title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Glass striped mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)

creator: William Grimaldi

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962


title: Folio from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom)

date: 12th century

medium: Ink and color on palm leaf

country: India (Bihar or West Bengal)

subjects:
Painting
India (bihar or west bengal)
Palms

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1985


title: Sallet

medium: Steel

country: German

subjects: Helmet German

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


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Strip

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Square-Headed Bow Brooch

date: 6th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-copper Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Shawl

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Nancy G. Toepfer, 1999


title: Belt Buckle

date: 7th century

medium: Copper alloy, with gilding

country: East Mediterranean

subjects:
Metalwork-bronze
East mediterranean

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


title: Bodhisattva Guanyin

medium: Jadeite

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939


title: Bleeding Heart Milk Pitcher Design

creator: Hannah Borger Overbeck

medium: Pen and ink and brush and wash

credit_line: Purchase, Peter Frelinghuysen Gift, 1992


title: Drawing of a Catafalque for Philip II of Spain, 1598

creator: Alessandro Casolani della Torre

medium: Pen and brown ink,  brush and brown wash

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


title: A Chronic Kicker, from the Talk of the Diamond set (N135) issued by Duke Sons & Co., a branch of the American Tobacco Company

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Project for a Monumental Tomb

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and blue wash or watercolor

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


title: Beads (33)

date: 18th century (?)

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Cap

date: 10th–14th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Arica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Arica
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, enamel, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: man, goat, griffin, nude figure, and "impaled triangle"

date: ca. 14th–13th century BCE

medium: Carnelian

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


title: Situla

date: 600 BCE–CE 100

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Plate 9 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'They don't like to' (No quieren)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, aquatint, drypoint, burin

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Card Number 703, Lucy Webb, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial T, from an Antiphonary

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Jasper, bloodstone

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Textile Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Pendant with Saint Anthony of Padua

creator: Kongo artist

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Partially hollow cast brass

country: Kongo peoples; Kongo Kingdom

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Kongo peoples; kongo kingdom

credit_line: Gift of Ernst  Anspach, 1999


title: Vase

creator: Henri-Léon Charles Robalbhen

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2013


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: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Boy Feeding a Cart Horse from a Nose Bag

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Figure

medium: Ceramic

country: Valdivia

subjects: Valdivia Ceramics-sculpture

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Yarmouth, Norfolk

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; lettered proof, second state of six

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943


title: Arrowhead

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901


title: Standing court lady

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Louise G. Dillingham, 1978


title: The Prophet Joel, from Prophets and Sibyls

creator: Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Copy after Giambologna's Neptune Fountain in Piazza San Petronio, Bologna

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

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and red wash, on black chalk, ruling, on twelve sheets of paper

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Attendant Saints

creator: Antonio Gionima

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Cap

date: 2nd–early 4th century CE

medium: Wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 33 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Luigi Palma di Cesnola

creator: George Edward Perine

medium: Engraving after a photograph

credit_line: Purchase Fund, 1976


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Girdle Set with Dragon, Clouds and Waves

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Tapestry-woven silk (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Alan Priest, 1961


title: Inkwell with Zodiac Signs

date: early 13th century

medium: Brass; cast, inlaid with silver, copper, and black compound

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1959


title: [Street Scene with Soldiers, Jacksonville, Florida]

creator: Edward W. Sinclair

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019


title: Seated Young Woman

creator: Adam Elsheimer

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Gouache

credit_line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund, Leon D. Black Gift and Dodge Fund, 1997


title: Carrie Behr, Corsair Co., from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Panel

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew

creator: Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: Coffeepot

creator: Sébastien Igonet

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Cristi,... v'là-t-y un boeuf qui est bien fait!..., from Exposition de 1859, published in Le Charivari, May 4, 1859

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1980


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Kneeling statue of Hatshepsut

medium: Granite, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Shepherd in a Landscape

creator: Jacques Callot

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Wright, 1949


title: Horse Trapping

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Copper alloy, gilding

country: Catalan

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Catalan

credit_line: Gift of Ruth Blumka, 1980


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Macrame

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

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


title: Wine Glass

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

country: American or British

subjects:
Ornament & design
American or british

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Amnon and Jonadab, from The Story of Amnon and Tamar

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Tankard

creator: Johan Henrik Åkerblom

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Alfred Duane Pell, 1924


title: Reverse Copy of Le Joueur de Vielle (The Hurdy-Gurdy Player), from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons" (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Narasimha Kills the Demon-King Hiranyakashipu

medium: Lithograph

country: Eastern India, Kolkata, West Bengal

subjects:
Print
Eastern india, kolkata, west bengal

credit_line: Gift of Mark Baron and Elise Boisanté, 2015


title: Afternoon 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 E. F. Schermerhorn, 1953


title: Mat

medium: Fiber

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Handkerchief

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Adrian Dumbell, 1941


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

date: second half 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: Hebrew ritual lace (part of a set)

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. J.P. Morgan (1868-1925), 1938


title: Clarinet in C

creator: George Goulding Co.

