title: Jar with Writing

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Plate 8: Otho in profile facing left, from "The Twelve Caesars"

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching and engraving

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) via The Met Open Access.

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Tumbler

creator: Philip Goelet

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Spoon with Palm Fronds

date: 5th–6th century

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-silver Byzantine Palms

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Box for Personal Accessories (Tebako) with Shells and Seaweed Design

date: 17th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e, and e-nashiji on black lacquer ground

subjects:
Seaweed & algae
Lacquer
Japan
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Dish

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Imperial Theatre Robe

date: 18th century

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-woven

credit_line: Gift of Alice Boney, in memory of Pauline Simmons, 1986


title: [Actress standing in long cape], 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: 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: Award of National Export Exposition

creator: Augustus C. Frank

medium: White metal

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wait, 1907


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

creator: Group of Vienna O.565

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Button

medium: [no medium available]

country: Chinese

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Painter of the Nicosia Olpe

date: ca. 550 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Firman of Dara Shikoh

medium: Ink on paper

credit_line: Gift of Terence McInerney, 1997


title: Teapot

creator: Israel Trask

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Gerry, 1985


title: Tiger Hill

creator: Lu Zhi

date: datable to 1550s

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2024


title: The Sack of Antwerp from Events in the History of the Netherlands, France, Germany and England between 1533 and 1608

creator: Frans Hogenberg

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

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


title: String of beads

date: 30 BC–364 AD

medium: Faience


title: Cantle Plate

medium: Steel, gold

country: German, Augsburg or Nuremberg

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-saddle
German, augsburg or nuremberg

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Section and elevation of the Colosseum in Rome

creator: Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Clara Rosenberger

date: mid-16th century

medium: Honestone

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Thomas H. "Pat" Deasley, Catcher, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Design for Ceiling, either for 13 Berners Street, Westminster, London, or Whitton Park, Middlesex

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Khambavati Ragini:  Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Marwar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, marwar)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Uzi Zucker, 1978


title: Jewel casket

creator: Michael Mann

medium: Brass gilt; green silk lining

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: View Near Fort Montgomery (No. 22 (later changed to No. 18) of The Hudson River Portfolio)

creator: John Hill

medium: Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; first state of three (Koke)

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


title: Classical Battle Scene; Verso: Peter and John Heal a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

creator: Bartholomeus Spranger

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over red chalk on blue paper. Partially visible framing lines in pen and brown ink on left and bottom edges

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund and funds from various donors, 2001


title: [Mrs. Louis Kentin in Empire Dress]

creator: Thomas Eakins

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

credit_line: Gift of Julius Ravzin, 1979


title: Plate 7, from "Livre Nouveau de Prinsipes D'Ornemens, tres facil. Pour apprendre a Dessigner"

creator: Nicolas Guérard

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


title: Collar

medium: Linen

country: Irish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Sterling Peters, 1924


title: Poem on Strolling in the Moonlight

creator: Wen Zhengming

date: dated 1543

medium: Album of thirty-two pages; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

credit_line: Gift of John M. Crawford Jr., 1982


title: Yui

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Henry IV, from the English Monarchs series

creator: Jean Dassier

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Stephen K. Scher Gift, 2014


title: Weight (?)

date: 3rd millennium BCE (?)

medium: Stone, light brown

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Offering Bearers in a Funerary Procession, Tomb of Rekhmire

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

medium: Tempera on Paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Key

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Design for the Headpiece of the "Gazette de France"

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

medium: Red and black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Tempest

creator: Angélique Moitte

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Document Sealing with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Fibula, fragment

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Amber, bronze

subjects: Miscellaneous-amber Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Fan Holder

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: The Children's Nurse Josephine

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching; only state

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


title: Cage crinoline

creator: Worcester Skirt Company

medium: linen, metal

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


title: Lintel

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Cap

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. R.S. Makepeace, 1946


title: An old woman spinning, spindle in her right hand, distaff in her left

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Pen lithograph

credit_line: Acquisitions Fund, 2014


title: Frieze

creator: Giovanni Dalmata (Giovanni Duknovich di Traù)

date: second half 15th century

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


date: first half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Clock

creator: Simon Willard

medium: Mahogany, mahogany veneer, white pine, brass, glass

credit_line: Gift of Mary B. Walton, in memory of her husband, John S. Walton, 1991


title: Back View of a Male Figure Wearing a Cloak

creator: Henri Lehmann

medium: Graphite and estompe

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Carl L. Selden Gift, in memory of Carl L. Selden, 1983


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Earring with plain loop and disc

medium: Gold

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


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Worcester Factory

medium: Porcelain (soft-paste)

country: British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Seated Bodhisattva, Possibly Padmapani

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Stone

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Piece

date: 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Fringe

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Forge of Vulcan

creator: Johann Friedrich Greuter

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


creator: Makron

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Miss Sauthetine, 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: Low hemispheroid seal

medium: Steatite, green black

country: Iran

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Morvan. Félicien. 45 ans, né le 8/6/49 à Kerity (Côte du Nord). Menuisier. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Pair of tassels

date: 17th century

medium: Linen and metal thread

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


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: above, royal figures approaching a suppliant goddess; below, a banquet scene

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1985


title: Sugar sifter

medium: Silver

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Column Base

date: 20th century

medium: Cement

country: European or American (?)

