title: Vijftigjarig bestaan van de loge La Vertu te Leiden 1807 memorerende de buskruitramp, afdruk in karton


title: Beloningspenning van de Leidse burgemeesters voor promoties "met de kap", afdruk keerzijde

source: Rijksmuseum

source_id: rijksmuseum

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — Rijksmuseum marks this work public domain (CC Public Domain Mark 1.0); free to reuse.

credit_line: Collection Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.


title: Koninklijke beloningspenning voor het toedienen van de meeste kosteloze koepok-vaccinaties, op naam van C. Pastoor 1822


title: Hongersnood in Artois 1587


title: Broodpenning van de Gereformeerde Diaconie te Amsterdam 1777


title: Giaccomo Rossini 1792-1868


title: Wilhelm II Keizer van Duitsland 1888


title: Graven en gravinnen van Holland


title: Napoleon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte keizerlijk prins van Frankrijk


title: Armenpenning van Sint Catherina te Antwerpen 1563


title: Wilhelm II Keizer van Duitsland


title: Religieus draagteken Driekoningen


title: Penning over de honderdjarige herdenking van de Vrede van Munster


title: Aansprekersoproer 1696 (1697)


title: Vijfentwintigjarig regeringsjubileum van Koning Willem III 1874


title: De Prins van Oranje in de Slag bij Waterloo 1815


title: Vijfentwintigjarig regeringsjubileum van Koning Willem III en Koningin Sophia 1874


title: Hulde van de Amsterdamse burgerij aan de politie bij de inhuldiging van Koningin Wilhelmina 1898


title: Duitse reclamepenning van magiër E. Basch


title: Qirsh uit Egypte van de Ottomaanse sultan Abdul Hamid II,1297 [=1881]


title: 10 qirsh uit Egypte van de Ottomaanse sultan Abdul Hamid II, regeringsjaar 10 [=1884]


title: Qirsh uit Egypte van de Ottomaanse sultan Abdul Hamid II, regeringsjaar 10 [=1884]


title: 1/20 qirsh uit Egypte van de Ottomaanse sultan Abdul Hamid II, regeringsjaar 12 [=1886]


title: Bruiloftskaart voor de bruidegom 'Den Heere Gerard.s Ad.s Haentjens'


title: Graven en gravinnen van Holland


title: 20 para uit Turkije van sultan Mohammed V, regeringsjaar 3  [=1911]


title: Naslag van Maria Theresia-daalder met jaartal 1780, bestemd voor Noord-Oost-Afrika


title: Para uit Libie van de Ottomaanse sultan Mahmud II, regeringsjaar 25 [=1832]


title: Para uit Libie van de Ottomaanse sultan Mahmud II, regeringsjaar 26 [=1833]


title: Piastre of kurush uit Tunesië van de Ottomaanse sultan Mahmud II,  1246 [=1831]


title: Tien piaster uit Tunesië van de Ottomaanse sultan Abdul-Aziz onder de bey Mohammed al-Sadiq, 1281 [=1864]


title: 8 kharub uit Tunesië van de Ottomaanse sultan Abdul-Aziz onder de bey Mohammed al-Sadiq, 1281 [=1864]


title: 5 centimes uit Tunesië als Frans protectoraat onder de bey Mohammed al-Hadi, 1904


title: ½ sultani uit Algerije van de Ottomaanse sultan Mahmud I, 1143 [=1730]


title: 1/4 budju uit Algerije van de Ottomaanse sultan Mustafa III, 1186[=1773]


title: 5 asper uit Algerije van de Ottomaanse sultan Mahmud II, 1240[=1824]


title: Dirhem uit Marokko van Abd el Mumin van de Almohaden, 524-558 [=1145-1163]


title: Dirhem uit Marokko van Mohammed III, 1177 [=1763]


title: Dirhem uit Marokko van Mohammed III, 1188 [=1774]


title: Mitqal uit Marokko van Mohammed III, 1189 [=1775]


title: 4 falus uit Marokko van Mohammed IV, 1290 [=1873]


title: Portret van Willem III de Goede, graaf van Holland en Henegouwen


title: 10 mazunas uit het Franse protectoraat Marokko, 1340 [=1921]


title: 10 mazunas uit Marokko, 1320 [=1902]


title: Franse protectoraat Marokko, Empire Cherifien, franc, 1921-1924


title: 25 centimes uit het Franse protectoraat Marokko, Empire Cherifien, 1921-1926


title: Onbekend paleis, stempelafdruk in rode zegellak


title: Graven en gravinnen van Holland


title: Sierra Leone op naam van de Sierra Leone Company, 10 cent,1796


title: Dukaat uit Pruisen van markgraaf Friedrich Wilhelm van Brandenburg van goud uit de Goudkust (Guinea), 1682


title: 10 centimes uit Congo Vrijstaat van de Belgische koning Leopold II als soeverein, 1888


title: Congo Vrijstaat, koning Leopold II van België als soeverein, 2 centimes,1887


title: 5 centimes uit Congo Vrijstaat van de Belgische koning Leopold II als soeverein, 1888


title: Congo Vrijstaat, koning Leopold II van België als soeverein, centime, 1888


title: Portret van Margaretha van Beieren


title: Azoren, koning José I van Portugal, 10 reis, 1750


title: 5 reis uit de Azoren van de Portugese koning José I, 1750


title: Azoren, koningin Maria I van Portugal, 20 reis, 1795


title: 10 reis uit Madeira van de Portugese koningin Maria II, 1852


title: Angola, koning José I van Portugal,12 macutas,1763


title: 10 macutas uit Angola van de Portugese koningin Maria I, 1796


title: Angola, koning Joao VI van Portugal, ½ macuta, 1814


title: 2 macutas uit Angola van de Portugese koning Joao VI, 1815


title: vierenzestigste ashrafi uit Nepal van Jaya Prakasa Malla van Katmandu, 1732 - 1768


title: Dubbele dam [?] uit Nepal, bestaande uit 7 vierkante stukjes bladzilver van gemiddeld 7/100 gram


title: Portret van Willem V van Holland, graaf van Holland en Zeeland


title: Dam [?] uit Nepal, bestaande uit 8 vierkante stukjes bladzilver van gemiddeld 1/100 gram


