title: Portions of a Field Armor

date: dated 1524

medium: Steel, leather

country: German, probably Augsburg

subjects:
Armor for man
German, probably augsburg

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


title: Cuffs (one of a pair)

date: 18th century

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

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


title: Animal Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a hydria: kalpis (water jar)

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Amador Salazar

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: ca. 1910–1913 (a later impression)

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Folding fork

date: early 17th century

medium: Steel, brass, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Teabowl

creator: Minpei

medium: White glaze which stops short of foot; elaborate decoration in enamel colors (Agano ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Goblet

date: late 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Pair of candelabra

date: first half 17th century

medium: Rock crystal, silver gilt

subjects:
Minerals & gems
Natural substances-rock crystal

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Kakemono and Its Box

creator: Kubo Shunman

date: 18th–19th century

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Cape

medium: silk, cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Haynes, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. I. Newten Williams, 1984


title: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (1727–1781)

creator: Comte d'Artois, later Charles X of France

medium: Hard-paste biscuit porcelain

credit_line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1948


title: Le Portement de Croix (Christ Carrying the Cross), from "La Grande Passion" (The Large Passion)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Lyons, 3rd Base, Philadelphia Athletics, 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: Lid

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bank

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Blown glass with applied decoration

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Banknote motif: the number 1 against an oval of woven lathe work, inside a rectangle decorated with grain

creator: Cyrus Durand

medium: Engraving and etching; proof

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002


title: Handkerchief

medium: Cotton

country: probably American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James H. Post, 1952


title: Trumeau de Glace, Orné avec les quatres parties de la Vie humaine

creator: Johann Esaias Nilson

medium: Etching

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


title: The Lamentation

creator: Luis de Morales

medium: Oil on walnut

credit_line: Purchase, Alejandro Santo Domingo and Annette de la Renta Gifts; Bequests of George D. Pratt and of Annette B. McFadden, and Gifts of Estate of George Quackenbush, in his memory, of Dr. and Mrs. Max A. Goldzieher, of Francis Neilson, of Dr. Foo Chu and Dr. Marguerite Hainje-Chu, of Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Burns, and of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Logan, and other gifts and bequests, by exchange; Victor Wilbour Fund; and Hester Diamond Gift, 2015


title: Design for Gig

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Lithograph with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Hebrew ritual lace (one of four)

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk, needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. J.P. Morgan (1868-1925), 1938


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Altarpiece (retablo) with Scenes from the Passion

creator: Master Morata

date: second half 15th century

medium: Tempera and gold on wood

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Paintings-panel

credit_line: Gift of W. M. Laffan, 1910


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


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

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


title: Firemen's Washing Day

creator: William P. Chappel

medium: Oil on slate paper

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


title: Kneeling statue of Amenopetemhat holding the Hathor emblem

medium: Metagraywacke

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Vase fragment

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: St. Jerome

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

date: 15th century

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Pillowcase

medium: Linen on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1943


title: The Holy Family on their flight into Egypt

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Triton

creator: Giambologna

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Side Chair

medium: Mahogany, maple, white pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Stone Earflare

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Falstaff Rising Slowly (Shakespeare, First Part of King Henry IV, Act 5, Scene 4)

creator: James Neagle

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: James A. Garfield, from the Presidents of the United States series (N51) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Pair of clock ornaments

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Henry Shackleton, 1980


title: Flounce

creator: Bartolomeo Danieli

date: 17th century

medium: Needle lace

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


title: Panel of Ornament with Two Sirens

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Pair of Gauntlets

medium: Steel, gold

country: French

subjects:
French
Armor parts-gauntlet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Express Wagon #420

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink and watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: [Samuel Philips Jackson]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Towel border

date: early 19th century

medium: Linen, cotton

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: Designs for a Chimney-piece for Richard Barwell's Drawing Room at Esher, Surrey

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

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


title: Fragment

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Cotton and linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Nine of Hearts, from the Transparent Playing Cards series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Landscape with Figures and Camp Site

creator: Josua de Grave

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash over faint traces of black chalk.

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Miner Playing the Cello

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Valve Trumpet in F

creator: John Augustus Köhler

medium: Brass

country: British

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Dos-a-Dos Phaeton unnumbered)

medium: Pen and black ink watercolor and gouache


title: Limestone cippus of Demetriane

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Limestone

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Framed Print

medium: Mahogany veneer, white pine, poplar

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Leonard Marx Gift, 1991


title: Diana

creator: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

medium: Bronze, gilt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: [Actress with dark hair piled on head], from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Glass monochrome dish fragment

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Terracotta pointed aryballos (oil flask)

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Brummer, 1923


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


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


title: Footed Bowl

date: late 4th–early 5th century

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-vessel Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 21, 1800

medium: Hand-colored etching, printed in brown ink

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


title: Border Fragment

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Peruvian; central coast (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian; central coast
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1882


title: Top for standard

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cedric H. Marks, 1998


title: Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

date: carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

medium: Marble (Lunense marble from Carrara)

country: Central Italian

subjects:
Architecture
Sculpture-architectural
Central italian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Joseph kneeling in front of the Pharoah, after Raphael's Stanza di Eliodoro, from a series of 15 plates, depicting Raphael's works for the Vatican stanze and the Sistine Chapel tapestries

creator: Pietro Santi Bartoli

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: Axe blade

date: ca. early 1st millennium BCE

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


title: Nanine Palmer as "What's the Ante," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Whet-steel

medium: Steel, horn, silver

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Chandelier

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stirrup

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Iron

country: West Slavic

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
West slavic

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Eugène Delacroix, calling card

