title: Sash

creator: Francis Maslowski

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Pin

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

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: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Plaque

medium: Gilt copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Vase

creator: Dedham Pottery

medium: Stoneware

country: American

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Card Number 251, Grace Barton, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
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: The Wolf & the Lamb – A Parody on Mr. Mulready's highly popular Picture

creator: John Doyle

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Astrology

creator: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

date: early 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Border

date: second half 19th century

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Cuneiform tablet: record of a judicial decision

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Tea gown

medium: silk, cotton

country: probably American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Frederick H. Prince, Jr., 1967


title: Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)

date: 7th century or later

country: East Greek ?

subjects:
Vase
East greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Cup

creator: Lowestoft

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1937


title: Mrs. William Bingham (Anne Willing)

creator: William Russell Birch

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2006


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Woman's Trousering (Nakshe)

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton; embroidered in silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Uncle Toby, from Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy"

creator: Felix Octavius Carr Darley

medium: Graphite and ink wash

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Sylvester, 1936


title: Linga (Phallic Emblem) with Four Standing Deities

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Sandstonef

country: India (Rajasthan)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (rajasthan)

credit_line: Gift of R. H. Ellsworth Ltd., in honor of Jean Schmidt, 1987


title: Kuchie

creator: Unidentified artist

date: ca. 1910 or later

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Yomut Main Carpet

date: probably late 18th century

medium: Wool pile on wool and cotton foundation

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph V. McMullan, 1973


title: The goddess Wadjet with the Horus-child

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers and Ludlow Bull Funds and Dulaney Logan Gift, 1971


title: Textile Fragment

date: first half 16th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté (seraser)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-brocade

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, and The Page and Otto Marx Jr. Foundation Gift, 2003


title: Daisy Murdoch, 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: François de Nesmond

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Terracotta fragment of a Panathenaic prize amphora?

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Plate 71 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Against the common good' (Contra el bien general)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnisher

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: St. Luke

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Jerkin

date: late 19th–early 20th century (the textile ca. 1600–30)

medium: silk, metal thread

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1926


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, brocaded (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Mud Brick Stamped with the Name and Titles of Senenmut

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: The Visitation

creator: Nicolas Mignard

medium: Graphite, red chalk, pen and black ink, brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache; framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Matthieu de Bayser, 2010


title: Hanging gong

medium: Jadeite, a general lavender tone shaded with aquamarine and snow

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Study of a Reclining Female Nude

creator: Charles Antoine Coypel

medium: Black chalk and stumping, heightened with white chalk, on blue paper; squared in black chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2013


title: Strip

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


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


title: Ax

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Albert Rothbart, 1933


title: Trees (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

subjects: American Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Feathered Panel

medium: Feathers, cotton, camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Christ Healing the Paralytic

creator: Jacob Jordaens

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2011


title: Salome

creator: Henri Regnault

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1916


title: Madonna in Glory Crowned by Angels

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

date: 15th century

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Bath Scraper

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed, molded in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Erotic Print

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1951


title: Finger Ring

date: 7th century (?)

medium: Silver, onyx

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Drag (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Courtesan Sayoginu of the Yotsumeya Brothel, from the series “A Pattern Book of the Year’s First Designs, Fresh as Spring Herbs” (Hinagata wakana hatsu moyō)

creator: Isoda Koryūsai

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Japan

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


title: Mlle. Lenteline, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Netsuke of Seated Figure of an Old Man with Backpack Containing a Mask

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Sphinx in the Louvre

creator: Henry Jackson Morton

medium: Graphite and gray watercolor wash on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Judith F. Hernstadt, 1998


title: Scene 8, from Jack and the Giant Killer, Scenes for a Toy Theater

creator: Benjamin Pollock

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Hood for a cope

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Silk, linen and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Statuette of a youth

date: ca. 500 BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Bottle

date: first half 11th century

medium: Glass, colorless with green tinge; blown, cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: The Barber's Shop

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: after 1803

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970


title: Brush holder

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of S. Chait, 1917


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: Fast Day

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

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


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Magic wand

medium: Ivory (hippo)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: George Cruikshank, calling card

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of F. C. Schang, 1977


title: Bottle

date: 14th century

medium: Stoneware with cut-glaze decoration (Cizhou ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: The Garter

creator: Jean François de Troy

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Design for a Vessel

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and ink on laid paper

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea

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


title: Beads

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: St. Cecilia

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash.

