand Governor of the Netherlands, plate 25 from Casperius Gevartius, Pompa Introitus Honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi (Triumphal Entry of the Most Serene and Honorable Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand)

creator: Theodoor van Thulden (Flemish, c. 1606-1669)

medium: Engraving, with etching and plate tone, in black on cream laid paper

credit_line: The Joseph Brooks Fair and Hannan funds


title: Stage in Memory of Isabella Clara Eugenia, plate 24 from Casperius Gevartius, Pompa Introitus Honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi (Triumphal Entry of the Most Serene and Honorable Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand)


title: Genealogical Tree of the Austrian Royal Family, plate 32 from Casperius Gevartius, Pompa Introitus Honori Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi (Triumphal Entry of the Most Serene and Honorable Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand)

creator: Theodoor van Thulden

subjects:
Engraving
Flander
Trees
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing


title: Lot's Daughters Fleeing Sodom

creator: Lucas Vorsterman (Flemish, 1595–1675)

medium: Black chalk, with touches of pen and black ink and white chalk, on tan laid paper

subjects:
Chalk
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print and drawing

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt and Suzanne Lord Folds endowment funds


title: The Rape of Europa

creator: Cornelis Schut

medium: Black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt and Henry Wood funds


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt

date: Roman period (30 BCE– 641 CE)/Arab period (641–969)/Fatimid period (969–1171), 3rd/ 10th century

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Roman period (egyptian)
Weaving
Coptic (period)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ronald P. Boardman


title: A Portrait of a Man

creator: Jan de Bray

medium: Black and red chalk on ivory laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Netherland
Drawing (visual works)
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Margaret Day Blake Fund


title: The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau

creator: Maerten de Vos

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on cream laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing
Paper


title: A Portrait of a Woman


title: Execution of Arminians in Leiden

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher

medium: Hand-colored etching with engraving and letterpress in black on cream laid paper

subjects:
Print
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing


title: Allegory on the Futility of Peace Talks with Spain

creator: Unknown Artist

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper

subjects:
Mythology
Engraving
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg


title: Untitled

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

medium: Salted paper, from the "Untitled Album"

country: England

subjects:
Photograph
England
Collected by hugh edward
Wood
Rural life
Labor
Paper (fiber product)
Photography

credit_line: Photography Gallery Fund


title: Untitled

subjects:
Photograph
England
Collected by hugh edward
Rural life
Window
Broom
Doorway
Paper (fiber product)
Photography


title: Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, The Same Patient in 4 Different States: Melancholy, Excited, Convalescent, Well Untitled, 1849–60, from the George Cowper Album, assembled 1849–60

creator: Hugh Welch Diamond

medium: Albumen prints

subjects:
Photograph
England
Collected by hugh edward
Albumen silver print
Photography


title: Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen prints (61)

country: United States

subjects:
Photograph
United state
Collected by hugh edward
Sherman' campaign 1866
Albumen silver print
Photography

credit_line: Hugh Edwards Photography and Media Purchase Fund


title: Reliquary

creator: France

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-plated brass

subjects:
Reliquary
France
Silver
Container
Brass (alloy)
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament
Ceremonial object
Religious

credit_line: Gift of Anna Mantel Fishbein


title: Traveling Writing Set

creator: Possibly England

medium: Silver plate and wax

subjects:
Writing equipment
England
Metal
Wax
Plate metal
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Silver
Decorative object/ornament


title: Box in the Form of a Fish

creator: Netherlands

date: mid 19th century

medium: Silver, silver gilt, and red glass

subjects:
Fish
Container for personal use
Netherland
Silver
Box
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Vinaigrette

subjects:
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
Netherland
Plating (metal coating)
Silver
Container for personal use
Box
Brass (alloy)
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Snuffbox with Scene of St. Michael Triumphing Over the Devil

creator: Continental Europe

date: early 18th century

country: Europe

subjects:
Snuff box
Europe
Plating (metal coating)
Silver
Container for personal use
Box
Brass (alloy)
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Tobacco Box with Scene of Venus and Adonis

creator: England

medium: Brass

subjects:
Container for personal use
England
Brass (alloy)
Box
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Purse-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: T. Simpson and Son

medium: Silver and silver gilt

country: Birmingham

subjects:
Container for personal use
Birmingham
Silver
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Purse-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: Joseph Willmore


title: Purse-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: William Eliott

country: London

subjects:
Container for personal use
London
Silver
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Purse-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: John Shaw


title: Purse-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: Possibly Matthew Linwood and Son


title: Purse-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: Possibly John Turner


title: Vinaigrette in the Form of a Padlock

creator: John Lawrence and Company


title: Vinaigrette

medium: Silver gilt

subjects:
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
Birmingham
Silver gilt
Container for personal use
Box
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Silver
Decorative object/ornament


title: Vinaigrette in the Form of a Book

creator: Possibly United States

subjects:
Container for personal use
United state
Silver
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Purse-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: Birmingham, England


title: Vinaigrette in the Form of a Scallop Shell

creator: Possibly Joseph Willmore

subjects:
Container for personal use
Birmingham
Shells & molluscs
Silver
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Book-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: Taylor and Perry


title: Chatelaine

creator: London, England

medium: Silver

subjects: Costume accessory worn at waist or below


title: Chatelaine


title: Fish-Shaped Vinaigrette

subjects:
Fish
Container for personal use
Birmingham
Silver
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Fish-Shaped Vinaigrette


title: Watch-Shaped Vinaigrette


title: Watch-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: Joseph Taylor


title: Vinaigrette


title: Card Case with View of Oxford

creator: Marked F. M.

