title: Dress

creator: Maison Vignon

medium: silk

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Louis G. Smith, 1940


title: Jacket

date: early 16th century

medium: silk, metallic thread

country: Italian

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: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Debates on Palmistry

creator: Joseph Haynes

date: February 1, 1782

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Winter

creator: Battista Angolo del Moro

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


title: Design for Landau, No. 3089

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: An Artist Drawing on Wall of a Church Watched by a Crowd

creator: Frederic, Lord Leighton

medium: Brush and India ink wash over graphite

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1942


title: L'Homme Vu de Dos, La Main Droite Tendue (Man Viewed from Behind, Right Hand Extended), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Clarence #3263


title: Mlle. Theirese, Paris, 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: Stockings

date: early 19th century

medium: wool

country: British

credit_line: Gift of the family of Thomas Coutts, 1908


title: Stone votive relief of male genitalia

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cypriot

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


title: Beaker with Fish Motifs

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Glass, colorless with yellow tinge; blown, applied ring foot, enameled and gilded

subjects: Fish Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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: Dish

date: 16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted and glazed

credit_line: Purchase, Louis E. Seley Gift, 1971


title: Mask (Sōmen)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, lacquer

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Broadside with 48 scenes depicting scenes from the life of a fool and wise man

creator: José María Marés

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Fringe

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Juniper Tree, Fontainbleu

creator: Eugène Stanislas Alexandre Bléry

subjects: Print Trees

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


title: Grotesque Head With a Large Ear and an Open Mouth Looking to the Right Within a Circle

creator: Gaetano Piccini

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1960


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

date: late sixth century BCE


title: Studies of Figures

creator: Antonio Busca

medium: Black and white chalk on gray paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2016


title: Tondo frame

medium: Single piece of walnut.

country: Italian, Florence

subjects:
Frame
Italian, florence

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: T. Cook, from the Sea Captains series (N127) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Miniature Dress

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


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

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Imperial Double Eagle with the Coat of Arms of Ingolstadt, Freiburg, and Tübingen, from Joan. Eckii Theologi in summulas Petri Hispani extemporaria et succincta atque succosa explanatio p[ro] sup[er] ioris Germaniae scholasticis

creator: Hans Burgkmair

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Bowls with Repeating Inscription, "Blessing"

date: late 9th–early 10th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Spoon

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Plaque with the Adoration of Trinity

date: 15th century

medium: Boxwood

country: Spanish

subjects: Sculpture-miniature-wood Spanish


title: Fragment of a Window

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Plaster; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Fidelity, the Mother of Constant Love

creator: Augustin Pajou

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of J. Pierpont Morgan and Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1986


title: Studio d'architettura civile

creator: Filippo Vasconi

credit_line: Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 1986


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Flight into Egypt

creator: Jean Bein

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Tea Jar

date: 17th century

medium: Clay with glaze (Satsuma ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Brush and brown and green wash, gouache, over graphite

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


title: Vase with figures in a landscape

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

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Watch

creator: Firm of Perigal and Duterau

medium: Gold and enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Żaqq

medium: Cane, animal skin, cattle horn

country: Maltese

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-bagpipe
Maltese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Carnelian intaglio: Sol in a quadriga (four-horse chariot)

date: 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Carnelian

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Calligraphy

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 17th century or later

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

subjects: Calligraphy China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Ida, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) 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: Water Carafe

medium: Blown non-lead glass

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: "Rudaba Makes a Ladder of Her Tresses", Folio 72v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1970


title: Bottle

date: 19th century, after late 17th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Boutonnière

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Cyril Andrade, 1924


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Page of Calligraphy from an Anthology of Poetry by Sa`di and Hafiz

creator: Sa'di

date: late 15th century

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

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Palazzo dei Conservatori, portico, plan; façade cornice, elevation; minor order, cornice; column, elevation; pedestal, elevation (recto); Palazzo dei Conservatori, portal, elevation; section (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Spoon

creator: Ebenezer Chittenden

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Silver Statuette of St. Matthew from the Wittenberg Reliquaries

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1940


title: Standing Buddha

date: early 9th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Sculpture Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Alexander "Colonel" Ferson, Pitcher, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Table fork and knife

date: 18th century

medium: Steel, silver

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Textile Design with a Network of Circles with Pearls in the Middle

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Mary, helped by Joseph and an angel, stepping from a boat to the shore, an angel steadies a donkey before her, from "The Flight into Egypt"

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Figure Dish

creator: McKee and Brothers

medium: Pressed opaque white glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two drawings: (a): Salon Chimney, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Elevation; (b): Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk

creator: Isaac Ware

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th century/early 5th century

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Washer

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Bronze

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Pasquariello Truonno - Meo Squaquara, from "Balli di Sfessania" (Dance of Sfessania)

creator: Jacques Callot

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Game Pieces

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund


title: Le Charivari, March 16, 1854–December 31, 1857

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: March 16, 1854–December 31, 1857

medium: Lithographs and wood engravings

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1952


title: D'Orsay #4183

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Odawara

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Book-shaped snuffbox

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; molded, incised, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Piece (one of 116)

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Songs of Innocence: Laughing Song

creator: William Blake

medium: Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold

subjects:
Print
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Card Number 124, Ida Mulle, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Wall casing

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Dish

medium: White porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels (Arita ware)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Chancel of Trinity Chapel, New York

creator: John William Hill

medium: Watercolor, gouache, black ink, graphite, and gum arabic on off-white wove paper

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


title: Dagger (Katar)

medium: Steel

country: Indian, Thanjavur; blade, Spanish

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, thanjavur; blade, spanish

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Micrographic Design in the Shape of a Pair of Glasses

creator: Anonymous

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and black and brown ink.