subjects:
European or american
Reproductions-sculpture

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Terracotta pyxis (cosmetic box)

date: 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Gift of Samuel G. Ward, 1875


title: Initial letter A on patterned background

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Woodcut, criblé ground

credit_line: Gift of Henry W. Kent, 1941


title: Bottle

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze, stopper of black lacquer (Arita ware, Imari type)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Plate 97: Hippomenes Winning the Race with Atalanta (Atalantam Veneris ope vincit Hippomenes), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

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


title: Geometrical Figure

creator: Frederic, Lord Leighton

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1942


title: The Barn

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching; third state of ten

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Linen; tapestry weave

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Terracotta plaque

date: 27 BCE–68 CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Private, Fusiliers, Switzerland, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Stone Mace Head

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Landscape

creator: Pierre Nicholas Camus

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Card Number 220, Miss Reyes, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: A man wearing a plumed hat pointing at an inscribed block while looking over his right shoulder at a screaming man, frontispiece for "Figurine"

creator: Salvator Rosa

medium: Etching with drypoint

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Storage jar (one of a pair)

creator: Domenico Veneziano

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lilly

creator: William Blake

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

subjects:
Print
Flowers
Roses
Shells & molluscs
Trees


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Decanter

creator: Keene Glass Works

medium: Blown-molded glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Schiff, 1980


title: Pin

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

creator: Wolfgang

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Scarab of King Sekhemre Sewadjtawy Sebekhotep

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Chalice veil

medium: Linen, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Pair of Negoro Lacquer Candlesticks

date: late 16th century

medium: Wood with layers of black and red lacquer (Negoro ware)

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


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

country: Greek, Attic


title: Nose ornament

creator: Moche artist(s)

medium: Silver, gold

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: Netsuke of Seated Figure; Daruma

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Tile Inlay of a Torso

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Edward S. Harkness Gift and by exchange, 1922, 1929, 1935


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


title: Pin

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Steven D. Robinson, 1981


title: Ecce Homo, from "The Small Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Earthenware; slip-painted under green glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, graphite, black chalk

subjects: Architecture Album

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


title: Bowl fragment

date: 4th century CE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of F. Gerald Simpson, 1923


title: Cup

date: 17th–early 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Vase fragment

date: 7th century BCE

country: East Greek

subjects:
Vase
East greek

credit_line: Gift of Elinor R. Price, 1926


title: Galloon

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Crouching Baku (Mythical Creature)

creator: Sadatake

date: 18th century


title: Half Ground Plan and Half Elevation for a Catafalque with Royal Crown Surmounting Casket

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

medium: Pen, brown ink and gray and yellowish washes

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Partial design for the decoration of a ceiling

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite, pen and ink, watercolor and gouache on wove paper;  inlaid in blue wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Fragments of Lamp

medium: Glass; enameled

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th–7th century CE

medium: Stone

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Vase

date: early 19th century

medium: Pottery with blue and white glaze

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


title: Sealing wax case (étui)

creator: Melchior-René Barré

medium: Varicolored gold

credit_line: Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1937


title: Glass Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Pot metal glass

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Parlor from the James Duncan Jr. house, Haverhill, Massachusetts

medium: White pine and plaster

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Belt Plaques with Decoration of Deer among Trees

date: 15th century

medium: Chalcedony

country: China

subjects: Hardstone China Trees

credit_line: Gift of Charlotte C. Weber, 2025


title: Baluster

date: second half 17th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Mrs. James Brown Potter, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Comme ils en étaient là, arrive l'oncle

creator: Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001


title: Bowl with Inscription Cartouches and Repeating Floral Ornament

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Copper; chased in low relief

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal
Flowers


title: Chair

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Necklace with pendant and glass beads

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Gold, glass paste

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1925


title: Picture Book of the Warriors' Sandals (Ehon musha waraji) 絵本武者鞋

creator: Kitao Shigemasa 北尾重政

date: Preface dated 1787 (Tenmei 7)

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Chimneypiece, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Graphite and red chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Arrowhead

medium: Sandstone, chert or flint

subjects: Stone 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: Cup and saucer

creator: Zurich Pottery and Porcelain Factory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Suspenders

date: 19th century

medium: silk

country: European

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Return from Egypt

creator: Francesco Brizio

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: French Painter

medium: Oil on copper

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1942


title: Fruit basket (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Fruits

credit_line: Gift of Madame Lilliana Teruzzi, 1981


title: Terracotta jug

date: 1st century CE

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Shabti

medium: Faience

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


title: Colonel H.J. Daniell, full length to the left

creator: George Angelo Crowhurst

medium: Pen and ink, brush and gray wash, gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: The Glenn Tilley Morse Collection, Bequest of Glenn Tilley Morse, 1950


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Terracotta bowl fragment

date: ca. 15–35 CE


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

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial O, from an Antiphonary

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: German

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

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


title: Scarab Inscribed King's Daughter

medium: Egyptian blue

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Establishment of the Public Coinage of Medals

creator: Bertrand Andrieu

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: La Vierge a l'enfant

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: Bucket

medium: Porcelain decorated in blue (Koto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


