title: Krishna and Radha in a Bower:  Page From a Dispersed Gita Govinda

creator: Sahibdin

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Mewar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, mewar)

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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 Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: A rocky stream, Italy

creator: Samuel Woodforde

medium: Watercolor, pen and gray ink, over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Jeffrey L. Berenson Gift, 2003


title: Head of an Angel or Child

creator: Louis Marin Bonnet

date: mid to late 18th century

medium: Crayon manner in red

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, from "The Life of the Virgin"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

subjects: Architecture Print

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


title: Figures on a Country Road

creator: Louis Gabriel Moreau

medium: Gouache, over traces of graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: Design for Landau, No. 3094

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Mounted soldiers

creator: John-Lewis Brown

medium: Etching

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


title: Ornament Frontal

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold, stone

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: Sarah Goodridge

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2006


title: Cover

date: 17th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Pilaster

date: 16th century

medium: Wood, gold leaf

country: Italian or French

subjects:
Architecture
Woodwork-architectural
Italian or french

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Bow Brooch

date: first half 6th century

medium: Gilded silver with garnets

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Pelike

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Gift of L. P. di Cesnola, 1876


title: Compote

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keuffel Keller, from the Gretchen Keuffel Keller Collection, 2002


title: Linen mark (Type XIII)

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Plate (one of six)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: late 19th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Margarette A. Jones, 1906


title: Mold of a Lily Petal

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Scenes from the Story of Moses

creator: Ferdinand Favre et Cie

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Karl Freund, 1913


title: Meiping vase

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Glazed stoneware (Cizhou ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Column

date: 13th century

medium: Stone

country: French

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


title: Ax in Anthropomorphic Shape

medium: Copper

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

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


title: Mordant

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: Courtly Scenes

medium: Wool warp;  wool and silk wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: [Soldiers in Creek, Below Orange and Alexandria Rail Road Bridge Across Bull Run, Virginia]

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Trencher (one of a set)

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Oak and sycamore woods, painted, silvered and yellow varnished; inscription: ink (animal or vegetable)

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Length

date: late 18th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Stele fragment

date: ca. early 1st millennium BCE

country: Hittite

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: White card stock with gilt and scalloped borders; chromolithography

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Shadow player

date: 19th century

medium: Donkey skin, cord

subjects: Leatherwork China

credit_line: Gift of H. J. Tei, 1920


title: A seated man viewed from behind (Narcissus)

creator: Antonio da Trento

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in dark green

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Copies after the 'Livre contenant passement de moresques' (plate 2)

creator: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Etching (?)

credit_line: Purchase, Susan Schulman Printseller Gift, 2014


title: Broadsheet with love songs, a man playing an instrument and singing outside his lovers' window

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on orange paper

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


title: Landscapes

creator: Li Jian

medium: Four album leaves; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Patricia and Thomas Ebrey, 2024


title: Cross-Shaped Tile

medium: Stonepaste; inglaze painted in blue and turquoise and luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1941


title: Private, National Rifles, Washington, D.C., 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: Ewer

date: 8th–9th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Strip of galloon

medium: Metal thread on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Papyrus fragment

medium: Papyrus, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Pair of Bracelets

creator: John Carlin

medium: Gold, watercolor on ivory, hair

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2001


title: Chamberstick

creator: Anthony Nelme

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


date: 5th century BCE

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


title: Ornament

date: 18th century

medium: Wood, gilt

subjects:
Ornament & design
Woodwork

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Lamp

date: 14th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

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


title: Sleeve (one of a pair)

medium: Bobbin and needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Carnelian ring stone

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Sard

country: Italic

subjects:
Gems
Italic
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Inlay: woman wearing a cylinder seal, playing a flute

medium: Shell

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Illustrated Manuscript Inventory of an Armory for Sale by Lottery

date: 16th century

medium: Vellum

country: German

subjects:
Book & manuscript
German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1950


title: Card Number 238, Carrie Wallace, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Shield (<i>phub</i>)

date: possibly 14th–16th century

medium: Cane, iron, brass

country: Tibetan

subjects: Shield Tibetan

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2001


title: Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Seti II

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: An Epicure

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 1, 1801

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Glass cameo cup (scyphus) fragment

date: late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Designs for Two Lidded Vases, plate 4 from "Schöne und auf die neueste Facon inventierte Gefäße und Krüge"

creator: I.S. Hildt

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Jack A. Josephson, 1973


title: Covered incense burner with archaistic patterns

medium: Porcelain with reserve white decoration over a cobalt blue ground (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Scarab Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Re

medium: Bright blue faience

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


title: Woman Arranging Her Hair

creator: Camille Pissarro

medium: Monotype in black and red inks on wove paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


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: armor: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911; right thigh and knee defense, and left foot defense: Fletcher Fund, 1922


title: Tile

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Earthenware, glaze

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Ceramics-tile

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: The Death of Saint Mary Magdalene

creator: Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968


title: Armet

date: ca. 1490, with later additions

medium: Steel, brass

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Helmet
Italian, milan

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


title: Glass marble

date: 1st–4th century CE

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


title: Cream jug

creator: Zurich Pottery and Porcelain Factory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Pin with head of animal's foot