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Crochet Work

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace


title: Asile impériale de Vincennes: la bibliothèque

creator: Charles Nègre

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Plate

date: ca. 1st century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Nabataean

credit_line: Gift of the American Expedition to Petra, 1967


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Pair of mugs

creator: Samuel Howitt

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Plate

creator: Meissen Manufactory

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


title: La Chemise

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Laura Fonta; Petipa

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

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


title: Valance

date: 17th century

medium: Silk and metallic thread embroidery on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Charles A. Greenfield, 1977


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: [Study for "Two Ways of Life"]

creator: Oscar Gustav Rejlander

medium: Gelatin silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1988


title: Two bronze spirals

medium: Bronze

country: Minoan

subjects: Bronze Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


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: Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji

creator: Tosa School

medium: Shikishi (poetry cards) mounted in an orihon album; calligraphies: ink on decorated paper; paintings: ink, color, and gold on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2018


title: Undersleeves

medium: cotton

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Kyoto Costume Institute Gift, 1979


title: Sunk relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Wine taster

creator: François-Isaac Balduc

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone, varnish


title: Merenorth House, in the County of Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

creator: Richard Bernard Godfrey

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bonnie and Manuel Schonhorn, 2014


title: Side Panel of a Crupper

medium: Steel

country: German

subjects:
Armor for horse
German

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


title: Ring

medium: Gold

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


title: Bonnet

medium: Silk, linen, straw

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: William Tilden Blodgett

creator: John Quincy Adams Ward

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Quincy Adams Ward, 1910


title: Vase

creator: Chelsea Keramic Art Works

medium: Probably earthenware

credit_line: Purchase, The Edgar J. Kaufmann Foundation Gift, 1969


title: Death of the Virgin

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Plate

creator: Joseph Flower

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


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: Galatea on her Chariot drawn by Dolphins

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

medium: Pen and brown ink, over preliminary drawing made in black chalk

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


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

date: 520 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Drapery Study for "Castor and Pollux Freeing Helen"

creator: Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon

medium: Black chalk, stumping, white chalk, and black crayon on buff laid paper

credit_line: Purchase, Renée Sacks Bequest, 2005


title: Tunic

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton, silk; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Mildred Barnes Bliss, 1943


title: Plate (one of a set of twelve)

creator: Thomas Farren

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 3 (verso)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Soup Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Picture Book of the Pleasures of the East (Ehon azuma asobi) 画本東都遊

creator: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

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

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Imperial robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-tapestrie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: President of Mexico, from World's Sovereigns series (N34) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Saltcellar

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Embroidered sampler

medium: Silk on linen

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


title: King of Spain, from World's Sovereigns series (N34) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Faceted Stone

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Carpet

medium: Wool, cotton, and silver mtal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Rebecca and Richard Lindsey Gift, 2006


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved


title: Paperweight

medium: Nephrite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Marco and Carlo: Caricature of Two Men Standing Face to Face

creator: Pier Leone Ghezzi

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, over leadpoint or graphite

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2006


title: Drum

medium: Wood, skin

country: South America, British Guyana

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / cylindrical drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Standing female figurine

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio. Ne'quale dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini (Book 2, page 19)

creator: Andrea Palladio

medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Taweret Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Screen

medium: Five-panel folding screen; lacquer on wood, colors and gold

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Scammell, 1970


title: Box

creator: Johann Christian Sick

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family; Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts and The Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation Inc. Gifts; Rogers Fund; and Cynthia and Steven Brill, Werwaiss Family Charitable Trust, and Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gifts, 2005


title: Pharmacy Jar

date: second half 15th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Famous Themes for Painting Study Known as “The Garden of Painting” (Gaen)

creator: Kano Tan'yū

medium: One of a pair of handscrolls; ink on paper

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: Osobuki

medium: Bamboo

country: Japanese


title: Fragments of Splashed Ceramic

date: 9th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Nemesis in the form of a griffin

date: ca. 1st–3rd century CE

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Zanze

medium: Wood

country: probably Cameroonian

subjects:
Idiophone-plucked / depressed
Probably cameroonian


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Coffin of Khnumnakht

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Medal

medium: Gold

credit_line: Purchase, Susan and Jon Rotenstreich Gift, 2000


title: Design for T-Cart, no. 3118

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Five Rulers at the New Year's Reception

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Leon A. "Lee" Viau, Pitcher, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Design for a Lavish Headdress with Feathers

creator: Baccio del Bianco

medium: Blue gouache or watercolor heightend with white

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


title: [Untitled]

creator: Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2024


title: Helmet of Mail and Plate

date: probably 17th–18th century

medium: Steel

country: Indian

subjects: Helmet Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Club

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Stone-implement Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Shawl

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Erna Obermeier, 1977


title: Weighted Fastener

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

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Miniature Tunic

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Jardinière

creator: Fidelle Duvivier

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)


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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Cross

medium: Champlevé enamel, copper

country: North Spanish or French

subjects:
North spanish or french
Enamels-champlevé


title: Drawings of the Zodiac

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and purple wash.  Framing lines in purple and red inks.

