title: Glass jar

date: 1st century CE

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Ribbon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) via The Met Open Access.

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta juglet

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Weaving tool

medium: Bone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Limestone plaque with two eyes in relief

medium: Limestone

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cypriot


title: Benjamin Franklin

creator: Pierrette Caudelot Perrin

medium: Faience

country: French

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Pair of miniature candlesticks

creator: George Manjoy

medium: Silver

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


title: Mechanical table (Table mécanique)

creator: Jean Henri Riesener

medium: Oak veneered with marquetry of bois satiné, holly, amaranth, barberry, stained sycamore, and green-lacquered wood; gilt-bronze mounts; steel, iron and brass fittings; mirror glass; velvet (not original)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: [Trees in Calaveras Grove]

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Trees

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph
Portraits

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


title: The Holy Family

creator: Gaetano Gandolfi

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Deer and Tree Against Sunset

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

medium: Watercolor on wove paper

subjects: Drawing Trees

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


title: Fukoroi

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Scenes from Roman history

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: A Fox Dance from the Drama The Thousand Cherry Trees

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

subjects: Print Japan Trees


title: Oil bottle

medium: Porcelain (Hizen ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Card table

creator: Charles-Honoré Lannuier

medium: Mahogany veneer, white pine, yellow poplar, gilded gesso, vert antique, and gilded brass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Justine VR. Milliken, 1995


title: Belt Hook in the Shape of a Horned Dragon

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Gilded bronze and glass

country: North China

subjects:
Metalwork
North china

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, 2002


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

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Rest in peace!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, August 7, 1871

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: August 7, 1871

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

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1954


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The God of Good People, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Brigandine Plate

medium: Iron alloy, copper alloy

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Time Holding a Nude Woman, a Putto at Right

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with pale and dark brown wash, over leadpoint or black chalk (recto); contours of drawing traced in black chalk by a later hand (verso)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Shabti of Amenhotep III

medium: Ebony; eyes inlaid with blue, white, black glass;  inscription filled with pigment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Menat fragment

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Madonna and Child

creator: Giuseppe Canale

medium: Etching

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


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

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: A Sea Nymph

creator: Carl Friedrich Thienpondt

medium: Enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: Weather Vane

medium: Painted tinned sheet iron

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sherman, 1967


title: View Across a Field to Farmhouse Amid Trees Backed by Hills (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Hewes Hinckley

medium: Graphite on beige paper

subjects: American Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund and Gifts in memory of  Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Epitaph and Portrait of Jacques Callot

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching and engraving in red ink; third state of four

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Landau #942

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Mercury and Argus

creator: Simone Cantarini

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Tight Rope Performer

creator: Yasuo Kuniyoshi

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: "The Hare, the Lion, and the Well", 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: Chalice

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Nadar's Pantheon (Panthéon Nadar)

creator: Nadar

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1993


title: Cassetta frame

date: mid-16th century

medium: Pine

country: Italian, Veneto

subjects:
Frame
Italian, veneto

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Stockings

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward A. Morrison, 1944


title: Water Dropper in the Form of a Kneeling Hunchbacked Chinese Man

date: 14th–ca. mid-16th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Thailand (Si Satchanalai)

subjects:
Ceramic
Thailand (si satchanalai)

credit_line: Purchase, Lewis Charitable Trust Gift, 1992


title: Judith with the Head of Holofernes

creator: Ubaldo Gandolfi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash


title: Gig #3681


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Secretary desk

date: last quarter 18th century

medium: Wood, marble, gilt bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: James Aytoun

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Scherzo di Fantasia: Two Standing Orientals and a Standing Youth with a Sword

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush with pale and dark brown wash, over traces of black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Stanhope Phaeton #714

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache


title: Gimp

date: mid-19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Miniature Dress

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Battle Scene (Samson Slaying the Philistines?)

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on light brown paper

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Portrait of Rubens' sons, Albert and Nikolaus

creator: Jean Daullé

medium: Engraving

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


title: Repose in Egypt, Mary holding and looking at the infant Christ while St. Joseph sleeps

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Circular box

medium: Two-tone gold, rock crystal

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Water jar

medium: Cast iron

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Earring with Star and Granules

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Miniature Vase

medium: Porcelain with polychrome enamels (in imitation of the so-called gu yue xuan type)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Design for Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling for Dining Room, Hôtel de Trévise

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

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

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Four-legged stool

creator: A. M. E. Fournier

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Carved and gilded wood, silver-colored damask, brass casters

credit_line: Gift from the Arthur and Madeleine Lejwa Collection, 1985


title: Fragment of inscribed prism (kudurru)

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Earring, crescent-shaped

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


title: Seated Devi

date: 9th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Clarinet in C

creator: Josef Karl Anton "Charles" Felchlin

medium: Wood, silver, ivory

country: Swiss

credit_line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1990


title: Medallion

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Porcelain

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


title: "Watch me hit him," "Watch him hit me," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Calligraphic Folio with Persian Verses