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: Piece

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Benjamin Franklin

creator: Armand-Auguste Caqué

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Preparing Tea by a Mountain Gorge

creator: Aoki Mokubei

medium: Folding fan mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Jugate busts of Czarevitch Paul and Maria Feodorovna of Russia

creator: James Tassie

medium: Cast glass

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1999


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

creator: Muhammad ibn Taj al-Din Haidar Muzahhib Shirazi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1952


title: The naming of Saint Peter as Head of the Church, after Raphael's Stanza dell'incendio del Borgo, from a series of 15 plates, depicting Raphael's works for the Vatican stanze and the Sistine Chapel tapestries

creator: Pietro Santi Bartoli

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: Four-Sided Pillar with Loving Couples (Mithunas)

medium: Limestone

country: India (Andhra Pradesh, Nagarjunakonda)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (andhra pradesh, nagarjunakonda)

credit_line: Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1986


title: Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Beggars at a Doorway

creator: Master of the Béguins, French or Flemish, active 1650–60 (possibly Abraham Willemsens, Flemish, active by 1627, died 1672)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: Disk Brooch

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Millefiore enamel, bronze

subjects: Roman Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Hand Cross (mäsqäl)

date: 18th century

medium: Wood

country: Amhara or Tigrinya peoples

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Amhara or tigrinya people

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Milton F. Rosenthal Gift and funds from various donors, 1997


title: Saint John the Baptist Appearing Before Herod

creator: Augustin Braun

date: late 16th–mid 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown-red and blue-green wash, over a sketch in black chalk (?)

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2008


title: Spear

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, brass

country: probably Saudi Arabian

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Probably saudi arabian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: right upper arm with Aten cartouches

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Tea urn

creator: P. B., Paris

medium: Silver plate

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carl G. Matland, 1988


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

creator: Edinburgh Painter

date: ca. 500 BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Cup in the shape of silver ingot

date: first half 19th century

medium: Porcelain covered with gilt (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Mirror case

date: 17th century

medium: Leather, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume accessorie

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


title: Nebethetepet or Nehemetaway

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Socks

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss Minna Ritzmann, 1911


title: Card Number 115, Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved and painted


title: Piece from a Kosode with Incomplete Floral Pattern

medium: Resist-dyed silk satin damask (rinzu) with gold leaf

country: Japan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Japan
Flowers
Textiles-dyed

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


title: The Mocking of Christ, from Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1919


title: Tile

medium: Delftware (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Stone, gray

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1985


title: Sutton (An Excursion to Brighthelmstone)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Sample

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mme. Chatron, 1906


title: Sardonyx cameo of the infant Harpokrates

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Sardonyx, gold, enamel

country: Roman or Greek

subjects:
Gems
Roman or greek
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, 1910


title: Shield

medium: Wood, iron, gesso, polychrome, pigskin, silver leaf

country: German, Nuremberg

subjects:
Shield
German, nuremberg

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Florence Blumenthal, 1925


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

country: Greek, Attic


title: Glass pendant in the form of a lamp

medium: Glass

country: Hellenistic, Roman, or Islamic

subjects:
Glass
Hellenistic, roman, or islamic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Glass Fragment from a Vessel

date: 4th–early 5th century

country: Coptic

subjects:
Glass-vessel
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Caprices (Los Caprichos), plates 1-80

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin

credit_line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918


title: Sampler

creator: Laura Hyde

medium: Silk embroidery on linen

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Pendant

medium: Gold


title: Entry of the Polish Ambassador into Rome

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; first or second state of three

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Sugar Bowl

creator: Bailey and Kitchen

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: The restoration of the legislative body: –Hope that it will hold like this. –Hum... hummm! Maybe it wasn't enough to just re-plaster the walls., from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, October 20, 1869

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: October 20, 1869

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: Roundel with Bird in a Landscape and Small Sketches

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, graphite, gouache

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Ornament & architecture
Birds
Landscapes

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


title: Studies for European-Style Portrait Miniatures and a Damsel Arranging Flowers

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper

subjects: Codice Flowers Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Armchair

medium: Carved and gilded beechwood

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1945


title: Haniwa (Clay Sculpture) of a Female Shrine Attendant

date: 6th century

medium: Earthenware with traces of color

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Cup Plate

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Lacy pressed glass

credit_line: Bequest of Anne Du Pont Peyton, 1944


title: Dwarf tall clock

creator: Samuel Mulliken II

medium: Cherry, brass with white pine

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Ausschnitt, 1989


title: Newark Abbey, near Chertsey

creator: John Richardson Major

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Design drawing

creator: Christopher Dresser

date: ca. 1883, based on earlier design

medium: Graphite, ink, and gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1992


title: Column Base

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Netsuke of Horse and Rider

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Mei Cheng Sitting Alone

creator: Lu Zhi

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Herbert and Jeanine Coyne, 1991


title: Calash

medium: silk

country: probably British

credit_line: Alfred Z. Solomon-Janet A. Sloane Endowment Fund, 2015


title: The Viceroy's Boat, Tomb of Huy

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: The Wharfe, Yorkshire

creator: John Dillwyn Llewelyn

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: A Design for a Triptych with the Adoration of the Two Saints

creator: Jan Simonsz. Pynas

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2008


title: Daric with king

date: ca. 4th century BCE

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Edmund Kerper, 1952


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Dress

medium: Silk, mirror; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Teapot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Actress wearing red pointed cap, from Stars of the Stage, Second Series (N130) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: San Lorenzo, north portal, elevation (recto) San Lorenzo, north portal, cornice, profile (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone, varnished