subjects:
Container for personal use
Birmingham
Silver
Box
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Vinaigrette with View of Abbotsford House


title: Vinaigrette with View of Eley Cathedral


title: Vinaigrette with View of Windsor Castle

creator: Nathaniel Mills


title: Vinaigrette with Harbor Scene

creator: Marked B&S


creator: Edward Smith


title: Vinaigrette


title: Vinaigrette with View of St. George's Hall, Liverpool

creator: Marked DP


title: Purse-Shaped Vinaigrette with View of Windsor Castle

creator: Marked JT

subjects:
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
Birmingham
Silver
Container for personal use
Box
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Vinaigrette with View of Sir Walter Scott Memorial

creator: Marked FM


title: Vinaigrette with View of St Bega's Priory, Cumbria


title: Vinaigrette with View of Scarborough Spa Building


title: Vinaigrette with Harbor Scene

creator: George Unite


title: Vinaigrette with View of Kings College, Cambridge


creator: Marked CC


title: Vinaigrette

subjects:
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
London
Silver gilt
Container for personal use
Box
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Silver
Decorative object/ornament


title: Vinaigrette with Harbor Scene


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Marked CJB

subjects:
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
London
Silver
Container for personal use
Box
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Possibly R. Needham


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Possibly William Kingdon or William Eley


title: Vinaigrette

creator: T. Phipps and E. Robinson


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Marked AK


title: Nutmeg Grater

creator: Marked CW Co.

medium: Silver and iron


title: Nutmeg Grater

creator: Marked GP

subjects:
Container for personal use
London
Silver
Box
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Joseph Willmore


title: Nutmeg Grater


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Marked RT


title: Vinaigrette


title: Egg-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: Marked A&S


title: Book-Shaped Vinaigrette

creator: Samuel Pemberton


title: Vinaigrette


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Edward Smith


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Thomas Shaw


title: Vinaigrette


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Marked TN


title: Vinaigrette


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Gervase Wheeler


title: Vinaigrette


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Nathaniel Mills


title: Vinaigrette

creator: John Bettridge


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Francis Clark


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Marked KH & Co.


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Possibly John Lawrence and Co.


title: Snuffbox

creator: George Unite

subjects:
Container for personal use
Birmingham
Silver
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Decorative object/ornament


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Thomas Newbold

medium: Silver gilt and turquiose


title: Patchbox

creator: Joseph Taylor


title: Box


title: Nutmeg Grater

creator: Marked SM


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Probably Matthew Linwood


title: Nutmeg Grater


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Marked IE

medium: Silver, silver gilt, and agate


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Marked CP WS


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Possibly Birmingham, England

medium: Silver, silver gilt, and hardstone


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Possibly England

medium: Rose gold and agate

subjects:
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
England
Roses
Rose gold
Container for personal use
Box
Agate
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Silver
Decorative object/ornament


title: Vinaigrette


title: Snuffbox

creator: Continental Europe, possibly Netherlands

medium: Burled wood

subjects:
Snuff box
Europe
Wood (plant material)
Container for personal use
Box
European decorative arts
Decorative object/ornament
Decorative arts


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Possibly Scotland or Netherlands

medium: Silver gilt, horn, and cairngorm

country: Scotland

subjects:
Vinaigrette (container for health care)
Scotland
Silver gilt
Container for personal use
Box
European decorative arts
Metalwork
Silver
Decorative object/ornament


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Ensemble

medium: silk, cotton

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred Poor, 1958


title: Oarsmen and an Official

medium: Limestone, paint traces

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


title: Project for Decoration (Stage Setting)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Left half: black chalk and brown ink wash; right half: red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Ancestor Pair

date: 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Ixtlán del Río

subjects:
Ixtlán del río
Ceramics-sculpture

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


title: Angel

date: second half 18th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Fragment of a terracotta relief

date: ca. 600 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, attic

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1942


title: Biberon de Cristal de Roche

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1917


title: Burgonet for the Guard of the Counts Khevenhüller zu Aichelberg

medium: Steel, lead, paint, leather

country: German

subjects: Helmet German

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1929


title: Shirt

medium: linen, cotton

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, NAMSB Foundation Inc. Gift, 2006


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Factory and Silkworm Nursery, Foochow

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Matrices

medium: Lithographic limestone

subjects: Sculpture-miniature German

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


title: Watch

date: 19th century

medium: Gold, enamel, pearls

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Jar

date: 1st–6th century

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

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


title: Jar

date: ca. 19th–16th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Joli Gilles, Paris, 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: L'Homme Vu de Dos, La Main Droite Tendue (Man Viewed from Behind, Right Hand Extended), from Les Caprices Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds Roses


title: Copper Disk Ornament with Triangles

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Copper

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peruvian

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


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Nicolaes Maes

medium: Oil on copper

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Lila and Herman Shickman, 2004


title: Caleche #1084

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Thatched Farm Buildings in Fields and Mountain Landscape with Cloud Bands

medium: Lacquer, roiro, gold and silver hiramakie, nashiji and kirigane; Interior: nashiji and fundame

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Plate with scene of offering antique

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

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Sansovino frame

date: early to mid-17th century

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Lombardy (?)