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1996


title: Mount Penglai with Eight Views of Xiao and Xiang

creator: Kano Tansui Moritsune

date: 19th century

medium: One from a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Charles Stewart Smith Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, Charles Stewart Smith Jr., and Howard Caswell Smith, in memory of Charles Stewart Smith, 1914


title: Fibula, bow-shaped

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Silver

country: ETRUSCAN

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Nose Ring

date: probably 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Meredith Howland, 1904


title: The Tomb of Pietro and Giovanni de' Medici from The Tombs of the Medici

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving

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


title: Stone Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Stone; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Incense burner in shape of a pistol

medium: Earthenware with polychrome glaze (Ko-Kiyomizu ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2019


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Chalcedony, milky, discolored by heat

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, 1899


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Amorous Widower

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

medium: Etching; reverse copy

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Riverscape with Hikers and a Dog

creator: Heinrich Theodor Wehle

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Black chalk and brush and gray wash; framing lines in black chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006


title: The Toilet

creator: Robert Frederick Blum

medium: Pastel on brown wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Margaret and Raymond J. Horowitz, 1984


title: Plate 56, To the cemetery (Al cementerio), from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, lavis, drypoint


title: Shield Depicting the Siege of Troy

medium: Steel

country: French

subjects: Shield French

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1925


title: Bread Seal

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Planter

medium: Stoneware with flambé glaze (Shiwan ware)

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


title: Edging

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Bead, control

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Breech Loading Falconet (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium:
Graphite on wove paper with gilt edges, bound in a leather
 cover

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Funerary Cone of the Inspector of Scribes Ineni

medium: Pottery

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


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


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Fringe

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Coupé #3349

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Cross

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Project for a Fountain for La Place du Carrousel

creator: Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

medium: Pen and black ink on tracing paper

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: Spoon

date: mid-16th century

medium: Silver, partly gilded

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


title: The Unfortunate Death of Major André, from Barnard's New, Complete and Authentic History of England

creator: Jabez Goldar

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Glass bracelet

date: late 3rd–2nd century BCE

country: Celtic

subjects: Glass Celtic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Stone

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Page from a Dispersed Book of Dreams

date: mid-late 19th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan)

credit_line: Gift of Daniel J. Slott, 1977


title: Beaker (Schwarzlot cup)

creator: Johann Schaper

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Eugen Grabscheid, 1982


title: Traveling case

creator: Bartholomew Newsam

medium: Leather and brass, partly gilded


title: Round Incense Burner and Cover

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

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: Brush Holder

date: 18th century

medium: Bronze

country: Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Panel

medium: Cotton and glass paste

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Bowl

medium: Earthenware; buff slip, polychrome slip decoration, sgraffito decoration, transparent glaze

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: A Potter in Balabar Cast, from Indian Trades and Castes

creator: Anonymous, Indian, 19th century

medium: Watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Nine Prints Depicting Dual Portraits of Actors in Roles

creator: Utagawa Hirosada

medium: Nine woodblock prints

subjects: Print Japan Portraits

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


title: Chess set

medium: Wood, leather

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: The Circle of the Thieves; Buoso Donati Attacked by the Serpent

creator: William Blake

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Canadian Mountain Peaks (from Sketchbook)

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Stirrup-Spout Bottle: Two Figures

date: 12th–5th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Cupisnique

subjects: Cupisnique Ceramics-container

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick and Fletcher Funds, 1967


title: Punch Ladle

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Towel End

date: late 18th century

medium: Linen, silk, metal wrapped thread; plain weave, embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain with stone stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


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: Jérusalem, Tombeau des rois de Juda, Cour extérieure

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Fragment

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread


title: Armchair (part of a set)

creator: Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

medium: Carved and gilded beech, wool and silk tapestry

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1935


title: 1st King of Siam

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Repentance of St. William

creator: Vincenzio Vangelisti

medium: Mixed method engraving and etching, printed in gray-blue ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Brooch

medium: Gold, pearl, brilliants

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


title: Section of the Grizzly Giant, 101 feet circumference

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 62r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Card Number 121, Nellie Harding, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Pair of silver bracelets

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Medea: or The Marriage of Jason and Creusa

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching with touches of drypoint; fifth state of five

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Set of Eight Wine Cups

medium: Jadeite

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Lekythos

creator: Krotala Painter

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Plate 1: Two children sitting on the ground, the child on the right drawing while the child on the left holding the album, title page from "The Book for Learning to Draw" (Livre pour apprendre à dessiner)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Tri-colored Cockatoo, from the Birds of the Tropics series (N5) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Female figure

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Stone

country: Huastec

subjects: Stone-sculpture Huastec

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


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


title: Médînet-Abou (Thèbes), Constructions Postérieures - Deuxieme Cour - Galerie Nord-Ouest

creator: Félix Teynard

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Bodhisattva  Avaolkiteshvara

date: second half of the 7th–early 8th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Western Cambodia

subjects:
Sculpture
Western cambodia

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1987


title: Copper Peapod Ornament

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Chimú (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Chimú

