title: Convivio delle Belle Donne, page 10 (verso)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1532

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Pouch

medium: glass, linen, silk

country: American

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: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Margaret S. Bedell, 1930


title: Glass mosaic bead

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Egyptian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, egyptian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Hunting Knife

medium: Steel, brass, bone, wood

country: Austrian, Innsbruck

subjects:
Knive
Austrian, innsbruck
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Buddhist Figures and Their Attributes (Zōho shoshū Butsuzō zui) 増補諸宗 佛像図彙

creator: Kino Shūshin 紀秀信

date: 19th century

medium: Set of five volumes; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Colonel Edward Bowditch, 1952


title: Cupid at the Altar of Love

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Strip

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Princess Shah Jehan, India, from the Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers series (N189) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Land Stores

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: "Sultan Listening to a Man Reading from a Manuscript", Folio from a Manuscript by Mir Ali Shir Nava'i

creator: Mir Ali Shir Nava'i

date: early 16th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1940


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Tazza

date: probably 17th century

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Preston Hall in Aylesford, in the County of Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

creator: Richard Bernard Godfrey

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bonnie and Manuel Schonhorn, 2014


title: Fiori di Ricami Nuovamente Posti in Luce

creator: Matteo Florimi

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


title: Stormy Landscape

creator: John Hoppner

medium: Black and white chalk, gray wash, on grayish brown paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Gaming Piece

date: possibly 8th–12th century

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Embroidered sampler

medium: Silk and linen on linen foundation, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Gloves

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John J. Gibson, 1946


title: Card Number 79, Lila Farrell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Netsuke of a Man Holding a Mermaid

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: A Cornish Waterfall


title: Joseph and Potiphar's wife

creator: Hieronymus Ferroni

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Ein new Modelbuch..., page 4 (recto)

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

date: October 22, 1524

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of  Herbert N. Straus, 1929


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Man Against a Tree

creator: Master IQV

medium: Etching; first state of two

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Armlet

medium: Nephrite

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Sunday Morning

creator: Dox Thrash

medium: Drypoint

credit_line: Gift of the Work Projects Administration, Pennsylvania, 1943


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pull of Engraved Firearm Ornament

medium: Ink, paper

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French

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


title: Martydom of St. Lawrence

creator: Raymond de La Fage

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1956


title: Tazza

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Blown amber glass with applied threaded decoration

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 7th–4th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Cradle of the Prince Imperial

creator: Pierre-Jules Cavelier

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of David and Constance Yates, in memory of Victoria Blumka Nasatir Goldberg, 1990


title: Costume Design for Lady with a Fan

creator: Basil Crage

medium: Watercolor and metallic paint over graphite

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug) in the form of a woman's head

creator: Class S: The Canessa Class of Head Vases

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Amulet

medium: Limestone (?)

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Design for an altar table surmounted by a crucifixion

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, and gold paint on wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Neptune and Caenis

creator: Johann Sadeler I

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Bronze, with dark brown lacquer patina

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Mary Mills, 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: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet


title: Element with names of Akhenaten and Meketaten

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Frontispiece to the Catalogue of Pictures Exhibited in Spring Garden

creator: Charles Grignion, I

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Cross

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Cutlass, from the Arms of All Nations series (N3) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Fountains Abbey.  East Window and Tower

creator: Joseph Cundall

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952


title: Border

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of H. A. Elsberg, 1928


title: Politician

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: April 1808

medium: Etching

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


title: Young Woman Seated at a Table, Holding a Candle

creator: Godfried Schalcken

date: late 17th century

medium: Black chalk. Framing line in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2008


title: Cassetta frame

medium: Poplar(?). Gilt; red-orange bole.

country: Sienese

subjects: Frame Sienese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sketch of Sky and Mountains (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Huang: Emblem of the North

medium: Soapstone

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913


title: Andrew Wagoner

creator: Reed Brockway Bontecou

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Stanley B. Burns, M.D. and The Burns Archive, 1992


title: Button

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Ear Ornament for a Deity

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Mercury, gilt silver, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, lapis lazuli, coral, pearls, and turquoise

country: Nepal

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Nepal
Corals & anemones

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


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

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1952


title: Two Monkeys on Two Peaches

medium: Jade (nephrite)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Pin

date: late 4th–early 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Mr. F. Riyahi, 1997


title: Study of Two Figures for the Age of Gold

creator: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)

medium: Black chalk, slightly reworked by the artist with the wet tip of the chalk stick

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Fragment of a desert hunt - see 26.3.354-5-related

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: A ballad of the Mexican Revolution

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress

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


title: Hanging

date: 18th century

medium: Linen; embroidered in silk

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1960


title: Inscribed Element, possibly back pillar

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Terracotta one-handled cup

date: late 8th century BCE

credit_line: Gift of the Greek Government, 1930


title: Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: [Three East Indian Women]

creator: Francis Frith

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1972


title: Scarf

date: 19th century

medium: Linen; embroidered


title: Plate

creator: Villeroy

medium: Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1954


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Fan

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Paper and ivory

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


title: Border

medium: Drawnwork

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


title: Cartouche

date: early 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Fan

medium: Wood, silk, sequins, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Charles C. Harris, 1968


title: Busk

date: 17th century

medium: metal

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


title: Terracotta lamp in the form of a camel

date: 3rd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek or roman

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Naval Cadet, Royal Navy, England, 1869, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

