title: From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Photolithograph

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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 Kihei Hattori, in memory of his father, Kihei Hattori, 1920


title: Fan

creator: Oscar Sauerwald

medium: ivory, silk, paint, mother-of-pearl, metal

country: German

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of C. Otto von Kienbusch, 1971


title: Edging

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Studies for Two Large Fountains

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th to 19th century

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over graphite underdrawing and ruled construction; each drawing has framing outline in pen and brown ink

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


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

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: Cross

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Piece

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Amulet of Bes with tambourine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Hand mirror with woman wearing jewelled headpiece, from the Novelties series (N122) issued by Gail & Ax Tobacco to promote Navy Long Cut

creator: Gail & Ax Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Vase

date: late 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Glass


title: Gong with Three Ring Supports

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Bronze

country: Burma or Thailand

subjects:
Metalwork
Burma or thailand

credit_line: Gift of Margery and Harry Kahn, 1986


title: Boys at a fountain

creator: Saint James's Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Marie Louise (1791–1847), Empress of the French, Second Wife of Napoleon Bonaparte

creator: Giovanni Antonio Santarelli

date: early 19th century

medium: Pink wax on glass backed by dark blue wax; frame: moulded gilt plaster

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Wineglass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Card Number 309, M. Lional, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Pagoda Island

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Vase ornament

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Harp

medium: wood, various materials

country: German or French

subjects:
Chordophone-harp
German or french

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Upper Lake, Penllengare; Rhododendrons; Brome, Morphine Tuff

creator: James Knight

medium: Albumen silver print; salted paper print

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


title: Job. Eugène, François. 31 ans, né à Paris Xle. Chaisier. Anarchiste. 6/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Roller Stamp

date: 10th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Olmec

subjects: Olmec Ceramics-implement

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1965


title: Inscribed seal impression

medium: Clay or mud

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Dancer Adjusting the Shoulder Strap of Her Bodice

creator: Edgar Degas

date: modeled probably ca. 1896, cast 1920

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


title: Panel of brocaded silk

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Chair of Reniseneb

date: ca. 1450 BCE

medium: Wood, ebony, ivory

credit_line: Purchase, Patricia R. Lassalle Gift, 1968


title: [Soldier and Military Camel]

creator: Gustave Le Gray

credit_line: Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2002


title: Drop-leaf Table

medium: Mahogany, tulip poplar, pine

country: American

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1931


title: Le Kaire, Mosquée Nâcéryeh

creator: Félix Teynard

date: published 1851

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative


title: Study of a Figure

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of the artist, 1892


title: Kris with Sheath

medium: Krisses

country: Malayan, Sumbawa Island

subjects:
Krisse
Malayan, sumbawa island

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


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: Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript of Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita

medium: Opaque watercolor on palm leaf

country: India (Bengal) or Bangladesh

subjects:
Painting
India (bengal) or bangladesh
Palms

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Piece

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Breastplate with applied stop-rib

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Italian
Armor parts-breastplate

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 6 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Tombeau des Sultans Mamelouks, au Kaire

creator: Maxime Du Camp

date: December 1849–January 1850


title: Grand Prix, France, from the Holidays series (N80) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: George F. "Piano Legs" Gore, Center Field, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Xiao Luo (小锣)

medium: Metal

country: Chinese

subjects: Idiophone-struck-gong Chinese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: The Covered Bridge at Fribourg

creator: Claude Louis Châtelet

medium: Brush and gray wash, heightened with white. Framing lines at lower edge in pen and brown ink.

credit_line: Van Truex Day Fund, 1991


title: Jug

medium: Glazed earthenware with slip decoration

credit_line: Purchase, The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund and funds from various donors, by exchange, 2017


title: Panel

medium: Wood, gilt ornament on green ground

subjects:
Ornament & design
Woodwork

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Second Corps Hospital, Washington, D.C.

creator: Mathew B. Brady

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: Studies of the Dead Christ supported by an Angel, with subsidiary studies for the same composition

creator: Poppi (Francesco Morandini)

medium: Red and black chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2012


title: Corner piece

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Robert J. and Mary B. Monks, 1953


title: Inlay

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Snow Drop card from the Plant with Root series

creator: Louis Prang & Co.

medium: Lithograph

subjects: Botany Print


creator: Antiphon Painter

medium: Terracotta


title: Inkwell (part of a set)

creator: Asprey

medium: Gilt bronze, malachite

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2022


title: Netsuke of Obaga Saké

date: late 18th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Embroidered Fragment

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Crakows

medium: leather

country: British

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


title: Figure of a standing man

creator: Ralph Wood the Younger

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, 1944


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


title: Collar

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H. E. Winlock, 1941


title: Episodes of Robinson Crusoe

creator: F. Pieters

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Landscape with Christ Tempted by the Devil

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Engraving; first state

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Statuette of Ares ?

