title: Saint Peter healing the sick, within a classical archway

creator: Nicolas Laigniel

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


title: L'Officier a la Collerette Vu de Dos (The Officer with the Hackle Seen from Behind), from "Varie Figure" (Various Figures)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of three (Lieure)

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Aidat Lake

creator: Eugène Isabey

medium: Lithograph in black on light gray chine collé laid down on ivory wove paper; only state

credit_line: Gift of William M. Ivins Jr., 1922


title: Gold earring with carnelian lotos flower pendant

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Gold, carnelian

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek, cypriot
Flowers

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: 19th century

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō)

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Lamp

medium: Sheffield plate, glass

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


title: Scarab

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Codium bursa

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Group

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Trousers

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1976


title: Cane

date: late 19th century

medium: wood, metal

country: Irish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. C. T. Dotter, 1925


title: Handkerchief

medium: Linen

country: Belgian

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Orme Wilson, 1959


title: Paragons of Loyalty and Filial Piety

creator: Wang Shanggong

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1985


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Brygos Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Model of a bell (Niu Zhong)

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Glazed stoneware

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1997


title: Return of a Raiding Party from Pennsylvania (from Confederate War Etchings)

creator: Adalbert John Volck

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Winged genius seated on a cloud, sounding a trumpet with his left hand extended upwards

creator: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

date: after 1628

medium: Engraving (reverse copy)

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


title: Christ Appearing to the Apostles

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint, very light plate tone

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941


title: The Victory Banquet

creator: Jacques Philippe Le Bas

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: Fragment

date: late 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Patch Box "American Independence Forever"

medium: Enamel on copper; mirror glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James M. Kellogg, in memory of her husband, 2023


title: Medallion with Five-Clawed Dragon (long)

medium: Silk, metallic thread, and peacock feather tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1936


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

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


title: Side Chair

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Rosewood

credit_line: Sansbury-Mills Fund, 1979


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859)

creator: Nicolas Romain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Elisa Parada de Migel, 1959


title: Vessel

date: 4th–early 2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Seleucid

subjects:
Seleucid
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Rosa Diupert, Wife of Nicolas Bremont, Cook at the French Academy in Rome, pl. X from "Recueil de caricatures"

creator: Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully

subjects: Print Roses

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


title: Pictura: allegory of painting, with a nude woman at center grinding pigments, two putti drawing at lower left

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving; reverse copy

subjects: Mythology Print


title: Drawing with Seven Designs for Firearms Ornament

creator: Jean-Francois Lucas

medium: Pen and black ink, with gray wash and traces of graphite, on paper

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing
French

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2014


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Figure of a dwarf

medium: Blue faience

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


title: Sword gold weight

creator: Akan artist

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Akan peoples

subjects:
Metal-implement
Akan people

credit_line: Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1994


title: Calligraphy Painting

creator: Isma'il Jalayir

medium: Opaque watercolor and ink on paste board

credit_line: Purchase, 2017 NoRuz at The Met Benefit, 2018


title: Snuffbox

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Crown Derby

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Pricking

medium: Parchment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James Boorman Johnston, 1910


title: Barber's basin

medium: Lustered earthenware

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Box

date: late 15th century

medium: Leather (tooled) over wood core

country: Italian

subjects: Leatherwork Italian

credit_line: Gift of P. W. French & Co., 1913


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Fairy and immortal boy

medium: Coral

subjects:
Sculpture
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Tureen with cover

creator: Edme-Pierre Balzac


title: Sheet 2: A Triumphal Chariot, from "The Triumph of Julius Caesar"

creator: Andrea Andreani

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in gray-green ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Card Number 150, Adelina Detchon, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Sugar Tongs

creator: A. T.

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Figure Painting

creator: Shen Zhenlin

date: mid-19th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Katherine S. Dreier, 1952


title: Tile Depicting Bahram Gur and Azada

medium: Stonepaste; inglaze painted in blue, luster-painted on opaque white glaze, modeled

credit_line: Gift of Otto H. Kahn, 1910


title: Burnside Bridge, Across the Antietam, near Sharpsburg, No. 1, September 1862

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970


title: Two Women in an Art Gallery

creator: Jules David

medium: Watercolor

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


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Wine container (hu)

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Earthenware with lead green glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, 1926


title: Venus Instructing Cupid

medium: Marble

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Notice to connoisseurs.... in case there are any left in France!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, May 25, 1872

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

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


title: Bronze phiale (libation bowl)

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Phrygian

subjects: Bronze Phrygian

credit_line: The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1989


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


title: Bible and Book of Common Prayer

creator: Robert Barker

medium: Satin worked with silk and metal thread, spangles; long-and-short, split, satin, couching, brick, and knot stitches

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Statuette of a girl

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Sketch for Wall Monument

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Red chalk, brush, and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: The Holy Family with Angels

creator: Pomarancio (Cristoforo Roncalli)

medium: Black chalk highlighted with white chalk on blue paper

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1962


title: Shard:  Torso with Flower

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Andrew Hale and Kate Fitz Gibbon, 1992


title: Mirror Lake, Yosemite

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

date: ca. 1872, printed ca. 1876

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


title: Tree and Rocks

creator: Walter Shirlaw

medium: Graphite and wax crayon on off-white wove paper

subjects: American Trees

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Herschensohn, 1967


title: Dish (coppa amatoria)

creator: "In Castel Durante" Painter

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Castel Durante

subjects:
Italian, castel durante
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Feldspar, olive drab

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Broad collar of Senebtisi

medium:
Faience, gold, carnelian, turquoise.
Falcon heads and leaf pendants originally gilded plaster, restored in gilded silver. Eyes originally gilded beads restored in gilded plaster.

