title: Decorative grill from the Palace of Westminster

creator: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

medium: Brass

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-brass

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


title: Ste. Agnés, vierge et martyre (St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr), January 21st, 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)

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: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Cuneiform tablet: loan of silver

date: ca. 20th–19th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, 1966


title: A soldier sliding his right hand along the training-pike, from the Lansquenets series, plate 22, in "Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten Ende Spiessen" (The Exercise of Arms)

creator: Jacques de Gheyn II

medium: Engraving; second state of three (New Hollstein)

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Cowlitz River; Kelso, Washington (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape

date: 6th/5th centuries 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: Winter, after a drawing completed in Saint-Chamond

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of James David Draper, 2000


title: Landscape

creator: Fan Hong

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

country: China

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Cameo with Head of Female Saint Wearing Wimple

date: late 13th century

medium: Chalcedony

country: French

subjects:
Lapidary work-chalcedony
French

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Klejman, 1964


title: Man with sword and feathered hat, viewed from the back

creator: Victor Adam

date: mid–19th century

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2012


title: Pin

medium: Bronze

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


title: Amulet of Ba-bird

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave, weft loop weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Jug

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Cuneiform tablet: agreement regarding division of property

date: ca. 7th–4th century BCE

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Wall casing

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription

date: 6th–5th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot


title: Daisy Pendant

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Portrait of Alain de Coëtivy (1407–1474)

creator: Jean Fouquet

medium: Metalpoint, black chalk on white prepared paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Knower, Bequest of Ogden Mills, and Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, by exchange, 1949


title: Chandelier

medium: Gilt wood, metal

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Sibyl seated before an open book upon which she rests her left hand, she twists her face away from the book and holds a vessel in her right hand

creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

medium: Etching

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea


title: Mirror

date: 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, cypriot


title: Copper Pin

date: before 16th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-implement Peruvian

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


title: The Bagpiper

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Mary, Queen of Scots (from "The History of England")

creator: Robert Strange

medium: Etching and engraving; fifth state of six

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Ensemble

medium: cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Boomerang

medium: Wood


title: Diana and Cupid

creator: Pompeo Batoni

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, The Charles Engelhard Foundation, Robert Lehman Foundation Inc., Mrs. Haebler Frantz, April R. Axton, L. H. P. Klotz, and David Mortimer Gifts; and Gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, George Blumenthal, and J. Pierpont Morgan, Bequests of Millie Bruhl Fredrick and Mary Clark Thompson, and Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1982


title: Dagger (Jambiya)

date: 19th century

medium: Steel, gold

country: Persian, Qajar

subjects:
Dagger
Persian, qajar

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


title: Cathedral Interior

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Mars seated on his Trophies

creator: Léon Davent

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


title: Cimeter, from the Arms of All Nations series (N3) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Young Bibby (George Mehling), Wrestler, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Saucer

medium: Earthenware, gaudy dutch

country: British (American market)

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


title: Ein new getruckt model Büchli...Page 8, recto

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Ocarina

medium: Ceramic

country: Tairona People; Gayraca style

subjects:
Aerophone-blow hole-vessel flute
Tairona people; gayraca style
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Roberta Lee Boxer, 1984


title: Anacreon, in an album contianing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

creator: Jean Jacques Lagrenée

medium: Etching and aquatint

credit_line: Purchase, The Arthur Ross Foundation Gift and Charles Z. Offin Fund, 1999


title: Juglet

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: The three holy women going to the sepulchre

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Wedjat Eye Amulet

medium: Agate

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Railing Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Klejman, 1965


title: Pheasant, from the Game Birds series (N40) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

subjects: Print Birds


title: Rapier

date: blade dated 1662

medium: Steel

country: Spanish

subjects: Sword Spanish

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: [Saddle-Mounted Cannon]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, 1999


title: Two hairbrushes

medium: Silver, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Madame Lilliana Teruzzi, in memory of her mother, 1973


title: Ten of Spades, Donkey Ride, from Harlequin Cards, 2nd Series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

country: Japan

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Helen M. Meserve Gift, 1981


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Table

medium: Walnut, pine

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sherman, 1967


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


title: Pair of Figure Vessels

country: Nayarit

subjects: Nayarit Ceramics-container

credit_line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund, 1993


title: Armchair (part of a set)

creator: Georges Jacob

medium: Carved and gilded walnut; velvet

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: V Queniaus

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

date: May–June 1860

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


title: Celt

date: 10th–4th century BCE

medium: Stone

country: Olmec

subjects: Stone-implement Olmec

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


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

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: The Virgin holding the infant Christ, an oval composition, after Reni

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Triangular Plaque

date: mid-7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: Northwest China/Eastern Central Asia

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china/eastern central asia

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Foreigners Studying at Night

creator: Utagawa Yoshikazu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Inlay, ankh, was scepters

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass


title: Maharaja Bijay Singh in His Harem

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Jodhpur)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, jodhpur)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2002


title: Qairaq (stone castanets)

date: mid-20th century

country: Afghan

subjects: Idiophone-concussion Afghan

credit_line: Gift of Mark and Greta Slobin, 2015


title: Watch

creator: Ferdinand Berthoud

date: late 18th century

medium: Gold, rose diamonds

subjects: Horology Roses

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Pair of armchairs

medium: Walnut, brocade

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Rebab

medium: Wood (nangha ), fabric, metal.

country: Javanese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: George Peabody

creator: Southworth and Hawes

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937


title: Portrait of the Sculptor Hermann Ernst Freund

creator: Christen Købke

medium: Graphite; at left and below, framing line in graphite, possibly by the artist

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


title: Pastoral staff

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver gilt, wood (?)

