title: Pitcher

creator: Ott and Brewer

medium: Porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Florence I. Balasny-Barnes, in memory of her parents, Elizabeth C. and Joseph Balasny, 1986


title: Wall painting

date: ca. 40–30 BCE

medium: Fresco

country: Roman

subjects: Miscellaneous-painting Roman

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: Gift of C. & E. Canessa, 1908


title: Dress

medium: cotton, linen

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. F.D. Millet, 1913


title: Textile Design with Rosettes and Pearls over a Checked Background with Zig-Zagging Lines

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Silver Statuette of St. Philip, from the "Wittenberg Reliquaries"

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Albert Bridges

creator: Henry Inman

medium: Watercolor on off-white Bristol board

credit_line: Bequest of Eliza K. DeLamater, 1926


title: Design for a Knife Handle with a Scene of Christ Joining a Man and Woman

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving and blackwork

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


title: Glass bottle fragment

date: 2nd to mid–1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

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


title: Flora, Goddess of the Spring, from the Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans series (N188) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Botany Print

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


title: Plate 20: To anyone with capital to lose, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953


title: After Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering Collection"

creator: Bada Shanren (Zhu Da)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China Orchids

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


title: Miniature coffeepot (part of a set)

creator: Henry Flavelle

medium: Silver

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


title: Seascape with Waves Breaking off Rocks (from Sketchbook VII)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium:
Black ink, on off-white wove paper
 on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Cimon and Pero

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching; reverse copy (undescribed)


title: Crescent Ornament

date: 3rd century

medium: Copper (hammered)

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: Wine cup

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Kilroy, Pitcher, Baltimore Orioles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Mantle

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Pietà, with the body of Christ supported by the Virgin and two holy women, Saint John stands to the left; from "Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France, Cabinet Crozat" after a drawing by Perugino

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

medium: Etching, printed in brown

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Fantastic winged feline

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Leopard head

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Brass, iron

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Edo people

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: possibly 18th century

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: The Family

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Das ist der Spiegel der menschen behaltnis mit den evangelien und mit epistelen nach der zyt des iars

creator: Peter Drach the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: The Adoration of the Magi

creator: Quinten Massys

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1911


title: Knotted Rug

medium: Wool

country: Caucasian

credit_line: Bequest of Annie Kalish, 1946


title: Knave (Hyder Ali from Mysore), from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving, etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Piece

date: 15th 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: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Terracotta stirrup jar

date: early 11th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: The Shepherd on Horseback Chases the Stag from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; fourth state of five

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


title: Peasant costume fragment

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Cotton on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Ornament

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jade
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Carafe

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1980


title: Card Number 361, Carrie Perkins, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Main Entrance to a Siamese Wat or Temple

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Medallion with Saint Peter from an Icon Frame

medium: Gold, silver, and enamel worked in cloisonné

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Enamels-cloisonné

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Actress leaning against wooden bannister, from Stars of the Stage, Second Series (N130) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Piece

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


title: Steamship Muriel, Quebec Steamship Company, from the Ocean and River Steamers series (N83) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Terracotta situla (bucket)

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Gnathian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian, gnathian

credit_line: Purchase, The Abraham Foundation Inc. Gift, 1979


title: Stencil

date: 19th century

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: John Sowders, Pitcher, Kansas City Cowboys, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Fragment

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Jean-Baptiste van Steenberghen

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; first or second state of two (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Court Ladies Dragging a Cabinet along the Floor

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Design for a Bed Alcove in Empire Style

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and blue wash, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)

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


title: Pendant for Horse Trappings

medium: Copper alloy, enamel, gold

country: Portuguese

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Portuguese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Benjamin Franklin

creator: Dulieu du Chenevoux

medium: Enameled copper

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Design for Three Vases

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, and black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1961


title: Textile swatch to accompany letter

date: late 18th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Purchase, 1985, Funds From Various Donors


title: Menat fragment

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: The Annunciation

creator: Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray-green wash, over traces of black chalk.  Lightly squared in black chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1989


title: Woven Fragment

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Peru; south coast (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peru; south coast
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Vincent Minetti, 1979


title: Spinet

creator: Johannes Gottlob Clemm

medium: Walnut, maple, yellow pine, Atlantic white cedar

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: The Punjab Medal of 1848 and 1849

creator: William Wyon

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Ewer with cover

date: 12th–l13th century

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

country: China (?)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Old State House & Independance Hall, Philadelphia