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Waistcoat

medium: cotton

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1988


title: Royal Academy, Somerset House, London


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Rank Badge with Manchurian Goose

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Daphnis and Chloe

creator: Etienne Louis Advinet

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Heart Amulet

medium: Lapis lazuli

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Covered Sauceboat

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hazard and Marion H. McVitty, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Lauriston H. Hazard, 1960


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Lower Meguro (Shimo Meguro), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Summer Evening

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint; progress proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Bronze statuette of a nude youth

date: 5th–4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Storehouse in Paris, France

date: 1862 (Bunkyu 2, 6th month)

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

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1960


title: Plate

date: late 13th century

medium: Copper, traces of gilding, lacquer

country: Italian

subjects: Metalwork-copper Italian

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Paul W. Doll Jr., 1964


title: Cream jug

creator: Paul de Lamerie

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of George D. Widener and Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, 1958


title: Souvenir spoon with view of with tower at Coruña and arms of Spain

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1901


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Card Number 519, May Belle Raymond, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: Thetis Standing with Two Tritons

creator: Anonymous, Italian?, 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Design for a Cartouche or Frame with Four Groups of Military Ornament: Flames and Thunderbolts on bottom; Swags of Bombs at Sides; Sword, Baton, and Laurel Top.

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray-brown wash, over graphite or lead, on beige paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Panel of tiles (99)

date: early 19th century

medium: Tin-enameled earthenware

country: Mexican

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


title: Teabowl with Rising Sun and Crane

creator: Eiraku Hozen

date: mid-19th century

medium: Stoneware with cream slip under a white slip and polychrome enamels, gold, and silver over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Urn

medium: Porcelain, overglaze enamel decoration, gold, painted with views of New York City

country: French


title: Guenbri

medium: Wood and parchment.

country: Egyptian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Parapet Block

medium: Stone

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Dutch Ship

creator: Utagawa Yoshitomi

date: 2nd month, 1861

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Print
Japan
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Tuscany, from Flags of All Nations, Series 2 (N10) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: View of the Tiber

creator: Victor Jean Nicolle

date: before 1789

medium: Pen and ink with watercolor washes on paper

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Portrait of Michel Anguier (1612–1686)

creator: Laurent Cars

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Sugar Bowl

creator: Paul Revere Jr.

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


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


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Spoon

creator: William Scarlett

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Steven D. Robinson, 1982


title: Bowl

creator: Seifu Yohei

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


title: Beware of the fall!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, September 24, 1868

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 24, 1868

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Design for Wagon, no. 905d

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: A faun standing in a niche holding aloft a bunch of grapes in his left hand and holding a bundle of fruit in his right hand, a dog lower left

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

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Fruits


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, brass, gold

country: Javanese

subjects: Krisse Javanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Cup and saucer

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Vladimir M. Eitingon, in memory of his wife, Nadine (Nadia) Eitingon, 1982


title: Saucer (one of 12) (part of a service)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Madonna and Child with Saint Anne

creator: Giuseppe Canale

medium: Etching

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


title: The Savior

creator: Giambologna

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, 1873


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 17v)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Apron

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: wool, metal thread

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


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: Bells, Probably for a Horse Harness

date: ca. 3rd century

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Jean Bonvoisin

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Scarab Inscribed for Queen Merytamun

medium: Faience ?

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1905


title: Chinese Children at Play

creator: Isei

medium: Framed painting; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Mold for a Hemispherical Boss

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: The Image Breaker

creator: Alfred Jones

medium: Etching, engraving and stipple on steel

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1993


title: At the Mosque Door

creator: Osman Hamdi Bey

date: dated 1879

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Turkish Centennial Fund, 2024 Benefit Fund, and Zeynep Oğuz Bilimer and Evren Bilimer Gift, 2025


title: Schizonema Smithii, ß torqata

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Netsuke of Man and Child

date: 18th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Madge Lawner, 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: Large marble vase decorated with a relief of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, from "Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi disegnati ed incisi dal Cav. Gio. Batt. Piranesi, Vol. II" (Vases, candelabra, grave stones, sarcophagi, tripods, lamps, and ornaments designed and etched by Cavalieri Giovanni Battista Piranesi)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Crosby S. Noyes, The Washington Evening Star, from the American Editors series (N35) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Lump of glass slag

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

medium: Glass slag

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: A domestic scene with a mother holding her child's hand while talking to her husband

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: ca. 1880–1910  (a later impression)

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: The Miraculous Draught of Fishes

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

subjects: Fish Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: The Actor Bandō Hikosaburō II as a Komuso in the Role of Sōga no Gorō Tokimune

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Staff

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Grands Sauteurs!, from "La Caricature"

creator: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1985


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Harry

creator: Alfred Capel Cure

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, in memory of Christopher Hemphill, 1987


title: Group of six pieces of fruit

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramics-pottery Fruits

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Vase (one of a pair)

creator: Humphrey Palmer

date: late 18th century

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


title: The Duenna's Return, from "Illustrated London News"

creator: William Luson Thomas

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015


title: Christening ensemble

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of A. Elizabeth Wadhams and D. Lynde Wright, 1964


title: Finger Ring

medium: Gold, garnet cabochon

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Design for a Painted Ceiling

