title: The Fenice Theater in Venice (recto); Fragment of a Larger Drawing Representing Part of a Column and a Cornice (verso)

creator: Francesco Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and gray wash over traces of black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash (verso)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Hammered Gold Patena

date: 11th–16th century

medium: Gold (hammered)

country: Costa Rica or Panama

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Costa rica or panama

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1976


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Open-work, cameo embossed, gilded lace paper, chromolithographed die-cut scraps, colored paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Profile Face

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper, shell, stone

country: Moche

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Chess Piece, Pawn

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Daoist priest’s ritual robe with dragons

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread tapestry (kesi)

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
China

credit_line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1943


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Pair of tassels

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: "Kean as Richard Third" (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

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

country: American

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


title: A Silver Statuette of an Angel Playing the Harp, from the "Wittenberg Reliquaries"

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: S. Eustache et Ses Enfants (St. Eustace and His Children), September 20th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Section of a Diptych in Linga Form, Interior Depicting Parvati, the Consort of Shiva

medium: Chlorite schist

country: India (Jammu and Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir)

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


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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: “Udumbara Flowers” (Udonge) Temple Plaque

creator: Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki)

date: carved 1741

medium: Carved wood; lacquer, color, and gold

country: Japan

subjects: Architecture Lacquer Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Kurt A. Gitter and Alice Yelen Gitter, from the Gitter-Yelen Foundation


title: From the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Slippers

medium: leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Phillip H. Gray, 1950


title: Seal of John II, King of Castile and Leon

date: 15th century

medium: Lead

country: Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Doorway from Notre-Dame at Reugny

date: late 12th century

medium: Limestone

country: French

subjects: Installation French

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1934


title: Kaiser-teller

creator: Hans Rumpler

date: early 17th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose III

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Scholar Contemplating Towering Rock

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 20th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1971


title: The Brave Tars of the Victory, and The Remains of the Lamented Nelson!

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Imperial Court Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. W. Graeme, 1951


title: Bull's head from column capital

date: ca. 5th century BCE

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Beaker (part of a set)

creator: Johann Bernhard Hertz (Hentz)

medium: Silver, leather

credit_line: Gift of Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 1968


title: Faience pyxis

date: 13th–12th century BCE

medium: Faience

country: Levantine or Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-faience
Levantine or cypriot

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


title: Saltcellar

medium: Lacy pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Dish

creator: Bernard Palissy

date: second half 17th century or later

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Coin Nomisma Isaac II

date: 12th century

medium: Electrum

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1922


title: Head and shoulders of a male statue

medium: Granodiorite

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


title: Hairpin

date: 7th century

medium: Gold

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: "Chanot model" Violin

date: mid-19th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Dish with Christ and two disciples

date: probably 19th century


title: Dish

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1962


title: Angel with Palm Seated on Clouds

creator: Pedro  Duque Cornejo

medium: Pen and dark brown ink. On off-white paper

subjects: Drawing Palms

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


title: Chess Piece, Pawn

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Ivory or wood(?); carved

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Vessel

medium: Stone, red

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Bone Carving, Possibly of a Dionysiac Revel

medium: Elephant ivory

subjects:
Byzantine
Ivories-elephant
Skeletons & bones


title: Two-Handled Jar from the Burial

medium: Pottery, marle

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Canto 39, Stanza 57, from "Orlando Furioso"

creator: Nicolas de Launay

medium: Etching and engraving


title: Broadsheet relating to the death of Pope León XIII, he is shown in his study flanked by angels

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Two Female Nudes; Seated Male Nude (after Michelangelo?); Three Equestrian Figures (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Pen, iron-gaul ink and graphite on off-white laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Quando vidi costui nel gran diserte / Misere di me gridai a lui.

creator: Louis Boulanger

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Frog Amulet

medium: Porphyry

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Hen, Cock and Chickens

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

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


title: Volute-krater fragment

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Three Sections of Cloister Arcade

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1935


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Fall of Achilles

date: January 7, 1785

medium: Etching


title: Button

medium: ivory, glass, metal, strass

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Pilgrim vase

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Stoneware

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


title: Presentation Box

date: first half of the 17th century

medium: Carved red lacquer with gilded ground

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Yokkaichi, from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Undersleeves

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James McF. Baker, 1948


title: Dagger (Pesh-kabz) with Sheath

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Jade, steel, silver, wood, velvet, ruby, gold

country: Indian, Mughal

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, mughal

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Autumn, from "L'Artiste"

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Etching; sixth state of nine (Delteil)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1917


title: Caster

creator: Charles Le Roux

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall P. Blankarn Gift, 1966


title: Storage jar

medium: Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Bizen ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Oakley Cottage

creator: John Dillwyn Llewelyn

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Bowl

medium: Bronze


title: Two Male Figures Wrestling

creator: Thomas Anshutz

medium: Charcoal on off-white laid paper

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1980


title: Floral printed cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Flowers
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Cups and saucers (3)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Louise Chase Sisk, in memory of her great-grandfather, Alexander Turnbull, 1995


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Side Chair

medium: Mahogany, yellow pine, white pine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Masked Figure Pendant

medium: Gold

country: Calima (Yotoco)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Calima (yotoco)