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz, 1963


title: Cosimo III de Medici

date: 17th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: Order of Saint Michael

creator: André Chalochet

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl or Cup

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Jack A. Josephson, 1973


title: Troupial, from the Song Birds of the World series (N42) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Everfast Industries Inc., 1971


title: Antique Lidded Urn Decorated with a Motif of Diamond Rings and Lions, from "Vases after the Antique"

creator: Enea Vico

date: 1543 or after

medium: Engraving on laid paper, first or second state

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Norway, from the Types of All Nations series (N24) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Baluster

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Deal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Krishna-Kali

medium: Lithograph, printed in black and hand-coloring with watercolor and selectively applied glaze

country: West Bengal, Calcutta

subjects:
Print
West bengal, calcutta

credit_line: Purchase, Robert and Bobbie Falk Philanthropic Fund Gift, 2021


title: Relief from the South Wall of a Chapel of Ramesses I

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911


title: Candelabra Grotesque with a Winged Female Term on a Pedestal

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 1540 after

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: Armor (<i>Gusoku</i>)

creator: Myōchin Munesuke

date: early 18th century

medium: Iron, lacquer, silk, copper, gold

subjects:
Armor for man
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Lobed cooking cauldron (Li )

date: 12th–11th century BCE

medium: Earthenware with comb striations

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Benjamin Pasamanick and Dr. Hilda Knobloch, 1972


title: Panel

medium: Verre églomisé

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cup

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Robert West, 1950


title: View of Sorrento

creator: Italian

medium: Gouache

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Funerary Cone of the Second Priest of Amunet Mahu

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Dress ornament

date: ca. 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Scythian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Scythian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Towel

medium: Silk; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Carolyn Kane, 2015


title: Gold roundel of bulbous form

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Shekel of Augustus, 27 B.C.-14 A.D., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

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


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


date: first quarter of the 4th century BCE


title: Servia, 20 Paras, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 2) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: St. Andrews. The Abbey Wall

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Piece

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


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Balamuth, 1971


title: A small inlaid sculpture of a soft-shelled turtle

medium: Amethyst, turquoise, lapis-lazuli, carnelian, adhesive

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Panel

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Turtles

creator: Itō Jakuchū

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Fishbein-Bender Collection, Gift of T. Richard Fishbein and Estelle P. Bender, 2024


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


title: Box for writing implements with design of ancient coins

medium: Gold and mixed metal makie with inlaid mother-of-pearl, on black lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2019


title: A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene at left, sick people at the right

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving (heavily reworked)

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Horrid Visions of Nappy Napp'd at Last

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Pieces (2)

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Piping Pan

creator: Louis St. Gaudens

medium: Bronze

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Bronze statuette of a goddess

date: ca. 3rd–1st century BCE

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Earring with head of a bull

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: gold

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


title: Figures Unloading Cargo from Sailing Vessels

creator: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

medium: Pen and black ink, over black chalk, on beige paper.

credit_line: Gift of John G. Phillips, 1973


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Tassel

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Fireworks (obverse); Design of Fan (reverse)

date: 19th century

medium: Case: red lacquer and powdered gold and silver (maki-e) on black lacquer; Fastener ojime): stone; Toggle (netsuke): colored lacquer on black lacquer with design of pomegranate

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Andrea Gritti (1454-1538), Doge of Venice (from 1523)

creator: Andrea Spinelli

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ignazio Peluso, Ada Peluso and Romano I. Peluso, 2010


title: Lady on a Terrace

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Punjab Hills, Chamba)

subjects:
Painting
India (punjab hills, chamba)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Priest's Robe (Shichijō)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Female head

medium: Gypsum alabaster

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Brougham #3348

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Pot Fair Cambridge


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th/early 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: Shallow Dish

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

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


title: Portrait of a Woman (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: Thomas F. Hoppin

medium: Graphite and watercolor on off-white Bristol board

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: The Third Segawa Kikunojo as a Woman Standing in a Room

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Saint Bernard presenting the host to Guillaume X, duc de Guyenne

creator: Sébastien Leclerc I

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2006


title: Jar

medium: Red pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Astrolabe

creator: Regiomontanus

medium: Copper alloy

country: German or Italian

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German or italian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2025


title: Gold and glass earring with head of a dolphin

medium: Gold, glass paste

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Cream jug

creator: Gotha

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: St. Thomas

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Meubles et Objets de Goût

creator: Pierre de La Mésangère

medium: Engraving, hand-colored

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954


title: Geometric gold weight

creator: Akan artist

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Akan peoples

subjects:
Metal-implement
Akan people

credit_line: Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1994


title: Bowl

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Yoshida on the Tōkaidō (Tōkaidō Yoshida), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Belt Plaque with Dragon and Tortoises

medium: Gilded bronze

country: Northwest China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, 2002


title: Slippers

medium: leather, metal

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arthur Stem, 1938


title: Winter, from "Full-Length Seasons"

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Gift of Barbara E. Fox, in memory of Howard A. Fox MD, 2018


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: A deformed couple facing each other

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: La Paysanne Tournée a Gauche, les Mains Appuyées l'Une sur l'Autre (The Peasant Woman Turned to the Left, One Hand Placed in the Other), from "Varie Figure" (Various Figures)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of four (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Barbe

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Book of Hours

creator: Gilles Hardouyn

medium: Tempera, ink and gold on parchment; leather binding

country: French

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
French

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: A Man Saying his Farewells to a Woman

creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1944


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Table knife

date: late 17th century

medium: Steel, agate, pewter or Britannia metal

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Terracotta fragments of a stemmed plate

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Taūs (mayuri)

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, strings

country: Indian

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-fretted Indian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Dress

medium: silk, cotton

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937


title: Morning Glories

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

date: early 3rd century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Terracotta fragments of kraters (mixing bowls)?

date: 7th century BCE or later


title: Clock ornament

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Woman driving a herd of cows