subjects:
Frame
Italian, lombardy

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Crossbow

date: late 15th or early 16th century, and later; date 1584 engraved probably during the 19th century

medium: Steel, wood, staghorn, hemp

country: Central European, possibly southern Germany

subjects: Central european, possibly southern germany

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Plain Ring

date: 7th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Reverse Copy of L'Homme Enroulé dans son Manteau (Man Wrapped in his Mantle), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Dish

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted in black, blue, and green with red and yellow slips

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917


title: Scarf

date: late 19th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: Italian

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Sweetmeat glass

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Noon (The Four Times of Day)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Lappets (2)

date: mid-18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Etruscan Vase with Flowers

creator: Odilon Redon

medium: Tempera on canvas

subjects: Painting Flowers

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1951; acquired from The Museum of Modern Art, Lillie P. Bliss Collection


title: Cordial

creator: Brooklyn Flint Glass Company

medium: Blue-cut-to-clear glass

credit_line: Purchase, Cranshaw Corporation Gift, 2014


title: [Thomas Webster]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Terracotta rhyton (vase for libations or drinking)

date: first half of the fifth century BCE


title: Ishibe, Megawa Sato

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Card Number 542, Violet Cameron, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3209

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Scarf

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Whitewright Watson, 1939


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Textile

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan

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


title: Bronze handle of a hydria (water jar)

date: 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Purchase, Walter C. Baker Gift, 1956


title: Summer Evening

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Monkey Amulet

medium: Faience

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


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Dish

date: first half 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted in black, blue, and green with red and yellow slips

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917


title: Ichikawa Danjuro V as a Chivalrous Commoner (Gonin Otoko) from the Play "Hatsumonbi kuruwa Soga"

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

date: 2nd month, 1780

medium: Pentaptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918 (JP396a-d); Rogers Fund, 1922 (JP396e)


title: Beauty of the Kanbun Era

date: late 17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Dye-Patterned Silk

medium: Silk (clamp resist, dyed)

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
India
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1975


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Painter of London D 12

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Valance

medium: Linen embroidered with crewel wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Armorial panel

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Mlle Rousseau

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Rank Badge with Peacock

medium: Silk, gold and silver wrapped silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Boy with a barrel

date: 16th century (?)

medium: Bronze, brown patina, on base of yellow marble with grey veining

credit_line: Gift of J. and S. Goldschmidt, 1911


title: Pierre Gassendi

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Architectural woodwork and paneling

creator: George A. Schastey & Co.

medium: Satinwood, purpleheart, mother-of-pearl, silver-plated brass, mirrored glass, marble, and reproduction upholstery

subjects: Architecture American

credit_line: Gift of The Museum of the City of New York, 2008


title: Two Tall Young Women Walking Hand in Hand

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


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


title: Tea Jar

medium: Clay covered with glaze (Tanba ware, Satsuma style glaze)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Nose Ornament

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Gold (cast)

country: Calima (Yotoco)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Calima (yotoco)

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


title: Lamaist Headdress

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1956


title: Six-lobed box

date: 8th century

medium: Silver

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Footstool

medium: Mahogany, tulip poplar

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harry H. Benkard, 1942


title: Crucified Christ

date: third quarter 12th century

medium: Cast copper alloy engraved and stippled, with traces of gilding

country: Mosan or Rhenish

subjects:
Metalwork-bronze
Mosan or rhenish

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Engraving of Firearms Ornament from the Pattern Book <i>Plusieurs pieces de l'arquebuzerie / recueillies et inventeés par Francois Marcou</i>

creator: C. Jacquinet

medium: Ink, paper

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French, pari

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


title: Teabowl

medium: Pottery covered with crackled glaze and designs in colors (Kyoto ware)

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


title: Galloon

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Standing cup with cover (Hanap)

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Gray, 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: Ruines du Temple d'Herment (Hermentis)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: Ornamental Design with Amphore and Antique Style Armor

creator: Polidoro da Caravaggio

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk or leadpoint; partial framing line

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Regina Slatkin


title: Fraulein Sivre, from the Actresses series (N669) promoting Big Four Cigars

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Pompone II de Bellièvre

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Cup and Holder

medium:
Cup: porcelain; glazed and painted
Holder: silver; pierced, engraved, and inlaid

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Centenary of the Bank of France

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Silver, struck

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Tunic with Interlace Decoration

date: 4th–8th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Old Woman with a Baby in her Arms

creator: School of Rembrandt van Rijn

medium: Pen and brown ink, with wash in three shades of brown and gray.

country: Dutch

subjects: Drawing Dutch

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Mashrabiyya Screen

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Wood; turned

credit_line: Gift of S.S. Howland, 1910


title: Magic Wand

medium: Hippopotamus ivory

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


title: Chessmen (32)

date: first half 19th century

medium: Bone

subjects:
Chess sets
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Bracteate

date: 6th century (?)

medium: Gold, copper alloy core, remnants of iron pin

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine

medium: Champlevé and cloisonné enamel on gilded copper

country: German or South Netherlandish

subjects:
German or south netherlandish
Enamels-champlevé


title: La Guerre

creator: Edme Bouchardon

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1979


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Banditti in a mountainous landscape

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

medium: Pen and black ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund and Joseph McCrindle Foundation Gift, 2023