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


title: Vase

medium: White porcelain, decorated with blue under the glaze, polychrome enamels (Hizen ware, Kutani type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Manuscript Leaf with the Assumption of the Virgin in an Initial V, from an  Antiphonary

creator: Niccolò di ser Sozzo

medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

country: Italian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

credit_line: Gift of Louis L. Lorillard, 1896, transferred from the Library


title: James Edward "Tip" O'Neill, Left Field, St. Louis Browns, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Coin

date: 14th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Papyri Fragments of a Letter to Epiphanius and Psan

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Holy Man (Faqir or Sadhu)

medium: Codices

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Lamp

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Glass beaker

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

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


title: Spindle Whorl

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Peruvian

subjects: Stone-implement Peruvian

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


title: Book cover with overall dot and abstract pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Alto Saxophone

creator: Arsene-Zoe Lecomte & Cie

date: after 1887

medium: Brass, ebony or cocus wood mouthpiece

subjects: Aerophone-reed vibrated-single reed conical

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug) or olpe (jug)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Coin Weight

date: probably 12th–14th century

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Chair seat cover

medium: Cotton, painted resist and mordant, dyed, with overpainting

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Venus caressing Cupid

creator: Carlo Antonio Porporati

medium: Engraving; fourth state of four (De Vesme)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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

creator: Antiphon Painter


title: Rattle

medium: Clay

country: Panamanian

subjects: Idiophone-shaken-rattle Panamanian


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Necklace of Lentoid Beads

medium: Egyptian Blue

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1920


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

medium: Terracotta


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Swept frame

medium: Oak

country: Southern France

subjects:
Frame
Southern france

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Matthew Clarkson

creator: Gilbert Stuart

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Shelton Clarkson, 1937


title: Card 11, Melitaea Phaeton, from the Butterflies series (N183) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent with sissinnu payments, Ebabbar archive

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Segawa Kikunojo III as a Woman Standing under a Maple Tree in the Autumn

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan Trees

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


title: Edging

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: The Mabel Metcalf Fahnestock Collection, the gift of Ruth Fahnestock Schermerhorn and Faith Fahnestock, 1933


title: Drinking Vessel (Hanap; one of a pair)

medium: Silver, gilded silver, enamel

subjects:
Metalwork-silver
French
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1982


title: Tayàw

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Burmese


title: Beaker with Apes

medium: Silver, gilded silver, and painted enamel

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
South netherlandish
Enamels-painted

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1952


title: Design for an Illustration to Hans Friedrich von Fleming's "Der Volkommene Teursche Jäger..."

creator: Anonymous, German, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Harry G. Friedman, 1956


title: Ingot

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


title: The Conversion of Polemon

creator: James Barry

medium: Etching with engraving and roulette and traces of aquatint; ninth state of nine

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


title: Pendant

medium: Obsidian

country: Mexican

subjects: Glass-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Alexander, Pitcher, Des Moines, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


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


title: Design for a Ceiling

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Rievaulx Abbey, the High Altar

creator: Roger Fenton

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, William Talbott Hillman Foundation Gift, 2005


title: [Civil War View]

creator: Thomas C. Roche

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


title: Christ Crowned with Thorns

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Pen and brown ink


title: Saucer (one of 12) (part of a service)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, in memory of Francis P. Garvan, 1954


title: Pyxis fragment

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Richly Decorated Tunic

date: 660–870 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

medium: Wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of Maurice Nahman, 1912


title: Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene

date: late 8th–6th century BCE

medium: Flawed neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: The Annunciation

creator: Francesco Curia

medium: Pen and brown ink, traces of black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Jug

creator: Christopher Dresser

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 2015


title: Kakegawa, Akihasan Empo

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Seated Ganesha

date: ca. 15th century

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Sculpture Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, in honor of Helen Cook, 1983


title: Painted Bowl

date: 7th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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


title: Niccolò d'Este, Marquess of Ferrara (1384?–1441)

creator: Amadeo da Milano

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: The Making of Armours, from Hymmelwagen auff dem, wer wol lebt...

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Bear

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

medium: Fresco transferred to canvas

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Paintings-fresco

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1957


title: Beaker

creator: Michael Gunterdt

medium: Gilded silver

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


title: Saints Acisclus and Victoria (?)

date: early 17th century

medium: Bronze, natural patina

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2012


title: Love Conquers All (Omnia vincit Amor), in a struggle with a satyr Amor places his right knee on its thigh, two nude nymphs are seated with interlocking legs at the base of a tree

creator: Agostino Carracci

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

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


title: Reliquary, Monstrance

date: 15th century

medium: Gilded silver, gilded coper, and glass

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-copper German

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Water Filter

date: 10th–12th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Tile Panel

date: 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome underglaze painted under colorless glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Brougham #3910

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Marble statuette of a girl

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Molding

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Earring

date: ca. 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Parthian (?)

