title: Le noeud rouge

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Spoon

creator: Edward Webb

medium: Silver

country: American

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: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Landscape

creator: Jan van Goyen

date: early 17th–mid 17th century

medium: Black chalk, washed with India ink on white paper.

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of William Gretor, 1907


title: 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: Souvenir spoon with view of hillside-built town and arms of Savoy

date: late 19th century

medium: Gilt and enamel

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


title: Portion of fireback

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Plate

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1962


title: Jar

date: 12th century

medium: Composite body; carved and glazed

credit_line: Gift of Charles K. Wilkinson, 1978


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Abraham de Vries

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain

country: French

credit_line: Bequest of Miss Emilie Ogden, 1924


title: Salad Plate

creator: Union Porcelain Works

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


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: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Looking Glass

medium: Gilt gesso, wood, wire

credit_line: Gift of Fenton L. B. Brown, 1969


title: The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, from "The Apocalypse"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975


title: Jar

date: ca. late 8th millennium BCE

medium: Calcite alabaster

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Chest or abdomen of Akhenaten, Aten cartouches

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: [Frames for Mirrors]

creator: Nicolaes de Bruyn

medium: Etchings

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Bangle with Circular Motifs

date: ca. 2700 BCE–400 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg / 10-ducat medal on establishment of Grand-Duchy of Frankfurt

creator: Johann Christian Reich

medium: Gold

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Fragment of a Sleeve

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


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: Pint decanter

medium: Pressed glass, diamond thumbprint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Openwork furniture plaque with winged sphinx

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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


title: Water vessel (Càntir)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Glass (filigrana glass)

subjects:
Glass
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Design for Cast-iron Grate in Rococo Style with Putti Fire Dogs

creator: Benjamin Dean Wyatt

medium: Pen and ink, brush and gray and light brown wash

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


title: Fishermen by the Shore – Coastal Scene with a Man Sitting on the Ground Resting an Elbow on a Fishing Basket, Another Man Opposite Mending a Sail, and a Woman Standing Between Them Carrying a Basket on Her Back

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Egypt, Alexandria-Hadra

subjects:
Vase
Greek, egypt, alexandria-hadra

credit_line: Purchase, 1890


title: Festive Dress of a Hazara Woman

date: probably mid-20th century

medium: Silk, cotton, metal wrapped thread; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1971


title: John Ewing, Pitcher, Louisville Colonels, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Terracotta stirrup jar

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Our Watering Places – The Empty Sleeve at Newport (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. IX)

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Vishnu Riding on Garuda

date: dated 1004

medium: Gilt copper repoussé

country: Nepal

subjects: Sculpture Nepal

credit_line: Zimmerman Family Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Jeffrey B. Soref and Natalie Soref Gifts, 2012


title: Sailboats and Mount Fuji

creator: Shibata Zeshin

date: 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; black paint on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Nathan V. Hammer, 1953


title: The Church of São Martinho in Sintra, Portugal

creator: Pierre Lélu

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

credit_line: Purchase, Lois Swan Junkin Gift, in memory of Nathalie Swan Rhav, 1983


title: Parade Trumpet

medium: Copper

country: German

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Pair of chutes

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: [Bengal Horse Artillery,1860]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Design for Knife Handles with 'Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus' and a Couple Shaking Hands

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving and blackwork

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


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

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Shabti of the High Priest of Amun, Painedjem II

medium: Faience

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


title: Glass cup with indented sides

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Spear

medium: Wood

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1970


title: Terracotta cup with appliqués

country: Greek, Pergamene

subjects:
Vase
Greek, pergamene

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fan

medium: Silk, metal, paper, ivory, brass

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Ceremonial Implement in the Shape of an Ankh


title: Fragment

medium: Embroidered net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: [State seals: Delaware, Massachussetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia]

creator: Mellor, Venables & Co.

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Mandeville Johnston, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. S. Johnston, 1914


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

medium: Terracotta


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Netsuke of Demon with a Mask

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Fragment of a Frieze with Addorsed Birds

date: 12th century

medium: Gypsum plaster; molded, traces of painting

subjects: Sculpture Birds

credit_line: Gift of H. Kevorkian, 1918


date: early 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Ear ornament , Garuda, Meru

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: Incense burner with cover

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Loom Heddle Jack

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


title: Penllergare Garden From the Morning Room

creator: James Knight

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


title: Bowl

medium: Jade

credit_line: The F.O. Matthiessen Collection, Gift of Mrs. Emma Matthiessen, in memory of her husband, 1903


title: Officer, 11th Royal Hussars, Great Britain, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Fall (L'Automne), from 'The Four Seasons'

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

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


title: Stand with perforated base

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Stoneware with traces of ash glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997


title: Forepart of a bronze winged horse

date: late 5th–early 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Cylinder seal with hunting scene

date: late 9th–early 7th century BCE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by Acibiades at left

creator: Pietro Testa

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


title: Interior View of Vladislav Hall at Prague Castle during the Annual Fair

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Severed head, said to be that of Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre (1758-1794), guillotined July 28, 1794 (10 Thermidor, An II)

creator: Baron Dominique Vivant Denon

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Thalia, from "The Muses and the Three Great Goddesses"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Studies of a Head and a Hand

creator: Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1996


title: The Knifegrinder

creator: Adriaen van Ostade


title: Piece

date: 17th century


title: Saber of Archduke Carl Joseph of Austria (1745–1761) as a Boy

date: dated 1751

medium: Steel, gold, bloodstone

country: Austrian, probably Vienna

subjects:
Sword
Austrian, probably vienna

credit_line: Gift of Irene Roosevelt Aitken, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2026