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


title: Vase

medium: Opaque glass with enamel decoration

country: British

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


title: Slippers

medium: silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Sterling Peters, 1924


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Ring, plaited

medium: Gold

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


title: Small Bead

medium: Glass

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-bead Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Adze

medium: Nephrite

country: North America (Alaska, vicinity of Fort Clarence)


title: Armorial panel

date: 17th century

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense)

medium: Steel, leather

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-shaffron
German

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial F, from an Antiphonary

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

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


title: Apse Mosaic, San Clemente, Rome

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Gathering Storm on Long Island Sound

creator: John Frederick Kensett

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Kensett, 1874


title: Set of three balusters

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman


title: Stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Saucer

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, in memory of Stephen M. Kellen, 2005


title: Coffee cup (part of a set)

medium: Lustreware

credit_line: Gift of Sidney H. and Helen M. Witty, 1964


title: Chastity Plaque

date: 14th century

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: Panel

date: 18th century

medium: Silk; cotton

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Bamboo in Snow

creator: Dapeng Zhengkun (Taihō Shōkon)

medium: Pair of hanging scrolls; ink on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: The Unmerciful Servant (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

creator: Sir John Everett Millais

medium: Wood engraving; proof

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Christ on the Cross Between Mary and Saint John

creator: Johann Christophorus Storer

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white over black chalk.

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 1996


title: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (The Repose of the Holy Family in Egypt)

creator: William Blake

medium: Watercolor, pen and black ink, over graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Pair of tassels

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: The Life of Christ

medium: Figures of lampworked glass (opaque white, turquoise blue, bright blue, light blue, green, yellow, orange, yellow-orange, brown, yellowish brown, dark brown, black, gray, gold aventurine, and colorless), mirror and glass plate (some reverse painted),  wood, cardboard, paper, fabric, shells, glass bead, paint, wire, composition material, cork, metal. Assembled.

country: probably French (Nevers)

subjects:
Glass
Probably french (nevers)
Shells & molluscs


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

country: Greek, Attic

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


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Bearing Cloth

creator: Anonymous

medium: Silk satin embroidered with silver and gilded silver metal-wrapped threads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered and woven

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2016


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Cuneiform tablet case impressed with cylinder seal, for cuneiform tablet 11.217.9a: receipt of a goat

date: ca. 2044 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Purchase, by exchange, 1911


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Card 18, from the Girl Cyclists series (N49) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Jérusalem. Mosquée d'Omar, construite sur l'emplacement su Temple de Salomon

creator: Louis de Clercq

date: 1860 or later

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: Fragment of a Sheet

date: 5th century

medium: Linen, wool, tapestry-woven inserts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Dish

date: early 16th century

medium: Brass

subjects: Metalwork-brass German

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Seated Harpokrates with the crown of Amun, named as "Harpokrates-the-great, the eldest, the first of Amun"

medium: Cupreous metal, precious metal inlay

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. S. W. Straus, 1925


title: Sugar sifter

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Parasol

medium: silk, wood, metal, china

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alan L. Corey Jr., Mrs. William T. Newbold, and Mrs. A.G. Paine, II, 1980


title: Figure Studies related to "Liberty Leading the People"

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Keith Christiansen, 2013


title: Priest's Robe (Shichijō)

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Visor for an Armet

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Helmet part
Italian

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Seven Designs for Decorated Plates

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

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


title: John M. Mason, D.D. S.T.P. (1770–1829)

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving; only state

credit_line: Gift of Randolph Gunter, 1958


title: Ring

medium: Bone

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: Piece

date: 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Mecca, from the City Flags series (N6) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Fork with knife handle (one of six)

creator: Louis-Antoine Taillepied

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Sugar caster

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Pair of Ear Clips with Granulate Design

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

medium: Gold

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: Terracotta fragments of a psykter (vase for cooling wine)

creator: Euphronios

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: 60. Porte Kennesrîne, à Alep

creator: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 2017


title: Scene from a Modified Soga Play

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Ishma, 1914


title: L'Auteur fumant, à mi-corps

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Etching, drypoint, and roulette; second state of two

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Agate, banded

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez par J.B. Toro

creator: Jean Bernard Toro

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Narcissus, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Terracotta pithoid jar

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

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


title: Saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Pouch

medium: Glass, linen, leather

country: possibly German

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: Miss McNulty as "The Duchess," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Virgin and Child in a Church, also known as the Van Maelbeke Virgin

creator: Wierix

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Design for a Gilt Leather Panel

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Susan Schulman Printseller, in honor of Dr. Peter Fuhring, 2013


title: Bowl

medium: Nephrite, dark seaweed green with mottlings of very light green

country: China

subjects:
Seaweed & algae
Jade
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Landscape near Mödling with figures

creator: Jakob Matthias Schmutzer

medium: Brush and brown and gray ink, black chalk

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2009


title: The Beggar's Opera

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; sixth state of six

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Sword (Arivāl)

date: possibly 16th century

medium: Steel

country: South Indian

subjects:
Sword
South indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


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

creator: The Giles Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Benzaiten and Fifteen Attendants

date: 13th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Figure Dish

creator: McKee and Brothers

medium: Pressed opaque white glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Glass flask

date: 3rd to 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: By the River

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Photogravure

credit_line: Gift of Ellen Robinson, 1960


title: Watercolor of musician playing paiban

date: late 18th century

medium: Watercolor on paper

country: Chinese

subjects:
Work on paper
Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Lawrence Creshkoff, 1990


