title: Sumida River in the Snow, from the series "Famous Places in Edo in the Four Seasons"

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Sheet with overall pattern of flowers within squares

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

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: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: The Manager's Last Kick, or a New Way to Pay Old Debts

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 29, 1811

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: King Lion and Fox

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Brush and gray wash

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries 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: Landaulet #1009

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Ewer

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Tray (one of a pair)

creator: Johann Conrad Lotter

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, in memory of Stephen M. Kellen, 2005


title: Pair of dishes

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Florence S. Klopfer, 1980


title: Japanese Priests and Entrance to a Temple, Near Nagasaki

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: Wedding dress

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Dorothy L. Tapscott and Gladys L. Campbell, 1962


title: Dressing jacket

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Colonel L. E. de Forest, 1951


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Flintlock Duelling Pistol

creator: Simeon North

medium: Steel, gold, silver, wood (walnut, hickory), horn

country: American, Middletown, Connecticut

subjects:
American, middletown, connecticut
Firearms-pistols-flintlock

credit_line: John Stoneacre Ellis Collection, Gift of Mrs. Ellis and Augustus Van Horne Ellis, 1896


title: Portrait of a Prelate

creator: Lavinia Fontana

medium: Oil on copper

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962


title: Tray

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels, gold

credit_line: Purchase, The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund and Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1986


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

date: 18th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

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


title: Landscape of the four seasons

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 15th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

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


title: Standing Buddha

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Kalimantan)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (kalimantan)

credit_line: Purchase, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Philanthropic Fund Gift, 1993


title: The Baptism of Christ (with a Woman Holding a Child Among the Spectators at the Right)

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Good Samaritan (St. Luke, Ch. 10, ver. 30)

creator: Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

date: February 24,1772

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Harpoon Head

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Ivory (walrus)

country: Punuk

subjects:
Bone/ivory-implement
Punuk
Skeletons & bones

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


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


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, ivory, silver

country: Balinese, grip, Madurese

subjects:
Krisse
Balinese, grip, madurese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Design for a Buffet, Plant Stand, and Table

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

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

subjects: Botany Drawing

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: early 5th century BCE


title: Eye idol

medium: Gypsum alabaster

credit_line: Gift of The Institute of Archaeology, The University of London, 1951


title: Piece (one of 116)

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: A Golden Eagle

creator: Charles Meryon

date: after 1859

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Execution Rocks, from the Lighthouses series (N119) 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: Key Handle

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Roman

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, De Souhami Collection, Rogers Fund, 1906


title: He tells us: don't cry, Act!, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving


title: Bowl and Cover

creator: Minpei

medium: Porcelaneous ware covered with a finely crackled glaze over which is a black enameled glaze (Awaji ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Disk Brooch

date: 7th century

medium: Gold, copper alloy, garnet and glass

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish

credit_line: Gift of Ruth C. Bermant, 2001


title: Finger Ring

medium: Copper alloy, formerly silvered

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Band

date: 16th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Earthenware; slip-painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Statuette of an animal symbolizing Re

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1923


title: Pair of swags

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Circassia, from the Races of Mankind series (T181) issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes


title: Sherbet Dish

medium: Blown satin white opaque glass

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Border for wall fabric

creator: Sériziat et Cie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Group of tassels

date: 17th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 13th–14th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Octagonal table

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Gift of Paul E. Manheim, 1969


title: Statuette

date: late 18th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ivorie China

credit_line: Alfred W. Hoyt Collection, Bequest of Rosina H. Hoppin, 1965


title: The Smokers

creator: Louis Léopold Boilly

medium: Lithograph

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


title: The Annunciation with Kneeling Angel

creator: Enea Vico

medium: Engraving

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


title: Design for Ceiling

creator: Leonardo Marini

date: 18th century

medium: Leadpoint or graphite with ruled and compass construction

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Ceres

creator: Augustin Pajou

medium: Buff terracotta with reddish patination

credit_line: Purchase, C. Michael Paul Gift, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift, and Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, 1978


title: Terracotta rim fragment of an open shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Earring

date: probably 11th–13th century

medium: Gold; filligree

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Bellona

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: David Elwood "Dave" Rowe, Manager, Kansas City Cowboys, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Portrait of a Young Man

creator: Christian Friedrich Zincke

medium: Enamel

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Square Cup

date: 19th century

medium: Painted enamel

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Flagon

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Benjamin Franklin

creator: Pierrette Caudelot Perrin

medium: Faience

country: French

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Cordial Glass

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Card Number 219, Floy Crowell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: Escutcheon

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Cast brass, mercury, gold

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: China (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Barbe

medium: Needle lace, point d'Argentan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, in memory of Mrs. James Boorman Johnstone, 1932


title: Spoon

date: 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Shell

country: Valdivia

subjects:
Shell-implement
Valdivia
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Timothy, Peter, and Jonathan Zorach, 1980


title: Bonnet

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Coin

date: dated 371 AH/981 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Capital of a Column with an Armored Knight on Each Side

medium: Marble

country: Italian

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


title: Chestnut Bowl

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Cup and saucer

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Margarette A. Jones, 1906


title: Handle

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Bone; carved and incised

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones


title: Relief fragment possibly from the tomb of Mereri

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Mary Magdalen in the wilderness

creator: Willem Pietersz Buytewech

medium: Etching; second state of three (Hollstein)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Mittens

date: late 17th century

medium: leather, silk, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Expedition 1921, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1921


title: Double collar

medium: linen

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. G.B. Dabney, 1977


title: Young Whirlwind, Southern Cheyenne, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N36) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Calothrix Cresswelliæ