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Uranosuke Plays Blind Man's Buff with the Women of the Ichiriki Joroya

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

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

credit_line: The Francis Lathrop Collection, Purchase, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: J.D. Morrisey, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22b) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Dish

creator: Thomas Toft II

medium: Slipware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Covered Ewer

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in famille verte enamels on the biscuit

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1960


title: Gentleman Holding a Sword

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

medium: Etching; reverse copy

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Drag #483

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Monkey musician (part of a set)

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1966


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Needle

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Writer's handrest

medium: Nephrite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: The Rich Man at His Table, from "The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Cassetta frame

medium: Pine

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Frame
Italian, venice

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Chasuble with Virgin and Child, Apostles and Prophets

date: 15th century

medium: Velvet, silk and gold thread

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French
Textiles-costumes-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1914


title: Rhea Silvia

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


title: Key with List of Performers and Audience to: The Beggars Opera

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Louis Hesselin

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; first state of two (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Dog Cart (Phaeton) #806

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


title: De Florum Cultura

creator: Giovanni Battista Ferrari

medium: Engraving, woodcut

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Standing bodhisattva

date: late 19th or early 20th century

medium: Sandstone

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942


title: Standing animal amulet

medium: Ceramic

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Florence Baker, from the Actresses series (N203) 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: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Rocky Landscape (Cape Flattery) (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Golden Rooster and Hen

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

country: Korea

subjects: Painting Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Quatrefoil Roundel with Arms and Secular Scenes

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

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: Samuel P. Avery Memorial Fund, 1911


title: Two Designs for Trophies and a Cartouche

creator: Jean Charles Delafosse

medium: Pen and black ink with brush and gray wash

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


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: Marie Roze, from World's Beauties, Series 2 (N27) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Snowy Landscape

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Julia H. Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1960


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Landscape with a Draughtsman Seated by a River, a Bridge and a Cottage Behind

creator: Nicolaes Maes

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink and brown wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2002


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with light blue glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Ceremonial Knife

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Bronze

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-implement Chimú

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: ca. 3rd century–710

medium: Iron

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Hall Chairs, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Infantry of the Line, Turkey, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Gift of the grandchildren of Francis George Shaw, 1927


title: Ceiling Decoration, Tomb of Tjay

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

medium: Tempera on Paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: A Bacchanal

creator: Battista Franco

medium: Engraving with etching

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


title: Fragment of a Cup

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell M. Hastings, 1960


title: Lion Attacking an Antelope

date: second half 16th century

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Bowl

date: 7th–3rd century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wielgus, 1962


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: I. Sur la Scene

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Lithograph printed with beige tint stone on laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H. Wolf, 1917


title: Pair of bowls with repoussé work

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Silver

subjects: Metal-container Chimú

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


title: Tamar Turned Out of Amnon's House

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Trade Card for John Fothergill, Commercial and Historical Engraver

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Engraving on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1964


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Plate 2: trophies of Roman arms from decorations above the windows on the second floor of the Palazzo Milesi in Rome

creator: Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi

medium: Etching; second state

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Chess Piece, Pawn

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Jet

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Scorpion Amulet (?)

medium: Faience

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


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Black-topped red ware beaker

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1927


title: Revival of the little Danaides, from "News of the day"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; third state of four (Delteil)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Cradleboard

medium: Tanned leather, rawhide, wood, pigment, glass beads, wool cloth, cotton cloth, brass tacks, and brass link chain

country: Kiowa, Native American

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2018


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

creator: Painter of Würzburg 487


title: Dancing girl

creator: Ansbach Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Bowl

medium: Red stoneware with green glaze (Yixing ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: [Chief in Court Costume]

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Card 529, Leslie Chester, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Limestone statuette of a male votary (worshipper)

date: mid-6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


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: Morrill, 1st Base, Boston, from the Gold Coin series (N284) for Gold Coin Chewing Tobacco

creator: D. Buchner & Co., New York

medium: Commercial color lithograph reproducing drawing


title: Portrait of the Maréchal de Saxe

creator: Antoine de Marcenay de Ghuy

medium: Etching; state 2 of 2

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Susan Schulman Printseller and Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints, 2009


title: Phonurgia nova, sive conjugium mechanico-physicum artis & natvrae paranympha phonosophia concinnatum . . .

creator: Athanasius Kircher

medium: Illustrated book

country: Campidonae: Rudolphum Dreherr, 1673

credit_line: Purchased with income from the Jacob S. Rogers Fund and Bought with the income from the bequest of Nathaniel I. Bowditch, of Boston, (Class of 1812)


title: Souvenir with portrait of a man

creator: Pierre-Denis Chaumont

medium: Gold, ivory; ivory

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Wooded Dune Landscape near Haarlem, with Windmill and a Pair of Figures

creator: Gerrit Jan Michaëlis

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Black chalk and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2004


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

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: Bottles (3)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (recto); Another Design for the Same Composition (verso)

creator: Pietro Testa

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on beige paper (recto); pen and brown ink (verso).