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Milk jug (part of a service)

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Teapot

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, 1942


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Colosseum

creator: Bartholomeus Breenbergh

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Pot

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Coin

date: dated 199 AH/815 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Judah, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

creator: Maarten van Heemskerck

medium: Etching

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


title: Saint Anthony of Padua

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2012


title: The Holy Kinship with Lute Playing Angels

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Helen M. Meserve Gift, 1981


title: Tutucanula,  El Capitan, 4000 Feet

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1911


title: Relief fragment with sandalled feet

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Rosen, 1991


title: English Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) 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: Frieze with Nine Birds Perched on a Vine

creator: Franz Isaac Brun

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: The Road Through the Woods

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: Solidus

medium: Gold

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Fichu

medium: [no medium available]

country: Spanish

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Vestment

medium: Silk, linen, metal, mother-of-pearl, semi-precious stones

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: General McClellan and Staff

creator: Alexander Gardner


title: Cream jug

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Study of Oak Trees (recto)

creator: Carl Wilhelm Kolbe

medium: Black chalk

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein and Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gifts, 2003


title: Design for a Round or Oval Renaissance Style Table

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite, brush and wash, on tracing paper

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


title: Brigadier General, N.Y.S.M., from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


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


title: Esquimaux, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.


title: Relief with two nude girls

date: 3rd century BCE(?)

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Epiktetos

date: ca. 510 BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Female Figure

date: 12th–9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Ticoman

subjects: Ticoman Ceramics-sculpture

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Card Table

medium: Mahogany, satinwood

credit_line: Gift of the Members of the Committee of the Bertha King Benkard Memorial Fund, 1946


title: Landscape with distant buildings, near Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 27 recto)

creator: Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

medium: Graphite, brush and brown ink and yellow wash or watercolor

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Piece

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Untitled

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Bottle

date: late 17th century

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware; pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1920


title: Column Base

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Terracotta kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


date: second quarter of the 4th century BCE

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


title: Battle of the Amalekites (Bataille des Amalecites)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Cross-Shaped Tile

date: second half 13th–early 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; overglaze painted and leaf gilded (lajvardina)

credit_line: Purchase, Ehsan Yarshater and Margaret Mushekian Gifts, 1975


title: Section of the Sala Pianterreno by Algardi in the Villa Doria Pamphili, Rome

creator: Guiseppe Mannocchi

medium: Pen and ink

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2014


title: Christ Bearing the Cross

date: probably late 18th–first half 19th century

medium: Enamel on copper, partly gilt

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Scene in the Tuileries: The Watering Cart

creator: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching, second state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Covered cup with ladies, boy, and rabbits

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Morning jacket

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the International Business Machine Corporation, 1960


title: Shawl

medium: [no medium available]

country: Indian

credit_line: Gift of Miss Marion Hague, 1939


title: Seven Figure Sketches: Standing Female Nude with Fruit; Madonna and Child (?); Two Female Busts; Recumbent Semi-nude Figure, etc. (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

subjects: American Fruits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Pendant with Eros

date: 4th century BCE

medium: GOLD

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: The Unsafe Tenement (The Old Farm)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on gray chine on white wove paper (chine collé); third state of four (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Earrings

date: ca. 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Figure-top spoon

medium: Silver, parcel-gilt

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


title: Bowl

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Alms bowl for a Buddhist monk

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Bath Races

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 20, 1810

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Self-portrait in a Turkish Outfit

creator: Carlo Gregori

date: 18th century

medium: Engraving; first state of two

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Susan Schulman Printseller and Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints, 2009


title: Rowel Spur (Right), in the Style of the 16th Century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
European

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

medium: Terracotta

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


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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta tankard

date: late 8th century BCE

credit_line: Gift of the Greek Government, 1930


title: The Birth of Venus

creator: Alexandre Cabanel

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of John Wolfe, 1893


title: Panel

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: General Jacko & his Rib

creator: John Cawse

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Lucidario di Recami, page 6 (recto)

creator: Iseppo Foresto

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Maude, from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 2) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Dish

creator: George Lightner

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Joseph France, 1943


title: Sampler

medium: Wool on cotton

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


title: Miniature door

date: 17th century, partly, and later 19th century

medium: Walnut, softwood, glass, and iron.