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


title: Bottle

medium: Clay covered with glaze on the lower half and a transparent, thick glaze with blue markings (Satsuma ware)

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, mother-of-pearl, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Glass ribbed bowl

date: early 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Renée E. and Robert A. Belfer, 2012


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

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Horsemen with castle vista

medium: Zwischengold glass with silver leaf

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Detached Flintlock alla Fiorentina

creator: Sebastiano Cecchi, called Acquafresca

date: dated 1679

medium: Steel

country: Italian, Bargi

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Coin Weight

date: 12th–13th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 19th–16th century BCE

medium: Serpentine

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: The Virgin with the infant Christ and the young Saint John the Baptist, in a circular frame, after Reni

creator: Jacobus Coelemans

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Lime Dipper or Pin, Figure

date: 5th–10th century

subjects:
Metal-implement
Calima (yotoco)

credit_line: Purchase, The J.M. Kaplan Fund Inc., Gift, 1967


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Ivory with stopper of coral and gilded copper alloy bezel

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: The Adoration of the Shepherds

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Newes Modelbuch in Kupffer (Page 6r)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Charles R. Richards, 1929


title: Glass Fragment

date: 4th–early 5th century

country: Coptic

subjects: Glass-vessel Coptic


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: Carl Weinedel

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2006


title: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

creator: Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

date: 16th century

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


title: Pouch

medium: Glass, linen

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


title: The New Metamorphosis: Frontispiece, Vol.1

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Silhouette of C. J. Croome, full length to left

creator: J. D. Croome

medium: Pen and ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 5th/early 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Model tambourine with rosette border, Bastet on one side, her boat with naos on the other

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Shikishi (square calligraphy paper) Box with Design of Flowers and Praying Mantis

date: second half of the19th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, cutout gold foil application, mother-of-pearl inlay on black lacquer ground

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Jar decorated with auspicious characters amid plants

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

subjects: Botany Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Actress posing in lace-collared bodice, from Stars of the Stage, Third Series (N131) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Teapot

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China


title: Cameo of a Gentleman

creator: Erastus Dow Palmer

medium: Plaster

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Clark S. Marlor, 1983


title: Putti Supporting a Garland

creator: François Le Moyne

date: early 18th century

medium: Black chalk on blue paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink. A vertical strip measuring .6 cm has been added at right.

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: Amulet with twinned Bes-images

medium: Green and blue faience, silver

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1923


title: Water Filter

date: 10th–12th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Design for a Decorative Panel with a Flutist (recto); Design for molding (verso)

creator: Gilles-Marie Oppenord

medium: Red chalk (recto); black chalk (verso)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Walter C. Baker, 1962


title: Pin in the form of a lion

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze, iron

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1961


title: View from My Work Room Window in Hammond Street, New York City

creator: John Hill

medium: Watercolor, pen and black ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper

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


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Design for a Chimneypiece

creator: John Yenn

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Fragment of a Tabula (Square) with Birds and Pomegranates in a Vine Scroll

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Birds
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 16v)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Embroidered sampler

medium: Silk on linen

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Icon with the Virgin and Child

date: mid-10th–mid-11th century

medium: Elephant ivory

subjects: Byzantine Ivories-elephant


title: Wine Glass

medium: Pressed glass, diamond thumbprint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Finial

medium: Bronze; cast and engraved

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1974


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Vienesse Café: In the Reading Room (Wiener Café: Im Lesezimmer)

creator: Moriz Jung

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Kosode Pattern Book (On-Hiinagata)  vol. 1

medium: One of a set of two woodblock-printed books; ink and red color on paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Handkerchief

medium: Linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Alvah E. Reed, 1966


title: Winter Landscape

creator: Hayashi Hyakuhi 林百非

date: dated 1840

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2020


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Irene Lewisohn, 1937


title: Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

medium: Steel

country: German

subjects:
German
Armor parts-thigh and leg defense

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Washing the Horses in the Stream

creator: Zhao Songxue

date: 17th century

medium: Framed painting; ink on silk

country: Korea

subjects: Painting Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Page of Calligraphy from the Bellini Album

creator: Sultan Muhammad Nur

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Louis V. Bell Fund, 1967


title: Faience amulet of Taweret ?

medium: Faience

country: Egyptian

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Egyptian

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


title: Bowl

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bronze jug

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Exploration of Sardis, 1914


title: Le Kaire, Mosquée Nâcéryeh

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Stirrup

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Iron

country: West Slavic

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
West slavic

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Plate 6: 1. Arch of Titus. 2. Villa Farnese. 3. Columns of the Temple of Jupiter Stator (the Supporter). 4. Arch of Septimus Severus. 5. Temple of Peace. (1. Arco di Tito in Roma. 2. Villa Farnese. 2. Colon.e. del Tem.o di G.ve St.re. 4. Ar.co di Set.o...), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Side Chair

creator: United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

medium: Maple

country: American, Shaker

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1966


title: Vase with cover

medium: Nephrite, white with light greenish tint

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Hand-painted Fan with Three Views of Mount Vesuvius