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: William C. Prime

creator: Daniel Huntington

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of the Trustees, 1892


title: The Cabin Boy Fishing or Line Fishing

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Pen and ink on tracing paper, redrawn in graphite on verso

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


title: Cricket pot

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Unglazed earthenware, porcelain, silk

country: China

subjects:
Cricket cage
China

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


title: Bowl

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic, glaze

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Portrait of Albert, Archduke of Austria, Sovereign of the Southern Netherlands

creator: Jan Muller

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: A Young Woman as a Shepherdess

creator: Govert Flinck

medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood

credit_line: Bequest of Lillian S. Timken, 1959


title: Desk (bonheur du jour)

creator: Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix

medium: Satinwood, tulipwood, black and green stained wood on oak; gilt bronze

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


title: The Public at an Exhibition

creator: Johann Gottfried Schadow

medium: Lithograph from a zinc plate

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


title: Thangka Curtain

date: 17th–18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Anonymous gift, 1964


title: Sight (one of a pair)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Beads

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Glass and lacquer

subjects: Jewelry Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Cat Amulet

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: [Cowboy George R. Brown, Lagos, Mexico]

creator: Maya y Sciandra

medium: Collodion print

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2025


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: French Woman, Her Child and Pet Dog

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II

date: 10th month, 1860

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Pet Setter, from the Household Pets series (N194) 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: Heart Scarab of Ramesses

medium: Serpentinite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Architectural Detail

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, washed

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


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

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Bracelet

date: probably 14th–15th century

medium: Glass


title: Trade card for R Cribb & Son, Publisher and Printmaker

creator: Boyne

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Lead wreath

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Seated Tara

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Dry lacquer

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Arrow

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Vase with floral patterns

date: 19th century

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lewis G. Morris, 1968


title: Colossal statue of the Appenino by Giambologna, from "Views of the villa at Pratolino" (Vues de la villa de Pratolino)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Archer's Shield (Pavise)

date: 15th century

medium: Wood, gesso, pigment

country: Swiss

subjects: Shield Swiss

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Design for Altar Decorations for a Liturgical Celebration

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and brown wash, partially laid down on blue paper

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


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: [Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn with Her Microscope]

creator: John Dillwyn Llewelyn

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981


title: Serpent

creator: Unknown

medium: Wood, leather cover

country: French

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
French

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Bequest, 2005


title: Man Holding a Crossbow

creator: Martin Engelbrecht

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


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: St James's Courtship

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Three Gentlemen Leaning on a Banister Overlooking a Garden where Lovers Stroll, from "The Garden of the French Nobles In Which One Can Pick Up Their Way of Dressing"

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching; first state of two


title: Sampler made at a charity school

creator: Rebekah Rowe

medium: Silk embroidery on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Upper Arm Defense (Rerebrace)

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: New Künstlichs Modelbuch (Page 31 recto)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: "The Combat of Tus and Human," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

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

credit_line: Bequest of Monroe C. Gutman, 1974


title: Private, Roxbury Horse Guards, Massachusetts, V.M., 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: Madame Lisle

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Charcoal and pastel with red, black, and white chalk on beige wove paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Thanksgiving Day in the Army – After Dinner: The Wish-Bone (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VIII)

creator: Winslow Homer

date: December 3, 1864

medium: Wood engraving

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Fontaine de la Croix de Pierre, Rouen

creator: Edmond Bacot

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1995


title: Netsuke of Mask of a Man with Open Mouth and Curly Hair

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Element with name of Akhenaten and titulary of a princess

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Ewer

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; mold blown and applied decoration, tooled on the pontil

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Design for a Knife Handle with the Sermon on the Mount

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving and blackwork

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


title: Uçetek Entari

medium: [no medium available]; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Hewitt, 1939


title: Bangia fusco-purpurea

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Letter

creator: Wang Ao

date: late 15th or early 16th century

medium: Album leaf; ink on patterned paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Nymphs and Satyr in a Classical Landscape

date: probably 17th century

medium: Silver

subjects: Sculpture-miniature Landscapes

credit_line: Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Garbat, Manya Garbat Starr and Julian A. Garbat, by exchange; Edward Ablat Gift and Rogers Fund, 1979


title: The Two Statues from a set of the Story of Artemisia

creator: Antoine Caron

date: early 17th century

medium: Wool, silk (18-19 warps per inch, 8 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Lindo J. Johnson, 1975


title: Pieces of slag from glazing process

medium: Glaze slag

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


title: Elisabetta Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino

creator: Adriano Fiorentino (Adriano di Giovanni de' Maestri)

medium: Lead

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Saint Francis Borja

creator: Pedro  Duque Cornejo

medium: Pen and dark brown ink over traces of black chalk underdrawing; ground line drawn with pen and brown ink. On off-white paper

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


title: Limestone statuette of a male votary

date: probably mid-6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread; plain weave, brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


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: Terracotta head of a man

date: early 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Blunt Tipped Arrow

medium: Reed, wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Tumbler

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

date: after 1886

medium: Pressed cranberry glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, 1953


title: Pectoral ornament with face

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Brass, iron

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Edo people

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


title: Prayer Book

medium: Ink, and opaque watercolors on paper; embossed leather cover

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2025


title: Jar decorated with dragons

medium: Porcelain with underglaze iron-brown design

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of Michael B. Kim and Kyung Ah Park, 2022


title: Looking Glass

medium: Gilt gesso, pine, wire, eglomise tablet

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Onyx Bowl

date: before 16th century

medium: Onyx marble (tecalli)

