title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Miniature brazier

creator: Antoine Plot

medium: Silver, wood

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: The Joseph M. and Aimee Loeb May Collection, 1963


title: Hanging by the Thumbs (Modern Military Punishments)

creator: William Hogarth

date: after 1725

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Sphinx Chair

date: ca. 1795, with some later additions

medium: Mahogany, with painted simulated marble panels, lacquered brass mouldings, mounted with bronze sphinxes and paw feet

credit_line: On loan from H. Woody Brock, 2017 [Gift of Horace W. Brock, in memory of Helen Fowler, 2026]


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1994


title: Trade Card for Thomas Jeffreys, Engraver, Geographer, and Printseller

creator: Anthony Walker

date: 18th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Bouquetier

date: 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Hugh Duffy, Shortstop, Chicago, 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: Armor

medium: Steel, copper alloy, textile, metallic thread

country: Chinese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor for man
Chinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Le Buisson Kercassier

creator: Charles Jacque

credit_line: Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1931


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

subjects: Botany Photograph


title: Champagne flute

creator: Jersey Glass Company of George Dummer

medium: blown and cut glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Solomon Grossman, 2012


title: Piece

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Limestone youth

date: early 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Sr. Hudibras, His Passing Worth, The Manner How He Sally'd Forth" (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 2)

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Court Staff

medium: Wood; Ash, brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Dish

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stoneware with turqoise blue glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Surprised Woman from Hogarth's "Morning"

creator: Richard Livesay

date: October 1788


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 26r)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: A College Scene, or a Fruitless Attempt on the Purse of Old Square-toes

creator: Edward Williams the Elder

date: August 1, 1787

medium: Hand-colored etching with stipple and softground

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


title: A Nincompoop, or Hen Peck'd Husband

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Dish with scene of a woman and children

date: mid-18th century

medium: Porcelain painted with overglaze polychrome enamels and gold (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Helmeted Head

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Ring?

date: 30 BCE–330 CE

medium: Tortoise shell (?)

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897


title: Ornament

medium: Gold

country: Japan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lewis Einstein, 1953


title: Hand mirror with woman in floral hat with blue ribbont, from the Novelties series (N122) issued by Gail & Ax Tobacco to promote Navy Long Cut

creator: Gail & Ax Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers


title: Mlle Sanlaville; Mlle Frimat; Mlle Marie Leroy

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Roobin. Joseph. 40 ans, né à Bourgneuf (Loire-Inférieure). Terrassier. Anarchiste. 2/3/94

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Cassetta-type frame

date: early 16th century

medium: Poplar. Carved, gilt; deep brown-orange bole, coarse blue color in background.

country: Veronese

subjects: Frame Veronese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Insertion

date: 16th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Marian Hague, 1938


title: Cup

date: 15th century

medium: Earthenware

country: French

subjects: Ceramic French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Teapot with cover and stand

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Dish

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Terracotta covered bowl with one handle

credit_line: Gift of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1923


title: Scene from the Drama "Shusse Taiheike," Performed at the Ichimura Theatre

creator: Okumura Masanobu

date: probably 1709

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Set of four side chairs

creator: Jean-Baptiste Gourdin

medium: Carved, gilded and painted walnut, blue-green damask upholstery

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


title: Saint Catherine

medium: Walnut

country: North French

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
North french

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1961


title: Border

medium: Needle lace, point de France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, 1888


title: Enjoy the Moment

creator: Clémenti

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Sichel, 1966


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Hanging with Polychrome Columns

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Arthur S. Vernay Inc., 1922


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Scene of Africa (Allegory?)

creator: Pieter Jacobsz. van Laer

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, traces of red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Mythology Drawing

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


title: [Burning Ghat, Chandanagore-a French Settlement on the Hoogly]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Susanna

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Bobbin

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

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


title: Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

creator: Louis Jacques Cathelin

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Textile Fragment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: A Cowherd at Valhermeil, Auvers-sur-Oise

creator: Camille Pissarro

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Edna H. Sachs, 1956


title: Slat-back armchair

medium: Poplar, ash

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Sword pommel

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Comb Morion

medium: Steel, lead, textile

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Desseins Arabesques a Plusieurs Usages Inventés par J.B. Toro

creator: Jean Bernard Toro

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Teabowl and saucer

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Plate

creator: Thomas Cantle

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1940


title: Bowl with Deer Motif

date: 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted (Sultanabad ware)

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


title: Dish

date: second half 16th–first half 17th century

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Bronze statuette of a youth carrying a pig

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: possibly 18th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Anklet

medium: Faience, Paste

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


title: Fringe

date: early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Armes et ustensiles du Kaire

creator: Maxime Du Camp

date: January 17, 1850

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Umbel Pendant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Blue-Blooded Man and the Devil (Der Blaublütige und der Teufel)

creator: Moriz Jung

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Number 17, A Square Deal, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Studies for "The Bride at Her Toilet on the Day of Her Wedding"

creator: Sir David Wilkie

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Regent's Quadrant

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on fine ivory laid paper; first state of seven (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Chemise

date: late 18th or early 19th century

medium: linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Dāyerah or Riq

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, hide, felt, metal, leather

country: Syrian

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / frame drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Barbed fishhook