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Waves and Rocks

creator: Shibata Zeshin

medium: Fan painting mounted as an album leaf; ink, lacquer, and mica on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts, Bequests, and Funds from various donors, by exchange, 1952


title: Madonna and Child in Glory

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Engraving

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


title: Cup with cover

medium: Silver gilt, coconut

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Armor (<i>Gusoku</i>)

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Iron, lacquer, gold, silver, copper alloy, leather, silk

country: Japanese

subjects:
Armor for man
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


title: T'na

medium: Wood, skin

country: Burmese (Karen)

subjects:
Chordophone-harp
Burmese (karen)


title: Sugar bowl with cover (part of a service)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of the Duchess Pini di San Miniato, 1982


title: Spatulae

medium: Bone

country: Edomite

subjects:
Edomite
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1977


title: Card 428, Daisy England, 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: Silver bust of Serapis

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Silver

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Gift of Jan Mitchell and sons, 1991


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 21, 1800

medium: Etching, printed in brown ink

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


title: Dish

medium: Porcelain

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Female figure playing violin

creator: Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

date: before 1903

medium: Bronze, cast, single

credit_line: Gift of Victor D. Brenner, 1903


title: Gauntlet for the Left Hand

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Italian
Armor parts-gauntlet

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


title: "The Mi'raj or The Night Flight of Muhammad on his Steed Buraq", Folio 3v from a Bustan of Sa`di

creator: Sultan Muhammad Nur

medium: Ink, gold, and colors on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1974


title: Pottery Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware, glazed (faience)

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Hair accessory

medium: silk, cotton, mother-of-pearl, metal glass

country: Russian

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: [Church of Saint-Honorat, Arles]

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Pierre-Marc Richard, 1994


title: Medal

medium: Yellow bow with red stripes

subjects: Medal Japan

credit_line: Gift of Edward D. Adams and Jacob H. Schiff, 1906


title: Persea fruit pendant

medium: Faience, Yellow and violet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Gold earring with pendant

medium: Gold

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


title: Watch

creator: François Hubert

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Letter case

date: 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silk and  metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Cordial Glass

creator: Bakewell, Pears and Company

medium: Pressed glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Rank Badge with Mandarin Duck (?)

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Dish (one of two)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1959


title: Buffaloes in Combat

creator: Miskin

date: late 16th century

medium: Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1983


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Christian Friedrich Zincke

medium: Enamel

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962


title: Double scabbard

date: mid-17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Pair of bronze greaves

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 4th–5th century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot


title: Theo in Modern Persian Costume, from the set Actors and Actresses, First Series (N70) for Duke brand cigarettes

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Nose ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silver

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Hugh Smith, by exchange, 1970


title: Transverse Flute

creator: Friedrich Gabriel August Kirst

medium: Boxwood, silver, ivory

country: German

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Bequest, 2005


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Tile with characters

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


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

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Trilobed vessel with figure of Fortuna

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered

subjects:
Ceramics-pottery
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

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


title: Medallion

date: 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Perfume decanter

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Green cased over colorless lead glass; blown, cut and gilded

credit_line: Purchase, Anne Cox Chambers Gift, 2014


title: Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, page 23 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: [Playing Cards, Winter Quarters].  Brady album, p. 129

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Study of St. Jerome

creator: Girolamo Muziano

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and 2005 Benefit Fund, 2006


title: "Buzurjmihr Explains the Game of Backgammon (Nard) to the Raja of Hind", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1934


title: Square with Putti in a Nilotic Landscape

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Linen, wool; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: The Scotch Butchery, Boston, 1775

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Armchair (one of a pair)

date: last quarter 17th century

medium: Carved and gilded beechwood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Vase with Relief Decoration

medium: Porcelain with peach-bloom glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1965


title: Three Vessels

creator: Hieronymus Hopfer

date: 16th century

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Card Number 54, Ethel Selwyn, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: Governor Lounsbury, Connecticut, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-1), issued by Duke Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


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

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Orb bottom vase with white and gold crane motif

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Saint John on Patmos, Madonna and Child Enthroned, and Death of the Virgin; The Crucifixion

creator: Pacino di Bonaguida

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Gift of Irma N. Straus, 1964


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Askos

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Guitar

creator: José Massague

medium: Pine top, figured maple back and sides, rosewood binding, ivory nut, rosewood, mastic, and mother-of-pearl inlaid decoration

country: Spanish

credit_line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1990


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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: Bone or ivory fragment

date: 6th–4th centuries? BCE

medium: Bone

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Skeletons & bones


title: Relief fragment possibly from the tomb of Mereri

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: Netsuke of Frog-like Tortoise on a Shell

medium: Wood

country: Japan

subjects:
Netsuke
Japan
Reptiles & amphibians
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Glass ribbed bowl

date: mid-1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Bowl with narrative scene

date: late 17th–early 18th century

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

credit_line: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; red slip, black and white slip decoration under glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Caricature of a Sculptor

creator: Jean Charles Delafosse

medium: Pen and black ink with gray, ochre, blue, pink and green washes over black chalk underdrawing