title: Halfpenny voor St. Helena van de Engelse Oostindische Compagnie (EIC), 1821


title: Italië, koning Vittorio Emanuele III, lira, 1923


title: Lira uit Italië van koning Vittorio Emanuele III, 1928


title: Italië, koning Vittorio Emanuele III, 20 centesimi, 1919


title: Italië, koning Vittorio Emanuele III, 20 centesimi, 1911


title: 20 centesimi uit Italië van koning Vittorio Emanuele III, 1912


title: 20 centesimi uit Italië van koning Vittorio Emanuele III, 1922


title: Kiraat of dirhem uit Tunesië of Marokko


title: Portret van Albrecht van Beieren, graaf van Holland en Henegouwen


title: Para uit Tunesië  van Sultan Ahmed VI Mohammed Khan


title: Tunesië, Sultan Ahmed VI Mohammed Khan, para


title: Holland, zilveren rijder, 1673


title: Hollandse leeuwendaalder, 1576


title: Hollandse zilveren dukaat, 1673


title: Hollandse dukaat, 1738


title: Westfriese drie gulden, 1791


title: Hollandse gulden, 1793


title: Hollandse wapenstuiver, 1733


title: Overijsselse duit, 1769


title: Graven en gravinnen van Holland


title: Nederlandse 2½ gulden, 1847


title: Nederland, gulden, 1848


title: Nederland, 10 gulden, 1889


title: Nederlandse ½ gulden, 1859


title: Nederlandse ½ gulden, 1868


title: Nederland, 10 cent, 1882


title: Nederland, 10 gulden, 1927


title: Nederland,dukaat, 1927


title: Nederland, 2½ gulden voor Nederlands-Indië, 1943 D


title: Nederlandse gulden, 1938


title: Nederland, gulden voor Nederlands-Indië, 1943 D


title: Nederlandse ½ gulden, 1905


title: Nederland,10 cent, 1903


title: Nederlandse 10 cent voor West-Indië, 1942


title: Nederland, 10 cent, 1944 S


title: Nederlandse cent, 1892


title: Nederland, ½ cent, 1938


title: Curacao, gulden, 1944


title: Portret van Jacoba van Beieren, gravin van Holland, Zeeland en Henegouwen


title: Curacao, 2½ cent, 1947


title: 1 sol en 6 deniers uit de stad Geneve, 1795


title: Nederland, 10 cent, 1913


title: Doop van Napoleon Eugène Lodewijk Jan Jozef Bonaparte 1856


title: Graven en gravinnen van Holland


title: Portret van Maria, hertogin van Bourgondië


title: Concours van de Koninklijke Liedertafel "Kunst en Vriendschap" te Amsterdam 1876


title: Het Athenaeum Illustre te Amsterdam wordt universiteit 1877


title: Toegangspenning voor de Amsterdamse Schouwburg

date: after 1637


title: Toegangspenning voor de Amsterdamse Rederijkerskamer 1632 op naam van Jochem Jansz Scheepmaker


title: Verbond van Montigny tegen de Prins van Oranje 1579


title: Portret van keizer Maximiliaan I


title: Luxemburg, Frans II, noodmunt van 1 sol, 1796


title: Twintig stuiver, noodmunt uit Rijsel (Lille), 1708


title: Oostenrijk, Braunau, noodmunt van 15 Kreuzer, 1743


title: Minden, Werstfalen, noodmunt van 8 Mariengroschen, 1634


title: Dubbele sol, noodmunt uit Mainz (Hessen) tijdens belegering door de Verbondenen, 1793


title: Reaal van Curaçao, 1821


title: Stuiver van Curaçao, 1822


title: Particuliere stuiver uit Curacao van de firma Jesurun & Co., ca. 1880


title: Curacao, particuliere stuiver van de firma J.J. Naär, ca. 1880


title: Suriname, 4 duiten, 1679


title: Graven en gravinnen van Holland


title: Suriname, duit, 1764


title: Vase (part of a garniture)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

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

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


title: Four Petals from a Lotus Base

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


title: [Finely Dressed Woman Seated in Armchair]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Orufanran Costume Attachment: Ram Head

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Ivory, wood or coconut shell inlay

country: Yoruba peoples, Owo group

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Bone/ivory-ornament
Shells & molluscs
Skeletons & bones
Yoruba peoples, owo group

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


title: [Dedication Page 1]

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Seated Figure: Study for "A Vision of Antiquity"

creator: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

medium: Fabricated black crayon, squared

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1935


title: Theo, 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: John O. "Kick" Kelly, Manager, Louisville Colonels, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Presqu'île de Banks, Pointe des Charbonniers, Akaroa (Seine fishing off Colliers' Point, Akaroa, Banks Peninsula, 1845), from "The Voyage to New Zealand (1842–46)"

creator: Charles Meryon

date: 1863 and later

medium: Etching with drypoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Silk on wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Benjamin F. Butler of Massachusetts, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Fragment of a Window

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Plaster; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Trumpet

date: 200 BCE–600 CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Moche

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: Gift of William Milne Grinnell, 1912


title: Cuffs

medium: Linen

country: Italian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lillian G. Peirce, 1966


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)?

date: second half of the 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

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


title: Dido Killing Herself

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Bertha

medium: linen

country: Belgian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Millicent V. Hearst, 1962


title: Ornamental Panel

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Harbor Scene

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Mourning jewelry

date: mid-19th century

medium: gold, glass, hair

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Miriam W. Coletti, 1993


title: Bead

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stone (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Scroll illustrating the parts of different types of Japanese armor

medium: Miscellaneous

country: Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes(drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: A Squall at Trouville

creator: Félix-Hilaire Buhot

medium: Etching on laid paper; fifth state of seven

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


title: Border

date: late 18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Netsuke

medium: Wood and ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Slop Bowl

creator: Charles Cartlidge and Company

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris, 1988


title: Steatite triangular prism

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Suicide of Lucretia, from "Scenes from Roman History"

creator: Georg Pencz

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


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


title: The Lighthouse at Honfleur

creator: Georges Seurat

medium: Conté crayon heightened with gouache on laid paper

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: 波濤に岩上鷹図大小 Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>)

creator: 石黒政常 Ishiguro Masatsune

date: late 18th–early 19th century

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Bottle

medium: Porcelain (Arita ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: St. Stephanus Girandi

creator: Conrad Lauwers

date: 17th century


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Charles III of Spain, as Protector of the Royal Academy of Mexico

creator: Geronimo Antonio Gil

medium: Silver gilt

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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Plate 22: Civilis Separates German and Dutch Troops, from "The War of the Romans Against the Batavians" (Romanorvm et Batavorvm societas)