country: Italian

subjects: Woodwork Italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Young Bather

creator: Gustave Courbet

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


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


title: Relief Depicting Personified Estates from the Tomb of Akhtihotep

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Purchase, Funds from Various Donors, 1958 (58.44.2a); Rogers Fund, 1958 (58.44.2b)


title: Silenus Carried by Two Attendants of Bacchus

creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

medium: Etching

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


title: Shepherd on a Small Bridge

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

date: 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Bed curtain border

medium: Linen, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Earring

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold

country: Langobardic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Langobardic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Gold bracelet

date: 6th–5th century BCE

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek, cypriot

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


title: Carnelian scaraboid seal

medium: Carnelian, burnt

country: Greek, Ionian

subjects:
Gems
Greek, ionian
Minerals & gems


title: Saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Coin

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Edward B. Bruce, 1924


title: Glass Fragments

date: 4th century

medium: Glass

country: Coptic

subjects: Glass-vessel Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Deuxieme Vue des Environs de Naples

creator: Pierre François Basan

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Carpet

date: early 19th century

medium: Wool (warp, weft and pile); symmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

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


title: Easter Monday, or The Cockney Hunt

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Lindlithgow Castle

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Funerary Stele with Cross at Center in Architectural Frame

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

subjects: Architecture Sculpture

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Les Tulipes et le Soleil (The Tulips and the Sun), plate 6 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Viscera figure with baboon head (Hapy)

medium: Wax

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Kahn. Rodolphe. 43 ans, né le 15/1/51 à Lyon (Rhône). Courtier de commerce. Anarchiste. 8/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Laponia (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...,"  London, 1724, pl. 312)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Walking dress

medium: silk

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1980


title: Galloon

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Beaker (Apostelhumpen)

date: late 16th century

medium: Enameled glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: 'D' Zuyderkerck', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld

creator: Carel Allard

medium: Color engraving (à la poupée)


title: Flounce

date: early 18th century

medium: Needle lace, linen

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1936


title: Gold earring with pendant

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: [Hall of Justice, Alhambra, Granada]

creator: Unknown

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John L. Swayze, 1983


title: Insertion

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: The Post Office

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint


title: Coach # 987

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Isaac Oliver

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: China Case, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: late 6th/early 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: Inner Coffin Inscribed for Ankhesmut (used by Nesitaset)

medium: Wood, paint, paste


title: The Adoration of the Kings

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Cup and saucer

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1942


title: Rape of Proserpina

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1997


title: Plate 3: a gale in the forest, two horsemen wrapped in their cloaks, the wind blowing, from "Roman landscapes and ruins" (Paysages et ruines de Rome)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

date: late 6th century

medium: Limestone with traces of pigment

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942


title: Pair of Rowel Spurs

medium: Iron alloy, gold

country: possibly French or German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Possibly french or german

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Cup

medium: White porcelain with designs in relief and decorated with blue under the glaze (Hirado ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Pair of side curtains for a bed

medium: Linen, embroidered with wool and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1953


title: Altar Candlestick

medium: Brass

country: South Netherlandish or German

subjects:
Metalwork
South netherlandish or german

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Glass

subjects:
Glass
Greek, cypriot

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


title: Virgin and Child

date: 15th–16th century (?)

medium: Elephant ivory

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

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


title: Soubrier. Annette (femme Chericotti). 28 ans, née à Paris Ille. Coutière. Anarchiste. 25/3/94.

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Medal Showing Henry IV of France (b. 1553, r. 1589–1610) and Marie de Médicis (1573–1642)

creator: Guillaume Dupré

date: dated 1603

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1922


title: Textile Fragment

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile


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

country: Greek, Attic


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: 6th century/early 5th century BCE

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


title: [Heron Pond, Zoological Gardens, Brussels]

creator: Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: A Cure for Lying and a Bad Memory

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Wine glass cooler

creator: Saint-Cloud factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Bowl with Incised Decoration

date: 11th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip under transparent glaze, incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Spoon

creator: T. P. Drown

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Billingsgate

creator: James McNeill Whistler

date: 1859, republished 1880–82

medium: Etching and drypoint; ninth state of nine (Glasgow); printed in black ink on cream laid paper

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Madonna and Child

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

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Beggars at a Church Door at Rome, from "Illustrated London News"

creator: William Luson Thomas

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2018


title: Brougham #4014

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Sleeve Band

date: 19th century

medium: Silk,  metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Ewer

creator: P. K., London

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Wine bottle holder

creator: Christopher Dresser

medium: Electroplated metal

credit_line: Purchase, Robert L. Isaacson Gift, 1990


title: St. Jerome in the Desert

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mortimer L. Schiff, 1919


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: Candelabra Supported by Putti

creator: Niccolò Roccatagliata

date: first half 17th century or later

medium: Copper alloy,  with a black lacquer or wax patina.