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

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


title: Canopic Jar (with lid 30.8.54)

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1907


title: [Actress in studio reclining in heavy wooden chair], from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Well-a-day, Is this my Son Tom

creator: Samuel Hieronymus Grimm

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Glass ribbed bowl

date: end of 1st century BCE–mid 1st century  CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Miniature saucer (one of five) (part of a set)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Garbat, 1961


title: Sailing in Autumn

creator: Xugu (Zhu Huairen)

date: dated 1893

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986


title: Governor Hughes, Arkansas, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-1), issued by Duke Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Joseph P. "Joe" Crotty, Catcher, Sioux City Corn Huskers, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Epiphanius, from "Sylvae Sacrae Monumenta...Anachoretarum"

creator: Maerten de Vos

medium: Engraving

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


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed  lace paper, chromolithography, colored paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: French Commode Table, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash


title: Tassel

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Carpet

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1951


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Simone Cantarini

medium: Etching

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


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Scarab Inscribed "God's Wife Maatkare, Lady of the Two Lands

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Cup

medium: Porcelain with a mirror-black glaze, painted in gilt (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Fan

medium: mother-of-pearl, paper, gouache

country: European

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of George Arents in memory of Annie Walter Arents, 1949


title: Sugar bowl with cover

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1969


title: Key on Ring

medium: Copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-brass Byzantine


title: Millefiori bead rods, 15

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Plate

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue


title: Dish

date: dated 1545

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1884


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: String of 4 Beads

date: after 200 CE


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

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


title: Frontispiece, from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first quarter 5th century BCE


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1929


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Vase with cover (part of a garniture of three vases)

creator: Bristol

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Carnelian

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Allegory of Justice (Sanctity of the Law) with a court scene depicting a man being pardoned by a judge, plate 12 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

creator: Willem van Swanenburg

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Distribution of Eagles to Army by the Emperor. 1804.

creator: Jean-Pierre Droz

date: 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: See 14.6.360

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Vase fragment

country: Neolithic, Gonia

subjects:
Vase
Neolithic, gonia

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–15th century

medium: Ceramic

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Thatched Hut with Crane, Reeds and Mountains

medium: Lacquer, roiro, gold, silver and red hiramakie, togidashi, nashiji; Interior: roiro and fundame

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Plate from "Combats et Triomphes"

creator: Etienne Delaune

medium: Engraving; probably second state

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Sampler

medium: Linen, needle lace

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


title: Prophecy Explained

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 17, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: White cross-lined ware bowl with geometric patterns

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: Dantanorama Museum

creator: Grandville, Ramelet and Lepeudry

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of the George Eastman House, 1959


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: Jug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: The Mocking of the Prisoners

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

date: ca. 1540 (republished 1605)

medium: Engraving; second state of three (BLL)

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


title: Ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief

date: ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman


title: Partridge (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Kate Stokes, 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: Design for 4 Seat Sleigh, no. 3549

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: One of a Set of Twelve Chair Strips

date: 18th–early 19th century

medium: Satin embroidered with silk, couched metal-wrapped silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry-George McNeary, 1966


title: Saint Sebastian

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

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1940


title: Young Girl in a Blue Dress

creator: Auguste Renoir

medium: Watercolor with gouache highlights on thick cream wove paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Pitcher

medium: Lustreware

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


title: The Stoning of Saint Stephen

creator: Niccolo (Nicolaus) Bambini

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


title: Bell

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Leroux (or Le Roux)

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: The Standard Bearer

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Views of Foreigners (Gaikokujin no zu)

creator: Utagawa Yoshitomi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Versuchung, from the series Vom Tode Zweiter Teil

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Prints

credit_line: Gift of Dr. F. H. Hirschland, 1952


title: Horse Galloping on Right Foot

creator: Edgar Degas

date: modeled probably after 1887 or 1889, cast 1920


title: Plate (one of two)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Arnhold, in memory of Mrs. Lisa Arnhold, 1975


title: Flower vase (cuvette à fleurs courteille)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Jar

date: 15th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Gift of Kouchakji Frères, 1910


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: The Adoration of the Magi

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching


title: Demonstration panel showing technique for raising travertine and marble blocks for the construction of the tomb of Cecilia Metella, Rome, from "Le Antichità Romane"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: [Group of Men and Boys Standing Along the Railing of the Fulton Street Bridge]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Pendant, aidoion

medium: Gold

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


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

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: 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: Daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers

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


title: Assumption of Mary Magdalen

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with blue-green wash, over black chalk and over pricked outlines on light tan paper