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Opaque watercolor on vellum

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Jagdhorn in G

creator: Jacob Schmidt

medium: Brass

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Woman Alone, from the series the Dancing Pair Vigano

creator: Johann Gottfried Schadow

medium: Etching, hand-colored

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


title: Medallion

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mary C. Beste, 1960


title: Brisé Fan, with representations of beasts in landscapes flanking HH monogram and the name "Henrietta"

date: early 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Fans Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Laurent Oppenheim Jr., 1977


title: Oval Ornament Designs for Boxes

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th–6th century CE

medium: Quartz, agate

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Gift of The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr., 1985


title: Vue générale du Temple de Khons, à Karnac, Thèbes

creator: Maxime Du Camp

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: San Lorenzo, Library, entry portal to library, elevation (recto) San Lorenzo, Library, entry portal to library, section; entry portal to library, side elevation (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz and Anne Bigelow Scholz, in memory of Flying Officer Walter Bigelow Rosen, RCAF, 1949


title: Chain, Loop-in-Loop, Trumpet Ends

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Man-of-War's Man, Spain, 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: Plate 49 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'A woman's charity' (Caridad de una muger)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, lavis, burin, burnisher

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Set of four chutes

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer,  1942


title: Seaward Skerries

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Shabti of Psusennes I

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

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


title: Copper Chisel with Monkey Head

date: before 15th century

medium: Copper

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-implement Peruvian

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


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Louis Hesselin

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Deux Femmes De Profil (Two Women in Profile), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1940


title: Bonnet

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert S. Morrow, 1937


title: Dukes Place Lovers

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: February 21, 1797

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


title: covered teapot or wine pot (pair with 1975.1.1703)

creator: Chinese

medium: Porcelain with mirror-black glazes, painted in overglaze gilt.

country: Chinese

subjects: Ceramic Chinese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

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: Sample

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Vase

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Design for half Ceiling in stucco

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Head of a Male Pilgrim

creator: Sir George Hayter

medium: Pen and black ink


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Miss Adam, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Wineglass

medium: Glass

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


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Spoon

creator: Benjamin Wynkoop

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Ethel B. Hanford, in memory of Ernest John Hanford, 1938


title: Koyurugi Beach of Sagami Province

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Matted painting; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Francis Lathrop, 1908


title: Piece


title: Vis-à-vis #3453

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Wedjat Eye Amulet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Pastoral, from "Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds"

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

date: December 8, 1778

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Plaque, Christ and Disciples at Gethsemane

medium: Earthenware, glazed & polychrome (Hafner ware)

subjects: Ceramic German

credit_line: Bequest of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1977


title: Light Artillery, Austria-Hungary, from the Military Uniforms series (T182) issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 41r)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean


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


title: Mitts

medium: silk

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1944


title: Man in Roman Toga

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on brown paper

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1987


title: Ein new getruckt model Büchli...Page 25, recto

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Ink on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Head of a Buddha (Study Collection)

date: 20th century

medium: Stone

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1991


title: Garment hook

date: 19th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

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


title: The Fashions of 1830: A Further Degree of Perfection (Encore un dégré de perfection: Modes de 1830)

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1971


title: Strainer spoon

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Untitled

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Patch box with Scottish dancers, “The Reel of Tullochgorum”

medium: Enamel on copper; mirror glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James M. Kellogg, in memory of her husband, 2023


title: Woman's Rank Badge with Crane

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Terracotta guttus (flask with handle and vertical spout) with a depiction of a dog

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Fragment

date: mid-19th century

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Leonard E. Opdycke, 1928


title: The Virgin and Child in the Enclosed Garden

creator: Jan (Johannes) Wierix

medium: Engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Coin purse

medium: glass, linen, silk

country: probably British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the executors of the estate of Clara M. Blum in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blum, 1966


title: Alme, from National Dances (N225, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: Vase (one of a pair)

creator: Copeland

medium: Bone china with enamel decoration and gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Fragment

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Dish

date: late 18th century

medium: Tim-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Molded Dish with Chrysanthemum Design

medium: Porcelain painted with overglaze enamels (Hizen ware, Ko Kutani style)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Pot

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Scarab Finger Ring

medium: Lapis lazuli, gold

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Sampler

medium: Textiles-Embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Allegory of the Liberal Arts (Astronomy)

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite

subjects: Astronomy Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: The Little Courier

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Design for Frame

creator: Robert William Hume

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

credit_line: Bequest of Jessie F. Hume, 1930


title: Head of a Man Wearing a Helmet, Looking to Upper Left (recto); Two Sketches, Arms and Hands (verso)

creator: Francesco di Maria

medium: Red chalk, highlighted with a little white (recto); black chalk studies of arms (verso)

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Scarab inscribed for the King's Daughter Hatshepsut

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta fragment of a plate?