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of F. C. Schang, 1989


title: European King from an Adoration Group

date: before 1489

medium: Poplar with paint and gilding

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-vessel German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1952


title: Side Chair

creator: Michael Smith

medium: Maple, ash

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Broadside with 48 scenes depicting the land of Jauja

creator: José María Marés

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Ornamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 21 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Robe of State

date: 19th century

medium: Silk and metallic thread embroidery on silk satin

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Belle Dellenbaugh, 1917


title: Peru, 1 Dinero, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 2) for Duke brand cigarettes

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


title: Douer (Dover)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Canal Scene with a Palazzo

creator: Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner

date: mid-18th century

medium: Pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray ink, heighetend with white gouache, on blue paper, incised for transfer; framing line in brush and black ink, by the artist; verso prepared for transfer with red chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Gordon Gift, 2007


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 4th–5th century CE

medium: Garnet, almandine

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Wall painting

medium: Fresco

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: The firework display called 'Girandola' at the Castello Sant'Angelo in Rome

creator: Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Tile

medium: Delftware (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Sieve

medium: Palm leaf and fiber

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Palms
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Tripod jar

date: 20th century

medium: Earthenware with colored glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Ralph M. Chait, 1929


title: Duck-Shaped Stamp Seal Inscribed for (Ahmose-)Nefertari

medium: Steatite, glazed

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


title: Surcoat (<i>Jinbaori</i>)

date: probably 18th century

medium: Wool, silk, metallic yarns, glass

country: Japanese

subjects: Surcoat Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Dr. George M. Lefferts, 1910


title: Archer's Shield (Pavise)

medium: Wood, gesso, pigment, pigskin

country: Austrian, Klausen

subjects:
Shield
Austrian, klausen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Apostle spoon

creator: Johannes I Weber

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Saucer (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Four deities from a Vajradhatu (Diamond World) Mandala

date: last quarter of the 10th–first half of the 11th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java, Nganjuk)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java, nganjuk)

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


title: Landscape with a Cottage

creator: Pieter de Molijn

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1895


title: Poker

medium: Iron, brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1948


title: Terracotta basket bowl

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Goetz von Berlichingen Writing his Memoirs

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph on wove paper; second state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Broadside with 48 (24 pairs) scenes contrasting Spanish customs past and present

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Samples (2)

date: mid-19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Planning the Capture of Booth and Harold

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005


title: Wagon #694

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Grand Display of Fireworks and Illuminations at the Opening of the Great Suspension Bridge between New York and Brooklyn on the Evening of May 24, 1883. View from New York Looking towards Brooklyn.

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Color lithograph

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


title: Lyon

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative?

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Vase with cover

medium: Nephrite, white with light greenish tint

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Marble portrait of Livia

date: ca. 14–37 CE

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Daff

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood and parchment.

country: Arabian

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / frame drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Saint Roch

date: early 16th century

medium: Oak

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Seal

medium: Steatite

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Beaker

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Clipper Ship "Sovereign of the Seas"

creator: Eliphalet M. Brown Jr.

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

date: dated 1647

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Teapot

creator: Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory

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


title: Portrait of a Woman, possibly Ginevra d'Antonio Lupari Gozzadini

creator: Maestro delle Storie del Pane

medium: Tempera on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Saint Mark

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Victoria Blumka Nasatir, in memory of Dr. Hanns Swarzenski, 1986


title: Fan scraper

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Christian II, King of Denmark

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2009


title: Painted Bowl with Birds

date: 1st–4th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Birds Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1966


title: Ah! monsieur Gobinet, dans quel temps vivons-nous!..., from Ces Bons Parisiens, published in Le Charivari, Sepetember 23, 1857

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 23, 1857

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Powder Horn

date: dated 1759

medium: Horn (cow), wood

country: Colonial American

subjects:
Colonial american
Firearm accessories-powder horn

credit_line: The Collection of J. H. Grenville Gilbert, of Ware, Massachusetts, Gift of Mrs. Gilbert, 1937


title: Head shaped ornament

creator: Tolita-Tumaco artist(s)

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Gold, amazonite

country: Tolita-Tumaco

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Tolita-tumaco

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


title: Birdcage

date: 15th or 16th century

medium: Wrought iron

country: South French

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
South french

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1952


title: Glass bead

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: [Unknown Subject]

creator: Paul-Augustin Gueuvin

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Saint Francis of Paolo miraculously healing a man possessed

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Fern and Lewis Lowenfels, 2022


title: Insignia, Medal and Button

medium: Silver; white ribbon with red borders

country: Japan

subjects: Medal Japan

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


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

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


title: [Minaret of the Mosque of 40 Columns, Chehel Dokhtar, 359b.]