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Ornamental Theater Scene with Trees

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

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, brush and brown wash, possibly incidental

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing
Trees

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


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Amulet: Taweret

medium: Faience, blue

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Brougham #3474

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Fragmentary limestone relief with a snake and dolphin

date: late 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Young Cleric in a Cope Holding a Book

creator: Placido Costanzi

medium: Black chalk, highlighted with white, on gray-washed paper

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1985


title: Jug

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: The Pater Familias

medium: Etching

credit_line: Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives, 2011


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic


title: Dagger

date: 18th century

medium: Steel, nephrite, gold, ruby

country: Indian, Mughal

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, mughal

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Panel

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Mathilde

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Wheellock Pistol

creator: Peter Danner

medium: Steel, bronze, gold, wood (walnut), staghorn

country: German, Nuremberg

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Pair of Earrings

medium: Gold

subjects: Jewelry China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Ornament

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: View in County Kerry

creator: Alexander H. Wyant

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of George I. Seney, 1887


title: Fork

date: ca. 6th–7th century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist, copy in reverse

creator: Simone Cantarini

date: ca. 1640–42 or after

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Glass Fragment

medium: Glass

country: British

subjects: Glass-stained British

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Standing cup with cover

medium: Zwischengold glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Mr. MacDowell

creator: Thomas Eakins

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Julius Ravzin, 1979


title: Plate 4: The victory of Goleta, near Tunis, from "Triumphs of Charles V"

creator: Jacques de Gheyn, III

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Bead

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stone or glass (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Christ on the Mount of Olives, from the Circular Passion

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1940


title: View of the Roman Capitol, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Etienne DuPérac

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Harlequin Dressed as Columbine

creator: Gardner Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Waistcoat

medium: silk, metal

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Trust Gift, 1985


title: Soap dish

creator: Ashbil Griswold

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, in memory of her husband, 1941


title: Marble sarcophagus fragment: female figure, perhaps a nereid

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Altar Cloth

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Netsuke of Pleasure Boat (Takarabune)

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Trumpeter of Guides, France, 1853, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Ribbon

date: early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: An Actor with a Sword Ready to Strike

creator: Katsukawa Shunkō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Hat

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frances Craver Northam, 1946


title: Coat

country: probably French

credit_line: Gift of Lilly Daché, 1968


title: Three Warriors after Raphael

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black and red chalk, light brown and gray oil paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Candlestick with Shade

medium: Sheffield silver plate, glass

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


title: Ste. Columbe, vierge et martyre (St. Columba, Virgin and Martyr), December 31st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Inlay

medium: Shell

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Vessel with face-neck

creator: Moche artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Moche

subjects:
Moche
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Cupboard

date: 15th century

medium: Oak

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1949


title: Dressing Gown

medium: Silk

country: probably American

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


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fellows Feasting

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Study for a Portrait of a Man

creator: Guillaume Courtois

medium: Red chalk

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1975


title: Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

creator: Hu Zhengyan

date: first edition printed in 1633

medium: ndividual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Relief with torso of a guard

medium: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Teapot

medium: Silver, ebony

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Vessel sherd with geometric decoration

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Glazed ceramic

country: Assyrian

subjects:
Assyrian
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Mug

creator: Abraham Fellows

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini 1417–1468

creator: Matteo de' Pasti

medium: Bronze

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


title: Crested Porcupine, from the Animals of the World series (T180), issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bed tent

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Card Number 155, Miss Fuller, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Seven-cup offering bowl

date: ca. 17th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Miriam Schaar Schloessinger, 1964


title: S. Aigri, évêque de Verdun (St. Agericus, Bishop of Verdun), December 1st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Studies of the Head of Saskia and Others

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, by exchange, 1923


title: Wedding socks

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Nathalie Swift, 1969


title: Woven Coverlet Sample

medium: Wool and cotton, woven


title: Hand-and-a-Half Sword

medium: Steel, leather, wood, copper alloy

country: European or possibly British

subjects:
Sword
European or possibly british

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Reconstruction of the Thermae Olympiadis (above) and View of the Ruins (below)

creator: Jan Goeree

date: before 1704

medium: Red chalk, pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Helen and János Scholz, 1958


title: Fragmentary Band

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1929


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Babylonian

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


title: William Wilson "Bill" Hallman, Catcher, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Page from a Dispersed Kalpa Sutra (Jain Book of Rituals)

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Sloth, from "Seven Deadly Sins"

creator: Léon Davent

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


title: Cover

date: 16th century

medium: Linen, embroidered net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Luckmeyer, 1910


title: Plan and Elevations of a Room

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Carnelian ring stone

date: 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Carnelian

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Figured flask

creator: Keene Glass Works

medium: Blown-molded glass

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Stable Yard with Horses

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Harpoon

medium: Copper

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

credit_line: Gift of Anita and Stanley Eisenberg, 1986


title: Piece

date: 18th century

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Glass square bottle

date: 1st–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: From Scylla to Charybdis, from "News of the day"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Color lithograph on wove paper; third state of three (Delteil)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Lower part of furniture leg with lion feet and frustrum