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton and silk

country: Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frances de Forest Stewart, 1955


title: Collar

medium: linen

country: probably Italian

credit_line: Gift of Margaret L. Berger, in memory of Aline M. Leibman, 1988


title: New Hampshire, from the Industries of States series (N117) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: Sample

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Slip from palette inscribed for the king's son Khety Nebkau

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Robe à la française

country: British

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Drawing Showing Two Alternate Designs for a Cove Decoration

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Spear

medium: Wood

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1970


title: Design for Omnibus or Wagonette, no. 3956

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Portrait of Fénelon

creator: Pierre Michel Alix

medium: Color aquatint

subjects: Print Portraits

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


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


title: Composition with the Antique Fragments and a Leaning Vase, from 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: Elevation "della nuova Galleria"

creator: Giovanni Battista Silvestri

medium: Pen and ink, wash. On paper of O. & I. Honig

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Cuneiform tablet: private letter

date: ca. 1632 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Funerary Cone of the Scribe Amenemopet

medium: Pottery


title: View of Brattleboro, Vermont

creator: John Cheney

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Paul Magriel, 1962


title: Necklace

medium: metal, carnelian, amber

country: Moroccan

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Pair of overmirrors

creator: Philippe Laurent Roland

medium: Oak, painted and gilded

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bone pin with head in the form of a hand

date: mid-1st–3rd century CE

medium: Ivory or bone

country: Roman

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Roman
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: View of a City, plate XI from "Livre de paysages dédié à Monsieur de Beringhen"

creator: Sébastien Leclerc I

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


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

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: [Countess de Castiglione, from Série des Roses]

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Roses

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


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Ribbon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Ox

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Scent bottle

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1971


title: Wilton Garden, plate 1

creator: Isaac de Caus

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Teatro delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne..., page 15 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut, engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Salt

medium: Lacy pressed green glass

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


title: Piece

date: 17th 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: Card Number 146, Carrie Surrey, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: 東海道五十三次　府中　二丁町廓之図

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Eclectus Roratus Polychloros

creator: Edward Lear

medium: Watercolor and  gouache (bodycolor) over graphite or chalk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carll Tucker, in memory of Carll Tucker, 1962


title: Amitabha Buddha’s assembly in the Western Paradise

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Ink and traces of color on paper

country: Korea

subjects: Painting Korea

credit_line: Louis V. Bell, Mary Trumbull Adams and Harris Brisbane Dick Funds, 2011


title: Ten-light Grecian-style candelabrum (one of a pair)

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

date: modeled before 1860, possibly cast between 1857 and 1875, or between 1876 and 1899

medium: Bronze (sand cast)

credit_line: Gift of Maria A. S. de Reinis, 1976


title: Incised Painted Bowl

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Dish

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stoneware with light blue glaze (Jun ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Censer

date: before 1842

medium: Silver

country: Swiss or German

subjects:
Metalwork-silver
Swiss or german

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: How d'ye do?

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Button

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Ivory

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Snuffbox

medium: Enameled copper, copper-gilt mounts

country: German (Dresden?)

subjects:
Snuffboxe
German (dresden )

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Rocky Landscape with the Stigmatization of St. Francis (reverse copy)

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: A Musical Party

creator: Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

date: early 1650s

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Virgin of the Immaculate Conception Standing on Clouds

creator: Pedro  Duque Cornejo

medium: Black chalk reinforced with pen and dark brown ink; composition outlined with black chalk. On off-white paper

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


title: Netsuke

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Two Partially Draped Male Figures in a Pendentive

creator: Giovanni Battista Carlone

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Krautheimer, 1970


title: Roundel, disk with two goddesses

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Gold

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


title: Scarab of Ramesses II

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Evening slippers

medium: Silk, beads

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Edith Gardiner, 1926


title: Skirt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Personification of Faith

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; second state of three (copy in reverse)

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


title: Saint Augustine

medium: Pot-metal glass, colorless glass, and vitreous paint

country: Austrian

subjects: Glass-stained Austrian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1965


title: Plate 109: Iris Giving Sleep Juno's Command (Iris Somno Iunonis mandata exponit), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

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


title: His most Sacred Majesty King Charles the first giving his Royal Orders to his Secretary of War, Sir Edward Walker, Knight, concerning the great Rebellion

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Sankofa bird gold weight

creator: Akan artist

medium: Brass

country: Akan peoples

subjects:
Metal-implement
Akan people
Birds

credit_line: Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1994


title: Cover fragment

medium: Drawnwork

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. R.W. de Forest, 1935


title: Sampler

medium: Drawnwork, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bottle

medium: Blown, pattern-molded glass

country: American

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Schiff, 1980


title: Set of Two Ornaments

date: Last quarter of the 10th–last quarter of the 15th century

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: The Chastisement of Luxury

creator: Eugenio Lucas

medium: Brush and dark brown wash with traces of red chalk

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1942


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Jar

date: 8th–5th century BCE

medium: Stoneware with impressed decoration

country: China

credit_line: Gift of Diane and Oscar Schafer, 1986


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed,   open-work lace paper,   watercolor, die-cut scraps, gilt and silvered scrap, satin, silk moire, ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Palais de Karnak, les Obélisques