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Pendant: Petals of Cornflower

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Tile Inlay from the Palace of Ramesses II

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Edward S. Harkness Gift and by exchange, 1922, 1929, 1935


date: mid-5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Old Woman

creator: Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

date: late 18th century

medium: Wool, metal thread (20-25 warps per inch, 8-10 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: The Flagellation, from "The Life of Christ"

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Afternoon dress

medium: silk, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Edward N. Goldstein, 1983


title: Dress

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: The Jacqueline Loewe Fowler Costume Collection, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 1983


title: Dangerous Reef

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Chandelier

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Three women, one in the foreground drawing water from a well, two in the background washing; folio 45 (recto) from the Madrid Album "B"

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Brush and point of brush, carbon black washes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: The Assumption of the Virgin

creator: Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet

medium: Black chalk, brown wash, heightened with white on blue paper

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1996


title: A Mongolian man

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain


title: Flounce

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 1888


title: Newly Selected Fifty Poets of the Tenmei Era, One Poem Each (Tenmei shinsen gojūnin isshu) 天明新鐫五十人一首; 吾妻曲狂歌文庫(あずまぶり)

creator: Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden) 北尾政演 (山東京伝)

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013


title: Woman and Small Boy

creator: Katsukawa Shunchō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Figure of a Tobacco Auctioneer

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Screven Lorillard, 1953


title: Interior with Paintings and Objets d'Arts

creator: Lady Sarah Caroline Sitwell

medium: Watercolor

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


title: Louise-Marie-Julie

creator: Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial A, from an Antiphonary

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: German

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

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


title: Miniature mug

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Votive stele with Buddha and bodhisattvas

date: mid-6th century

medium: Limestone with pigment and gilding

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1997


title: The Bodhisattva Jizō “Looking Back”

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 14th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink, color, gold paint (kindei), and cut gold on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Mrs. J. Watson Webb, 1930


title: Bridge and Spout Bottle with Figure on Throne

date: 2nd century

medium: Ceramic

country: Viru

subjects: Viru Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1979


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Mustard spoon

date: 19th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Brooch in the form of a stag

date: ca. late 3rd–early 4th century CE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Belt hook

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
China
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Flowers in a Blue Vase

creator: Adolphe Monticelli

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Werner E. Josten, 1956


title: Halberd

medium: Steel, wood (pine)

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Pair of tassels

date: 17th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: King Lear

creator: William Sharp

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Plate 43: A man of sensitivity at the right price, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on wove paper; first state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953


title: Sheet with overall floral pattern on blue background

creator: Anonymous

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

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


title: Interior Elevation of Reims Cathedral with a Statue of King Louis I

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1956


title: Head of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

country: Thailand (Lopburi)

subjects:
Sculpture
Thailand (lopburi)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Plate 12: furniture makers, butcher, etc., from "Virtù ed Arti Esercitate in Bologna" (Trades of Bologna)

creator: Francesco Curti

medium: Etching

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


title: Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus

creator: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

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

credit_line: Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1997


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Card Number 304, Emilia de Silva, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) 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: Case (Inrō) with Design of Hawk on Tasseled Perch

medium: Lacquer, roiro, gold and coloured hiramakie, takamakie, raden inlay; Interior: fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Shepherds Rest; a young man resting on a stick while his dog lies at his feet

creator: Pietro Jacopo Palmieri

medium: Etching and aquatint printed in brown


title: Bowl

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed and slip-painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: L'Estrapade (The Strappado), plate 10 from "Les Misères et les Mal-Heures de la Guerre" (The Miseries and Misfortunes of War)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Panel

medium: Cotton, embroidery on machine net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Fred Horstmann, 1977


title: Standing female figurine holding an amphora on her head

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Ring

medium: Bone

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Finger Grip

date: before 16th century

country: Colima (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Colima

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Well with Wrought Iron Cap and Stone Base

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite

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


title: Kylix Fragment

creator: Carlsruhe Painter

date: ca. 460 BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Side Chair

creator: Lambert Hitchcock

medium: Wood

country: American

credit_line: Gift of James Robert Sands and Laurance M. Land, in memory of Margaret Queen Sands, 1970


title: Carpet Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Wool; symmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: The Hat with the Blue Ribbons

creator: Edwin Austin Abbey

medium: Watercolor on cardboard

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Broadsheet with comic ballads about Mexico, figure with long legs playing the guitar

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: 1920 (published)

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on purple paper

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


title: Flutist

creator: Charles-Edouard Delort

medium: Pen and black ink

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Landscape (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: James Smillie

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

medium: Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Walton Butterworth, 1979


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 15th–13th century BCE

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Gift of Frederic Newlin Price, 1959


title: Netsuke of Three Mice on a Coil of Rope

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: From the Girls and Children series (N64) promoting Virginia Brights Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Streichmelodeon

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, metal

subjects: Chordophone-zither-bowed German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Seaport with Sailors Loading Merchandise

creator: Richard Earlom

medium: Mezzotint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Falcon amulet

medium: Lapis-lazuli

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Seal in shape of a duck

medium: Steatite (glazed)

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sampler

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1910


title: Valentine - Mechanical pull-down, hidden messages

medium: Heavy card-stock, die cut chromolithographed scraps, gilding, silk ribbon