creator: Luigi Pesce

credit_line: Gift of Charles K. and Irma B. Wilkinson, 1977


title: The taking of Porto Bello by Admiral Vernon

medium: Copper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Wait, 1907


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Le Combat (The Combat), from "Le Combat a la Barrière"

creator: Jacques Callot

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

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


title: The Man between the Two Fir Trees

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; second state of two

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Sleeping shepherd

date: 19th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Loretta Hines Howard and Charles Hines, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hines, by exchange, 1986


title: Lamp

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Copper Alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Cane

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1943


title: Souvenir spoon with view of Trieste harbor and customs house with monument to the Emperor Maximilian

medium: Gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1908


title: Design for a Male National Costume

creator: Johann Andreas Boerner

medium: Pen and black ink

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014


title: Necklace, chain

date: 7th–5th Century BCE

medium: GOLD

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Letter writer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Banquet Scene: A Seated Warrior Attended by a Number of Servants (recto); Back View of a Standing Man in a Long Cloak (verso)

creator: Cesare Nebbia

medium: Pen and brown ink (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (verso)

credit_line: Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. Gift, 1975


title: Wineglass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Conway, Pitcher, Indianapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Figure of a stork (one of a pair)

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted with overglazed polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Piece (one of 116)

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Biblicae Historiae, Artificiosissimis picturis effigiatae Per Sebaldum Behem Pictorem Francoforten/ Biblische Historien Künstlich fürgemalet. Durch den wolberümten Sebald Behem/ Malern zu Franckfurt

creator: Sebald Beham

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1918


title: Enslaved Woman

creator: Auguste Edouart

medium: Chalk on prepared black cut paper mounted to paper board

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


title: Veil

medium: Applied

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore, 1954


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Two Ladies

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Mallet of Daikoku, One of the Gods of Good Fortune, and a Rat

creator: Yashima Gakutei

date: probably 1828

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


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Russian Cuirassiers

creator: Johann Christoph Erhard

medium: Etching; third state

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


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of the Society for Women's Work, Stockholm, 1908


title: Vase

medium: Glass

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


title: Goddess Sarasvati

medium: Color lithograph

country: India

subjects: Print India

credit_line: Purchase, The Kipper Family Foundation Gift, 2021


title: The Hell Courtesan

creator: Seikei

date: late 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Outer Plate of a Forearm Defense (Vambrace)

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Pyxis with lid

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Gift of Samuel G. Ward, 1875


title: Glass gold-band mosaic bottle

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Polishing Stone (pulidor)

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Christian William of Brandenburg 1587-1665, Archbishop of Magdeburg 1608-31, Bishop of Halberstadt

creator: Johann Jakob Kornmann (called Cormano)

medium: Silver

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


title: New Künstlichs Modelbuch (Page 17 recto)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; transparent blue glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Brooch

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper alloy, champlevé enamel

country: Merovingian

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Merovingian

credit_line: Gift of Bastiaan Blok, 1991


title: A Jessamy

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 1, 1790

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


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: Daphne odora and Mojisuri-so

creator: Kubo Shunman

medium: Part of an album of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper

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


title: Johann I (1468–1532), the Constant, Elector of Saxony

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood, with letterpress-printed paper labels

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: Fragment from the Backplate of an Icon

date: 16th century

medium: Gilt copper alloy

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

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


title: Terracotta pelike (jar)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Limestone with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Jar

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 15th–12th century BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Cypriot

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


title: Miniature bowl

creator: David King

date: late 17th–early 18th century

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


title: Second View of the Gulf of Venice

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Landscape

creator: Allart van Everdingen

date: mid-17th century

medium: Watercolor; framing lines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Plate 50, from the Fans of the Period series (N7) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Swing Painter

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Limestone statuette of a beardless male votary in Greek dress

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

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Stencil

date: 19th century

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

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


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

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


title: Lotus-Shaped Cup

date: 18th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Tile

creator: John Sadler

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1942


title: Sweetmeat basket

creator: Burrage Davenport

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

date: late 17th–18th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Ottoman or Tatar

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-horse trapping
Ottoman or tatar

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Reticule

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: silk, cotton, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Designated Purchase Fund, 1982


title: Gold earrings

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Footed Dish

creator: Richards and Hartley Flint Glass Co.

medium: Pressed colorless and opalescent glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Mold for a Nefer Bead

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Study for "Hob Selling Beer at the Wake," etched vignette in "Songs in the Opera of Flora"

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

medium: Black chalk and graphite

subjects: Botany Drawing

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: String of 5 Double Disc Beads

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Seated Male Deity

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Stone, stucco

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Mexica (aztec)

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Assumption of the Virgin

creator: Aliprando Caprioli

medium: Engraving

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


title: Shirt

medium: cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1976


title: Songs: "A Highland lad my love was born..."

creator: Henry Thomas Alken

medium: Soft-ground etching

credit_line: Gift of Wilbur Macey Stone, 1921


title: Casket (cassetta)

date: end of 19th century or later (woodwork); early 16th century (textile)

medium: Wood, cast bronze; cut velvet textile, interior.

country: Italian or United States (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woodwork
Italian or united state

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: One of a Pair of Gold Earrings with Garnets

date: second half 8th century

medium: Gold, garnets with foil backings, silver studs/rivets

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: [Small Bouquets Tied With A Ribbon]

creator: Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Lead ornament, possibly imitating jewelry

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Seal with head of an antelope