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897


title: Filus Prodigus (The Prodigal Son)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: To Commemorate the Silver Wedding of Adolf and Albertine Bachofen von Echt

creator: Anton Scharff

credit_line: Gift of Baron Bachofen von Echt, 1896, through S. Oettinger


title: Armchair (part of a set)

creator: Georges Jacob

medium: Walnut, gilded

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1943


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Dieric Bouts

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


title: "The Entertaining History of Little Jack" [School piece or Penmanship sheet]

creator: John Bewick

date: November 10, 1806

medium: Etching and engraving; late impression

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964


title: Herder with llama

creator: Recuay artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Recuay

subjects: Recuay Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1969


title: Fragment of a Sleeve

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Two camels, their bodies turning into decorative leaves and scrollwork, from "Ornaments or Grotesques" (Ornamenti o Grottesche)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Lamp

medium: Lacy pressed glass, tin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: A Spanish Garden

creator: Martín Rico y Ortega

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

date: 1st half of 8th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Goblet

date: glass 17th century, stand 19th century

medium: Glass, gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Hammered Copper Tweezers

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Copper

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Dish on a low foot

creator: Jean-Baptiste Guillibaud

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Le Capi-Aga, ou chef des Eunuques blancs, plate 5 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

creator: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Card Number 38, 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: Calash

medium: Silk, cane

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


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

date: ca. 500 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Goose Flying Down (obverse); Inscription and Seal beside Reeds (reverse)

creator: Kano Morinobu

date: 19th century

medium: Lacquer, kinji, gold, red and silver hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: gyobu nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Green and white jadeite with brown spots; coral stopper; wood stand

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Piece

date: first half 18th century

medium: Silk damask with twill pattern

country: China for Western market

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
China for western market
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Cora Ginsburg, 1980


title: Fork

creator: Nicolas Collier

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Shawl

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Miss Marian L. Clapp, 1944


title: The Universe Is Created

creator: Paul Gauguin

medium: woodcut printed in color on wove paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: [House at Delhi]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Saint Anthony of Padua and the Miracle of the Miser's Heart

creator: Antonio Lombardo

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2012


title: Covered Sugar Bowl

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Dress

medium: Cotton

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Cora Ginsburg, 1976


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 51r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: The Second Spring

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; first state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Sweeper

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

medium: Etching with some engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Part of the Walls at Rome

creator: Richard Cooper II

medium: Pen and iron gall ink and gray wash over graphite

credit_line: Gift of Abbott and Holder Ltd., 2023


title: Gold ring

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Designs for Chests of Drawers

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Graphite and watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Tureen

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1945


title: Jérusalem, Porte de Jaffa, Inscription de la fausse porte

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Figure

date: 7th–10th century

medium: Ceramic, hematite

country: Veracruz

subjects: Veracruz Ceramics-sculpture

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


title: Opera

creator: Horace

medium: Printed book with engraved headpiece illustrations

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1932


title: Encore la chaise rustique

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Coffee cup and saucer

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Paul B. Zeisler Jr., 1970


title: Bowl Incised with Trophy Head Figures

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Water Jar with Poetry Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hirado ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan Orchids

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Napoleon The Little in a Rage with His Great French Eagle!!

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 20, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: [Temple of Antonius and Faustina, San Lorenzo in Miranda, Rome]

creator: Calvert Richard Jones

subjects: Architecture Photograph

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1946


title: Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"

creator: Georges Seurat

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951


title: Gold funerary wreath

date: 4th–3rd century BCE


title: Wall painting on black ground: Aedicula with small landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

date: last decade of the 1st century BCE

medium: Fresco

country: Roman, Pompeian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-painting
Roman, pompeian
Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Souvenir spoon

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1908


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Snuff rasp

medium: Wood, brass, iron

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Various Designs for Parts of a Carriage

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: The Lady of Shalott (from Tennyson's Poems, New York, 1903)

creator: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1925


title: Stole

medium: cotton

country: Indian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Jean L. Keith in memory of Christine Keith, 1968


title: Saint Jerome holding a crucifix

creator: Coryn Boel

medium: Etching

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


title: Wineglass with William V of Orange

creator: David Wolff

medium: Glass with diamond-point stippling

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1946


title: Capture of Two Galleys at Byserta

creator: Stefano della Bella

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: [The Wilderness Battlefield]

creator: G. O. Brown

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: Copper Tumi Pendant

date: before 15th century

medium: Copper (hammered)

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-ornament Peruvian

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


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Egon Schiele

medium: Drypoint

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Design for a Chimneypiece

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

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


title: Mary, Queen of Scots (frontispiece, from "Theater, von Schiller," volume 4)

creator: Autenrieth

medium: Stipple and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: The Witch

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Christ Crowned with Thorns (Ecce Homo)

date: late 17th century

medium: Bronze; ebony, gilt bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1940


title: Disc-shaped mace head

medium: Porphyry

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: An English Family Group

creator: Antonio Zucchi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Teapoy with four oval tea caddies

medium: Satinwood veneer, inlaid with rosewood, holly and ebony

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: The 2nd Yamashita Kinsaku in the Role of Tsukisayo