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Figure Vessel

date: 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Colima

subjects:
Colima
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a cup with spiral and bands

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1911


title: Lead figure of a warrior with a helmet, shield, and spear

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: The Prodigal Son in a House of Ill Repute

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Man (with Sword?) (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite, pen, ink, and watercolor on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of William Gedney Bunce, by exchange, 1979


title: [Four Workmen Holding Different Tools: Square, Hatchet, Wood Plane, and Trowel]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Ed Crane, Pitcher, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Belt

date: late 18th or early 19th century

medium: Silver gilt, glass, beryl, and pearls

country: Hungarian

subjects: Jewelry, precious metal and precious stone

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Trade Card for D. Rymer, Book & Print Seller

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Bracelet

medium: hair

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward T. Hall Jr., 1941


title: Scarab seal: galloping horned animal

medium: Steatite, white

credit_line: Gift of Harris D. and H. Dunscombe Colt, 1934


title: Victoria 3725#

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Mechanical watch

medium: Gold, mother-of-pearl, gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


medium: Opaque watercolor on palm leaf

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: The Hierarchy of the church in the form of a tree, hell below, a plate from a book

creator: Anonymous

medium: Prints

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Gold ring with three horizontal ribs

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot or Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot or greek

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Actor Bandō Hikosaburo I in a Female Role

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Plate with the arms of marquis Gaspard de Gueidan (1688–1767)

creator: Honoré Burel

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Tea box

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Jonathan Stemme, 1910


title: Dish

medium: Lacy pressed blue glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Green, in memory of Dr. Charles W. Green, 1951


title: Christ appearing to Mary Magdelen

creator: Claude Gillot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Seal Stamp

date: dated 1292 AH/1875 CE

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

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


title: Bagpipe Bag

medium: Leather, burlap, goatskin

country: German

subjects: Aerophone-accessorie German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: The Conversion of Saint Paul

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Candlestick (one of a set of eight)

creator: John Romer

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Crouching Woman with a Boy Behind Her

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Bowl

medium: Pottery (soft Jun type)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Sutra Cover

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1956


title: Ewer

date: early 18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, silver

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, by exchange, 1988


title: Terracotta fragment of a Little Master cup (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Daira

date: late 19th century

medium: Brass, wood. mirror

country: Turkish

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / frame drum


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Salver

creator: Augustin Courtauld

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Underwear

medium: Bamboo, cotton

subjects: Underwear China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James Augustus Thomas, 1977


title: Cuneiform tablet: field rental

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Portrait of a Lady

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Framed painting; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Joseph Interpreting His Dreams to Jacob (copy)

creator: Lucas van Leyden

credit_line: Gift of Professor Maan Z. Madina and Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, 2006


title: Standing Nude

creator: Amedeo Modigliani

medium: Graphite on white paper


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


date: early 5th century BCE


title: Chalice with the Arms of Housteyn

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Silver, partially gilded with traces of enamel

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Metalwork-silver
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ruth Blumka, in honor of Timothy Husband, 1989


title: Small Dish (Kozara) with Radishes

date: mid-17th century

medium: Porcelain with iron-brown glaze, cobalt blue under transparent glaze, and polychrome enamels over the glaze (Hizen ware, Arita type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Drachm

medium: Silver

country: Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Pavement tiles

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Ushak Medallion Carpet on White Ground

date: first half 17th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss, 1984


title: Xun

date: 206 BCE–220 CE

medium: Pottery

country: Chinese

subjects:
Aerophone-blow hole-vessel flute
Chinese
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Gerena, 2005


title: Ste. Placide et Ste. Flavie, martyres (St. Placid and St. Flavia, Martyrs), October 5th, 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: Stand

date: first half of the 12th century

medium: Stoneware with incised decoration of lotus petals under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1915


title: Side chair

medium: Mahogany, white oak, yellow pine

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Cecile L. Mayer, 1962


title: Portrait of a Man with a Gold Chain

creator: Corneille de Lyon

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

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


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Fragments

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Chocolate Pot

creator: New England Pottery Company

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: The Florence I. Balasny-Barnes Collection, Gift of Florence I. Balasny-Barnes, in memory of her sister, Yvette B. Gould, 1991


title: Textile Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Silk and metal thread, woven in the lampas technique

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift from the Collection of George and Marie Hecksher, 1998


title: Piece

date: mid-18th century


title: Lady with a Mirror

creator: Claude Simpol

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white, over traces of graphite, contours incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Expectation

creator: Jozef Israëls

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of George I. Seney, 1887


title: Ornamental Design with Acanthus Leaves (recto); Capital (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Ink and gray wash

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1961


title: J. B. Eads, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Banknote motif: Portrait on George Washington in a decorative panel

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving and etching; proof

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Garden seat with birds and flowers

date: late 16th–17th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel

subjects: Cloisonné China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Key

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Simon, from The Martyrdom of the Twelve Apostles

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Corinthian Drachm, 480 B.C., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Chelsea Wharf

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on a brittle fibrous laid Japan; second state of two (Glasgow)

credit_line: Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library


title: Pavement tiles

date: 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Sampler

medium: Wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Cover

medium: Silk; brocaded; border voided cut velvet

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1944


title: Frog Seal Amulet with a Sa Hieroglyph on the Base

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Calligraphic Composition in Ta‘liq

medium: Ink on marbled paper

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2025


title: Vase in Shape of Ancient Bronze Vessel

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Porcelain with celadon glaze (Longquan ware)