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Terry, 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: Stool (one of a pair)

medium: Walnut, velvet not original to the frame

credit_line: Gift of Countess Mona Bismarck, 1958


title: Blade

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Tairona

subjects: Stone-implement Tairona

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 35 (recto)

creator: Matthias Mignerak

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley

creator: Robert Dunkarton

medium: Mezzotint

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Satyr standing on a stage and pointing downward toward an audience, two jesters gesticulate at lower left

creator: Pierre Hutin

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: A Short History: General James Ewell Brown Stuart, from the Histories of Generals series (N114) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Study of a Mustang

creator: Edgar Degas

date: modeled possibly before 1865, cast 1920

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


title: Le Mendiant a la Jambe de Bois (The Beggar with a Wooden Leg), from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons" (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942


title: Dragonfly and Bellflower

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

date: late 1820s

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

subjects: Print Japan Dragonflies

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


title: Mariana in the South (Illustration for "The Palace of Art" in Tennyson's Poems, New York, 1903)

creator: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1925


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Study for "The Knatchbull Family": Sir Edward Knatchbull

creator: John Singleton Copley

medium: Black chalk, white-chalk heightening, and graphite on dark blue laid paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1960


title: Fob

date: early 19th century

medium: silver

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Porringer

creator: John Burt

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Hanging (Arid)

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Everfast Fabrics Inc. Gift, 1970


title: Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Portrait of the Emperor Maximilian I in an Architectural Frame (copy)

creator: Hans Weiditz the Younger

subjects: Architecture Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Caricatured Italian, 20 Centimes, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 1) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Set of four corner ornaments

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Nightcap

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Ida Lincoln Cooper, 1943


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Spindle Whorl

medium: Ceramic

country: Peruvian; north coast (?)

subjects:
Peruvian; north coast
Ceramics-implement

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


title: Man holding a scroll in front of his face, from "Small Heads in Oriental Headdress"

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Fragments of a Bowl

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Franken, pientre du roi

creator: Jean Morin

date: 17th century

medium: Etching, second state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Ritual Spoon (Bi)

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1931


title: Deutsche Dichtungen mit Randzeichnungen Deutscher Künstler. I. Band (Lider und Bilder, II)

creator: Wilhelm Camphausen

medium: Etching


title: Pottery Flute

medium: Clay

country: Mexican

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: La Nuée d'orage

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching, drypoint; second state of eleven

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


title: Marine

creator: John La Farge

medium: Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Funerary Cone of the Steward Abekh

medium: Pottery

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


title: Landau #858

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Plate 41 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'They escape through the flames' (Escapan entre las llamas)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burin (proof impression)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


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: Lead figure of a winged goddess, perhaps Artemis Orthia

date: late 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Theater Design

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink heightened with green wash and black ink

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


medium: Terracotta


title: Sword-Hilt Collar (Fuchi)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: Folding Cabriolet Fan with Scene of Figures in a Courtyard Garden

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Paper, ivory

credit_line: The Moses Lazarus Collection, Gift of Josephine and Sarah Lazarus, in memory of their father, 1888-95


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed, open-work lace paper, colored paper, ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: The Crucifixion

creator: Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella)

date: 16th century

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: Whetstone from a Foundation Deposit

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Armchair

medium: Walnut; oak and walnut veneer

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Torquato Tasso at the Ospedale Sant'Anna

creator: Luigi Boscolo

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1947


title: Card Number 579, Grace Chase, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Entrance to Cave from the Lake, from the series, Views in Central Park, New York, Part 2

creator: Louis Prang & Co.

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick, 1947


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Peaceful Pleasures of the Highest Nobility (Kyōraku taihei kiken zu)

creator: Inoue Yasuji

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Hab.ts de la Perse from Playing cards "Jeu d'Or"

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Ornamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 6 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Gold earring with ball stud and pendant

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Tile from a Frieze

date: second half 13th century

medium: Composite body; molded and overglaze luster-painted

credit_line: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of George Blumenthal, 1910


title: Chelsea Reach

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Massacre of the Innocents

creator: Master ND

medium: Woodcut (key block only)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: View of the Fountainhead of the Acqua Felice...., from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching; first state of five (Hind)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. David Keppel, 1960


title: Toe stall

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1921–1922


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Belmead, Virginia, for Philip St. George Cocke (plan of principle floor)

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Pen and brown, yellow, purple, black and red ink over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Salt Cellar

date: late 19th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

credit_line: Gift of Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 1910


title: Tall alabaster flask

medium: Gypsum (alabaster)

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot


title: Nightshirt

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: The Jacqueline Loewe Fowler Costume Collection, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 1986


title: Cap

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costumes-accessorie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Piece

medium: Silk; lined with silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Ovolo frame

medium: Walnut

subjects: Frame French

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Rowel Spur

medium: Iron alloy, silver

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
European

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Fireplace fender

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Charles J. "Charlie" Ferguson, Pitcher, Philadelphia, 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: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Prism, triangular seal

medium: Steatite

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Dress border

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

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

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


title: Figure 17: On the right, electrization of m. procerus: severity, aggression. On the left: attention.

creator: Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation Gift, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors; Harris Brisbane Dick and William E. Dodge Funds; and W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift, 2013


title: Study of a Classical Rosette

creator: Thomas Hardwick

medium: Drawings

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Square

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Mrs. Abercromby Millinery, Skaneateles, New York]

creator: William E. Hummel

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 8 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Ceramic Character Head

medium: Ceramic

country: Ecuador (?)

subjects: Ecuador Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 1975


title: Lump of Blue Paste

medium: Paste

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Tommy Warren, Champion Light Weight Pugilist of the World, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Side chair (one of a pair)

medium: Mahogany


title: Panel

medium: Wool, silk and metal thread on flannel


title: Burbot, from the series Fishers and Fish (N74) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: Knapp & Company

subjects: Fish Print


title: Design for a Cup(?) with a Man Putting up a Net

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink over traces of black chalk. Incised for transfer.