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Tithonos Painter

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Coin

date: 11th century

medium: Copper alloy (bronze)

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Louis S. Levy, 1950


title: Merry Gatherings in the Magic Jar

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Kilt gathers

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Alphonse Milbert, Advocate

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze, cast - single

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: Barber's basin

creator: De Witte Starre Manufactory

date: mid-18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Catharine Van Vliet De Witt Sterry, 1908


title: Shabti of Meryre with a ba-bird on his breast

medium: Serpentinite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Holy Family

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Etching


title: Terracotta fragments of a psykter (vase for cooling wine)


title: Bracelet with rams' heads

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Jar with lugs

medium: Earthenware with painted decoration

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1992


title: A frieze arrangement with a putto weating a laurel crown riding a goat at left and many infants playing musical instruments in front

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

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


title: [Japanese Infantry, Yokohama, Japan]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2017


title: Étui

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1937


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: The Valley of Wyoming—across from Plymouth (In the Valley of Wyoming)

creator: Thomas Addison Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1974


title: Design for a Wall Fountain

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Lombard, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown-gray ink over leadpoint or graphite, with ruled construction; framing lines in leadpoint or graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Design for a Candelabra

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, graphite

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1963


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Nephthys Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1906


title: Shabti of Ramesses VI

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and The Guide Foundation Inc. Gift, 1966


title: Arco dei Pantani, Forum of Augustus, cornice, elevation; schematic elevation (recto) Temple of Apollo Sosiano, column base, elevation (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: La Vierge a l'enfant, a la rose

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching, second state

subjects: Print Roses

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


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: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Photogenic Drawing of the Laocoon, September 1839; Tomb of William de Valence

medium: Salted paper prints

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Lappets

date: early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Laces

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Melon, Peaches, and Grapes

creator: Charlotte Eustache Sophie de Fuligny Damas, marquise de Grollier

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Paintings Gifts, 2022


title: Venus Entrusting an Infant to Time

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Portrait of Pierre-Jean Mariette

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

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

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf

date: ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE

medium: Limestone

country: Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1932


title: Fob

medium: silver

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Engraved copies of The Little Passion

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Baluster

medium: Oak

credit_line: Gift of Acton Surgey Ltd., 1932


title: Covered bowl with ring handles

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-tapestrie

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


title: Shield for the Field or Tournament (Targe)

medium: Wood, leather, linen, gesso, pigments, silver

country: German

subjects: Shield German

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Florence Blumenthal, 1925


title: Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscurides

date: 17th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects:
Codice
Medicinal & herbal plants

credit_line: Gift of Richard Ettinghausen, 1975


title: Rainy Day in Camp

creator: Winslow Homer

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William F. Milton, 1923


title: Rispah, 2nd Book of Samuel, Chapter 21 (Liber Studiorum, part IX, plate 46)

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching and mezzotint; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1951


date: second half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: A Captain of Banditti Sending Out a Party, from "Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds"

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

date: December 8, 1778

medium: Etching

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


title: Armenia, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Crucifix

creator: Kongo artist

date: 16th–17th century with later additions

medium: Solid cast brass (Christ), solid cast copper alloy (halo); hollow cast bronze (three end pieces), brass sheet (one end piece), solid cast copper alloy (Mary); forged copper and brass (nails), wood

country: Kongo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Kongo people

credit_line: Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1999


title: Dress studs with Assyrian human-headed winged bulls

medium: Gold

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Ukhurhe (rattle staff)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Edo people, court of Benin

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
Edo people, court of benin

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2011


title: "Caesar Gives his Daughter Katayun to Gushtasp", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

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

credit_line: Bequest of Monroe C. Gutman, 1974


title: The Oiran Utagawa of Matsubaya attended by Her Kamuro Yoshino and Tatsuta

creator: Katsukawa Shunchō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Rear Admiral George Dewey, U.S. Navy, from the "Generals" series (T63), issued by LeRoy Little Cigars

creator: LeRoy Little Cigars


title: Longcase clock

creator: Gerrit van der Hey

date: second quarter 18th century

medium: Burl walnut veneered on oak and elm

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Pobliner, 1964


title: Dragon

creator: Muqi

date: 16th or 17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

country: Korea or possibly Japan

subjects:
Painting
Korea or possibly japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Bust of a man

medium: Honestone

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: American Card Album, containing sets of collectors cards

creator: Louis Prang & Co.

medium: Albums

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


title: Edging

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Piece

date: 19th 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: Netsuke of Two Rats

creator: Ikkan

date: mid-19th century

medium: Wood. horn

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Alvin H. Schechter, 1985


title: Hobnail finger bowl

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

medium: Pressed colorless and opalescent glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Drop-leaf Table

creator: Herter Brothers

credit_line: Gift of Miss Frances Arnold, 1973


title: A nude youth on horseback, a male nude with raised arm, and a cloaked bearded man (recto). A sleeping girl and a man in medieval dress (verso)

creator: Theodor Richard Edward von Holst

medium: Pen and ink and graphite (recto); graphite (verso)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Allen Staley, 2017


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, pelet wood (possibly kajoe), silver

country: Balinese

subjects: Krisse Balinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Border