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Hematite

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

date: 14th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 1979


title: Necklace of Stone and Shell Beads

date: 1st–mid-16th century

medium: Stone, shell

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Peru; north coast
Beads-ornament
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Bead

date: 11th century

medium: Gold; filigree and granulation

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nasser D. Khalili, in memory of Richard Ettinghausen, 1980


title: Profile bust of an officer in a bear fur hat

creator: Delaunois

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Model Broad Collar of Hapiankhtifi

medium: Faience, blue green and black

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; painted in black slip and polychrome pigments under transparent colorless glaze (buff ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Embroidered Fragment

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Doorway

date: mid-12th century

medium: Limestone

country: French

subjects: Installation French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th century BCE/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: A Doleful Disaster, or Miss Fubby Fatarmin's Wig Caught Fire

date: September 12, 1813

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Panel

medium: Wool, silk and metal thread on flannel

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Drawing of an Interior: Salon

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and blue ink, watercolor, heightened with white

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1972


title: Christ fallen to the ground under the weight of the cross, with two men assisting and Saint Veronica kneeling with the veil at left

creator: Simon de la Vallée

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Part of a coffin

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Favor, from The World's Racers series (N32) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Figure of a standing woman

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with pigments

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of John C. Ferguson, 1913


title: Phaeton #569

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Songs of Innocence: Introduction

creator: William Blake

medium: Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold

subjects:
Print
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Gold earring with two bulls' heads

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Patrick E. "Pat" Pettee, 2nd Base, London Tecumsehs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Stencil with Pattern of Seascape on White Ground

date: 19th century

medium: Paper, silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Stencil
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Basin stand

creator: William Hook

medium: Mahogany, mahogany veneer with white pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Coin Weight

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of  Mrs. Hunt Harrison, 1940


title: Ewer (part of a set)

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Vase, miniature

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Water Filter

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Keefe and Richardson Stealing 2nd Base, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Spool-Shaped Game Piece

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Bowl with cover (Écuelle) and stand

creator: Simon Bourguet

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Piece (one of 116)

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Gold necklace with crescent-shaped pendant

date: 1st–3rd century CE

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman


title: Architectural Ornament

date: 12th century

medium: Earthenware; incised, green blue glaze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: The Doll

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Prints

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


title: Necklace with pearls and beryl beads

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Gold, pearl, beryl

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1925


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

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving; first state of five

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 46 (recto)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Adoration of the Madonna and Child

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 15th to 16th century

medium: Brush and brown wash, heightened with white

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: White House Landing, Pamunkey River

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A. Hyatt Mayor, 1981


title: The Fortune Teller

creator: François Boucher

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, and gouache, over black chalk underdrawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. O'Donnell Hoover, 1960


title: Fishtail Knife

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Key

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Glass Fragments

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass (clear)

country: Coptic

subjects: Glass Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Takanawa Tsuki no Kei

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: 7th month tiger year 1854

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, lydian

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


title: Design Drawing for Magnolia Vase

creator: Tiffany & Co.

medium: Opaque and transparent watercolor, and graphite on board

credit_line: Gift of Tiffany & Co., 1985


title: Vase with Basket of Auspicious Flowers

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Hinges

country: Spanish (?)

subjects: Metalwork-iron Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1956


title: Pataikos Figure

medium: Faience

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


title: Wall vase

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Deep Dish with Egret Design

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (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: Apollo Seated on Clouds, Two Figures at Left

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Young Nobleman Playing Koto (Harp)

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

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


title: Miniature Ballcourt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Dismantled Coffin of Khety

medium: Coniferous wood, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Ostrakon with a Letter from Isaac to Thello

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Boatmen of Barcelona

creator: Dionisio Baixeras y Verdaguer

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of George I. Seney, 1886


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Head of a woman

medium: Sepia on ivory, and brass

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Pair of Small Pendants in Piscine Shape

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Design for a Boss Carved with Acanthus

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

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


title: Wakashu (Male Youth) with Two Swords

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 17th century

medium: Hanging scroll: ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2023


title: Plate 33, from the Fans of the Period series (N7) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Cover for bookbinding

date: 17th century

medium: Textiles-Embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Netsuke of a Seated Shishi

creator: Nanyō

medium: Ebony

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Alvin H. Schechter, 1985


title: A Short History of General Robert E. Lee, one-sheet of cover and verso from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Buffalo Bill, from the Celebrities and Prizefighters series (N174) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: [Reclining Odalisque]

creator: Roger Fenton

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Anonymous, Joyce and Robert Menschel, Jennifer and Joseph Duke, and Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gifts, 1997


title: St. Scholastica

creator: Gilles Rousselet

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Houses

creator: Charles Bargue

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1920


title: Sugar Tongs

creator: Thomas Warner

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Orphrey (one of a pair)

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Bequest of Charles F. Iklé, 1964


title: Gold earring with nail-head pendant

date: 6th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Hinge

medium: Wrought iron

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


title: Vase

medium: Earthenware;  cut, incised, and tooled

credit_line: The Friends of the Department of Islamic Art Fund, 1970


title: Jar (Tsubo) with Stylized Net Design

medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Arita type)

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: Relief of Renenutet, represented as a woman, from a deity procession