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


title: Oval platter with lobster

creator: Thomas-Victor Sergent

medium: Glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramics-pottery Crustaceans

credit_line: Gift of Wallis Katz, in memory of Marshall Katz, and in celebration of the Museum's 150th anniversary, 2020


title: Textile Design for Stencil

date: 17th century

medium: Paint on paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Dead Christ Supported by Angels

date: early 16th century

medium: Bronze

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


title: Toe

medium: diorite

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Print

creator: Yashima Gakutei

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Plaque

date: ca. 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Scytho-Sarmatian

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Officer, Providence Horse Guards, Rhode Island, 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: Evening Glow in a Mountain Village and Calligraphy

creator: Ike no Taiga

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Album leaves mounted as hanging scrolls; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Writing and dressing table

creator: Martin Carlin

medium: Sycamore, mahogany, boxwood, and ebony on oak; gilt bronze; brass; marble; leather, steel

credit_line: Gift of Charles Wrightsman, 1971


title: Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

date: 7th century

medium: Stone

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

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1989


title: [Boston State House]

creator: Enoch Wood & Sons

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

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


title: The Season of Blossoms

creator: Frances Flora Bond Palmer

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers

credit_line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952


title: Side table

medium: Carved, painted green and gilded oak; marble top

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Queen of Collars, from The Cloisters Playing Cards

medium: Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-paper
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1983


title: Stencil

date: 19th century

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Chasuble

medium: Silk and metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Alan L. Wolfe, 1961


title: Shoemaker (Le Cordonnier), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching; second state of two (Join-Lambert and Préaud)

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


title: Crucifixion

medium: Figures: ivory; crosses and base: ebony

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1950


title: Butter Mold

medium: Cherry

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bronze phiale (libation bowl) with four swinging handles

date: ca. 550 BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Figural study of a female in draped garments

creator: Jacques-Edmé Dumont

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2015


title: Trionfo Di Virtu. Libro Novo..., title page (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Dish with battle scene

creator: Painter of the Coal Mine Service

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Design for a Suite of Furniture, A Double-sided Sofa, Two Chairs and Two Armchairs (Verso: sketch for shelves and a mirror)

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Finger ring

date: 6th–7th century

country: Langobardic

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Langobardic

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Canfield's Mill, Belmont, Nevada

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986


title: Egg Cup

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Chess Piece, King

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Terracotta; incised

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1975


title: John Grass, Blackfeet Sioux, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N2) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Grasses & sedges

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Terracotta head of Dionysos

date: 1st century BCE

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek or roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

credit_line: Henrietta Seligman Lace Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Jesse Seligman, 1910


title: Handle

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

country: Roman

credit_line: Gift of Khalil Rabenou, 1951


title: Garonong

date: n. d.

medium: Brass or bronze

country: Bornean (Dyak)

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-crotal bell
Bornean (dyak)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Textile Fragment

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk, cotton, metal wrapped thread; cut and voided velvet, brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Vegetable Vendor, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 24

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)

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


title: Border

medium: Bobbin lace, Milanese lace

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1936


title: Order of Saint Vladimir, Russia, from the World's Decorations series (N44) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Bowl

date: probably 1st century

medium: Transparent pale yellowish brown glass. Perhaps blown, the rim apparently finished by reheating.

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Plate 19: Cacasenno riding a horse backwards, from "Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno"

creator: Giuseppe Maria Crespi

medium: Etching

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


title: Pendant Brooch with Cameo of Enthroned Virgin and Child and Christ Pantokrator

medium: Chalcedony cameo; gold mount with pearls, emeralds, garnets, sapphires, and a sardonyx intaglio

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Lapidary work-chalcedony
Byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, Acquisitions Fund, Christopher C. Grisanti and Suzanne P. Fawbush, Austin B. Chinn, and Katharine R. Brown Gifts, Gifts of Marx Freres, J. Pierpont Morgan, and Mrs. Frank D. Millett, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 2007


title: Tale of the Nun Akizuki

date: 17th century

medium: Nine manuscript books; ink, color and gold on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Purple marble glass compote

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

country: American


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Jews Harp, from the Musical Instruments series (N82) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Ground Plan for a Catafalque for Louis I, King of Spain (reigned only a few months, died 1724)

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: Card case

medium: glass, linen, silk

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


title: Sealing

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


title: Portrait of George Sand

creator: Luigi Calamatta

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: St. Andrews (?). Ships in the Harbor

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects:
Photograph
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Inkstand

medium: Pewter, glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Panel

medium: Silk

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Bowl

date: 11th century

medium: Earthenware; turquoise glaze, incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Courtesan-Dancer (Shirabyōshi) for the New Year

creator: Isoda Koryūsai

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan


title: Gold spiral with double lion-griffin-head terminal

date: 1st half of the 4th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek, cypriot

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


title: Covered box with interlocking loop handles

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Landscape

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Watercolor, graphite, pen and ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Vera A. H. Pratt, 1978


title: Glass bead

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Button

medium: enamel, metal, strass

country: French

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Plate

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: The Esplanade

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Pivier. Alexandre. 53 ans, né à Rochevan (Savoie). Tailleur d'habits. Anarchiste. 7/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Maya (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Maya