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-container Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Bette Howett, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Tomb Erected by Maximilian for His Father; and The Imperial Treasure; with Portraits of Maximilian's Ancestors and Relatives, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut and letterpress

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Untitled

creator: Jean Martin Renaud

medium: Plaster

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Jar

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1911


title: Panel fragment

creator: Barthélemy Prieur

date: 16th century

medium: Carved walnut (?)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Furniture plaque carved in relief with a striding, falcon-headed winged sphinx supported by two kneeling figures

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 3rd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Reeds and Geese

creator: Tesshū Tokusai

medium: One of a pair of hanging scrolls; ink on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Chakrasamvara in Sexual Union with His Consort, Vajravarahi, Leaf from a dispersed Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom) Manuscript

date: 12th century

medium: Ink and color on palm leaf

country: India (Bihar or West Bengal)

subjects:
Painting
India (bihar or west bengal)
Palms

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1985


title: Male Head, Probably from a Serving Statue

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Le Joeuer de Luth (The Lute Player), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les Nains Grotesques" (Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs)

creator: Jacques Callot

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: The Fifteen Mysteries and the Virgin of the Rosary

creator: Netherlandish (Brussels) Painter

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Anonymous Bequest, 1984


title: [Man, Full-length]

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Pirie MacDonald and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tutchings, 1943


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot


title: Cylinder seal with cultic scene

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Veined orange and white Carnelian (Quartz)

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


title: Architectural Fantasy

creator: Joseph Lemercier

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and black and gray ink

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Leatherstocking's Rescue

creator: John Quidor

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1978


title: Clark Calvin "Old Fox" Griffith, Pitcher, Milwaukee, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Incense burner

medium: Brass inlaid with gold

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Newhaven Fishermen

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Earflare

date: 1st century BCE–7th century CE

medium: Gold, silver

country: Lambayeque (?)

subjects: Metal-ornament Lambayeque

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


title: Headband

date: 7th–10th century

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Cordial Glass

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Panel

medium: Silk on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Humming nuts

medium: nut or fruit shells, cord

country: Native American (Guyanese)

subjects:
Aerophone-free aerophone
Native american (guyanese)
Fruits
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Pommel in the shape of coiled animals

date: ca. 6th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Scythian

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Jar

creator: Thomas W. Commeraw

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Chair Strip with Antiquities

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread embroidery on silk satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Francis Keally, in memory of his wife, Mildred Taber Keally, 1978


title: Mr. Edward Eddy as Posthumous: "Kneel not to me" (Cymbelline, Act 5, Scene 5)

creator: Martin & Johnson, New York

medium: Stipple and line engraving

credit_line: Gift of Edward Fenton, 1952


title: Chandelier

creator: Archer and Warner

medium: Bronze, brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Snuffbox

creator: Mennecy

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes, 1924


title: Marie Petipa

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Glass cinerary urn (olla)

date: mid-1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Frieze with Tritons and Nymphs

creator: Girolamo Mocetto

medium: Engraving

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


title: Confidences in the Garden

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on fine cream laid Japanese paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: The Fortune Teller

creator: Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

medium: Enamel on copper

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


title: Pierced Window Screen (Jali)

date: early 17th century

medium: Marble; pierced

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1985


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: 18th century

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Armchair (part of a set)

creator: Georges Jacob

medium: Walnut, gilded

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1943


title: Glass jar with four handles

date: 4th–5th century CE

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Charlier. Ernile, Frédéric. 40 ans, né à Brest (Finistère). Peintre. Vol. 18/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Sampler

medium: Linen and silk on linen

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


title: Flower Basket in the Shape of a Cicada

date: mid-19th century

medium: Bamboo, rattan

subjects: Basketry Japan Flowers


title: Pen Box and Glass Case

creator: Fathallah Shirazi

medium: Lacquer

credit_line: Gift of Dara Zargar, 2018


title: Cane handle

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Spoon

creator: Daniel Henchman

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Tinsel and metal thread

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Fringe

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: 6th/5th centuries 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


date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Eva Shannon, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Ostracon

medium: Pottery, ink

credit_line: Gift of Herbert E. Winlock, 1924


title: To Commemorate the 700th Anniversary of the Mayoralty of London, 1889

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of the Corporation of the City of London, 1908


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


title: Pierre Nivelle, Bishop of Luçon, after Lasne

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etched in tin; fifth state of five (Schneiderman)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: The Watermill, after a painting by Ruisdaël

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching with drypoint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: 310. Olivier. Philippe, Octave. 25 ans, né le 29/6/68 à Paris XVIIle. Plombier. Anarchiste. 16/3/94.

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative


title: Monkey

creator: Georges Seurat

medium: Conté crayon

credit_line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967


title: Evening slippers

medium: silk

country: British

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


title: Earring

date: 11th–13th century

medium: Gold

credit_line: The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1980


title: Love and Dust

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Turkish woman

credit_line: Bequest of Edward C. Post, 1915


title: Belmead, Plantation Mansion for Philip St. George Cocke, Powhatan Co., Virginia (partial elevations of entrance facade, greenhouse facade and James River facade, shown as continuous)

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Watercolor and ink on paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro 3rd as a Man who Stands with Arms Folded near a Brush Fence

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Götz von Berlichingen Writing His Memoirs

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Graphite on beige wove paper