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


title: Pietà

date: late 15th–early 16th century, with later additions

medium: Basse-taille and painted enamel on silver; champlevé enamel on silver; silver filigree, partly enameled; gilt copper and gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fashionable Furniture at Hogs Norton; Mathematical Horsemanship

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Design for a Chandelier

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Medal of Honor

medium: Blue ribbon

subjects: Medal Japan

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


title: Head of a King with a Nemes Headdress

date: ca. 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Turkish man (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware painted in enamel colors

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943


title: Mattimore, Pitcher, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Proof Line-Block Print for Fan

creator: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

medium: Proof line-block print; ink on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Bird-Headed Figure Whistle

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Veracruz

subjects:
Veracruz
Birds
Ceramics-musical instrument

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1963


title: Pastorale

creator: Gabriel Huquier

date: 18th century

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta fragment of a squat lekythos (oil flask)?

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Coin

date: probably 8th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Design for a Monumental Altar, plate L from "Unterschiedliche Neu Inventierte Altäre mit darzu gehörigen Profillen u. Grundrißen"

creator: Johann Michael Leüchte

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Sickle

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Iron

country: Edomite

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1977


title: Marie Antoinette, Princess

creator: Guillaume Phillipe Benoist

medium: Engraving; only state

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Fragment of a Relief

date: 3rd–7th century

medium: Clay

country: Central Asia

subjects:
Sculpture
Central asia

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: The Last Supper

creator: Bernard van Orley

medium: Wool, silk, silver-gilt thread.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Page 4r, from "Eyn New Kunstlichboich"

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Sunset

creator: John Frederick Kensett

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Kensett, 1874


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Snuff bottle with Mexican eight reales coin

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Rock crystal with jadeite stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro, 1971


title: Head of a Girl (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: James Varick Stout

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Garment Plaque in the Shape of Deer

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Kazakhstan

subjects: Metalwork Kazakhstan

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


title: Ivory and amber ornament on bronze surface

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Bronze, amber, ivory

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-amber
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Model of Attendant with Fruit

date: 11th century

medium: Stoneware

country: China

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China
Fruits

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


title: Annual Caledonian Ball Ticket

creator: Asher Brown Durand

date: 19th century

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederic F. Durand, 1930


title: Textile Sample Book

creator: M. Coudurier

medium: Textiles-Sample Books

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-sample book

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Benjamin E. Marks, 1967


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Crickets

creator: Onko Takanaga (dates unknown)

medium: Case: carved red lacquer; Fastener (ojime): silver with openwork slide; Toggle (netsuke): red lacquer carved in the shape of a lobed table with two gentlemen playing a game of go

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: St. Catherine

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut; second of two states

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Adelaide Napier

creator: Olin Levi Warner

medium: Graphite with white highlights on paper

credit_line: Gift of Roberta Napier Forde Whittemore and Eleanor Napier Forde Newton, in loving memory of their mother, Adelaide Napier, 1983


title: Malavakusika Raga: Page from a Dispersed Ragmala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

date: early 17th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Amber?)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, amber )

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1987


title: O.H. Rothaker, The Omaha Republican, from the American Editors series (N1) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Card Number 354, Netta Byron, 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


title: Urpu (jar)

creator: Inca artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Inca

subjects: Inca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1966


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Design for 2 Seat Victoria Sleigh, no. 3548

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Coolest Spot in New England – Summit of Mount Washington Homer (from "Harper's Bazar," Vol. III)

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Le Pompe: Opera Nova, page 12 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Illustrated book

creator: Tsurusawa Tansaku

medium: Album; ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Crocker, 1937


title: Slippers

medium: [no medium available]

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Miss Marion Hague, 1940


title: Necklace

date: ca. 1000 BCE

medium: Copper alloy

country: Irish

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Irish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Desk and bookcase

medium: Mahogany, chestnut, white pine, yellow pine, yellow poplar, cedar; brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Copper Peapod Ornament

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Chimú (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Chimú

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Stephen and Thomas Ettinghausen, in memory of Dr. Richard Ettinghausen and Dr. Elisabeth S. Ettinghausen, 2017


title: Baltimore Album Quilt Top

creator: Various artists

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, by exchange and funds from various donors, 2016


title: Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Linen on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Glass pendant in the form of a miniature jar

date: late 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Ensemble

medium: wool, cotton, leather, metal

credit_line: Alfred Z. Solomon-Janet A. Sloane Endowment Fund and Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2008


title: Wild boar, plate 19 from "Various Animals" (Diversi Animali)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of three

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Head of a Bodhisattva

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Ex Coll.: Columbia University, Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1987