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1953


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Hinge

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1949


title: Tile

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Gift of Ginsberg & Levy, 1921


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: An allegorical scene; a young woman at centre holding a wreath above her head, at left is a old man leaning on a stick, a younger man at right who holds a small dragon

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1929


title: Ensign with flag

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Jar

medium: Glass; blown

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Balamuth, 1968


title: John F. Roach, Pitcher, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Teapot in the form of a cauliflower

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

creator: Brygan

date: 5th century BCE


title: The Adoration of the Magi

creator: Valerio Belli (Il Vicentino)

medium: Gilt bronze

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


title: Lamp

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip under turquoise glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Fragment

date: mid-18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Textile with Confronted Parrots and Conventional Foliage

medium: Silk, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
German
Textiles-woven-brocade

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Coupé #3161

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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


title: Seated Four-Armed Ganesha

date: late 12th–13th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: India (Tamil Nadu)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (tamil nadu)

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


title: Caricatured figure from Siam, 1/4 Tikal, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 1) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Pendants, nail head, from earrings

medium: Silver

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Bowl

medium: Earthenware; white slip with polychrome slip decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Butterfly amulet

medium: Silver, carnelian, faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, for Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tales of Mystery and the Imagination,” Chicago, 1895–96

creator: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

medium: Pen, brush and India ink over graphite

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020


title: Edwin Bibby, Wrestler, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Statuette of Osiris with the epithets Neb Ankh and Khentyimentiu, donated by Padihorpare

medium: Cupreous metal, gold leaf

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1956


title: Moses Showing the Quails to the Israelites

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: [St. James Church, Delhi]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d'Argentan, linen

credit_line: Gift of The Lady Reigate, in memory of her mother, Mrs. William Redmond Cross, 1979


title: Festive Green Parrot, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Funerary Cone of the Fourth Prophet of Amun Mentuemhat

medium: Pottery


title: Mediterranean Sea - Sète

creator: Gustave Le Gray

medium: Albumen silver print from two glass negatives

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


title: Jar

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic, glaze

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Eva Rohr

creator: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

medium: Marble

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Allan H. Smith, 1990


title: Girdle buckle

medium: Nephrite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Le petit Russe

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Slippers

creator: Melnotte

medium: Leather

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Herman Delman, 1954


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Ladle

medium: Wood, horn

country: Tlingit

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


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 63 (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Crabs and Reeds

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Crustaceans

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


title: Candlestick with Shade

medium: Sheffield silver plate, glass

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


title: Minerva

creator: Johann Christian Wilhelm Beyer

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Glass cinerary urn with lid

date: 1st–early 2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1920


title: Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress

date: 12th–early 13th century

medium: Gypsum plaster; modeled, carved, polychrome-painted, gilded

credit_line: Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Plate

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted in black under turquoise glaze

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


title: Women Being Abducted by Two Men with Fallen Figure Beneath (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: ink, paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Charlie Sprague, Pitcher, Chicago, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card

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


creator: Antiphon Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Banner (one of a pair)

medium: Silk, gold;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Ballantine, 1947


title: Bronze steelyard and weights

date: 4th–6th century CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1900


title: Vinaigrette

creator: John Lawrence & Co.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Herbert K. Reis, in memory of Rose-Frances K. Reis (Mrs. Ralph A. Reis), 1983


title: View of Vaux-Le-Vicomte

creator: Adam Perelle

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Actress from the Old Judge series (N167) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Head of an Angel (?)

medium: Limestone, paint

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: Purchase, Michel David-Weill Gift, 1990


title: Plaque with dragon, pheasant, quail, and other birds amidst bamboo and plum blossom

date: late 19th century

medium: Ivory with pigment

subjects: Ivorie China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Florence A. Schilling, in memory of Ernest J. Schilling, 1963


title: Gold Buckle

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Plaque: gold - sheet; wire - beaded; granulation. Tongue: gold - sheet; setting. Loop: gold.

country: Langobardic or Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-gold
Langobardic or byzantine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Fountain

date: 13th century

medium: Pink marble

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and Gift of George Grey Barnard, 1926


title: The Actor Tohimura Kamezo as a Warrior

creator: Torii Kiyohiro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Bowl

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Glass, enameled

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Blackwork Print with Four Ring Bezel Combined with C-Scrolls and Insects

creator: Hans de Bull

medium: Blackwork engraving

subjects: Print Insects

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


date: 5th century BCE


title: A Long Story

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: 1803 (reissued after 1821)

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Partial Shu Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Textile with Beast and Geometric Designs

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Silk, hemp, and tin, gilt

country: German (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
German
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Two-handled bowl with cover

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Panel ornament (part of a set)

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Frieze fragment

medium: Wood, painted gray


title: Plate Six from Nouveavx Desseins D’Arquebvseries

creator: Gilles Demarteau

date: dated 1749

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Work on paper-engraving
French

credit_line: Purchase, Michael H. Pourfar Gift, 2016


title: Trois Amours soutenant une draperie (Three Loves Holding a Drapery), from Premier Livre de Groupes d'Enfans (First Book of Groups of Children)

creator: Pierre Alexandre Aveline

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Study for "Hob's Defence," etched vignette in "Songs in the Opera of Flora"