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Cloister Arcades with Double Capitals

date: 13th–14th century

medium: stone

country: French

credit_line: Gift of James J. Rorimer, 1937


title: In the Laboratory

creator: Henry Alexander

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1939


title: Fragment of a Wall Decoration

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Plaster; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Bowl of Jujube Berries

medium: Pottery, jujube berries

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Bowl with Removable, Stopped Lid

medium: Bronze alloy

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, by exchange, 1988


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

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: Leaves from a Breviary

date: 15th century (?)

medium: Ink and gold on parchment

country: Franco-Netherlandish

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Franco-netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Alice M. Dike, in memory of her father, Henry A. Dike, 1928


title: Shrimp and Udo Plant

creator: Uematsu Tōshū

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

subjects: Botany Print Japan Crustaceans

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


title: Figures, flowers, and landscapes

creator: Chen Hongshou

date: one leaf dated 1627

medium: Album of eleven leaves; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Flowers Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wan-go H. C. Weng, 1999


title: African, from Types of Nationalities (N240) 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: Century Vase

creator: Karl L. H. Müller

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Scheider Gift, 1996


title: Martin Euclid Thompson

creator: William Sidney Mount

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Louise Thompson, 1959


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Anson, Captain, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, by exchange, 2008


title: Bottle

medium: Porcelain with crackled green glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Uchiwa Daiko

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, metal

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / frame drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Bottle

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Glass; cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Strip

date: 17th century

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: George F. Miller, Baseball Player, Catcher, Pittsburgh, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Cape

date: mid-19th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Alan Wolfe, 1954


title: Scarab with device of an antelope

medium: Blue glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Altar Candlestick

medium: Brass

country: South Netherlandish or German

subjects:
Metalwork
South netherlandish or german

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Strip

date: second half 16th century

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1906


title: Design for a Chimneypiece

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Miniature vase with floral medallions

medium: Porcelain painted with overglaze enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Adam Rolland (1734–1819)

creator: James Tassie

medium: Glass paste

credit_line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1948


title: Standing Man in a Full Coat and High Hat with a Medaillon

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Views of Famous Places in Japan (Fusō meisho zue) 扶桑名所図会

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink, color, and white paint on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


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

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


title: Mrs. Charlotte Lennox

creator: John Smart

medium: Pencil and watercolor on card

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Two Beads and Slide

medium: Jadeite

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven


title: Seated Figure

medium: Stone

country: Guerrero

subjects: Stone-sculpture Guerrero

credit_line: Gift of the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation, 2012


title: Two satyrs, traditionally known as the 'Mockers,' laughing and using their limbs to pin a drawing to a tree trunk, at left a smiling man points toward the drawing, at right is a laughing woman, a globe underneath one of the satyrs

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Medal of Lieutenant Stephen Cassin

creator: Moritz Fürst

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Vase

creator: George E. Ohr

medium: Earthenware

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: The Immaculate Conception

creator: Lorenzo Tiepolo

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Dr. and Mrs. Goodwin M. Breinin Gift and A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1996


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Bird on a Camellia Branch

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Birds

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Piece

country: Japan

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


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Terracotta fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Caerphilly Castle, from "Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales, in the year 1797"

creator: John Hill

date: January 1, 1800

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Accordion (Flutina)

creator: Frank Colbrun

medium: Rosewood, poplar, mother-of-pearl, brass, paper, leather

country: Possibly Belgium

subjects: Aerophone-free reed-concertina / accordion

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, by exchange with The New York Public Library, 1976.


title: Wall revetment fragment, marbled pattern

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Steatite pyramidal seal

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


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

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Illustration to William Cowper's Poem "The Diverting History of John Gilpin": John Gilpin Is Delayed Going to Church by Three Customers Entering His Linendraper's Shop

creator: John Whetten Ehninger

medium: Graphite and gray ink on Bristol board

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1994


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, brass

country: Madurese

subjects: Krisse Madurese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Chintz appliquéd quilt

creator: Mary Malvina Cook Taft

medium: Cotton, Chintz appliquéd

credit_line: Gift of Miss Elsey R. Taft, 1970


title: The Emperor, from "The Dance of Death"

creator: Hans Holbein the Younger

date: ca. 1526, published 1538

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Oval dish

creator: Christian Drentwett II

medium: Silver

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


title: Ornament for a Headdress

medium: Amber, pearl beads, coral, kingfisher blue

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1935


title: Plate

date: late 14th–early 15th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Giovanni David

medium: Etching

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


title: Vessel lid

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

subjects:
Sasanian
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Gold Coin Showing King Kumaragupta as an Archer

medium: Gold

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

credit_line: Gift of Barbara Stoller-Miller, 1990


title: Interior of a Chapel

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and ink with gray, brown and pink wash

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


title: Glass hemispherical bowl

date: mid-2nd–early 1st century BCE

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Knife

medium: Nephrite

country: Switzerland

subjects: Jade Switzerland

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Panels and Door from the Hoagland Farm, Griggstown, New Jersey

medium: Painted pine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: First Riding Lesson

creator: Charles Jacque

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Lucas and Cornelius van Wael

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; fourth state of four (NH)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Part of 21.9.502

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Nightgown

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Henry Necarsulmer, 1937


title: Plate 14: Richardson's Show, from "World in Miniature"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Tile