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Strap End

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Bronze

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Saint John of the Cross

medium: Wood (polychromed and gilded), silver and gems; glass eyes

subjects:
Sculpture
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: The Entombment

creator: Johann Friedrich Overbeck

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Wrath, from The Vices

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Engraving

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


title: Eight Great Events Stele

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stone

country: Eastern India (Bihar)

subjects:
Sculpture
Eastern india (bihar)

credit_line: Gift of Jeff Soref and Paul Lombardi, in honor of Natalie Soref, 2015


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. L. Scudder, 1971


title: Mudfish gold weight

creator: Akan artist

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Akan peoples

subjects:
Metal-implement
Akan people

credit_line: Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1994


title: Reliefs from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Whales and Whale Oil (Jokō roku) 除蝗録

creator: Hasegawa Settan 長谷川雪旦

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Plaque

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Design for Painted Wall Decoration for a Bakery

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Sculptures extérieures du Sanctuaire de granit du Palais de Karnac (Thèbes) (Philippe-Aridée conduisant la Barc de Mauth)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Glass mosaic inlay

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

country: Egyptian, Ptolemaic or Roman

subjects:
Glass
Egyptian, ptolemaic or roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece (one of 116)

date: 19th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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: Commodore's Pennant, Austria, from the Naval Flags series (N17) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

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


title: Trencher with quotation from The Governance of Virtue (1566) (one of a set)

date: early 17th century

medium: Sycamore wood, painted and gilded

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Necklace

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold, glass?

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bowl

medium: Blown brown and white opaque satin glass

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Foot Artillery, Spain, 1853, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Gauntlet Sword (Pata)

medium: Steel

country: Indian, South Indian

subjects:
Sword
Indian, south indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Afternoon dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Augustus Graham School of Design Fund, 1973


title: The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", Probable Results of The Industry of All Nations in The Year '51, Showing What is to be Exhibited, Who is To Exhibit, in Short How Its All Going to Be Done

creator: George Augustus Sala

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1963


title: Button

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Bone

country: Sasanian

subjects:
Sasanian
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Paget. Jean, Louis. 41 ans, né le 15/7/52 à Thonon (Haute-Savoie). Cordonnier. Anarchiste. 12/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: A partly nude bacchante holding a disk in her left hand and raising her garments with right

creator: Vicenzo Feoli

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Hubbard, 1941


title: Standing and Kneeling Figures, and Studies of Flying Putti

creator: Francesco Curia

medium: Pen and brown ink, with traces of black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Terracotta fragments from amphorae (jars)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929


title: Harpoon head

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Nose Ornament

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Silver

country: Ecuador

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Ecuador

credit_line: Gift of Mica Ertegün, 2008


title: Miniature fork

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


title: Length

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Gift of Cora Ginsburg, 1984


title: Archive collection of 22 panels from the Palace of Westminster

creator: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

medium: Oak

subjects: Architecture Woodwork-architectural

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


title: Defender, 1895, from the Famous Ships series (N50) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Photograph
Ships & the sea

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


title: Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjūrō V

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Soft paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Vessel

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Oxford University Expedition to Nubia, 1926


title: Study for a bronze name plate for Edward D. Adams

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and ink on verso

credit_line: Gift of Edward D. Adams, 1921


title: Engraved copies of The Little Passion

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums

medium: Resist-dyed plain-weave silk crepe (chirimen), embroidered with silk and metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed and embroidered

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


title: Design for a ceiling

medium: Graphite, gilt, gouache, and watercolor

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: A skeleton with her back turned wearing a coat and hat, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving (reproduction)

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Portrait of a Young Woman Holding a Mask

creator: Johann Lorenz Haid

medium: Mezzotint

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2007


title: Terracotta fragments of a dinos (bowl for mixing wine and water)

date: mid-6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: The Madonna and Child enthroned, surrounded by Saints Bernard, Peter, James and Augustine

creator: Giovanni Fosella

medium: Engraving


title: Morning Glory

creator: Shibata Zeshin

medium: Album leaf; lacquer on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: The Pines

creator: Mortimer Borne

medium: Drypoint

credit_line: Gift of the Work Projects Administration, New York, 1943


title: Volute-krater fragment

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Miniature teapot

creator: John Troby

medium: Silver, ivory

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


title: Saber

medium: Steel, gold, fish skin, wood

country: Turkish, probably Istanbul

subjects:
Fish
Sword
Turkish, probably istanbul

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Dish

creator: Ott and Brewer

medium: Porcelain

country: American

credit_line: The Florence I. Balasny-Barnes Collection, Gift of Florence I. Balasny-Barnes, 2008


title: Well on Plain of Acre (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Pentecost, from "The Small Passion"