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1970


title: Pocket bottle

medium: Blown, pattern-molded glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Schiff, 1980


title: Plate 2: Emperor Augustus on Horseback, from "The First Twelve Roman Caesars"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching; first state of two (Bartsch)

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


title: Egham Lock

creator: Sir Francis Seymour Haden

medium: Etching and drypoint; trial proof b (Harrington); second state of ten (Schneiderman)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Jug

date: ca. 9th–10th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: A Lady About to Write a Poem

creator: Yashima Gakutei

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Fragment of Bowl

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; carved and glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Actors at the Hotel de Bourgogne

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Design for 4 Seat Sleigh, no. 3419

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


title: Jacket

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick Street Hoppin, 1963


title: body surface

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>)

medium: Iron, bronze, gold, silver, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Adrian H. Joline, 1914


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 60 (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Morning cap

medium: cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Randolph H. Nexsen, 1944


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Embroidered net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a volute-krater (deep bowl)?

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian

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


title: M'lle de Marsy, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Uji Bridge in the Moonlight

creator: Gantoku

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Salt

medium: Lacy pressed opaque blue glass

country: American

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


title: Making Sencha by a Bamboo Grove and Stream

creator: Nukina Kaioku

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on satin

country: Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2024


title: William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806)

creator: Joseph Nollekens

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Henry Lenygon, 1974


title: Mannequin in the Snow

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved and painted


title: Head of a Bearded Man

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Pin

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

medium: Electrum, silver

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Terracotta bowl

date: ca. 1–300 CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Inscribed balustrade or stela element, Aten cartouches

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Taweret Amulet

medium: Faience

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


title: Palazzo Salviati in Rome, section (recto); Palazzo Salviati in Rome, details (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, over red chalk and stylus-incised lines (recto and verso).

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


title: Cup

creator: John Dixwell

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Sherds

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Basin

creator: Samuel Green

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1939


title: Two alternative designs for a composition of Hagar, Ismael, and the Angel, with the artist’s iconographic notes on the subject matter (recto); Fragmentary composition with a reclining woman and a cropped seated figure (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over red chalk underdrawing, with some touches of brown ink wash in the sketch at left (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk underdrawing (verso)

credit_line: Gift of Mitchell Merling, 2024


title: An Oiran Standing, a Pipe in Her right Hand, and Turning to Look Behind over Her Shoulder

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Terracotta footed cup, Vasiliki ware

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Statuette

date: late 18th century

medium: Ivory, wood

country: China

subjects: Ivorie China

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


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Terracotta head of a woman, probably a sphinx

date: 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Portrait of Francesco de' Medici

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Albert Ten Eyck Gardner, 1950


title: Sultana wearing a turban, in profile to the right, from 'Several heads in the Persian style' (Plusieurs têtes coiffées à la persienne)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Mrs. William Greenough, 1937


title: Evening dress

medium: silk, wool, cotton

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Trust Gift, 1984


title: Dagger

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Salver

creator: Charles Le Roux

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of the American Wing Fund, Sansbury-Mills Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goelet, Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Rubin, Wunsch Foundation, Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation, Louis and Virginia Clemente Foundation Inc., and Anonymous Gifts, 1997


title: Jar

creator: Chantilly

medium: Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels

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


title: Bracelet

date: 8th–early 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Standing Woman with a Child near a Fountain

creator: Dancker Danckerts

medium: Etching

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


title: Toast rack

creator: N. Smith and Company

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Frances and Edward Munves, 1964


title: Terracotta juglet

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1914


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Silver-gilt mouthpiece

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Gilded silver

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Order of Charles III, Spain, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Amphora

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Officer

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2019


title: Plate

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

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


title: Three Unknown Boys and James Linton, Newhaven

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Bridal Rose: Happy Love, from the series Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers (N75) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: American Tobacco Company

subjects: Print Flowers Roses


title: Piece

date: 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Angoya-type Negoro Tray

date: dated 1384

medium: Wood with layers of black and red lacquer (Negoro ware)

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation Fund, 2024


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

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bell

date: 3rd or 4th century BCE (?)

medium: Leaded bronze

country: Greek

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cityscape with Windmills (Copy after Jan Van Goyen or Salomon Van Ruisdael?) (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: A King Kneeling Before an Altar

creator: Léon Davent


title: Jug

date: 18th century

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Constance D. Stieglitz, in memory of her husband, Marcel H. Stieglitz, 1964


title: Pin

date: 4th century BCE

medium: bronze

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Ralph M. Chait, 1943


title: Otter Hound, from the Dogs of the World series for Old Judge Cigarettes

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


title: Dish

creator: Amos Treadway

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Joseph France, 1943


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of H. A. Elsberg, 1928


title: Chasuble

date: 16th century (needlework), 17th century (damask support)

medium: Silk with metal thread or nué

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Framed Print

medium: Mahogany veneer, white pine, poplar

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Leonard Marx Gift, 1991


title: Tea cup (part of a service)

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1931


title: Bowl

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Teotihuacan

subjects: Teotihuacan Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Rene d'Harnoncourt, 1960


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Naples

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Cuneiform tablet: list of magical stones

date: ca. mid- to late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid or Seleucid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Around Muckendorf

creator: Johann Christoph Erhard

medium: Etching; third state

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Noh mask

medium: Lacquered wood

subjects: Mask Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Scarab

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Elevation of the Interior of a Columbarium

creator: Pietro Paolo Coccetti (Cocchetti)