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden (View from the South)

creator: Jan van der Heyden

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Gift of Edith Neuman de Végvár, in honor of her husband, Charles Neuman de Végvár, 1964


title: Siphon nozzle

medium: Bronze

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Page from Eyn Newe kunstlich moetdelboech alle kunst (Page 14v)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)

date: early 5th century BCE


title: Tankard with cover

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

medium: Silver on base metal, fictile ivory

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Set of four chutes

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Chute


title: Card Number 581, Nacivet, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Lorgnette Fan with Scene of Figures in a Courtyard Garden

date: mid-18th century

medium: Watercolor with gold highlights on paper with silk collage; red lacquered and gilded ivory

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Henri IV Entering at Aumale

creator: Horace Vernet

medium: Lithograph; only state

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


title: Sheet with overall striped geometric pattern

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Ruined Castle

creator: John Sell Cotman

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Madonna with Eight Saints

medium: Linen warp;  wool, silk, and metallic wefts, silk embroidery yarns

country: Upper Rhenish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Upper rhenish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Leo S. Bing, 1951


title: Scabbard Chape (Kojiri)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture
Japanese

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


title: Death of Christ Redeeming Souls from Purgatory

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk on light tan paper. Arched top

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Ship

creator: Salomon Dreyer

date: dated 1744

medium: Silver gilt

subjects:
Metalwork-silver
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Embroidery with Tiger-Dragon

medium: Silk, metallic threads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Seymour Fund and Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1997


title: Mask

medium: Canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costumes-accessorie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Velvet; cut

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Joseph Presents His Father to Pharoah, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

creator: Sir Edward John Poynter

medium: Wood engraving on India paper, mounted on thin card

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1926


title: Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant

creator: Nicolas de Largillierre (or Largillière)

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Landscape After Wen Zhengming

creator: Shao Mi

date: dated 1640

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

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Glass two-handled bottle (amphora)

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Pelerine

medium: Linen

country: Italian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mary W. Bangs, 1965


title: David standing, sword in lowered right hand, sack in the left, the head of Goliath on the ground beneath him

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; the figure, ground and tree stump cut out and pasted to secondary support

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Box with lotus bundles

date: late 18th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper alloy

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


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: Plate 1: A Procession

creator: Pietro Santi Bartoli

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Arms for the Foundling Hospital

creator: William Hogarth

date: December 22, 1781

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

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


title: Stele for the Confucius Temple

date: Stele: Song dynasty (960–1279), 960–68; rubbing: 20th century

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Architecture Rubbing China

credit_line: Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1977


title: Inlay, chevron

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1916


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

creator: Tsu Jumpo (Jimpo)

medium: Gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2004


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: [Japanese Woman in Traditional Dress Posing with Two Men]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Inscribed limestone plinth with the feet of a statue of Zeus

date: 2nd or 3rd century CE

medium: Limestone

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Drag #322

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Louis XIV troubled at the prospects for the Bourbons, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: December 22, 1871

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Parasol

medium: silk, metal, ivory

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lillian G. Peirce, 1966


title: Elaborate Design for a Chandelier

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Netsuke

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Ornament In form of Poet, Hitomaru

medium: Faience, the face and hands unglazed; the rest of the figure decorated in polychrome and gold (Kiyomizu ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

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


title: Armlet

medium: Copper alloy

country: Celtic

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Celtic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cock-of-the-Rock, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Cordial glasses (3)

creator: Henry William Stiegel

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

country: probably provincial British

credit_line: Gift of F.W. Hunter, 1913


title: Vessel with Pierced Designs

medium: Bronze; pierced and chased

subjects:
Metal
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art , and Rogers Fund, 1993


title: Small tureen and stand

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Linen Mark

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1940


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


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

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Cup-Hilted Rapier

medium: Steel

country: Spanish

subjects: Sword Spanish

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Box

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Jar

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Vase fragment

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Sweater

medium: silk, wood

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Griswold Webb, 1955


title: Earring-loop type, plain

medium: Gold

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


title: Relief with temple scene

medium: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

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


title: Jar

date: early 20th century

medium: Stoneware with inlaid decoration under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1915


title: Glass mosaic fragment

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

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Emblematic Scene

creator: Otto van Veen

date: 1607 or before (?)

medium: Pen and brush and brown ink, yellowish oil paint, on papel brown tinted paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1996


title: Woven portiere

medium: Cotton, woven

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Roger Brunschwig Gift, 1994


title: Offering list stela

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Tassel

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Composite Order from Rome

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

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


title: Funerary Cone

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Ring with Hexagonal Bezel and "Sri" Inscription

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

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Miniature vase

medium: Porcelain with black glaze and trace of gilt (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China


title: Portrait of a girl

medium: Wax, colored; frame: black wood, gilt

subjects: Sculpture-miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Nail

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Yastik Cushion Cover

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


title: Box

date: late 19th century

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: View of the Campidoglio with the Statue of Marcus Aurelius

creator: Hubert Robert

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor over red chalk counterproof.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Covered bowl with floral patterns

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Samuius

medium: Wood, metal

country: South African

subjects:
Chordophone-musical bow
South african

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cuffs (part of a set)

medium: Muslin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Agnes Pratt, 1932


title: Panel of four tiles, framed

creator: Christopher Dresser

medium: Earthenware with inlaid colored clays (encaustic)

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2017


title: Saint Eustace

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Sheet with wavy lines and abstract pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Bowl

medium: Blown pattern-molded lead glass

country: American

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius von Erden Mitchell, 1943