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Head of a Man with Closed Eyes

creator: Francesco Vanni

medium: Black and red chalk on gray paper

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Candelabra Designs and Stair Railing Designs, nos. CCCXCV–CCCXCVII and 398–400, plate 60 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

creator: Michelangelo Pergolesi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Pride (Superbia) from The Seven Deadly Sins

creator: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Fiori di Ricami Nuovamente Posti in Luce, page 5 (recto)

creator: Matteo Florimi

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Page of Calligraphy 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: Menat fragment

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Textile

medium: Textiles

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pair of frames

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Man Seated in a Rowboat (from Sketchbook)

creator: Francis William Edmonds

date: ca. 1838 and after

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund, 1987


title: Netsuke

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Gloves

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of The Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969


title: Marble bowl

medium: Marble

country: Cycladic

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cycladic

credit_line: Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1977


title: Bronze head of a calf

date: 2nd half of 5th century BCE or later

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Silver Pin

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silver (hammered)

country: Inca

subjects: Metal-ornament Inca

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


title: Tall Clock

creator: Joseph Ward

medium: Japanned white pine; brass, iron, glass

credit_line:
Purchase, Virginia L-S Cowles, Diane L-S Hewat, and
Marne L-S Hornblower Gifts, in memory of their sister,
Clara Lloyd-Smith Weber, 1986


title: Man and Girl

creator: Kitagawa Kikumaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep 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: Corset cover

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Kate C. Lefferts, 1973


title: Drop-front secretaire (secrètaire à abattant)

creator: René Dubois

medium: Painted and varnished oak, veneered with European lacquer, mahogany, purplewood, gilt-bronze mounts

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Looking Out for Number One, from the Jokes series (N87) 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: Decorated capital and base in the Temple of Jupiter, Rome, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

medium: Engraving

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Scarab Incised with Nefer Signs and Scrolls

medium: Green glazed faience

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


title: Mantelpiece from a house on the Hall Quay, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

medium: Carved stone

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1965


title: Polish horseman facing right, a circular composition, from 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Table fork

medium: Steel, ivory

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Covered jar with landscape

date: first half 20th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Glass network mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Water lily attachment, probably for a processional barque

date: ca. 1080–664 BCE or later

medium: Bronze, gold foil over gesso; white, dark blue, and light blue glass inlays over light and dark blue grounds

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


title: Earring

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Gold

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3836a

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Galloon

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragments of pots; unglazed on the inside

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Gold roundel with stamped designs

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Head from a figurine

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Brooch (part of a set)

medium: Silver, jewels

credit_line: Gift of Marguerite McBey, 1980


title: Krishna Dancing: Page from the Dispersed "Boston" Rasikapriya (Lover's Breviary)

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Amber)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, amber)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Bundle of Model Mats from the Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Tomb

medium: Papyrus, fiber


title: Arrowhead (?)

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

medium: Bronze

country: Parthian (?)

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


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

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Flagon (Schnelle)

creator: Hans Hilgers

date: dated 1573

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware, pewter

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


title: Les Monnoyes d'or & d'argent

creator: Josse Lambert

medium: Books

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Beauty on a Veranda in Snow

creator: Sakai Hōitsu 酒井抱一

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: Nile Boat, Egypt

creator: Leavitt Hunt

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Covered wine pot or teapot

creator: Chinese

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze famille verte enamels and gilt.

country: Chinese

subjects: Ceramic Chinese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Calais, from the City Flags series (N6) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Four Saints Adoring Christ Crucified on the Sacred Heart

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut; first state of two (Hollstein)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Thatched Buildings Beside River Landscape

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Lacquer, roiro, hirame, gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie and kirigane; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: In Memory of the Visit of the Shah of Persia to the City of London, June 20, 1873

creator: Alfred Benjamin Wyon

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of the Corporation of the City of London, 1908


title: Le triomphe d'Anvers faict en la susception du Prince Philips, Prince d'Espaign[e]

creator: Pieter Coecke van Aelst

medium: Woodcuts

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: S. Mercure, soldat (St. Mercury, Soldier), November 25th, 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: Transverse Flute

creator: Firth, Hall & Pond

medium: Wood, ivory, brass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Gerry, 1986


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: Plate 30: Venus and Cupid pleading their case before Jupiter and other Gods with Mercury transporting Psyche to the heavens at lower right, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Newes Modelbuch in Kupffer  (Page 8r)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Charles R. Richards, 1929


title: Torso of the Belvedere

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Metalpoint

credit_line: Gift of the artist, 1892


title: Parrot on a Pear Branch

creator: Jin Zunnian

date: dated 1732

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Jar

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

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


title: Pounder

medium: Quartz

credit_line: Gift of Albert Rothbart, 1933


title: The Sacrifice of Polyxena, after Pietro da Cortona

creator: Jean Robert Ango

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Gift of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, 2019


title: Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

creator: Antimenes Painter

date: ca. 520 BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1956


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: The German Tournament: "Anzogen-Rennen"

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Broadsheet relating to the ex mayor of Mexico, Fernando Saldaña Galvan, who is standing in the center covered in holes

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: ca. 1920 (published)