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved and painted


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: slave hire contract, Egibi archive

date: ca. 494 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: George Washington Quilt

date: about 1876

medium: Wholecloth printed cotton

credit_line: Gift of Helen W. Hughart, 1985


title: Pheasant beneath Paulownia Tree

creator: Saien Hōsai (Xiyua Fangqi)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan Trees

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: Woman’s robe with butterflies

date: late 19th century

medium: Silk embroidery on silk satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Butterflies & moths
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Miller, 1970


title: Phaeton #182

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Tenor Valve Trombone in B-flat

creator: Pietro Borsari

medium: Brass, nickel-silver

country: Italian

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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: Box with lychees

medium: Carved red, green, and yellow lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: James E. Campbell of Ohio, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Great Pagoda

creator: Linnaeus Tripe

date: January–March 1858

medium: Albumen silver print from waxed paper negative

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


title: Magdalena Gonzaga

creator: Bartolommeo Melioli

date: 15th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: Embroidered map sampler

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Maps & charts
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Spoon

creator: Harm Amsing

date: late 19th or early 20th century

medium: Pewter

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


title: Cup and saucer with painted winter scenes

date: ca. 1829 (cup) and ca. 1834 (saucer)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

country: Austrian, Vienna

subjects:
Ceramic
Austrian, vienna

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Teacup and saucer

creator: Höchst Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Mercedes Bass, 2007


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Plaque with the Nativity

medium: Champleve enamel on gilded copper

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
South netherlandish
Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: [Untitled]

creator: Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Officer, 7th Regiment, New York State Militia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: View of the Alter Kranen in Würzburg; verso: Study of Three Soldiers and Two More Figures

creator: Johann Adam Klein

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation Gift and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2012


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Panel

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress, 1946


title: Scale from Armor

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Teapot

creator: William F. Ladd

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chace, 1969


title: Piece

medium: Silk and linen


title: Dr. Jabez Bunting

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Pirie MacDonald and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tutchings, 1943


title: 'Bellini' Carpet

date: first half 16th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

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


title: A phoenix sat atop a tree, wings open, an assortment of animals below

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Water Jar

medium: Porcelain with peach-bloom glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1966


title: The Prodigal Son Guarding Pigs

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Collar

date: last quarter 18th century

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Amelia B. Lazarus in the name of Miss Emilie Lazarus, 1895


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 17v)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Badge of the Society of Cincinnati, United States of America, from the World's Decorations series (N44) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Pair of gold spirals

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, Anne Murray Gift, in memory of Rita C. Murray, 1994


title: St. Gregory (copy)

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

date: after 1511

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored

credit_line: Gift of Harry Friedman, 1961


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Bowl

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Ornamental Band

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Red sandstone

country: India

subjects:
Ornament & design
Sculpture
India

credit_line: Gift of N.M. Heeramaneck, 1928


title: Designs for borders and corners, acanthus

creator: Robert William Hume

medium: Pen and ink, graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Jessie F. Hume, 1930


title: Teapot

creator: Arij de Milde

medium: Red earthenware, silver mounts

credit_line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2014


title: A Short History of General Philip Henry Sheridan, from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Design for a Frescoed Altarpiece of The Resurrection

creator: Maso da San Friano (Tommaso Manzuoli)

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk, and compass-constructed architecture, on blue paper

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2000


title: Fragment

date: early 16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta fragments of column-kraters (bowls for mixing wine and water)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Key

date: 13th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Pair of keyhole escutcheons

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: I can assure you, you'll be seated very comfortably!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, September 29, 1871

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 29, 1871

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Esemplario di Lauori..., page 14 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

date: August 1, 1532

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Panel

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Large Cutting Disc for Jade

date: 20th century

medium: Steel

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, 1981


title: Hip ornament with leopard head

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Brass, iron

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Edo people

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


title:
Field Armor Probably of Sir John
Scudamore (1541 or 1542–1623)

creator: Jacob Halder

date: ca. 1587, restored and completed 1915

medium: Steel, gold, leather

country: British, Greenwich

subjects:
Armor for man
British, greenwich

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Fragment


title: Teapot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware with enamel decoration

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Swag end


title: Monsieur a-t-il un état..., from "Croquis Parisiens"

date: February 15, 1857

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Expulsion from Paradise, from "The Small Passion" (copy)

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: [Untitled]

creator: Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: The Death of Arthur

creator: James Fittler

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carolyn R. Vietor, 1964


title: Black glass ring stone

date: ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Glass, black

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Design for a Bookcabinet and Two Pedestals (Verso: sketch)

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium:
Recto: pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor
Verso: graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Dish with cover (part of a service)

medium: Enamel on copper

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


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: Dressing gown

medium: [no medium available]

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


title: Shaft-hole axe head

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Steven D. Robinson, 1981


title: Dressing table

medium: Walnut

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


title: Dedicated to the Newly Created E-l of L-nsd-le

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Fragment of Bowl

date: 15th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted under turquoise glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Women Approaching