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

date: 2nd month, 1770

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Statuette of a warrior-10

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Holbein Ezine Carpet

date: probably early 19th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph V. McMullan, 1973


title: [Peel Ross with Hunting Trophies]

creator: Horatio Ross

medium: Albumen silver print

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


date: second quarter 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: The Tears of Saint Peter

creator: Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. William M. Haupt, from the collection of Mrs. James B. Haggin, by exchange, and 2011 Benefit Fund, 2012


title: Wooden Comb with Woolen Decoration

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Wood, cotton

subjects: Wood-implement Peruvian

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Fragments of Splashed Ceramic

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; painted on opaque white glaze (some fragments only)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Woman pulling a thorn from her foot

date: 19th century

medium: Ambergris, gold, jewels, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment of lace

medium: Textiles-Laces

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: The Virgin with the Child Blessing

creator: Jan Muller

medium: Engraving; first state of three, with additions in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Elkind Gift, and funds from various donors, 2014


title: Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

creator: Amasis Painter

date: ca. 560 BCE

credit_line: The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1978


title: Boyle, Pitcher, Indianapolis, 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: Saints Lawrence, Sixtus, Peter, and Paul adoring the Coronation of the Virgin by Christ above

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

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


title: Shard

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Stoneware with light blue glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H. Fairfield Osborn, 1929


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Column

medium: Red limestone (Broccato Rosso di Verona)

country: North Italian

subjects:
Architecture
Sculpture-architectural
North italian

credit_line: Gift of Myron and Anabel Taylor Foundation Inc., 1960


title: Wine taster

creator: Charles Lagenet

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Shadow player

medium: Donkey skin, cord

subjects: Leatherwork China

credit_line: Gift of H. J. Tei, 1920


title: A Town on the Mohawk River in Central New York State (?)

creator: Pavel Petrovich Svinin

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white laid paper

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Onoe Matsusuke as a Man Standing on a Path through Rice Fields

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: One sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: For the French Alpine Club

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Bronze, struck, silvered

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: Card 614, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Greek Waltz, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: [Prize Cow and Calf]

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Actress with long wavy hair looking down, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Bedroom Scene

creator: Okumura Masanobu

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1945


title: Daoist immortal Laozi

creator: Chen Yanqing

medium: Gilt copper alloy

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1997


title: Sutra Cover with Medallions of Characters of Longevity

medium: Plain weave silk with supplementary silk weft patterning

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2011


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with "egg-and-spinach" glaze

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Rowell, Pedestrian, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes


title: Bed Figure

date: 3rd century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Michoacan

subjects: Michoacan Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Albert J. Grant and Monique Grant Joint Revocable Trust, 2014


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3111

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, incised and splashed with polychrome glazes under transparent glaze (sgraffito ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Phaeton #729

medium: Pen and black ink


title: Judith and Holofernes, from Biblia, Frankfurt

creator: Anonymous, German, 16th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2012


title: Hollow molding

date: early 19th century

medium: Basswood

country: American, United States

subjects:
Frame
American, united state

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: George Henry Loring

creator: Richard Morrell Staigg

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Statuette of Imhotep

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Bagolin

creator: Höchst Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Mill River Scenery

creator: Frances Flora Bond Palmer

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1951


title: Cupid holding a candle socket

date: early 16th century

medium: Bronze, traces of brown lacquer patina; later marble base

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


title: Bowl

date: late 10th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered with black decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Axe

date: ca. 11th–9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Court train

medium: metallic thread

country: German

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Openhym, 1908


title: Dévastation d'un Monastère (Devastation of a Monastery), from Les Misères et les Mal-Heures de la Guerre (The Miseries and Misfortunes of War), plate 6

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Design for Opera Bus (French?)

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache


title: View of the Remains of the Temple of Venus on the Isle of Nisida Close to Pouzzol on the Gulf of Naples

creator: Charles François Grenier de Lacroix

medium: Engraving

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


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


title: Towel End

medium: Linen, metal wrapped thread; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Key

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

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


title: Moses Trampling on Pharaoh's Crown

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and bistre, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Mlle. Deanville, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Vis-à-vis/Brett #3093

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Vessel with heads of horned female deities

medium: Gypsum alabaster

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1973


title: Wallet

medium: Leather, metal

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


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: Jessie Villars, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes


title: Samuel J. "Skyrocket" Smith, 1st Base, Louisville Colonels, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Insertion

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Lilly Howard, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Seal

credit_line: Gift of Edward B. Bruce, 1924


title: Large Storage Jar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

medium: Pottery, whitewash

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909


title: Square Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Tunic fragment

creator: Wari artist

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Shard:Torso of a Bird

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan Birds

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


title: Pottery Whistle

medium: Clay

country: Costa Rican

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Costa rican

credit_line: Gift of John Meigs Keith, 1906


title: Small Jar (Kotsubo) with Relief Plum- Blossom Patterns

medium: Porcelain with celadon glaze (Hizen ware, Arita type)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan
Flowers

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta volute-krater (container for mixing wine and water)

creator: Bolsena Group

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Mug

creator: Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943


title: Rebec

medium: Wood, various materials

country: Spanish?