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Delftware (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century


title: Bath Scraper

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed, molded in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Ball

medium: Clay or mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Priest Holding a Service Before an Altar

creator: Pierre Alexandre Wille


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Le Colère, from "Caractères des passions, gravés sur les desseins de l'illustre Monsieur le Brun"

creator: Sébastien Le Clerc, le Jeune

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: The Sleeping Shepherd; Early Morning

creator: Samuel Palmer

medium: Etching on chine collé; third state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Sheich Ibrahim and His Visitors, from "Illustrated  Arabian Nights' Entertainments"

creator: Dalziel Brothers

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: A Picture Book Mirror of Various Occupations (Wakoku shoshoku ezukushi) 和国諸職絵尽　諸織 絵本鏡

creator: Hishikawa Moronobu 菱川師宣

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

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Family Foundation Gift, in honor of John T. Carpenter, 2013


title: Sari

date: 19th century

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear
India

credit_line: Gift of Miss Ethel Frankau, 1950


title: Reverse Copy of Le Vieux Mendiat a une Seule Béquille (The Old Beggar with One Crutch), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Wreath fragment

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Oil on wood, transferred to Masonite

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mary V. T. Eberstadt, by exchange, 1972


title: Four Saints Adoring Christ Crucified on the Sacred Heart

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut; second state of two (Hollstein)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Miser's purse

date: mid-19th century

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Miss Florence N. Levy, 1946


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Candelabrum (one of a pair)

creator: Daniel Friedrich Metius

date: second quarter 18th century

medium: Silver gilt

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


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

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


title: Border

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morton S. Paton, 1938


title: The Broncho Buster

creator: Frederic Remington

medium: Bronze

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Helen R. Bleibtreu, 1985


title: Cruet-stand with cruets

creator: Levavasseur

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: A female with hair tied back and a bald male facing each other

medium: Etching; third state of three (NH)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


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

date: dated 1645

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Porringer

creator: Ebenezer Moulton

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Baroque seed pearls, green jadeite stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Villégiature, from Nos Troupiers, published in Le Charivari, July 26, 1859

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Haniwa Dish

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Sculpture Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund


title: Ceremonial Partisan of the Swiss Guard of the Prince Electors of Saxony

medium: Steel, wood, textile (silk)

country: German, Saxony

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
German, saxony

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1982


title: Seal, lentoid

medium: Steatite

country: Minoan, Crete

subjects:
Gems
Minoan, crete
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Peasants of the Alto-Douro

creator: Joseph James Forrester

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Chair

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Promenades de Paris, ou collection de vues pittoresque de ses jardins publics, etc. Premier Cahier

creator: J. Philibert

medium: Aquatint

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1964


title: Kerchief (Pañuelo)

date: first half 19th century

medium: Pineapple fiber

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Mary Sloan Hess, wife of Col. L.T. Hess, 1937


title: Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, page 22 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Mosque Lamp

medium: Glass; enamel-painted and gilded with applied elements

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

date: late 10th–early 9th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of the Greek Government, 1930


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

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


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Panel from a Box with Scenes from Romance Literature

date: 14th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: French

subjects: French Ivories-elephant


title: Drachm of Ephesus, 330 B.C., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) 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: Tureen with cover (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; monochrome glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: The New Year – 1869 – Drawn by Winslow Homer (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XIII)

creator: Winslow Homer

date: January 9, 1869

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Textile

medium: Silk, metal thread

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Frederick Langenheim

creator: W. & F. Langenheim

medium: Daguerreotype

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


title: Saint George Standing with Two Angels

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1920


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Candlestick (one of a set of six)

creator: J. C. (probably), London

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: The Tower of Lacock Abbey

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

date: before February 1845

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Jean Horblit, in memory of Harrison D. Horblit, 1994


title: Saint Christopher

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Needle

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Plate 38 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): Barbarians! (Bárbaros!)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, burin, burnisher

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne, 1951


title: Vase

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Porcelain with yellow glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Abraham and Isaac (reverse copy)

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; copy b II

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: The Prodigal Son

creator: Daniel Lindtmayer

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Christ and the Samaritan Woman

creator: Maerten de Vos

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941


title: Comment..., flots impudents!... vous ne savez donc pas qui vous portez en ce moment,...., from Émotions Nautiques, published in Le Charivari, October 26, 1859

date: October 26, 1859

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of four (Delteil; Hazard & Delteil)

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


title: Bath Scraper

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed, molded in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, semiprecious stones, gold, silver

country: Bornean

subjects: Krisse Bornean

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Pair of candlesticks

date: 19th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Bequest of Henry Victor Burgy, 1901


title: Coin (One and a Half Thaler) Showing Ferdinand I

date: 16th century

country: Austrian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
Austrian

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1926


title: View of the cross on the road entering Cintra

creator: Clementine de Brelaz

medium: Lithograph on chine collé on a larger support sheet

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


title: A Mountainous Landscape with a Waterfall

creator: Kerstiaen de Keuninck

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, L. H. P. Klotz and George T. Delacorte Jr. Gifts; Rogers, Marquand, Charles B. Curtis, and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds; and Gift of Eugen Boross and Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, by exchange, 1983


title: Galloon

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Peter, Saint Agnes, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Lucy, an Unidentified Female Saint, Saint Paul, and Saint John the Baptist, with Eve and the Serpent; the Annunciation

creator: Paolo di Giovanni Fei

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: House of Pompey at Albano

creator: Richard Wilson

medium: Black chalk touched with white chalk on gray paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Rangoon: Henzas on the East Side of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda

creator: Linnaeus Tripe

date: November 1855

medium: Albumen silver print from waxed paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors, and Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2012


title: Nîmes, Tour Magne

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

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


title: Silhouette Image of Kabuki Actor

creator: Utagawa Yoshiiku

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: View of the Hudson River from the Catskills

creator: Stanford White

medium: Oil on paper

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1999


title: Pectoral Disc Ornament

medium: Silver, chased, with applied and punched decoration, decorative wire, openwork, and table-cut carnelians