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Panel (part of a set)

medium: Wood, gilded

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Tobacco Pouch

medium: Lacquer

subjects:
Tobacco pouche
Japan

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


title: La Liberté

creator: Citoyenne de Monchy

medium: Etching and pointillé

credit_line: Gift of Miss Lucy Erdwurm, 1950


title: Trident Head

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, bronze

country: Korean

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Korean

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: [Untitled]

creator: Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Insertion

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Hafted Ax with Moko-Style Face

date: ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

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


title: Wall Fountain (laver) in the form of a Turret

date: late 15th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Netherlandish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Tile

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: White-Throated Shag, from the Birds of the Tropics series (N5) 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: The Brussels Packet

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Italy, from Flags of All Nations, Series 1 (N9) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands


title: Military trousers

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James Orme, 1941


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace

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


title: On the Beach at Trouville

creator: Eugène Boudin

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Amelia B. Lazarus, 1907


title: Necklace Ornaments

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Gold

country: Calima (Yotoco)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Calima (yotoco)

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


title: Vase

creator: Grueby Pottery

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2018


title: Head of Christ

creator: Pedro  Duque Cornejo

medium: Pen and dark brown ink. Some contours reinforced with pen and darker brown ink. On off-white paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Jaffe, 1956


title: Rest on the flight into Egypt

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Etching

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


title: Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

creator: Painter of the Villa Giulia 1664

date: mid-4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan, Faliscan

subjects:
Vase
Etruscan, faliscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Candelabrum (one of a pair)

creator: Villeroy

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze mounts

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


title: Gourd-Shaped Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Tokugawa Family Crest, Net, and Cherry Blossoms

date: second half 18th–early 19th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold, silver, and red togidashimaki-e and hiramaki-e on black ground

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Schön Neues Modelbuch (Page 32 recto)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Bronze statuette of a youth with a chlamys

date: 4th–2nd century BCE

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

date: mid 19th century

medium: Cameo embossed, gilded  paper, chromolithography

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Stela of Pekysis

date: ca. 1st century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Limestone


title: The Enchanted Tree

creator: Richard Doyle

medium: Watercolor, gouache, gummed watercolor, applied in layered, opaque and transparent washes with the underlying paper revealed in minute areas throughout the composition

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2023


title: Card Number 99, Ida Mulle, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Bird Painter

date: ca. 420 BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


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

date: 5th century BCE

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


title: Fragments of a terracotta kylix: Komast cup

creator: Falmouth Painter

date: ca. 570 BCE

credit_line: Gift of the Honorable Iris Cornelia Love, 2011


title: Gold earring with winged Eros

date: 3rd‒2nd century BCE

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: City Hall Park, New York

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Watercolor, pen and black ink, heightened with white

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


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Residence of Charles Bernard. 312 Oak Street, San Francisco, California

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Wedding dress

medium: cotton

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. R. T. Auchmuty, 1915


title: Shomberg, 1st Base, Indianapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Key

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Pair of Rowel Spurs

date: 18th century

medium: Iron alloy, copper alloy

country: Mexican

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Mexican

credit_line: Gift of William Oothout, 1915


title: Blackwork Print with Eight Motifs

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher

medium: Blackwork

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


title: Haneda Rakugan

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Flora with children

creator: Este

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

subjects: Botany Ceramics-porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


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


title: Ischia, 1904 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: The Westminster Mendicant

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Card Number 102, Miss Mattie Vickers, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: A Study

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

credit_line: Bequest of James David Nelson, in memory of Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr., 1988


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic


title: Soup plate

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


title: Bed jacket

medium: wool

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Theodore Fischer Ells, 1975


title: Ojime

date: 19th century

medium: Ojime

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Biface, commonly referred to as a hand ax

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of C.T. Currelly, 1906


title: Vessel Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Jug

date: ca. late 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Israelite

credit_line: Gift of Harris D. and H. Dunscombe Colt, 1934


title: Stone Weight or Bead

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Statuette of a woman votary

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Hat

date: fourth quarter 18th century

medium: silk, metal, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Ford Goulding, 1969


title: Pinhead

date: 1st century BCE–5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Earring with head of lion

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Mallet

medium: Wood

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


title: Christmas card from the Charlot's  to a Met member of staff, bi-fold with Virgin and Child on front and personal annotations on back with a list of prints the recipient should receive (probably the Met)

creator: Anonymous Mexican Artist

date: before 1930

medium: Metal plate engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Vase (part of a set)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Vinaigrette

creator: John Bettridge

medium: Silver

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


title: Double Clarinet

medium: Reed, wax, string

country: Indian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Fragment of orphrey

medium: Silk, linen and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Entombment of Christ

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

medium: Engraving

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


title: Cat Surveying Fish and Fowl on a Table

creator: Jean Siméon Chardin

medium: Black chalk

subjects: Fish Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Glass Fragments from a Vessel

date: 4th–early 5th century

subjects:
Glass-vessel
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Jacket