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Arc-shaped pendant (Huang)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2009


title: Proserpine Changing Aesculapius into an Owl

creator: Enea Vico

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Shawl

medium: linen

country: Flemish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Antoinette Graves Goetz and Marie Graves Bullock in memory of their mother, Florence Christmas Eno Grave, and of their grandmother, Harriet Ch


title: Visner, Catcher, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, 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: Female Figure

date: 12th–9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Tlatilco

subjects: Tlatilco Ceramics-sculpture

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


title: Two Fragments of Handles

date: 9th century

medium: Glass; applied

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bowl

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with yellow glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Coffee cup (part of a service)

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Wavy-handled jar with cross-hatched design

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Fishtail Knife

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Feathered Bag

date: 15th–early 16th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Inca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Inca
Textiles-featherwork

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Dress

medium: linen, wool

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French


title: Cap

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1944


title: Men Gathered Around a Camel

creator: Léon Davent

date: mid-16th century

medium: Etching

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


title: Portrait of the Artist

creator: Thomas Nast

medium: Lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Nast Jr., Mabel Nast Crawford and Cyril Nast, 1933


title: Screen with deities

date: 18th–19th century

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


title: Tomb, Plain of Sharon, 1904 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Christ Before The Elders

medium: Chalcedony, yellowish

country: Roman

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Miser's purse

date: early 18th century

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn and Alice L. Crowley Bequests, 1976


title: Sistrum fragment in the shape of a Hathor head

medium: Green faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Cross

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Gilded copper, champlevé enamel, glass and stone cabochons

country: Italian

subjects: Italian Enamels-translucent

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bone cylinder with pointed ivory top

date: 7th–6th century BCE?

medium: Ivory

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Greek, laconian
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Three Peasants and a Woman

creator: Pieter de Molijn

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Finger Bowl

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Blown amber glass with applied threaded decoration

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: A Man on Crutches

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Brush and lithographic ink on transfer paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Glass bead

date: ca. 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Design for Purple Curtains with Gold Fringes and a Gold and White Pediment

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Kohl Flask

medium: Bronze; cast and chased

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

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

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


title: Neck-amphora

creator: Pasikles Painter

credit_line: Gift of Christos G. Bastis, 1967


title: Fork with engraved mythological figures

date: first half 17th century

medium: Silver, steel

subjects: Mythology Metalwork-silver

credit_line: Gift of Ruth Friedman, in memory of Harry G. Friedman, 1966


title: Fringe

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Fireflies Over the Uji River by Moonlight

creator: Suzuki Shōnen

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

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, by exchange, 1979


title: Portrait of a Lady

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Bag

medium: Glass, linen

country: Mexican

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


title: Belt

medium: Camelid fiber

country: Recuay

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Recuay
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur M. Bullowa Bequest, 2001


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. late 4th century CE

medium: Carnelian

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Terracotta fragment of a cylindrical pyxis (box with lid) with part of handle and hatched squares

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Ulrich Fugger the Younger (1490–1525)

creator: Hans Maler

medium: Oil on linden

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Hammered Silver Arc Ornament

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Chimú

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Chimú

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


title: Fruit dish (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Fruits

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Beads

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Glass; drilled


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Essempio di recammi, page 5 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Antonio Tagliente

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Piece

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Metal thread, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bénitier

date: early 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Head of a Luohan

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Limestone

country: China

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1960


title: Cabuzac. Jean. 25 ans, né le 23/7/68 à Ivry la Bataille (Eure). Ciseleur. Anarchiste. 12/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Glass cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Blue and golden-toned aventurine glass vase

medium: glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: General Plan of the Gardens at Kew

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Watercolor, pen and ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Pin

creator: Recuay artist(s)

medium: Copper

subjects: Metal-ornament Recuay

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


title: Stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Pair of garlands

date: 18th century

medium: Wood, gilt


title: Ladle

creator: Hester Bateman

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Raymonde Neel, 1970


title: Left Breastplates from Two Brigandines

medium: Steel, brass, textile (linen, bast fiber, cotton)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Armor parts-breastplate

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: The Apse of Nôtre-Dame, Paris

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching with engraving and drypoint on laid paper; fourth state of nine

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


title: Grace Parlotta, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Oracle bone fragment

medium: Inscribed bone

subjects:
Bone
China
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of A. W. Bahr, 1923


title: Small Thatched Cottages (Les Petites Chaumières)

creator: Félix-Hilaire Buhot

medium: Etching, drypoint, aquatint, roulette, stop-out, and burnishing; fourth state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


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


title: Coin

date: probably 12th–13th century

medium: Probably copper

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: The Colosseum from a set of The Wonders of the World

creator: Maarten van Heemskerck

medium: Wool, silk (18-20 warps per inch, 7-8 cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Elizabeth U. Coles, in memory of her son, William F. Coles, 1892


title: The grammar of ornament

creator: Owen Jones


title: Snare Drum

date: mid to late 19th century

medium: Wood, skin, rope

country: American

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / cylindrical drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Belt buckle

creator: Carlo Giuliano

medium: Gold, silver, star sapphire, diamond, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Judith H. Siegel, 2014


title: The Statue of the Official Mitry

date: ca. 2381–2323 BCE probably

medium: Acacia, gesso, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware


title: Fragment

medium: Silk / Brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Sunset on the Sea

creator: John Frederick Kensett

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Kensett, 1874


title: Pyramidion of Iufaa

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Adoration of the Shepherds

creator: Nicolas Bertin

medium: Red chalk, brush and red wash

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1991


title: Key

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, De Souhami Collection, Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Mug

creator: Piercy Brett

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Marble portrait head of Antinoos