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Twenty-four riders dueling with swords in four groups, with two groups in lines at the top and bottom of the page, from "La gara delle Stagioni"

creator: Stefano della Bella


title: Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase

creator: Vincent van Gogh

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Flowers

credit_line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1993, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002


title: Scissors

date: 15th or 16th century

medium: Iron

country: Western European

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
Western european

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Fork with knife handle (one of six)

creator: Louis-Antoine Taillepied

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Strip

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Edging

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: The Lovers

creator: Israhel van Meckenem

medium: Engraving

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


title: [Eduard Hildebrandt]

creator: Rudolph Rogorsh

medium: Albumen silver print

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


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

creator: Psiax

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: Horse trapping

date: 19th century

medium: Dye-patterned hemp, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed

credit_line: Gift of John B. Elliott through the Mercer Trust, 1999


title: Armchair

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Beached Whale at Wijk aan Zee

creator: Jan (Pietersz.) Saenredam

medium: Engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Purchase, A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest and Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, 2022


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Landscape with a wooden bridge and two figures

creator: Remigio Cantagallina

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968


title: Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr

date: 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan, Cerveteri

subjects:
Terracotta
Etruscan, cerveteri

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Spaghetti Eaters

creator: Real Fabrica de Buen Retiro

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Canopic jar with human head

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900


title: Boy carrying pups

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Cap

date: 18th century

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vajrabhairava mandala

medium: Silk tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1992


title: Ferret

date: 6th century

medium: Copper alloy, "tinned" surface

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Chartres Cathedral

creator: Pierre Emile Joseph Pécarrère

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Horn

date: late 19th century

medium: Ivory

country: Burmese

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Burmese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Plaque (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Lappet

date: mid-18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. D. De Balogh de Almas, 1928


title: Three Luchese saints interceding with the Virgin for the victims of the plague

creator: Pietro Testa

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: A Courtier Following the Recent Edict

creator: Abraham Bosse

date: mid to late 17th century

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


title: Two designs for ornamental plaques

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink with brown wash

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of William Rieder, 2009


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Mirror

date: 10th–11th century (?)

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Vase decorated with bird on flowering plum

date: mid-17th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Dish

medium: Glass with gold and silver

country: India

subjects: Glass India

credit_line: Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2004


title: Ivory disk with rosette

date: 13th–12th century BCE

medium: Hippoptomus ivory

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Cypriot
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Chalcedony, bluish

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Book cover with overall stripe, zigzag, and triangle pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Industrial Landscape

creator: Frédéric Juncker

medium: Brush and lampblack, turpentine, and wax on wax-coated paper with wiping and scraping

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Carolyn H. Specht Gift, 2025


title: Desing for a base or support with three female figures

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1961


title: An American Drawn from Life

creator: Utagawa Yoshitomi

date: 1861 (2nd month)

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Figure

date: 7th–10th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Veracruz

subjects: Veracruz Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Purchase, Andrall and Joanne Pearson Gift, and The Pearson-Rappaport Foundation Gift, in memory of Andrall E. Pearson, 2009


title: Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora

creator: Euphiletos Painter

date: ca. 530 BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


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: Prick Spur

date: 11th century

medium: Iron alloy

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle in Cactus Form

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects:
Moche
Cacti & succulents
Ceramics-container

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


title: Plate 27: Proserpina gives Psyche the box of beauty, from 'The Fable of Cupid and Psyche'

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 17th century

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Plaque

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Favrile glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Preparing to Start

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 30, 1811

medium: Etching

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


title: Terracotta stemmed kyathos (single-handled cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Piece

date: 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, copper

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


title: Armorial shield

medium: Marble

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Hat

medium: straw

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg, 1972


title: Ewer

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; molded; luster-painted on opaque white glaze under transparent colorless glaze

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1963


title: Female figurine

medium: Silver-gold alloy

country: Inca

subjects:
Sculpture-sheet metal
Inca

credit_line: Gift of Louise Reinhardt Smith, 1995


title: S. Agnelet, abbé (St. Agnellus, Abbot), December 14th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Relief from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Hercules Killing Cerberus

creator: Master F. P.

date: 16th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Varney Samuel "Varn" Anderson, Pitcher, St. Paul Apostles, 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: Libye, from "Jeu de la Géographie"

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching, state iii

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


title: Tazza

date: early 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Edward Holbrook Collection, Gift of Mrs. Edward Holbrook and John S. Holbrook, 1921


title: Lady at Her Toilette with Attendant on a Terrace

medium: Gold and color on paper

subjects: Painting India

credit_line: Gift of Adele Simpson, 1964


title: Disk

date: 7th–5th century BCE

medium: Amber

country: Italic

subjects: Miscellaneous-amber Italic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Galloon

date: 18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fanchon

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Margaret King Eddy, 1968


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China

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


title: Tray

medium: Lacquer

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Lamp Handle with Dolphins

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Lawrence J. Majewski, 1963


title: Robe à la française

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: The Lake of Zug

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Watercolor and bodycolor (gouache) with reductive techniques over graphite

credit_line: Marquand Fund, 1959


title: Box in the form of a lemon

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Doris Duke, 1970


title: Jacket

medium: wool, brass, metal

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Herman Hollerith Jr., in memory of the family of Herman Hollerith Jr., 1977


title: Netsuke of a Seated Hare

creator: Minkō

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Wood, horn

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Alvin H. Schechter, 1985


title: Fireman, France, 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


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Ostracon with chalk inscription