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; brocaded and embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress

credit_line: Gift of Kate Fowler Merle-Smith, 1941


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Pine Branches

date: 18th–19th century

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

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Side Chair

creator: Joseph Meeks & Sons

medium: Rosewood

credit_line: Gift of Bradford A. Warner, 1969


title: Evening pouch

medium: glass, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Margaret S. Bedell, 1930


title: Undersleeves

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Willis McDonald, 1925


title: Pistol

date: 17th–18th century

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Chessmen (32) and box

medium: Ivory, leather

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Siege Helmet in the form of a War Hat

date: probably 17th century

medium: Steel

country: Western European

subjects:
Helmet
Western european

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Cap crown

date: early 18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d'Argentan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Miss Aimée D. Tucker


title: Femme Juive, en habit de cèrèmonie, plate 64 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

creator: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Band

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile


title: Imperial Theatrical Robe for the Emperor

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1935


title: Ladle

medium: Wood and pigment

country: Chinook, Native American

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019


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: Jar

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1927


title: Design for a Funeral Ticket

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

date: 18th century

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

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


title: Gemellion (Hand Basin) with a Knight on Horseback

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: Sprinkler

medium: Glass; dip-molded, blown, applied solid foot, applied decoration

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


title: Het Tegenwoordig Veward Europa [Europe in Her Present Disordered State]

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Jasper Amygdaloid

medium: Jasper

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Belle Archer, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Louise Dahl-Wolfe, 1949


title: Waka Poem “Dancing Fireflies,” from The Tales of Ise, Chapter 45

creator: Imperial Prince Sanehito

date: mid-16th century

medium: Tanzaku mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on gold, silver, and color decorated paper

country: Japan

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2025


title: Handkerchief

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Vegetable fiber

country: Philippine

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Emma Brown, 1929


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


date: first half of the 4th century BCE


title: Blade

medium: Bronze

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Grapevine

creator: Ban Jogon

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

country: Korea

subjects: Painting Korea


title: Perspective study of an Arched Colonnade

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

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


title: Mask (Menpō)

date: 17th century

medium: Iron

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


date: 5th century BCE


title: Earring

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Plated

subjects: Jewelry Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Military hatbox

creator: Bent & Bush

medium: Wood, paper, cotton, metal

country: American

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


title: Parading Courtesan

creator: Momokawa Shikō

date: late 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Fishbein-Bender Collection, Gift of T. Richard Fishbein and Estelle P. Bender, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2020


title: La Bonne Education

creator: Jacques Philippe Le Bas

medium: Engraving; second and final state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Self-Portrait, Drawing

creator: Jan Lutma the Younger

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Peco Foundation Gift, 2024


title: Schist spindle whorl

medium: Schist

country: Cypriot

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cypriot

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Portrait Head of Edward D. Adams

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Etching and drypoint; second state

credit_line: Gift of Edward D. Adams, 1921


title: Fragment of Jar

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Sample

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Design for a Gothic Interior

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: La Fée aux Joujoux

creator: Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Peña

medium: Etching and drypoint

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


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Ritter Tod, from the series Brahmsphantasie

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching, engraving, aquatint and mezzotint

credit_line: Gift of Leo Wallerstein, 1924


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace

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


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Libbretto nouellamete composto per maestro Domenico da Sera...lauorare di ogni sorte di punti, page 9 (recto)

creator: Domenico da Sera

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Prospects and Views, Picture Album of Landscapes (Shōkei chōbō, Sansui gafu) 勝景眺望山水画譜

creator: Kōkunsai Bairin 廣薫齋梅林

date: preface dated 1826

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan
Landscapes

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


title: Fille de Lantcheou

creator: Raimund von Stillfried

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: North and South Dome, Yosemite

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

date: ca. 1872, printed ca. 1876

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: The Death of Saint Joseph

creator: Niccolò Ricciolini

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of charcoal (or black chalk), lightly squared in charcoal

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1956


title: Pair of Moccasins

medium: Native-tanned and dyed skin, silk, quill, deer and moosehair, metal

country: Huron

credit_line: Ralph T. Coe Collection, Gift of Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, 2011


title: Transverse Flute

date: late 19th century

medium: bamboo

country: Melanesian (Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinean)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Set of three spoons

creator: Jean-Jacques Kirstein

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Pendant

date: 11th century

medium: Gold, fabricated from sheet, decorated with bitumen-highlighted incising, twisted wire, and granulation, set with garnets, turquoise, and other precious stones, probably tourmalines

credit_line: Purchase, Richard S. Perkins Gift, 1977


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Baluster

date: first half 18th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


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: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Fragment of a Bottle

date: 18th century

medium: Free-blown non-lead glass

credit_line: Gift of Miss Edna M. Netter, 1937


title: Bonnet

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Helen G. Sahler, 1939


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


title: Palms

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

subjects: American Palms

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1996


title: Necklace

medium: Gold

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


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

medium: Terracotta


title: Doorway

date: late 15th century

medium: Limestone

country: French

subjects: Installation French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1949


title: Etude de Palmiers, Bords du Nil, Kalabschi

creator: John Beasley Greene

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Le Pompe: Opera Nova, page 8 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey No. 8

creator: Elihu Vedder

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of John V. and Enza Tomassi Kiskis, 1992


title: Two entwined dolphins

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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

date: early 5th century BCE


title: This is my "bullet," from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: November 20, 1869

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: The Siege of Namur by Captain Shandy and Corporal Trim (Tristram Shandy)

creator: Henry William Bunbury

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Design for Road (Morell) Wagon, no. 442

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Mochizuki Station

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE (?)