medium: Boxwood, ivory, brass

country: British

credit_line: Gift of William J. Maynard, 1997


title: Central Portion from a Triptych with the Crucifixion and Virgin and Child

medium: Elephant ivory

country: French

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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


title: Stone Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Taíno

subjects: Stone-implement Taíno

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Toole, Pitcher, Brooklyn, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Bowl with Two Facing Peacocks

date: second–third quarter 10th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1964


title: Child's Boot (one of a pair)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

date: 18th century

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Six Apostles

creator: Spanish (Oña) Painter

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Gift of Irma N. Straus, 1961


title: Relief of slaughtering and attendants moving to the left - see 26.3.353-3

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926; Rogers Fund, 1931; Purchase, Day Gamble Foundation, 1966


title: Seal

medium: Green jade

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Washington Arch, from the Transparencies series (N137) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

date: late 1880s

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Rome

creator: Richard Cooper II

medium: Graphite, pen and iron gall ink with grey ink and touches of wash

credit_line: Gift of Abbott and Holder Ltd., 2023


title: Pin terminating in three eagles' heads

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Urartian

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Shabti of Ankhu

medium: Granodiorite (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Pork Butcher

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching

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


title: Trousers

medium: silk, metal thread

country: Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Length of cotton "chintz"

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Cotton, painted resist and mordant, dyed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and dyed

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Gerald G. Stiebel and Werwaiss  Family Charitable Trust Gifts, 2005


title: Farnese Hercules

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


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


title: Terracotta plate

creator: Epiktetos

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Purchase, The Bothmer Purchase Fund, and Schimmel Foundation Inc. and Christos G. Bastis Gifts, 1981


title: [Theatre de la Renaissance]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Donna Schneier, 1976


title: Incised furniture plaque with two figures in two registers

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Two Plaques from a Tantric Ritual Apron, Kinnari, and Lotus Flower

date: 16th century or later

medium: Bone

country: Tibet

subjects:
Bone
Tibet
Flowers
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1987


title: Button

medium: metal

country: American or European

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; incised

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


title: Panel fragment

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1951


title: The Last Supper, with a Spaniel

creator: Giovanni Pietro da Birago

credit_line: Purchase, Dr. and Mrs. Goodwin M. Breinin Gift, 1998


title: Glass astragalus (knucklebone)

date: ca. 225 B.C–75 CE

medium: Glass

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Glass
Greek or roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1920


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Carnelian

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Ewer

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Forearm Defense (Vambrace) with Elbow Defense (Couter)

date: 15th century

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Bowl

creator: André Metthey

medium: Earthenware

subjects: French Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1922


title: Cosmetic jar

creator: Barnard Brothers

medium: Silver, glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Amos L. Beaty, 1961


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 450 BCE

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


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

date: first half of the fifth century BCE


title: Capital

medium: Stone; carved in relief; leaf forms and volutes.  Chipped.

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Sadness (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 21, 1800

medium: Hand-colored etching, printed in brown ink

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


title: Schaeffer. Ignace. 42 ans, né à Berheim (Bas-Rhin) le 31/10/51. Ébéniste. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: A Cully Pillag'd

date: October 30, 1786

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Brougham #3665

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Pantheon with cutaway showing the interior, from the "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Suite de Vases

creator: Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944, transferred from the Library


title: Lot and His Daughters (?)

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk on cream paper. Squared in black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Design for a Silver Centerpiece

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Drawings

credit_line: Exchange, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1960


title: Lamp with the Three Hebrews before Nebuchadnezzar

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Jean-Baptiste Colbert

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; second state of four (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Wishing You a Happy New Year, from the New Years 1890 series (N227) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Card Number 40, Sommerville, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Faience figurine of a lion

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Faience

country: Egyptian

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Egyptian

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


title: Jérusalem, Vallée de Josaphat, Détails du Tombeau d'Absalom

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Bacchanal

creator: Pierre Brebiette

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


title: One from a Pair of Palanquin Rings

date: 13th century

medium: Bronze with traces of gilding

country: Cambodia or Thailand

subjects:
Metalwork
Cambodia or thailand

credit_line: Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1993


title: Steamship State of Texas, Mallory Line, from the Ocean and River Steamers series (N83) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Cosmetic Box from the tomb of Sennedjem

medium: Gessoed and painted wood

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: Card Number 32, Baker, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Glass network mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Shabti of Petosiris, son of Djedhor

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Teapot

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Accessory set

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: India

subjects: Accessory India

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1979


title: Spouted Vessel

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Huastec

subjects:
Huastec
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur M. Bullowa Bequest, 1998


title: Figurine of a Bovine

date: 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; transparent turquoise glaze (iridized)

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


title: Twenty-six Prints Constituting an Album (Azuma fūzoku fuku tsukushi)  東風俗 福つくし

creator: Yōshū Chikanobu 楊洲周延

date: late 19th century

medium: Woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fire

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

date: October 1, 1784

medium: Etching and engraving, printed in color; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Viscera figure with human head (Imseti)

medium: Resin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Pendant Design with a Male Diety with a Shield Flanked by Two Reclining Men

creator: Jan Collaert I

date: after 1581

medium: Engraving; second state of two (New Hollstein)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: Dish

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1911


title: Edging

date: late 18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Gable seal

medium: Chlorite or steatite, black

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1983


title: Isis-Aphrodite clasping a garment rolled about her hips

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Vision of Saint Catherine, an oval composition, from "Les images de tous les saints et saintes de l'année" (Images of all the saints of the year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered, splashed and painted with polychrome glazes (buff ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

medium: Copper


title: Plate 17: Illustration to Canto XVII, from Torquato Tasso's "Gerusalemme liberata III"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