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Ogee frame

medium: Oak. Carved, gilt; red-brown bole.

country: French

subjects: Frame French

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Watch

medium: Case: rock crystal, gilded and engraved brass; movement: gilded brass, iron

subjects:
Horology
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Descrizione del Sacro Monte della Vernia (Description of the Sacred Mount Alverno)

creator: Domenico Falcini

medium: Engraving

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


title: Teapot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware with enamel decoration

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Scarf

date: third quarter 19th century

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Finger Ring

date: 6th–11th century

medium: Gold, glass paste

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 83 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Ear Ornament

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Miniature ointment jar

medium: Gneiss

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Unidentified, plan (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

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


title: Bowl with Eight Buddhist Treasures

date: early 17th century

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Van Cheng and Co., 1917


title: Cowroid Seal-Amulet

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Goblet

date: 4th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1961


title: Patrick E. "Pat" Pettee, 2nd Base, London Tecumsehs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Tabernacle frame

creator: del Tasso

medium: Walnut. Carved, luminolegno.

country: Italian

subjects: Frame Italian


title: Spoon

date: 7th–2nd century BCE

medium: Stone

country: Chavin (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Chavin

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1993


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Ivory or bone; carved and incised

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Corset

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Pouring Vessel (Kendi) with Flowers and Fruits

date: late 16th century

medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Flowers
Fruits
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

medium: Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile), cotton (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922


title: Vis-a-Vis #3751

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: stone

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Dish

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Design for a Decorated Base of a Candlestick Holder

creator: Giulio Romano

date: early 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash. Design silhouetted

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


title: Bronze dagger blade

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: The Jewels of the Pagoda

creator: Linnaeus Tripe

date: January 1858

medium: Albumen silver print from waxed paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 1988


title: Dish (brasero) with Heraldic Lion

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware

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


title: Saint Lucy and Her Mother at the Shrine of Saint Agatha; Saint Lucy Giving Alms; Saint Lucy before Paschasius; Saint Lucy Resisting Efforts to Move Her

creator: Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: King (Washington from the United States), from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving, etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Zanzibar (Turk), from the Natives in Costume series (N16) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Relief from a procession of offering bearers (see 09.180.13e)

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Fifer, France, 17th Century, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


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

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Glass and gold leaf

country: Greek

subjects: Glass Greek

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Carved handle of a ceremonial knife

date: ca. 3200 BCE

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Jar

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Courtesy of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1978


title: A Pinch of Snuff Behind the Drop

creator: Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest


title: Bowl

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; polychrome decoration under glaze, incised (buff ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: The Tapestry at Michelfeld

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: "Abu'l Mihjan and Sa`d ibn Abi Wakkas Become Angry and Leave King Khusrau (?)", Folio from a Khavarannama (The Book of the East) of ibn Husam al-Din

creator: Maulana Muhammad Ibn Husam ad Din

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: [Yosemite National Park, California]

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


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

date: second half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Designs for Two Servers and an Urn

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Serpentine mold for casting bead pendants

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Scarab with Name of the Queen of King Ahmose

medium: Steatite, gold mounting

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


title: Sauce Dish

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

country: American

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


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

creator: American Tobacco Company

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


title: Landscape

creator: Gu Yun

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Jane DeBevoise and the Calello Family, 2024


title: The Shoemaker

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


title: Seated male figurine

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: body with garment pleats

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Conical seal

date: ca. 6th century BCE (?)

medium: Jasper, dark green

country: Achaemenid

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Glass; stained, luster-painted

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1930


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


title: Le Jeu de Paume sur la Place Sainte-Croix, a Florence (The Tennis Game on the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Helmet (Hachi)

date: early 19th century

medium: Iron, gilding

country: Japanese

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Jug

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Earthenware, glaze

subjects: Ceramic French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: [Tank at Umballa]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Kylix, Droop cup

date: late 6th century BCE

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Potiphar's Wife Acuses Joseph

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving; first state

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, by exchange, 1931


title: Miniature seal in the form of Cupid

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, copper gilt

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


title: The assumption of the Virgin, who rises with arms outstretched, angels supporting her from below, after Reni

creator: Carl Ernst Christoph Hess

medium: Engraving

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


title: Fan

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: ivory, metal, mother-of-pearl, vellum, gouache

country: probably German

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Millicent V. Hearst, 1962


title: Dress

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Miss S. E. White, 1939


title: The Two Bathers

creator: Auguste Renoir

medium: Etching on cream wove paper; only state

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Clear Brilliance Terrace

creator: Jian Guzhai

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Ink

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Paint Brush

medium: Palm Fiber, red paint

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: One of the Rats, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

creator: Henry Louis Stephens

medium: Color lithograph with watercolor and gum

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1964


title: Ship-Building, Gloucester Harbor (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

creator: Winslow Homer

date: October 11, 1873

medium: Wood engraving

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Medal of Andrew Jackson

creator: Moritz Fürst

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Ornament in the shape of Daikoku, God of Luck

medium: Clay glazed and gilt (Kiyomizu ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: John Yellow Flower, Ute, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N36) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers

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


title: Bow-Drill Fragments

medium: Wood

country: Coptic

subjects: Woodwork-miscellany Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Tile

date: 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: A man with two trumpets in the centre flanked by other figures including an old and a young man at right