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Régence-style frame

medium: Pine back frame with pearwood upper moldings.

country: Central European

subjects:
Frame
Central european

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Plate (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: probably 19th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Hercules I (d'Este), Second Duke of Ferrara (1431–1505)

creator: Giovanni Antonio da Foligno

date: late 15th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Galloon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: O Daiko

medium: Wood, skin

country: Japanese

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / barrel drum


title: Weight in shape of frog

medium: Diorite or andesite

country: Babylonian

subjects:
Babylonian
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Purchase, Leon Levy and Shelby White Gift, Rogers Fund and Nathaniel Spear Jr. Gift, 1988


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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


title: Hat

medium: cotton, silk

credit_line: Gift of Randolph Gunter, 1961


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: A Scholar in His Study ('Faust')

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching, drypoint, and burin; fifth of seven states

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

creator: Nicolas Cochin

medium: Etching and burin

subjects: Print Flowers Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Fantastical Masked Female Heads

creator: René Boyvin

medium: Engraving; second state of two

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


title: Milk Jug (part of a service)

creator: Digby Scott

medium: Silver; gilded

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in remembrance of Eric N. Shrubsole, 2023


title: Double gourd bottle with immortals

date: 16th century

medium: Porcelain with openwork decoration and polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen fahua ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Six Roundel Patterns for a Goldsmith: the Coronation of the Virgin, God the Father with the Body of Christ, St. Eustace or St. Hubert, the Conversion of St. Paul, Charlemagne and St. Helen, and St. Elizabeth

creator: Israhel van Meckenem

medium: Engraving; first state of two

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Gift of M. Feltenstein, 2013


title: Candelabrum (one of a pair)

creator: David Willaume II

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Beads

date: 9th–12th century

medium: Lapis lazuli; cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Robe à la française

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1960


title: Small writing table

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: Bequest of Bernard M. Baruch, 1965


title: Bonnet

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin R. Metcalf, 1969


title: Study of three standing draped female figures, for "Music"

creator: Frederic, Lord Leighton

medium: Black and white chalk on brown paper

credit_line: Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2016


title: Laos Girl of the Mountain Tribes Siam

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: C.H. Todd, from The World's Racers series (N32) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: United States Military Academy: Song of the Graduates (sheet music cover)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Lithograph printed in black ink on cream wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1985


title: Lyngbya speciosa

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Piece

medium: Hemp

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1966


title: Wagon #679

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Landscape Sketch

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: after 1824

medium: Graphite

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Exchange, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1960


title: Life of Alfred Tennyson, from the Histories of Poor Boys and Famous People series of booklets (N79) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Ewer and basin (lavabo set)

creator: Chisinau Court Workshop

medium: Silver, partially gilded

credit_line: Wrightsman Fund, 2005


title: Ellen Maurice (1578–1626)

creator: Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger

medium: Oil on oak

credit_line: Purchase, Theodocia and Joseph Arkus and University Place Foundation Gifts; Gift of Victor G. Fischer, by exchange; Marquand Fund; Elizabeth and Thomas Easton Gift, in memory of their mother, Joan K. Easton; Gift of Mary Phelps Smith, in memory of her husband, Howard Caswell Smith, by exchange; and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 2017


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–8th century

medium: Linen, wool

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Byzantine
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of  Nanette B. Kelekian, in honor of Nobuko Kajitani, 2002


title: Key

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Inrō with Chrysanthemums and Auspicious Characters for Longevity

medium:
Three cases; lacquered wood with gold, silver, and red takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e on black and nashiji ground
Netsuke: piece of coral
Ojime: ivory bead with lacquer decoration of insects

country: Japan

subjects:
Inrō
Japan
Corals & anemones
Insects

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: 8 of Collars, from The Cloisters Playing Cards

medium: Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-paper
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1983


title: Interior of a Lottery

creator: James Kidder

medium: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on toned wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund, Lois and Arthur Stainman Philanthropic Fund and Robert and Bobbie Falk Philanthropic Fund Gifts, 1999


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Handle of a drawer pull

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

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


title: Bonnet

medium: silk, straw

credit_line: Gift of Miss Ida Lincoln Cooper, 1943


title: Cassowary, from the Birds of the Tropics series (N5) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Nicosthenic


title: Augustus Saint Gaudens

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching, second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Helmet (Hoshi-Kabuto)

creator: Iyehisa of Nara

date: 17th century

medium: Iron, lacquer, gilt copper, copper-gold alloy (shakūdo), silver, silk, gilt leather

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Bracelet

creator: Middle Niger artist

date: 11th–16th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Middle Niger civilization

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Middle niger civilization

credit_line: Gift of Drs. John and Nicole Dintenfass, 1999


title: Trivet

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Pantheon, entablature and column pilaster capital, projection; rosette, details; capital profile; base, profile; pilaster, plan (recto) Pantheon, rectangular niche, perspective (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

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


title: Partisan

date: 18th century

medium: Steel, wood, textile, metallic thread

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
German

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


title: Ointment jar from a Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Spouted Water Container (He)

date: 13th–12th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Bequest of Addie W. Kahn, 1949


title: (From Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Standing Portrait of a Lady with a Globe (from Sketchbook)