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry

credit_line: Gift of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf, 2016


title: Cuirass (Char-aina)

medium: Steel, textile (cotton), pigment, copper alloy leaf, lacquer

country: Persian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Persian
Armor parts-cuirasse


title: Panel

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Handkerchief

date: late 19th century

medium: Textiles-Embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1941


title: Pilaster

date: possibly 16th century

medium: Carved walnut, originally gilded

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Phaeton #142

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: Fragment of a Medallion

medium: Nephrite

country: China (possibly Turkestan)

subjects:
Jade
China (possibly turkestan)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Design for a Cartouche

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Black chalk heightened with white chalk on blue paper; framing lines in white chalk

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


title: The Resurrection

creator: Bernard van Orley

date: early 16th century

medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash. Framing line in pen and brown ink (by the artist)

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2008


title: Buckle Shank

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Bronze

country: Visigothic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Visigothic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Triumph of Death with three fates in an architectural frame above a wheel of fortune flanked by skeletons; a skull and an hour glass at top and with wheel intended to spin at center

creator: Andrea Andreani

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in brown

subjects:
Architecture
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Sacrifice of a Swan, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: published ca. 1599–1622

medium: Engraving; third state

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


title: Miss Litton as "The Conch Shell," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Shawl

medium: silk

country: Philippine

credit_line: Gift of Eleanora Eaton Brooks, 1975


title: Earring Fragment

date: 7th century

medium: Silver

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Library Scene

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 10th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Nenfro tomb-slab fragment

medium: Nenfro

country: Etruscan, probably Tarquinian

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Etruscan, probably tarquinian

credit_line: Purchase, The Manheim Foundation Inc. Gift, 1961


title: Design of Morning–glory and Other Flowers

creator: Ogata Kōrin

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Bust of a Roman

medium: Bronze, on a later wood socle

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


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: Preparatory Study for Plate 34 in "Maisons de plaisance" Vol. II

creator: Jacques François Blondel

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1986


title: Flower vase

medium: Nephrite, white with light greenish tint

subjects: Jade China Flowers


title: Scene from a Drama

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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


title: Jug with Assyrian-inspired decoration

medium: Stoneware

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: Cup and saucer

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Comedy Spectators, Tragedy Spectators

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: October 8, 1789

medium: Etching

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome underglaze painted under colorless glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Farm Scene

creator: American Artist

date: second half 19th century

medium: Watercolor

country: American

subjects: Drawing American

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Coach #962

medium: Watercolor and ink and gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Gold Sheet Fragment

medium: Gold

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-ornament Peruvian

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


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: Bowl

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze, polychrome enamels (Arita ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Hip Wrapper (Tuppotiya)

date: late 18th century

medium: Mordant- and resist-dyed plain-weave cotton

country: India (for Indonesian market)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
India (for indonesian market)
Textiles-painted and dyed

credit_line: Purchase, Fernando Family Trust Gift, in honor of Dr. Quintus and Mrs. Wimala Fernando, 2010


title: Halberd

date: dated 1596

medium: Steel, wood, textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
Austrian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Chisel

medium: Nephrite

country: Canada (British Columbia)

subjects:
Jade
Canada (british columbia)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


date: 5th century BCE


title: Bowl

medium: Red polished pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: The Idle Broom

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Peaks of Mount Huang

creator: Mei Qing

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

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


title: Pinkney, 3rd Base, Brooklyn, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Stemmyer, Pitcher, Boston, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Rocky Landscape with Pines

creator: Zhang Xun

date: before 1346

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of Oscar L. Tang Family, 2008


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Design for a Sofa Seat Cover (?) with an Ornamental Frame Containing a Vase with a Large Bundle of Flowers and Leaves and Decorated with Acanthus Leaves and Two Fleurs de Lys

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing
Flowers

credit_line: Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Actress wearing diamond-patterned costume, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: A peasant woman, standing in center facing right, carrying one basket on her head and another in her right arm, another peasant woman on a donkey and a figure on foot to left in the background, from "Various figures and lands" (Diverse figure e paesi)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Fred J. Mann, Right Field, Hartford, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


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: Onoe Kikugorō in the role of Yaoya Oshichi and Nakamura Kiyosaburō as her lover the koshō (page) Kichisaburō

creator: Okumura Masanobu

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


title: La tour Saint-Jacques

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: The Secret History of Crim Con, Fig 1

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Broadside with 48 scenes relating to the world upside down

creator: José Noguera

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Earthenware; incised under green glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Inrō with Two Standing Horses; Seal and Inscription (reverse)

creator: Kano Naonobu

date: mid- 18th century

medium:
Four cases; lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e, gold foil application, and mother-of-pearl inlay on black ground
Netsuke: horse; ivory
Ojime: iron bead with cricket and flower in gold overlay

subjects: Inrō Japan Flowers

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


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Distribution of the American Art-Union Prizes, at the Tabernacle, Broadway, December 24, 1847

creator: Francis D'Avignon

medium: Lithograph with tint stone

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


title: Star-Shaped Tile

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted with touches of cobalt on opaque white glaze under transparent glaze