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1984


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

creator: Richmond Painter

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Steamship Norseman, Warren Line, from the Ocean and River Steamers series (N83) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Woman wearing skirt with panniers and sack back

creator: Thomas Whieldon factory, Stoke-on-Trent, Fenton Vivian, Staffordshire

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1941


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Designs for Metalwork

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and watercolor, heightened with white over black chalk

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Figure of bodhisattva Guanyin

medium: Porcelain with ivory glaze (Dehua ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: A Frigate at Anchor, Saluting a Nearby Yacht

creator: Willem van de Velde I

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2005


title: Incense Burner

date: 12th century

medium: Bronze; engraved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Bracelet

date: mid-19th century

medium: Hair, gold

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert E. Peirce, 1943


title: Vase

medium: Pottery

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Gröfin Auersperg

creator: Franz Antoine

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1948


title: Pair of Ducks Swimming

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

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

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


title: The Romans with their Sabine Wives from the Story of the Romans and the Sabines

creator: Nicolas van Orley

medium: Wool, silk (19-21 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Penannular Earring

medium: Shell

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: Gold Belt Mount with Rivets

medium: Gold

country: Avar

subjects: Metalwork-gold Avar

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Carinated amygdaloid seal

medium: Steatite, green black

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


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio

creator: Francesco di Giorgio Martini

medium: Walnut, beech, rosewood, oak and fruitwoods in walnut base

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Bookcase (one of a pair)

creator: Niccolo Michetti

medium: Walnut and poplar; iron hinges and locks, metal wire; antique silk and linen brocatelle door curtains (not original)

credit_line: Gift of Madame Lilliana Teruzzi, 1969


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

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Sherr, 1956


title: Bird ornament

creator: Frías artist(s)

country: Moche (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-musical instrument
Moche
Birds

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


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

creator: Villa Giulia Painter

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


title: Fragment: Head of Buddhist Image

date: 8th century

medium: Dry painted lacquer (Kanshitsu)

subjects: Sculpture Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Plaque with Christ in Majesty

date: 14th century

medium: Gilded copper

country: Italian

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Figure-Celt Pendant

date: 1st–5th century

medium: Jadeite

country: Guanacaste-Nicoya

subjects: Stone-ornament Guanacaste-nicoya

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1993


title: Poetry personified as a winged woman

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

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


title: Socorro black-on-white storage jar

medium: Clay and pigment

country: Ancestral Pueblo, Native American

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019


title: Embroidered picture with hunting scene

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Mainardi, Eden, 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: Black-topped red ware jar

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899


title: Trionfo Di Virtu. Libro Novo..., page 3 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Around the Council Fire, The Young Brave's Speech, from "Harper's Weekly"

creator: Edwin Austin Abbey

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Terracotta amphoriskos (oil flask)

country: East Greek, Milesian, Fikellura

subjects:
Vase
East greek, milesian, fikellura

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Tray

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

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Rural scene

creator: Leonardus Quesi

medium: Silk on cardboard

credit_line: Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: heroes and animals in combat, head of the monster Humbaba

medium: Hematite

country: Babylonian

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


title: Hat

date: early 19th century

medium: straw

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Kate C. Lefferts, 1973


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Dish

date: probably 19th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Noh Costume (Karaori) with Cherry Blossoms and Fretwork

date: first half of the 18th century

medium: Silk, brocaded twill

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan
Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Cream jug

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Paul B. Zeisler Jr., 1968


title: Mosquito Deity amulet

medium: Green-and-White banded jasper

credit_line: Gift of Cyril Aldred, 1955


title: Thomas Turner, Center Field, Minneapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Mitts

medium: linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Miss M. Conklin, 1926


title: Collar

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Miss Ethel O. Blanpied, 1949


title: Palette

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Lion furniture leg

date: 4th century BCE

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1977


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Mrs. Winfield Scott

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John C. Newington, 1965


title: Karnak (Thèbes), Palais - Salle Hypostyle - Décoration de la Paroi Intérieure au Point L

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Terracotta beak-spouted jug

country: Late Villanovan

subjects:
Vase
Late villanovan

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


title: Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, graphite, black chalk

subjects: Architecture Album

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


title: Ash Container (Takigara-ire) for Incense Ceremony, with Family Crest, Pine, Bamboo, and Plum

medium: Lacquered wood with gold, silver togidashimaki-e, hiramaki-e, and cutout gold leaf

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Anna R. Milton, 1924


title: The Mocking of Christ

creator: Jan Rombouts

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Painted Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

medium: Pottery, pigment

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909


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

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Side chair

medium: Walnut, walnut veneer, maple, white pine; upholstery (modern)

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg, 1984


title: Meiping vase

medium: Porcelain with turqoise glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Glass plaque

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: George Washington

medium: Oil on glass

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Galloon

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: [Aaron Draper Shattuck]

creator: George Gardner Rockwood

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Smallsword

date: possibly 1790

medium: Steel, gold, silver

country: hilt, possibly India; blade, possibly European

subjects: Hilt, possibly india; blade, possibly european

credit_line: Gift of Jean Jacques Reubell, in memory of his mother, Julia C. Coster, and of his wife, Adeline E. Post, both of New York City, 1926


title: Osiris

medium: Copper alloy, stone

credit_line: Gift of Elisha Dyer, in memory of George R. Dyer, 1941


title: Women’s Pendant

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and turquoise

country: Nepal

subjects: Jewelry Nepal

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Egg beating box with lid

medium: Creamware

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1964


title: Gravestone of Fudayl ibn Musa

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Alabaster; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Rapier

medium: Steel, gold, silver, brass, wood

subjects: Sword Italian

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1929


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Box for Books with Waterfall

date: 16th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, cut-out gold and silver foil application and silver inlay on black lacquer ground