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Chaos and fatalities resulting from a broken electric trolley car, from a broadside entitled 'Alegre Inauguracion del Eléctrico Tranvía'

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: 1900 (a later impression)

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Yangqin (揚琴 )

creator: Shop of Refined Tones, Guangzhou (Canton)

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, brass

country: Chinese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: A Poultry Market in a Dutch Town

creator: Willem Pietersz Buytewech

medium: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and David T. Schiff Gifts, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Frits Markus, and Mrs. Howard J. Barnet and Fifth Floor Foundation Gifts, 2002


title: Feathered Panel

medium: Feathers, cotton, camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Palazzo Farnese, plan, ground floor (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

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


title: Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) With the Motif of Lǐ Bái Viewing a Waterfall (李白観瀑図鐔)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Terracotta straight-sided cup

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Statuette of a youth

date: 5th–1st century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Bronze bowl with handles terminating in lotuses

subjects: Bronze Cypriot


title: Figure Studies after Rubens's "The Fall of the Rebel Angels"

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Pen and iron gall ink, graphite

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, 2024


title: St. Jerome in a Landscape

creator: Jean Jacques Lagrenée

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Renard Plays Another Trick on the She-Wolf from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; fourth state of five

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

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


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Dish

date: early 16th century

medium: Brass

subjects: Metalwork-brass German

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th century/early 5th century


title: Embroidered darning sampler

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

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


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 71r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Seated Old Man Facing Right, Singing and Holding Music

creator: Anton Crussens

date: mid-17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk. Inscribed in a roundel in pen and brown ink.

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Candlestick

medium: Blown glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Shahsevan Saddle Bag

medium: Wool and cotton; sumak technique

credit_line: Gift of Inger G. and William B. Ginsberg, 2018


title: Croatia, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) 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: Evening gloves

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Jules Breuchaud, 1955


title: Darabukka

date: late 19th century

medium: Pottery, cord, skin

country: Syrian

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / goblet drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek, Milesian, Fikellura

subjects:
Vase
East greek, milesian, fikellura

credit_line: Purchase, Richard A. Van Every Gift, 1974


title: Bowl

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Drury Lane Rags

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on cream Japanese paper

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1984


title: Head and Shoulders of a Mother and Child

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Plate 6: Emperor Nero on Horseback, from "The First Twelve Roman Caesars"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching; first state of two (Bartsch)

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


title: Rapier

date: early 17th century

medium: Steel, iron wire

country: Italian

subjects: Sword Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Body of a wooden knife sheath

date: ca. 7th–9th century CE

medium: Bamboo (?)

country: Alanic

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Simcox, 1999


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Anklet

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), bone, serpentinite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Vessel

date: mid 3rd–mid 2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, paint

country: Seleucid

subjects:
Seleucid
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Wagon #310

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Visite d'un collègue de Bruxelles

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 Greenhorn

creator: George Murgatroyd Woodward

date: December 1, 1790

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: [Untitled]

creator: Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2024


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bell

date: late 16th century

medium: Copper alloy,  iron

country: European

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
European

credit_line: Gift, Mrs. George Matthew Adams, in memory of her late husband, George Matthew Adams, 1972  The Cloisters Collection, 1972


title: Pronaos du Temple de Déboude (Parembole)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

subjects: Architecture Photograph


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Study of Venus and Cupid, from "Prove di Vari Rami Inediti [...]"

creator: Francesco Rosaspina

medium: Etching and aquatint with brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941


title: Covered jar

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with copper red glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Armchair (one of four)

creator: Royal Manufactory Beauvais 1664-1789

medium: Mahogany; wool and silk (18-21 warps per inch, 7-9 per centimeter)

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

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


title: Anniversary of the Fall of the Bastille, Paris, July 1790

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Aquatint printed in brown

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


title: Tales of Wonder!

creator: James Gillray

date: February 1, 1802

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

credit_line: Gift of Jill Spalding, 2022


title: Pitcher

creator: Charles Cartlidge and Company

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of William Vestal Jr., 2013


title: Figure pendant

creator: Tairona artist(s)

medium: Gold

country: Tairona

subjects: Metal-ornament Tairona

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


title: Plate 68: Server of summons

creator: Simon Guillain II

medium: Etching

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


title: Cuffs

date: 19th century

medium: silk

country: Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Morris Smith, 1974


title: John Johnston

creator: Rembrandt Peale

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Noel Johnston King, 1979


title: Ivory Panel with Saint Peter

date: 6th–8th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Frankish

subjects: Frankish Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sheet

medium: Linen, woven

country: American

credit_line: Sage Fund, 1928


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu, part of sunshade (see 26.3.353-1)

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Button

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Libro quarto. De rechami per elquale se impara in diuersi modi lordine e il modo de recamare...Opera noua, page 18 (recto)

creator: Alessandro Paganino

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


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

creator: Orchard Painter

date: ca. 460 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness (recto); Two portrait studies of the artist's wife, and a study of a leg and torso (verso)

creator: George Richmond

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and black wash, with white gouache (bodycolor) (recto); graphite and black chalk with touches of gouache (bodycolor) (verso)

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1945


title: Seated Figure of Mercury

creator: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Florence B. Selden Bequest, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1997