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

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

subjects: Botany Drawing

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: A Congress of Animals

creator: Giovanni Francesco Castiglione

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Pyxis fragment

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Brennus, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Robert Gilmor Sr.

creator: Robert Field

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Southern German Landscape

creator: Otto Friedrich Magnus Count Baudissin

medium: Pen and black ink over graphite

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2006


title: Tufa head of sphinx or siren

medium: Tufa

country: Etruscan, probably Vulcian

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Etruscan, probably vulcian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Cypriote ring based juglet

medium: Pottery, black ware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Ishibe

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Painter of Munich 2335

date: ca. 430 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Textile

date: 10th–11th century

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Byzantine
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Key

medium: Iron


title: Prima Parte de' Fiori, e Disegni di varie sorti di Ricami Moderni, page 10 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista Ciotti

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Pottery Whistle

medium: Clay

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Mexican

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: [Autumn Scene with People on Lawn near Cottage]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hershkowitz, in memory of Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr., 1987


title: Benjamin Lincoln

creator: James Peale

credit_line: Gift of J. William Middendorf II, 1968


title: Mirror

date: 18th century

medium: Jade

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Miniature figure of a parakeet

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Bell

medium: Copper

country: Peruvian

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper Peruvian


title: Marble grave stele of Demetrios

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Marble

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Greek, cypriot

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


title: Saint Catherine of Siena

creator: Anonymous

date: mid-16th–mid-17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Half Mask (Menpō)

medium: Iron, lacquer, leather

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Jug

medium: Stoneware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1944


title: Bangle with Wide raised Flange

date: 300 BCE–CE 400

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Mitre

date: 13th century

medium: Silk & metal thread, silver gilt & coral

country: Austrian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Austrian
Corals & anemones
Textiles-dyed

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1953


title: Button

date: 57 BCE–935 CE

medium: bronze

country: Korean

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Eau-sucrée spoon

date: second half 18th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Glass bowl

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917


title: Burnishing tool, goldsmith's

date: ca. 1st–4th century CE

medium: Bronze or copper alloy, bone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


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

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: Ring Fragment with Cartouche of Amenhotep III

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Schön Neues Modelbuch (Page 22 recto)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Edging

date: late 18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Ralph Temple, Cyclist, Champion Trick Rider, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial lithograph

subjects: Architecture Print

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


title: Armchair (one of a pair)

medium: Walnut, cane

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Giangiacomo Trivulzio 1441–1518, Marshal of France 1499, Marquis of Vigevano

creator: Caradosso (Cristoforo Caradosso Foppa)

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


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 4186

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Canopic jar lid with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Comforts of Bath, Plate 4

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 6, 1798

medium: Etching

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


title: Looking Glass

creator: Isaac Platt

medium: Glass, gesso

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Bretter, 1979


title: Border

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum, 1953


title: Bellows, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 4) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Covered jar with handles

date: late 17th–early 18th century

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

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Mary, Queen of Scots

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Emma Chester, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 3) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Glass bottle shaped like a date

date: mid-1st–early 2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Jar, miniature

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Bow

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Card Number 28, Miss Brum, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Flask-shaped bottle

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Stoneware with iron-black glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Purchase, Parnassus Foundation/Jane and Raphael Bernstein Gift, 2004


title: Card Number 112, Theo, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

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


title: Portrait

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Red chalk on light tan paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: The Three Graces

creator: J.P. Meillier et Cie

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Otter, from Quadrupeds series (N41) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

subjects: Print Mammals


title: William Robertson (1753–1835), Lord Robertson

creator: Sir Henry Raeburn

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 15th–12th century BCE

medium: Steatite

country: Cypriot

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


title: Tassel

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: Two Pair of Portraits, presented to all the unbiased Electors of Great Britain by John Horne Tooke

creator: James Gillray

date: December 1, 1798

medium: Etching with engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Seated Bishop

creator: Tilman Riemenschneider

medium: Limewood and gray-black stain

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1970


title: Piece

date: 19th century


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Faience Ushabti

date: 7th- 6th century BCE

medium: Faience

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Cypriot


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Linen, wool

country: Coptic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

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


title: Sample

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Gift of F.J. Schaetzel, 1919


title: Modern Elegance, a Portrait

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Gauntlet for the Right Hand

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Italian
Armor parts-gauntlet

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


title: Governor Lee, Virginia, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-2), issued by Duke Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, buffware

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1977


title: Engaged Capital

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Grotesque Borders for Rooms & Halls

date: [November 20, 1800], reprint

medium: Hand-colored etching; reprint

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


title: (Manufacturer's Catalogue of furniture mounts, candelabra, etc.)