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty, from the Views series (N53, variation 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Beaker

creator: J. G. Bühler

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Saint Bartholomew

creator: Pierre Legros II

date: after 1738

medium: Marble

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1958


title: Five Rulers at New Year's Reception

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Netsuke of Shoki, the Demon-Queller

date: 19th century

medium: Carved ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Vis-à-vis (unnumbered)

medium: colored lithograph

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Sepoy Finch, from the Song Birds of the World series (N23) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Design for Painted Corner and Frieze of the Choir in the Church of the Servi in Bologna

creator: Giovanni Andrea Castelli

date: December 11, 1629

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

credit_line: Gift of Lucien Goldschmidt, 1968


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Charles I

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Thomas J. Watson Gift, 1939


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: Chessmen (32)

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Brayette

medium: Steel

country: German

subjects: Mail German

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Bust of elderly man with nose that meets his lower  lip, wearing wide flat cap in profile to left

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Strip

date: late 17th century

medium: Metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Fixture

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Terracotta fragment of a vase?

date: 7th–4th centuries BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Catafalco Eretto Nella Basilica Vaticana ...per Alessandro VIII

creator: Alessandro Specchi

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: The Tea-Tax-Tempest (The Oracle)

creator: John Dixon

medium: Mezzotint with gouache; scratched proof

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Glass Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-vessel Crusader

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: View of the stone pavement of the Appian Way (Veduta dell'antica Via Appia), from "Le Antichità Romane"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Sidney Douglas Farrar, 1st Base, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: From Old Berlin on the Schiffbauerdamm (Aus Alt-Berlin am Schiffbauerdamm)

creator: Gustav Kalhammer

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Armet

medium: Steel, pigment

country: British or Flemish

subjects:
Helmet
British or flemish

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1925


title: Bottle with cloud scrolls

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stoneware with painted decoration on brown glaze (Jizhou ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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, 1981


title: Whorl-Shaped Brooch

date: 6th century

medium: Gilded silver and glass paste

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: A cartouche with a tree blowing in the wind, a skull with drapery at top, bones to either side, from "Eight Emblems for the Funeral of Francesco de Medici" (Huit emblèmes pour les funérailles du prince François de Médicis)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching, letterpress visible on verso

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones
Trees


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: God the Father

creator: Gregorio Fernández

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Wood, painted and gilt over gesso

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1925


title: Plate

date: 18th century

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)


title: The Miraculous Draught of Fish

creator: Battista Franco

medium: Engraving

subjects: Fish Print


title: Jar fragment

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster) (?)

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


title: An Elevation of the North Side of the Marble Screen Surrounding the Cenotaphs in the Taj Mahal

medium: Watercolor and body color on paper

subjects: Architecture Codice

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2024


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

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Whale Transformation Mask

medium: Wood, paint, cord, metal, leather, denim

country: Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl)

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Kwakwaka’wakw (kwakiutl)

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


title: Fragment

date: early 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1913


title: One Begs in Vain at the Door of the Deaf, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs

creator: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Beaker

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Eva Ward, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 3) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Gil Hatfield, 3rd Base, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Covered Platter

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Terracotta statuette of Eros

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Dame de Constantinople, plate 5 from "Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet" (Collection of Various Foreign Figures, Devised by F. Boucher, Painter of the King and Engraved [etched] by F. Ravenet)

creator: Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Figure of Guanyin

medium: Pottery (Yingqing ware)

credit_line: Bequest of Alice E. Getty, 1948


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Kasperltheater

creator: Hans Kalmsteiner

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Textile Fragment with Double-Headed Eagles

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silk

country: Islamic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Islamic
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest Fund, 1941


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Abraham Lincoln

creator: William Marsh

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2005


title: St Jerome kneeling before a crucifix, a skull in his left hand, a lion laying at the left

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Pachava

date: late 19th century

medium: Bamboo

country: Melanesian (Pentecost Island, Vanuatuan)

subjects: Melanesian (pentecost island, vanuatuan)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Incised Painted Bowl

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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


title: Bowl

date: late 10th century

medium: Stoneware with green glaze (Yaozhou ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Insertion

date: 16th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Fan

medium: Wood, paper, metal

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Ethel A. Jehle, 1978


title: Hanging by Toes, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern)

creator: Carl Heinrich Hermann

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014


title: Panel with Christ Carrying the Cross

date: early 16th century

medium: Oak

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1950


title: Flounce

medium: Applied

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Philip S. Van Rensselaer, in memory of Mrs. Mary Tallmadge Van Rensselaer, 1909


title: The Virgin Immaculate Appearing to Four Saints

creator: Ciro Ferri

medium: Black chalk; squared in black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Elbow

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Ancient bas-reliefs with Laocoon, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Marco Dente

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Landscape

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Evening gloves

medium: leather

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Brantz Mayor, 1975


title: Glass gold-band mosaic alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Panel

date: first half 18th century

medium: Silk on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Design for a Cartouche

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen with brown and gray ink and gray wash

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2014


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Hieron

date: ca. 480 BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Portrait of Georg Pencz (Imago Gregori Peins)

medium: Engraving; second state of two

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Sample

medium: Silk on felt

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; incised decoration, glazed