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on pink paper

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


title: Royal Mail Steam Ship, Europa

creator: Nathaniel Currier

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl)

creator: Asteas

country: Greek, South Italian, Paestan

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, paestan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Jacket for a Theatrical Costume

medium: Silk embroidery on silk satin damask; bands: silk and metallic-thread embroidery on silk satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Levitt, by exchange, 1978


title: Otho, from The Twelve Caesars, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Wineglass

date: 19th century

medium: Glass

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


title: The Festival of Psyche, with Mercury from a set of Mythological Subjects after Giulio Romano

creator: Giulio Romano

date: designed 1684–86, woven 1689–92

medium: Wool, silk, metal thread (20-26 warps per inch, 8-12 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Mythology
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Cylindrical Vessel

date: 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Colima

subjects:
Colima
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

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


title: [William Quiller Orchardson]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: The Toilette

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Etching, aquatint, and bitten tone in brown ink on laid paper; final state of two, from 1905 Strölin edition

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Jug

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Teapot

medium: Unglazed ware, glazed inside

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Tobacco Bag

medium: Native-tanned skin, glass, wool

country: Assiniboine

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Jar with two handles

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1942


title: "The Captive Peasant with his Two Wives", 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: Pendant with Keben Fruit Motifs

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

medium: Gold with four blue stones

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)
Fruits

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


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Mlle. Ascenseur, 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: Weaving tool

medium: Bone

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Evening hat

creator: Berthe

medium: silk, fur, metal, rhinestones

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Amelia Beard Hollenback, 1966


title: Fichu

medium: cotton

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1975


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Marriage of Minakshi and Sundarehsvara, attended by Vishnu

creator: Unidentified

medium: Ink and wash on J. Whatman paper watermarked 1798

country: India, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

subjects:
Painting
India, madurai, tamil nadu

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021


title: Bust from Statue of a King

medium: Granite

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Jadeite (feicui jade)

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Bowl Depicting King Zahhak with Snakes Protruding from His Shoulders

date: 12th–13th century, with alterations first half 20th century; or 20th century

medium: Earthenware; slipped and carved under a transparent colorless, brown, and green glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Fahim Joseph Kouchakji, 1964


title: Persian, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Plaque with Saint Catherine of Alexandria

medium: Elephant ivory, traces of paint & gilding

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

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


title: Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.

subjects: Print Portraits


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Design for Door

creator: Leonardo Marini

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over graphite or leadpoint, with ruled and compass construction

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Putlitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Scarab Inscribed for Menkheperenre (Thutmose III)

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Les curiositez de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly, de Vincennes, de S. Cloud, et des environs : avec les antiquitez justes & précises sur chaque sujet, et les adresses pour trouver facilement tout ce que ces lieux renferment d'agréable & d'utile : ouvrage enrichi d'un grand nombre de figures en taille douce

creator: Georges Louis Le Rouge


title: Section of panel from a naos

medium: Wood, glass

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1923


title: Railing Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Klejman, 1965


title: Fragments of a Crucifixion, with the Virgin Mary

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century

medium: Metalcut, hand-colored

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


title: Bronze handle of a hydria (water jar)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Ashley Gift and David Tunick Gift, in memory of his daughter, Allison Hope Tunick, 1980


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Yase no Sato

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Face Rattle

date: 1st–mid-8th century

medium: Copper (hammered)

country: Moche

subjects:
Metal-musical instrument
Moche

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


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1933


title: Exposition Francaise de Moscow, 1891

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Bronze, struck, silvered

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1897


title: Center Table

creator: Anthony G. Quervelle

medium: Mahogany, intarsia marble, brass

credit_line: Purchase, The Edgar J. Kaufmann Foundation Gift, 1968


title: Glass Fragments

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass (clear)

subjects: Glass Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Box

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Scarab

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Mace head

creator: Salinar artist(s)

medium: Stone, pigment

country: Salinar

subjects: Stone-implement Salinar

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1970


title: Le Pompe: Opera Nova, page 15 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Axe Head (?)

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper (cast), bronze (?)

country: Ecuador

subjects: Metal-implement Ecuador

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


title: St. Mary Magdalen Reclining in a Grotto

creator: Claude Goyrand

medium: Engraving; reverse copy

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Netsuke of Noh mask; Face of Usume

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Saint James's Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, gold

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: War Department Building in Washington, from the General Government and State Capitol Buildings series (N14) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands


title: Mrs. Edward Kellogg

creator: Samuel Lovett Waldo

medium: Oil on wood

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Mary E. Kellogg Putnam, 1899


title: Heraldic Lion

medium: Gold, enamel and pearls.

country: Spanish

subjects: Jewelry, precious metal and precious stone

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Garden Bench

medium: Cast iron

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Tracy, 1966


title: Chair for a Woman

medium: Wood (tamarisk), reed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Crotal Bell

date: 10th–16th century

medium: copper

country: Aztec

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-crotal bell
Aztec

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Kosode

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Stencil-dyed plain-weave silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2000 Benefit Fund, and funds from various donors, 2001


title: Drunken Lovers

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Water dish

medium: Nephrite, sage-green of various shades, with a few patches of light brown

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Bronze statuette of a god, possibly Poseidon

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Gold and copper alloy spiral

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Gold, bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Salt

creator: Samuel Kirk and Son

medium: Silver and silver-gilt

credit_line: Gift of Samuel Kirk and Son Inc., 1926


title: Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness

creator: Hans Süss von Kulmbach

medium: Pen and brown ink with traces of black chalk and brush and gray ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Sunset Glow at Seta (Seta sekishō), from the series Eight Views of Ōmi Province (Ōmi hakkei)

medium: Woodblock print

country: Japan

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


title: Acraea Vesta butterfly card from the Butterflies and Moths of America series

creator: Louis Prang & Co.