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

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


title: Hoops

medium: linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Arrowhead

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1953


title: Plate (one of a set of twelve)

creator: Thomas Farren

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Costumed figure pendant

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Gold

country: Tolima

subjects: Metal-ornament Tolima

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


title: Element


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 23r)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Sample

medium: Silk on wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Accessory set

credit_line: Gift of Miss Jessie Rosenfeld, 1943


title: Dulcimer

medium: Wood and various materials

credit_line: Gift of Eva Mali Noyes, 1927


title: Cast of a Pot Sherd

date: mid-20th century

medium: Plaster

country: Lapita people

subjects:
Plaster-reproduction
Lapita people

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1980


title: Bead

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Ceramic or glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Dish cross

creator: Ashworth, Ellis & Co.

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Frances and Edward Munves, 1964


title: Kyūrō (Baitei) Picture Album (Kyūrō gafu) 九老画譜

creator: Ki Baitei 紀梅亭

date: preface and postscript dated 1797, Spring third month (Kansei 9)

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: [Oeuvre]

creator: Philippe Louis Parizeau

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1958


title: Edna Wallace-Hopper, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: "The Attack on the Camel by the Lion, Crow, Wolf, and Jackal", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

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


title: L'Amateur

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Black chalk, pen and black ink, gray wash; lined

credit_line: Bequest of Grégoire Tarnopol, 1979, and Gift of Alexander Tarnopol, 1980


title: Luring the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Out of a Cave with Music; Death of the Historical Buddha

creator: Kōno Bairei

date: late 19th century

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

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Soldier, Armed with Broadsword and Shield, from "Officers and Soldiers"

creator: Jacques de Gheyn II

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

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Eagle Ornament

date: 7th–16th century

medium: Gold (cast)

country: Costa Rica

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Costa rica

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1974, 1977


title: Design for a Vignette Accompanying a Publication on the Greek Alphabet

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


title: A Portion of the Citywall, Foochow

creator: Lai Afong

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: The Column of Trajan, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved


title: State Arms of Rhode Island, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: La Fuite a Dessein

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three (Portalis)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1954


title: Christ Scourged, from "The Doctrine, Life, and Passion of Jesus Christ"

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Tapestry Fragment

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Chimú (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chimú
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: John Ban MacKenzie

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1946


title: Measure

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Robert M. Parmelee and Mrs. William L. Parker, 1916


title: Bairei Picture Album of One Hundred Birds (Bairei hyakuchō gafu) 楳嶺百鳥畫譜

creator: Kōno Bairei  幸野楳嶺

medium: Set of three polychrome woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan
Birds


title: Mug

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Vessel fragment

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Gift of James H. Schwartz, 2006


title: Gothic Frets, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Pair of Italian comedy actors (Mezzetin and Elizabeth (?))

creator: Real Fabrica de Buen Retiro

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Seal paste box with eight trigrams

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Dish

date: 11th century

medium: Earthenware; buff body under blue glaze, probably alkaline

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Porringer

creator: Samuel Hamlin


title: Relief: woman seated at a table

date: ca. early 1st millennium BCE

medium: Basalt

credit_line: Purchase, 1891


title: Annie Russell in A Royal Family, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies Cigarettes

creator: Frederick Moladore Spiegle

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


title: Lucidario di Recami, page 8 (verso)

creator: Iseppo Foresto

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Design for a Fountain

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

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

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


title: Strap End

medium: Bronze with traces of tin

country: Frankish or Allemanic

subjects:
Metalwork-bronze
Frankish or allemanic

credit_line: Gift of Max Falk, 1993


title: Goblet

creator: Robert and William Wilson

credit_line: Gift of George H. Hull, 1970


title: Band

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Administration Fund, 1921


title: Chamber Organ

creator: William Crowell

medium: Wood, various materials

subjects: Aerophone-organ American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Ein ney Furmbüchlein, Page 17, verso

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Song of the Wave

creator: Richard Edwin Brooks

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Coin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Lady Iga

creator: Kikuchi Yōsai

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

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


title: Mountain Valley

creator: Thomas Ender

date: early 19th–mid 19th century

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2007


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Coif

date: late 16th century or early 17th century

medium: linen, silk, metal thread

country: British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 21 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: The Milkmaid

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Palette with a sculpted female head and incised decoration

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Calcite

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1984


title: F.e de Maouna from playing cards "Jeu d'Or"

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Bed leg (one of four)

medium: Iron

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: The Favorite Cat

creator: Nathaniel Currier

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Maffet Ledger: Indian on horseback, soldier in wagon

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and crayon on paper

country: Southern and Northern Cheyenne

subjects:
Paper-drawing
Southern and northern cheyenne

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


title: Gold earring with figure

date: 3rd‒2nd century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Small incense burner, 'Ma Jun' or 'Soft Jun' ware

creator: Chinese

date: 13th–14th century (or later)

medium: Stoneware with blue glaze.

country: Chinese

subjects: Ceramic Chinese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Coin

date: dated 277 AH/890 CE

medium: Silver


title: Roman Majuscule Alphabet

creator: Daniel Hopfer

medium: Etching; first state of two

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first 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: Plate 24: Ulysses's companions stealing the oxen sacred to Apollo

creator: Bartolomeo Crivellari

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Actress wearing military costume standing with hands on hips, from the Actresses series (N668)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)?