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


title: Dinos

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Side Chair

medium: Mahogany, birch

credit_line: Bequest of May Blackstone Huntington, 1938


title: Papyrus of Sitnebsekhtu, Heqanakht Letter IV

medium: Papyrus, ink

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


title: Ewer

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, wash and watercolor

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


title: Card Number 317, Miss Emily, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Cat and the Fiddle

creator: David Bekker

medium: Drypoint

credit_line: WPA New York Project, 1943


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, 1919


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: mid-5th century B.C

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


title: Censer with cover

medium: Stoneware covered with flecked glaze (Bizen ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Card Number 578, Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Plaque fragment

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Helmet (<i>Suji Kabuto</i>)

creator: Yoshihisa

date: early 17th century

medium: Iron, silver, leather, silk

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Yellow and brown cameo cut agate with pink tourmaline stopper

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Comb

medium: Jadeite, emerald-green with patches of light lavender

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


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

date: second half of the 5th century BCE


title: Plate

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed opaque white glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Blake, in memory of her grandmother, Ramona Ham Bienfait, 1982


medium: Terracotta


title: Plaque Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

creator: Jacques Thouron

medium: Enamel

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Jacob and the Angel

creator: Johann Jacob Eybelwieser

date: late 17th–mid-18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink and watercolor over black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 1998


title: Roseaux et Sarcelles

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching on laid paper; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1917


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 48v)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Fred J. Mann, Right Field, Hartford, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Skeletons Making Music (or the Cemetery), from "The Dance of Death"

creator: Hans Holbein the Younger

date: ca. 1526, published 1538

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Ebisu (God of Luck, Protector of Merchants)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Wall Plaque

medium: Metal

credit_line: Gift of New York Clearing House, 1963


title: Side Chair

creator: Léon Marcotte

medium: Ebonized maple, brass, gilded brass, reproduction upholstery

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Douglas M. Moffat, 1968


title: A Natural Mistake, from the Snapshots from "Puck" series (N128) 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: Shard:  Shoulder of Offerer with Crosshatching

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

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


title: Pectoral Fragment

medium: Faience

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: La Joyeuse & magnifique Entrée de Monseigneur François, Fils de France, et Frere Unique du Roy,..., Duc de Brabant, ... en sa tres-renommé ville d' Anvers

creator: Abraham de Bruyn

medium: Engravings and etchings

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: seated "pigtailed ladies" and pots

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Tray (part of a service)

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Stamp seal with Pahlavi inscription

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Agate, banded

country: Sasanian

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


title: Side Chair

medium: Wood

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1982


title: Costume Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Peru; central coast

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


title: The Town Hostel

creator: Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman

medium: Etching; state II

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


title: Favorite Recitations, from the Honest Library series (N115) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: "The King of the Hares in Counsel with his Subjects", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1981


title: Gold earring with head of a lion

date: 4th‒3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Bowl

date: 12th–early 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Surface Decoration, Grotesque with Strapwork, Aedicula at Center, on Either Side Recessed Balconies, in Frame at Lower Center Moses and the Brazen Serpent from Veelderleij Veranderinghe van grotissen ende Compertimenten...Libro Primo

creator: Cornelis Floris II

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Illustrated book

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair)

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

medium: Carved and painted beechwood, covered in pink silk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1977


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Lobed cauldron (li) in ancient style

date: 19th century?

medium: Bronze with artificial patina

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: Scarab Inscribed with a Hieroglyphic Motif

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Alms-giving, from "Christian Virtues"

creator: Raphael Sadeler I

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: possibly 17th century

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Double vase

date: 18th century

medium: Rock crystal

subjects:
Hardstone
China
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Reel

medium: Mud, linen


title: Textile ornament

creator: Nasca artist(s)

country: Nasca

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Nasca

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


title: Coin Weight

date: 12th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Edging

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: S. Eustrate et S. Oreste (St. Eustratius and St. Orestes), December 13th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: St John the Evangelist, holding a banderole (possibly a modern impression)

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving, printed from a plate engraved in the niello manner

credit_line: Gift of Leo Steinberg, 1991


title: Fibula, fragment

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Fish hook

medium: Bone

subjects:
Fish
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Pietro Soderini, from Scelta d'Alcuni Miracoli e Grazie della Santissima Nunziata di Firenze (Selection of Some Miracles and Graces that Occurred in the Church of the Annunziata in Florence)

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Brush holder with dragons and clouds

medium: Carved red lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China


title: Panel (part of a set)

medium: Oak, stripped

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Wooden Spindle

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Wood, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-implement

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Figure of Lady on Horseback

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with colored glazes

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Flora Attired by the Elements (Frontispiece to The Economy of Vegetation, vol. I of Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden)

creator: Anker Smith

medium: Engraving

subjects: Botany Print

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


title: Pendant in the form of a seated cat

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Baroque pearl with enameled gold mounts and with pendant pearls

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Design for a Spoon

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Graphite on lined paper

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


title: Stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Key

date: early 15th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron French

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Christ Purifying the Temple, from Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1919


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

credit_line: Gift of Clarence H. Mackay, Archer M. Huntington, Stephen H. P. Pell and Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Earrings