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Salt and pepper boxes

creator: Edme-Pierre Balzac

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


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

date: second half of the 5th century BCE


title: The Cottage (La Chaumière)

creator: François Jules Collignon

medium: Etching

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


title: Bodice

medium: silk

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Pendant: Lotus Sepal

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: La Gierusalemme Liberata

creator: Torquato Tasso

medium: Printed book with engraved illustrations

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: "Yusuf and Zulaikha", Folio 51r from a Bustan of Sa`di

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1974


title: Terracotta base of cup with marine design

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1911


title: Design for a Gothic Style Table

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite and watercolor on tracing paper

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


title: Flower holder

date: late 19th century

medium: Agate

subjects: Hardstone China Flowers

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


title: Sky Sketch (from Sketchbook VII)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Plucking a Spoony

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: February 28, 1812

medium: Hand-colored etching


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Icon cover and frame (Riza) with Bogoliubskaya Mother of God with the Chosen Saints

creator: Ph. Phralov

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Natalie Derujinsky, 1968


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Ostracon with sketch of a crocodile

medium: Limestone, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Henri III (1551–1589)

creator: Germain Pilon

medium: Marble

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Shoes

date: early 18th century

medium: silk, leather

credit_line: Isabel Shults Fund, 2011


title: Folding fan

date: late 18th century

medium: Gold, tortoiseshell, paper, paint, gilt, gold leaf, celluloid, glass

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


title: Oil Lamp

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Anthony John "Tony" Mullane, Pitcher, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Watering Trough, Title Page of "Studies of Horses" (Etudes de Chevaux)

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Human headed amulet (bird?)

medium: Amethyst

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Bronze statuette of the goddess Fortuna

date: ca. 2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: A Hack, from The Rhedarium, or, A New Book of Horses and Carriages

medium: Etching

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


title: Textile Fragment


title: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian 15th century

medium: Woodcut illustrations

credit_line: Gift of Philip Hofer, 1934


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Card Number 204, Clara Want, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Mosaic pavement fragment

medium: Tile, mortar

subjects: Miscellaneous-mosaic Roman


title: Collar

medium: cotton

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1975


title: [Unknown Subject]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Wall casing

medium: Limestone


creator: Makron

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Death of Saint Peter Martyr

creator: Felice Torelli

medium: Brown and cream oil paint on paper, laid down on canvas.  Varnished

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Lawrence Turčić, 1989


title: Snuff bottle with stopper

medium: Rock crystal, lapis lazuli, agate

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Stove plate with the royal arms of George II

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of John Stemme, 1910


title: Leaf from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

date: first edition printed in 1633

medium: Individual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Bracer (Archer's Arm Guard)

date: late 16th century

medium: Ivory

subjects:
Archery equipment
Dutch

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


title: Design for Three Low Uphostered Arm Chairs

date: early 19th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Cup and saucer with views of Pulawy, a Palladian country house

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

country: Austrian, Vienna

subjects:
Austrian, vienna
Ceramics-porcelain

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Flower-Garden Display'd, In Above Four Hundred Curious Representations Of the Most Beautiful Flowers; Regularly Dispos'd in the Respective Months of Their Bloom

creator: Richard Bradley

medium: Illustrations: hand-colored etching and engraving

subjects: Book Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Ewer and Basin

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


title: Portrait of Luise Gottsched

creator: Johann Martin Bernigeroth

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Bag with Tassels

date: 8th–16th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Russell Hartman, 1970


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Pendant

date: 9th–12th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Architectural Frame for Altar

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, washed

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Mountain Retreat,  leaf from Album for Zhou Lianggong

creator: Shi Lin

date: datable to 1654–55

medium: Leaf from a collective album of many leaves; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1964


title: Salt

medium: Lacy pressed blue glass

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


title: Section of a Columbarium

creator: Pietro Paolo Coccetti (Cocchetti)

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

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


title: 'Folly of Fear' from the 'Disparates' (Follies / Irrationalities)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

date: ca. 1815–19 (published ca. 1848)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Bacchus and Ceres Attended by Putti and a Marine Deity

creator: Sebastiano Galeotti

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, on beige paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Snuffbox with miniature depicting a classical subject

creator: Joseph Etienne Blerzy

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: S. Silvère, pape (St. Silverius, Pope), June 20th, 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: Medal of Honor

date: late 19th century

medium: Yellow ribbon

subjects: Medal Japan

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


title: Caster

creator: Adrian Bancker

medium: Silver

credit_line: Sansbury-Mills Fund, 1972


title: Blade

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: An Arrowhead Blue Butterfly and a Scotch Bonnet Sea Shell

creator: Balthasar van der Ast

date: 17th century

medium: Oil on paper

subjects:
Drawing
Butterflies & moths
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2008


title: Library Table, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Mold for Small Ovoid Bead