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Whorl-Shaped Brooch

medium: Copper alloy, gilding, niello, garnet

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-copper Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: William III Prince of Orange

creator: Peter van Abeele

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2003


title: Bridge of Augustus at Nani

creator: Jane Martha St. John

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Jug

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Wineglass

medium: Colorless (slightly gray) nonlead glass. Blown.

country: Italian (Venice)

subjects:
Glass
Italian (venice)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Incense Burner with Dragon Spout

date: 1st–3rd century

medium: Bronze

country: Vietnam

subjects: Metalwork Vietnam

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


title: Sinking!, from the Magic Changing Cards series (N223) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company

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


title: Panel with the Lamentation

date: early 16th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1950


title: Miniature knife

creator: George Manjoy

date: late 17th century

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


title: Poems

creator: Zhang Qihou

date: dated 1934

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

subjects: Calligraphy China

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1995


title: Mystic Chase of the Unicorn

date: late 15th century

medium: Brass

subjects: Metalwork-brass German

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Study of a Château

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: The J.B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1951


title: [Group of 11 Early Stereograph Views of British Landscapes]

creator: Westley's Cheltenham Library

medium: Albumen silver prints

subjects: Photograph Landscapes

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


title: Fragment of an Epigraphic Frieze

date: 10th century

medium: Plaster; molded and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Fishing for Roach

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


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

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Rape of a Sabine Woman

creator: Andrea Andreani

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in gray-brown

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Design for a Clock with Two Cherubs

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, and gouache

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


title: Commemorating Marriage at Whitehall of William II, Prince of Orange-Nassau and Mary, Princess Royal of England, 1641

creator: Johann Blum

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: Caster

creator: Samuel Johnson

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, in memory of the families of John L. Riker and Jonathan Amory Haskell, 1940


title: Bowl

date: ca. mid-2nd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic, paint

credit_line: Gift of Jerome M. Eisenberg, 1963


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Coronation of Victoria

creator: Benedetto Pistrucci

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2000


title: The Elephant Rock

creator: Linnaeus Tripe

date: January–February 1858

medium: Albumen silver print from waxed paper negative

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


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Square Tray with Recessed Medallion

date: early 13th century

medium: Brass; hammered, engraved, inlaid with silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Miss Bie, from the Actresses series (N246), Type 1, issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sporting Extra Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Yoshizawa Iroha as a Woman Standing on the Engawa of a House by a River

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Gustavus III, King of Sweden (b. 1746, r. 1771–92) and Louise Ulrika, his mother (1720–1782), as founders of the Swedish Academy

creator: Carl Gustaf Fehrman

credit_line: Gift of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History & Antiques, 1966


title: Shrine of Saint Patrick's Gospels

date: early 20th century (original dated 1080–1100)

medium: Bronze, gilded bronze, enamel and gem stones

country: Irish

subjects:
Irish
Minerals & gems
Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Furniture plaque: deer

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ivory (hippopotamus)

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, in memory of George D. Pratt, 1936


title: Page of Calligraphy from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

credit_line: Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1985


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: Fragment of a terracotta architectural tile

date: 6th century BCE

country: Lydian

subjects: Architecture Terracotta Lydian

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


title: Spindle

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: The Pledge of Love

creator: Jean Mathieu

medium: Etching; first state of three

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


title: Costume Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Peru; central coast

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


title: Samos, from Flags of All Nations, Series 2 (N10) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Card Number 150, Lizzie Evans, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Maiden head spoon

date: 17th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Buckle

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Bronze, gold, patina

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Diadem

date: 4th–2nd century BCE

medium: Gold, glass, carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Bottle cooler (seau à bouteille) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Man Dreaming

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithographic crayon

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Max J.H. Rossbach, 1964


title: Edward James "Big Ed" Delahanty, 2nd Base, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Fulham (Chelsea)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on ivory wove paper, from cancelled plate; after fifth state of five (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Pair of candlesticks

creator: Bartholomew Stokes

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Ogden Livingston Mills, 1937


title: Venus and Cupid, two other goddesses and a putto, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Ulysses Gallery (destroyed 1738–39) at Fontainebleau

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

medium: Engraving

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


title: St. Peter, from "Les Grands Apôtres Debout, Représentant Le Sauveur, La Bienheureuse Marie et Les Saints Apôtres" (The Large Standing Apostles, Representing The Savior, The Blessed Mary and The Apostles)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Vase

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain with copper red glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), French painter

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

date: 19th century

medium: Bronze, brown patina, hollow cast

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: Bed curtain border

medium: Linen, metallic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Actor

creator: Mennecy

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Lady with a Dog

creator: Mather Brown

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, The Bertram F. and Susie Brummer Foundation Inc. Gift, 1964


title: Wax model for the bust of a child

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Wax

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Arrowhead

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Iron

country: Iran

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


title: Tab Ornament

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Salinar (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Salinar

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


title: Scarab

medium: Beryl

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Console

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stine with traces of brick, mortar, and metal

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Tile

creator: Guy Green

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed  paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Brick with Elamite royal building inscription

medium: Ceramic, glaze

country: Elamite

credit_line: Gift of Nasli Heeramaneck, 1950


title: Hunting Horn in D

creator: Jacob Schmidt

medium: Brass

country: German

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Groat of Henry VII (1485–1509)

date: early 16th century

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2001


title: Palanquin Ring with a Demon Battling a Horse

date: ca. early 13th century

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand (or Cambodia?)

subjects:
Metalwork
Thailand (or cambodia )

credit_line: Gift of Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation, 1999


title: Heart Scarab

medium: Green porphyry

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Censer in Form of a Rooster Perched on a Rooftop

medium: Stoneware covered with a thin glaze showing lustre (Bizen ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Paste paper with brown pattern

medium: Paste paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: possibly Spanish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-badge
Possibly spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Man Mounting a Horse

creator: Jacques François Joseph Swebach

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache on blue paper. Framing lines in pen and black ink.