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

date: 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Disk Brooch

date: early 7th century

medium: Gilded silver, garnets, iron support

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish


title: Pitcher

creator: United States Pottery Company

medium: Parian porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Bowl

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Broadsheet relating to Don Luis Mejia and Afan, a corrido (ballad) in the bottom section

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Glass cup

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Scarf

medium: Applied

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lewis L. Strauss, 1961


title: Vase fragment

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: 1/8 Qedet weight

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Bone plaque with Female Dancer

date: 4th–6th century

medium: Bone

country: Late Roman/Early Byzantine

subjects:
Late roman/early byzantine
Ivories-bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, in loving memory of her husband, Professor Maan Z. Madina, 2018


title: Plateau

creator: François Briot

date: 19th century, after ca. 1585 original

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Fragment of a terracotta head

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Cretan

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, cretan

credit_line: Gift of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1953


title: The Kermis of Saint George

creator: Johannes van Doetecum I

date: ca. 1559; printed after 1601

medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Head of the Madonna

creator: Franciabigio (Francesco di Cristofano)

medium: Oil on wood

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


title: Jérusalem. Tour de David avec ses grandes assises salomoniennes

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


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Antoine Deriset, pl. III from "Recueil de caricatures"

creator: Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully

medium: Etching

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


title: Vase

date: early 19th century

subjects: Glass China

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


title: Snuff Bottle with Immortal and Crane

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue, coral stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: C.W.V. Clarke, Walker, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Rapier

creator: Pietro de Formicano

medium: Steel, iron

country: hilt, Northern European, possibly German; blade, Italian, Belluno

credit_line: Bequest of Col. Wickliffe P. Draper, 1972


title: Ensemble

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Roosevelt, 1954


title: Lamp

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Panel from a Box with Scenes from Romance Literature

medium: Elephant Ivory

country: European (Medieval style)

subjects:
European (medieval style)
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

creator: John Bacon the Elder

medium: Coade stone with traces of blue/gray paint

credit_line: Purchase, Wrightsman Fellows Gifts, 2017


title: Wall panel tiles

date: 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Marble

country: Greek

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek

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


title: Earring with plain loop and disc

medium: Gold

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


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

date: early 5th century BCE


title: Amulet of Thoth

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Seal

date: 18th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of A. W. Bahr, 1958


title: Dressing gown

medium: (a, b) silk

credit_line: Gift of Gilbert Tauber, 2001


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Roundel with King Arthur Riding on a Camel (from a Series of the Nine Heroes)

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: North Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
North netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1932


title: Nine of Spades, from the Transparent Playing Cards series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 40r)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Dish (tondino)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Gubbio

subjects:
Italian, gubbio
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Deep dish (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Soldier riding a rearing horse and wearing feathered helmet, cuirass, pteruges, and greaves, the soldier looks and points to his right

creator: Giovanni Battista Scultori

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Door Knocker

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron Spanish

credit_line: Gift of H. A. Elsberg, 1933


title: Crucifixion flanked by Saints

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British
Textiles-embroidered-ecclesiastical


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Powell Macrae

creator: Charles Fraser

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline L. Hammond, 1963


title: Actress wearing white cloth bonnet, from Stars of the Stage, First Series (N129) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Souvenir spoon with view of the Cathedral in León and finial in form of a postage stamp

date: late 19th century

medium: Gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1902


title: Visitation, from "The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ"

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Cylinder beads

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


title: Plate

creator: Thomas Giffin

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Moore, 1923


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Gloves

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Wool

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of The Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969


title: Billon. Gabriel, André, Adolphe. 20 ans, né à Boulogne /s/Seine. Typographe. Outrages. 14/8/93.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Jérusalem, Porte de Damas, Intérieur

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: The Fourth Tournament

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Nic. Celestin. 20 ans, né à Conflans-St-Honorine (Seine & Oise). Emballeur. 26/2/94.


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Accordion

medium: Various materials

country: Russian

subjects: Aerophone-free reed-concertina / accordion

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Bottle in the Form of a Pomegranate

medium: Glass, opaque

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3525

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Fragment

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silk

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


title: The Month of June, Shearing Sheep (recto); Couples Drinking Wine, The Month of October (verso)

creator: Master of the Months of Lucas

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and light gray-brown wash (faded from violet?); framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Doct. Johan Arndts, dess gottseligen und hocherleuchteten Lehrers Paradijss Gärtlein : welches voller christlichen Tugend-Gebete erfüllet

creator: Johan Arndts

medium: Silver bookbinding

country: Stockholm: Joh. Jacob Genath, 1696

credit_line: Presented by Samuel P. Avery


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Mold for Making Ceramics

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; incised decoration, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: The Marriage of Telephus and Auge prevented

creator: Edward Francis Burney

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Spencer Bickerton, 1933


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Virgin, Saint John, and Three Holy Women from a Crucifixion

date: late 15th century

medium: Oak with polychromy and  gilding

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Platter

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

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


title: Tournament Book of Knightly Acts (Thurnier Buech Warhafftiger Ritterlicher Thaten)

creator: Hanns Lautensack

medium: Etchings, woodcuts and letterpress

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


title: Linen mark (Type XX)