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist, from "The Little Apostles" (Les Petits Apôtres)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Antiphonary

creator: Manuel de Boada Guittierrez

medium: Parchment; leather binding

country: Spanish

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Collar

medium: linen

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Alyce Stern, 1961


title: Sample

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of F. J. Schaetzel, 1919


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Ensemble

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Miss Janet K. Smith, 1941


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: Capital

medium: Marble

country: Catalan


title: Fragment of a terracotta kylix

date: mid 5th century BCE

credit_line: Gift of the Honorable Iris Cornelia Love, 2011


title: Horse bit with attached cheekpieces

date: ca. 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bed valance

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Statues of Venus and Mercury, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

creator: Jacob of Strasbourg

date: after 1503

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Button

medium: enamel, metal

country: Irish

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Moses Pond

creator: George P. A. Healy

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, 1939


title: The Innkeeper's Wife and Daughter Taking Care of ye Don after Being Beaten and Bruised (Six Illustrations for Don Quixote)

creator: William Hogarth

date: 1756 or after

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Linen


title: Chasuble

date: ca. 1720, partially cut, patched and reshaped in the 19th Century

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Cherry Blossoms at Yoshino (Yoshino), from the series Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Setsugekka)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Jupiter with his Eagle (recto)

creator: Francesco Solimena

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

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Robert Scott

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Vase

creator: Chelsea Keramic Art Works

medium: Stoneware

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Six dessert spoons

creator: Christopher Skinner

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, by exchange, 1988


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: James Nixon

medium: Ivory

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Statuette of Osiris

date: ca. 721–30 BCE

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Design for Vis-à-vis "Sociable" (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Hand colored lithograph with traces of gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Bead with granulation - see 18.2.31

medium: Gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: The Prodigal Son Feasting

creator: Pieter Coecke van Aelst

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


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

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Fruit dish

medium: Sheffield plate

subjects: Metalwork-silverplate Fruits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Hairpin

date: 7th century

medium: Bronze

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Santa Maria in Vallicella, elevation; plan (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: late 16th century

medium: Dark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz and Anne Bigelow Scholz, in memory of Flying Officer Walter Bigelow Rosen, RCAF, 1949


title: Insertion

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace


title: Sprinkler

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Glass; blown

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


title: Milk jug with cover

creator: Zurich Pottery and Porcelain Factory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)

creator: Charles Ethan Porter

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2015


title: Column with Hathor-emblem capital and names of Nectanebo I on the shaft

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1928


title: A Bluebird and Poppies

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: F.e d l'Isle de S.te Cristine from playing cards "Jeu d'Or"

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 86 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: The Last Judgment from the Sistine Chapel

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving; third state of five

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Prince Holding a Falcon

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


title: Ste. Gertrude, vierge (St. Gertrude, Virgin), March 17th, 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)


title: Walrus Ivory Loon

date: 9th century

medium: Ivory (walrus), pigment

country: Inuit

subjects:
Bone/ivory-sculpture
Inuit
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, The Houghton Foundation Inc. Gift, 1970


title: View of the Parthenon

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Brush and brown wash

credit_line: Exchange, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1960


title: Nathaniel Griffing

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Kate Foote Coe, 1920


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

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


title: Circular Pendant with Abstract Foliate Motifs

date: Last quarter of the 10th–last quarter of the 15th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Fragment of a Hanging

date: 18th century

medium: Linen; embroidere in silk

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Bottle

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Insertion

medium: Cutwork

credit_line: Gift of Marian Hague, 1938


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Levamen Onostrorum, from "Allegories of the Christian Faith, from Christian and Profane Allegories"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

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


title: Actress wearing fringed top hat, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Bells

creator: Gabriel Huquier

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Snuff bottle with stopper

medium: Agate

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Sheet, linen mark, medium spin, medium weave

medium: Linen, wax


title: Zachary Taylor Shafer, 2nd Base, St. Paul Apostles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Sheath for a Model Dagger

medium: Wood, paint, gold leaf

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: Plate with Chrysanthemum Design

medium: Seto ware; stoneware with iron decoration

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Textile with Partial Pattern of Chrysanthemums

medium: Silk twill brocaded with silk

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Embroidered picture with pastoral scene

medium: Silk on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Pair of candlesticks

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Marble female figure

creator: Bastis Master

medium: Marble

country: Cycladic

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cycladic

credit_line: Gift of Christos G. Bastis, 1968


title: Vase

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with ox-blood red glaze (Jingdezhen ware), gilt bronze mouth rim

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Dire que dans mon temps, moi aussi..., from Croquis Parisiens, published in Le Charivari, January 24, 1857

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: January 25, 1857

medium: Lithograph; third state of three (Delteil)

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


title: The Last Supper

creator: Morazzone (Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, some black chalk or graphite

credit_line: Gift of Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel, 2012


title: L'Eclipse

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching

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


title: Ivory furniture attachment

date: early 1st century CE

medium: Ivory

country: Roman

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Roman
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Man sitting with a dog

creator: Victor Adam

date: mid–19th century

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2012


title: Scarab seal

date: ca. 6th century BCE (?)

medium: Jasper, green

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Pelerine

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Sarah F. Milligan and Kate Milligan Brill, 1940


title: Roundel with Entry into Jerusalem

date: 15th century

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: German

subjects: Glass-sculpture German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: The Mass of Saint Gregory

creator: Spanish Painter

medium: Oil and gold on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: George Catlin

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Gift in memory of Elizabeth B. Besobrasow, 1985


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: George Washington

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Figure of a Baboon

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Mug

medium: Non-lead glass with enamel decoration

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Coin

date: probably 13th–14th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Moses, Chief of the Okinokans

creator: Olin Levi Warner

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Wait, 1906


title: Earring, crescent-shaped

medium: Gold

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


title: Album of Caricatures

creator: Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully

date: second half of the 18th century

medium: Etchings

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


title: Tray (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Head of a Young Girl

creator: Jacques Dumont, called le Romain

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

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1993


title: Arrowhead

date: ca. 18th–19th century

medium: Iron

country: probably Tibetan or Chinese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Probably tibetan or chinese