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching, first state of two, issue 1 (Bartsch)

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


title: Earring

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold

country: Langobardic or Byzantine (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-gold
Langobardic or byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Parasol

medium: linen

country: probably British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lillian G. Peirce, 1966


title: Head of Attendant

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Unfired clay with pigment

country: China

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: As the new Actaeon, I surprised Diana, not in her bath but with a dealer in the bathroom, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Yvonne Möen Cumerford, 1965


title: Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Hatshepsut

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1905


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Procession of Roma men, women, and children on horseback and on foot

creator: Jacques Callot

date: early 17th century

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

credit_line: Bequest of Julie Parsons Redmond, 1960


title: Tago Bay near Ejiri on the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Ejiri Tago no ura ryaku zu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Card 759, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake (Ōhashi Atake no yūdachi), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Ensemble

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Chauncey Stillman, 1960


title: Plate 10: Venus in a niche, standing on a conch shell, with Cupid to her right, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

creator: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Mythology
Print
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Orphrey Panels from a Chasuble

date: early 15th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

country: Bohemian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Bohemian
Textiles-costumes-ecclesiastical

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1961


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 21 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: A Soldier on Duty, from "The French Guards" (Les Gardes Françaises)

creator: Abraham Bosse

date: mid to late 17th century

medium: Etching

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


title: Bridle with Cloissone Mounts

medium: Equestrian Equipment

country: Chinese

subjects:
Equestrian equipment
Chinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Watch

creator: Pierre Le Roy

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Harness Ornament

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Bronze

country: Irish

subjects:
Ornament & design
Irish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Obi with Large Floral Roundels and Stream

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Twill-weave silk with supplementary weft patterning and brocading

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Michaelian, 1973


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Neolithic, Hagiorgetika

subjects:
Vase
Neolithic, hagiorgetika

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur), Berlin

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

country: German, Berlin

subjects:
German, berlin
Ceramics-porcelain

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Hand raised in worship adjacent to Aten ray (?)

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Portrait of Jean-Michel Moreau

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

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

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Carpet Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Wool; asymmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Herman A. Elsberg, 1928


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain with canary yellow glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: View of a Village ("Wasschout"?)

creator: Jan de Bisschop

date: mid 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Pomegranate, from the Fruits series (N12) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Fruits

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


title: Plaque of George Washington

medium: Porcelain

country: French

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Box

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: probably 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Tobacco

date: 19th century

medium: Metal

subjects:
Smoking equipment
Japan

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


title: Bell

date: 1st century

medium: bronze

country: Italian (Ancient Roman)

subjects:
Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper
Italian (ancient roman)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Roundel with Martyrdom of Saint Leger

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1980


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Designs for Plates Taken from Oudry's Illustrations to La Fontaine's Fables

creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

date: after 1755

medium: Etching

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


title: Buddhist Temple Painting

date: 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; color on canvas(?)

country: Thailand

subjects: Architecture Painting Thailand

credit_line: Gift of J. J. Klejman, 1959


title: Allegory of the Flourishing State of the United Provinces

creator: Jan (Pietersz.) Saenredam

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Panel ornament

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: The Rich Man Transported to Hell, from The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, from "The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Turkey-work chair

medium: Maple, oak

country: American

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


title: Commodore's Pennant, Denmark, from the Naval Flags series (N17) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea


title: Plate 5: Emperor Claudius on Horseback, from "The First Twelve Roman Caesars"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching; first state of two (Bartsch)


title: Embroidery with the Annunciation

date: mid-15th century

medium: Silk and metallic threads on linen

country: Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Netherlandish
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Lois and Anthony Blumka, in memory of Victoria Blumka, 1990


title: Shallow dish, Jun ware

creator: Chinese

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stoneware with blue glaze.

subjects: Ceramic Chinese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Cup (part of a service)

creator: J. Spode

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Rev. W. P. Eigenbrodt, 1894


title: Rockaway (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Bowl and Cover

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze, colored enamels and gold, silver mounted (Arita ware, Ko Imari style)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Large shouldered jar

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899


title: Card Number 15, Miss Southerland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) 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: Phaeton, no top (unnumbered)

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


title: Pitcher

creator: Sidney Risley

medium: Mottled brown earthenware

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


title: Whale Oil Lamp

medium: Pressed and free blown lead glass

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Michael Heidelberger, in memory of Nina T. Heidelberger, 1982


title: Wine Glass

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

country: American or British

subjects:
Ornament & design
American or british

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Papyrus column amulet

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Earring with pendant

medium: Gold

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


title: Architectural Drawing

creator: Nicolas François Barbier

medium: Pen and ink, graphite, and watercolor on laid paper

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Beaker

creator: Chimú artist(s)

medium: Silver

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-container Chimú

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1969


title: Norwegian Peasant (Woman from Tromsø)

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Curb Bit

date: 17th century

medium: Iron alloy, tin, copper

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
German

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


title: Miniature ewer

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


title: Plate with Hercules and Lichas and arms of the Pucci family

creator: Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Sample Vase in Process of Making Cloisonné

medium: Cloisonné

country: Japan

subjects: Cloisonné Japan

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1921


title: Interior Scene

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: The Wise Virgins Conversing

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Salvator Rosa (wall) molding

date: early 18th century

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Rome (?)

subjects:
Frame
Italian, rome
Roses

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: 東海道五十三次　見附　天竜川舟渡し

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: early 20th century

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and/or printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, 1927


title: Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

creator: Haimon Painter

date: ca. 500 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment of Ingot

date: probably 10th century

medium: Glass, greenish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Vase (one of a pair)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1949


title: Osobuki

medium: Bamboo

country: Japanese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Babylonian

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


title: Armchair

medium: Walnut; straw seat

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Design for a Cabinet with Three Glass Doors and a Porcelain Plaque