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: American Portraits


title: Design for a Proscenium or Alcove

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk

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


title: Moses Before the Burning Bush

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Ointment vase in the shape of a bolti fish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: The Diseased, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: Tony Johannot

medium: Intaglio

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


title: George Washington

creator: Emile Dupont-Zipcy

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Saint Christopher

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1983


title: Fame

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; proof for figure of Fame

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951 by exchange


title: Ascension in an Initial V

creator: Niccolò di ser Sozzo

medium: Tempera and gold on parchment

credit_line:
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
1975.1.2472


title: Miniature Sandal

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Partisan

date: dated 1621

medium: Steel, wood, iron, textile

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


title: Standing Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

date: ca. 8th–9th century

medium: Bronze with high-tin content or silver alloy

country: Northeast Thailand

subjects:
Sculpture
Northeast thailand

credit_line: Gift of Spink & Son Ltd. and Douglas A. J. Latchford, 1989


title: Sight (Visus), from "Quinque Sensuum"

creator: Franz Cleyn

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: Bronze cauldron

date: 5th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Beaker

creator: Johann Leonhard Allmann

medium: Silver

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


title: Design for a Painted Wall Decoration, with Figures in a Landscape with Classical Ruins

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash, over black chalk on cream laid paper. Groundline stylus-incised

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1968


title: Salad Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: A Survey of the Microcosme or the Anatomie of the Bodies of Man and Woman wherein the Skin, Veins, Nerves, Muscles, Bones, Sinews and Ligaments Thereof are Accurately Delineated, and so Disposed by Pasting, as that Each Part of the Said Bodies Both Inward and Outward are Exactly Represented. Useful for all Doctors, Chyrurgeons, Statuaries, Painters, &c.

creator: Johann Remmelin

medium: Engraving and letterpress text

subjects:
Anatomy
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Mary Oenslager Fund, 2018


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Purchase, Mary C. Reed, Mrs. Peter Oliver and Mrs. Vladimir Littauer Gifts, 1978


title: Event handkerchief

creator: C.G. (probably Colin Gillespie)

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Bottle

medium: Porcelain with designs in relief, covered with buff glaze (Awaji ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Actress with shawl draped over hair, 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: Bead

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Crystal

subjects:
Jewelry
Japan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Grasshopper and Morning-glory Vine

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Mirror

medium: Coral, honestone, mirror glass, gilt brass

subjects:
Natural substance
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Gift of Max Falk, 1990


title: Writing table (bureau plat)

creator: Jean-François Leleu

medium: Oak, veneered with mahogany, sycamore and holly; gilt bronze, leather

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1972


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: The Virgin and Child with Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist in a landscape, St Joseph at the left

creator: Jacopo de' Barbari

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Priest's Robe (Shichijō)

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Loth. Clotilde, Caroline (femme Bossant). 43 ans, née à Valenciennes. Sans profession. Anarchiste. 27/4/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Nicolas Bremont, Cook at the French Academy in Rome, pl. XIV from "Recueil de caricatures"

creator: Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully

medium: Etching

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


title: Scabbard chape

date: ca. 6th century BCE

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Leon Levy and Shelby White Gift, 1996


title: Actress wearing elaborate pink costume, from Stars of the Stage, Second Series (N130) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Stela of Nakht

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Oblong-Shaped Ear Ornament

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

medium: Gold

subjects:
Ornament & design
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: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Jug

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Museum of Tehran, 1939


title: Village Cart (unnumbered)

medium: Colored engraving from periodical

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Terracotta head of a woman

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian (?)

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Ornament with three balls

date: 13th–16th century

country: Colombia

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Colombia

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1891


title: Plate from "Varie Architecture"

creator: Johannes van Doetecum I

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Croizette, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

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


title: Bottle

date: 13th century

medium: Pottery

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea


title: Lamp

date: 3rd–8th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Piper. The Native who accompanied Major Mitchell in his Expedition to the Interior

creator: William Fernyhough

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Mlle. Radandja, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds


title: Pair of hand screens

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Silk and wool on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 12 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Soup Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1954


title: Reliquary Shrine

creator: Jean de Touyl

medium: Gilded silver, translucent enamel, paint

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-translucent

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1962


title: Shell

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Shell

country: Sasanian or Islamic

subjects:
Sasanian or islamic
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Pin

date: ca. 1000 BCE or later (?)

medium: Copper alloy

country: Irish

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Irish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Rosary

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold and glass?

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: Shawl

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Mitts

medium: [no medium available]

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Valerie J. Dreyfus, 1941


title: View of the Piazza Navona, Rome, with the church of St Agnese at left and Bernini's fountain in the middle

creator: Gomar Wouters

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Design for a ceiling with allegorical panels

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, gilt, gouache, and watercolor

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup) or plate

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Actress wearing brimmed hat with pompoms, from the Actresses series (N668)


title: Disc

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Kabuki Actors Sawamura Sōjūrō III and Segawa Kikunojō III

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Covered milk jug

creator: Wedgwood-Whieldon partnership

medium: Earthenware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Gift of Josephine Atterbury, 1945


title: Shell pendant or bead

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1916


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

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


title: Title Page for "Thesavrvs Antiqvitatvm et Historianrvm Italie, Mari Lingvistico et Alpibvs Vicinae Tome Secondi Pars Prior"

creator: Jan Goeree

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Helen and János Scholz, 1958


title: Lake, St. Louis, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Illustration for a Book:  Booty Presented to Three Dignitaries

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Graphite or black chalk.   Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint graphite or black chalk