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2011


title: Bookplate for H. W. Bryant of Portland Maine

creator: Winslow Homer

credit_line: Gift of Sinclair Hamilton, 1960


title: Bed curtain, fragment from a border

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Corner post

date: 16th century

medium: Carved walnut

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


title: Mustard spoon

date: 19th century

medium: Silver, parcel gilt

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


title: Decorated Roman alphabet

creator: Anonymous, French, 15th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Furniture plaque: lion

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ivory (hippopotamus)

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Bonnet

medium: silk, glass

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Marcia Sand Bequest, in memory of her daughter, Tiger (Joan) Morse, 1978


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Saint John

medium: Boxwood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Tea Jar

date: 17th century

medium: Clay covered with mottled glaze; left-handed itogiri (Ko Seto type)

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


title: Seated Nude Girl Clasping Her Left Knee

creator: Egon Schiele

medium: Charcoal on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: The Glorification of  the Virgin, from "The Life of the Virgin"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Arithmetic

creator: Master of the E-Series Tarocchi

medium: Engraving with gold hand coloring

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1995


title: Prà della Valle: the right half of the square of Prà della Valle in Padua, with the Colleggio Universitario at right

creator: Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

medium: Etching; first state of two (Bromberg)

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


title: St. Peter's, Corinthian capital, elevation; base, elevation; volute, end elevation, profile, and view from below (recto) St. Peter's, Corinthian capital, acanthus leaf details and profiles of two cornice mouldings (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Dark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz and Anne Bigelow Scholz, in memory of Flying Officer Walter Bigelow Rosen, RCAF, 1949


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

creator: The Giles Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Jasper ring stone

date: ca. 69–79 CE

medium: Jasper

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Rupert L. Joseph, 1950


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Anton Raphael Mengs

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 2010


title: Snuff Bottle

date: second half of 18th century

medium: Black and white peking glass with coral stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Rapture (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 21, 1800

medium: Etching, printed in brown ink

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


title: Vase

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Favrile glass

credit_line: Gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

medium: Wool warp with wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts

country: French (cartoon)/South Netherlandish (woven)

subjects: French (cartoon)/south netherlandish (woven)

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1938


title: Porringer

creator: John Edwards

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Cup

date: 3rd Millennium BC (?)

credit_line: Gift of Jacques Chalmin and Jean-Luc Chalmin, 1986


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 24 (recto)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: A Short History: General John H. Morgan, from the Histories of Generals series (N114) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

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


title: Openwork furniture plaque with sphinx

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1957


title: Pendant

medium: Gold, enamel, pearls, diamonds, rubies

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


title: Comb

medium: bone

country: European

subjects:
European
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1944


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Chalcedony, brown

credit_line: Purchase, 1899


title: Visiting

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: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Wendell T. Bush, 1910


title: Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: two female attendants

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Studies for Apollo and Daphne, Zeus and Juno, Orpheus and Eurydice and other figures (recto and verso)

creator: Giovanni Ambrogio Figino

medium: Pen and brown, red chalk

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


title: Disk

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905


title: Lamp

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1981


title: Pietra dura table top

date: late 16th or early 17th century

medium: Hardstones, alabaster, and marble (pietra dura); marble frame and walnut stand (replacement)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Trecker, 1962


title: Saint Anthony and the Christ Child Surrounded by Cherubs

creator: Martin Johann Schmidt

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2005


title: Saddle (Kura)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wood, mother-of-pearl (abalone shell), lacquer

country: Japanese

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-saddle
Japanese
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


title: Bowl

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver, parcel gilt

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


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

date: mid-5th century

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: What Would You Post If I Were Murdered By The Police?

creator: Amos Kennedy

medium: Letterpress

credit_line: Gift of Nappy-negroes in art, 2020


title: Sheet with an overall pattern of organic shapes

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Poppy-Bead Necklace

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1940


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hazard and Marion H. McVitty, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Lauriston H. Hazard, 1960


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: The Tepidarium at Pompeii

creator: Robert Wetten

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Exchange, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1960


title: Fibula, fragment

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Amber, bronze, ivory or bone

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Miscellaneous-amber
Etruscan
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Arcadia

creator: Thomas Eakins

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Capital (one of a series)

date: second half 15th century

medium: Botticini stone

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


date: first half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Masquerade Dance with Torches

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut; Dershau restrike, 1922

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Textiles

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: See 14.6.349

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Watch

creator: Firm of Esquivillon Frères

medium: Gold, jewels (turquoises and garnets?), enamel, steel

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Lady May Fletcher-Moulton, 1926


title: Horizontal Panel Design with Three Young Male Figures Interspersed between Acanthus Rinceaux

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century

date: 17th century (first half)

medium: Pen and brown ink over leadpoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Portrait of Yongzheng Empress

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Godfroy de Bouillon

creator: Colin Nouailher

medium: Painted and partly gilded enamel on copper

credit_line: Purchase, John H. and Susan Gutfreund Gift, 1993


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Dead Birds

creator: Count Giorgio Durante (Duranti)

medium: Watercolor over graphite; fragments of framing lines in pen and black ink at left and right edges

subjects: Drawing Birds

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Manuscript

medium: Parchment

credit_line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892


title: Double Snuff Bottle

medium: Chloromelanite jadeite with coral stoppers; wood stand

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Pottery Whistle

medium: Clay

country: Mexican

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Mexican

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Sacrifice

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Galloon

date: 16th century

medium: Cotton and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Autumn Oaks

creator: George Inness

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of George I. Seney, 1887


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn

creator: Giorgio Vasari

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

subjects: Drawing Fruits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Banded agate ring stone

date: ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Agate, banded

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: The Four Temperaments

creator: Jörg Breu the Elder

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, framing line in pen and dark brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and funds from various donors, 2003