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Key

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Copper alloy, iron

country: Late Roman (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-bronze
Late roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


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: Rock-crystal and silver spoon

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Rock crystal and silver

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, The Concordia Foundation Gift, 2000


title: Bust of Bellona

creator: Auguste Rodin

medium: Drypoint, third state of three, before bevelled plate

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Card Number 212, Fanny Rice, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Medallion of the Marquis de Lafayette

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: The Fishermen (Fantastic Scene)

creator: Paul Cézanne

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Heather Daniels and Katharine Whild, and Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, Gift of Joanne Toor Cummings, by exchange, Wolfe Fund, and Ellen Lichtenstein and Joanne Toor Cummings Bequests, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rodgers, and Wolfe Fund, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 2001


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


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

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Tumbler

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

medium: Blown glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Man Mounted on Qilin

medium: Painted wood

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Shoes

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1937


title: The Farriers

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on cream wove proof paper

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1917


title: Jar

date: 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Writing Box with Cranes, Pines, Plum Blossoms, and Characters

date: 18th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, and silver inlay on nashiji ground

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet (1660–1753)

creator: Jacques-Antoine Dassier

medium: Bronze

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


title: Polysiphonia violacea

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Glass bowl

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

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 36r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Violin

creator: Carlo Antonio Testore

medium: Spruce, maple

country: Italian

credit_line: Bequest of Charles William Jones, 1997


title: Prophet from a Jesse Tree

medium: Stained glass

subjects: Glass-stained French Trees

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1926


title: Trunk

date: second quarter 18th century

medium: Leather, oak, beech, gilt bronze, silk

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1944


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemums (obverse); Chinese Characters for Long Life (reverse)

medium: Lacquer, nashiji, gold and silver hiramakie, kirigane; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Robe (Kosode) with Fishing Net and Characters

date: probably ca. 1660s

medium: Silk and metallic thread embroidery, tied resist dyeing on satin damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation and Parnassus Foundation/Jane and Raphael Bernstein Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2011


title: Gold fibula (safety pin) with sphinx

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Flintlock Pistol

medium: Steel, iron, wood (walnut)

country: possibly Belgian, Liege

subjects:
Possibly belgian, liege
Firearms-pistols-flintlock

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2011


title: Burse (one of a set of five vestments)

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Catherine M. Randazzo Guirreri and John J. Randazzo, in memory of the Saverio Randazzo Family, 1984


title: Capital

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Beatus

creator: Ernst Oppler

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of M.P. Epstein, 1967


title: Catching an Elephant

date: [March 1, 1812], reprint

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Lampas Fragment and Case

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2016


title: One Hundred Boys

creator: Kano Einō

date: 17th century

medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, and Dodge Fund, 2009


title: Morning dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Althea Adams May, 1977


title: Tool

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: California Mountain Scenery

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Landscapes

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


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Mr. Vieux-Niais, published in "La Caricature"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: The Nativity of Christ, with Shepherds and Kings in Adoration

creator: Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

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

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Cattle Bell

medium: Metal

country: Austrian

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper Austrian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: General Robert E. Lee, from Leaders series (N222) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Quadruped (one of five medallions from a coffret)

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé Mammals

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Parable of the Beam and the Mote

creator: Netherlandish

medium: Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk; original borderlines at left and right edges.

country: Netherlandish, Leiden

subjects:
Drawing
Netherlandish, leiden


title: Standing Virgin and Child

date: 19th century (second half of 15th century style)

medium: Silver and gilded silver

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-silver German


title: Gold earring with agate bead

date: late 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Gold, agate

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an aryballos?

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Corinthian?

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

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


title: Chess Piece, Pawn or Backgammon Piece

date: probably 17th–18th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Decorations for the New Year

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Mug

creator: George Garthorne

date: late 17th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, 1953


title: The Largest of the Cedars, Mount Lebannon

creator: Francis Frith

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1966


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Chest (?) fragment with Aten cartouches

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Bertha

medium: linen

country: probably Italian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lillian E. Glenn Peirce in memory of Mrs. Luther G. Tillotson, 1944


title: War Mask

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Iron, copper alloy

country: Mongolian or Tibetan

subjects:
Mongolian or tibetan
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2007


title: Blade for a Straight Single-Edged Sword (Chokutō)

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword blade
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Cup (part of a service)

creator: Cornelis Pronk

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1961


title: Netsuke of Noh Mask

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Dish with Lion

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3991

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Chest with Lid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Master Rees Goring Thomas

creator: Ralph Earl

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914


title: Fragment

medium: Free-blown non-lead glass

credit_line: Gift of Miss Edna M. Netter, 1937


title: Glass Fragment

medium: Colorless glass

country: French or British

subjects:
Glass-stained
French or british

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Tea Bowl with Abstract Scroll Design

date: ca. 13th–14th century

medium: Stoneware with painted decoration on brown glaze (Jizhou ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase, The B. D. G. Leviton Foundation Gift, 1986


title: Chalice Veil

medium: SIlk, metal thread and linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Catherine M. Randazzo Guirreri and John J. Randazzo, in memory of the Saverio Randazzo Family, 1984


title: Man at Bar (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: John McLenan

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Fir Trees in Les Trembleaux, near Marlotte (Sapins aux Trembleaux à Marlotte)

creator: Henri-Joseph Harpignies

subjects: Painting Trees

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragment of Roundel

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: M'lle Grery, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Little Falls at Luzerne (No. 1 of The Hudson River Portfolio)

creator: John Hill

medium: Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; first state of two

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


title: Tenor Cornetto in D

medium: Wood, leather, metal

country: French

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Breadth

date: 18th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: The Autumn Moon at Ishiyama on Lake Biwa.