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


title: Vase

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Favrile glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Footless Cup or Lid

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: A Rake's Progress, Plate 7

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Vase Carpet

date: 17th century

medium: Cotton (warp), silk (weft), wool (weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1970


title: Earring

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Gold, pearls

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Apolinis (Apolinis in uiridario Magni Ducis Etruriae), from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Glass Fragments

date: 4th century

medium: Glass (pink)

subjects: Glass-vessel Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Collar

medium: fur

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. I.A. Simon, 1939


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Angel of the Revelation (Book of Revelation, chapter 10)

creator: William Blake

medium: Watercolor, pen and black ink, brush and wash, over traces of graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Chair (chaise à la Reine) (one of a set of four)

creator: Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard

medium: Beechwood unusually richly carved and gilded; previously upholstered with coral colored velvet attached with brass-headed nails, now upholstered in yellow petit point

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Portrait of a Woman (probably Anna Vilhelmine Johanne Dorthea Halberg, married Bjørner, later Larsen)

creator: Peder Severin Krøyer

medium: Pastel, watercolor

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2013


title: Henry B. Humphrey of Boston

creator: Auguste Edouart

medium: Cut paper silhouette

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


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Covered Jar

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Design for T-Cart, no. 3112

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Alto Saxhorn in E-flat

medium: Brass

country: American or German

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated
American or german

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Upholstery panels for an armchair

medium: Silk, painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted

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


title: Platter

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


title: Figure fragment

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

medium: Ceramic

country: Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: "The Spy Zambur Brings Mahiya to the City of Tawariq", Folio from a Hamzanama (Book of Hamza)

creator: Kesav Das

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on cloth; mounted on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Detail of a Fish, Tomb of Khnumhotep

creator: Nina de Garis Davies

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: The Savior with the Globe in his Hand

creator: Grégoire Huret

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: The Virgin of Guadalupe appearing to a man holding a hat (possibly Juan Diego)

creator: Anonymous Mexican Artist

date: 19th century

medium: Metal plate engraving (re-strike?)

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Coffret

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Wrought iron, leather, wood

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Corset

date: early 18th century

medium: silk

country: Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Claggett Wilson, 1946


title: Christ as Good Shepherd, from Das Plenarium

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut (hand-colored)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Hamano Haruchika

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, 1943


title: Sunset on Mount Chocorua, New Hampshire

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on gray-green wove paper

credit_line: Gift of The Reverend E. L. Magoon, D.D., 1880


title: Handkerchief

medium: Silk mull

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis M. Scott, 1923


title: Allegory in Honor of Pope Benedict XIV

creator: Pompeo Batoni

medium: Red chalk, highlighted with white, on beige paper

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1973


title: Peasant of the Alps

creator: Henry William Bunbury

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2011


title: Terracotta vessel fragment with reticulated pattern enclosing conventional flowers

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Vase
Minoan
Flowers
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1911


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Design for a Vase with Lid

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Watercolor, over graphite. Design pasted to blue mounting paper.

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


title: Dragon Wrapped around Saz Leaves

medium:
Main support: ink on paper
Border: Gold, ink, and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2000


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Sword (Pulouar)

medium: Steel

country: Persian

subjects: Sword Persian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: St. John (copy), from the series The Four Evangelists

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Prints

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Teabowl

date: ca. 1740, engraved decoration first quarter 18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


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


title: The Stoning of Saint Stephen

creator: Washington Allston

medium: Iron-gall ink and white chalk on dark brown laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Fenton L. B. Brown and Robert P. Gunn, in memory Henry Collins Flagg, 1979


title: Horse Standing

creator: Edgar Degas

date: modeled possibly ca. 1881–82, cast 1920

medium: Bronze

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


title: The Jeweled Chaplet

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Judith Underwood Stewart, in memory of Martha Davenport Heard, 2001


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Fragment of a Figure

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Sampler

creator: Rebekah White

medium: Silk embroidery on linen

credit_line: Gift of Barbara Schiff Sinauer, 1984


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


title: Green Tile with Star Design

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration, monochrome glazed

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2007


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

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE


title: Cuff

medium: Muslin and silk thread; bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Shop bracket and sign

date: bracket ca. 1740–50

medium: Bracket: wrought iron, partly gilt; Sign: painted metal (modern)

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


title: The Old Bachelor, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Textile Sample Book

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-sample book

credit_line: Gift of Everfast Industries Inc., 1971


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

creator: Group of Vienna O.565

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Bed curtain border

date: first half 19th century

medium: Linen, cotton, silk, metal

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


title: Ribbon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Saint Gregory and other saints in front of a gateway with a portrait of the Virgin, cherubs overhead

creator: Rombout Eynhoudts

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Pot

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Teapot with cover

creator: Harmanus Nieuwenhuys

medium: Silver, wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Head of Bearded Old Man

creator: Jakob Matthias Schmutzer

medium: Reddish-brown chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Commode

creator: Charles Topino

medium: Tulipwood and green-tinted sycamore on oak, fleur-de-pêche marble, gilt bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Hayward Weir, 1968