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


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


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Continental Painter

medium: Enamel

subjects: Miniature Portraits

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


title: Cylinder seal with an image of seated Hathor

medium: Green muscovite (fuchsite)

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: The Big Orgy, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Minerva clock

creator: Matthew Boulton

date: ca. 1772, with later alterations

medium: Gilt bronze, marble, enamel, brass, steel

credit_line: Gift of Horace Wood Brock, in loving memory of his parents, Hope and Horace Brock, 1993


title: Rapier

medium: Steel, copper alloy

country: Italian

subjects: Sword Italian

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1929


title: Charles-Maurice Le Tellier

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Head of a pin: human head and wings

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


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


title: Washington. Armory Square Hospital

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Bowl

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: La vente des diamants de la couronne : son histoire, ses préparatifs, ses résultats : avec le catalogue raisonné des joyaux : précedé de la reproduction du catalogue officiel et orné de 35 dessins des principaux bijoux /par Arthur Bloche

creator: Arthur Bloche

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Snuff bottle with stopper

medium: Agate, mottled

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Battle scene in a landscape with soldiers on horseback and several fallen men, another group of riders in the background

creator: Marco Dente

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Offering Scene, Tomb of Djari

creator: Unknown Copyist

medium: Ink on Paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Flower and Toad

creator: Zhang Xiong

medium: Circular fan-shaped album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Flowers

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


title: Arrowhead

date: ca. 7th century BCE–2nd century CE

credit_line: Gift of Elsa Rabenou, 1961


title: Double Capital

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Abraham's Sacrifice

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint

credit_line: Bequest of Ida Kammerer, in memory of her husband, Frederic Kammerer, M.D., 1933


title: Pretiosa Gemma delle virtuose donne, page 30 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


medium: Terracotta


title: Pedestal

medium: Ebonized cherry

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1968


title: Hanging Lamp in the Form of a Kinnari

date: ca. second half of the 9th–early 10th century

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving; first state

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, by exchange, 1931


title: On the train, from 'The difficult moments of life,' published in Le Charivari, March 12, 1864

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

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


title: Border

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bowl

medium: Earthenware with buff slip and red oxide decoration

country: Thailand

subjects: Ceramic Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eisenberg, 1984


title: Branch

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Small stone axe

date: 5th–3rd millennium BCE

medium: Stone

country: Greek Neolithic

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone
Greek neolithic

credit_line: Gift of Garrett Chatfield Pier, 1910


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Vaudeville Act 4: Bumbery Blads & Cie, Plastic Poses (Varieténummer 4: Bumbery Blads & Cie, Plastiche Posen)

creator: Moriz Jung

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Alex Martins, 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: Stirrup-shaped Ring with Purple Stone

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

medium: Gold with purple stone

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Spouted jar

medium: Ceramic

country: Yortan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Pair of pedestals

medium: Boxwood veneer, inlaid with colored wood

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Old woman and two infants

creator: Jacques Dassonville

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Arabesques from a set of three or more pieces

creator: Andien de Clermont

medium: Wool, silk (20-22 warps per inch, 9-10 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Screven Lorillard, 1952


title: The Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, 1620

creator: Joseph Andrews

medium: Etching and engraving on steel; proof on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Wright, 1949


title: Panel of a Portable Shrine

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Phyllitic schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)


title: Terracotta bail-amphora (jar)

creator: APZ Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Fishermen's Wives

creator: Eugène Boudin

medium: Watercolor and graphite

credit_line: Gift of Lizanne Merrill, in honor of Robert and Marion Merrill, 2012


title: Daisy Bead

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Virgin and Child on the Crescent with a Diadem

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Gold snake ring

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek
Reptiles & amphibians


title: Box in the shape of an archaic jade she

date: mid-18th century

medium: Carved red and green lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Ring with Bezel Composed of Tortoise Motif


title: A gentleman, walking towards the left and drawing his sword from the sheath, wearing a plumed hat and boots with spurs, from "The Garden of the French Nobles In Which One Can Pick Up Their Way of Dressing"

creator: Abraham Bosse

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Broadsheet relating to commerical/business skeletons (Calavera Comercial) and charlatanism, many skeletons gather around a candle vendor

creator: J. Cortés

medium: Photorelief and letterpress on green paper

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


title: Print of a Kabuki Dancer from the Maiden of the Dōjōji Temple (Musume Dōjōji)

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

subjects: Architecture Print Japan


title: Beaker with cover

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Frog Seal Amulet with a Sa Hieroglyph on the Base


title: 2nd Bengal Cavalry, Ind. Conting't, England, 1879, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Chrysanthemum Bowl

date: 10th–13th century

medium: Porcelaneous ware covered with a celadon glaze

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1934


title: Textile

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: La Vedova Romana

creator: Pietro Bertelli

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Randolph Gunter, 1962


title: Terracotta rattle (?)

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Portrait head of philosopher ?

date: 4th century BCE

subjects: Terracotta Greek Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Plate (part of a service)

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


title: Madrilena, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.