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


title: Helmet with Talismanic Inscriptions

date: 18th–early 19th century

medium: Steel; damascened with gold

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


title: Fille de Cio isle de l'Archipel, plate 10 from "Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet" (Collection of Various Foreign Figures, Devised by F. Boucher, Painter of the King and Engraved [etched] by F. Ravenet)

creator: Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Stela of Horemkhauef

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Bust of a Bishop

date: 15th century

medium: Wood, paint

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-wood French

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1937


title: Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Design Amulet, a Double-Falconhead Shank Pierced Transversally on the Back, Device showing Two Hares Head-to-tail

medium: Rock crystal

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Cotton Rose Mallows in the Rain

creator: Okada Baison

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Roses

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


title: Coin

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Model of the Mahabodhi Temple

date: 12th century

medium: Quartz-muscovite-chlorite-talc phyllite

country: India, Bihar

subjects:
Architecture
Sculpture
India, bihar

credit_line: Gift of John and Fausta Eskenazi, 2006


title: Bonang Barung or Kromo

date: late 19th century

medium: Bronze, wood, felt, polychrome

country: Javanese

subjects: Idiophone-struck-gong Javanese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cap

date: late 1810s

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Claggett WIlson, 1941


title: Seated Buddha Protected by Naga (front), Dancing Multi-Headed Hevajra (back)

date: 13th century

medium: Ivory

country: Thailand or Cambodia

subjects:
Sculpture
Thailand or cambodia

credit_line: Purchase, The Randall & Kathryn Smith Foundation and Robert Lehrman Gifts, 2002


title: Lady & Servant

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Battle of Milesimo, 1796 (First Italian Campaign)

creator: Paris Mint

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of Hon. Levi P. Morton, 1885


title: Four-leaf clover, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 5) 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: Harpoon head

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Ornamental Knife

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Copper

country: Inca

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-implement
Inca

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


title: Judgment of Paris

creator: Pinturicchio

medium: Fresco, transferred to canvas and attached to wood panels

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

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


title: L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Watteau Pientre du Roy en son Academie Roïale de Peinture et Sculpture Gravé d'après ses Tableaux & Desseins originaux...par les Soins de M. de Jullienne, Volume I

creator: Antoine Watteau

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert N. Straus, 1928


title: The Fall of Mankind

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut in two blocks, printed in gray-brown and black; second of two states

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


title: Gold Coins Cover the Ground

medium: Woodblock print; ink on paper with additional hand coloring

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Purchase, C.C. Wang Family Fund Gift, 2025


title: James Edward "Jim" Canavan, Left Field, Omaha Omahogs/ Lambs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Portrait Head

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container Portraits

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


title: Polyhedral Cup with Decoration of Knotted Cord

medium: Underglaze blue (Nabeshima ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Steatite pendant

medium: Steatite

country: Minoan

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Fibula

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Amber

country: Possibly Etruscan

subjects:
Miscellaneous-amber
Possibly etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: [Grand Army Review, Washington, D.C.]

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative


title: Principal Source of the Jordan, Flowing From a Cave Near Banias, Near the Site of the Northern City of Dan, the Frontier Town of Israel

creator: Francis Frith

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1973


title: Shōki, the Demon Queller

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

date: dated 1790

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Cup with cover

medium: Gilt silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Vase fragment

date: late 1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Vase
Roman, gaul

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Border

date: 17th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Charles de Gonzague, Duc de Nevers, attached letter

creator: Thomas de Leu

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Étui

medium: Copper, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890


title: Inlay depicting the squatting god Anhur (Onuris)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Annie Sutherland, 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: Vue d'un ancien chateau scitué sur le chemin de Rome à Naples from Differentes vues dessiné d'après nature... dans les environs de Rome et de Naples

creator: Adélaide Allou

date: 18th century

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1991


title: Cassone

date: early 15th century

medium: Wood, gesso, gold leaf, velvet

country: Italian

subjects: Woodwork-furniture Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1905


title: Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to her Children as her Most Precious Ornaments

creator: Gillis Mostaert the Elder

date: mid-16th–late 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and blue wash

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2015


title: Terracotta fragment from a pot

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: String of Big Ball Beads

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 15th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: The Last Three Months of the Year

creator: Ding Liangxian

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Vinaigrette

creator: Samuel Pemberton

medium: Silver

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


title: Bronze candelabrum finial showing a man embracing a woman

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Last Judgment, from Hymmelwagen auff dem, wer wol lebt...

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China or Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China or japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic


title: Creamer

medium: Pressed glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Design for Landau, No. 3597a

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Hanging

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. Isaac Newell, 1958


title: Two Forces

creator: Sir John Tenniel

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Evening, from the series The Times of the Day

creator: Philipp Otto Runge

medium: Engraving, second state of two

credit_line: Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives, 2007


title: Martin, from the Birds of America series (N37) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Bowl

date: 17th or 18th century

medium: Glass; blown and molded, a stampatura

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


title: Lead figure of a horseman

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Writing box with decoration of quails and millet

date: 17th century

medium: Lacquer

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2019


title: Snuffbox

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt-metal

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

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


title: Design for a Candelabra

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, graphite

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1963


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Covered box with two phoenixes

date: second half of the 13th–14th century

medium: Porcelain with impressed decoration under blueish white glaze (Jingdezhen qingbai ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Paul Singer, 1977


title: Table cover

date: 15th century (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


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