date: 6th century BCE


title: Pendant:  Bust of Isis

date: 30 BCE–330 CE

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Relief with offering stands

medium: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

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


title: Painting easel, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Bonzerie de la Grande Pagode

creator: Emile Gsell

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: Poem by Motoyoshi Shinnō, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Royal Horse Artillery, England, from the Military Uniforms series (T182) issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes


title: Sheet, woven linen mark, medium spin, medium weave

medium: Linen, wax

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Miniature Bottle

date: 11th–late 15th century

medium: Silver, gilt

country: Chimú or Chancay

subjects:
Metal-container
Chimú or chancay

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: [Middle-aged Man with Chinstrap Beard, Hand Tucked Inside Buttoned Jacket]

creator: W. & F. Langenheim

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Doll

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Stud

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred Schermerhorn, in memory of Mrs. John Gerard Coster, 1946


title: Greek Vase-Painting (Design for a Wall Decoration)

creator: Anton von Werner

medium: Brush and gray-brown ink, over graphite

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Study for "The Combate," etched vignette in "Songs in the Opera of Flora"

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

medium: Black chalk, graphite, red chalk stains, traced with the stylus

subjects: Botany Drawing

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: Landscape in the style of Huang Gongwang

creator: Wang Jian

date: dated 1657

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse, 1972


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


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

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Dr. George Cook, St. Andrews

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Pierre Paul Royer-Collard (1763–1845), French editor, philosopher, statesman, and Member of the Academy

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze, cast - single

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Vase

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Silver gilt, pottery

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Preliminary Design for the Playbill to "Le Chariot de Terre Cuite"

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Blue crayon heightened with white gouache

credit_line: Bequest of Ruth A. Mueller, 2015


title: Clasp Knife

date: 18th century

medium: Steel, horn, brass

country: Spanish

subjects: Knive Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: View of Imaginary Architectural Ruins

creator: Jean Henri Alexandre Pernet

date: late 18th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1984


title: Coin purse

medium: glass, linen, silk, metal

country: Mexican

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


title: Offering list stela

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Bowl

date: 15th century

medium: Earthenware; overglaze luster-painted

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


title: Pocket watch

date: early 19th century

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Genty; Ghibert

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


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

date: second quarter of the sixth century BCE


title: Draughtsman's instruments

creator: George Adams

medium: Brass, silver, ivory

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Palmette-like ornament

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906


title: [Tag-e bustan, Kermanshah, Kurdestan]

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Rock Blackfish, from the Fish from American Waters series (N8) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print

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


title: Horizontal Panel with Two Tritons with Foliate Tails Playing Horns

creator: Barthel Beham

date: early 16th century

medium: Engraving

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Deer

date: 11th–9th century BCE

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: The Apostles Creed

medium: Wool warp, wool wefts

country: European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
European
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of The Hearst Foundation, 1960


title: Profile (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: Shepard Alonzo Mount

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Bottle

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Robert Macauley Jackson, 1920


title: Inlay, chevron

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1916


title: Jacket

medium: silk, cotton, brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Houghton Trott, 1954


title: Wedding dress

medium: silk, pearl

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Robert G. Olmsted, 1965


title: Étui

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Plaque with robed priests leading animals

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Liqueur bottle cooler (seau ovale à liqueur) (one of a pair) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

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

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


title: Upper Guinea, from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Dance of Fauns and Bacchants, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Earrings

medium: metal

country: European, Eastern

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: James Edwin "Jim" Powell, Manager and 1st Base, Sioux City Corn Huskers, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Kiln Rod

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Gift of Noel E. Baker, 1952


title: Officer and Laughing Girl, after Vermeer

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching; fifth state of six (Gonse)

credit_line: Gift of Louis R. Metcalfe, 1928


title: Brick Stamped with the Cone Seal of Pasanesut

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Textile

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American or european

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1943


title: Dress

medium: cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., 1953


title: A skeleton selling plucked chickens from a broadside entitled 'Una Calavera Chusca'

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

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

medium: Zincograph

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Dish with floral pattern

medium: Stoneware painted in brown on a white ground (Cizhou ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Gladys Herzman, 1997


title: Frontispiece: Horace, Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; first state of two


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Steven D. Robinson, 1982


title: Pierced disk, perhaps from an earring or fibula (safety pin)

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Amber

country: Etruscan or Italic

subjects:
Miscellaneous-amber
Etruscan or italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Bust and Full Length Figure (from Sketchbook)

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederic F. Durand, 1933


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Marble stele (grave marker) of a man

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1959


title: Bowl

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Panel with nine portraits

date: 19th century

medium: Verre églomisé

subjects: Glass-painted Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Saint Mark writing his Gospel, a winged lion at the right