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Bronson Pinchot, in recognition of his mother Rosina Asta Pinchot, 1996


title: Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus

creator: Gerard David

medium: Oil on oak panel

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Six Cavalrymen in Combat, from "Battle Scenes I"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: 17th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Head of a Female Figure

date: 6th–7th century

country: India (Jammu and Kashmir, possibly Akhnur)

subjects: India (jammu and kashmir, possibly akhnur)

credit_line: Gift of Bette-Ann and William Spielman, 1980


title: [Nude Standing by Bed]

creator: Auguste Belloc

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Woven textile

country: Swiss

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Swiss
Textiles-woven


title: Standing cup with cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Stela of the Overseer of the Treasurers Isi

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Purchase, Dr. and Mrs. Edmundo Lassalle Gift, 1968


title: Frieze from the tomb of Mereri

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: Cup

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Pull of Engraved Firearm Ornament

medium: Ink, paper

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French

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


title: Vesta Victoria, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Saltcellar

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Blown molded lead blue glass

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Songs: "A Blessing unknown to ambition & Pride"

creator: Henry Thomas Alken

medium: Soft-ground etching

credit_line: Gift of Wilbur Macey Stone, 1921


title: Panel with the god Pharro and worshiper

date: ca. 3rd century CE

medium: Terracotta, gouache

country: Kushan

credit_line: Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 2000


title: Head Pendant

date: 12th–16th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Mixtec

subjects: Metal-ornament Mixtec

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


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Macrame

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Chalcedony, brown

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Fragment of a Male Torso

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Marble

country: Coptic

subjects: Sculpture-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


creator: Telephos Painter


title: Shoes

medium: Silk, metallic

country: probably French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Clarence R. Hyde, 1928


title: Capital (one of a pair)

medium: White marble

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Silver swivel ring with glazed steatite scarab in a gold setting

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Silver, gold, glazed steatite

country: Phoenician

subjects:
Gold and silver
Phoenician

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


title: Mrs. George P. Burne

creator: John Wood Dodge

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace


title: Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

creator: Northern Highlands artist

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Bronze

country: Northern Highlands region

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Northern highland region

credit_line: Purchase, 2005 Benefit Fund, 2011


title: Broadside with 48 scenes from the life of Periquillo the Barber

creator: Antonio Bosch

medium: Wood engraving printed on pink paper

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Glass dish

date: late 1st–early 3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Emblemata Secularia

creator: Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving, woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Bowl

medium: Earthenware, slip decoration

subjects: Ceramic Coptic


title: McCarthy, Left Field, Boston, from Mayo's Cut Plug Baseball series (N300)

creator: P.H. Mayo & Brother, Richmond, Virginia

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: One of a Pair of Wine Cups (Sakazuki) with Mount Hōrai

medium: Red lacquer ground with gold and silver hiramaki-e and gold and silver foil

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Herod Antipas, 38 A.D. / Herod Agrippa, 37 A.D., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Djed Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Ivory statuette of a reclining woman

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Ivory

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Roman
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bowl

date: ca. 4th–1st century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Coin Weight

date: 12th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Button or Bead or Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Portrait of George Washington

creator: Eleanor Parke Custis

medium: Hollow-cut silhouette on linen

subjects:
Cut paper
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. S. W. Oakey, 1879


title: A Rough Sketch of the Times as Delineated by Sir Francis Burdett

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching; reissue

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


title: Coffeepot

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Stephen Benjamin, 1990


title: Maximilian Emperor of Germany &c. &c., from "Portraits of Royal Personnages"

creator: Hans Burgkmair

medium: Mezzotint and etching

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Plate (tagliere)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Deruta

subjects:
Italian, deruta
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Field Spaniel, from the Dogs of the World series for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Tea Jar

medium: Clay covered with glaze and mottlings around the neck

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Necklace

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Stone Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Costa Rica (?)

subjects:
Stone-implement
Costa rica

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Portrait of a Young Woman

creator: Netherlandish Painter

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


title: Pendant

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Electrum, bitumen traces

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Pine Cliff, Mohonk, 1871 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Daniel Huntington

medium: Graphite on paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of S.B. Luyster, 1936


title: Coin

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

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Portrait of Nicholaes Rockox

creator: Paulus Pontius

medium: Engraving; fifth state of ten (Hollstein)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Spear

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, brass, copper, gold, silver

country: Indian, Sindh

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Indian, sindh

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Large Shrine Figure in the Happy Valley, Gwalior, India

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 1993


title: Limestone head of Apollo

date: mid–3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Four Alternate Designs for a Vault

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash and watercolor, over leadpoint or graphite, with ruled and compass construction. Traces of red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Tarquin and Lucretia

creator: Johann Peter Pichler

medium: Mezzotint

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


title: Seal Impression, Municipal Seal of Middelburg

medium: Brown wax

country: Netherlandish

subjects: Miscellaneous-wax Netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1981


title: Sky

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor on white wove paper, laminated on board

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Cup with Foot and Geometric Decoration