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Pin

date: 4th century BCE

medium: bronze

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Ralph M. Chait, 1943


title: Hanging

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, 1937


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: [Group Portrait: (L to R)Lady Canning, Major Jones and Lady Campbell, Barnes Court, Simla]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


creator: Makron


title: Ma-ni-mic, Cheyenne Chief

creator: William Stinson Soule

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Rectangular wooden cosmetic or amulet box

date: ca. 7th–9th century CE

medium: Wood

country: Alanic

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Simcox, 1999


title: Fan

date: mid-18th century

medium: Paper, ivory, and mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Capitano Bonbardon and Capitano Grillo, plate 13 from "Balli di Sfessania" (Dance of Sfessania)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Spice box (one of a pair)

creator: Johann Christoph Stenglin

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Coupe #802

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Netsuke of Woman and Monkey

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Coat

date: early 19th century

medium: silk, silver gilt

country: India

subjects: Outerwear-menswear India

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1963


title: Sabrina's Silvery Flood, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

creator: William Blake

medium: Wood engraving; second state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Earring, One of a Pair

date: 11th century

medium: Gold; wire, filigree, granulation

credit_line: Purchase, The Seley Foundation Inc., Jack A. Josephson, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome A. Straka and Edward Ablat Gifts, and Rogers Fund, 1978


title: The Robin's Note (from "Every Saturday," Vol. I, New Series)

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Engageantes

date: early 18th century

medium: cotton (linen?)

credit_line: Purchase, Catherine Van Bomel Foundation Fund and funds from various donors, 1998


title: Bronze cauldron

date: ca. 550 BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Bird Plaque Ornament

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Vicús

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Vicú
Birds

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


title: Scissors

date: 17th century

medium: Iron

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


title: Shirt

date: 19th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: Mexican

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


title: Hot water urn

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot

medium: Silver, gilt bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Landscape

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Carl Zigrosser, 1924


title: Drachm

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


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: Rebus Valentine Letter

creator: Michelet Libraire

medium: Engraving, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Netsuke of Jurōjin

medium: Wood and ivory


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Border

medium: Drawnwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Drinkers

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Drypoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Woman Playing a Portative Organ

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

medium: Woodcut with pochoir in orange, two shades of brown and beige

credit_line: Purchase, Phyllis D. Massar Gift and A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2013


title: Surgeon General George M. Sternberg, U.S. Army, from the "Generals" series (T63), issued by LeRoy Little Cigars

creator: LeRoy Little Cigars

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Unidentified society badge

medium: Enamel on copper

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


title: Wine cooler (one of a pair)

creator: Ignaz Joseph Würth

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Cœnotaphiorum (27)

creator: Hans Vredeman de Vries

medium: Etching; first state of four

credit_line: Purchase, Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 2011


title: Glass jug

date: 4th–5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Earring-hook type with disc

medium: Gold

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


title: Plate

creator: Enoch Wood & Sons

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Mandeville Johnston, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. S. Johnston, 1914


title: Festival Robe

date: second half of the 18th century

medium: Silk and metallic thread embroidery on silk satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1935


title: Joseph sold to the merchants: a bearded man grasping Joseph with his left hand receives coins in his right hand, from "The Story of Joseph"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Awl

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot


title: "A Youth, who has Fallen in Love with a Princess, Dies at her Feet when she Speaks", Folio from a Kulliyat (Complete Works) of Sa'di

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Thalia, Muse of Comedy, from the Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans series (N188) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Ice cream cup (tasse à glace) (one of thirty-one) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Dessert fork (one of twelve)

creator: John Linney

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, by exchange, 1988


title: Beam

date: 15th–17th Century

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. deForest, 1932


title: Pallas et Arachne, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; first state of five

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Robert Hartshorne, 1918


title: Miniature bottle with flowers

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

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Tea caddy with cover (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven


creator: Epiktetos

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Book cover with overall red curved line pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Self portait as an artist, holding a drawing board and implement

creator: Pietro Testa

medium: Etching


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 2nd century CE

subjects: Terracotta Roman


title: Hairpin

medium: Lamp-worked glass, gilt, with copper pins

country: probably Italian (Venice); possibly Innsbruck

subjects: Jewelry, precious metal and precious stone

subjects: Probably italian (venice); possibly innsbruck

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Crucified Christ between the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist

creator: Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground


title: Teacup (1 of 6) (part of a service)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Terracotta oil lamp

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot


title: Bag

date: 7th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Pitcher

creator: D. &  J. Henderson Flint Stoneware Manufactory

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Purchase, The Marx-Better Foundation Inc. Gift, 2008


title: Jem Smith, Heavy Weight Pugilist of England, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Model Draping

creator: James McNeill Whistler

date: probably 1889

medium: Transfer lithograph, with additions in graphite, printed in black ink on ivory laid paper; only state (Chicago)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Insertion

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: An Elephant and Keeper

medium: Opaque color and gold on paper

credit_line: Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions, Harris Brisbane Dick, and 2020 Benefit Funds; Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Lila Acheson Wallace, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and funds from various donors, 2022


title: The Crucifixion (Round) (reverse copy)

creator: Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Textile Fragment

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Capitol of Virginia in Richmond, from the General Government and State Capitol Buildings series (N14) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Décoration de l'entrée du grand Spéos d'Abousembil (Le Dieu Phré recevant les offrandes de Rhamsès-le-grand)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

date: March 1850

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Bronze horse

date: late 8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Terracotta fragment of a krater (deep bowl)

date: 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan, Faliscan

subjects:
Vase
Etruscan, faliscan


title: Card Number 174, Alma Stuart Stanley, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Jar fragment

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster) (?)

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


title: Chisel ?