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Hautbois de Poitou

date: mid-18th or 19th century

medium: wood, ivory, metal

country: French

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Bottle with Splashed Design

date: first half of the 19th century

medium: Stoneware with glaze and splashed decoration (Seto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Chief Etchers and Best Italian (Wilton House Album)

date: early 18th century binding

medium: Albums

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Piece

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Metal thread, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Study for the Figure of Christ in a Deposition

creator: Ventura Salimbeni

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Red chalk, over traces of an illegible sketch in black chalk.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragment of a Frieze with Repeating Phrase, "Sovereignty is God's"

date: 11th century

medium: Terracotta; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Card 799, Irene Perry, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

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


title: Evening dress

medium: silk

country: American or European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American or european

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937


title: Vase

creator: George E. Ohr

medium: Earthenware

country: American

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


title: Porringer

creator: Thomas Cory

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Border

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Rectangular prism seal engraved on five faces

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Steatite, black

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


title: William Lloyd Garrison

creator: Southworth and Hawes

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937


title: Pair of side chairs (chaises à la reine)

creator: Michel Gourdin

medium: Carved and gilded beechwood, 18th century lavender brocaded silk upholstery (not original)

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Pair of Chinese dogs of Foo

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Scarab Ring inscribed with Ptah

medium: Gold, glazed steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on cotton


title: Design for Wagon, no. 994c

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Hand raised to support an element

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Elias Kempner, 1934


title: Lekythos

creator: Diosphos Painter

date: 1st half of 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Helen H. Mertens Gift, 1961


title: Elise Parent (opéra) 1863

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Unite coin of James I (r. 1603–25)

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: William Purcell, The Rochester Union and Advertiser, from the American Editors series (N1) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Jug

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Four Putti, from "Das Bossenbüchlein"

creator: Mathais Beitler

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: A woman carrying a child in center, seen from behind, another woman to right, facing left, following a group of cows across a river, from "Six Animal Subjects" (Six Sujets d'Animaux)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Panel with the Birth of the Virgin

medium: Oak

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1950


title: Fighting Lions

creator: William Rimmer

date: 1870–71; cast possibly 1906, definitely by late January 1907

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Daniel Chester French, 1907


title: Dish

date: 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: Jar

date: late 17th century

medium: Porcelain with brown purple glaze (Jingdezhen ware), silver cover

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Lachrymae

creator: Frederic, Lord Leighton

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1896


title: Summer and Autumn Landscape

creator: Okuhara Seiko

medium: Diptych of hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2025


title: Cape

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937


title: Ischia, 1904 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite  on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Tile Fragment

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Four-Cornered Hat

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


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: Charles Henry Augustus Carter

creator: Nicholas Biddle Kittell

credit_line: Gift of Yvonne Moen Cumerford, 1965


title: Saint Philip

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1968


title: Fringe

date: 19th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Time and Truth

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: "The Traveller Rescues the Goldsmith from the Pit Against the Advice of the Animals", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

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


title: Miss Raymond, from the Actresses series (N246), Type 2, issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sporting Extra Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Clock ornament

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Henry G. Stebbins

creator: Henry Inman

credit_line: Bequest of Josephine S. Stebbins, 2000


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Forestry Guard, Italy, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Closed Burgonet

medium: Steel, gold, brass

country: Dutch

subjects: Helmet Dutch

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Lavabo cistern

date: late 16th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Bequest of Henry Victor Burgy, 1901


title: Design for Landau, No. 3003

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Martyrdom of Saint Hippolytus

creator: Simon Julien

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

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2020


title: 東海道五十三次　吉原　左リ富士ノ縄手

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


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

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Underpants

medium: linen

credit_line: Costume Institute Benefit Fund, 1999


title: Cathedral at Orléans

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Barbara Schwartz Gift, in memory of Eugene M. Schwartz, and Rogers Fund, 1996


title: Focolare spoon

date: second half of 6th century BCE

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Flower Pot with Stand (One of a Pair)

medium: Cloisonné enamel

country: China

subjects: Cloisonné China Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Example of lace stitch

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Stamp seal (in the shape of a human head) with animal

date: 12th–7th century BCE

medium: Greenstone

country: Syro-Anatolian-Levantine

credit_line: Gift of The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr., 1985


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Douris

date: ca. 470 BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Chessmen (32)

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Pictorial relief, Aten rays over offering

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Spearhead

medium: Bronze

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


title: Miniature fender (part of a set)

creator: George Manjoy

medium: Silver

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


title: The Prophet Elisha, from Prophets and Sibyls

creator: Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Buckle Shank

date: 5th–7th century

country: Visigothic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Visigothic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Compendium of Four Treatises

date: ca. 17th–19th century

medium: Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 2017


title: Accessory set

medium: fur, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Waldo McCutcheon McKee and Thornton C. Thayer, 1961


title: The Honister Pass from Gatesgarth Farm, Gatesgarthdale, Lake District

creator: Edward Dayes

medium: Watercolour over graphite, heightened with reductive techniques

credit_line: Mary Oenslager Fund, 2014


title: Splendore delle virtuose giovani, page 13 (verso)

creator: Iseppo Foresto

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Peasant Girl with a White Headcloth

creator: Wilhelm Leibl

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Reisinger Fund, 1916


title: Covered Box for Incense with Molded Blossoming Plum Branch Design

medium: Pottery covered with crackled glaze, and molded decoration on top (Satsuma ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