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Shabti box and shabtis of members of the Sennedjem family

medium: Painted wood, limestone, and ink

credit_line:
Funds from various donors, 1886 (86.1.14, .18, .21, .28)
Gift of J. Lionberger Davis, 1967 (67.80)


title: Amulet

date: ca. 1st century BCE

medium: Lapis lazuli

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1949


title: Compass or divider, fragment

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Glass footed bowl

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Double-Ended Bellini Carpet

date: probably late 18th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph V. McMullan, 1973


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Clock-watch

creator: Jeremie Gregorie

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Book-Cover

date: 15th century

medium: Plaster cast

subjects: French Reproductions-ivorie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. deForest, 1931


title: Half-Figure of a Nude Man Facing Left, Head of a Satyr

creator: Peter Paul Rubens

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Terracotta situla (bucket)

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

country: Greek, Asia Minor

subjects:
Vase
Greek, asia minor

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


title: Italian Landscape

creator: Richard Cooper II

medium: Brush and wash over graphite or black chalk

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Bracelet

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Silver, electrum

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1951


title: Jacket from Theatrical Ensemble for a Female Role

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and metallic-thread embroidery on silk satin

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Female Nude with Two Seahorses, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: published ca. 1599–1622

medium: Engraving; third state

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


title: Funerary Mask

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Plaster, paint

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1900


title: Old Age Drives the Stag out of a Lake and the Hounds Heat, Grief, Cold, Anxiety, Age, and Heaviness Pursue Him: (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)

medium: Wool warp, wool and silk wefts, embroidered with wool

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Card Number 329, Wallace, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Vase

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue, the lower part modeled in high relief (Kyoto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


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: Cup

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Le Ministere de la Marine (The Admiralty, Paris)

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching on laid paper

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Head of a Persian guard

medium: Limestone

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955


title: Reverse Copy of La Place du Dome, a Florence (The Piazza del Duomo, in Florence), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Lady and Attendant

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; paint on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Roland Koscherak, 1951


title: Mother and Children in a Stable (from Hosack Album)

creator: David Hosack

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Louis Marx Gift, 1994


title: Screen of Calligraphy and New Year Decoration

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

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

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


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


title: Man seated viewed from behind (Narcissus)

creator: Antonio da Trento

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in brown

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Bird Plaque Ornament

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Vicús

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Vicú
Birds

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


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Terracotta inkwell and bronze stylus

date: 1st‒2nd century CE

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: [Red Fort, Delhi, India]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Matthew Dontzin, 1985


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Miniature Drum

date: 11th–mid-15th century

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt (?)

country: Chimú or Chancay

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Chimú or chancay

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: second half of the 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Side table

creator: Edward William Godwin

medium: Walnut and gilt brass

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Bequests of Ogden Livingston Mills and Bernard M. Baruch, by exchange, and Margaret A. Darrin, Anne Eden Woodward Foundation and Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1991


title: Wine Cup

date: probably mid-19th century

medium: Red lacquer decorated with gold

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Quilt, Marsailles type

medium: Cotton, woven

country: American or British

credit_line: Gift of Miss Virginia D. Lyman, 1942


title: Ax or adze

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Albert Rothbart, 1933


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Tumbler

medium: Blown satin peach and pink glass

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Wedding shirt

medium: Linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Thomas Brown Rudd, 1955


title: Column Base

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Fragment of Shoulder Band

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Miss Germain, from the Actresses series (N203) 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: At Dinner

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Mrs. Brown Potter, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: "Hors de mon soleil, canailles!" (Panurge sortant de chez Raminagrobis)

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching; first state of three

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1922


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Puritan spoon

creator: Jeremy Johnson

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Captain Thomas Coram

creator: William Nutter

date: December 1, 1796

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Byzantine
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of  Nanette B. Kelekian, in honor of Nobuko Kajitani, 2002


title: Polysiphonia parasitica

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Patrick Henry, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1987


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel Schwartz, 1967


title: Portrait of the court dwarf known as el Primo, after Velázquez

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, by exchange, 1931


title: Pilgrim bottle

date: probably 19th century

medium: Glass, enamelled and gilt

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Folding Fan with Scene of an Audience with an Emperor and Empress

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Hand colored on printed paper; wood, ivory,  brass

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Corset

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. John King, 1959


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Vase fragment

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


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

date: 500 BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain (Qingbai ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1915


title: Masquerade Ball

creator: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


date: late 6th century BCE


title: Hercules and Cacus, after Annibale Carracci, and the Destruction of Enceladus, after Agostino Carracci

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Paul Moore, 1960


title: Beaker

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: Spider Ornament

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche
Spiders & arachnids

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


title: Market Place at Cambridge

date: November 15, 1801

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


title: Mummy label of Pleni, age 60

date: 3rd century CE ?

medium: Wood, ink

credit_line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890


title: Flying Figure Holding a Crown, Reclining River God

creator: Jacques Louis David

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Odd Fellows from Downing Street Complaining to John Bull

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Motto Clasp of Sithathoryunet

medium: Gold, carnelian, paste

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Henry Walters Gift, 1916


title: Stockings

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Emily L. Welch, 1952


title: The Bather

creator: Edmund Austin Stewardson

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Stewardson, 1895


title: Daoist Priest's or Woman's Overrobe

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, satin, metallic threads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-woven

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1965


title: Etchings of Paris; Title page to the suite

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching on brown wove paper; first state