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Hot milk jug

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Design for a Painted Glass with Scene from the New Testament

creator: Christoph Murer

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2007


title: Side Chair

creator: Duncan Phyfe

medium: Mahogany, mahogany veneer, ash, cherry

credit_line: Purchase, L. E. Katzenbach Fund Gift, 1966


title: Poke bonnet

medium: straw, silk, cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Sarah F. Milligan and Kate Milligan Brill, 1940


title: Cow amulet

medium: Lapis lazuli

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


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

date: late 6th century BCE


title: Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose III

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: The Virgin holding the infant Christ, a circular composition, after Reni

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

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


title: Mme. Rhea Dressed in Sunday Clothes from the Island of Walgheren, Zealand, Holland, from the set Actors and Actresses, Second Series (N71) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Panel

date: mid-15th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Plate

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Cap

date: 19th century

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Henri Bendel II, 1955


title: Beauty under an Umbrella in the Snow

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Brunnhilde (The Twilight of the Gods)

creator: Odilon Redon

medium: Lithograph


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Silhouetted Study of Bacchus in a Niche

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and  gray ink, brush with gray and pale brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk, on cream paper.  Figure cut out along contours and pasted onto a drawn niche with an arched top (in brush and gray wash, over graphite or lead) on beige paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Jésus est Battu de Verges pièce appelée aussi La Flagellation (The Flagellation), from "La Petite Passion" (The Little Passion)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Shirt

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Cover or scarf

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Disegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli

creator: Polifilo Giancarli

date: 1628 before

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Gold aureus of Octavian

date: 39 BCE

medium: Gold

country: Roman

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Gift of Joseph H. Durkee, 1899


title: Drawers

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Thompson, 1952


title: Design for a Small Hollow-topped Table

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite

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


title: Three Fishes and a Branch

creator: Seki Shūkō

medium: Album leaf; silk

subjects: Fish Painting Japan

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


title: Figure Studies

creator: Sebastiano Ricci

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

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1962


title: Terracotta scyphus (drinking cup)

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

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1942


title: Haniwa Base of a Figure

date: 3rd–6th century

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Sculpture Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Study for "The Street Pavers": Man Laying Paving Stones

creator: Umberto Boccioni

medium: Pen and black ink on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989


title: Sample

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Scene in an Inn

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Christ Before Caiaphas, from "The Small Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975


title: Ribbon

medium: silk


title: Boa

medium: feathers

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Whitewright Watson, 1939


title: Beaker

creator: Chimú artist(s)

medium: Silver

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-container Chimú

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Flask

date: 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Kilroy, Pitcher, Baltimore Orioles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: A Seabeach, Brighton

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; lettered proof, third state of five

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Jug

date: 6th–7th century

country: Byzantine

subjects: Glass-vessel Byzantine

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1959


title: Cup

date: ca. early 6th millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1962


title: Jug

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and incised, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Mohammed and the Monk Sergius

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Christ on the Cross, from "The Passion of Christ"

creator: Ludovicus Siceram

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta model of a shrine

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Column Base

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Summer Evening

medium: Mezzotint; progress proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Cuff  Bracelets Decorated with Cats

medium: Gold, carnelian, lapis-lazuli, turquoise glass

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919–1922; Rogers Fund, 1922; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1988 (1988.17i)


title: Imperial Order of Frances Joseph of Austria, Chevalier, from the World's Decorations series (N30) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Dalmatic

date: mid-16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Textile Panel of Chintz

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton; printed

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

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ste. Marie des Martyres (St. Maria of the Martyrs), May 13th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Statuette of Harpokrates

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Prinsep's Ghat, Calcutta

creator: Captain R. B. Hill

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Hodogaya

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Gore

date: late 19th century

medium: bamboo

country: Melanesian (Aoba Island, Vanuatuan)

subjects: Aerophone-blow hole-end-blown flute (vertical)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Quae Genus Officiating at a Gaming House

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 1, 1821

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sample


title: Amulet, sheet gold, bracelet

medium: Gold sheet

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


title: Abraham's Parting from the Family of Lot

creator: Jan Victors

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: Ritual object (cong)

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913


title: Saucer

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Horse Accomplishments, Sketch 12: A Vaulter !!

date: August 1, 1799

medium: Etching and aquatint


title: Man and Woman Dancing

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving on pink paper

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


title: Fragment of Scarab Inscribed for Seti I

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Porcelaneous ware with relief decoration under celadon glaze (Longquan ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1934


title: Agate Lentoid

medium: Agate

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Sporochnius rhizodes ß paracloxa

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Petit almanach de la cour de France : 1819. treizième année

credit_line: Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 2009


title: Settee

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 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: Philipp Melanchthon 1497-1560, Reformation leader and humanist

creator: Friedrich Hagenauer

medium: Bronze

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


title: Ad Gumbert, Pitcher, Chicago, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card


title: "Out on first! How's that umpire?," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Head of a male figure

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Glass cup

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Glass mosaic fragment

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

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


title: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Dish

date: 19th century

medium: Painted enamel

country: China

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Beads (four)


title: Round-Bottomed Jar

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Neah Bay: Cape Flattery (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Jérusalem, Saint-Sépulcre, Vue générale, 1