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

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Fragments of Ceramics with Opacified Glaze

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed


title: Wineglass

medium: Zwischengold glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Galloon

medium: Metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Mask of a satyr

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Black-topped red ware jar

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: François-Théodore de Nesmond

creator: Robert Nanteuil

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Astragal frame

date: late 16th to early 17th century

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Veneto

subjects:
Frame
Italian, veneto

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Blackwork Print with Three Crosses and Foliate Scrolls, from a Series of Blackwork Prints for Goldsmiths' Work

creator: Etienne Carteron

medium: Blackwork engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Oinochoe, miniature

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Card Number 45, Gertrude Gardner, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Maud Harrison as "The Chanticlear," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Berthe Morisot

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Etching and drypoint; first state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Rod Finial Clip with Makara Motif

date: Second half of the 9th–first quarter of the 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
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: Cabinet

creator: Léon Marcotte

medium: Oak, poplar, pearwood or applewood veneer

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Douglas M. Moffat, 1968


title: Plate

creator: John Rogers & Son

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

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


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

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


title: Curved spout

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, in memory of George D. Pratt, 1936


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Horace Havemeyer, 1956


title: Icon with the Koimesis

date: late 900s

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ojime

date: 19th century

medium: Ojime

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Rectangular plaque seal, engraved on two faces

date: ca. 12th–11th century BCE

medium: Steatite, black

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Stirrup

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Iron

country: Germanic

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
Germanic

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: A Parliamentary Toast

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Knife Coin

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Edward B. Bruce, 1924


title: Weight

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Stone, gray

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Silhouette of a Young Man Before an Open Window, Facing Right

creator: William Henry Brown

date: before 1860

medium: Cut paper against a lithographic background

credit_line: Mary Martin Fund, 1984


title: Teapot with cover

creator: Whieldon type

date: mid-18th century

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Actor Ikushima Daikichi as a Woman Standing under an Ume Tree

creator: Torii Kiyonobu I

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan Trees

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


title: Lillian Lewis, 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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Marble handleless cup

medium: Marble, Gray Banded

country: Minoan

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Minoan

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1924


title: Afternoon dress

medium: silk, metallic thread

country: probably American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Probably american

credit_line: Gift of David L. Andrews, 1976


title: Earring, One of a Set of Four

medium: Gold

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Key

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Late Roman or Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Late roman or frankish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


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


title: Beggar Family

creator: Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

medium: Etching

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


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

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic?

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


title: The bust of Seneca, in a stonework niche

creator: Cornelis Galle I

medium: Engraving

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


title: Bowl

date: second half 10th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze under transparent colorless glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Patio de los Arrayanes, Alhambra, Granada, Spain

creator: Alphonse Delaunay

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg, 2017


title: Dr. Francis Kinloch Huger

creator: Charles Fraser

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


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

date: 440 BCE


title: Sketch of Ancient Ruins on Hilltop (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Wineglass (part of a service)

medium: Glass, gold

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Chambers Hughes, 1963


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Glass bowl

date: early 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Portrait of a girl

date: 18th century

medium: Marble, on bleu turquin marble plinth

subjects: Sculpture Portraits

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Design with an Eagle Fighting with a Serpent and a Putto in the Sky Holding an Inscribed Banner

creator: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and black wash over traces of black chalk, highlighted with white and blue-gray gouache

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1954


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Textile Fragment

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Large spoon

medium: Silver gilt and niello

credit_line: Gift of Lisa Amman von Borowsky, 1975


title: Oliphant (Hunting Horn)

medium: Ivory, copper alloy

country: possibly southern Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Holy Face

creator: Gerard David

medium: Tempera and gold leaf on parchment that has been trimmed and laid down on thin walnut

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial T, from an Antiphonary

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: German

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

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


title: Right Thigh Defense (Cuisse) with Knee Defense (Poleyn)

date: 16th century

medium: Steel

subjects:
German
Armor parts-thigh and leg defense

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Tigers Swimming

date: 19th century

medium: Lacquer, mura nashiji, gold, silver, black and red hiramakie, takamakie, raden; Interior: red lacquer and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan


title: Bowl

date: 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze blue and black, transparent, colorless glaze, pierced sides

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Sheet from "Iconographie Instructive" with portrait of Benjamin Franklin

creator: Adrien Jarry de Mancy

medium: Letterpress and engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Double moon flask

creator: Minton(s)

date: December 1873

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Netsuke of Demon

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Centaurs at a Pond

creator: Friedrich Preller the Elder

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

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2009


title: Figure of Luohan

medium: Unglazed pottery

country: China

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Medal Showing the Recapture of Prague and Charles Prince of Lorraine

medium: Bronze

country: Austrian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
Austrian

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1922


title: Steatite Triangular Prism

medium: Steatite

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Christ as Judge

creator: Gottfried Bernhard Goetz

medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white on buff paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2005


title: Le Poule et ses Poussins

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Etching; fourth state of four (Delteil)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. David T. and Anne Wikler Mininberg, in celebration of Anne's 75th birthday, 2012