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Evening cape

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Miss Evelyn Mellen, 1939


title: Earring, crescent-shaped

medium: Gold

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


title: Bobbin

medium: Bone and beads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Skeletons & bones
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J.B. Johnston, 1910


title: Interior scene with soldiers pillaging

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolour, gouache

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1952


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Scarab of an Official

medium: Green glazed steatite

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


title: Portrait of Victor Amadeus III, King of Sardinia

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Mary Martin Fund, 1985


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: [Golestan Palace, Interior, Teheran, Iran]

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Photographs

credit_line: Gift of Charles K. and Irma B. Wilkinson, 1977


title: Plate (assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Lady Alan Johnstone, 1920


title: Ohotniche Rogi sounding E

creator: N. N. Federov

medium: Brass

country: Russian

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Russian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Bowl

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; buff slip with black decoration, polychrome glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Trinket Box

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: [Seated Middle-aged Woman Dressed in Finery]

creator: William Hardy Kent

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup) with vertical ring handles

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Dress

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Mary Louise Deming, 1959


title: The Muiderpoort, Amsterdam, seen from the Plantage

creator: Hendrick Keun

medium: Black chalk, pen and brown and gray ink and watercolor

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1991


title: Shabti of the Treasurer of Lower Egypt Pa-abumeh, called Psamtik-seneb

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Shipbuilder's Yard, Liverpool

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Drypoint, printed in black ink on ivory laid paper; first state of four (Glasgow); removed from a book

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


title: Strip

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Steatite; carved


title: Jean Loret

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; second state of three (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Fringe

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Meijin gafu, Vol. 3 (Famous Painters)

medium: Woodblock-printed book

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Cap

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: Jar with Cover

medium: Porcelain decorated in underglaze blue

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929


title: Diana with Attributes of the Hunt

creator: Antoine Caron

date: 16th century

medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache on buff paper

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2001


title: Louis of France, The Grand Dauphin (1661–1711)

date: late 17th century

medium: White marble

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Teabowl (part of a service)

creator: Caughley Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1966


title: Deity Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

credit_line: Gift of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1980


title: Wren, from the Birds of America series (N37) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Fragment of a Jar

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1962


title: Head of man

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Square

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and polychrome decoration, glazed (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Bed cover

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: La Bataille (The Battle), plate 3 from "Les Misères et les Mal-Heures de la Guerre" (The Miseries and Misfortunes of War)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first or second state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: "Winter" Needlework Picture

creator: Hannah Jane Robinson

medium: Silk and chenille embroidery and paint on linen

credit_line: Purchase, Elizabeth B. Dater and Wm. Mitchell Jennings Jr. Gift, in honor of Morrison H. Heckscher and Amelia Peck, 2013


title: Standing male figurine

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Portrait of Francesco de' Medici

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957


title: Monkey playing the lyre and carrying a dish on its head

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Textile Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Double Column Base

date: late 15th century

medium: Marble

country: French

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Vanderpoel Clark, 1967


title: Dish

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Bequest of James J. Rorimer, 1966


title: Tweezer-Razor Implement

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Chest Front

date: 15th century

medium: Walnut

subjects: Woodwork-furniture French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1905


title: Club (Gugu)

medium: Wood

country: Fijian

subjects: Wood-implement Fijian

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


title: Thomas Rowlandson, aged 70

creator: John Thomas 'Antiquity' Smith

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

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


title: Dress Parade (from Sketchbook)

medium: Brown ink, gouache and graphite on greenish-brown wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970


title: Embroidery

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Paul Boynton, Champion Deep Sea Swimmer, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Le Café (Coffee)

creator: François-Joseph-Aimé de Lemud

medium: Lithograph; first state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Fragment of a bowl

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Menke, 1982


title: Axle pin

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Orchestral Horn

creator: H. Delcourt

medium: Brass

country: Belgian

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Belgian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: The Fall of Jericho

creator: Gerard van Groeningen

medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, green-brown wash, heightened with white

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and funds from various donors, 2005


title: Sir Joshua Reynolds

creator: John Henry Robinson

medium: Mixed method engraving

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950


title: Galloon

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Designs for Four Upholstered Chairs

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Black chalk with touches of graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Glass cameo fragment of a large platter or tabletop

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Cravat (one of a pair)

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, Brussels bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1934


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: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

date: ca. 1645–50, and later

medium: Gold and painted enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Samuel "Sam" Newhall Crane, 2nd Base, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Bowl and tray

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Scene from the parable of the marriage feast (Matthew 22:11-14; The king denouncing the man who was not wearing a wedding robe)

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

medium: Pen and brush and gray ink, gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 2008


title: Pax

date: early 20th century (original dated late 15th century)

medium: Silver plate on copper

country: Portuguese

subjects: Portuguese Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Roundel with Saint  Barbara or Saint Catherine Thrown into Prison

medium: Colorless glass, silver stain, vitreous paint

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1932


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre, hieroglyphs

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


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


title: Tea Jar

date: 17th century

medium: Clay covered with glaze (Seto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: Pisanio and Imogen (Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act 3, Scene 4)

creator: Robert Thew

date: first published 1801; reissued 1852

medium: Stipple and etching

credit_line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Smugglers, from "The Songs of Béranger"

creator: Augustin Burdet

medium: Intaglio

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


title: Human-headed winged bull (lamassu)

medium: Gypsum alabaster

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1932


title: Suit

medium: wool

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1987


title: Double Spout Bottle

date: 1st–6th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3168

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of Syllabary A

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Hatchet

medium: Jadeite

country: Switzerland

subjects: Jade Switzerland

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Scarf

date: 19th century

medium: Machine net

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: The White Nun

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Gemma pretiosa della virtuose donne, page 9 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953


title: Stucco relief fragment

medium: Stucco

subjects: Miscellaneous-stucco Roman


title: Platter

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Plate 15: Doe, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; third state of three (De Vesme)