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Pottery, chalk

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Oh! Mon ami...., quel beau turco!..., from Au Camp de Saint-Maur, published in Le Charivari, August 15, 1859

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: Dessert Plate

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Porcelain

country: British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Blackwork Print with a Ring Bezel and Horizontal Panel at Center Flanked by Vertical Fillets and Curved Motifs

creator: Hans de Bull

medium: Blackwork engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: body fragment with garment pleats

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Fringe


title: People celebrating at the coronation of Ferdinand II in Frankfurt

creator: Anonymous, German, 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern gift, 1959


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: View of the Campo Vaccino, with the Colosseum in the background and the ruins of the Temple of Castor and Pollux at right

creator: François Morel

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Dish with Stylized Chrysanthemum Scrolls

date: first half of the 18th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: A Marriage Ceremony, after an antique painting in the possession of the Aldobrandini

creator: Bernardino Capitelli

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle

creator: Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving and blackwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Papyrus Fragment of a Letter from Joseph to Epiphanius

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: The Resignation, or John Bull Over-Whelmed with Grief

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Supplicants before an Enthroned King and Queen

creator: Francesco Allegrini

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Enthroned Preaching Buddha

date: late 9th century

medium: Bronze with silver inlay

country: India (Bihar)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (bihar)

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


title: A man playing a guitar serenading a woman, figures surround

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Actress holding hands beneath chin, from Stars of the Stage, Fourth Series (N132) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Plate

medium: Pottery

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


title: Panels from the shutters formerly in the Chapel Room at Versailles

creator: Robert de Cotte

medium: Oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Male with a staff in a storm (recto). Anatomical studies of a foot (verso)

creator: William Hamilton

medium:
Recto: pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite
Verso: pen and brown ink

subjects: Anatomy Drawing

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2015


title: Ste. Marie du Mont Carmel (Feast of Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel), July 16th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fragment

date: early 18th century

medium: Needle lace, punto di Ragusa

credit_line: Gift of Amos R. Eno, 1906


title: Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

creator: Northern Highlands artist

medium: Bronze

country: Tigrinya peoples

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Tigrinya people

credit_line: Purchase, Tianaderrah Foundation, Daniel and Marian Malcolm, Noah-Sadie K. Wachtel Foundation Inc. and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ruddock Gifts, 2008


title: Sake bottle

medium: Nashiji lacquer with designs in gold and silver

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2019


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Dish with IHS Monogram and Floral Pattern

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Spanish
Flowers

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Plate 4[r]: Vendor of earthenware pots

creator: Georg Martin Preissler

medium: Etching

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


title: Plate 12: Illustration to Canto XII, from Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata III"

creator: Antonio Tempesta


title: Textile Fragment


title: Bronze bracelet with four rings

date: 9th–8th century BCE

subjects: Bronze Italic

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


title: Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 3: Swallows and Peonies

creator: Teisai Hokuba

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: William O'Connor, Oarsman, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: A Lady Applying Henna to Her Raised Foot

creator: Ustad Mohamed, son of Murad

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Bikaner)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, bikaner)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Uzi Zucker, 1977


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Escutcheon

date: 16th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Dragon and carp

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 19th century

medium: Framed painting; ink and color on paper

country: Korea

subjects: Painting Korea

credit_line: Gift of the children of Lea R. Sneider, 2024


title: Textile Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Seated female figurine of the dea gravida type

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Piano Player

creator: Fred Becker

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Design for an Casket heavily decorated Foliate Scrolls, Garlands and a Satyr Mask

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

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

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


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Woman with broom and coin ("The Parable of the Lost Piece of Silver")

creator: Ralph Wood the Younger

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1942


title: Sock

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Bed curtain

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Cann

creator: Jacob Hurd

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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: Altar frontal (?)

date: 17th century

medium: Tape and needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Cole Porter, 1951


title: Captain Zalinski, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Fragment

medium: Macramé


title: Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)

date: 3rd century BCE

country: Greek, Egypt, Alexandria-Hadra

subjects:
Vase
Greek, egypt, alexandria-hadra

credit_line: Purchase, 1890


title: Outline Sketch of a Ship's Stern (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

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

subjects:
American
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Fragment

medium: Metal thread, bobbin lace


title: Vase fragment

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Vase
Roman, gaul

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Herd Boy with Ox

creator: Kano Masanobu 狩野正信

date: late 15th century

medium: Folding fan mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and gold on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

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


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


title: Dagger

medium: Horn (buffalo)

country: Indian, Bhil

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, bhil

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Terracotta fragment from a strainer?