medium: Lithograph

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths


title: Glass cup

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Large Covered Box

date: 14th–ca. mid-16th century

medium: Earthenware with cream white glaze and iron-brown underglaze decoration

country: Thailand (Si Satchanalai)

subjects:
Ceramic
Thailand (si satchanalai)

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of friends of Jim Thompson, in his memory, 1989


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle

date: 1st century BCE–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

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


title: Inscribed Stele

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Limestone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

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


title: Rev. Thomas Jolly of Bowden

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Monsieur de St. George

creator: William Ward

medium: Mezzotint; third state of three


title: Beaker

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Festive Dress

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; plain-weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Fimi M. Samour, 1991


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fan

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

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Sterling Peters, 1943


title: Washington. Harewood Hospital

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Ribbon

date: 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

date: early 17th century

medium: Linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Marian Hague, 1938


title: Skirt

medium: Cotton

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of  Arturo and Paul Peralta-Ramos, 1955


title: Wine container in the shape of a leather pouch

date: 8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Bequest of Addie W. Kahn, 1949


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Cup

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Sheet after Roman relief decorations from objects in the Collection of Cardinal Bruto della Valle: Friezes from Roman Sarcophagi with Dyonisus (verso); Marble Funerary Relief of Lucius Antistius Sarculo and his wife Antistia Plutia (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Pencil and ink

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: The Stone Bridge

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Donation Stela of Shebitqo

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Panel

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory or bone

subjects:
Wood
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Chimneypiece: Architrave decorated with a Greek key motif and a circular fireback with figures of the zodiac (Ch. décorée d'une grecque), from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini ed ogni altra parte degli edifizi...(Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1973


title: The Nativity with Scenes of The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Shepherds, The Crucifixion and The Resurrection

creator: Abraham Bosse

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


title: Ewer and basin

creator: Jean Fauche

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Shelf Clock

creator: Aaron Willard

medium: Mahogany, giltwood, glass

credit_line: Bequest of Cecile L. Mayer, 1962


title: Bue Balabala

date: late 19th century

medium: bamboo

country: Melanesian (Aoba Island [Ambae] Vanuatuan)

subjects: Melanesian (aoba island [ambae] vanuatuan)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, copper

country: Javanese

subjects: Krisse Javanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Fringe

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Sarcophagus of Mindjedef

medium: Granite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1954


date: mid 5th century BCE


title: Card Number 310, Gertrude Wheeler, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Le Palais de Znamensky près de Peterhof, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

creator: J. Meyer

medium: Lithograph printed with ochre tone

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008


title: Hunting Sword and Scabbard

medium: Steel, copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>), gold, wood, ray skin

country: hilt, Japanese, made for the European market

subjects: Hilt, japanese, made for the european market

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: The Delivery of the Keys to Saint Peter

creator: Jan Boeckhorst

medium: Brush and brown ink and wash, heightened with white

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2000


title: Collar

date: 19th century

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Margaret E. Zimmerman, 1919


title: Covered Goblet, Pear shaped bidy on shaft og twisted tree-trunk with bear treed by dog

creator: Jonas Silber

medium: Metalcut, dotted print

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Ippolita Gonzaga (1535–1563), at the age of 17

creator: Jacopo Nizolla da Trezzo

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: Veil

date: late 18th–early 19th century

country: Flemish

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1948


title: Gourd-Shaped Sake Bottle (Tokkuri)

medium: Stoneware (Ko-Kiyomizu ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


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


title: Crabs and Peonies

creator: Itō Jakuchū 伊藤若冲

date: mid-18th century, before 1766

medium: Double-sided freestanding screen (tsuitate); ink and gold on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Crustaceans

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2022


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed, open-work lace paper, chromolithography, colored paper, graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Design for a Chair and Three Designs for Ceiling Molding

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Glass bead

date: ca. 330–70 BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek

subjects: Glass Greek

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


title: Textile Sample Book

medium: Textiles-Sample Books

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-sample book

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


title: Hiawatha

creator: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Diane, Daniel, and Mathew Wolf, in memory of Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, 2001


title: Rixey - P. Phil. N, from Baseball strip cards (W575-2)

medium: Commercial photolithograph


title: John Millar (1735–1801)

creator: James Tassie

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


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: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Landscape with Farm House and a Steeple in the Distance

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink,  with brush and brown wash.

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Covered jar with four lugs

date: 11th century

medium: Porcelain with crackled glaze (Jingdezhen Qingbai ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Head of a Crozier with a Serpent Devouring a Flower

medium: Gilded copper with champlevé enamel and glass cabochonscabochons

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé Flowers

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Portrait of E. Triere

medium: Graphite

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


title: Broad Collar piece (?)

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Yoshiwara Picture Book of New Year’s Festivities (Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji) 青楼繪本年中行事

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

medium: Set of two woodblock printed books; ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Four Boats

creator: Michelangelo Cerquozzi (Michelangelo delle Battaglie)

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1975


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Ornament

medium: Chalk

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Watercolor of musician playing yangqin

date: late 18th century

medium: Watercolor on paper

subjects:
Work on paper
Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Lawrence Creshkoff, 1990


title: Plate

creator: Adams and Company

medium: Pressed yellow glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Chase, New York, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Coach (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink and watercolor and gouache, with graphite on verso.