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

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


title: Band

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Strip

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace


title: Towel

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of Florence Kahn, 1945


title: Jem Smith, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Basket

medium: Spruce root and dyed and undyed beach or rye grass

country: Tlingit, Native American

subjects:
Tlingit, native american
Grasses & sedges

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2022


title: Vase, covered with bird's claw

date: 4th century BCE or later

medium: Bronze

country: Italic or Roman

subjects:
Bronze
Italic or roman
Birds


title: Captain Paul Boyton, Swam the Straits of Gibraltar, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: [Canal and Ruins of Richmond and Danville Railroad Depot, Richmond, Virginia]

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: John F. "Cinders" O'Brien, Pitcher, Cleveland, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Pen knife (part of a set)

creator: Joseph Rodgers & Sons, England

medium: Steel, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 1968


title: Dancing Woman

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Fragment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Brougham #3769

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1996


title: Figure of a Man, the Lawyer

creator: Henry William Bunbury

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Plate

creator: Gaspard Robert Manufactory

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Panorama of Venice from the Bacino di San Marco, Including the Project for the Proposed Teatro Manin

creator: Francesco Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and a little body color

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Claude Auvry

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Hamano Masayuki

date: early–mid-18th century

medium: Copper, gold, copper alloy (sentoku), silver

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Still Life: A Basket of Grapes and Other Fruit

creator: Jacob van Hulsdonck

date: probably ca. 1635–45

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Fruits

credit_line: The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1964


title: Marble head of an old fisherman

date: 1st–2rd century CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

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: Anklet

medium: Silver

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


title: Kero

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Wood (prosopis?)

country: Quechua

subjects: Wood-container Quechua

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels, and God the Father in the Sky

creator: Johann Lorenz Haid

date: mid-18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and red wash, heightened with white gouache, on red-prepared paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink, possibly by the artist

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


title: Sugar tongs

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Julia W. Torrey, 1922


title: Double-spouted pitcher with arms of the Antinori family

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Coin

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Village on an estuary, with a rowing boat on the shore

creator: Pieter de Molijn

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 2008


title: Landscape with Fort and a Church on a River

creator: Augustin Hirschvogel

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

creator: Ixion Painter

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Figure

date: 3rd century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Chupicuaro

subjects: Chupicuaro Ceramics-sculpture

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


title: Viewing a Waterfall

creator: Kushiro Unsen 釧雲泉

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Wangchuan Villa

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Ladle

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Paul Revere "Shorty" Radford, Right Field, Cleveland, 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: Lengths of velvet

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Ribbed Penannular Earring

medium: Gold

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Roman alphabet against architectural backgrounds, from G. P. Zanotti's Il Claustro di San Michele in Bosco di Bologna

creator: Pio Panfili

medium: Etchings on pale green paper

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Landscape

creator: Zheng Bin

medium: Miniature from album of eleven paintings; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Stamp seal (bell-shaped with loop handle) with monster

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Copper/bronze alloy

country: Urartian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1980


title: Glass snake-thread flask shaped like a mouse

date: 3rd century CE

medium: Glass, blue

subjects:
Glass
Roman
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Handle of a flywhisk or fan

date: ca. 8th–7th century BC

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Bow ring, for stringing a bow

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Silver

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Tankard

date: dated 1636

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware; pewter

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


title: The Parrot

creator: Abraham Bosse

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


title: Plate 13: a peasant woman, seen from the back, holding a basket in center, a donkey to left and a horse with a pack on its back to right, from "Diversi Capricci"

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; third state of four

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Dish with Buddhist Monk-Poet Hanshan

date: mid-17th century

medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China (for Japanese market)

subjects:
Ceramic
China (for japanese market)

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 2011


title: Bracelet

medium: Gold, glass or stone setting

country: Roman (?)

subjects: Metalwork-gold Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cap

medium: cotton

country: American

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: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cup

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Towel border

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: Silk, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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: Dailly et Lavigne, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Bottle

date: 18th century

medium: Clay covered with a crackled transparent glaze and a slightly thicker overglaze (Karatsu ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Colorless glass, silver stain, paint

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Bottle with Overlapping Petals

date: 11th–early 12th century

medium: Silver with chased, repoussé, and incised decoration

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation Fund and Seymour Fund, 2006


title: Screw-top jar

date: probably 19th century

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1920


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Jar with cover

creator: Chantilly

medium: Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Gournah. Palais de Ménephta 1er

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Card Number 172, Alice Gordon, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Vase

creator: Haviland & Co.

date: 19th century

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Bequest of Margarette A. Jones, 1905


title: Design for a Ceiling Decoration with Putti and Garland Motifs

creator: Donato Giuseppe Frisoni

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Earflare

creator: Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

medium: Gold

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Lambayeque (sicán)

credit_line: Gift of H. L. Bache Foundation, 1969


title: Bowl

medium: Cloisonné enamel on gilt copper

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: This old court apparently has an old falcon..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Rock crystal with jadeite stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: [Man Holding Book, Standing Before a Painted Scenic Backdrop]

creator: Unknown

medium: Ambrotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: A Bit of War History: The Recruit

creator: Thomas Waterman Wood

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1884


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Canaanite Scarab with a Lion over a Crocodile

medium: Steatite

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


title: Print

creator: Shōsai Ikkei

medium: One sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Liberty Cup and Saucer

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Shawl

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Frank L. Babbott, Jr., 1941


title: Ludee, One of the Wives of Abba Thulle

creator: Henry Kingsbury

medium: Stipple engraving and etching

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967


title: A Seated Young Woman Looking Over Her Shoulder

creator: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

date: early–mid-17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: [Two Men and a Boy with Outside Calipers, Backsaw, Square, and Frame Saw]

medium: Tintype with applied color


title: Nine fragments of hieratic text

medium: Papyrus, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3205

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 15th–13th century BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Cypriot?