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Wakayama Tomisaburo as a Woman in a Yellow and Red-Brown Striped Kimono

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Four candlesticks

creator: John Carter II

date: possibly 1774–75

credit_line: Gift of Suzanne de Peyster and Valerie de Peyster, 1997


title: Double Louis d’or of Louis XVI of France (b. 1754-93; r. 1774–1792)

creator: Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Handle for a Model Bird Trap

medium: Ivory

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


title: Bonnet

medium: straw

credit_line: Gift of Helen Colvig, 1980


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


title: Millard Fillmore

creator: Southworth and Hawes

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937


title: Stole

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Madame Louise Josephy, 1950


title: Terracotta stemless kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: [View of a Bungalow]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Belt

creator: Michael Erkeder

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silver, partly gilded, pearls, garnets

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


title: Insertion

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Ichikawa Danjūrō V as Kūdo no Suketsune, and Nakamura Rikō as Oiso no Tora

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

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


title: Monocle and Eye (brown), from Jocular Ocular series (N221) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bird-Shaped Brooch

medium: Silver with gilding and garnets; no spring/pin extant

country: Anglo-Saxon

subjects: Metalwork-silver Anglo-saxon Birds


title: Girl in an Apron (La Fille au Tablier)

creator: Vincennes Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950


title: "Portrait of Raja Bikramajit (Sundar Das)", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

creator: Bichitr

date: recto: ca. 1620; verso: ca. 1540

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955


title: Chair panel

creator: Daniel Marot the Elder

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk on silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: A Sepulchral Enquiry into English History

creator: George Cruikshank

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: [Looking Toward Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg]

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Fist Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: Wooded Lane in Pontoise

creator: Camille Pissarro

medium: Aquatint and etching; fifth state of six

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2017


title: Adoration

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Etching with drypoint and some engraving

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


title: Vase

medium: Nephrite, dark olive-green, translucent, and mottled by lighter shades

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Gaming or Chess Piece, possibly a Pawn

date: 8th–11th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Design for a Vase with Candelabra

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache

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


title: Fragment of a votive bracelet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: Island of Temdos (?) (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Basket of cherries

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Buzz Aldrin's Footprint on the Surface of the Moon

creator: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2006


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Allegory of the Arts (Music?)

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite, gouache, and watercolor

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Terracotta fragment of a plate?

date: 5th century BCE


title: Scarab of Ramesses II

medium: Glazed steatite

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


title: Study for a Tiger Hunt

creator: Sheikh Taju

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper

country: Western India, Rajasthan, Kota

subjects:
Painting
Western india, rajasthan, kota

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Parasol

creator: Follmer, Clogg & Company

medium: silk, metal, wood

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


title: Smell, from "The Five Senses" (Les Cinq Sens)

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching

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


title: Pair of orange tubs (caisses carrées)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976


title: Medal of the Inauguration of the Washington Cabinet of Medals

creator: Anthony Paquet

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: In Honor of Delaunay, the Painter

creator: Jules-Clément Chaplain

medium: Bronze, cast - double

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: Ste. Thècle, vierge et martyre (St. Thecla, Virgin and Martyr), September 23rd, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Two Young Women Playing a Game of Sugoroku

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Pair of Ear Ornaments, Two-Section Ruby

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: Flora, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: mid-16th century

medium: Engraving

subjects: Botany Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Fragment of a Fan

date: probably 10th century

medium: Basketry-twill

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: A Female Musician Charms an Antelope

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on cloth

credit_line: Friends of Asian Art, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Saul Gift, by exchange, 2001


title: Milligan, Catcher, St. Louis Browns, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen print photograph, cabinet card

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


title: Souvenir spoon with view of the Place della Signoria, Florence

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1907


title: Chair

medium: Mahogany, maple, beech

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony L. Geller Gift, 1988


title: Teapot

creator: Barthélemy Decourchelle

date: probably 1752

medium: Silver; ebony

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Table fork

medium: Steel, silver, buckshorn

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Inkwell

creator: Thomas Danforth, III

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Joseph France, 1943


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

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Landscape with Two Figures Conversing

creator: Salomon van Ruysdael

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash, some black and brown ink. Traces of framing line in pen & brown ink.

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Design for 2 seat Cabriolet Phaeton, no. 3129a

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Columbine and Pantaloon

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver, Egibi archive

date: ca. 550 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1879


title: Design for a Wall Tomb with a Variant and a Statue of Christ as Salvator Mundi

creator: Anonymous, Flemish

medium: Pen and brown ink with red, blue and brown wash

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2014


title: Design for Omnibus or Wagonette, no. 3844

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


title: A Brace of Brimstones

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: April 1806

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Miss O'Neill as Juliet

creator: George Dawe

medium: Stipple engraving and soft-ground etching, printed in color

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Wine taster

creator: A.L., France

medium: Silver


title:
Recto: The Concert
Verso: Seated Male Nude

creator: Johann Liss

date: early 17th century

medium: Black chalk on brown paperf

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Side chair

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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

creator: Carel Allard

medium: Color engraving (à la poupée)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Fragment of a Shoulder Band

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: A Martyrdom

creator: Serafino Brizzi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash.  Squared in black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Silver Ring with Inlays

date: 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Silver (?), gilt, shell, malachite (?)

country: Vicús (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Vicú
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Yoshiwara, Hidari Fuji