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Alfabeto Di Lettere Iniziale

creator: Mauro Poggi

date: before 1760

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Abraham and Isaac

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching, plate tone; first of two states

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


title: Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale & la Crimée par La Hongrie, La Valachie et La Moldavie en 1837

creator: Anatoly N. Demidov

medium: Lithographs

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: The Misanthrope Robbed by the World, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs

creator: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Bronze statuette of a horse

date: 8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Abacus

medium: Pink marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Bronze as of Nero

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Gift of Joseph H. Durkee, 1899


title: Miraculous fountain

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

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


title: Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

date: probably 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Margaret Mushekian Gift, 1977


title: Storia di due amanti (Tale of Two Lovers)

creator: Enea Silvio Piccolomini

medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Inscribed brick: dedicatory inscription of Adad-shuma-usur

medium: Ceramic

country: Kassite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Snuffbox with still life and parrots

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James M. Kellogg, in memory of her husband, 2023


title: Sinumbra lamp

creator: William Carleton

medium: Patinated brass, steel, and glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld, 2014


title: Dinner Plate

creator: Dihl et Guérhard

country: French, for American market

credit_line: Purchase, Solomon Grossman Gift, in memory of Berry B. Tracy, and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1994


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Design 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: Tea cup (part of a service)

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1931


title: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Tankard

creator: Jeremiah Dummer

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Walcott, 1951


title: Secrétaire à abattant

creator: Duncan Phyfe

medium: Mahogany, mahogany veneer, yellow poplar,  white pine, gilded brass, mirrored plate glass, marble, ivory

credit_line: Purchase, The Manney Collection Gift, 1983


title: Model Tipi

date: late 1860s–76

medium: Native-tanned skin, paint, beads, cloth, horsehair

country: Blackfoot

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


title: G. Pacheto, President of Bolivia, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-2) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

subjects: Print Portraits


title: Jasper amygdaloid seal

medium: Jasper

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Cup with landscape

date: late 17th–early 18th century

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

subjects: Ceramic China Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Card 42, from the Girl Cyclists series (N49) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Yōrō Waterfall

creator: Tazaki Sōun

date: dated 1887

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Drill for carving jade

medium: Steel

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, 1981


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Woman and her tailor

creator: Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1970


title: Salt spoon

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


title: Pin

medium: Bronze

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


title: Kitchin Stuff

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 1, 1810

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


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

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Jérusalem, Vallée de Josaphat, Faces Ouest et Nord, 1

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 3rd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman


title: Bowl

date: mid 6th–5th millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Ubaid

credit_line: Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, by exchange, 1949


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Standing Buddha

medium: Gilt bronze

country: Korea

subjects: Sculpture Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Belt Buckle

medium: Iron, silver, gold

country: Frankish

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Two standing male figures (recto); two standing male figures (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: Shard

medium: Earthenware with lime glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro I 1660–1704

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Statuette of Bodhisattva

medium: Wood, gilt traces

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Magic knife fragment

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Gheṇṭa (prayer bell)

date: 11th century

medium: Cast bronze

country: Javanese

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper Javanese


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Axe blade

date: ca. early 1st millennium BCE

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


title: Vase fragment

country: Neolithic, Thessaly

subjects:
Vase
Neolithic, thessaly

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


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


title: Teabowl and saucer

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harold D. Shattuck, 1961


title: Standing Nude model, Facing Left

creator: Wilhelm Lehmbruck

medium: Blue crayon on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Moses, after Michelangelo

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching; third state of five (Gonse)

credit_line: Gift of Louis R. Metcalfe, 1928


title: Elias Allen

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state

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


title: Louis XIV: Birth of the duc de Berry, 31 August 1686

creator: Jean Mauger

medium: Bronze with partial gilding

subjects:
Medal and plaquette
Fruits

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Diana

creator: Olin Levi Warner

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of National Sculpture Society, 1898


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Sealing fragment

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Vase

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Exploration of Sardis, 1916


title: Calligraphy

creator: Rüan Dacheng

medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Water Filter

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Rosace (one of five)

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1910


title: The Botanic Fan

creator: Sarah Ashton

medium: Hand-colored etching and engraving

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


title: Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


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

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Liberty

creator: Chinese Painter

medium: Oil on glass

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Buckle

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Brass

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Bead ornament, oval-shaped

medium: Gold

subjects:
Ornament & design
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bowl with Green Pseudo-Inscriptions and Clusters of Spots

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; yellow slip with green decoration under transparent glaze


title: Saltcellar

medium: Blown pattern-molded lead glass

country: American or British

subjects:
Ornament & design
American or british

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: River gods reclining before a seascape

creator: François Bourlier

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962


title: Tooth of an Ox

medium: Bone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Cypriot
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Falls of Terni

creator: Robert Macpherson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Chinese zodiac figure of a pig

medium: Porcelain with brown iron splash (Jingdezhen qingbai ware)

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

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


title: Design for the Decoration of a Pilaster (recto); Putti with Trophies and Seated Figure with Child (verso)

creator: Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone (Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis)

medium: Red chalk (recto); red chalk studies (verso)

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Western Sun Adored by Deities, Tomb of Djehutyemheb

creator: Norman de Garis Davies

date: 1908; original ca. 1290–1224 BCE

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Fukui Bridge in Echizen Province (Echizen Fukui no hashi), from the series Remarkable Views of Bridges in Various Provinces (Shokoku meikyō kiran)

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Appliqué

date: ca. 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Silver, gilded silver