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite, watercolor and scratching on green ground

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


title: Virgin and Child with the Monkey

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

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


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: Watch

creator: Mermod Frères

medium: Gold, enamel, jewels

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


title: Whetstone

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Stone

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Bonnet

medium: cotton, wool

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane, 1919


title: Sardonyx cameo with a Bacchic group

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Sardonyx

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Gems
Greek or roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Card Number 312, Mlle. Le Celaur, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Kneeling Female Figure

creator: Master MZ

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Fund and David Tunick Gift, 1995


title: Christ with the Doctors in the Temple, from The Story of Christ

creator: Georg Pencz

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Okabe

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Sugar box

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: The Origin of Painting

creator: Edward Francis Burney

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Spencer Bickerton, 1933


title: Terracotta statuette of a standing woman with a basket and wreath

date: late 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Brummer, 1959


title: Card 749, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Marriage fan

date: last quarter 18th century

medium: Paper, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Dagger (Katar)

date: 16th century

medium: Steel

country: Indian, Thanjavur; blade, European

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, thanjavur; blade, european

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Sheet with six borders with vines and flower designs

creator: Anonymous

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects: Print Flowers

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


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


title: Salome and the head of Saint John the Baptist

creator: Giovita Garavaglia

credit_line: Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941


title: Robe

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1954


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Appliqué

date: ca. 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Silver, gilded silver

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Vladimir S. Littauer Gift, 1995


title: Piece (one of 116)

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Khusrau and Shirin

creator: Hatifi

date: dated 904 AH/1498–99 CE

medium: Main support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper; binding: leather

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1969


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Mirror (part of a set)

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Gift of Rosenberg and Stiebel Inc., 1963


title: Cut-Glass Cup

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Glass, colorless with a green tinge; blown, cut

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Ornament

medium: Silver

country: Korea

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Polishing stone

medium: Stone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 8v)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Tarquin and Lucrezia

creator: Vincenzo Camuccini

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Vestal Virgin

creator: Giovanni Guerra

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Cushion Cover

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Ornament frieze with winged Centaur

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

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


title: Floral Design

creator: Antoine Berjon

medium: White, orange, green and black chalk

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Mummy label of Pkyris (son of) Besis and Senpnouth

date: 3rd century CE

medium: Wood, ink

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Dark Lanthern Business, or, Mrs. Hob and Nob On a Night Canvass With a Bosom Friend

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Hungarian horseman riding towards the right, other horsemen in the background, a circular composition from "Figures on Horseback (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois)

creator: Stefano della Bella

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Buddha Expounding the Dharma

date: late 8th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Sri Lanka (Anuradhapura)

subjects:
Sculpture
Sri lanka (anuradhapura)

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, Acquisitions and 2008 Benefit Funds, and John Stewart Kennedy Fund, by exchange, 2009


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

date: second quarter 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: L'Hymen et l'Amour (Hymen and Cupid)

creator: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1950


title: Vessel Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Alabaster

country: Coptic

subjects:
Lapidary work-alabaster
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Study of a Nude (Dancer at the Barre)

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Charcoal on tracing paper laid down on card

credit_line: Gift of the Drue Heinz Charitable Trust, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Cap

medium: silk

country: German

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn and Mrs. Alice Lewisohn Crowley, 1946


title: Valentine - Mechanical Layered Birthday - die cut roses and woman.

medium: Heavy card-stock, die cut card stock, chromolithography

subjects: Ephemera Roses

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Charles W. Green, 1947


title: A Gathering of Artists

creator: Alexandre Clément

credit_line: Purchase, Barbara and Howard Fox Gift, 2015


title: Six Sake Cups for a New Year’s Toast

creator: Unidentified artist

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: Golden Jubilee of George III

creator: N. Hyde

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2001


title: Horse and rider

date: early 8th century

medium: Earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze and pigment

country: China

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: Vest

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Miss Diana Schwartz, 1941


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: The Virgin and Child

creator: Antonio Rossellino

date: third quarter 15th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: McTamany, Center Field, Brooklyn, 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: A Rocky Coast

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Watercolor and gouache on fibrous brown wove paper

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


title: Swivel seal

date: 17th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Zita Spiss, 1991


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: A Great Picture Sale at Christie's, from "The Graphic"

creator: Sydney Prior Hall

date: September 10, 1887

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration, glazed

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell M. Hastings, 1960


title: Dish

date: 18th century

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of Eugene Thaw, 1991


title: The Unicorn Rests in a Garden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)

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

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

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

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937


title: Kongara-doji

creator: Ryūshū Shūtaku (Myōtaku)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Ivory spindle whorl

medium: Ivory ?

country: Minoan

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Minoan
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 16th–15th century BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Mitanni

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


title: Bootees

medium: Wool, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Sarah B. Russell, 1956


title: Card Number 82, Mrs. Turner, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Idyllic Landscape with Temple

creator: Johann Heinrich Müntz

medium: Pen and gray ink and watercolor; framing lines in black ink

subjects: Architecture Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2003


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic


title: St. Michael Expurging Heresy

creator: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)

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

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


title: Coupé #3077

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black in, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Kalamkari Rumal

medium: Cotton; plain weave, mordant painted and dyed, resist dyed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and/or printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Bodhisattva in a Mountain Grotto, Playing a Stringed Instrument (Vina), Leaf from a Dispersed Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnapramita Manuscript

medium: Opaque watercolor on palm leaf

country: India (Bengal) or Bangladesh

subjects:
Painting
India (bengal) or bangladesh
Palms

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Gold serpentine fibula (safety pin)

date: probably 7th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait ?)

creator: Giovanni Battista Crespi ("Il Cerano")

medium: Black chalk

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Plate and Nail

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Vue du grand Sphinx et de la grande pyramide de Menkazeh (Mycerinus)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

date: December 1849

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Girl dummy board

medium: Painted on softwood, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Vase of Flowers Draped with Garlands

creator: French Painter

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects:
Ornament & design
Flowers
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Irish Jaunting Car