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


title: Head of bodhisattva

medium: Sandstone

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Fragment of a Cover or Blanket with Ornamental Square Featuring Flowers and Animals

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave, weft loop weave

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Brooch

date: second half  5th century BCE

medium: Copper alloy

country: Celtic

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Celtic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Axe Head

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper (cast), bronze (?)

country: Ecuador

subjects: Metal-implement Ecuador

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Scarab Inscribed with Nefer in Scroll Border

medium: Lapis lazuli

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


title: The Philosophers' Retreat (Le Repos des philosophes)

creator: Camille Corot

medium: Transfer lithograph; second state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Design for a Ceiling with Cove Showing

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Brush and gray wash, over black chalk; framing lines in leadpoint

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Tongs

creator: Otto W. Parisen

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Partial design for a decorative panel painted in rinceaux

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Graphite and gouache on wov e paper; inlaid in blue wove paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Terracotta model of a ship

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Terracotta
Cypriot
Ships & the sea


title: Censer

date: 16th century

medium: Brass

country: South Netherlandish (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-brass
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Cord

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Ornamento nobile...Fatta da Lucretia Romana (Libro V of the Corona), page 5 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Axe head

medium: Bronze

country: Hattian

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955


title: Feathered Panel

medium: Feathers, cotton, camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Portrait of Louis de Marchault, Prieur de Saint-Pierre d'Abbeville

creator: Jean Lenfant

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Morrison Heckscher, 2013


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Abraham Blooteling

medium: Engraving (reverse copy)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Owl Tab Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper, shell, stone

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1980


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Papyrus column (wadj) inlay

medium: Serpentinite


title: Cream Pitcher

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1935


title: Shawm

medium: Wood, pewter or lead

country: French

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Beaker

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Kylix, band-cup

date: 3rd quarter of 6th century BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: A man playing the violin in center, turned towards the left in profile, a seated woman to left playing with her dancing child, another woman standing and pointing behind a tree to left, seated women in a landscape to right in the background, from "Various figures and lands" (Diverse figure e paesi)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Palm Cup

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Glass

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-vessel Frankish Palms

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Geth-Lafa (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, machine net

credit_line: Gift of Georgiana Schuyler, 1900


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

creator: The Giles Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sphinx of Thutmose III

medium: Quartzite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Left forearm with garment fringe, pleating and Aten cartouche

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Designs for the ceiling and wall of a room decorated with waterbirds and flowering vines

medium: pen and ink and watercolor on wove and laid papers; mounted on blue wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Plate 5: The Tomb of Mausolus, from "The Seven Wonders of the World"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

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


title: Pierre Bouchu

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Buckle

date: 17th century

medium: Bronze, patina

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Cricket cage

medium: Gourd, jade, wood

country: China

subjects:
Cricket cage
China

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Vase

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Coin

date: probably 150 AH/767 CE

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Disegni Varij di Polifilo Zancarli (Friezes)

creator: Polifilo Giancarli

medium: etching

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


title: Transverse Flute

creator: Boehm & Greve, German

medium: Rosewood, silver

country: German

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Bequest, 2008


title: Mlle Mercier; Mlle Rousseau

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Cross Section of a Baroque Church or Chapel with a Bell-shaped Roof

medium: Pen and ink (partly over graphite) and colored washes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Costume Bell

date: 19th century (?)

medium: metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper
German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Tea Strainer

creator: Andrew Ellicott Warner

medium: Silver

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1987


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Rest

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching on chine collé

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking


title: Actress wearing military costume with sword, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Pitcher

creator: Willets Manufacturing Company

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Presented in loving memory of Ann Lapham Frazer by her children, 2000


title: Design for a Panel with a Depiction of Boreas Abducting Oreithyia

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown, red, blue and yellow wash, over black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Magic Tower, Yosemite

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

date: ca. 1872, printed ca. 1876

credit_line: Gift of Carole and Irwin Lainoff, Ruth P. Lasser and Joseph R. Lasser, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Marvin, Martin E. and Joan Messinger, Richard L. Yett and Sheri and Paul Siegel, 1986


title: The Internment of Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: William Nelson Gardiner

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Spindle Whorl

medium: Ceramic

country: North coast (?)

subjects:
North coast
Ceramics-implement

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


title: [Arch of Constantine], cornice, elevation in profile, ornamental detailing (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Dark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Mark J. Millard Gift, 1968


title: Fragments

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Sketch of Building and Garden

creator: Franz von Hauslab the Younger

medium: Pencil. Overlaid with orthogonal lines.

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Dagger (Jambiya) with Sheath and Belt

medium: Steel, wood, silver, silver wire, textile, silk, leather

country: Arabian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Dagger
Arabian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Me, My Wife & Daughter

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Man and Woman in Court Dress Looking at Young Pines for New Year Ceremony

creator: Nagayama Koin (Hirotora)

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

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print
Japan


title: Summer, a woman, crowned with corn, standing in a cornfield with corn in her right hand and a scythe in her left hand, within a cartouche topped with corn, from "The Four Seasons" (Les Quatre Saisons)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Piece

medium: Silk, machine net

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Wedding ensemble

date: late 19th century

medium: silk, cotton, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Burta May Taylor, in memory of her husband, Elliot J. Taylor, 1988


title: Pot for Wine or Tea

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: Heavily draped male Figure

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

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


title: Dolman

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Glenn, 1945


title: Fragment

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, silk

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Cheese Vendor, plate 3 from "Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac"

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)

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


title: Nécessaire

medium: Gold, chalcedony

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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