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


title: The Adoration of the Holy Lamb

creator: Franz Anton Maulbertsch

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006


title: The St. Louis Exhibition (Louisiana Purchase Centenary), 1904

creator: Alexis Joseph Depaulis

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of W. W. Nisbet, 1914


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: Study of a Flowering Thistle

creator: Carl Georg Anton Graeb

medium: Graphite, watercolor

credit_line: Karen B. Cohen Fund, 2011


title: Double snuffbox

creator: Melchior-René Barré

medium: Gold, glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Spain, from the Natives in Costume series (N16) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Portraits of the Emperors from Julius Caesar to Rudolf II, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: early 9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Two women representing the alliance of Peace and Abundance

creator: Bartolomeo Coriolano

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in brown and black

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Cœnotaphiorum (23)

creator: Hans Vredeman de Vries

medium: Etching; first state of four

credit_line: Purchase, Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 2011


title: Ox leg dish

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Earring

date: 7th century

medium: Silver

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish


title: Box from set of five decorated with cranes and clouds

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stoneware with inlaid design under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of Edna H. Bahr, 1962


title: Ribbon

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Miss Harriet Abbe, 1920


title: The Borough Mongers Strangled in the Tower

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Dish

date: second half 17th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Robert M. Parmelee and Mrs. William L. Parker, 1916


title: Riverbank with Serpent

creator: Léon Davent

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Left Arm Guard

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Steel, copper

country: Turkish

subjects:
Armor part
Turkish

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Card 698, Maud Wentworth, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


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


title: Set of Five Small Dishes (Kozara) with Turnip

date: mid-17th century

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

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Bowl with two fish

date: 13th century

medium: Stoneware with celadon glaze and biscuit relief (Longquan ware)

country: China

subjects: Fish Ceramic China

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: The Art of Conversation

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Gold pediment-shaped brooch

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Pictorial print

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Broaching or toasting fork

date: 17th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Explanatory Text, Part IV, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

creator: Hieronymus Andreae

medium: Woodcut and letterpress

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Gabrielle, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) 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: Part of a Forearm Defense (Vambrace)

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Agate Cushion

medium: Agate

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: The Circumcision

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Etching, second state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Loom Width of Silk Velvet with 'Pinecone' Pattern

date: 16th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; cut and voided velvet, brocaded

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Shield (Pavise)

medium: Wood, leather, gesso, polychromy

country: Austrian

subjects: Shield Austrian

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


title: Portrait of Jacques Callot

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching with engraving; fourth state of four (Lothe)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1940


title: Christ Bound to the Column

date: early 17th century

medium: Wood and ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A. M. Minturn, 1890


title: Ring, filigree with rose quartz

medium: Gold, rose quartz

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roses

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Roundel

medium: Pot-metal glass, colorless glass, and vitreous paint

subjects: Glass-stained Austrian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1936


title: Standing cup

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: The News Brought to Olympus

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

medium: Engraving

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Hollow Ring, Foliate and Oval

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (East Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (east java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Teapot

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Plate 15: mythological figure wearing a helmet and holding a shield

creator: Bartolomeo Crivellari

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Nebamun Supervising Estate Activities, Tomb of Nebamun

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

date: 1928; original ca. 1396–1347 BCE

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

creator: Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix

date: porcelain ca. 1764, secretary ca. 1775

medium: Oak veneered with satin-wood, green and black-stained wood; gilt bronze, marble, soft-paste porcelain, silk

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Pi Nai

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Thai

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
Thai

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Asparagus tongs

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Frances and Edward Munves, 1964


title: Dish

creator: Tournai

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 41 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Terracotta fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)

date: second half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fountain with a Rock Arch in a Park

creator: Israel Silvestre

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1973


title: Sherd

date: ca. 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


creator: Brygan


title: Scarab from Ruiu's Burial

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Hirten / Pifferari mit Brotzeit

creator: Jacob Wothly

medium: Wothlytype print from glass negative

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2016


title: Teapot

medium: Earthenware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Roller Stamp

date: 5th–6th century

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Atlantic watershed
Ceramics-implement

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


title: The Road at the Edge of the Forest, from Verscheyden Landtschapjes (Various Little Landscapes), Plate 4

creator: Willem Pietersz Buytewech

medium: Etching; Begemann's second state of three

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Bradley, Center Field, Worcester, 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: Cylinder seal and modern impression: two humans and two animals

date: early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Chlorite

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Bequest of Edith Aggiman, 1982


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Collar

date: mid-19th century

medium: linen

country: Belgian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Morris Smith, 1974


title: Terracotta mask

date: ca. 100 B.C–50 CE

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek or roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: The Albany Buoying a Bight of the Cable of 1865 on the Night of August 26th, 1866

creator: Robert Charles Dudley

medium: Watercolor with touches of gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892


title: Earring

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold, glass, and pearls.

country: Langobardic or Byzantine (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-gold
Langobardic or byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: "The Emperor Humayun Returning from a Journey Greets his Son", Folio from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama. Folio from the Davis Album

creator: Abu'l Fazl

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 11th century

medium: Linen; block-printed and painted

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

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Boots

medium: leather

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Beth Levine, 1993


title: Theatrical Pleasures, Plate 1: Crowding to the Pit

creator: Theodore Lane

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: A Page from the Jie Zi Yuan

creator: Yang Wencong

date: first edition printed in 1679

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Gates, City, London

creator: James McNeill Whistler

date: after 1887

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on heavy off-white wove; impression from the cancelled plate (Glasgow)