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Cloudy Mountain in the Style of Mi Fu (1052–1107)

medium: Handscroll; ink on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Carlsruhe Painter

date: 2nd quarter of 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Ingres (1780–1867) as a Young Man

creator: Laurence-Augustine Jubé Héquet (Madame Héquet)

credit_line: Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943


title: Section of a Border with Foliate Pattern

medium: Pot-metal glass and vitreous paint

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Glass-stained
French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1982


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–5th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Michael "Silent Mike" Joseph Tiernan, Right Field, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

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


title: Tea Caddy

date: early 19th century

medium: Lacquer on wood

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Prima Parte de' Fiori, e Disegni di varie sorti di Ricami Moderni

creator: Giovanni Battista Ciotti

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

medium: Terracotta


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)


title: Chandelier

medium: Cut glass

country: British or Irish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave


title: Plate

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1981


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Gateway to Government House, Calcutta

creator: Captain R. B. Hill

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


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


title: Petite Savoyard or La Reconciliation

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Assouan (Syène), Carrières de Granit - Ancien Système d'Extraction

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Octagonal Ceiling Design with Putti and Birds

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and blue wash. Framing line in pen and brown ink.

subjects: Drawing Birds

credit_line: Gift of The Christian Humann Foundation, 2001


title: Imperial girdle

medium: Jadeite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Stool

date: 15th century

medium: Oak

country: French or South Netherlandish

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
French or south netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 21r)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

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


title: Siege Helmet

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects: Helmet Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Portrait of a Woman, after Bernhard Strigel, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching; fourth state of four (Gonse)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, 1871, transferred from the Department of Paintings


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Reverse ogee molding

date: mid-17th century

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Venice(?)

subjects:
Frame
Italian, venice

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry woven

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Porringer

creator: Josiah Austin

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Table valance with lotus scrolls

date: late 18th century

medium: Cut silk velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: The Village Dressmakers

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Horse Walking

creator: Edgar Degas

date: modeled before 1885, cast in 1920

medium: Bronze

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


title: Brush holder with the story of Pan An

date: 18th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ivorie China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Mummy Cloth Fragment of the Adoratrice of Hathor Henettawy

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Study of a Standing Male Nude

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Trade card for North of England Engraving & Printing Establisment, Gibson & co., engravers and printers

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


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

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Pair of candlesticks

creator: John Carter II

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

creator: Group of Vienna O.565

date: ca. 300 BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Scene at Napanoch

creator: William Hart

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of the descendants of the artist, 1897


title: Processional Cross

medium: Gilded silver, with traces of enamel on walnut core

country: Spanish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Ella Brummer, in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1982


title: Beaker

date: 10th century

medium: Glass, colorless with green tinge; blown, cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Arrangement of Plum, Fukujusō (Adonis Flower), and Scissors

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, Marjorie H. Holden Gift, 2012


title: Vest

medium: silk, metal, cotton, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Adele Simpson, 1945


title: left hand and arm fragment with Aten cartouches from a statue supporting a stela?

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: River Scene (Columbia _______?) (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Plaque with Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter and the Law to Saint Paul

medium: Elephant ivory

country: German

subjects: German Ivories-elephant

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1979


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted.

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Coin

medium: Copper


title: Cocks and Hens, Hôtel Colbert

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph, printed on grayish ivory chine mounted on ivory plate paper; only state (Chicago)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Ostrakon with a Letter

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Scarab Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Re

medium: Green glazed steatite

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


title: Bed Figure

date: 3rd century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Michoacan

subjects: Michoacan Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Albert J. Grant and Monique Grant Joint Revocable Trust, 2014


title: Royal Exchange

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, possibly a first state of two

credit_line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1929


title: Examples of Chinese ornament selected from objects in the South Kensington Museum and other collections

creator: Owen Jones


title: [Group of 16 Early Stereograph Views of British Abbeys]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver prints

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, in memory of Kathleen W. Naef and Weston J. Naef Sr., 1982


title: Jérusalem, Saint Sépulcre, Façade

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Gun Case

medium: Leather, glass beads

country: Sioux

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Hide-costume
Sioux

credit_line: Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 1999


title: Sword Scabbard

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Swords-Accessories

country: Persian

subjects: Persian Swords-accessorie

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Gart der  gesuntheit - Ortus sanitatis (Herbarius)

creator: Peter Schöffer the Elder

medium: plates: hand colored woodcuts

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1944


title: Chinese botanist

creator: François Boucher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Salt Caster

creator: Richards and Hartley Flint Glass Co.

medium: Pressed yellow glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Pair of partridges

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Limestone statuette of a temple boy

date: late 5th or early 4th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Architecture
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot

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


title: Parrot (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Glass chevron bead

medium: Glass

country: Venetian

subjects: Glass Venetian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Studies of Architectural Motifs

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink with traces of red chalk

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Relief Fragment, Pyramid Temple of Amenemhat I

creator: Grace A. Luther

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Card Number 80, Marie Jansen, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Naked male torso seen from behind

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Human Mask Looking to the Left within a Circle

creator: Gaetano Piccini

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1960


title: The so-called Temple of Bacchus, now the Church of S. Urban, interior (Veduta interna dell antico Tempio di Bacco, or. di S. Urbano)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

subjects: Architecture Print Landscapes

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


title: Entrance to the Forest of Brie with Cottage on the Right

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching with drypoint; fifth state of five

credit_line: Gift of James David Draper, 2000


title: The Septizodium, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: The Entombment

creator: Nicolas Poussin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: The education of the Virgin, with Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary reading with two putti overhead

creator: Conraet Woumans

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three (Hollstein)

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


title: Knife with Sheath

medium: Horn, steel

country: Indonesian, Sulawesi, possibly Phillipine

subjects: Indonesian, sulawesi, possibly phillipine

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Design for a Decorative Wall Panel with Profile Portraits, and a Study for a Column

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Watercolor on wove paper (wall panel); pen and ink (column)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing
Portraits