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Dish with Rafts, Bamboo Hats, and Tokugawa Family Crest

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hirado ware)

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Design for Elevation of the Duchess of Newcastle's Bedroom, Hôtel Hope

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Gouache, watercolor, and gilt

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Section and Plan of the Small Dining Room of the Hôtel de Montholon

creator: Jean Jacques Lequeu

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray and beige wash, with framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1970


title: Reproduction of Deux Nymphes et deux Amours regardant des colombes (Two Nymphs and Loves watching two doves)

creator: Gilles Demarteau

medium: Reproduction of crayon-manner engraving in black and red ink

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1957


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: The Gallery, Nôtre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, from "Etchings of Paris"

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching on laid paper; fourth state of six

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Woman wearing floral hat, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers


title: Bead

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Glass, red; drilled

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Leaders of the Aamu of Shu

creator: Norman de Garis Davies

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Sketches of Canoes (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

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


title: "Preparing a Noonday Meal on an Outing", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Water Pot

medium: Clay covered with transparent crackled glaze over design; foot enameled (Banko ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Kanō Natsuo

date: mid-19th century

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Martyrdom of St. Andrew

creator: Salvator Rosa

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Escutcheon plate

date: 16th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 1888


title: Coin

date: probably 12th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Card Number 206, Lizzie Hughs, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sugar Bowl

creator: John Brevoort

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Pot

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mr. R.M. Parmelee and Mrs. W.L. Parker, 1916


title: Inscribed Stele

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Limestone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Cast Earring with Ruby

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Pat of Mud for Sealing from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

medium: Nile mud

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909


title: Scarab Inscribed with a Blessing Related to Amun-Re

medium: Green glazed steatite

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


title: Pair of chair backs

creator: Maurice Jacques

medium: Silk, wool (24-26 warps per inch, 9-11 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1943


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Portfolio Cover for a Collection of Caricatures and Satires

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Paper-covered boards, decorated with a lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014


title: Terracotta fragments of lekythoi (oil flasks)

date: first half of the fifth century BCE

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


title: Ensemble

date: 19th century

medium: linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Shawl

medium: cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1982


title: The Holy Family with Two Female Saints

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk. Framing lines in pen and ink. Arched top

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Pen and red ink, gouache, and graphite

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: A skull wearing a wide brimmed hat

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

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

medium: Zincograph

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: St. John Baptist

creator: Conrad Lauwers

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Ewer

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Hoop-Shaped Brooch

date: second half 2nd century

medium: Copper Alloy

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects: Botany Photograph

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


title: Bernaix. Louis. 29 ans, né à Clichy. Couvreur. Anarchiste. Fiché le 27/2/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Knife

medium: Gold, steel

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Wealth, represented by a woman seated on clouds and surrounded by putti, one of whom is pouring coins

creator: Carlo Innocenzo Carloni

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1981


title: Candlestick (one of a set of six)

creator: J. C. (probably), London

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Collar

medium: Linen

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


title: Capital

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Dish: The Destruction of the Hosts of Pharaoh

creator: Master IC (probably Jean Court)

date: probably early 17th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Miniature Dress

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Mrs. Richard Wilmot Hall (Eliza Taylor)

creator: Gennarino Persico

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Comb Morion

medium: Steel, brass

subjects: Helmet German

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


title: Study sheets with sketches of interiors, animals, sculpture, figures, notes

creator: Anonymous, German, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2008


title: [Portrait of Two Government Officials]

creator: John Thomson

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Flute player

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Terracotta jug

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Plate 7: a street musician and a child accomplice playing before a group of seated figures, from "Customs and Pastimes of the Spanish People"

creator: Francisco Lameyer y Berenguer

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs Henry J. Bernheim, 1958


title: Key

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Roman

credit_line: Purchase, De Souhami Collection, Rogers Fund, 1906


title: A magistrate

creator: Christophe Veyrier

medium: Bust: white marble

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: The Hellespontine Sibyl

creator: Master with the Name of Jesus

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Painter of the Yale Cup

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bone book, E. K.

date: between 1800 and 1899

credit_line: Gift of Lynn and Bruce Heckman


title: Adnet. Clotilde. 19 ans, née en décembre 74 à Argentant (Orne). Brodeuse. Anarchiste. Fichée le 7/1/94.

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Teapot with scholar objects

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue with "powder-blue" glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: "America Paying Homage to France"

creator: Oberkampf Manufactory

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Lacquer Samples

medium: Lacquer


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Jasper

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1962


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: [Sculptures of the Tired Hunter, a Nymph Preparing to Bathe, Godiva, and an Allegorical Figure of Night]

creator: Philip Henry Delamotte

subjects: Mythology Photograph


title: Penannular Earring

medium: Gold

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Celestial Figure Emerging from a Flower

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Stucco with color

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region)

subjects:
Astronomy
Sculpture
China (xinjiang autonomous region)
Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Pair of lappets

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum, 1953


title: Salt or egg spoon (?)