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


title: Hairpin

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: "Iskandar in the Presence of the Brahmins", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

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

credit_line: Bequest of Monroe C. Gutman, 1974


title: Demolition of the Old Vestibule of the Palais-Royal, Paris

creator: Pierre Antoine Demachy

medium: Gouache over traces of graphite

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 1984


title: Phaeton (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Colored lithograph. Verso: graphite

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Cap

medium: Tatting

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Collar

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Douglas A. Robbins, 1955


title: Charles II (r. 1660–85)

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Knife

date: late 18th century

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1908


title: Glass hemispherical ribbed bowl

date: late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Small Cabinet and Sword Stand

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

date: probably 1816

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a hydria (water jar)

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Necklace Elements

date: 11th–13th century

credit_line: Purchase, Richard S. Perkins Gift, Rogers Fund, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, and Norbert Schimmel, Jack A. Josephson and Edward Ablat Gifts, 1979


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Autumn Full Moon at Ishiyama

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Swaddling bands

date: 17th century

medium: Linen, drawnwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Bowl

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Necklace

date: probably 19th century

medium: metal, stone

country: Moroccan

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Inrō with the Queen Mother of the West (Seiōbo); Boy with a Peach (reverse)

date: mid- 19th century

medium:
Four cases; lacquered wood with gold, silver, and color (iroko) togidashimaki-e on gold ground
Netsuke: gold takamaki-e chrysanthemums (signed: Shigenori)
Ojime: gold bead with chrysanthemum and butterflies in relief

subjects:
Inrō
Japan
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: Gift of Wilton Lloyd-Smith and his wife, Marjorie Fleming Lloyd-Smith, 1929


title: New-York (From the Southwest)

creator: K. Th. Westermann

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Pitcher

creator: Karl L. H. Müller

medium: Porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Emma and Jay A. Lewis, 1991


title: A Mill

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof

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


title: Bottle vase with dragon

medium: Porcelain with relief decoration (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Mary, Queen of Scots (from "Queenly Women, Crowned and Uncrowned," plate VII)

creator: Eldridge

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: The Month of February: Man Pruning a Tree

creator: Erasmus Hornick

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and black ink over black chalk.

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Gift of Helen J. Baker, 1937


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta statuette of a deer

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1951


title: Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript of Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita

medium: Opaque watercolor on palm leaf

country: India (Bengal) or Bangladesh

subjects:
Painting
India (bengal) or bangladesh
Palms

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Card Number 2, Annie Robe, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) 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: Marketplace of Delft with the Nieuwekerk

creator: Gerrit Toorenburgh

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2006


title: Dr. James Dwight, Lawn Tennis Champion North of England of 1885, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Hanging with flowers

medium: Silk embroidery on silk damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Flowers
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1944


title: Armchair (part of a set of nine)

creator: Aubusson

date: mid-18th century

medium: Carved and painted walnut; Aubusson tapestry upholstery

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Four-legged stool

medium: Carved and gilded walnut, covered in mid-18th century French tapestry with modern silk tasseled fringe

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Cup and Cover

medium: White porcelain with slip relief; decorated with blue under the glaze, polychrome enamels

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Candlestick

date: probably first half 17th century

medium: Gilt bronze, enamel

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Pitcher

creator: Gorham Manufacturing Company

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, William Cullen Bryant Fellows Gifts, 2013


title: Statuette, Osiris

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Lekythos

creator: Haimon Painter

date: 1st quarter of 5th century BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian: Industry and Idleness, plate 2

creator: William Hogarth

date: September 30, 1747

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Pietà

medium: Oak

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Ear Ornament with Granulate Design

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: Animal Locomotion.  An Electro-Photographic Investigation... of Animal Movements.  Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885.  Volume VII, Men and Woman (Draped) Miscellaneous Subjects

creator: Eadweard Muybridge

medium: Photogravures

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Block fragment with cartouche of Akhenaten

medium: yellow quartzite

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Partial coffee service (Déjeuner “Culture et Récolte du cacao”)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

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

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


title: Laminas de las Reflexiones...

creator: Don Domingo Maria de Servidori

medium: plates: engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: St. Andrew, from "Christ and the Apostles"

creator: Lambert Suavius

medium: Engraving; backed with a print by J. A. Fridrich

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


title: Wine cooler (one of a pair)

creator: William Lukin I

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

country: Japan

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Piece

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Silk and metal thread, bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Landscape with view of a village (one of three)

creator: Christoph Murer

date: early 17th century

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass-stained Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Portrait of the Indian Monk Atisha

date: early to mid-12th century

medium: Distemper and gold on cloth

country: Tibet

subjects: Painting Tibet Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1993


title: Tazza

date: 17th century

medium: Colorless (slightly tan) and transparent turquoise blue nonlead glass. Blown, trailed, diamond-point (scratch) engraved.

country: Italian (Venice) or façon de Venise, northern European

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Pedestal

creator: Thomas How

medium: Walnut and walnut veneer, parcel gilt; gilt lead; verre églomisé

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: See 18.2.31

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes: Band or lip cups (drinking cups)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk


title: A partially dressed man holding a bow in his left hand and pointing with his right, from "Figurine"

creator: Salvator Rosa

medium: Etching with drypoint

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Vase with birds and flowers

medium: Porcelain with polychrome enamels over black ground (Jingdezhen ware, famile noire)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Motto Clasp of Sithathoryunet

medium: Gold, carnelian, paste

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Henry Walters Gift, 1916


title: Prick Spur

date: 12th century

medium: Iron alloy

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Danaë

creator: Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Horizontal Panel Design with Four Hybrid Male Figures and a Fantastical Creature Interspersed between Acanthus Rinceaux