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


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes: Band or lip cups (drinking cups)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Evening dress

medium: silk

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1970


title: Wreck on Shore, from the Types of Vessels series (N139) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Silver denarius of Julius Caesar

date: 49–48 BCE

medium: Silver

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Coin
Roman, gaul

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Writing Box with a Scene from the “Butterflies” Chapter of The Tale of Genji

date: 20th century

medium: Gold lacquer with raised sprinkled design

country: Japan

subjects:
Lacquer
Japan
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, from the Collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin DeWitt Riegel, 1981


title: White, 3rd Base, Detroit, from the Gold Coin series (N284) for Gold Coin Chewing Tobacco

creator: D. Buchner & Co., New York

medium: Commercial color lithograph reproducing drawing


title: King George II (1683–1760)

creator: John van Beaver

medium: Wool, silk, carved and gilded wood (21-22 warps per inch, 9 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Stool

medium: Carved and gilded walnut, red velvet

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Letter with textile samples

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Archives

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-archive

credit_line: Funds From Various Donors, 1985


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


title: Woman’s Rights Quilt

creator: Emma Civey Stahl

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2011


title: Cover

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Melchior de Gillier

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Clock Cases, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Coin

date: dated 210 AH/825 CE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Saddle-back, from the Song Birds of the World series (N23) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Plaque

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


title: Karnak (Thèbes), Palais - Salle Hypostyle - Fenêtre et Chapiteaux des Galleries Latérales

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of Syllabary A

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: The Major's Daughter (from "Once a Week")

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Wood engraving; proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Candlestick

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Bowl

date: late 9th–early 10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip with black slip decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Large Dish

medium: Painted enamel

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Veii Painter

medium: Terracotta

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


title: La Halle aux Blés, Exterior View

creator: Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: Andiron with figure of Mercury (one of a pair)

creator: Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa)

date: 19th century?

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 42 (recto)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Sampler made at the Westtown Quaker School

creator: Sarah Thomas

medium: Embroidered silk on linen

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martucci and Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Schaffner Gifts, and Gift of George Coe Graves, by exchange, 2005


title: Cherub

date: 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Linn Howard, 2024


title: Bowl

medium: Jadeite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Actress standing with hands behind waist, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Bishop Jan van Malderus (Malderen)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of three

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


title: Road to Ruin

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Le Paysan Portant sa Pelle sur L'Épaule (The Peasant Carrying his Shovel on his Shoulder), from Les Caprices Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Needle sheath

medium: Wood

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

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


title: Shallow Bowl

date: ca. 1780, or earlier

medium: Pottery with inlaid designs, covered with a transparent glaze (Karatsu ware, Mishima type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: An Indian Bish-Khopra Lizard

medium: Watercolor and ink on paper

subjects:
Codice
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, 2019


title: Cloth

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Wool

country: Frankish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Frankish
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Seated Lion (one of a pair)

medium: Marble

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Vincent Astor, 1979


title: Fire, represented by Venus seated before Vulcan's forge, with armor, a cannon, and cannon balls surrounding her, she turns her head toward Cupid, who stretches his body away from her, from "The Elements"

creator: Giulio Carpioni

credit_line: Museum Accession, by exchange, 1967


title: Girdle buckle

medium: Nephrite, white with faint grayish tint


title: Vase fragment

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, laconian

credit_line: Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1923


title: Vertical Landscape with the Ruins of the Temple of Venus and Roma, from "Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles"

creator: Lambert Suavius

subjects: Architecture Book Landscapes

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


title: Vase with cover (vase à dauphins)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Bratina

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Shallow bowl

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1974


title: Capital

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Brush pot with scene from The Investiture of the Gods

date: mid-17th century

medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Mutsu, Noda no Tamagawa

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Amoy Harbour

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: [Pair of Early Stereograph Views of British Bridges]

creator: Stereoscopic Gems

medium: Albumen silver prints

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, in memory of Kathleen W. Naef and Weston J. Naef Sr., 1982


title: Long Beach, from the Beautiful Bathers series (N192) 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: Salon des Cent:  Exposition Internationale d'affiches

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Lithograph printed in seven colors on machine wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Bessie Potter Vonnoh, 1941


title: Embroidery sample for a man’s suit

medium: Silk and metal thread on wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Island of Burano

creator: Giacomo Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: 72. Minaret, Mosquée Kaïtbay, au Kaire

creator: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 2017


title: Pine Sapling with Poem Card

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

credit_line: Purchase, Marjorie H. Holden Gift, 2012


title: After a Long Seige, Francesco I d'Este, with the Aid of the French Army, Takes Valencia, from "L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]"

creator: Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis)

medium: Etching

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


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

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


title: Saint John the Baptist as a child

creator: Paul Dubois

medium: Plaster

credit_line: Gift of Mme Paul Dubois, 1906


title: Christ

creator: Master F. P.

date: 16th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Covered Box

medium: Jade

credit_line: The F.O. Matthiessen Collection, Gift of Mrs. Emma Matthiessen, in memory of her husband, 1903


title: Snuffbox with military scenes

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Standing Nagini (Study Collection)

medium: Sculpture

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of Subhash Kapoor, 1991


title: Bishop (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

creator: Isidore Pils

medium: Black chalk, stumped, white chalk, on dark gray paper

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989


title: Portrait of Henry IV

creator: Pierre Philippe Choffard

medium: Etching with stipple; first state

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Panels from an Ivory Casket with the Story of Adam and Eve

date: 10th or 11th century

medium: Elephant ivory, gilding, and polychromy

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Ivories-elephant


title: Card 664, Miss Engel, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Charles Henri Plantade

creator: Antoine Achille Bourgeois de la Richardière

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1901


title: Leg Swing, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Linen Cloth

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912


title: Wall Panel Design

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Gift of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1961


title: Sutra Cover

date: 17th century or earlier

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Jesus and St. John embracing, with Cherubs

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of two

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: early 5th century BCE


title: Beveled rim bowl

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: The Garden Façade of Bagatelle

creator: Jean Démosthène Dugourc

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor, over traces of black chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Pair of Sandals

medium: Woven papyrus

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


title: Teacup (one of 8) (part of a service)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Head of Pierrot

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Glass jar

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Boots

medium: silk, leather, cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard Crosby Brokaw, 1960


title: Stamp seal

medium: Bronze

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


title: Fragment

date: 8th century

medium: Satin and twill

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Glass ribbed bowl

date: mid-1st century CE

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Rowel Spur (Right)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Copper alloy, iron

country: French or German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
French or german

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Basin

date: dated 1774

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Pilgrim's badge

date: first half 17th century

medium: Champlevé enamel on brass, partly gilt

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: C. Crynan, Pitcher, Chicago, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card