date: 17th century

medium: Silver, parcel-gilt

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


title: The Sacrifice of a Ram, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Marco Dente

date: 16th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


creator: Cage Painter


title: Paul Baudry

creator: Paul Dubois

medium: Plaster

credit_line: Gift of Mme Paul Dubois, 1906


title: [Winter Quarters of Unidentified Union Army Encampment with Ambrotype and Photograph Gallery]

creator: Unknown

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Sketch of Venice

creator: Andrew Fisher Bunner

medium: Black ink on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Finial with Figures

date: 1st–mid-8th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Ichikawa Danjuro II in the Role of Soga Goro from the Play "Yanone"

creator: Torii Kiyomine

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Glass mosaic dish fragment

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Netsuke

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory, carved and inlaid

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Statuette

subjects: Sculpture China


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Fragment

medium: Linen, cutwork

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Landscape

creator: Nakabayashi Chikkei

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Harold B. Bilsky, 1975


title: Fragment of a Stela

date: 4th century

medium: Wood, paint

country: Coptic

subjects: Woodwork-miscellany Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: St George's Guard

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, 1953


title: Piece

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Series of Cartouches, in: Targhe ed altri ornati di varie e capricciose invenzioni (Cartouches and other ornaments of various and capricious invention, page 35)

creator: Cornelis Bos

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Corneille de Lyon

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

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


title: Bowl with the Eight Immortals

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over engraved pink ground (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Daniel, Archbishop of Mainz

creator: Master HKVB

medium: Honestone (Jurassic limestone)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Panel

medium: Silk; metal

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Coast of Yorkshire, Near Whitby, part V, plate 24 from "Liber Studiorum"

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

date: January 1, 1811

medium: Etching and mezzotint; first state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Tassel

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: The Adoration of the Magi

creator: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Incised Bowl

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Ratchet

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Wood

country: American or English

subjects:
Idiophone-plucked / depressed
American or english

credit_line: Gift of Herbert J. Harris, 1986


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: The Beautiful World of the Tuileries, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving


title: Maerten de Vos

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Disk Brooch

date: 6th or 7th century (?)

medium: Gold on copper alloy, glass paste

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish


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

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Panel from a Triptych with Bishop Saint

date: mid-15th century

medium: Gilded copper

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-copper German

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


title: Hips of a royal female

medium: Siliceous indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Solomon's Idolatry

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Engraving


title: Ewer and stand (présentoir)

creator: Martin Gizl

medium: Alpine ibex horn, gold and gilded copper

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, 2013


title: Helmet (<i>Kawari-Kabuto</i>) in the Shape of a Wave

creator: Hiromichi Miura

date: 17th century; restorations, 2015

medium: Iron, textile, lacquer, copper, gold, leather, silk, wood

country: Japanese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Etsuko O. Morris and John H. Morris Jr., 2018


title: Official necklace (chaozhu)

medium: Rose quartz, agate, glass, silver, and silk ribbon

subjects: Hardstone China Roses

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Jagging Wheel

medium: Steel

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


title: The Phrygian Sibyl

creator: Master with the Name of Jesus

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Council of Heroes:  Page from a Dispersed Mahabharata (Great Descendants of Mahabharata)

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Maharashtra, Paithan)

subjects:
Painting
India (maharashtra, paithan)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wiener, 1975


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Portable cube sundial

creator: David Beringer

medium: Fruitwood and paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stephen D. Tucker, 1903


title: Ink Impression ("Pull") from a Gold-inlaid Colt Revolver

creator: Gustave Young

medium: Ink on paper

country: American

subjects:
Work on paper-print
American

credit_line: Gift of John R. Gangel, 2009


title: Papyrus Fragment of a Letter from Pesenthius to Epiphanius

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: City Hall, New York

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

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


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: “America”: Enjoying Hot Air Balloons

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: A woman in her bedroom kneeling on the floor with her hands raised to her head

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

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

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Two Women Talking in a Doorway

creator: Théodore Rousseau

medium: Graphite on laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Jill Newhouse, in honor of Karen B. Cohen, 2000


title: Stand (part of a service)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1965


title: Don Chepito witnessing a boxing match between two men (one black, the other white)

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Military Flail

date: probably mid to late 19th century in style of 16th century

country: possibly German

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Possibly german

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Noh robe (Nuihaku) with Design of Butterflies and Miscanthus Grass in Mist

date: 17th century

medium: Robe: gold and silver leaf on silk satin damask; butterflies: silk embroidery on plain-weave silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan
Butterflies & moths
Grasses & sedges

credit_line: Gift of Alice Boney, 1966


title: Embroidered Mantle Fragment

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: La Mère Gérard

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on antique cream laid paper; fourth state of four (Glasgow)

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


title: The Château de Versailles Seen from the Gardens

creator: Louis Nicolas de Lespinasse, called the Chevalier de Lespinasse

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor, heightened with white, over traces of graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Viola d'Amore

creator: Joseph Gagliano (1742–1820)

medium: Spruce, maple, ebony

credit_line: Gift of H. H. Schambach, 1981


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Samurai with Large Hat Beside a Weeping Willow

date: 18th century

medium: Wood, natural brushed wood, black and gold hiramakie, ceramic inlay; Interior: plain

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Heraldic Panel with Arms of the House of Hapsburg

medium: Pot-metal glass, white glass, vitreous paint, and silver stain

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1937


title: The Liberation of Oriane from a set of Amadis of Gaul

creator: Karel van Mander I

medium: Wool and silk (8-9 warps per cm)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Fund, 2006


title: Beaker

medium: Milk glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads

creator: Peter Henry Emerson

medium: Platinum prints from glass negatives

subjects: Book Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2008


title: Earring

date: ca. 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Gold, turquoise inlay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Drawing for Engraving in Raccolta di Vari Schizzi, Venice, after Angelo Rosis

creator: Antonio Maria Visentini

medium: Pen and light and dark brown ink, over faint traces of graphite; framing lines in graphite