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


title: Card 673, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Whet-steel

medium: Steel, bone, silver

subjects:
Metalwork-steel
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Flat Circular Button

date: 7th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Late Roman

subjects:
Metalwork-bronze
Late roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Candlestick (one of a pair)

creator: Johann Peter Pepfenhauser

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Token of the Centennial of American Independence

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Drum

medium: Wood, skin

country: Russian

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / barrel drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal: account of archers for military service, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 514 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Human-headed bison

date: ca. 2080 BCE

medium: Serpentine (lizardite)

country: Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1996


title: Two Men Wearing Green Coats, also Straw Hats with Brown Bows

creator: Yashima Gakutei

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

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1981


title: Songs: "Mary, dear Mary list awake. And take the moon thy slumbers break..."

creator: Henry Thomas Alken

medium: Soft-ground etching

credit_line: Gift of Wilbur Macey Stone, 1921


title: Terracotta fragment of a bell-krater (deep bowl)

date: second half of the fourth century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Vase fragment

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Whistling Jar

country: Peruvian

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


title: Beaker

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Monument of Richard Jervoice, 1563

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Watercolor, pen and ink, brush and wash

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


title: Peasant costume fragment

medium: Silk on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Copper Ornament with Dangles

date: before 15th century

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peruvian

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


title: The Secret History of Crim Con, Fig. 2

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Shoes

date: 16th century

medium: leather

country: British

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


title: Christening ensemble

medium: cotton, silk

country: probably American

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


title: Tobacco box

creator: Nathaniel Lock

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1970


title: Spirally twisted tubular armlet with one goose-head terminal preserved

date: probably 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1931


title: Terracotta female figure

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Infant and satyr child with a panther

creator: Louis Félix de La Rue

date: mid-18th century

medium: Terracotta (lacquered brown); base: gilt bronze and grey marble

credit_line: Bequest of Charles C. Paterson, 1982


title: Box

date: early 18th century

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Landau #900

medium: pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Prima Parte de' Fiori, e Disegni di varie sorti di Ricami Moderni, page 13 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista Ciotti

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Textile sample

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Statuette of Isis nursing Horus

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Document Sealing with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Bronze statuette of a ram

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Feline-shaped stirrup-spout bottle

creator: Cupisnique artist(s)

medium: Ceramic

country: Cupisnique

subjects: Cupisnique Ceramics-container

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


title: Boa

medium: swansdown

country: European

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1988


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Virgin and Child

date: 15th century

medium: Limestone with polychromy

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Rinceau Border with Unicorn and Inlay on copper, Italian 18th century

creator: John Gregory Crace

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Dodge and Fletcher Funds, 1967


title: Lucidario di Recami, page 12 (recto)

creator: Iseppo Foresto

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Fragment

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: One of Six Impressions from Worn Old Blocks

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

country: Japan

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


title: Botanical Study of Indian Mulberry (Morinda citrifolia)

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

subjects: Botany Codice

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2016


title: Studies of the Leg of a Man and a Horse's Head (recto); sketches of the back of a man's left shoulder and a chained (?) figure.

creator: Central Italian

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink (the horse's head in a different pen and brown ink), brush and wash in two shades of brown (recto); red chalk and pencil (verso)

country: Central Italian

subjects:
Drawing
Central italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: Makron


title: Terracotta fragment of a krater (deep bowl)?

date: late 5th/early 4th century BCE


title: Sailors Regaling

date: September 1, 1803

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Oval Medallions and Rondels, from "Variae tum Passionis Christi tum vitae beatae Mariae Virginis; Les Mystères de la Passion suite appelée aussi Mystères de la Vie de Jésus et Mystères de la Vie de Jésus et de la Vie de la Ste. Vierge" (The Mysteries of the Passion, also called the Mysteries of the Life of Jesus, and the Mysteries of the Life of Jesus and of the Virgin)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Vase

creator: Jersey Glass Company of George Dummer

medium: Free-blown lead glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ernest A. Fairchild, 1920


title: The Charterhouse

creator: European Scenery

medium: Albumen silver prints

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, in memory of Kathleen W. Naef and Weston J. Naef Sr., 1982


title: Dennis Joseph "Dan" Brouthers, 1st Base, Detroit Wolverines, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Coffeepot

creator: Richard Morton and Co.

medium: Sheffield plate, fused

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Sampler

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


title: Bread Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Indeterminate Goddess Pendant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Capital with Acanthus Leaves

date: 4th century

medium: Marble; carved in relief


title: Hercules and the Hind of Mount Cerynea, from "The Labors of Hercules"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Woman Relaxing after Her Bath

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Charles F. Whitney, 3rd Base, St. Joseph Clay Eaters, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Handkerchief

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Nash, 1919


title: Tumbler

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Plate

creator: Pierre Bernard

medium: Gilded silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948