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Kinnari Vina

medium: Wood, gourds

country: Indian

subjects: Chordophone-zither-plucked-tube Indian


title: Bronze handle of a shallow basin

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1978


title: Amphora

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Jar

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; applied, glazed

credit_line: Gift of J.Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: Butter Dish

creator: William Forbes

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Guerdon Holden Nelson, Cyril Irwin Nelson, Nicholas Macy Nelson and Michael Underhill Nelson, in devoted memory of their grandmother, Elinor Irwin Holden, and their mother, Elise Macy Nelson, 1981


title: Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)

creator: Late Warrior Frieze Vases

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Scarab inscribed with Plant Motifs

medium: Steatite (glazed)


title: Lime container in the shape of a captive

creator: Wari artist(s)

medium: Wood, animal bone, paint, fiber

country: Wari

subjects:
Wood-container
Wari
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Carol R. Meyer and Arthur M. Bullowa Gifts, 1977


title: Terracotta miniature volute-krater (mixing bowl)

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Gnathian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian, gnathian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Acolyte

date: second half 18th century

medium: Wood, polychromed and gilded

country: probably Ecuadoran, Quito

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Shabti

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: Flight to Egypt

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Pen and black ink on card with embossed border

credit_line: Gift of Emma Avery Welcher and Amy Ogden Welcher, 1965


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Linen and silk; tapestry weave

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Coin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Seated Soldier Holding a Shield

creator: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2018


title: Box with Design of Cherry Blossoms at Mount Yoshino

medium: Gold and silver maki-e on gold lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan Flowers

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


title: Bowl

date: early 10th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered with polychrome slip decoration under transparent glaze, incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Bottle with Gilded Flowers

date: 18th century

medium: Glass, purple; mold blown, gilded

subjects: Glass Flowers

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


title: Tumbler

creator: Bakewell, Pears and Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Sleeping man

creator: Theodor Richard Edward von Holst

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Allen Staley, 2017


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

creator: Jean-Baptiste Tilliard

medium: Etching; first state of three (Cohen)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: The Holy Kinship

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Jacob H. Schiff Fund, 1925


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: The Virgin suckling the infant Christ, the young Saint John the Baptist standing at left, after Reni

creator: Mauro Gandolfi

medium: Engraving

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


title: Pair of wall brackets

medium: Carved and gilded wood

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: "Pompeian" vase with cover (one of a pair)

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Pâte-sur-pâte with gilding and enamel decoration

credit_line: Gift of the Starr and Wolfe Families, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Chinoiserie, from "Nouvelle Suite de Cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres"

creator: Jean Pillement

medium: Etching, inked à la poupée

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Piece


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

date: late 18th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: Figure of a European Merchant

creator: Amoy Chinqua

medium: Polychrome unfired clay and wood

credit_line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2014


title: Tatta Suddhi Mundapam

creator: Linnaeus Tripe

date: January–March 1858

medium: Albumen silver print from waxed paper negative

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


title: Study for a Sculpture of Neptune

creator: Giambologna

medium: Black chalk (recto); fragment of a design in black chalk (verso)

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. Slater Gift, 2010


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Buddhist Priest's Robe (Kesa)

medium: Silk and metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Phillip H. Rubin, 2006


medium: Terracotta

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


title: A Goldsmith in his Shop

creator: Petrus Christus

medium: Oil on oak panel

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Mlle Moncelet; Mlle Rousseau

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Figure

date: 15th–early 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Mexica (aztec)

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Pitcher

medium: Free-blown lead glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Marshall Perry Slade, 1938


title: Modelbuch aller Art Nehens vn Stickens (Page 4r)

creator: Christian Egenolff

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Landscape with Trees in the Manner of Ni Zan (1301–1374)

creator: Dong Qichang

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China Landscapes Trees

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


title: Giuliano de' Medici (1479–1516), Duke of Nemours

creator: Raphael

medium: Tempera and oil on canvas

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Claude Antoine Gabriel de Choiseul, duc et Pair de France (1760–1838)

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze, cast - single

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Terracotta kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)

date: ca. 530 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Design for an Ornamental Spandrel

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Mug (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Teabowl

date: 19th century

medium: Red Raku, rather glassy, made on the wheel

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Piece (one of twelve)

medium: Silk, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Helen E. Ionides, 1966


title: Oval cup

date: early 17th century

medium: Rock crystal, enameled gold mounts

subjects:
Minerals & gems
Natural substances-rock crystal

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


title: Tassel

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Robe à la française

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1968


title: Teabowl and saucer

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Boy With a Staff

creator: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

medium: Charcoal or black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper faded to light brown

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1936


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Peking glass

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Tankard

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, pewter

credit_line: Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Scissors

medium: Gold, steel

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Card Number 386, Grace Stewart, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Shears

date: perhaps 2nd century CE

medium: Bronze or copper alloy, silver, black copper (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Cat figurine

medium: Blue faience with black spots, paint

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Entombment

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching; first state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Tray

date: dated 1773

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Relief fragment

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Covered Box

medium: Cloisonné enamel on gilt copper

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Tazza

creator: Benvenuto Cellini

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Purchase, 1873


title: Trade Card for William Ley, Engraver & Copper Plate Printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: String of 9 Beads

date: after 600 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Townscape with wall and foliage in shadow in right foreground, buildings with smoking chimney and square tower beyond, from "The Small Landscapes"

creator: Karel Dujardin

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Watch

medium: Gold, painted enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Sugar Bowl

creator: Hugh Wishart

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of George P. Cammann, 1917


title: Broadside with 48 scenes illustrating passages of holy scripture (Part II)

creator: Antonio Bosch

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Pair of Ear Ornaments

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: In the Park, from "A Love (Opus X)"