credit_line: Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, 2013


title: Battle Scene with Church at right

creator: Dirk Langendijk

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Seated Buddha

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Unglazed pottery

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Disk Brooch

medium: Gold, wire, paste, iron core, cabochon

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Candlestand

medium: Pine, ash, cherry

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


title: Funerary relief

medium: Stone

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: A Compendium of Small Birds (Kotori rui shū) 小鳥類集

creator: Nantō

medium: Polychrome woodblock printed book

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan
Birds

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


title: Ladle

creator: Benjamin Halsted

medium: Silver, whalebone(?), thread

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Newton Parker, 1927


title: Book cover with overall pattern of stars within ovals

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Fragment of a Bowl

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted

credit_line: Purchase, Mehdi Maboubian Gift, 1971


title: Half of a Cartouche with a Female Figure on the Left and a Lion's Head on the Bottom

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Pen and black ink over traces of leadpoint

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


title: The Half-Male, Half-Female Form of Shiva (Shiva Ardhanarishvara)

country: Cambodia

subjects: Sculpture Cambodia

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Hammered Silver Cone Ornament

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

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

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


title: Moses showing the quails to the Israelites (the miracle of the quails and manna)

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


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


creator: Makron


title: Earrings

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: metal

country: European, Eastern

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Illinois, from the Industries of States series (N117) 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: Bavarian Postillion, from World's Smokers series (N33) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


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: Arrow point

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Throne room with a man in classical armor standing at center addressing a man seated on a throne at left; soldiers lined on either side of the room; set design from 'Il Fuoco Eterno'

creator: Mathäus Küsel

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Torban

medium: Wood and wire

country: Ukrainian

subjects: Chordophone-lute-plucked Ukrainian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Covered bowl with floral patterns

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Bencharong ware for Thai market )

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Glass pendant in the form of a jar

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. late 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

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


title: Ensemble

medium: silk, metal

country: French

credit_line: Isabel Shults Fund, 1994


title: English Exhibitions in Paris or French People Astonished at Our Improvement in the Breed of Fat Cattle

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Carved from the root of a tree

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Comforts of Bath, Plate 11

date: January 6, 1798


title: Glass ornaments

country: Helladic, Mycenaean

subjects:
Glass
Helladic, mycenaean

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


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

date: second quarter of the sixth century BCE

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


title: Pair of frame fragments (cross-bar)

date: first half 18th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Trade Card for W. Powers, Printer and Publisher

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Piece

date: 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Armchair (one of a pair)

medium: Beechwood

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


title: The Lovers O-Hatsu and Tokubei

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


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

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Altar Cabinet (Zushi) for Fudō Myōō

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Wood

subjects: Sculpture Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Estate of Mrs. E. H. Harriman, by exchange, 2016


title: Netsuke of Crouching Figure of a Skeleton

subjects:
Netsuke
Japan
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Alvin H. Schechter, 1985


title: Iron sword with bronze hilt

date: ca. 2nd century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Bronze, Iron

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Bronze
Roman, gaul

credit_line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1913


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Albert Eugene Gallatin, 1965


title: Scarab

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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

date: late 6th century/early 5th century


title: Souvenir spoon

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

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


title: Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Battle Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

creator: Nicolas Cochin

medium: Etching and burin

subjects: Print Flowers Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Victoria #3920

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, wtercolor and guache with gum arabic and metallic ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Treasure Box (Wakahuia)

medium: Wood, mother-of-pearl

country: Maori people, Te Arawa

subjects:
Wood-container
Maori people, te arawa

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


title: Footed Tray with Figures in a Landscape

date: early 17th century

medium: Basketry and red lacquer with gold and litharge painting

country: Japan (Ryūkyū Islands)

subjects:
Lacquer
Japan (ryūkyū islands)
Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Metal thread, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Textile Fragment

date: 12th century

medium: Linen, silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


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: Length of velvet

date: early 16th century

medium: Cut and uncut voided silk velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1951


title: Piece

date: mid-18th century


date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: John F. Kensett

creator: George Augustus Baker Jr.

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of an Association of Gentlemen, 1881


title: Table clock-watch

creator: A. K.

date: 16th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Kohl jar

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, 1933


title: Bowl

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Harlequin with dove

creator: Meissen Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: St. Jude (?)

creator: Master F. P.