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Vladimir S. Littauer Gift, 1995


title: Vase

date: after 1885

medium: Blown satin cranberry glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: IIde Vue du Parc de Neu-Waldeck prise du Pavillon Chinois vers le Midi, from Views of the Park and Gardens of Marshal Count de Lacy at Neu-waldegg

creator: Jakob Matthias Schmutzer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2009


title: Narcisse se Mirant dans l'Eau (Narcissus Looking at Himself in the Water), plate 22 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Dish

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

medium: Lead glass, blown and cut

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1985


title: Lawrence Grant "Larry" Twitchell, Pitcher, Detroit Wolverines, 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: Plate

medium: Copper

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: Two Crows on a Pine Branch

creator: Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Bottle in meiping shape with “tortoiseshell” glaze

date: 14th century

medium: Stoneware with iron glaze (Jizhou ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Limestone statuette of Pan

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Tumbler

creator: Bakewell, Pears and Company

medium: Pressed glass


title: Reverse Copy of Le Petit Portement de Croix (The Small Carrying of the Cross)

date: after 1620

medium: Etching


title: Fisherwomen

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Charcoal, white chalk, and graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Belt Plate

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Iron, silver inlay

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Design for the Decoration of a Cupola with a Prophet, King David and Two Putti

creator: Mattia Preti (Il Cavalier Calabrese)

medium: Red chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and red wash

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2002


title: Barbe

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss Constance P. Brown, 1942


title: Lucidario di Recami, page 3 (verso)

creator: Iseppo Foresto

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Trophées Nouvellement Inventez par J.B. Toro.

creator: Jean Bernard Toro

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Group of three figures, man and two women

creator: Baron Dominique Vivant Denon

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Steatite triangular prism

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


country: Greek, Attic


title: Earring

date: 7th century

medium: Silver

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Pair of bronze situla (bucket) handles

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragments of pots; glazed on the inside


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)?


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper


title: Spindle-back chair

medium: Cherry, ash

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of the Members of the Committee of the Bertha King Benkard Memorial Fund, and Bequest of Cecile L. Mayer, by exchange; and Fletcher Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, by exchange, 1997


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926


title: Head of a Man

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Metalpoint on white prepared paper

credit_line: Gift of the artist, 1892


title: Ornament plaque

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Telephos Painter

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


title: Dragon and Tiger

creator: Maruyama Ōkyo

medium: Pair of hanging scrolls: ink on silk (dragon), ink and color on silk (tiger)

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2023


title: Libbretto nouellamete composto per maestro Domenico da Sera...lauorare di ogni sorte di punti, page 16 (recto)

creator: Domenico da Sera

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Bread Plate

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Vase decorated with auspicious animals

date: early 18th century

medium: Soft paste porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite, brush and brown wash, and gouache

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


title: [Young Man, Morocco]

creator: A. Chauffy

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Portrait of Edmond Burke

creator: Antoine Louis François Sergent Marceau

medium: Pen and gray ink with brush and brown washes

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


title: Boy Balancing a Tall Weed on His Nose

creator: Jean-Georges Vibert

medium: Black chalk or graphite

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


title: Silhouette Portrait of Martin Van Buren

creator: William Henry Brown

medium: Lithograph with tint stone

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Bottle

medium: Glass

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


title: Fringe

date: 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Dish with character for longevity (shou)

date: mid-16th century

medium: Carved red lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Limestone relief

date: end of the 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

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


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


title: Portrait of Charlotte White

medium: Glass, paper

subjects: Glass-painted Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Study in a Wood

creator: Daniel Huntington

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; tinted, incised, and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: [Roads leading into a small town].  Brady album, p. 123

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Combat de la Louange et de la Satire

creator: François Chauveau

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

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


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 3rd–4th century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: An Otter, from "Eaux-Fortes Animaux & Paysages"

creator: Karl Bodmer

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


title: Lappet

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Cherub

date: second half 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: François dit Francis. 38 ans, né le 3/12/55 à Reims (Marne). Ébéniste. Anarchiste. 5/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Design for a Carriage

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th or 18th century

medium: Black chalk or leadpoint

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


title: Saints James Major, Bartholomew(?) and Thomas, from the series The Apostles

creator: Anthonie Blocklandt

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Cabriolet #3752

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Bowl

date: 1st century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

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


title: Armchair

creator: Charles Vincent Bara

medium: Carved beechwood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Edward Augustine "Ed" Knouff, Pitcher, St. Louis Browns, 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: Edward R. Bacon (1846–1915)

creator: Anders Zorn

credit_line: Bequest of Virginia Purdy Bacon, 1919


creator: Oltos


title: Jar

medium: Porcelain with brown glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: A Saint Triumphant Over the Devil

creator: Anonymous, German, 18th century

medium: Paint and bistre, washed with India ink

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Horse and rider figurine

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Bird Catching Fish Among Reeds

creator: Watanabe Seitei

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Fish Painting Japan Birds

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


title: Dressing gown

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: wool

country: British

credit_line: Isabel Shults Fund, 1986


title: Girdle ring

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: La Terrasse de la Villa Brancas