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Embroidery sample for a man’s suit or waistcoat

medium: Silk embroidery on silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Fob

date: late 18th century

medium: metal

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Shinagawa Hakkei Zaka

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: [Display of Whitby Seascape Photographs]

creator: Frank M. Sutcliffe

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 2023


title: Large Storage Jar (Ōtsubo)

date: 16th century

medium: Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Tokoname ware)

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


title: Cake Dish

creator: Hozan

medium: Buff ware decorated with colored enamels which do not touch, and the clay between has been darkened (Kyoto ware)

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Germans Eating Sour-Krout

creator: James Gillray

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Gift of Adele S. Gollin, 1976


title: Private, National Lancers, Massachusetts, V.M., from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Steeple cup

creator: A. B., London

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Vase with dragons

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991


title: Small vase

creator: Chinese

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain with Sang de Boeuf glaze.

country: Chinese

subjects: Ceramic Chinese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Fred "Sure Shot" Dunlap, Captain, Pittsburgh, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Bottle

medium: Glass; pewter

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Decorative boss

date: ca. 8th century BCE

medium: Shell

subjects:
Ornament & design
Assyrian
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: Straw Basket for Fish (?) and Mokuge Flower

creator: Shibata Zeshin

country: Japan

subjects: Fish Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Button

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Reginald P. Rose, 1976


title: A Woman Snatching a Bag of Sweetmeats from Her MotHer

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Water Filter

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Jar with cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: L'Attaque (The Attack), from "Les Combats de Quatre Galères" (The Battles of Four Galleys)

creator: Jacques Callot

date: early 17th century

medium: Etching; second state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1940


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with black glaze

country: China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: late 18th or early 19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Square Seal with Knob In the Shape of Three Felines

medium: Shoushan soapstone (tianhuang)

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Paul E. Manheim, by exchange, 2007


title: Scarab Inscribed for the God's Wife (Ahmose-)Nefertari

medium: Steatite, glazed

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: On the Beach

creator: Eugène Boudin

medium: Graphite and watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


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

date: mid-6th century BCE


title: Landaulet #3320

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Bodhisattva Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future

date: 11th century

medium: Copper alloy with gilding and color

country: Nepal

subjects: Sculpture Nepal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1982


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: S. Mathieu, apôtre (St. Matthew, Apostle), September 21st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Cardinal Jules Mazarin

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

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


title: Food serving vessel (dui)

date: ca. 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze inlaid with composition of bone black and lacquer

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Ships & the sea
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 2006


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Bronze strigil

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1897


title: Card 56, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Le mea culpa du boucher, from Actualités, published in Le Charivari, March 19, 1858

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

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


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

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


title: Terracotta jug

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Framed Landscape with a View of Castel Durante with a Figure Holding an Inscribed Plaque in the Foreground

creator: Ercole Bazicaluva

medium: Pen and dark brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

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


title: La Peste chez les Philistins (Plague Among the Philistines), in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

creator: Jean Jacques Lagrenée

medium: Etching and aquatint

credit_line: Purchase, The Arthur Ross Foundation Gift and Charles Z. Offin Fund, 1999


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base) or a kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Model of Musician with Flute

medium: Stoneware

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

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


title: Black Seto (Seto-guro) Tea Bowl, named Iron Mallet (Tettsui)

date: late 16th century

medium: Stoneware with black glaze (Mino ware, Black Seto type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Taweret

medium: Hematite? basalt?

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Park Drag #3328

creator: Brewster & Co.

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


title: Plate 44, from the Fans of the Period series (N7) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Earring

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold

country: Byzantine or Langobardic

subjects:
Metalwork-gold
Byzantine or langobardic

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Two handled cup

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only stae

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


title: A Saint Preaching, and the Head of an Oriental

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Vase fragment

country: Aegean

subjects: Vase Aegean

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1911


title: Pair of Brigandine Tassets

medium: Metal, textile, gilded copper, leather.

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Designs for the Decoration of Firearms

creator: Nicolas Noël Boutet

medium: Pencil, ink, gray wash on paper

country: French, Versailles

subjects:
Work on paper-drawing
French, versaille

credit_line: Purchase, Clay P. Bedford Gift, 2004


title: Candlestick (one of a pair)

creator: François II Lacassaigne

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Ella Morris de Peyster, 1957


title: Retouched Levallois Point

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of C. T. Currelly, 1906


title: Lady Macbeth (Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5)

creator: James Parker

date: first published 1800; reissued 1852

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942


title: Chess set

date: 18th century

medium: Ivory, leather

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Bowl and cover

medium: Nephrite, white with very light greenish tint

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Medallion with a Portrait of Gennadios

medium: Glass, gold leaf, polychromy

country: Roman

subjects:
Glass-gold glass
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Waistcoat

date: early 18th century

medium: silk, wool,  linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Key

date: first half 14th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: The Denial of Saint Peter

creator: Louis Lafitte

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white

credit_line: Gift of Didier Aaron Inc., in memory of Jacob Bean, 1992


title: Ornament with landscape and figures

medium: Amber

subjects:
Ornament & design
Amber
China
Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Camp near Chattanooga