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Metalwork
Italian, venice

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Secret Influence Directing The New P-l-t [Parliament]

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching with touches of hand-coloring


title: Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: An Impending Catastrophe

creator: John Cameron

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Finger Vase

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Painted limestone funerary stele with a seated man and two standing figures

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone, paint

country: Greek

subjects: Miscellaneous-painting Greek

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Witches Preparing for Sabbath

creator: Andries Stock

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Charles Hack and Angella Hearn, 2001


title: “Act II, Scene 2: Along Train Tracks in America,” from the series The Strange Tale of the Castaways: A Western Kabuki

creator: Adachi Ginkō

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Uncle Charles

creator: Charles Cromwell Ingham

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: A Lady Holding a Fan

creator: Michel Barthélémy Ollivier

medium: Black and red chalk with white gouache

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: Fan

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk, metal thread, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: The Magnificat

creator: Henri Simon Thomassin

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941


title: An American on Horseback

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: GIft of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Design for a Tomb with Herms and a Niche with a Bust Portrait

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Lady Ise by the Riverbank

creator: Nishikawa Sukenobu

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Medal:  Bartolomeo Colleoni

creator: Marco Guidizani

date: model 1455 or later  (possibly cast 19th century)

medium: Bronze


title: Plate

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Panel of Curvilinear Metal Ornament Adorned with Masks and Winged Figures

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


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


title: Band

medium: Drawnwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Salad bowl (Saladier)

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Tintoretto at His Daughter's Deathbed

creator: Achille Martinet

date: after 1843

medium: Engraving on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2013


title: Study for "Portrait of an Indian"

creator: Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Joanne Toor Cummings, by exchange, 1997


title: Tarascon, Viaduc

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Chinese Lion (Shishi)

date: mid-18th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Thenot Remonstrates With Colinet, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

creator: William Blake

medium: Wood engraving; second state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Bowl

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

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: A couple dancing while a band plays music in the background, illustration for 'La Tipica,' published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: 1894 (a later impression)

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Design for the painted decoration of a ceiling with the monogram:  AS

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite, pen and ink, watercolor on wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, copper

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1946


title: Bacchanal with Wine Vat

creator: Andrea Mantegna

medium: Engraving (late, re-worked impression)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Wedding cutaway coat

medium: wool

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A. H. de Witt, 1945


title: Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Maya (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Maya

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: The Leader Sea Piece, part IV, plate 20 from "Liber Studiorum"

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching and mezzotint; first state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Riding Whip

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Rawhide, silver, silver wire, textile

country: Caucasian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Equestrian equipment
Caucasian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Card 633, Irene Verona, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Handle of a Shield

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Upon the Tiber, at Rome

creator: Richard Cooper II

medium: Counterproof of an iron gall ink drawing, with graphite

credit_line: Gift of Abbott and Holder Ltd., 2023


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pair of Mandarin Ducks and Iris Flowers

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Model Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Scene with monkeys and baboons

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Plate 21, from the Fans of the Period series (N7) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: James Newton "Jesse" Duryea, Pitcher, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 75 (recto)

creator: Matthias Mignerak

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Bench Figure

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

country: Epi-Olmec

subjects: Stone-sculpture Epi-olmec

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


title: Barbe (one of three pieces)

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Plate 1: Saturn in a niche devouring his son, standing before a scythe, from a series of mythological gods and goddesses

creator: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Arm Ornament

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Colombia

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Colombia

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1891


title: Cup (part of a coffee service)

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

date: early 19th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: Side chair

medium: Cherry

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Screven Lorillard (Alice Whitney), from the collection of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 2016


title: Wedding ensemble

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James G. Flockhart, 1968


title: Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion

date: late 13th century–early 14th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: German

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Evening dress

medium: silk, cotton

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A. Hyatt Mayor, 1951


title: Dalmatic

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1952


title: The Death of Maitre Andre

creator: Claude Gillot

medium: Etching, second state

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a psykter (vase for cooling wine)


title: Stone Ear Flare

medium: Jade

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Amya Petitioning Faustus for the Custody of Saint Mamas

creator: Jean Cousin the Elder

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white, over black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 2001


title: Mirror

date: 17th century

medium: Silver, glass

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: The Triumph of Love, from "The Triumphs of Petrarch"

creator: Georg Pencz

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Marble head of a man from a grave stele

date: ca. 325 BCE

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick M. Stafford, 1996


title: Stuart Robson in Russian Costume of the Crimean Peninsula, from the set Actors and Actresses, First Series (N70) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron


title: Bottle with Rock, Flowers, and Birds

medium: Porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Kakiemon type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan Birds Flowers

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


title: Diagram for a Pichawai Depicting the Sharad Purnima (the Autumn Full Moon)

date: mid-19th century

medium: Ink, wash, and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Nathadwara)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, nathadwara)

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


title: Strip

medium: Drawnwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Flounce

medium: Bobbin lace


title: Plate 36, from the Fans of the Period series (N7) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Buddha Sheltered by a Naga

date: 12th century

medium: Bronze

country: Cambodia

subjects: Sculpture Cambodia

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1987


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Cap

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Costumes-Accessories

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costumes-accessorie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Stone Zoomorphic Figure

date: 11th century

medium: Stone

country: Tiwi (?)

subjects: Stone-sculpture Tiwi

credit_line: Gift of James A. Houston, 1969


title: Terracotta relief detached from a funnel-jar

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

country: Italic-Native, South Italian (Canosan)

subjects:
Vase
Italic-native, south italian (canosan)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Shallow Face Mask (Tsubamé-Gata)

medium: Iron, leather, lacqeured lame

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


title: Architectural Design in Section

creator: Leonardo Marini

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush with gray-black wash, with ruled and compass construction