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Bowl

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; painted in color on opaque white (tin) glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Floral collar from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

medium: Papyrus, olive leaves, persea leaves, nightshade berries, celery (?), faience, linen dyed red

subjects: Flowers Fruits

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909


title: R.R.P. Doctissimi Bassinae

creator: Joseph François Foulquier

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Sheet with pattern of bouquets and lion heads

creator: Anonymous

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

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


title: Sakata Kintoki

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Annette Young, in memory of her brother, Innis Young, 1956


title: Title Page, Rowlandson's Caricature Magazine

medium: Hand-colored etching; proof before letters

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


title: Whistler's "Portrait of Himself"

creator: Henri Charles Guérard

medium: Roulette, aquatint and etching; seventh state of seven

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Pair of tassels

date: 17th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 5th/early 4th 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: Chinoiserie, from "Nouvelle Suite de Cahiers arabesques chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres"

creator: Jean Pillement

medium: Etching, inked à la poupée

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Spring Farming Scene

creator: Katsushika Isai

medium: Folding fan, remounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

credit_line: Gift of Rosemarie and Leighton Longhi, 2001


title: Plate 33 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): 'What more can be done?' (Qué hai que hacer mas?)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin, burnisher

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Sparrow and Bamboo

creator: Kano Tan'yū

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

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


title: Eye of Maria Miles Heyward

creator: Edward Greene Malbone

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2009


title: Card 30, from the Girl Cyclists series (N49) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Amulet of a lion-headed Bastet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Butterflies

creator: Kubo Shunman

date: 19th century

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

subjects:
Print
Japan
Butterflies & moths

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


title: Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: San Francisco

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching on steel; third state of three

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


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

date: ca. 425 BCE


title: Standing cup (Pokal)

date: late 17th century

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Lamp (one of a pair)

date: 18th century


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Lamp

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; green glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Carriage Clock

creator: Boston Clock Company

medium: Brass, glass, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. Ochs, 1981


title: Column Shaft

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Shabti of Psusennes I

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1948


title: Rusticula, Beccasse (The Woodcock), from "Livre d'Oyseaux" (Book of Birds)

creator: Albert Flamen

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Thomas and Lore Firman Gift, 2011


title: A triton in the water, facing left, holding up an eel in his right hand and two other eels underwater in his left hand, plate 7 from "Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs" (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)

creator: Stefano della Bella

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Fragment

date: late 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Portrait de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte en Prince-Président

creator: Gustave Le Gray

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Case

medium: Leather

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Poncho

date: 17th century (?)

medium: Wool

country: Quechua

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Quechua
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of John B. Elliott, 1997


title: Bronze sestertius of Trebonianus Gallus

medium: Bronze

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Gift of William M. Laffan, 1905


title: Incense burner

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of William M. Laffan, 1910


title: Netsuke of Puppies on a Bamboo Whisk

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: A waterfall descending from the mountains in the center background, various animals and a woman and child beneath a tree in the foreground, from "Various Landscapes" (Divers Paysages)

subjects: Print Landscapes Trees


title: Plate

creator: George Grenfell (or Greenfell)

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: A large tree at right, a man on horseback at left, seen from behind riding towards the left, plate 18 from "Various figures and doodles" (Diverses figures et griffonnemens)

subjects: Print Trees


title: Cuneiform tablet: letter of Sin-sharra-ishkun to Nabopolassar

date: ca. 2nd century BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Snuffbox

creator: Jean Frémin

medium: Gold

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sheet with overall red and green vine and dot pattern

creator: Adriaan Rogge

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

credit_line: Gift of D. Lorraine Yerkes, 1961


title: Bolt or linchpin

date: ca. 9th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Compartmented 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: A Bearer at the Sepulchre (Joseph of Arimathea or Nicodemus)

creator: Juan de Valmaseda

date: first half 16th century

medium: Walnut, polychromed and gilded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Wavy-handled jar

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899


title: Antelope, from Quadrupeds series (N41) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Mammals

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Afternoon 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 Donald Darlington Leeds, 1943


title: Pin with Head Top

date: 1st–mid-8th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Lamp

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1937


title: Decorated ware jar depicting spirals

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Jar

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Spearhead

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Thailand

subjects: Metalwork Thailand

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


title: Flounce

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Redmond, 1916


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bowl in shape of a gourd shell

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: India

subjects:
Jade
India
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Faucet (one of a pair)

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

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: Prince with Four Attendants

creator: Sri Prathi Singh of Ratlam

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan)

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Peter Findlay Gift, 1979


title: Stamp seal

medium: Chalcedony, white

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Muff

date: late 1880s

medium: fur

credit_line: Gift of Anne L. Maxwell, in memory of her mother, Julia H. Lawrence, 1989


title: Front of a limestone block from the stepped base of a funerary monument

creator: Phaidimos

date: mid-6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Curtain Knob

medium: Brass, gilded alloy

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Russell Sage Gift, 1970


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Pilgrim Flask with the Corpus Christi

medium: Free-blown glass with applied decoration

country: German

subjects: Glass-vessel German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2013


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: The Dream and Judgment of Paris

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Adoration of the Magi

date: 17th century

medium: Gold, enamel en ronde bosse, velvet

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: three "pigtailed ladies" with double-handled vessels

medium: Rock crystal

credit_line: Gift of Leon Pomerance, 1985


title: Midshipman, Spain, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sherd

date: ca. early to mid-3rd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Indus

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, by exchange, 1957


title: Wooden Spindle

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Wood, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-implement

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

date: late 6th century BCE/early 5th century BCE


title: String of Big Ball Beads

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Oval dish

creator: Jacques-Claude Pourcelle

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Sampler

creator: Almira Holmes

medium: Silk embroidery on linen

credit_line: Purchase, Edward J. Scheider Gift, in memory of Kathleen N. Scheider, 2002


title: Giovanni II Bentivoglio

creator: Savelli Sperandio

date: 15th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: The Erich Lederer Collection, Gift of Mrs. Erich Lederer, 1986


title: Wedding slippers

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mr. George Washington Glick, 1945


title: John Irwin, 3rd Base, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Souvenir spoon with view of the Roman Colosseum