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Corset

medium: cotton, bone, metal

subjects:
American
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James Dowd Lester, 1942


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: A Contest of Elegant Ladies among the Cherry Blossoms (Kaika kifujin kisoi)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

date: September 1887

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Hinge

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Manilla

creator: Manufactory in Birmingham, England

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-implement
Edo people

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


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Fruit dish (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Fruits

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: One of a Pair of Ear Pendants

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Vietnam (North) or Indonesia (Sumatra)

subjects:
Jewelry
Vietnam (north) or indonesia (sumatra)

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: The Actor Nakamura Sen'ya as Tokonatsu in the Kabuki Play, "The Legacy of the Three-Comma Family Crest Revealed" (Mitsudomoe katoku-biraki)

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I

date: ca. 1716 (Shōtoku 6/Kyōhō 1), 11th month

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Buddhist monk

date: mid- to late 6th century

medium: Gilt leaded bronze, piece-mold cast

credit_line: Gift of Harold G. Henderson, 1966


title: Bull Run. Blackburn's Ford

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Rank Badge with Mandarin Duck

medium: Silk, metallic thread


title: Little Evelyn, from "The Art Journal," opposite p. 88

creator: James McNeill Whistler

date: March 1896

medium: Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on the cream laid paper used for  "The Art Journal' edition

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1985


title: Brocade

medium: Silk, cotton, and metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-brocade

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Inrō in the Shape of a House

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium:
Two cases; lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, cutout gold foil application on black lacquer ground
Netsuke: ivory; Hotei in a bag
Ojime: metal bead

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


title: Design for the Trompe L'Oeil Decoration of a Ceiling

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and ink and brown wash

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


title: Shield (Dhàl)

medium: Cane, iron, brass, silk, cotton, leather

country: Indian, Balochistān (modern-day Pakistan)

subjects: Indian, balochistān (modern-day pakistan)

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Miniature Landscape

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Two handscrolls; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Design for Fringed Curtains

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Pilgrim's Badge with Bust of a Bishop

date: 14th and 15th century

medium: Lead

country: British

subjects: Metalwork-lead British

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1986


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Crimson Topaz, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Cuneiform tablet: abzu pe-el-la-am, balag to Enki

date: ca. 134 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Cup and saucer (part of a tea set)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Portrait Head Bottle

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container Portraits

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


title: John Nelson Kerins, Catcher, Louisville Colonels, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

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


title: Pair of andirons

date: 17th century

medium: Bronze, cast iron

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Allegory of the Seasons

medium: Zwischengold glass with silver leaf

subjects: Mythology Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)

creator: Tilman Heysacker

date: late 15th century

medium: Oak

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1973


title: Head of an attendant

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Earthenware

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Statuette of Osiris

date: ca. 721–30 BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Museum Accession


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Fragments of a Dish

medium: Pottery, hematite wash

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909


title: Yarmouth, Norfolk

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof, touched with white chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Johnston, Center Field, Boston, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Lock

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-iron French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Famous Men and Women from Classical and Biblical Antiquity

creator: Barthelemy d'Eyck

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor of various hues

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1958


title: Candelabrum

medium: Gilt bronze, marble

credit_line: Gift of John C. Cattus, 1967


title: General Manuel González on his deathbed, from a broadside entitled 'Arrival at the capital of the body of General Manuel González'

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Gift Cloth (Fukusa)

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Armorial jug (boccale)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, possibly Florence or Faenza

subjects:
Italian, possibly florence or faenza
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Butter dish

creator: Christopher Haines

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Embroidery Design for a Frame, No. 098

creator: Morris & Company

date: after 1875

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1964


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Towel End

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Shaving a Forestaller

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Covered compote

creator: Bakewell, Pears and Company

medium: Pressed glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Allegory of Taste (Portrait of the Painter Jan Davidsz. de Heem, after a self-portrait)

creator: Lucas Vorsterman I

medium: Engraving; second state of two (with the inscription partly abraded)

subjects: Mythology Print Portraits

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: 19th century

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Christ from Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Couple

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


title: Plate 11: Psyche offering presents to her sisters who also appear on the clouds at upper right, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Frontispiece, from Suite de Figures Chinoises. . . Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt (Series of Chinoiserie Figures. . .From the Chambers of Mr. d'Azaincourt)

creator: Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Hoüel

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Vessel used as a septic filter

medium: Copper alloy

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


title: Mask

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: L'Inclination de l'age

creator: Pierre Louis Surugue

medium: Engraving; second state of two


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


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


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

creator: Villa Giulia Painter

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Sketch of an Arena(?)