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Seal

medium: Jade

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of  Samuel T. Peters, 1913


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Javanese

subjects: Krisse Javanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Edfou, Aspect Générale de la Ville Vue de la Plateforme Centrale du Pylône

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: London before the Great Fire

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; second state of two

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Ornament

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain (Hirado ware?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Shabti of the Commander of the Royal Fleet Tjanenhebu

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Whale Oil Lamp

medium: Free-blown aquamarine glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Palmer Gavit, 1932


title: Home of the Storm Gods, California

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Museum Accession, 1966


title: Classical Ceiling Moldings with Floral Ornament

creator: Thomas Hardwick

medium: Graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Tile

creator: John Sadler

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 9th–12th century

medium: Glass; cut

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1973


title: Box

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Coin Weight

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Comforts of Bath, Plate 11

date: January 6, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Williamson, Shortstop, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)

date: late 3rd century BCE

country: Greek, Ptolemaic, Alexandria

subjects:
Vase
Greek, ptolemaic, alexandria

credit_line: Purchase, 1890


title: Purse

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3213

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Polish Dwarf Performing Before the Grand Seignior

medium: Etching

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


title: The Choice of Fish

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving; second state of two

subjects: Fish Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Bottle

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Engaged molding on a polyptych panel

creator: Siena

medium: Poplar. Gilt; deep brown-orange bole.

country: Italian, Siena

subjects:
Frame
Italian, siena

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Stencil with Sutumn Grasses

medium: Paper

subjects:
Stencil
Japan
Grasses & sedges

credit_line: Gift of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, 1953


title: Sampler

date: 18th century

medium: Linen, drawnwork and needle lace

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


title: Oil Lamp with Open Reservoir

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed, applied, and pinched

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


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: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: dated 1780

medium: Iron, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: "Khusrau Arriving at Shirin's Palace", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

creator: Ala al-Din Muhammad

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: A Visit to the Doctor

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching; reprint


title: Bead, control

medium: Gold

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek or roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Christian Inspiration

creator: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

medium: Pastel over watercolor, gouache, on cream-colored paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Ivory disk of a pyxis

date: 13th–12th century BCE

medium: Hippopotamus ivory

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Cypriot
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)


title: Barber's Bowl with Cockerel

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration and overglaze enamels (Hizen ware, Ko Imari type)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry Collection, Bequest of Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry, 2000


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with ox-blood glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Figure-top spoon

date: late 17th century

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Stille Teilnahme

creator: Adolph Menzel

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Crochet Work

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vulture

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

medium: Watercolor on laid paper

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


title: Cup-Hilted Rapier

medium: Steel, copper wire

country: hilt, Spanish; blade, German

subjects:
Sword
Hilt, spanish; blade, german

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Cravat

date: mid-18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon, point d'Argentan

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


title: Maffet Ledger: Indian on horseback, fallen soldier

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and crayon on paper

country: Southern and Northern Cheyenne

subjects:
Paper-drawing
Southern and northern cheyenne

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968


title: Banded agate ring stone

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Agate, banded

country: Italic

subjects:
Gems
Italic
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Terracotta fragment of a pot; glazed on the inside

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Buckle

date: ca. 100 BCE–ca. 500 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Ibero-Roman

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Ibero-roman

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Column Shaft

date: early 20th century

medium: Marble

country: European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Glass mosaic inlay 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: Saint Bernard Vanquishing the Devil

creator: Anonymous, German, Upper Rhine, 15th century

date: 15th century

medium: Hand-colored woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, The Prospect Hill Foundation, Inc. Gift, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1992


title: Christ Driving the Money-Changers from the Temple

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Sheet with overall pattern of circles and ovals

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Details of Door Furniture, St. George's Chapel, Windsor and other Ornament

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite and pen and ink

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: A Woman, Followed by Her Servant

creator: Anonymous, Peruvian, 19th century

medium: Brush and ink and watercolor on wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Eileen Cunningham, 1964


title: Chicken-form ewer (one of a pair)

medium: Porcelain painted in polychrome enamels on the biscuit (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


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


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Tankard

creator: Christoffer Mansfeld II

medium: Silver, parcel gilt

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Africa (part of a set)

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Spoon

creator: Ebenezer Moulton

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Design for a Valance with Bundles and Garlands of Flowers and Musical Instruments

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Title Page, from Des Pendants de Cleffs pour les Femmes

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving and blackwork

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Carnelian

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1962


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Cento Favole Morali (100 moral fables)

creator: Giovanni Maria Verdizotti

medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations

credit_line: Gift of Philip Hofer, 1948


title: August, from "Album of Rustic Subjects"

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1927


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Lady Alan Johnstone, 1920


title: Ndungu

medium: Wood, hide, polychrome

country: probably Mayombe peoples

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / conical drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; blown, applied decoration; tooled on the pontil

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


title: Soprano Saxhorn in B-flat

medium: Wood, metal

country: possibly German

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Possibly german


title: Rockaway (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


date: late 5th century BCE/early 4th century BCE


title: Piece

medium: Silk


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Cap

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ridgley Hunt, in memory of William Cruger Pell, 1906