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware, slip decoration

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Weak Fish, from the series Fishers and Fish (N74) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: Knapp & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print


title: French Commode, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale Junior

medium: Black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Mortar

date: 19th or 20th century, after a 16th century Tuscan model

medium: Copper alloy with light brown patina.

country: Italian

subjects: Metalwork Italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Gold earring with sard setting and pearl pendant

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman


title: Pair of frames

date: 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Crucifix

date: 18th century

medium: Figure and scroll: ivory; cross: wood, painted black; nails: iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Estelle Jourdan, 1889


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)?

date: 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: second half of the 6th century BCE


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Bronze handle from a hydria (water jar)

date: 2nd half of 2nd century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek


title: Jacob tending Laban's flock (Giacobbe, che pasce l'armento di Labano)

creator: Pietro Monaco

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Sleigh #3659

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Marble head of Zeus Ammon

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Purchase, Philodoroi Gifts, Acquisitions Fund, Mary and Michael Jaharis Gift, 2011 Benefit Fund, funds from various donors, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran, John J. Medveckis, Nicholas S. Zoullas, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Beinecke, Leon Levy Foundation, Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, Judy and Michael Steinhardt, Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation and Aso O. Tavitian Gifts, 2012


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

medium: Gold, silver

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938


title: Scarab seal

medium: Steatite, white

credit_line: Gift of Harris D. and H. Dunscombe Colt, 1934


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds


title: "Hack" Madeira

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Eugene Schwartz, 1992


title: Title Plate with Two Pendant Designs Above and Neptune Standing on a Cartouche Below

creator: Adriaen Collaert

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942


title: Louis XV

creator: Tournai

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1977


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Insertion

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Plaque from a Reliquary

creator: Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

date: early 13th century

medium: Champlevé enamel, cloisonné enamel, and gilded copper

country: German

subjects: Enamel German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1969


title: Bowl

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Apron

date: probably 19th century

medium: linen, wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Angel sitting on a bracket

date: second half 18th century

medium: Wood, polychromed and gilt

country: probably Ecuadoran, Quito

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Incised bowl with geometric pattern

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paraca
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: Robyns. Émile. 36 ans, né à Lumone (Belgique). Marchand de Pierres (?). Anarchiste. 28/2/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Fortified gate at Düren, from "European Views"

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Actress wearing dress with ivy affixed along neckline, 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: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Seated Figure

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

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


title: Fan

date: early 19th century

medium: Ivory, paint, gilt, metal, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl, paper, glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


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


title: Statuette of a horseman, 3

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Wedjat Eye Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Pax

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt; painted parchment; glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Nine Hearts, from the Playing Cards series (N84) to promote Turkish Cross-Cut Cigarettes for W. Duke, Sons and Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Bronze handles from a large volute-krater (vase for mixing wine and water)

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1961


title: Allegory of Sacred and Profane Love

creator: Michele Desubleo

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Mythology Painting

credit_line: Bequest of Errol M. Rudman, 2020


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


title: Galloon

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Man and woman with sleigh

creator: Ansbach Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)?

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: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Plate 4: cross-section of the Hall of the Institute of Bologna, with the entrance to the room

creator: Giovanni Battista Brustolon

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961


title: Gold pendant

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Christos G. Bastis Gift, 1999


title: Bottle

date: 9th century

medium: Glass; cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: "Bamiyan Ware" bowl

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; slip-covered, incised and polychrome decorated under transparent glaze

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and Rogers Fund, 1993


title: Baluster-shaped vase (part of a five-piece garniture)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamel and gilding

credit_line: Gift of Jane Hardesty Poole, 2019


title: Button

medium: passementerie

country: French

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: View opposite the entrance gate of all of the shops to the right and left of the street of the City of Pompeii, from "Antiquités de Pompeïa, tome premier, Antiquités de la Grande Grèce..." (Antiquities of Pompeii, volume one, Antiquities of Great Greece...), volume 1, plate 13

creator: Francesco Piranesi

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Squadron of Lancers

creator: Auguste Raffet

date: 19th century

medium: Oil paint and gouache on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Linen, wool

country: Coptic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

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


title: Hunting coat

medium: wool, silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Emily N. Wilson, 1980


title: The Court of Lions in the Alhambra, Spain

creator: John Gregory Crace

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Lappet

date: first half 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frank S. Voss, 1953


title: A Princely Hunt

date: late 16th century

medium: Ink, gold, and watercolor on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Design for Dos-a-Dos Phaeton, no. 4026

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Design for the decoration of a ceiling with strapwork and rinceaux

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: pen and ink and watercolor on wove paper; mounted on wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Panel

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with carved and plain ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Serpentine blossom bowl

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Minoan
Flowers

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1924


title: Jug

medium: Milk glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Panel

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pair of salvers

creator: Simon Pantin II

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Mulberry, from the Fruits series (N12) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Fruits

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


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: Panel with boys at play

medium: Silk, metal thread, and feather thread tapestry (kesi)

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2011


title: Compote

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Piece

date: 14th 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: Hand Amulet

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Awl

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Box with cover

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ivorie China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Jackson Reynolds, 1945


title: Comb

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: The Thieves and the Donkey, from "L'Artiste"

creator: Alphonse-Charles Masson

medium: Lithograph on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Miss Frederick S. Hoppin, 1963


title: Plaque

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887