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century

date: 17th century (first half)

medium: Pen and brown ink over leadpoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: The Fisherman's Dog

creator: Samuel William Reynolds, the elder

medium: Mezzotint, hand-colored; second state (?)

credit_line: Bequest of Frederick Townsend Martin, 1914


title: Seal paste box with eight horses

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

credit_line: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929


title: Mask

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, paint

country: Probably Umboi or Siassi Islands

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Probably umboi or siassi island

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1972


title: Armet

medium: Steel, leather, brass

country: Italian

subjects: Helmet Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Maffet Ledger: Drawing

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: Dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Antoinette Cole Comstock, 1939


title: Sculptor's model/votive depicting a king and jackal busts

medium: Limestone, red paint traces

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: View of Nero's aqueduct, Rome

creator: Luigi Rossini

medium: Etching


title: Maharao Jajah of Ulwur, India, from the Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers series (N189) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Akasaka

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Leaf from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

date: first edition printed in 1633

medium: Individual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Taiko

creator: Nambuya Keikichi, Tokyo, Asakuja, Kamejima-cho

medium: Wood, hide, metal

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / cylindrical drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Inundated Ruins of a Monastery

creator: Karl Blechen

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor washes, sgrafitto

credit_line: Acquisitions Fund and 2005 Benefit Fund, 2008


title: Gaiters

medium: silk, wool, metal

subjects: Accessory-foot and leg wear-childrenswear

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1920


title: Plate 13: various vendors of pots, brooms, chestnuts, etc., from "Virtù ed Arti Esercitate in Bologna" (Trades of Bologna)

creator: Francesco Curti

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


title: Cup

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Pottery

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Ibis Amulet

medium: Lapis lazuli

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Panel

date: 18th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1905


title: Dinos

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta pointed aryballos

medium: Terracotta, painted

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Placard for Shouxuan Hall

date: 20th century

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Rubbing China

credit_line: Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1977


title: Copper Lime Spoon with Bird Top

medium: Copper

country: Inca

subjects: Metal-implement Inca Birds

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


title: Hair jewelry

medium: metal

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Mary Turlay Robinson, 1946


title: The Desperate Man

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Etching

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Brush

date: 16th century

medium: Leather, wood; vegetal bristles

credit_line: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1951


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Ejiri

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, punto avorio, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: A man and woman speaking on the street

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

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

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Plate 30 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Ravages of War' (Estragos de la guerra)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, drypoint, burin, burnisher

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Virgin and Child

medium: Limestone with traces of paint

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917


title: On ne s'avise jamais du tout, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine.  A Paris, de l'imprimerie de  P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

creator: Jean-Baptiste Patas

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Henry Miller as Spanish Peasant, from the set Actors and Actresses, Second Series (N71) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Gauntlet Sword (<i>Pata</i>)

date: hilt, dated  A.H. 1126 /1714–15 CE; blade, probably 16th century

medium: Steel, gold, textile

country: hilt, Indian; blade, European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sword
Hilt, indian; blade, european

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

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


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: mid-1st–early 2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Traveling watch

creator: Isaac Rogers

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Kannondo, Abuto, Bingo Province, from the series Views of Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Box

medium: Wood, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Finally! Here comes the train, from 'People on the train,' published in Le Charivari, February 1, 1865

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Side Chair

medium: Painted maple, pine; crewel wool, linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1946


title: Offering table, titulary of queen

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: [Summer residence (Qasr) of the Shah, Emarat-e xoruji, Teheran, Iran]

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Photographs

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


title: Gorges d'Ollioules

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative?

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


title: Funnel

medium: Blown pattern-molded non-lead glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Three Miracles of Saint Zenobius

creator: Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

medium: Tempera on wood

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1911


title: Inlay

medium: Shell

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Fiori di Ricami Nuovamente Posti in Luce, page 4 (recto)

creator: Matteo Florimi

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Inkstand

date: late 18th century

medium: Sheffield plate


title: Monteith (seau crennelé) (one of two) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Beaker

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Bookplate inscribed "William Hogarth"

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Bird

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

subjects: Birds Ceramics-porcelain

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Agate

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Opinions Respecting The Young Roscius

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 24, 1804

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Earring with disc, suspended grapes

medium: Gold, garnet

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: What if I don't get re-elected!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, March 3, 1869

medium: Lithograph and pen and brown ink on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Kosode

medium: Resist-dyed large-scale patterns

country: Japan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

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


title: Female personification of Hope looking up with hands held together and left shoulder exposed, in an oval frame, after Reni

creator: Giovanni Buonafede

credit_line: Gift of Alice C. Taft, Hope Smith, Marianna F. Taft, Helen Head, and Brockholst M. Smith, 1945


title: Deer Foot, North American Chief, from the Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers series (N189) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Saltcellar

medium: Blown pattern-molded lead glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Crown with dangles

creator: Vicús artist(s)

date: 100 BCE–500 CE

medium: Gilded copper

country: Vicús (?)