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Terracotta guttus (flask with handle and vertical spout)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Purchase, Nicholas S. Zoullas Gift, 1984


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Punch cup (one of two)

date: late 18th century

medium: Glass

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


title: Warriors in Armor

creator: John Thomson

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


title: Silver Spoon

date: mid-6th–mid-7th century

medium: Silver, niello, traces of gilding

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-silver Byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, John C. Weber Gift, in honor of Helen C. Evans, 2005


title: Theatrical Troupe on the Road

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Pen and brown ink, watercolor, over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 2015


title: Bowl with decoration of fish

date: second half of the 12th century

medium: Stoneware with inlaid design under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Fish Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of Sadajiro Yamanaka, 1911


title: Design for Drop Center Cabriolet Sleigh, no. 3738

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Ganesha transcribing the Mahabharata (Shri Shri Ganesh)

medium: Lithograph with watercolor on paper

country: India, Kolkata, West Bengal

subjects:
Print
India, kolkata, west bengal

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021


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

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Carpet Fragment

date: early 19th century

medium: Wool; symmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Block Fragment

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: The Cross of the Legion of Honor, France, from the World's Decorations series (N44) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Jar

medium: Faience

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: The Sibyl Aprippa

creator: Léonard Limosin

date: probably ca. 1535–40

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt

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


title: Puppies Playing beside a Palm Tree and Garden Rock

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 15th century

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Palms Trees

credit_line: Edward Elliott Family Collection, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1981


title: The Penitence of Saint Peter

creator: Jeremias Gottlob Rugendas

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Column Shaft

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Cistern

creator: Orazio Fontana

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Covered Incense Box

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Clay

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Jason and the Dragon

creator: Salvator Rosa

medium: Etching and drypoint

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Bracelet

date: probably 14th–15th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Study for a Male Figure Lowered into a Grave (recto); Kneeling Female Figure in Profile to Left (verso)

creator: Cigoli (Ludovico Cardi)

medium: Point of brush and blue wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on blue paper

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1981


title: Mary Kellogg

creator: James Whitehorne

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2006


title: Saucer (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Design for Interior Wall Decoration

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, with ruled and compass construction

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Allegory of a thesis, two women hold inscribed tablets

creator: Bartolomeo Coriolano

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks printed and green (only state)

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Covered bowl and stand

creator: Le Nove Porcelain Manufactory

credit_line: Purchase, The Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation Inc. Gift, 2007


title: Bowl with a Sphinx

date: 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze-painted, transparent, colorless-greenish glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Street Scene in Yoshiwara

creator: Hishikawa Moronobu

date: late 17th century

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Une Amitié

creator: Charles Jacque

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Stephen Salisbury

creator: Nathaniel Hancock

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Panel from the Palace of Westminster

creator: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

medium: Oak

subjects: Architecture Woodwork-architectural

credit_line: Purchase, The James Parker Charitable Foundation and Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2015


title: Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)

date: 3rd century BCE

country: Greek, Ptolemaic, Egyptian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, ptolemaic, egyptian

credit_line: Purchase, 1890


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Briseis Painter

date: ca. 480 BCE

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1953


title: Limestone head of beardless male votary

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Card Number 6, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: "Kai Khusrau Wrestles with Shida", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

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

credit_line: Bequest of Monroe C. Gutman, 1974


title: Title Border with Man in Armor in Center

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Henry W. Kent, 1941


title: Twilight Moon at Ryōgoku Bridge

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Coin

medium: Copper

country: Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Splanchnopt Painter

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


title: Plate 6: Ulysses driving a burning stake into Polyphemus' eye

creator: Bartolomeo Crivellari

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Card Number 152, Mrs. Roach, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Statuette of a female

date: ca. early 1st millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1964


title: Bronze statuette of a rider wearing an elephant skin

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1955


title: Miser's purse

medium: Glass, linen

country: Mexican

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


title: Waste Bowl

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Limestone with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Coptic


title: "St. Michael, the Archangel," Folio from the Bellini Album

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Louis V. Bell Fund, 1967


title: Beauties

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 1, 1792

medium: Hand-colored stipple engraving and etching

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


title: Apron

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William R. Witherell, 1948


title: Poke bonnet

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Sally Victor, 1949


title: Warship in the trough of a wave

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


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

medium: Terracotta


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: Dinar minted in Nishapur

date: dated 37 AH?/98 CE ?

medium: Gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Bowl

date: late 14th century

medium: Brass; engraved, originally inlaid with silver

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


title: Design for Two-Seat Wagon

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Three Putti with Trumpets

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

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


title: Passages des Vieilles Boucheries

creator: Auguste Victor Deroy

medium: Etching on laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Eliot W. Rowlands, 2010


title: Jardinière

creator: Charles Volkmar

medium: Earthenware

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


title: Bit Boss

date: late 16th–17th century

medium: Copper alloy, gold

country: German, possibly Augsburg

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
German, possibly augsburg

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Design for a Rocaille Cartouche