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1907


title: Textile sample


title: Armchair

medium: Mahogany, satinwood, birch, white pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V

creator: Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

date: April 1745

medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Vase with coiling dragon

date: 16th century

medium: Stoneware with relief decoration and polychrome enamels

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Sutra Cover with Floral Roundels on Background Pattern of Lozenges

medium: Silk and metallic thread

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

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


title: Pendant with figure

date: 3rd–13th century

medium: Bone and pigment

country: Ancestral Columbia River, Native American

subjects: Ancestral columbia river, native american

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2021


title: Brush Holder

country: Japan

subjects: Metalwork Japan


title: Vase with hexagonal foot (one of a pair)

creator: Crown Derby

medium: Bone china with enamel decoration and gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Human tooth inlaid with jadeite

medium: Jadeite, pea-green

country: Mexico

subjects: Jade Mexico

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Traveling tea set

creator: Christopher Dresser

medium: Gilt and silver-plated brass; split bamboo; leather covered wood with velvet on the underside and glazed cotton linings

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Walter E. Stait, 2000


title: Apothecary Jar

medium: Earthenware

country: Dutch

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Wineglass

medium: Glass

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


title: A Lodge in the Hills

creator: Wu Li

date: spuriously dated 1703

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Pair of standing women

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1944


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Door Knocker

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1952


title: Holy Family with an Angel

creator: Raffaellino del Garbo (also known as Raffaelle de' Capponi and Raffaelle de' Carli)

medium: Tempera on canvas, transferred from wood

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Dagger

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Iron (dagger), copper alloy (ring), silver

country: Late Roman

subjects:
Metalwork-bronze
Late roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Le Char de L'Amour, from "Guerre de Beauté" (Guerra di Bellezza) (War of Beauty)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Saint Jerome in His Study

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1968


title: Fibula

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Imperial

subjects: Bronze Imperial

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Food bowl

medium: Stoneware painted with cobalt and amber enamels (Mizoro ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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: Jamison's Jayhawkers (from Confederate War Etchings)

creator: Adalbert John Volck

medium: Etching


title: Ste. Geneviève, vierge (St. Genevieve, Virgin), January 3rd, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Feast Days of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Woman carrying a basket of flowers

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

date: 18th century

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Chlorite mortar or plate

medium: Chlorite

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Modern Grotesque with Strapwork

creator: Johannes van Doetecum I

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Jardiniere

medium: Pottery covered glaze (Kyoto ware)

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


title: Tankard (Krug)

date: late 17th century

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of the family of Siegfried and Lola Kramarsky, in their memory, 1991


title: Vest

date: mid-19th century

medium: wool, linen

country: American

credit_line: The Jacqueline Loewe Fowler Costume Collection, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 1982


title: Terracotta rim fragment of an open shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: L'Amour dans le globe; ou, L'Almanach volant, composé de petites pièces fugitives, légères ou galantes, en prose & en vers: avac un précis historique de l'origine du globe aérostatique, des expériences du Champ-de-Mars, de Versailles, de la Muette & des Tuileries, ainsi que vers & chansons y relatifs. Le tout enrichi de figures

creator: Chez Desnos

credit_line: Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 2009


title: Francois de Villemontee, conseiller d'etat ordinaire

creator: Jean Morin

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Ein new getruckt model Büchli...Page 11, verso

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Rural View

creator: Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2017


title: Beaker

creator: Gregg, Hayden and Company

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Dress

medium: cotton, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Agnes Kremer, 1938


title: Ornamental Plaque

medium: Nephrite, white with a faint greenish tint and a few stainings of light russet

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jade
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Vase

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Fragment of Cover

medium: Velvet; embroidered in gold and silver wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Mirror with moon goddess and rabbit

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Mirror China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Netsuke with Fox and Drum from the Kabuki Play "Yoshsitsune Senbon-Zakura"

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Tab Ornament

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Salinar (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Salinar

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: second half of the 6th century BCE


title: [William Harvey]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Cash

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Untitled

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Teabowl

medium: Clay covered with thin brownish red crackled glaze (Raku ware)

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


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: Yorkshire Hieroglyphics, Plate 1

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Kitchen Scene

creator: Copy after Leandro (?) Bassano

date: late 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash

country: Italian

subjects: Drawing Italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Essentials of Painting (Ehon hitsuyō)

creator: Nakaji Sadatoshi

medium: Woodblock-printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Fenestrated axe blade

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

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


title: Vis-à-vis/Brett #3223

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Zanguleh (zangula)

medium: Metal, wood

country: Iranian (Persian)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Scarab with the Name of Amenemhat III and a Hippopotamus Hunt

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Close Helmet for the Tourney

medium: Steel, brass, canvas, silk

country: German, Augsburg

subjects:
Helmet
German, augsburg

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Piece

date: 16th century


title: Flounce

medium: Bobbin lace, Mechlin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal: temple inventory, Esangila archive

date: ca. 327 BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Memorial Brooch

medium: Watercolor on ivory, enamel, gold, copper, and beveled crystal

subjects:
American
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2024


title: Crown gold sovereign of Elizabeth I

creator: The Royal Mint

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019