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Miniature cream jug

creator: John Le Sage

medium: Silver

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


title: Terracotta phiale (libation bowl)

date: ca. 500 BCE

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Helen H. Mertens Gift, 1974


title: Incense Box with Design of Landscape in Spring (Side: Fagots with Cords)

date: 17th century

medium: Gold and silver maki-e on gold lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Scarab of an Official

medium: Green glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: A wolf and a fox in the woods, illustration for 'El Lobo y la Zorra'

date: ca. 1898 (a later impression)

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Apollo and Daphne (reverse copy)

creator: Barthel Beham

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Sash

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chimú
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Flume House, Santa Cruz Mountains

creator: Davies Machine Shop

medium: Albumen silver prints

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


title: The Virgin and Child with the Infant Christ and Saint Anne

creator: Albrecht Dürer

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


title: Moorish man and woman

creator: Fontainebleau

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Reed Pipe

medium: wood (red cedar or spruce), spruce root

country: Xaadas (Haida), Native American

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-pipe
Xaada (haida), native american

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Tea and coffee set (teapot, coffeepot, milk jug, sugar bowl)

date: early 19th century

medium: Glazed earthenware, silver

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Mrs. Daniel Strobel, Jr. (Anna Church Strobel) and Her Son, George

creator: John Vanderlyn

medium: Probably Conté crayon on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Ella Church Strobell, 1917


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: Dress

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Priest's Robe

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1965


title: The Virgin With Child and St. Anna

creator: Lucas van Leyden


title: Fan

date: 18th century

medium: Parchment, paper, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Drum Major, Austria, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Two Containers (Deux nécessaires)

creator: René Boyvin

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Buckle

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Bronze

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Cup

medium: Porcelain (Kraak porcelain)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Saucer with flowers

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze blue and white enamels, gilding (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Mangle Board

medium: Beech, walnut

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1933


title: Dish with Stylized Floral Pattern

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamels (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan
Flowers

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


title: Alexander Thompson

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1946


title: Portrait of a Man Wearing a Wig

creator: Bartolommeo Nazari (Nazzari)

medium: Black chalk, stumped, highlighted with white, on gray-green paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Janos Scholz, 1952


title: Der Kronenräuber (Claudio Murders His Brother, King Hamlet, By Pouring Poison into His Ear as He Lies Sleeping in the Garden, Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5: 58-78)

creator: Johann Heinrich Lips

medium: Outline engraving and etching

credit_line: Gift of Jenny Philippsohn, in memory of Siegfried Philippsohn, 1955


title: Altar Cloth

date: 13th century

medium: Linen on linen

country: Swiss

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Swiss
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1953


title: Figure of a Standing Dog

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Earthenware with green glaze

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


title: Banquet Scene

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Fragment from a wall hanging; ink on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1999


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

creator: Bhadrabahu

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; free blown, applied decoration

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Part I: Carolo III.  Lotharingiae et Barri Duci. . .Dix grande Tables, contenantes les pourtaictz des pompe funebres

creator: Frédéric Brentel

medium: Engraving

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


title: Mirror

date: 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, cypriot

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


title: Plate

medium: Silver; cast, pierced, engraved

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2007


title: Plate 43 from "Los Caprichos": The sleep of reason produces monsters (El sueño de la razon produce monstruos)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, aquatint

credit_line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918


title: Bue Balabala

date: late 19th century

medium: bamboo, fiber

country: Melanesian (Aoba Island [Ambae] Vanuatuan)

subjects: Melanesian (aoba island [ambae] vanuatuan)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Black Hawk

medium: Oil on canvas mounted on masonite

credit_line: Gift of Chester Dale, 1963


title: Design for a Wall Elevation with Five Bays in the Doric Order

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: The Englishman at the Moulin Rouge

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Lithograph printed in six colors on laid paper; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Bessie Potter Vonnoh, 1941


title: Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild goat

date: ca. 4th century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Thrace

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher, Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1979


title: Jar with Spout

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Platter or tray

creator: widow of Jean-Pierre-Elou-Louis Piette

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Christ in the Garden, from The Passion of Christ, plate 7

creator: Grégoire Huret

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Pilgrim bottle

creator: Orazio Fontana

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Pair of overdoors

medium: Carved wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: New Künstlichs Modelbuch (Page 10 recto)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Piece

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Silk and metal thread, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Broadsheet relating to the sad cry of a poor orphan girl, her lament in verse in the bottom section

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Branch Guards, St. Louis, Missouri Militia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Disk Brooch

date: first half of the 6th century

medium: Copper alloy, garnets, green glass, with patterned foil backings...