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Arm and Hand Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Marble

country: Coptic

subjects: Sculpture-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Songs of Experience: A Little Boy Lost

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: Edging

medium: Needle lace, Point plat

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: S. Germanique (St. Germanicus), January 19th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Feast Days of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Ostrakon with Trisagion

medium: Limestone with ink insciption

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Attachment in the form of the head of a goddess wearing the double crown

medium: Leaded bronze, gold and electrum sheet on crown, Egyptian blue and glass inlays

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Fragment

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


title: Simplicius unter den Soldaten, from the series Intermezzi

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching and aquatint on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1952


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Ewer with Cover

date: mid 19th century

medium: White porcelain decorated with enamels (Hizen ware, Kutani type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: “Clear Weather after Snow in the Precincts of the Kanda Myōjin Shrine” (Kanda Myōjin keidai yukibare no zu), from the series Famous Places in the Eastern Capital (Tōto meisho)

subjects: Print Japan


title: Bottle vase

medium: Porcelain with mirror black glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

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


title: Shield

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wood

country: Philippine, Luzon

subjects:
Shield
Philippine, luzon

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Cover for 'La Rumba: Coleccion de Canciones Modernas para el Presente Año 1903', a conductor and a drummer performing on stage for an audience

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Chiaroscuro engraving and letterpress printed in red and black on tan paper

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Inferno according to Dante, after the Last Judgment fresco in the Campo Santo, Pisa

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Florentine, 15th century

medium: Engraving, a later re-strike (possibly 19th century)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Terracotta fragment of a vase?

date: 7th–4th centuries BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


title: Netsuke

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Jaguar, from the Wild Animals of the World series (N25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Plaque

creator: Caroline H. Rimmer

medium: Earthenware

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


title: Awl punch

date: 4th–16th century

medium: Whalebone, ivory

country: Tierra del Fuego

subjects:
Bone/ivory-implement
Tierra del fuego
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Trade Card for Danby, Engraver

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Wide-Mouth Vase with Carp

date: mid-19th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Valance

medium: Linen embroidered with crewel wool

credit_line: Gift of Anna T. Marble, 1943


title: Cover

medium: Embroidered net


title: "Jahangir and his Father, Akbar", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

creator: Balachand

date: verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca.1540–50

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955


title: Gaming Piece

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Earthenware, glazed and green glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Whistle

creator: Cupisnique artist(s)

medium: Ceramic

country: Cupisnique

subjects:
Cupisnique
Ceramics-musical instrument

credit_line: Gift of Conny and Fred Landmann, 1992


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: D. J. Stower, Girard & Pittsburg, Kansas]

creator: Bell's Studio

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gift of the Shimshak Brenner Family, in memory of Robert Shimshak, 2024


title: Actress wearing shawl over hair, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: S. Gérard, abbé (St. Gerard, Abbot), October 3rd, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Vigil on the Sixth Night after Mahavira's Birth: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

date: 15th century

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: A Poppy in Three Stages of Flowering, with a Caterpillar, Pupa and Butterfly

creator: Johanna Helena Herolt (née Graff)

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Watercolor and gouache over traces of black chalk

subjects:
Drawing
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Frits Markus, and Karen B. Cohen Fund, 2005


title: Empedocles, standing frontally with his head turned in three-quarter view, directs his gaze toward a flame (the crater of Mount Aetna?) emerging from a horizontal ground line, a walking stick leans toward the right margin

creator: René Boyvin

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Hercules and Antaeus

creator: Ugo da Carpi

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in green-blue

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Rococo Style Ceiling Design

creator: John Gregory Crace

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Dodge and Fletcher Funds, 1967


title: Melancholy

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Engraving of a Design for a Sword Hilt

creator: Du Casse

medium: Ink, paper

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Work on paper-engraving
French, pari

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


title: Jug with cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

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


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Sealing with one circular seal impression

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: The Botin Moored under a Tree

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Pen and ink on tracing paper

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and PECO Foundation Gift, 2018


title: Teacup and Saucer

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

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


title: Snuffbox with a Portrait of a Woman

medium: Papier-mâchè with horn veneer, gilt-copper alloy, vellum, tortoiseshell

subjects: Snuffboxe French Portraits

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: John Bull at the Italian Opera

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: October 2, 1811

medium: Etching, hand colored

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


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


title: Cuneiform tablet: school exercise tablet, Urra=hubullu, tablet 3

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Female effigy vessel

creator: Colima artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Colima

subjects:
Colima
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund, 1993


title: Qur'an Juz'

medium: Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper

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


title: Palmettos

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor, graphite, and wax crayon on white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Thomas from the Martyrdom of the Twelve Apostles