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Graphite

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


title: Caesar riding on his chariot, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

creator: Jacob of Strasbourg

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Chasuble Back with an Orphrey

medium: Cut velvet, red silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, linen.

country: German(?) and Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
German and italian
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Lola de Valence

creator: Amedeo Modigliani

medium: Oil on paper, mounted on wood panel

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


title: Shabti of the Adoratrice of Hathor Henettawy, wife of Painedjem I

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Miss Renwick, 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: Ibex, from the Wild Animals of the World series (N25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Sèriè à la Ristori

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Ponte Rotto (Pons Aemilius), Rome (31. Rome. 1842. Ponte Rotto.)

creator: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 2016 Benefit Fund, and Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2016 (2016.605)


title: [Boat in Harbor, Algeria]

creator: John Beasley Greene

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Bathing suit

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Winston H. Hagen, 1950


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Noah and the animals entering the ark

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Gold Shoe Buckle

medium: Gold and silver

country: Langobardic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Langobardic

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Incense burner (brûle-parfum)

medium: Gilded and marbelized oak and beech, gilt-bronze, copper, tin and tin-plating

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, by exchange, 1983


title: Stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Ceramic Fragments

date: late 7th–first half 8th century

medium: Earthenware with three color (sancai) glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: L'appartement du Comte de Mornay

creator: Adolphe Martial Potémont, called Martial

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015


title: Seated Nude, Back-View

creator: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

medium: Charcoal on paper

credit_line: Gift of the Constance B. and Carroll L. Cartwright Collection, 2025


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cream Pitcher

creator: George Duncan and Sons

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite Raeder Laporte, 1991


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

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


title: Shoeshine and Pickpocket

creator: Giorgio Sommer

medium: Albumen silver print from collodion glass negative

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2017


title: Ste. Pélagie, vierge et martyre (St. Pelagia, Virgin and Martyr), May 4th, 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: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Hegesiboulos

date: ca. 500 BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: E.H. Freeth, from the Sea Captains series (N127) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: [Man with a Bucket on his Arm]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Neptune

creator: Johan Gregor van der Schardt

date: last quarter 16th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1924


title: Plaque

medium: Iron or steel

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Valance

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Bowl with cover (Écuelle)

creator: Jacques-Pierre Marteau

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Bobbin

medium: Bone, metal and beads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Skeletons & bones
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J.B. Johnston, 1910


title: Pennanular or Omega Brooch

date: 1st–2nd century

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1981


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

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


title: Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 3 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Ensemble

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937


title: Hattie Stewart, Champion Female Boxer of the World, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.


title: Strip

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Greenwich Park

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on medium weight cream laid paper; third state of three (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Seal

medium: Jade

country: China

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913


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

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Fringe

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Wine Cup

medium: Red lacquer decorated with gold

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Coin

date: dated 142 AH/759 CE

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Ice Carnival, Canada, from the Holidays series (N80) for Duke brand cigarettes

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


title: Candlestick

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Pressed opaque blue and white glass

credit_line: Bequest of Anna G. W. Green, in memory of her husband, Dr. Charles W. Green, 1957


title: Linen mark, Wah

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1940


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba) With the Motif of Connected Shippō Elements (七宝繋ぎ透鐔)

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō)

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: The Slave Market, Atlanta, Georgia

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019


title: Designs for Dishes

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink

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


title: The Feast of Bacchus

creator: Pierre Alexandre Aveline

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Pha Yok, ceremonial waist cloth

date: 19th and early 20th century

medium: Silk brocade centerfield and silk-and-gilt metal thread border

country: Central Thailand

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Central thailand

credit_line: Gift of Kathleen Haines Gotschlich, in memory of Emil Claus Gotschlich, 2026


title: Costume Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Central coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Central coast

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


title: Suit

medium: silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Phaeton #897

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Fireman's Trumpet

medium: Brass, silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: The Actor Ichikawa Komazo I as a Man Holding a Monkey Mask

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

country: Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: See 57.180.79

medium: indurated limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: German (Nuremberg) Painter

medium: Oil on linden

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1923


title: Fluted vase with dolphins

creator: Venezia-Murano Company

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Elbow or shoulder

medium: Indurated limestone


title: Beef à la Mode

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: February 14, 1800

medium: Etching

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


title: Gold necklace

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Lucinda

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

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

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


title: Mantilla

date: mid-19th century

country: Spanish

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1974


title: Mid-Day, from "Four Times of the Day"

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Wood engraving on chine collé

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Trade Card for Cross, Engraver, Print and Map Publisher

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Maps & charts
Print

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Shrine of The Gospels of Saint Molaise

date: early 20th century (original dated 1001–25)

medium: Bronze, silver, gilded silver, and, gem stones

country: Irish

subjects:
Irish
Minerals & gems
Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Julius Caesar

creator: Unknown

medium: Bronze

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


title: Stone spindle whorl

medium: Stone

country: Minoan

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Thomas J. "Tom" Dolan, Catcher, St. Louis Browns, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Belt hook

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennet, 1966


title: Plate Four from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

creator: De Lacollombe

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Work on paper-engraving
French, pari

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2016


title: Henry "Harry" Eli Staley, Pitcher, Pittsburgh, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Figurine

date: ca. 9th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Figure (Yipwon)

medium: Wood, paint

country: Alamblak or Yimam people

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Alamblak or yimam people

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1972


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Standing Figure and Seated Figure Playing Cello (from Whistler Album)

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970


title: Tabernacle frame

date: early 17th century

medium: Pine back frame and carcass with applied sawn ebony veneer and scraped moldings. Columns: tortoiseshell veneer with hollow bronze capitals and bases.