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Pen and black ink and black chalk heightened with white bodycolor

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, and Ian Woodner Family Collection and Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Logan Funds, 2019


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Jar for Eye Paint (kohl)

medium: Black stone


title: St. Barbara Before the Virgin and Child

creator: Grégoire Huret

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Wineglass

medium: Colorless (slightly gray) and transparent turquoise blue nonlead glass. Blown, pattern molded, trailed, pincered, milled.

country: Façon de Venise, northern European (possibly the Lowlands)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Glass

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Desk Screen, Writing Set, Painting of Tiger, and Mounting Paraphernalia, from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō, vol. 1)

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

date: probably 1818

medium: Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Inlay square, 2 hieroglyphs for god

date: ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

medium: glass, adhesive (bitumen?)


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool

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


title: Drawing for a Book Illustration

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Drawings

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


title: [Member of the Paris Commune: Maria Menan, condamnée à mort, meurtre et incendie]

creator: Ernest Eugène Appert

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Denise Bethel, in honor of Etta Henley Bethel, 2017


title: Textile sample

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: [Portrait of a Chinese Couple]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Poem on the Theme of Snow

creator: Musō Soseki

date: 14th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, in honor of Maxwell K. Hearn, 2011


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Two Angels

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, highlighted with white chalk over blue-gray paper faded to light brown

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Apollodoros

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Design for a Fountain

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: Costume Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Central coast (?)

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

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


title: Large oval box (one of a pair)

creator: Gottlieb Satzger

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Bust of Janus surrounded by strapwork, from "Deorum dearumque"

creator: Gerard van Groeningen

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Edging

date: late 19th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon style, Burano lace, cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin L. Jacobs and Mrs. Charles L. Rolland, 1990


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

medium: Gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938


title: Copper alloy dagger blade

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Water pot in the shape of a bird

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Stoneware with celadon glaze (Yue ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds

credit_line: Gift of J. J. Klejman, 1959


title: Angel

creator: Giuseppe Gori

date: second half 18th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Sheet with overall pattern of pointed shapes within ovals

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: royal worshiper before a god on a throne; human-headed bulls below

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 1991


title: Design for 2 seat Phaeton, no. 3010

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Foreign dancer

date: 7th century

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John C. Weber, 1981


title: Badge with Hunting Horn

date: 15th century

medium: Tin/lead alloy

country: British

subjects:
Metalwork-tin/lead alloy
British

credit_line: Gift of William and Toni Conte, 2002


title: Mock Turtle; Puff Paste

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 20, 1810

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


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


title: Water pot with flowers

medium: Porcelain with incised design under green glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Card Case

medium: Plain and gold lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: Ensemble

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: Gift of Miss Anita Reinhard, 1953


title: Pendant: Bunch of Grapes

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Louis-Philippe and Building of the French Railways

creator: Jean-François-Antoine Bovy

medium: Silver, struck

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1991


title: Eccentric Flint

date: before 16th century

medium: Flint

country: Maya

subjects: Stone-implement Maya

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Gold bracelet

date: 6th–5th century BCE

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek, cypriot


title: Strap-Crossing in the Shape of a Coiled Wolf

date: 5th century BCE

country: Eastern Eurasia

subjects:
Metalwork
Eastern eurasia

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


title: Wine container  (lei)

date: 12th–10th century BCE

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of D. Herbert Beskind, 1959


title: Box Lobby Loungers

date: January 5, 1811


title: The Soldier's Farewell (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: Emanuel Leutze

medium: Ink and graphite on thin off-white laid letterpress paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Corset cover

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward E. Harkavy, 1944


title: Length

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Fred Thompson, 1976


title: La salle des pas-perdus a l'ancien Palais de Justice (The antechamber of the Palais de Justice, Paris)

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching (from a pewter plate)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Summer: a woman holding a basket of flowers and fruit

creator: Richard Houston

medium: Mezzotint

subjects: Print Flowers Fruits

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


title: Cricket cage

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Gourd, ivory

subjects:
Cricket cage
China

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


title: Landscape

creator: Jan Frans van Bloemen

medium: Gouache

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Balamuth, 1971


title: Pair of Pistols with Flintlocks alla Fiorentina

creator: Cristiano Leoni

medium: Steel, wood

country: Italian, Pistoia

subjects:
Italian, pistoia
Firearms-pistol

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton, silk, flat metal thread; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Hammered Copper Pin (tupu)

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Milk jug (pot à lait à trois pieds, 3eme grandeur) (part of a déjeuner service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain


title: Hexagonal dish

medium: Silver, partly gilded

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


title: Pin cushion (part of a toilet service)

creator: D., London

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1963


title: Le Vin (Wine)

creator: François-Joseph-Aimé de Lemud

medium: Lithograph; first state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: The Shepherd Asleep On a Little Hill

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; first state of three

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Temptation

creator: Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Netsuke of Seated Dog (one of a pair)

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Amber

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930