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Scarab

medium: Glazed Steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Reliefs from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Geraldine Uhner and C. Pounds, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Wine container (hu)

medium: Eartheware with lead green glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Kajoe pelet, horn

country: Javanese

subjects: Krisse Javanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Openwork 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: Dish

medium: Stonepaste; glazed and inglaze painted

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 7th century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Horizontal Panel with a Bird, from "Varii Generis Opera Aurifabris Necessaria"

creator: Paul Birckenhultz

medium: Engraving; first state of two (SKB)

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Theseus Conqueror of the Centaur Eurytus

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph; only state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Limestone chariot wheel

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Figured flask

creator: White Glass Works

medium: Blown-molded glass

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, 1944


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Frog Mold

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: A Stormy Scene with Figures Unloading Boats Near a House on the Water's Edge

creator: Jacob Cats

medium: Point of brush, gray and blue-gray wash over traces of black chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1993


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Sarong

medium: silk

country: Burma

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear
Burma

credit_line: Gift of Mr. James Thompson, 1954


title: Strip

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Shrine

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Pottery, unglazed

subjects: Ceramic Burma

credit_line: Gift of Ella A. Knapp, 1918


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain

country: China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Portrait of a Man, Said to Be John Durham

creator: John Barry

medium: Ivory

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Design for a Crystal Chandelier

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects:
Drawing
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


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: Artist's Gridded Sketch of Senenmut

medium: Limestone, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: [Still Life with Statuary]

creator: Hippolyte Bayard

date: Early 1850s

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: The Adoration of the Magi

date: first quarter 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Handkerchief

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: Cotton

country: probably French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous gift, 1964


title: Interior with coffered ceiling and Corinthian order applied to walls

creator: John Gregory Crace

medium: Graphite, watercolor and gilt

credit_line: Dodge and Fletcher Funds, 1967


title: Pendant

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Bronze

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Appliqué with recumbent hares

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Scythian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Dagger-axe blade (ge)

date: ca. 3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze inlaid with gold

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 2006


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)?

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


title: Design for ceiling decoration

creator: Joseph Bonomi

date: mid-18th–early 19th century

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and  Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971


title: The Colosseum, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cuneiform tablet: private letter

date: ca. 20th–19th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, 1966


title: Tiraz Textile Fragment

date: dated 320 AH/932–33 CE

medium: Linen; plain weave, embroidered in silk

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Design for a Pulpit, plate 1 from an Untitled Series of Pulpit Designs

creator: Martin Engelbrecht

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Figure of a woman

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Border

date: early 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Hamilton W. Cary, in memory of Mrs. Cary, 1906


title: Avarice (Avaritia) from The Seven Deadly Sins

creator: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Seated Figure

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Gray sandstone

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Mort de Montcalm [The Death of Montcalm at Quebec, September 14, 1759]

creator: Jean-Baptiste Morret

medium: Aquatint, hand colored

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Bronze twisted-wire bracelet

date: 9th–8th century BCE

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

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


title: Bead, openwork

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Statuette

medium: Mud

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Bead

date: 7th–6th millennium BCE

medium: Jadeite

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Mary Magdalen Repentant in the Wilderness

creator: Cornelis Cort

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


title: Armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud

creator: Georges Jacob

medium: Carved and gilded walnut; gold brocaded silk (not original)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Glass dish

date: late 1st–early 3rd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Isotta degli Atti (1432/3–1474)

creator: Matteo de' Pasti

medium: Bronze

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Measured Drawing of Cornice

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Graphite

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


title: Fragment of an open bowl

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Christ Carrying the Cross, from "The Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: John McJannet Furniture, Minot, North Dakota]

creator: M. K. Johnson

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Textile with Lotus and Arabesque Design

date: 15th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block-printed, mordant dyed

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

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1930


title: Wheat–Field in Which General Reynolds Was Shot

creator: Unknown

date: July 1863

medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: View of an Italian Coastal Village with Boats Landing on a Beach

creator: Casper van Eyck

date: mid-17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash (gray wash added at a later date?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: A Fencing Match

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: De l'imitation de Jesus-Christ, traduction nouvelle ; ornée de figures en taille-douce

creator: J. B. Guélard

credit_line: Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 2008


title: Chest of Drawers

creator: John Goddard

medium: Mahogany, white pine, chestnut

country: American

credit_line:
Purchase, Emily Crane Chadbourne Bequest,
Gifts of Mrs. J. Amory Haskell and Mrs. Russell
Sage, by exchange, and The Sylmaris Collection,
Gift of George Coe Graves, by exchange, 1972


title: Title Page, "Omnium Pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae Gentium Habitus"

creator: Abraham de Bruyn

medium: Engravings; Old full calf gold-tooled binding

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Nightgown

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stuart G. Scott, 1946


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: A Party of Merrymakers

creator: Pieter Jansz. Quast

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Josephine Bieber, in memory of her husband, Siegfried Bieber, 1970


title: Oval Watch Plate with Diana and Endymion (?) startled, from a Series of Six Designs for Watch Cases

creator: Antoine Jacquard

medium: Blackwork and engraving

credit_line: Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2022


title: Gold fillet with a Herakles knot

date: late 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Gift of Christos G. Bastis, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 1995