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching; first state of eight

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1922


title: Group of Horsemen

creator: Francesco Allegrini

medium: Pen and brown ink.  Framing lines in pen and brown ink on mount

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Mirror with a Pair of Addorsed Sphinxes with Scorpion Tails

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Bronze; cast

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: "The Great Abu Sa'ud Teaching Law", Folio from a Divan of Mahmud `Abd-al Baqi

creator: Mahmud 'Abd-al Baqi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1925


title: Yellow moon flask with "cloisonné" decoration

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Bone china with enamel decoration and gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Fragment of a shirt

date: fourth quarter 18th century

medium: Linen, metal, silk

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: Bottom of a Vessel

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass

country: Coptic

subjects:
Glass-vessel
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Incense Burner

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

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


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: Naval General Service Medal

creator: William Wyon

subjects:
Medal and plaquette
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Arrowhead

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Iron

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1961


title: The Flagellation: Pilate stands under archway on left watching two men flagellate figure of Christ tied to column, from "The Passion of Christ", after Dürer

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 5th century BCE


title: Golden tendrils against a red ground

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal-wrapped thread on velvet

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


title: John the Baptist, lying on the ground naked except for a cloth covering his thighs, with his right arm curled around a rock, a reed cross lies on a rock in the foreground

creator: Battista Franco

medium: Etching and engraving; first proof

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Surgeon's Tent, Tenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

creator: Mathew B. Brady

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 2022


title: Terracotta fragments of stemless kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Scarab

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Koenigliche Porzellan Manufaktur

medium: Porcelain

country: German

credit_line: Bequest of Adeline R. Brown, 1947


title: History

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Ceramic Fragment

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Saint Francis

creator: Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta

medium: Black chalk, squared in black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Katrin Henkel, 2002


title: Card Number 121, Sadie Martinot, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Three Cupids, Two Playing Music, One Holding Palm Leaves

creator: Louis Félix de La Rue

subjects: Print Palms

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Teapot

creator: Francis Stamp

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Frances E. Markoe and Stephen C. Markoe, 1943


title: Seal

medium: Nephrite, sage green

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Shard

date: 15th century

medium: Pottery

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of John and Betty Menke, 1978


title: Pitcher

medium: Ceramic

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


title: Kenzan-style Dish in the Shape of Chrysanthemum

date: early 19th century

medium: Stoneware with overglaze enamels (Kyoto ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: [Man with Mustache Wearing Oilskin Hat]

creator: Edward M. Tyler

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Brogans

medium: leather

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Ethel Paxton, 1950


title: Monk of Longmen in Ni Zan Style

creator: Wan Shanglin

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Polishing stone

medium: Sandstone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


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


title: Pilgrim's Badge

medium: Lead

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Ruines d'une ville chrétienne, à Médinet-habou (Thèbes)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Saint Reparata Being Prepared for Execution

creator: Bernardo Daddi

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943


title: Robe à l'anglaise

medium: silk

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 2018


title: Limestone statuette of a seated female figure

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Assumption of the Virgin

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926


title: See 14.6.344

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Figure of a Standing Beauty

medium: Porcelain with overglaze enamels (Arita ware, Kakiemon type)

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


title: Blackwork Print with Various Motifs

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher

medium: Blackwork

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


title: Tumbler cup

creator: Joseph Ward

medium: Silver, gilded interior

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Awl

medium: Fish bone

subjects:
Fish
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Cypriot
Skeletons & bones


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised and glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Penannular Earring

medium: Red jasper

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: Near Squam Lake, New Hampshire

creator: David Johnson

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Two Satyrs Fighting Over a Nymph

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941


title: Scarab Finger Ring

medium: Green jasper, gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Bowl and dish

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Henry H. Arnhold, 2000


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: Cuneiform tablet impressed with stamp seal: receipt, Esagilaya archive

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Carpet with Double-Ended Triple Niche

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph V. McMullan, 1973


title: Marshal Wang

creator: Unidentified artist

date: dated 1542

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1989


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

date: second half of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Finger Ring

date: 7th century

medium: Copper alloy, traces of gilding

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Mordant

medium: Brass

country: Spanish

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Silver Pin

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silver (hammered)

country: Inca

subjects: Metal-ornament Inca

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


title: Shindle, 3rd Base, Baltimore Orioles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: View of Sinta near the Colares river

creator: Clementine de Brelaz

medium: Lithograph on chine collé on a larger support sheet

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Drawings and Prints Gifts, 2020


title: Clara Pilvois; Simon

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pitcher, "Alsatian" line

creator: Chesapeake Pottery

medium: Semi-porcelain ware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Emma and Jay A. Lewis, 2015


title: Pitcher

date: 19th century

medium: Lustreware

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


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; tinted, incised, and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Jan Gossart (called Mabuse)

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

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


title: Ceiling Tile with Fish

date: late 1400s to mid-1500s

medium: Earthenware with slip decoration and paint

subjects: Fish Spanish Ceramics-tile

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1951


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

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


title: Bead

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Candlestick

medium: Copper, enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Bracelet from mummy of Satsebek

medium: Blue and black faience, carnelian

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Tankard

date: late 18th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Figure of a Lady Standing

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Étui

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Brayette and Buttock Defense

date: 16th century

medium: Steel

subjects: Mail German

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: At Sea off Kazusa (Kazusa no kairo), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Trade Card for Charles Skipper, Letter Press and Lithographic Printer

creator: Anonymous, British, early 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Gold and glass necklace

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Gold, glass

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian, Teano

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian, teano

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Head of a bodhisattva

medium: Stone

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Lappet

date: mid-18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Landscape with Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, at Rome (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 25 recto)

creator: Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

medium: Pen and ink, brush and gray and yellow wash or watercolor, over graphite

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Fragment of a votive bracelet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: The Old Mill (Vieux Moulin)

creator: Theodore Robinson

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. Chambers, 1910


title: Chenet

date: second half of 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze, cast in two parts.