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Bear and deer hunt chessmen (32) and box

date: probably first half 19th century

medium: Silver, polished and oxidized

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Sutra Cover with Lotus Scroll

date: 16th century

medium: Plain-weave silk with supplementary weft patterning

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Hunting Sword

creator: Hans Sumersperger

medium: Steel, copper alloy, horn, bone

country: Austrian, Hall

subjects:
Sword
Austrian, hall
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Ornament

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Sasanian


title: James Freeman Clarke

creator: Southworth and Hawes

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937


title: Descent From the Cross

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Arrowhead

date: 2nd–1st millennium BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Jerome M. Eisenberg, 1962


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Serape

creator: Unidentified

medium: Wool

country: Diné/Navajo

credit_line: Gift of John and Margot Ernst, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Saucer (Soucoupe)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Clinton Gênet, in memory of "Citizen" Edmond Charles Gênet, 1909


title: Mask of Fudō Myōō

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Annette Young, in memory of her brother, Innis Young, 1956


title: Souvenir

creator: Jean-Nicolas Defer

medium: Gold, enamel, ivory

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: [Augustin Moreau-Vauthier]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Furniture Design

creator: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Chalice veil

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Strip

date: 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnston, 1906


title: Shields for Pediments, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Bronze bowl

date: 8th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Colorless glass, silver stain, paint

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: early 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Design for Wagon, no. 946a

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Sixpence

creator: John Hull

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Souvenir spoon with view of Cathedral at Zaragoza and arms of Spain

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1901


title: Pumps

medium: leather

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Art Worker's Club, 1945


title: Costal Navigation Boats (Coast of Italy)

creator: Adolphe Appian

medium: Etching; first state of three

credit_line: Gift of Paul L. Rittenhouse,1959


title: Card 43, Vanessa Antiopa, from the Butterflies series (N183) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths

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


title: Fragment of one side of Siptah's Canopic Chest

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Girolamo Cornelio (Cornaro) and Helena, his wife

medium: Bronze, cast

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1926


title: A Bouquet of Flowers

creator: Clara Peeters

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Friends of European Paintings, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill Gifts, Gift of Humanities Fund Inc., by exchange, Henry and Lucy Moses Fund Inc. Gift, and funds from various donors, 2020


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th century BCE

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


title: Henry Monnier, from Galerie contemporaine, littéraire, artistique

creator: Etienne Carjat

medium: Woodburytype

credit_line: Gift of Eric G. Carlson, in honor of Patricia Mainardi, 2012


title: The Tanabata Festival in the Seventh Month (Fumizuki)

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

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

country: Japan

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


title: A crowd forming a circle; page 42 from the "Images of Spain" album (F)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Brush, brown ink washes, traces of black chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: The Lake at the Foot of Half Dome

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)


title: The Man of Sorrows

creator: Aelbert Bouts

medium: Oil on oak

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


title: Modelbuch aller Art Nehens vn Stickens (Page 2r)

creator: Christian Egenolff

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Sheet with a two borders with hanging drapery and two blue floral garlands

creator: Anonymous

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects: Print Flowers

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Altarpiece with scenes from the life of the Virgin

medium: Tempera, oil and gilding on pine

country: German

subjects: German Paintings-panel

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


title: Fan

medium: plastic, feathers

country: American or European

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


title: Dish

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Naples

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Standard Banner (Sashimono)

date: probably 18th century

medium: Silk, pigment

country: Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Terracotta head of a woman

date: late 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian, tarentine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: The Freedman

creator: John Quincy Adams Ward

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Charles Anthony Lamb and Barea Lamb Seeley, in memory of their grandfather, Charles Rollinson Lamb, 1979


title: Relief from the Palace of Apries in Memphis

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909


title: Ewer

date: second half 16th century

medium: Copper, bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Glass bowl

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Two Pierrots Balancing on Swans and Two Dancers

creator: Hans Christian Andersen

medium: Cutout in blue paper, mounted on an album sheet

credit_line: Mary Martin Fund, 2003


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st–2nd century CE

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


title: Bowl

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Pair of candlesticks

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Pewter, painted

credit_line: Bequest of Henry Victor Burgy, 1901


title: Floral Design

creator: Antoine Berjon

medium: Purple, blue, green, white, and black chalk

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Piece

date: 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Piece

date: mid-19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Everfast Industries Inc., 1971


title: Pharmacy Jar

date: first half 15th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Trade Card for W. J. White, Commercial Draftsman, Engraver & Printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: [Actress posing by prop wooden fence], from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Teaspoon

medium: Silver

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


title: Jackal

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1923


title: Plate 36 from "Los Caprichos": A bad night (Mala noche)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne, 1951


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Hideoki

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Dish

medium: Jadeite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Woman and Man

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: A Man Holding the Hand of a Woman, Another Woman Looking On

creator: Johann Christoph Liska

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, and Susan H. Seidel Gift, 2008


title: Panel

date: first half 17th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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