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

medium: Black chalk

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


title: Winter landscape

creator: Jiang Song

date: first half 16th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1955


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

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


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Jean-Baptiste Budes, comte de Guébriant

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; third state of four (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Pendant Icon: St. George, Virgin and Child Enthroned

date: 18th century

medium: Wood, pigment, metal hinge

country: Ethiopian

subjects: Wood-painting Ethiopian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. DeWitt Wallace, 1968


title: Christ Carrying the Cross

creator: Benoit Thiboust

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


title: Box

medium: Leather, metal

credit_line: Gift of Miss J. S. Middleton, 1922


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Scholar and Attendant in Mountain Retreat

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: La Gloria et l'Honore di Ponti Tagliati, E Ponti in Aere

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Nine scarabs set in modern bracelet.

medium: Glazed steatite, gold

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ann Kissel Grun, 2007


title: Study of a Tree

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: [Sir Charles Lock Eastlake]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Surya, the Hindu Solar Deity

date: 14th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Nepal (Kathmandu valley)

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

credit_line: Purchase, William Spielman Bequest, in memory of William and Bette-Ann Spielman, 2009


title: Mary Carrick Riggs, Dresden

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print with applied color

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes, 1943


title: Gelidium rostratum

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Inrō with Grapevine

creator: Nomura Choheisai

date: second half of the 18th century

medium:
One case; lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e, gold foil application with green stained ivory, mother-of-pearl, amber, and horn inlays on black lacquer ground
Netsuke: ivory; kagamibuta with inlaid design of gourd and vine
Ojime: ivory bead with inlaid design of branch with fruits

subjects: Inrō Japan Fruits

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


title: Chylocladia clavellosa, ß sedifolius


title: Earring

date: 2nd–3rd century A.D

medium: Gold

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Diadem with a Pair of Gazelle Heads

medium: Gold, carnelian, opaque turquoise glass, decayed crizzled glass

credit_line: Purchase, George F. Baker and Mr. and Mrs. V. Everit Macy Gifts, 1920


title: Chute

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Figure-top spoon

date: probably 1695 or 1719

medium: Silver

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


title: Esneh, Dattiers, Sycomore et Café Sur le Bord du Nil

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Coach #3797

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Woman's Wedding Coat

medium: Silk, metallic thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Deall Nicoll, in memory of her husband, Charles Deall Nicoll, 1945


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese


title: Stockings

date: fourth 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: Intaglio with head of Serapis (?)

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Insertion

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Meiping vase

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with copper red glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Ink Tablet with "The Nine Sons" Design

creator: Wen Ya Guo

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Ink

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Length with medallions of character happiness (xi)

date: 20th century

medium: Silk damask satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Annette Young, in memory of her brother, Innis Young, 1954


title: G. Smith, Shortstop, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, 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: George Washington

creator: Gilbert Stuart

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1888


title: Jupiter and Callisto

creator: Pierre Milan

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Le Cercle De Leurs Magestes Dans La Chambre De Presence: A: S. Iames; illustration from 'Histoire de l'entrée de la Reyne Mère dans la Grande Brètaigne'

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Sample

medium: Silk on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Tongs

creator: J. Cook

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Design for the Verso of a Cross-Shaped Pendant Above a Pair of Oval Ornaments and Axe-Shaped Ornaments

creator: Jan Collaert I

date: before 1573

medium: Engraving and blackwork; first state of two (New Hollstein)


title: Latticed Diamond-shaped Pendant

date: Last quarter of the 10th–last quarter of the 15th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Gloves

medium: cotton

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Martin Kamer, 1985


title: Ewer

date: 13th century

medium: Stonepaste

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


title: Dish with Cherry Blossoms

date: mid-17th century

medium: Porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamels (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan Flowers

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


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

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Banks of the Nile at Cairo

creator: Francis Frith

date: ca. 1857, printed 1870s

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Sword (Klewang) with Scabbard

date: 18th–19th century

medium: SIlver, bone

country: Malayan

subjects:
Sword
Malayan
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Shiba Shinmeisha Uchi (Shatetsu-ro)

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Piece

date: 17th 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: Fringe

date: late 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 57 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Hammered Silver Cone Ornament

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: In Honor of M. Bourgeois, a French Radical Politician, Premier for a short time in 1896

creator: Louis Eugêne Mouchon

medium: Bronze, struck and silvered

credit_line: Gift of the Artist, 1904


title: Textile fragment with repeating pattern of scattered vignettes of human figures

medium: Silk

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

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


title: Gimp

date: 16th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: [Double Portrait of Man Seated and Standing at a Desk]

creator: Charles DeForest Fredricks

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Carlos G. Vertanessian, 2024


title: A city under siege with elephants and soldiers throughout; Mars looking down from above; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

creator: Mathäus Küsel

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Furniture Cover with Lotus and Dragon Scrolls

medium: Silk velvet with cut and uncut pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Bequest of Florance Waterbury, in memory of her father, John I. Waterbury, 1968


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Box with portrait of a lady

medium: Wood, tortoiseshell, gold, ivory, glass

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Portraits

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


title: May Belfort

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Crayon lithograph on china paper