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Faith

creator: Anonymous, German, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Karen B. Cohen Fund, 1995


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: Title page with a large wall of a classical ruin, with a figure seated at right pointing to the dedication, from "Views" (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal)

creator: Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Bed valances and side curtains

medium: Canvas; silk and wool embroidery in gros and petit point

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1953


title: Hot water urn

creator: John Baxter

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Madame Lilliana Teruzzi, 1966


title: Vase inscribed for the Mistress of the House Amenemweskhet

medium: Pottery, paint

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


title: Violin Bow

date: early 19th century

medium: Pernambuco, whalebone, ivory, ebony, silver, mother-of-pearl, horsehair

subjects: French Chordophone-accessories-bow

credit_line: Bequest of Annie Bolton Matthews Bryant, 1933


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Roundel with Return of the Prodigal Son

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1932


title: Lion Devouring a Horse

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph; third state of five

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: View of a Building in the Ionic Style

creator: Harvey Lonsdale Elmes

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Exchange, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1960


title: Artémise

creator: Gilles Rousselet

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: The Trinity

creator: Agnolo Gaddi

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: The Forest at Pontaubert

creator: Georges Seurat

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Raymonde Paul, in memory of her brother, C. Michael Paul, by exchange, 1985


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Angular Painter

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Canopy Bed, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Buddha

date: mid-6th century

medium: Limestone with traces of pigment

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse, in honor of A. Schoenlicht, 1963


title: Earring with disk and pendant globules

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Gift of Leon Farber, 1992


title: Octavia, 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: Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)

creator: Niiro Chōnosuke

date: early 20th-century copy of 8th-century original

medium: Iron and wood

subjects: Architecture Metalwork Japan Flowers

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Side chair

creator: D. Phyfe & Son

medium: Rosewood, rosewood veneer, ash (secondary wood), reproduction upholstery

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Leo and Frances Bretter Gift, by exchange, 2013


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a promissory note for dates, Esagilaya archive

date: ca. 569 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Canopic jar lid

medium: Painted limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean or italian

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Oil Lamp

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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: Brooch with Assyrian divine archer in a winged disc

medium: Gold, glass

country: British

credit_line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023


title: Targhe ed altri ornati di varie e capricciose invenzioni (Cartouches and other ornaments of various and capricious invention, page 2)

creator: Jacob Floris

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Sherd

date: late 10th century

medium: Stoneware with celadon glaze (Yue ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Judge Edgar Bromberger, 1942


title: Padlock

date: 17th century

medium: Iron

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


title: Mace head

medium: Bronze

country: Hattian

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955


title: Earring-hook type with pendant and disc

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


title: Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Bed curtain border

medium: Linen, silk

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: Glass bottle with snake-thread decoration

date: 3rd century CE

country: Roman, Rhenish

subjects:
Glass
Roman, rhenish
Reptiles & amphibians


title: Cup

date: mid 6th–5th millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Ubaid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1949


title: Fringe

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Hostess Discharges a Pan of Blood into the Face of Parson Andrews, from "The Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Smallsword with Scabbard

medium: Hard stone (chrysoprase), gold, steel, vellum, wood, textile

country: possibly German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sword
Possibly german

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1984


date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Emma Ward Wright, 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: Initial letter A with putto

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 15th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Dagger (Qama)

medium: Steel, ivory, gold, silver

country: Caucasian

subjects: Dagger Caucasian

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


title: Sheet with overall floral pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Stirrup-shaped Ring with Rectangular Bezel with "Sri"

date: Second half of the 9th–first quarter of the 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Saint Andrew kneeling in prayer as he is led to the cross, after Reni

creator: Carlo Cesi

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Glass beads

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Phoenician

subjects: Glass Phoenician


title: Demons on an Elephant with Nan Brah Dharani, the Earth Goddess, Wringing Water from Her Hair

date: late 12th–early 13th century

country: Cambodia

subjects: Metalwork Cambodia

credit_line: Gift of Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation, 1997


title: 'Transylvanian' Carpet

date: probably 18th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

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


title: Bonnet

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Rubbing Stone (?)

medium: Gritstone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Shabti of Painedjem I

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sampler

medium: Wool on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Limestone male banqueter

date: late 6th or early 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Necklace

medium: Amethyst

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


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: Erato

creator: Joseph Fagnani

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of an Association of Ladies and Gentlemen, 1874


title: Bottle cooler (seau à bouteille)

creator: Chantilly

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes, 1924


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on felt

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Frieze ornament

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

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

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Mask

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Copper, shell inlays

country: Moche

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Mold for a Fox Head Amulet

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Castello Sant' Angelo, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Etui

medium: Tapered cylinder of striated gray agate sheathed in chased gold cagework.

country: British, London

subjects: Jewelry, precious metal and precious stone

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sutra Cover with Decorated Lattice

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silk twill with supplementary weft patterning in silk and metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Limestone head of a bearded male votary

date: 4th–3rd century BCE


title: Wheat Fields

creator: Jacob van Ruisdael

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Bowl

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Woman with a fan

creator: Giuseppe De Nittis

medium: Etching and drypoint (proof of first state)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: A Bridge on the Aar, at the Foot of the Grimsel, in the Canton of Berne

creator: Caspar Wolf

medium: Watercolor and pencil; framing lines in black ink

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2004


title: Fan

date: mid-19th century

medium: Paper, paint, ivory, gold, silver, glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Sheet of figure studies: two studies of a reclining figure, and a seated figure holding a lyre (?)