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

creator: Master IQV

medium: Etching

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


title: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt; lightly etched

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1974


title: Sugar bowl with cover

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Steelyard Weight with the Bust of a Woman

date: 4th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1962


title: Locket

medium: metal, pearl

credit_line: Gift of Miss Jessie Rosenfeld, 1943


title: Baluster

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Deal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Textile with bats, butterflies, peonies, and peaches

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk voided cut velvet

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Butterflies & moths
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Lappet

medium: linen

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Antoinette Graves Goetz and Marie Graves Bullock in memory of their mother, Florence Christmas Eno Grave, and of their grandmother, Harriet Ch


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Vase

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Lamp

date: 2nd–7th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


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 kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Hieron

date: ca. 480 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: On the Hudson River, Near Idlewild

creator: Eliza Pratt Greatorex

medium: Oil on paper mounted to board

credit_line: Purchase, Muriel J. Kogan Bequest, 2024


title: Pendant, Conch, Flame and Foliate

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: The Colosseum, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Vase

date: 18th century

medium: Clay covered with speckled glaze (Takatori ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Joseph Describing His Dream, from "The Story of Joseph"

creator: Georg Pencz

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Dagger (Jambiya)

date: 19th century

medium: Horn, steel

country: Persian

subjects: Dagger Persian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Kang-T'ung

date: late 19th century

medium: Copper

country: Chinese (Tibetan)

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Buni

date: 19th century copy of 1500 BCE object

medium: Wood

country: Egyptian

subjects: Chordophone-harp Egyptian


title: Oval tray

creator: Starace

medium: Tortoiseshell, gold piqué, mother-of-pearl

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


title: Water Filter

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Evening slippers

country: probably French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the trustees of Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, 1969


title: A Kind of Religious Paper Decoration

creator: Haikairyō Henpuku

date: 18th–19th century

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bowl with Figure Eight

date: 7th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Landscape with Ruins (recto, from sketchbook)

creator: Jervis McEntee

medium: Graphite and white gouache on blue wove paper

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1982


title: From the Girls and Children series (N58) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Pampano, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

subjects: Fish Print


title: Bottle

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: The Cascade

creator: Antoine Watteau

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Lillian S. Timken, 1959


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Kheker Friese, Tomb of Tjay

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

medium: Tempera on Paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Scraper

medium: Nephrite, spinach-green

country: North America (Alaska)

subjects:
Jade
North america (alaska)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


title: Bronze hydria (water jar)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Rev. Mr. Elder of Watts

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Hercules at the Crossroad

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: George Khuner Collection, Bequest of Marianne Khuner, 1984


title: Glass hexagonal bottle

date: ca. 25–50 CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Pottery Whistle

date: 16th century or earlier (?)

medium: Clay

country: possibly Costa Rican

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Possibly costa rican

credit_line: Gift of John Meigs Keith, 1908


title: Ring

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: gold

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Earring

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold

country: Langobardic or Byzantine (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-gold
Langobardic or byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Flower-Shaped Clothing Plaque

date: 7th–9th century

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

subjects: Metalwork Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Gilt terracotta statuette of a goat

date: 14th century BCE

medium: Terracotta, gold

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Terracotta Mycenaean

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1939


title: Bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Earthenware; incised decoration, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Ensemble

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Aline Bernstein, 1937


title: Drop-front desk on chest (Vargueño)

date: 17th century

medium: Carved, gilded, and partly gilded painted bone; wrought iron

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of the Duchesse de Richelieu, 1960


title: Meat Catchem, North American Chief, from the Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers series (N189) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bell

medium: Metal

country: African

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper African

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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


title: Frontispiece for "The Fall of Longobardi" (La Caduta de' Longobardi)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Wood Bes

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Wood

country: Coptic

subjects: Woodwork-miscellany Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: St. Francis de Paul

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

date: after 1627

medium: Engraving; copy

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Music

creator: Louis Félix de La Rue


title: Copy of Vue du Pont-Neuf (View of the Pont-Neuf), from "Les Deux Grandes Vues de Paris" (The Two Large Views of Paris)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: President Diaz of Mexico, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-2) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Portrait of Pieter Frederik van Os

creator: Anton Mauve

medium: Graphite; framing lines in graphite

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mary W. Tweed, 1929


title: Cross

date: 6th century or later

medium: Cast copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Lawrence J. Majewski, 1999


title: Folding stool

date: early 17th century

medium: Oak decorated with marquetry including walnut, bog oak, maple, green-stained poplar, and other woods

credit_line: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1956


title: Border (one of two)

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace, gros point lace, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: High Baroque frame

medium: Pine

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Frame
Italian, venice

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Studies of a Standing Woman Holding a Spindle and a Woman’s Head in Profile to the Right

medium: Two shades of red chalk

credit_line: Bequeathed by Anne D. Thomson, 1923


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

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


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

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Ball gown

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Philip K. Rhinelander, 1946


title: Constance Queniaux

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Earring with head of a bull

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: gold

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


title: Bottle vase

date: mid-18th century

medium: Porcelain with copper red glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Seal amulet in the form of a recumbent bovid

medium: Onyx marble, green-gray

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Strainer handle

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Floral Design

creator: Antoine Berjon

medium: White chalk with graphite

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: View of the Convent of the Barefooted Carmelites

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching with drypoint; fourth state of five

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Algernon S. Sullivan, 1919


title: Plate 63 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Harvest of the dead' (Muertos recogidos)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Shawl

date: first half 19th century

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W.G. Toland, 1950


title: Wilton album, folio 41: The Drunken Silenus (Tazza Farnese)

creator: Annibale Carracci

medium: Engraving printed from shallow silver cup

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: The Death of Maitre Andre

creator: Claude Gillot

medium: Etching; second state

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


title: Drum

medium: Wood, skin, cord.