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949


title: Vajra

date: ca. 10th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia, Java

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia, java

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Don Quixote in His Study

creator: William Frederick Lake Price

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of A. Hyatt Mayor, 1969


title: Coverlet or Wall Hanging

medium: Silk, embroidered with silk

credit_line: Gift of Karen B. Cohen, in honor of Rochelle C. Rosenberg, 2022


title: Design for a Frieze: A Nude Man, Sea Creature, a Garland and Volutes, Small Head of Unicorn

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk

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


title: Steatite triangular prism

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Nefertum

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Seal stamp

medium: Steatite


title: Scarab

medium: Faience


title: Round Shield with the Surrender of the Elector of Saxony at Mühlberg

medium: Steel, gold, silver

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Shield
Italian, milan

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: One of Twenty-Three Sheets of Drawings of Glassware (Mirrors, Chandeliers, Goblets, etc.)

creator: Compagnia di Venezia e Murano

medium: Tissue, with pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor

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


title: Key

medium: Steel

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1954


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Femme assise, de profil à droite, jouant de l'eventail

creator: François Boucher

medium: Facsimile of an etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, Transferred from the Library, 1923


title: Wagonette #1113

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Mass Bell

date: 19th century

medium: Metal

country: Flemish

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper Flemish

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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

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


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Busk

medium: ivory

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1930


title: Tree Peonies and Chinese Poem on Peonies

creator: Matsumura Keibun

medium: Pair of hanging scrolls;  ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Trees

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2022


title: Private, Artillery (Horse), French Army, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: The Arab Falconer

creator: Eugène Fromentin

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: The John Hobart Warren Bequest, 1923


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Double Column Base

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Embroidery sample for a man’s suit

medium: Silk on wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Wreaths, 6

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Cage crinoline

medium: [no medium available]

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Mary Le Boutillier, 1945


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

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Pochette

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Wood

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted French

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


medium: Terracotta


title: Portrait of actress, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph
Portraits


title: David at the Cave of Adullam

creator: Giovanni Maldura

credit_line: Kretschmar Fund, 1921


title: Dress

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of The Misses Faith and Delia Leavens, 1941


title: Priest's Robe

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1965


title: Head of Victory

creator: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


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

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Furniture cover with dragons

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silk satin with supplementary weft pattern

country: China

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

credit_line: Gift of E. G. Kennedy, 1932


title: Terracotta shallow angular bowl

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

credit_line: Gift of the Greek Government, 1927


title: Vase

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Resurrection, from "The Passion of Christ"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Crouching Figure

creator: Middle Niger artist

date: 13th–19th century

country: Middle Niger civilization

subjects:
Middle niger civilization
Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Leyden, 1980


title: The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy (Her Last Communion before Being Dragged by Oxen)

creator: Giovanni Battista Maganza il Giovane

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: The Labourers in the Vineyard (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

creator: Sir John Everett Millais

medium: Wood engraving; proof

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Terracotta bowl with wishbone handle

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Stanhope Gig # 3333a

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Morning dress

medium: cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 1978


title: Two Wings of an Altarpiece depicting Saints John the Baptist and Catherine in Niches Surmounted by Angels

creator: Jan van Scorel

date: mid-16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, squared with black chalk or graphite; framing line in pen and brown ink, by the artist; on two separate pieces of paper, later laid down

credit_line: Purchase, Frits and Rita Markus Fund and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2013


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Testoon of Henry VIII (third coinage)

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ignazio Peluso, Ada Peluso and Romano I. Peluso, 2007


title: Ruins of Gallego Flour Mills, Richmond

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Petticoat

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Winter, 1945


title: Charger

creator: Unknown

medium: Redware

credit_line: Gift of Anthony W. Butera Jr., in memory of James G. Butera, 2015


title: Hand amulet

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Grotesque Head

date: early 12th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Central Asia

subjects:
Sculpture
Central asia

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Mabel Santley, 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: Textile Fragment

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Woman Pursuing Sparrow

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Door handle

date: late 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Mlle. Elisa Saracco, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Hollander Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Dish (one of a pair) (part of a set)

creator: Lewis Mettayer

medium: Gilded silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: The Temptation of St. Anthony

creator: Hieronymus Bosch

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Death of a Roman Matron

creator: Bartolomeo Pinelli

medium: Pen and ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Pot

date: 4th–7th century

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Cherry Blossoms at Arashiyama, from the series Famous Places of Kyōto

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Piece

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Coin

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Cornemuse

creator: Possibly Jean Dechaud

medium: various materials

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-bagpipe
French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Engaged Shaft

medium: Stone

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Piece from a Kosode with Partial Chrysanthemum

medium: Resist-dyed silk satin damask (rinzu), embroidered with silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed and embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennan Ford, 2008


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Kawasaki

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: François I (1494–1547), king of France

creator: Girolamo della Robbia

medium: Glazed terracotta

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Cassetta frame

date: early 17th century

medium: Cimolo. Gilt; deep brown bole.

country: Lombard

subjects: Frame Lombard

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Bertha

date: late 19th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: Belgian


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

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


title: Salver

date: 19th century

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1978


title: Card Number 195, Pauline Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: First Steps, after Millet

creator: Vincent van Gogh

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of George N. and Helen M. Richard, 1964


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits


title: Musette Player (Le Joueur de Musette)

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1901


title: Scorpion

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

credit_line: Gift of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1981