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: A seated woman holding a closed fan before a drawn curtain, a tree and sky beyond

creator: Henri Simon Thomassin

medium: Etching with engraving

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Private, 2nd Regiment, Iowa, National Guard, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Wholecloth whitework quilt

creator: J. Wright

medium: Quilted cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David Lubart Gift, in memory of Katherine J. Lubart, 1944–1975, 2005


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Saint Jerome

creator: Alois Petrak

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Design for a Pulpit, plate 1 from an Untitled Series of Pulpit Designs

creator: Carl Pier

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Embroidered Mantle Fragment

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: A Courtesan

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Mrs. J. Watson Webb, 1930


title: Head of pin

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Capital

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Willibald Pirckheimer

creator: Albrecht Dürer


title: Mold for a Rings

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Head of a Male

date: 4th century

medium: Terracotta

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Ex Coll.: Columbia University, Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1987


title: Galloon

date: mid-18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Jar

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Tea jar

date: 18th century

medium: Fine gray clay with thick brown glaze (Kiyomizu ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Tankard

creator: Gorham Manufacturing Company

medium: Silver and ivory

credit_line: Purchase, Ambassador and Mrs. W. L. Lyons Brown Gift, 2014


title: Ostracon with Line Drawing of Theban Triad

medium: Limestone, ink

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: [Two Gypsy Women]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Plate 10: Ulysses compelling Circe to restore his companions' human shapes, which she had changed into monsters

creator: Bartolomeo Crivellari

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Mary (from a nativity)

creator: Caspicara (Manuel Chil)

medium: Wood, polychromed and gilded; glass eyes; metal halo

country: Ecuadoran

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Footed Cup with Falconer

date: 15th century

medium: Earthenware, glazed

country: Byzantine

subjects: Ceramic Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Dikran G. Kelekian, 1912


title: Sampler

medium: Silk and floss on silk

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


title: Red and Blue Macaw, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: My Cure, 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: Gold earring with head of an antelope

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Hancock/ House./ Boston/ JACKSONS WARRANTED

creator: Job & John Jackson

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

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


title: The Betrayal of Christ, (Christ Taken Captive), from the Circular Passion

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1940


title: Colonel, Veteran Zouaves, Elizabeth, New Jersey, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Shoes

creator: Alexander's

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Kate C. Lefferts, 1973


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: Necklace

date: 17th–19th century

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: The Last Rose of Summer, from the Illustrated Songs series (N116) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

subjects: Print Roses


title: Design for Stage Set

creator: Giovanni Battista Natali III

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob S. Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Anthropomorphic Figure

date: ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Sumatra)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (sumatra)

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Buddha Enthroned in a Shrine, Leaf from a dispersed Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript

medium: Opaque watercolor on palm leaf

country: India (Bengal) or Bangladesh

subjects:
Painting
India (bengal) or bangladesh
Palms

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Tile

date: 1650–80 or later

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Figure of an Angel within a Composite Panel

medium: Pot-metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain

country: British

subjects: Glass-stained British

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Four-branched wall light in form of lyre (one of a set of four)

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Portrait of  Auguste Rodin

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Etching in brown ink

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: George Van Haltren, Chicago, from the series Old Judge Tobacco

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card

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


title: Textile swatch (one of 12)

date: early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Purchase, 1985, Funds From Various Donors


title: Cross, Catcher, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Double Louis d’or of Louis XV of France (b. 1710; r. 1715–74)

creator: Joseph-Charles Roettiers

medium: Gold


title: Fireworks at Ryōgoku Bridge, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Textile

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Wallet

medium: Leather

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Marie Louise Spader and Clarence W. Spader in memory of their parents, Marie Louise and Clinton Spader, 1949


title: Allegory relating to the Medici family

creator: Johann Friedrich Greuter

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Covered Vase

medium: Rock crystal

country: China

subjects:
Hardstone
China
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Ceremonial cloth

medium: Cotton ikat dyed textile

country: Iban-Dayak

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Iban-dayak

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Joel Confino and Lisa Alter, 2016


title: Chalice

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Bedspread

medium: Linen lace

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ralphina Lowenstein, 1962


title: Gloves

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread, knitted lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


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: The Fable of the Miller, His Son, and the Donkey No. 4

creator: Elihu Vedder

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of John V. and Enza Tomassi Kiskis, 1992


title: Bronze relief of a Roman soldier and a barbarian

date: ca. 200 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Tile

medium: Delftware (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Mlle Mercier; Mlles Mercier et Rousseau

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Box

medium: Steel, brass

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Length

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of George Mangini, 2009


title: Minerva and the Muses

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching and drypoint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: "Fête de la Fédération"

creator: Jean-Baptiste Huet I

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900