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Oval box with cover

creator: Gottlieb Satzger

medium: Silver

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


title: Dagger with Sheath

medium: Steel, wood, tortoiseshell, silver, brass wire, cane (rattan), leather

country: Philippine, Mandaya

subjects:
Dagger
Philippine, mandaya

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Post Horn in F

medium: Brass

country: Austrian or German

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Austrian or german

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Yokkaichi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Scarf

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. E. D. Kaye and Mrs. H. A. Saks, 1947


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Border

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Miss Emily Tuckerman, 1913


title: Cuneiform tablet: petition, prayer for a king

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Belt plaque

medium: Jade

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1911


title: The Entombment; Christ with legs outstretched, the Virgin at right

creator: Guido Reni

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Silhouette of an unknown young man in a top hat

creator: G. Bonner

medium: Cut paper

credit_line: The Glenn Tilley Morse Collection, Bequest of Glenn Tilley Morse, 1950


title: Hercules and the Centaur

date: late 15th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: The Erich Lederer Collection, Gift of Mrs. Erich Lederer, 1986


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Square bottle with cover

medium: Silver, glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Amos L. Beaty, 1961


title: Jug with cover

medium: Silver gilt, coconut

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Door Boss

date: 15th–16th century

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Bottle vase with handles

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china with underglaze blue and gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Man on Elephant

medium: Gouache on paper

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Fragment from a Molding with Intertwined Vines and Acanthus Leaves

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Judith standing and looking up, holding the head of Holofernes in her left hand and a sword in her right, tents in the background, after Reni

creator: Nicolas Gabriel Dupuis

medium: Engraving and etching

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Pot metal glass

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Tray (plateau), part of Breakfast Service (déjeuner)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Heineman, 1956


title: Man with Arm Raised

date: late 16th century

medium: Gilt bronze, on marble base

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1924


title: Coffeepot (part of a set)

medium: Lustreware

credit_line: Gift of Sidney H. and Helen M. Witty, 1964


title: Egrets in Water Reeds

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 12th century

medium: Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Hunter and Wild Geese

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Friedman, 1943


title: The Windmill (reverse copy)

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; copy a

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Friedman, 1965


title: Lake Suwa from Shiojiri Pass

creator: Keisai Eisen

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Animal Pendant

date: 5th–10th century

medium: Shell

country: International or Initial Style

subjects:
Shell-ornament
International or initial style
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1989


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta shallow bowl

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Douglas Stewart, 1958


title: Jug

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Three Figures around a globe

creator: Salvator Rosa

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: Mangle-board

medium: Oak

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Prima parte de' fiori, page 3 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista Ciotti

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Allegory with Figures of Hope, Time, and Death

creator: Sebastiano Ricci

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

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Dish

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 31r)

creator: Peter Quentel


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Terracotta amphora (jug)

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of Arthur L. Gale, 1949


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Bench

creator: United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

medium: Pine

country: American, Shaker

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1966


title: On Shinagawa Beach at Ebb-Tide

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

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


title: Plate 33, from "World in Miniature"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: William Ewing, Catcher, New York, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: L'Adoration des Bergers (The Adoration of the Shepherds)

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

date: 19th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1950


title: Drawing (design for fork and spoon)

creator: Antonio Gentili (Antonio da Faenza)

medium: Ink on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Vase

medium: Clay covered with streaked glaze (Seto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Pouch

medium: metal, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the executors of the estate of Clara M. Blum in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blum, 1966


title: Spouted jar

date: ca. 9th–7th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, paint

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Museum of Tehran, 1939


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: L'Été à Paris

creator: Jules-Gabriel Janin

medium: Books

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: [Government House, Calcutta]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Greenwood, 2nd Base, Baltimore Orioles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on undyed silk

credit_line: Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Necklace of queen Neferu

medium: Faience, semi-precious stones, gold, silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Actor, Danjuro, Impersonating Murubashi Chuye

creator: Toryusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Julia H. Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1960


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: H.M. King of the Netherlands, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22a) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Landscape with Bridge

creator: Anthonie van Borssom

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and pale green and brown wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Head of Akhenaten with back pillar inscribed with Aten names

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Allegorical Figure Representing Africa

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Fresco, transferred to canvas

subjects: Mythology Painting

credit_line: Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943


title: Bowl with dragon

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in gilt over blue glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Card Number 182, Mrs. James Brown Potter, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Terracotta fragment of a kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)?