country: Austrian, Salzburg

subjects:
Frame
Austrian, salzburg

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Figure Stamp

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Atlantic watershed
Ceramics-implement

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


title: Medal commemorating the opening of the Blackfriars Bridge and Holburn Viaduct, by the Queen on November 6, 1869

creator: George Gammon Adams

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of the Corporation of the City of London, 1908


title: 2e Combat Naval (Second Naval Battle), from La Vie de Ferdinand Ier de Médicis série appelée aussi Les Batailles des Médicis (The Life of Ferdinand I de'Medici also called The Medici Battles)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1940


title: Garment Clasp

date: 14th–15th century or earlier

country: Visayas

subjects: Metal-ornament Visaya

credit_line: Gift of F. William L. Villareal, 1994


title: To Find the Vanishing of Any Building, one side being given

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

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

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


title: Jar

date: mid 6th–5th millennium BCE

country: Ubaid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1949


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Dala'il al-Khayrat Prayer Book

creator: Muhammad bin Ahmad bin 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Riyahi

medium:
Manuscript: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Binding: Gilt tooled morocco

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2017


title: Design for Square Pianoforte, Grecian Style

creator: Robert William Hume

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Jessie F. Hume, 1930


title: Lapland, from the Types of All Nations series (N24) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

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


title: Sugar bowl with cover

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941


title: Armor of Henry II, King of France (reigned 1547–59)

creator: Jean Cousin the Elder

medium: Steel, gold, silver, leather, textile

country: French, possibly Paris

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor for man
French, possibly pari

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Colosseo (Anfiteatro di Flavio)

creator: Eugène Constant

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: quittance for dates, Esagilaya archive

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Limestone hand holding a pyxis

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Briseis Painter


title: Design for Landau, No. 4079

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Ruine sulla terza terazza, Persepolis

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Kay Gregory, 1967


title: Marble head of Aphrodite?

date: 2nd–1st century BC

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Copper Lime Spoon

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Inca

subjects: Metal-implement Inca

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


title: Florentine Singer

creator: Paul Dubois

medium: Plaster

credit_line: Gift of Mme Paul Dubois, 1906


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Fragment of Bowl

date: 14th century

medium: Ceramics

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722)

creator: John Michael Rysbrack

date: early to mid-1730s

medium: Carrara marble

credit_line: Purchase, Director's Fund, Wrightsman Fund, in honor of Olga Raggio, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill, Hester Diamond, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr. Gifts, 2015


title: String of Beads

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Glass, coral

country: Coptic

subjects:
Coptic
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Brisé Fan, with Simple Carved Patterning

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of William Williams, 1937


title: Stand

medium: Ceramic

country: Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Cup

date: 18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Weathercock and Stand

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Gilded copper and iron stand

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-copper French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Design for a Painted Wall Decoration for Palazzo Massimo all'Aracoeli (Rome)

creator: Basilio Briccio

medium: Pen and ink with green and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache

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


title: Flower Design: Daffodils and Calla Lilies

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Watercolor and gouache, over graphite

subjects: Drawing Flowers Lilies

credit_line: Purchase, Leon Lowenstein Foundation Inc. Gift, 1977


title: Vessel

date: ca. 1st century CE

country: Nabataean

subjects:
Nabataean
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of William H. Shehadi, 1953


title: Draw-top table

date: 17th century

medium: Walnut and apple with slate top

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Dagger (Pesh-Kabz)

medium: Steel, horn

country: Indian

subjects: Dagger Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: C.W. Williamson, Shortstop, Chicago, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card

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


title: Pitcher

medium: Earthenware with slip decoration

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1937


title: Alabaster or loutrophoros (jar for storage or water)

date: 2nd half of the 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Veined alabaster

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Roman landscape with figures near Paliano

creator: Joseph Anton Koch

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Pen and black ink, over graphite; squared in graphite

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 2009


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: The Four Trees

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Etching; second state of two

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: Tray (Soucoupe à pied) (one of four) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Skeleton standing with his arms raised

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Painting of Holy Men

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Linen, paint

country: Byzantine (Egypt)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Byzantine (egypt)
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Brougham #3301

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Phoenix Hat

date: early 19th century

medium: Compound weave; silk, gold thread, and engraved metal

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Roland Koscherak, 1952


title: Dish with Bird Head

medium: Ceramic, pigment

subjects: Inca Birds Ceramics-container

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


title: Sugar Shovel

creator: H. M. Nichols

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Studies for "The Conversion of the Jailer before Saint Paul and Silas"

creator: Nicolas de Plattemontagne

medium: Red, black, and white chalks

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. Gift, and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1996


title: Huqqa Base with Silver Beads

medium: Glass with silver and coloured glass appliqué

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2023


title: Beaker of archaistic design

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Diana with hound

creator: Ralph Wood the Younger

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1942


title: Lower part of a chuba robe

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1980


title: Bottle vase

medium: Porcelain with brown glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Marble portrait head of a man

date: 3rd century CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Glass jug

date: 3rd–4th century CE

country: Roman, Rhenish

subjects:
Glass
Roman, rhenish

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881