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Dress

medium: Cotton, metal wrapped thread; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Alan L. Wolfe, 1956


title: Jérusalem, Saint-Sépulcre, Face Ouest, Rue du Patriarche

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a plaque?

country: Greek, Attic


title: Bill Kuehne, 3rd Base, Pittsburgh, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Tunic Fragment

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Rockaway #3375

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Dawn

creator: Gaspare Diziani

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Portrait of Bartholomeus Spranger

creator: Jan Muller

medium: Engraving; New Holl.'s fourth state of seven

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick, Rogers, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Funds, by exchange, 1969


title: Seal

medium: Silver, precious and semi-precious stones

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Peru, from the International Cards series (N238), issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Pietà (Vesperbild)

medium: Poplar and plaster with paint and gilding

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Galloon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Arabia, 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: Glass Fragment

date: 15th century

medium: Pot metal glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Turtle as a Votive Mehen Game

medium: Serpentinite

credit_line: Gift of Alice Hampshire Silver, 1961


title: Gimp

date: mid-19th century

medium: Silk


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Mirror

medium: Bronze

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, cypriot

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


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 G. J. Nembach, 1957


date: 1st quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Engraved Celt

medium: Nephrite, pale green with broad band of brown and black staining.

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Adriaen van de Venne

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of five

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Watch in the form of a Lesser George

creator: Nicholas Vallin

medium: Case and dial: gold, partly enameled; movement: gilded brass and steel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Head of a Bodhisattva

medium: Earthenware with green glaze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Rattle, Whistle, and Bells

creator: Richard Van Dyck

medium: Silver and coral

subjects:
American
Corals & anemones


title: Chess Piece, Pawn or Backgammon Piece

date: probably 11th–12th century

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1967


title: Glass Fragment

medium: Colorless glass


title: Brougham #4041

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Marble Decorative Panels

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Marble

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Sculpture-architectural
Byzantine

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Engraving of a Wheellock Pistol

creator: Philippe Daubigny

date: dated 1635

medium: Ink, paper

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Work on paper-print
French, pari

credit_line: Purchase, Gift in Memory of Herbert G. Houze, 2025


title: Saucer (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Parrot Komachi

creator: Chōbunsai Eishi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Creampot

creator: Elias Davis

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Vue du Village d'Edfou

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Original Woodblocks for the Servants of the Dragon King of the Sea: Fish and Shells (Tatsu no miyatsuko gyokai fu) 草花略画式

creator: Kuwagata Keisai 鍬形蕙斎

medium: Four woodblocks for printed books

subjects:
Fish
Woodblock
Japan
Shells & molluscs

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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Tile with Niche Design

date: early 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Knife Box

creator: Lewis Fueter

medium: Mahogany, mahogany veneer, white pine, tulip poplar

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1954


title: Shawl

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Florence Inniss, 1970


title: Dagger (Katar)

medium: Cast iron

country: Indian

subjects: Dagger Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Three Children with a Fruit Plate

creator: Gabriel Huquier

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Fruits

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


title: Hirame and Mebaru Fish with Cherry Blossoms, from the series Uozukushi (Every Variety of Fish)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

subjects: Fish Print Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Holme, 1980


title: Shame (from the series A Love)

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching and aquatint; third edition; state five of seven

credit_line: Gift of Dr. F. H. Hirschland, 1952


title: Mythological Subject

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, washed with pink

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Terracotta fragment of a bolsal (cup)

date: late 5th century BCE


title: Gold Weight: Chief with Attendant

creator: Yoruba artist

date: 19th century

medium: Brass

country: Yoruba peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Yoruba people

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, 1991


title: Landscape dedicated to Xiang Yuanbian

creator: Wen Jia

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

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


title: Herdsman and his Flock

date: second half of 12th century

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1976


title: Watch with chain

creator: John Wilter

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


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Les Deux Pantalons se Tournant le Dos (Two Men in Pantsuits Turned Away from Each Other), from Les Caprices Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Fringe

medium: Cotton and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: S. Maximilien, évêque (St. Maximilian, Bishop), October 12th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Actress wearing blue and yellow unstructured hat, from Stars of the Stage, Fourth Series (N132) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Shoki with Wide Hat and Sword

medium: Lacquer, wakasa nuri, mottled ground, gold and silver hiramakie, raden; Interior: roiro and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Harness or bridle ornament or fitting (?)

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

subjects:
Ornament & design
Iran

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


title: Design for a Theatrum Sacrum

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

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

subjects: Drawing Roses

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972


title: Mandala in Sanskrit with Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Eight Patriarchs of the Shingon Sect

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink, colors, and gold on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Sue Cassidy Clark Gift, in memory of Koichi Yanagi, 2024


title: Bronze astragalus (knucklebone)

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

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Bronze
Greek or roman

credit_line: Museum Accession


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

date: 16th century

medium: Iron, lacquer

country: Japanese

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of a plemochoe (vase for perfume)?

date: second half of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Tassel

medium: Metal thread


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese


title: Cybele Prevents Turnus from Setting Fire to the Trojan Fleet by Transforming the Ships into Sea Goddesses

creator: Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white.

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1981


title: Square Pyramidal Bell

date: 6th–7th century (?)