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Metalwork-bronze
French, pari

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Collar

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Vue du château de Pau

creator: Joseph Vigier

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Foot-Soldier with Fire-Pan and Bucket

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Platter

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alan W. Carrick, 1967


title: Bowl with Bird and Flowers

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip with polychrome slip decoration under transparent glaze (Sari ware)

subjects: Ceramic Birds Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Letter to the artist’s father-in-law, Wu Yu

creator: Wen Zhengming

date: datable to 1506–10

medium: Album leaf; ink on patterned paper

country: China

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Vase with cover (part of a garniture)

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1951


title: Amulet

country: Sumerian


title: Relief fragment

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Coffeepot

creator: William Priest

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Miss Harriett Hunter Sedgwick and Miss Rachel Sedgwick, 1922


title: An Immortal Lady

creator: Huang Shanshou

date: dated 1882

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Tassel

medium: Silk, wool and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Tinned-Copper Plaque with a Personification

medium: Tinned copper

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-copper Byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, Alastair B. Martin and William K. Simpson Gifts, Gift and Bequest of George Blumenthal, by exchange, Rogers Fund, and funds from various donors, 1989


title: A Ride to School

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Cup in the shape of a magnolia blossom

date: early 17th century

medium: Rhinoceros horn

subjects: Horn China Flowers

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1908


title: Animal Locomotion.  An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements.  Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885.  Volume II, Men (Nude)

creator: Eadweard Muybridge

medium: Photogravures

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Corset

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: flax, cotton, leather, wood

credit_line: The Jacqueline Loewe Fowler Costume Collection, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 1983


title: Aaron and Nadab Taking Leave of Elisheba (?), with the Israelites Camped before Mount Sinai and Moses Ascending the Mountain.

creator: Adam van Noort

date: late 16th–mid 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash. Framing lines in pen and brown ink. Indented for transfer

credit_line: Gift of Alice F. Steiner, 1978


title: Bowl (part of a service)

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Walter T. Rosen, in memory of his mother, Mrs. Flora Tower Rosen, 1932


title: Ribbon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings


title: Pouch

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Embroidered silk

country: Korea

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Korea

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


title: Jug

creator: Rookwood Pottery Company

medium: Earthenware, silver

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Grant, 1974


title: Female Politicians

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 1, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Vessel in the form of a Deer

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with colored glazes in the "egg-and-spinach" pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: The Egg Seller from a set of the Italian Village Scenes

creator: François Boucher

date: designed 1734–36, woven 1762

medium: Wool, silk (21-23 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Robertson, 1964


title: La Promenade

creator: Isaac Robert Cruikshank

date: February 1828

credit_line: Gift of Jill Spalding, 2022


title: Clapper

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Apothecary jar (albarello)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Faenza or Pesaro

subjects:
Italian, faenza or pesaro
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Piece

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: I) Afbeelding van't Stadt Huys van Amsterdam

creator: Jacob van Campen

medium: Etchings

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Rustic Landscape

creator: Louis Philippe Joseph, duc de Chartres

date: 18th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Winged Scarab

medium: Faience

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


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: H.W. Beecher, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: A Gathering in a Church

creator: Sébastien Leclerc I

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

credit_line: Gift of Louis de Bayser, 2011


title: Bronze tweezers

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Door handle and plate

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Terracotta fragment from a kantharos: head vase

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Lute

creator: Wendelin Tieffenbrucker

date: late 16th century

medium: Yew, spruce, ebony, maple

country: Italian

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Freedman, by exchange, 1989


title: Vest

medium: wool, silk

country: Danish

credit_line: Gift of Dr. P. M. Lund, 1950


title: Bowl

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Salt

medium: Cut blown glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Ethelinda and Lowell Innes, 1980


title: The Harlequin Family

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Scraper

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Adoring angel

date: last quarter 15th century

medium: Partly enameled gold

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: probably American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Probably american

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Froehlich and Schmiedel


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Portrait of a Young Woman

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

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


title: Pair of "triple-gourd" vases

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Illustration of the Museum at the Second National Industrial Exhibition in Ueno, from the series Famous Places in Tokyo (Tokyo meisho-Ueno kōen naikoku kangyō daini hakurankai bijutsukan zu)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige III