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


title: Tray frame

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Recumbent lion from a bracelet

medium: Gold

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Edward Low, Torturing a Yankee, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bandmaster, from the Occupations of Women series (N502) for Frishmuth's Tobacco Company

creator: Frishmuth's Tobacco Company


title: Inlaid Floral Ornament -- see 26.8.117a

medium: Gold, stone

subjects:
Ornament & design
Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Alpine Pool

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Wavy-end spoon

medium: Silver

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


title: Saints Peter and John healing the sick at the gate of the temple

creator: Hieronymus Ferroni

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bone Weaving Bobbin

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Bone

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peru; north coast
Skeletons & bones
Textiles-implement

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


title: Box decorated with flowers and clouds

medium: Lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl

country: Korea

subjects: Lacquer Korea Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Gerry, 1981


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Ceiling of Dining Room, Spencer House, St. James Palace, London

creator: Frederick Sang

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Dodge and Fletcher Funds, 1967


title: Two Winged Beasts Confronted

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Gift of Walter Hauser, 1937


title: The Adoration of the Magi

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of Julia H. Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1960


title: Plate

date: 19th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Herdsman and Bull, after Ruisdael

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching with drypoint; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of James David Draper, 2001


title: Swept frame

medium: Oak lower moldings and feather keys; lime upper moldings.

country: French

subjects: Frame French

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Cake plate

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Griffithsia equisetifolia

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Decorative plaque

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Miniature cup (part of a dollhouse set)

date: early 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Furniture element carved in the round

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1957


title: Samples (2)

date: mid-19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Lillebil Christensen IV

creator: Ernst Oppler

credit_line: Gift of M.P. Epstein, 1967


date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Triglyph Painter


title: Saint Adoring the Madonna and Child

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Line drawing in pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk on cream paper.  Framing outline in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: George W. McVey, Catcher, St. Joseph Clay Eaters, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Double capital

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Plaque with God The Father Blessing The Virgin

creator: Workshop of the Master of the High Foreheads

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Painted enamel, copper

subjects: French Enamels-painted

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1945


title: Sampler

medium: Drawnwork, embroidery, cotton and metal thread

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


title: Order of the White Falcon, Saxe Weimar, from the World's Decorations series (N30) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Boy Bringing Round a Citizen's Curricle

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 15, 1787

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Bead

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sarasa benran no mokuroku (catalogue compendium of sarasa designs)

medium: Woodblock-printed book

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Betty and Paul Nomura, in memory of Nomura Shōjirō, 2018


title: Inlay: seated male with cup and palm frond

medium: Shell

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Palms
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Pivat. Georges, Léopold. 34 ans, né à Vauxcié (Aisne). Tailleur d'habits. Anarchiste. 9/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Terracotta fragments from a plastic vase

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Panels of Ornament, nos. CCLXXIV–CCXCIII, plate 48 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

creator: Michelangelo Pergolesi

date: February 27, 1784

medium: Etching; printed in dark brown ink

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

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


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


title: Leda and the Swan

creator: Jean-Jacques Feuchère

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Walter M. Carlebach, 1969


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 6 (verso)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


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

date: mid-6th century BCE


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Phiale, miniature

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: A Mill on Rocks in a River in Norway

creator: Allart van Everdingen

date: mid-17th century

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2005


title: [Jerusalem]

creator: John Anthony

credit_line: Gift of A. Hyatt Mayor, 1961


title: Ribbon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Woman's necktie

medium: SIlk

credit_line: Gift, Edward M. C. Tower, 1925


title: Bow Brooch

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Champlevé enamel, bronze, traces of silver

subjects: Roman Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Table

creator: Pierre Gole

medium: Oak and fruitwood veneered with tortoiseshell, stained and natural ivory, ebony, and other woods; gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1986


title: Dish

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Mummy label

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Wood, ink

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Esther Before Ahasuerus

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving; third state

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Miniature Tunic

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Helmet

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Iron

country: Turkish

subjects: Helmet Turkish

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Portrait of a Young Man

creator: French (Burgundian?) Painter

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

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


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Commode

medium: Carved, painted, and gilded pine; gilt-bronze; marble top

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


title: Metal Keyplate for Church

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: second half 19th century

medium: Gouache

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


title: Pieces (8)

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Head

date: ca. 2nd century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Blue glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Boss?

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Bronze


title: Rockaway #3536

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Portrait of a woman wearing a large bow in her hair, from the "Girls" series (T66), issued with Hunter Dog Cigarros by S. Monday & Sons

creator: S. Monday & Sons, Brooklyn, New York

medium: Commercial photolithograph

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Bottle with flowers

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain with molded decoration (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


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


title: Jar

date: 13th century

medium: Earthenware with slip decoration

subjects: Ceramic French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Card Number 562, Amy Gordon, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Dish

date: early 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted and glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: La Soirée des Thuileries

creator: Pierre Antoine Baudouin

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, Transferred from the Library, 1923


title: Arthur Albert "Doc" Irwin, Shortstop, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Pouch

medium: Glass, linen, silk

country: American

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: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Nantucket, from the Fancy Bathers series (N187) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: Charles F. Berger

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: A Mill with a Fortified Bridge, a Rowing Boat in the Foreground

creator: Roelandt Savery

medium: Pen and brown ink; framing lines in brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2024


title: Pair of candlesticks

creator: John Cafe

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913