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Teatro delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne..., page 37 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut, engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Square with Quail

date: probably 5th century


title: William Shakespeare

creator: Illman and Sons

date: mid-19th century

medium: Steel engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Sheldon Lyon, 1947


title: Seascape

creator: Walter Shirlaw

medium: Watercolor and charcoal on off-white laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Herschensohn, 1967


title: Bartholomew Fair

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Canaanite Scarab Showing a Prostrate Man under Two Cobras and a Scarab (Emblems of a Ruler)

medium: Steatite (glazed)

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


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion

date: 14th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: German

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German

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


title: Lavatory

medium: Earthenware

country: Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1917


title: Seated Buddha Vairocana

date: early 8th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: An Essay on the Sublime & Beautiful


title: Elevation and Section of a Columbarium

creator: Pietro Paolo Coccetti (Cocchetti)

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Broken Tackle

creator: Sir Hubert von Herkomer

medium: Etching and drypoint

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2013


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Polysiphonia byssoides

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Unfalo Nearly Causing the Explosion of Theuerdanck's Ship, from Theuerdanck

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Vesper Bells at Ikegami

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: A Home in the Country

creator: Frances Flora Bond Palmer

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1951


title: Two Camels Fighting

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Rembrandt's Wife and Five Other Heads

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Putto

date: 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Linn Howard, 2024


title: Phaeton #976

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Posset pot with cover

date: early 18th century

medium: Slipware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Mosque Lamp Bearing the Name of the Mamluk Sultan al-Malik al-Nasir

medium: Glass, colorless with brown tinge; blown, applied blown foot, applied handles; enameled and gilded

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Hair Ornament

medium: Gilt silver

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Earring

date: 3rd century

medium: Gold, garnet, glass paste

country: Pontic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Pontic


title: Card Number 76, Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


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

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Sheet, linen mark, medium spin, close weave

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Clock with pedestal

creator: André Charles Boulle

medium: Case and pedestal of oak with marquetry of tortoiseshell, engraved brass, and pewter; gilt bronze; dial of gilt brass with white enameled Arabic numerals; movement of brass and steel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Angel

creator: Ignaz Günther

medium: Lindenwood, traces of gesso

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Old Gate of the Palais de Justice

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching and drypoint; second state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Remora, from the series Fishers and Fish (N74) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: Knapp & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Bristol

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Cadwalader Fund, 1916


title: Banjo, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 4) issued by Kinney Bros.


title: Jug

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Nephthys, Horus, and Isis Amulet

medium: Faience


title: Head and neck from a marble figure

medium: Marble

country: Cycladic

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cycladic

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Mold for Bes-image Amulet

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Teapot

creator: John Deacon

medium: Silver


title: Plate and Nail

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Panel with the Baptism of Christ

date: early 16th century

medium: Oak

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1950


title: Jewelry box

medium: Cypress, boxwood


title: Order of St. Andrew, Russia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes


title: Embroidered Border Fragment

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Candlestick


title: Teapot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware with underglaze “scratch blue” decoration

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Bed curtain border

medium: Linen, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Teabowl and saucer

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harold D. Shattuck, 1962


title: Bronze hoof

date: early 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Possibly Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Possibly cypriot

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


title: Orientals

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


creator: Painter of Berlin 2268

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


title: Cap-Shaped Plaque with Lion

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples, from "The Small Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975


title: Vasanti Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Himachal Pradesh, Bilaspur)

subjects:
Painting
India (himachal pradesh, bilaspur)

credit_line: Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2006


title: A Tavern Card for John Shaw

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Adze

medium: Wood, bronze or copper alloy, leather


title: Duck

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Glass double head-shaped bottle

date: 3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 1921


title: Terracotta fragment of a lid

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Figure of a gentleman

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Boxwood, horsehair, and silk

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Ring with scarab

medium: Silver, plasma


title: Tankard

medium: Glass, silver

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Anna van Bergen (1492–1541) and Her Son Hendrik (born 1519) as the Virgin and Child

creator: Jan Gossart (called Mabuse)

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Leaf from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

date: first edition printed in 1633

medium: Individual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Half Longitudinal Section and Half Plan

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

medium: Pen, black ink and wash

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972


title: Fragment of a Band

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: The Foolish Virgins Conversing

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Mary, Queen of Scots, Under Confinement

creator: William Ward

date: January 1, 1793

medium: Mezzotint

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Jean Ducrollay

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of James Donahue, 1954


title: Vase in form of carp and waves

medium: White porcelain (Hirado ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Furniture element

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ivory (hippopotamus)

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: Stirrup-shaped Ring with Oval Bezel with Diaper Design

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Seated actress leaning elbow on back of chair, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

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


title: [Factory Interior]

creator: Louis Lafon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Charles Isaacs, 2008


title: Battle of Wagram

creator: Bertrand Andrieu

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of Hon. Levi P. Morton, 1885


title: Gimp

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Taweret

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Key padlock

date: probably 18th century

medium: Lock: iron, brass; key: steel

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Necklace

date: 17th–19th century

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: Plaque with Warrior and Mudfish

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Edo people

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


title: Portrait of U. S. Grant

creator: John Chester Buttre

date: late 19th century

medium: engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Gold aureus of Diocletian

country: Roman

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Gift of Cindy and David Sofer Collection, 2025