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


title: Studio of William S. Mount (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: Shepard Alonzo Mount

medium: Graphite on off-white laid paper

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Earring, delta-shaped

medium: Gold

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


title: [Portrait of an Old Chinese Woman]

creator: Raimund von Stillfried

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Panel

date: dated 1296

medium: Wood; carved and inlaid

credit_line: Gift of E. Safani, 1971


title: Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

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

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


title: The Wonderful Universe Explorer, The Great 36-inch Equatorial Telescope, Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California

creator: Underwood & Underwood

medium: Albumen silver prints

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, in memory of Kathleen W. Naef and Weston J. Naef Sr., 1982


title: Netsuke of Kyōgen Mask: Usume (or Ofuku or Okame)

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan


title: Morning dress

medium: wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Marcia Sand Bequest, in memory of her daughter, Tiger (Joan) Morse, 1979


title: Memorial of opening of Chamber of Commerce of St. Nazaire, 1879

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Bronze, struck, silvered

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1897


medium: Terracotta

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Tubular instrument (siphon)

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Shawl

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Armchair

creator: Beauvais

date: designed ca. 1786, woven 1790–91; chair frame second half 19th century

medium: Carved and gilded wood; wool, silk

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Claus von Bülow Gift, 1978


title: Four Landscapes with the Four Seasons

creator: Hendrick van Schoel

medium: Prints

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Primer

date: 18th century

medium: Wood, horn, silver

country: Turkish

subjects:
Turkish
Firearm accessories-flask & primer

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piazza San Marco, Venice

creator: Luca Carlevaris

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Napoleon III of France

medium: Carnelian onyx

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Blue agate with red glass stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Biface, commonly referred to as a hand ax

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of C. T. Currelly, 1906


title: Card Number 221, Bumbcomb, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

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


title: The Painter Maximilien Luce

creator: Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

medium: Bronze, mounted on oak

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Gift of Ogden Mills, by exchange, 1986


title: Goblet

creator: Franz Gundelach

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Ornamental Band

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Celery Vase

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Gift Cover (Fukusa)

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japanese

subjects: Banner Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Miniature beaker

creator: George Manjoy

medium: Silver

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


title: The Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem

creator: Gustav Ferdinand König

medium: Pen and black and red ink, black chalk; framing lines in pen and black ink (by the artist)

credit_line: Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009


title: Embroidered curtain

medium: Linen embroidered with crewel wool

credit_line: Gift of Anna T. Marble, 1943


title: Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

creator: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

medium: Oak

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Woodwork-architectural

credit_line: Purchase, The James Parker Charitable Foundation and Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2015


title: Armband with Bells, Rings, and Thimbles, One of a Pair

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver, fire-gilded and chased, with decorative wire and applied decoration, loop-in-loop chains with bells, and turquoises

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry

credit_line: Gift of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf, 2022


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Gibbon Reaching for Frog (Symbol of Moon) (obverse); Well with Bucket (reverse)

medium: Lacquer, roiro, gold, silver and brown hiramakie, takamakie, applied metal; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects:
Inrō
Japan
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: "Yusuf Tending the Flocks", Folio of a Yusuf and Zulaykha of Jami

creator: Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Yueyang Pavilion

creator: Kanō Isen’in Naganobu 狩野伊川院栄信

medium: Pair of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2022


title: Earring, One of a Pair

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Gold; filigree and granulation

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts and Harvey and Elizabeth Plotnick Gift, 2006


title: Model of tortoise entwined with snake, Symbol of the North (Xuanwu)

date: 11th century

medium: Porcelain with bluish-white glaze (Jingdezhen qingbai ware)

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994


title: Speaking Trumpet

medium: metal

country: European or American

subjects:
Accessory
European or american

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 37 (recto)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Furniture ornaments

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Glass, bronze

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1957


title: General Owen Williams, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22b) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pinhead

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Three Female Heads

creator: Gaetano Gandolfi

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Anna Mont, in memory of Frederick Mont, 2010


title: Joe Acton, Wrestler, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: San Lorenzo, Library, Ricetto, entry portal to library, elevation (recto) San Lorenzo, Library, Ricetto, entry portal to library, plan and wall detail (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Vase with cover (part of a garniture)

creator: Lambertus van Eenhoorn

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Sid R. Bass Gift, in honor of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2006


title: Ointment Jar

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Cup Plate

medium: Lacy pressed glass

credit_line: Bequest of Constance R. Brown, 1939


title: St. Simon

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

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


title: Blouse

date: early 19th century

medium: cotton, glass

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes, 1923


title: Chalice

medium: Silver

country: Netherlandish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Netherlandish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Five Figure Studies (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: New Modelbüch (Page 49r)

creator: Andreas Bretschneider

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: The Latest Fashions, Expressly Designed and Prepared for Le Moniteur de la Mode

creator: A. Bodin

medium: Hand-colored wood engraving

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Partisan

medium: Steel, wood

country: German

subjects:
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Cann

creator: Samuel Minott

credit_line: Gift of Robert Ogden Bishop, 1951


title: Restauration de L'Aqueduc de Pise (Restoring the Aqueduct in Pisa), from "La Vie de Ferdinand Ier de Médicis série appelée aussi Les Batailles des Médicis" (The Life of Ferdinand I de'Medici also called The Medici Battles)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Engraving; first state of two (Lieure)

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


title: Earring

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silver, traces of gilding, glass paste or garnet (?)