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Illustrated "Anthology of Tang-Dynasty Poems" in Five-Syllable Lines (Tōshisen ehon gogon ritsu hairitsu) 画本唐詩選五言律排律

creator: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

date: 1836, ninth month (Tenpō 7)

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

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Panel Fragment

date: mid to late 19th century

medium: Cotton

country: Javanese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Javanese
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Jar (Tsubo) with Landscape and Figures

medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Arita type)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan Landscapes

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: Ink Tablet Decorated with Emblems of Investiture

creator: Fang Yulu

date: dated 1576

medium: Pine soot and binding medium

country: China

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Life of P.T. Barnum, from the Histories of Poor Boys and Famous People series of booklets (N79) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Lappets

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Study of a standing woman with a sitting man; study of a resting artist

creator: François-Claudius Compte-Calix

medium: Graphite

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


title: Llama, from the Quadrupeds series (N21) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Mammals

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a hydria (water jar)

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Emperor Charles V (1500–58, r. 1519–58)

creator: Hans Reinhart the Elder

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: Piece (one of 116)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Large Ball Bead

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Large drinking vessel

creator: Brooklyn Flint Glass Company

medium: Glass

country: American

subjects:
American
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, by exchange, 2015


title: Scarab of an Official

medium: Green faience

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


title: Lunar Law, No. 2

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching; fourth state of six

subjects: Astronomy Print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Teabowl (part of a service)

creator: Caughley Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

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


title: The miracle of the bitter water made sweet (Il Miracolo delle Acque Amare Mutate in Dolci)

creator: Pietro Monaco

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Hab.t de la Suisse, from the playing cards (for quartets) "Costumes des Peuples Étrangers"

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Mottled olive feldspar

country: Assyro-Babylonian

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


title: Kurile Man

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Earflare

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Inkstand (écritoire)

creator: Villeroy

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze mounts

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


title: Bronze mirror

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Arcade in the Balustrade (Stage Setting?)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: La Nonne blanche

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Card 6, John Flood, from the Prizefighters series (N269) issued by P. Lorillard Company to promote Mechanics Delight Long Cut Tobacco

creator: P. Lorillard Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Studies: Figure Holding a Candlestand, Woman with Left Arm Extended, Head Looking Down towards the Right, Kneeling Woman

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk


title: View of the Courtyard of the Castle at Döben

creator: Carl Gustav Carus

medium: Graphite and brush and brown wash

credit_line: Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2008


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: Linen Chest Reused as a Child's Coffin

medium: Wood, whitewash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching, engraving, and drypoint; second of six states

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Pratt, 1957


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Strip

date: 17th century (?)

medium: Needle lace, punto in aria

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3830

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Ste. Patrice, évêque d'Irelande (St. Patrick, Bishop of Ireland), March 17th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Japanese Drawing

medium: On paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of John Achelis, 1907


title: Glass jug

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Female Figure

date: 500 BCE–250 CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Xochipala

subjects: Xochipala Ceramics-sculpture

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: A Reconstruction of the Aurelian Temple of the Sun (above) and a View of the Ruins (below)

creator: Jan Goeree

date: before 1704

medium: Pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray wash, traces of red chalk; incised

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Helen and János Scholz, 1958


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


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: Ancient-style plaquette of Diana

date: 15th century

medium: Bronze


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)?


title: [Place of imprisonment for Emperor Maxmilian of Mexico and soldiers]

creator: François Aubert

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: [Woman in Regional Dress, Seen From Front and Back]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver prints

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 2023


title: Sweetmeat dish

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Wreath fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Hakuba no Sechie

creator: Kitao Shigemasa

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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: Cuirass of a <i>Haramaki</i>

medium: Iron, lacquer, leather, silk, gilt copper

subjects:
Armor part
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


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

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Beardless male head wearing a helmet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Bouillon cup with cover

creator: Paul Hannong

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

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


title: A Duck

creator: Aert Schouman

date: mid-17th–late 17th century

medium: Watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Purchase, Renée Sacks Bequest, 2004


title: Design for a Chair Back Cover with an Oval-Shaped Ornamental Frame with a Kneeling Woman and a Playful Putto Surrounded by Garlands of Leaves and Flowers and Scrolling Acanthus Leaves Inside a Larger Ornamental Frame

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing
Flowers

credit_line: Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Box with cover

medium: Sprinkled gold on lacquer (maki-e)

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1910


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Pib-be-gwun or Siyontanka

medium: Wood, skin

country: Native American (Chippewa or Ojibwa)

subjects: Aerophone-blow hole-end-blown flute (vertical)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Livret Emblemes de maistre Andre Alciati

creator: Andrea Alciato

medium: woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Aesop

creator: Pierre I Legros

date: late 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2004


title: Roundel with Killing of the Ox (December)

date: early 16th century

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: North Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
North netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1970


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

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Buckle (replica) for beadwork apron

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Mirror

medium: Glass, silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1944


title: Panel

date: 13th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

date: second half of 8th–6th century BCE

medium: Brown Chalcedony (Quartz), possibly etched to produce yellow mottling

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace


title: Bowl

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, splashed and applied reddish brown glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 1961


title: Lappet

date: 18th century (?)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Ring, inscribed

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Belt Plate

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Iron, silver inlay

country: Frankish or Burgundian

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
Frankish or burgundian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Dos-a-Dos Phaeton #3596

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: [Portrait of an Elderly Woman]

creator: Franz Antoine

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1948