country: Guatemalan

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / cylindrical drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Bottle with ritual scene

creator: Amapa-Peñitas artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Nayarit

subjects: Nayarit Ceramics-container

credit_line: Purchase, Mary R. Morgan Gift, 1992


title: Sampler

creator: Anna Huntington

medium: Silk embroidery on linen

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. William Mitchell Jennings Jr. Gift, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, and funds from various donors, 2023


title: S. Chrysogone, martyr (St. Chrysogonus, Martyr), November 24th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Watch

creator: Pierre Duhamel

medium: Case: painted enamel on gold; Movement: gilded brass and steel, partly blued

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Longcase clock with calendar and alarm

creator: Ahasuerus II Fromanteel

medium: Case: walnut and rosewood veneer on oak, and partly gilded limewood; Dial: gilded and silvered brass; Movement: brass and steel

credit_line: Bequest of John Munro Woolsey, 1946


title: Saint Jerome kneeling before a crucifix, with a skull and lion

creator: Battista Franco

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Berthe Stamfort Lawson, 1969


title: Sickle blade set in bitumen for attachment to a handle

medium: Flint, bitumen

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Cloak Pin

medium: Enamel on copper, brass

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Furniture element in the form of a column with lotus bud capital

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Column Base

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Design for the Base of a Vessel with Two Satyrs

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

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

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea

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


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


title: Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)

creator: Kuniyoshi

date: blade, dated 1525; mounting, 19th century

medium: Steel, wood, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold, lacquer, rayskin (samé), silk, abalone shell, silver

country: Japanese

subjects:
Dagger
Japanese
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Brayton Ives and W. T. Walters, 1891


title: Detail from a cap

date: early 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Medallion

creator: Godel & Co. Fine Art

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Hat

medium: straw

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1972


title: Tile

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Edward S. Harkness Gift and by exchange, 1922, 1929, 1935


title: Ceramic Standing Warrior Figure

date: 6th–9th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Remojadas

subjects: Remojada Ceramics-sculpture

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


title: Mud Fragments

medium: Mud

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: [Roman Ruins]

creator: Giacomo Caneva

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Fringe

medium: Silk and wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Panel with Cross and Griffins

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Wood; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Faience aryballos (oil flask) in the form of a head wearing an animal skin

date: 6th century BCE

country: East Greek

subjects:
Miscellaneous-faience
East greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Neck-amphora

creator: Group of Würzburg 199

date: last quarter of 6th century BCE


title: Drawing of the Stern of "La Réal"

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and black, gray and red ink.  Framing lines in pen and black ink, brush and black wash.

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: second half of the 6th century BCE


title: Gold earring with head of a goat

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Dog (Shishi) with Brocade Ball

medium: Lacquer, kinji, brown ishime, incised, takamakie, roiro and togidashi, metal inlay; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Wool textile with Geometric Pattern

medium: Linen, wool

country: Egyptian

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

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


title: Wedding ensemble

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harold Harwood, 1942


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 5th–6th century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Woman smelling blossom on tree (on green silk), from the Girl Art Subjects series (N193) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial lithograph printed on silk

subjects: Print Flowers Trees

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


title: [Shark Egg Case]

creator: Unknown

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Vase

date: early 13th century

medium: Bronze; engraved and inlaid with silver


title: Vase fragment

country: Neolithic, Gonia

subjects:
Vase
Neolithic, gonia

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Chiem See, Germany

creator: Andrew Fisher Bunner

medium: Black ink and graphite traces on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899


title: Scarab Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Tile

date: 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: The Virgin holding the infant Christ on her lap, an oval composition, after Reni

creator: Guido Reni

medium: Etching

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


title: Saint Anne Holding the Virgin and Child

medium: Walnut with polychromy and gilding, and metal thread

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Waistcoat

medium: silk, metal

credit_line: Gift of Bannon McHenry, in memory of C.W. Baumgarten, 2002


title: Hat

medium: Wool, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. John D. Newton, 1945


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Royal throne leg with equestrian warrior

date: 17th century

medium: Ivory with traces of polychrome and iron armature

country: Eastern India, Odisha

subjects:
Ivorie
Eastern india, odisha

credit_line: Purchase, Richard Greenbaum Fund and Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, by exchange, 2022


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: mid-19th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver, copper-silver alloy (shibuichi)

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pet Goldfish, from the Household Pets series (N194) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.


title: Gold and emerald necklace

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Gold, emerald

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1921


title: Cup and Saucer

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Bead

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Stone or glass (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Wedding dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Emily E. Lindsley, 1945


title: Part of Tenby Town and Harbour

creator: George Stokes

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Ewer

date: 12th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: The Grinnell Collection, Bequest of William Milne Grinnell, 1920


title: Earring-hook type with pendant and paste setting

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold, glass paste

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


title: Ewer with Molded Inscription

date: 9th century

medium: Glass, greenish; mold blown, applied handle

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Roundel

medium: Bronze, limestone

country: Elamite

credit_line: Gift of Elsa Rabenou, 1964


title: The Second Ichikawa Yaozo as a Samurai

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

date: probably 1773

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Trousers

medium: leather

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Mary Alice Dykman Dean (Mrs. Bashford Dean), 1950


title: A Mill

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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