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bi-folium from  a Qur'an Manuscript

medium: Ink on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: A Renaissance Portico with Elegant Figures

creator: Hendrick van Steenwijck II

medium: Oil on copper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James Eads Switzer, in memory of her aunt, Yrene Ceballos de Sanz, 1945


title: Teika’s Ten Styles of Japanese Poetry

creator: Unidentified

date: early 18th century

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

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2019


title: The Yard of the Inn at Emmaus

creator: David Ryckaert III

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: George Washington before the Battle of Trenton

creator: John Trumbull

credit_line: Bequest of Grace Wilkes, 1922


title: Christ's Entry into Jerusalem

creator: Hans Stutte

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on pinkish paper

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2004


title: Left Breastplate from a Brigandine

medium: Steel, brass, textile (linen)

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Armor parts-breastplate

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


title: Vase

date: 12th century

medium: Bronze; engraved

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1930


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Card 257, Louise Beaudet, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

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


title: Vase

creator: Cozzi Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Washington's Resignation of the Presidency

medium: Bronze

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


title: Cross

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Vase

creator: Justus Brouwer

medium: Earthenware

country: Dutch

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Pair of Greaves (Lower Leg Defenses)

subjects:
Italian
Armor parts-greave

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1927


title: Arrowhead

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901


title: [Imperial Prince with Gun]

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

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


title: Tripod Bowl with Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Jade

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Shiba Atogayama

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic, glaze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: The Little Cavaliers, after "Velázquez"

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Etching and drypoint, final state; on blue laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Cowboy Singing

creator: Thomas Eakins

medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Bowl used as lid

date: 3rd–late 2nd century BCE

medium: Pottery

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


title: Ring with Oval Bezel with an Elephant on a Lotus

date: 8th–early 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Relief fragment from tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Shabti of Siptah

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Gloves

date: late 18th century

medium: leather

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Inrō with Basket of Spring Flowers (obverse); Basket of Autumn Flowers (reverse)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium:
Five cases; lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, cutout gold foil application on black and nashiji lacquer ground
Netsuke: lacquered wood with hiramaki-e; chrysanthemum and paulownia flower
Ojime: silver bead inlaid with gold

subjects: Inrō Japan Flowers

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


title: Ornament from Hotel de Clugny

creator: Richardson Ellson & Co.

medium: Graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Young Couple with Flute & Cittern

creator: Johann Gottlieb Glume

medium: Etching

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


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Yoshida; Toyokawa-Bashi, Toyokawa Bridge


title: Bodhisattva Guanyin

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ivorie China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Qur'anic Compilation Page

creator: Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Qayyum ibn Muhammad ibn Karamshah al-Tabrizi

medium: Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and A. Robert Towbin Gift, 2008


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet


title: String of 16 Beads

date: after 100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: The Frankfort Evening News, Frankfort, Indiana]

creator: D. Gilbert

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gift of the Shimshak Brenner Family, in memory of Robert Shimshak, 2024


title: Jug

date: late 8th–first 9th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and incised, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Snuffbox

creator: Jean-Baptiste Beckers

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Touch

creator: François Boucher

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Duke of Beaufort, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22a) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Mug

medium: Non-lead glass with enamel decoration

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; incised and glazed

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929


title: Dish

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip with polychrome decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Baluster

date: first half 18th century

medium: Deal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Prince Swooning and Two Ladies in a Landscape

date: second half 16th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation, 1969


title: Vase with lion and bird

medium: Soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: A child god, probably Harpokrates

date: 1st century BCE or earlier

medium: Leaded bronze, formerly gilded

credit_line: The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1976


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Venus and Cupid

creator: Antonio Canova

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Wrightsman Fund, 1993


title: One Half Design for a Ceiling with Floral and Strapwork Motifs (recto); Slight Scribbles (verso)

creator: Donato Giuseppe Frisoni

medium: Pen and brown ink over leadpoint or graphite (recto); leadpoint or graphite (verso)

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Teapot (part of a set)

creator: Johan Henrik Blom

medium: Silver, parcel gilt, enamel, wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Donald Ordway, 1952


title: Embroidered portrait of Queen Anne of Great Britain

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Silk on satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Portraits
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Ear ornaments

date: 500 BCE–900 CE

medium: jade

country: Indigenous American (Pre-Columbian)

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: [After the Capture of the Taku Forts]

creator: Felice Beato

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Bather Sponging Her Knee

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Charcoal, pastel, and gray wash on off-white laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Spear (Mdung)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Iron, wood, leather

country: Tibetan

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Tibetan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bowl (écuelle)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902


title: Border

date: 16th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Tray Stand

date: 14th century

medium: Brass; inlaid with silver

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


title: Netsuke

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Dish (part of a service)

date: mid-18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Saucer (part of a service)


title: Chessmen (32)

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Bone

subjects:
Chess sets
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Covered Jar

date: 18th century

medium: Pottery with decorations in colored enamels and gold on crackled ground (Satsuma ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Knight, Death, and the Devil

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Rosina H. Hoppin, 1965


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Taylor & Perry

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Herbert K. Reis, in memory of Rose-Frances K. Reis (Mrs. Ralph A. Reis), 1983


title: Warbler and Camellia

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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: The Twelve Ages of a Man: The Last Three Ages (54-72), or Winter

creator: Bernard van Orley

medium: Wool, silk (16-20 warps per inch, 6-8 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of The Hearst Foundation, in memory of William Randolph Hearst, 1953


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Quae Genus, in the Sports of the Kitchen

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: August 1, 1821

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: From the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Armorial panel

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Plate 15: Doe, from "Various Animals" (Diversi Animali)

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

date: after 1641

medium: Etching; reverse copy

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Netsuke of Demon


title: Three Children with a Tray

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; first state of three

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Standing female figure

medium: Gypsum alabaster

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Gifts of Lucy W. Drexel, Theodore M. Davis, Helen Miller Gould, Albert Gallatin, Egypt Exploration Fund and Egyptian Research Account, by exchange, 1950


title: Private, 2nd Artillery, Massachusetts, V.M., from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Fragmentary Leaf from an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

creator: Unidentified

date: 12th century

medium: Gold, lapis lazuli, cinnabar, indigo, and orpiment pigments and black ink on paper

country: Kashmir or western Tibet

subjects:
Painting
Kashmir or western tibet

credit_line: Gift of Chino Franco Roncoroni, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2020


title: Design for Extension Top Park Phaeton, no. 3883

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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


title: Scarab with Scroll Design

date: ca. 1640–1500 B.C. (Middle Bronze Age IIB-IIC)

medium: Green glazed steatite

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


title: Earring-hook type with sphere ends

medium: Gold

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


title: Frederick III (1413-1493), Holy Roman Emperor (1452)

creator: Bertoldo di Giovanni

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ignazio Peluso, Ada Peluso and Romano I. Peluso, 2010


title: François Le Clerc Du Tremblay, dit le Père Joseph

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941