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Paul Manship, 1942


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Design for an Aedicular Altar with St. Paul at the Left

creator: Johann Georg Dirr

medium: Brush and gray wash, watercolor, and white gouache, over graphite; framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange, 2008


title: Covered Butter Dish

creator: Richards and Hartley Flint Glass Co.

medium: Pressed yellow glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Stencil

date: early 19th century

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, ivory, wood, brass

country: Madurese

subjects: Krisse Madurese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Roundel with Saint Peter

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
South netherlandish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Ear Ornament

date: early 9th–14th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Louis-Philippe Demay

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Plate 47 from "Los Caprichos": A gift for the master (Obsequio á el maestro)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, burin

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


title: Buckle

date: 15th century

medium: Bronze, patina

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Cover

medium: Drawnwork

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


title: Wedjat eye from string of amulets

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern


creator: Painter Z

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Spill vase with "cloisonné" decoration

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china with enamel decoration and gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Plaque of Sword Pommel

medium: Bronze, gold

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Italian, venice
Swords-accessorie

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


title: Deep Plate with Eight-Lobed Rim and Decoration of Birds, Flowers and Insects

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration (Arita ware, Kakiemon type)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan Birds Flowers Insects

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


title: Terracotta stemmed dish

date: 6th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: The Drive in Central Park, New York (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IV)

creator: Winslow Homer

date: September 15, 1860

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Saccos

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Study for "The Hours," Hôtel Pereire, Paris

creator: Alexandre Cabanel

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Harvey Salzman, 2020


title: Suerte VI: The torero's assistant sets dogs on the bull

creator: Anonymous, Spanish, 19th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Mold for big ring ornaments

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Design for Wagon, no. 801

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: Scarab of an Official

medium: Green glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Decoration for a Spandrel in a Cove

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Cann

creator: S. Mars

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Sheng ( 笙 )

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, metal, ivory

country: Chinese

subjects:
Aerophone-free reed-mouth organ
Chinese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: A Visit to the Uncle

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 20, 1794

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Glass conical bowl

date: mid-2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek

subjects: Glass Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: The Drummond Children

creator: Sir Henry Raeburn

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: The Blessed Andrea Gallerani (died 1251)

creator: Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Wall panel tiles

medium: Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Perrot. Jean. 33 ans, né le 18/11/61 à Tulle (Corrèze). Cordonnier. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekanis lid (covered dish)

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


title: To Each His Own Pastime (Elck Sijn Tijt-Verdrijff)

creator: Adriaen van de Venne

medium: Red chalk; verso: the design partially traced in red-brown chalk and wash

credit_line: Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, 1994


title: Wrack

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Snuffbox

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Hat and Guitar. Cover design for "Eaux-fortes par Edouard Manet," an album of fourteen etchings

creator: Edouard Manet

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Design for Ceiling, Hôtel Hope

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Pen and black ink, gouache, and watercolor

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Knife with Sheath

date: 19th century

medium: Steel, wood, silver, coral, brass

country: Turkish

subjects:
Knive
Turkish
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Ewer


title: Border

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Miss Julia Neillson, 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: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Piece

medium: Cotton, printed


title: Bay and Harbor of New York from Bedlow's Island

creator: Edmund C. Coates

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


title: Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with twisted handles

creator: Suessula Painter

date: ca. 400 BCE

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: Kove (slit drum)

medium: Bamboo

country: Melanesian (Banks Islands, Vanuatuan)

subjects:
Idiophone-struck-slit drum
Melanesian (bank islands, vanuatuan)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Sleigh with Rumble Seat # 3667

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Shoes

medium: silk

country: probably British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Herman Delman, 1954


title: Ann King

creator: Richard Morrell Staigg

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic


title: Sheet with overall floral, fruit, and dot pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers
Fruits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Oldring, Philadelphia, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Pair of chamber candlesticks

creator: Matthew Boulton

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Abraham Lansing, 1901


title: Gentleman in a Cape and Plumed Hat Seen from the Back

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

medium: Etching (reverse copy)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Helen Standish in Colors of Bunker Hill Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N140) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: Saint Agnes and a Female Saint

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Red chalk, stumped

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: The Ten Commandments, The Lord's Prayer, and The Creed

creator: Thomas Hunter

medium: Cut vellum on green silk

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


title: The Virgin Surrounded by Many Angels

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Card Number 99, Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: Weaving tool (?)

medium: Bone

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


title: Hanging

medium: Silk, metallic thread, sequins, mock pearls and stones

country: Myanmar

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Myanmar
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Watson, 1957


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Coin purse

medium: glass, linen, silk, metal

country: Mexican

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., Constance Morrow Morgan, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1956


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


title: The Banquet of Alexander

creator: Domenico del Barbiere

medium: Engraving

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


title: Miss Wade, 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: Daimyo's Processions Passing along the Tōkaidō

creator: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Furniture Cover

medium: Silk embroidery on silk satin

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Sheet with dot grid pattern with bouquets

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Rank Badge with Dragon with Deer Hooves

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread


title: Candlestand

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Pine veneered with tulipwood; mahogany legs; gilt bronze, soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Christ figure

creator: Kongo artist

medium: Brass

country: Kongo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Kongo people

credit_line: Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1999


title: Beauty Playing a Shamisen

date: second quarter of the 17th century

medium: Remounted section of a screen; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Baseball Scene

creator: Beatty and Votteler

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962