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Brigandine Plate

medium: Iron alloy

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Harbour with a Large Tower

creator: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

medium: Etching; third state of six (Mannocci)


title: Set of four three-light wall brackets

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1979


title: Reliquary

date: 16th century

medium: Gilded copper, champlevé enamels, and glass

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Italian


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Strainer spoon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Relief of a head of a child

medium: Ivory

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Skeletons & bones


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Needle lace


title: Spoon (Bi)

date: late 9th–early 8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1931


title: Mosaic bead

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: L'Indifferent

date: modeled 1738, this example ca. 1744

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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


title: Container on stand

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china and unglazed porcelain (Parian ware)

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Cotton and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Carnelian ring stone

date: 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Carnelian

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Framed Design for a Stage Set

creator: Mauro Berti

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

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze


title: Fragment

medium: Embroidered net, punto à rammendo


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

medium: Terracotta


title: Standing male figurine holding a quadruped

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot Mammals

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Pedestal dish with cover

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Stoneware

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1991


title: Dala'il Al-Khayrat

creator: Khalil Rushdi

date: dated 1265 AH/1848 CE

medium: Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 2017


title: Tulips panel

creator: Candace Wheeler

medium: Silk and metallic cloth appliqued with silk velvet and embroidered with silk and metallic-wrapped cotton threads

credit_line: Gift of the family of Mrs. Candace Wheeler, 1928


title: Elton P. "Ice Box" Chamberlain, Pitcher, St. Louis Browns, 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: Henry IV 1553-1610, King of France 1589-1610

creator: Guillaume Dupré

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Miotti Family Workshop

date: 18th century

medium: Aventurine glass, cast, cut and polished, with gilded bronze mounts

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes: Lip cup (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Mug (one of a pair)

credit_line: Bequest of Alice Bradford Woolsey, 1970


title: South Aspects of Lea Castle, Worcestershire, Great Court

creator: John Carter

medium: Watercolor

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


title: Portrait of a Young Man

creator: Wilhelm von Kügelgen

date: mid-19th century

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on brown-gray paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, the Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2012


title: Side of body in pleated dress

medium: Siliceous indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

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


title: Maud Granger, from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 2) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Lamp

date: 7th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Gift of Miriam Schaar Schloessinger, 1964


title: Fragment of a Compendium of the Genealogy of Christ

medium: Ink on parchment

country: British

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
British

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2002


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Salad Plate

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Chalice

date: 15th century

medium: Gilded silver and enamel

country: Spanish

subjects:
Spanish
Enamels-basse taille

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Recumbent deer

date: late 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1975


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Vigil Light

creator: Richards and Hartley Flint Glass Co.

medium: Pressed colorless and opalescent glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Madame Bergeret de Frouville as Diana

creator: Jean Marc Nattier

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


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

medium: Terracotta


title: Tea Caddy

country: Chinese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)


title: Englishmen Woman on Horseback

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

date: 1st month, 1861

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

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


title: Blade

date: before 16th century

medium: Flint

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


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

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Mountain Landscape and Geese Flying

medium: Metal, Iron metal, relief, applied gold metal; Interior: silver metal

subjects: Inrō Japan Landscapes

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


title: Aquatic Scene with Three Men in a Gondola

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Margaret Mushekian Gift, 1985


title: Ornament

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Fukusa (Gift Wrapper)

date: late 18th or early 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

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


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Water receptacle

medium: Jade (jadeite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Sake Cup with Scenes from the Noh Plays Pine in the Winds, Yōrō Falls, and The Tengu of Mount Kurama

creator: Shomosai

date: first half 19th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e and cutout gold- and silver-foil application

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Window grill from a palace of Ramesses III

medium: Sandstone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Fan

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Paper, ivory, paint

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Watch

creator: Thomas Wagstaffe

medium: Silver, enamel, diamond

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Volute-krater fragment

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Sutra Cover

date: 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Chrysanthemum

creator: Ogata Kenzan

medium: Fan; ink and color on gold-leafed paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2019


title: Amulet: Crown of Upper Egypt

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Columbia University, 1924


title: Comb

date: 3rd–7th century

medium: Wood; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Moorish Gendarme, 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: Glass network mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Cymbal Case with Set of Cymbals

date: late 17th century

medium: Wood, cloth, metal

country: Chinese (Tibetan)

subjects:
Accessory
Chinese (tibetan)

credit_line: Purchase, Frederick M. Lehman Bequest, 2003


title: Stirrup

medium: Copper alloy

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
Peruvian

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Chop plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Design for a Caleche or Vis-a-vis, no. 3019

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Cup and saucer

credit_line: Gift of Bernhard Heitmann, in honor of Clare Le Corbeiller, 2000


title: Glass flask

date: 4th century CE

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


title: Armchair back

creator: Beauvais

medium: Wool and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1935


title: Plate 13: Bertoldino with birds carried off by a kite, from "Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno"

creator: Giuseppe Maria Crespi

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Necklace

medium: ivory, stone, cotton

country: Indigenous American (Olmec peoples)

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Le Mendiant a la Tête Découverte et aux Pieds Nuds (The Beggar with the Uncovered Head and Bare Feet), from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons" (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942


title: Forest Scene with Tree in Foreground

creator: Jacques d'Artois

medium: Brush and gray wash, with bodycolor, over a sketch in black chalk

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Panel

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Fund, 1970


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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