date: 5th century BCE


title: Glass bowl

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Schön Neues Modelbuch (Page 3 recto)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Harp Guitar

creator: Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

medium: Spruce, maple, mahogany, ivoroid, mother-of-pearl, nickel silver

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2013


title: Family Group

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, washed

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Bowl

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered with brown and black decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Standing Ceramic Male Figure

date: 6th–11th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Manteño

subjects: Manteño Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Timothy, Peter, and Jonathan Zorach, 1980


title: Marble statuette of a seated man

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Landscape with Figures (Les Bohémiens)

creator: Camille Corot

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Landscapes

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


title: Arrowhead

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Herbert E. Winlock, 1926


title: Headdress

medium: cotton, metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stein, 1949


title: Top for standard

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: The Old Flag, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: 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: Fragments of Architectural Lotus Ornament

medium: Faience

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: XIVe Station. Le corps de Jésus est deposé dans le tombeau. Monument du St Sépulcre où le corps du Christ a été enseveli.

creator: Louis de Clercq

date: 1860 or later

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

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


title: Collot. Marie, Eugénie. 36 ans, né à Paris Xle. Tapissier. Anarchiste. 11/3/94

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Sixth scene, the heavens, from "The marriage of the gods" (Le nozze degli Dei)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Greenough, 1936


title: Francesco I d'Este Protects the Piazza di Nonantola Against the Marchesa Mattei with a Small Number of People and a Great Loss of Ecclesiastics, from "L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]"

creator: Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis)

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


title: Sakai Cho Shibai no Zu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Plate

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1965


title: Vase with cover (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: porcelain ca. 1740–45, mounts 1745–49

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze mounts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1974


title: Covered Jar, polychrome floral decoration, handle on cover in shape of squirrel.

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Dutch

subjects: Dutch Ceramics-porcelain Flowers

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Jacket

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes, 1940


title: Trombone (Non-functional)

creator: Leopoldo Franciolini

medium: Brass

country: Italian

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pocket set of drawing instruments

creator: Peter Dollond

medium: Case: shagreen with silver mounts; Instruments: brass, steel, ivory

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Iron, copper-gold alloy (shakudō)

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: Brigandine Armor

date: ca. 1400 and later

medium: Steel, latten, velvet, brass

subjects:
Armor for man
Italian

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a pot

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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Quattrino coin, Gianfrancesco II di Gonzaga (d. 1519) (?)

date: 16th century (?)

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Spoon

country: Korea

subjects: Metalwork Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Duke of York, from "Twelve Characters from Shakespeare"

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

credit_line: Purchase, 2002


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Sèriè à la Ristori

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Book 2, Fable 17: the Man and the Siren (L'Homme et la Sirene), from "Fables Nouvelles"

creator: Nicolas Henry Tardieu

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Saint Mary Magdalen Penitent

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Mount Athos, 1904 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Plate

medium: Glass, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Zita Spiss, in memory of her father, Julius Triger, 1990


title: [Orientalist Study of a Woman]

creator: Roger Fenton

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Frieze with a Putto Holding a Platform

creator: Theodor de Bry

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


title: Clark Calvin "Old Fox" Griffith, Pitcher, Milwaukee, 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: Relief Plaque of Hindu Deity, Probably Processional: Face of Varaha

date: probably 14th–16th century

medium: Repoussé copper alloy

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Metalwork
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

credit_line: Gift of Marie-Hélène and Guy Weill, 1986


title: Sterling, Pitcher, Minneapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven


title: La Grande Toilette (The Patroness), from "Le Monument du Costume"

creator: Antoine Louis Romanet

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of six (Bocher)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Fragment of wall painting: male head

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Stucco, plaster, paint

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Close-Helmet

medium: Steel, gold, leather, copper alloy

subjects: Helmet Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Commemorating the Capture of Porto Bello in 1739

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Wait, 1909


title: Coffeepot

medium: Sheffield plate, wood

credit_line: Bequest of Adeline R. Brown, 1947


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 15th century

medium: Copper

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Title of the secont part of Optique de Portraiture et peinture [...]: "La Déesee des Arts lisant avec attention le traité d'optiqe de Grégoire Huret [...]

creator: Grégoire Huret

date: 17th century

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


title: Plate 45, from the Fans of the Period series (N7) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Limestone statuette of a bird

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot
Birds

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


title: Card Number 511, Belle Urquehardt, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Saint Andrew

creator: El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Babylonian

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


title: Vase

medium: Faience decorated with colored enamels (Satsuma ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: View of Rome

creator: François Le Moyne

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001


title: Pitcher

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1977


title: La Belle Jardinière

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping and scraping; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on medium weight cream laid paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Scabbard Chape

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Plate 38 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'Barbarians!' (Bárbaros!)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, burin, burnisher

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Stomacher

date: first third 18th century

medium: silk, metal, linen, horn, cane (probably)

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1986


title: Funerary Cone of the Scribe Maaty and His Wife Huy

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Gold earring with head of a bull

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Set of decorative belt plaques

date: 7th–early 8th century

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jade
China

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1992


title: Les Amans Surpris (The Surprised Lovers)

creator: René Gaillard

date: 18th century

medium: Colored etching and engraving

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


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Plate 9: a cartouche with the head of a ram at top center, flowers at top left and right, from "Twelve cartouches" (Recueil de douze cartouches)

creator: François Collignon

medium: Etching; second state of four

subjects: Print Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011