title: Covered bowl with floral pattern

date: 19th century

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

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Glass bowl

date: ca. 3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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 Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76


title: Fan

creator: Robert Delamotte

medium: ivory, paper, parchment, paint, glass, wood

country: British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Millicent V. Hearst, 1962


title: Mosque Lamp

date: first half 14th century

medium: Glass; enameled

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


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: Schwartwood, Right Field, Hamit, 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: Triangle and Concertina, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Death and the Lansquenet

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1958


title: The Actor Ichikawa Monosuke II in an Unidentified Female Role

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Coin

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Evening dress

creator: R. H. White & Co.

medium: silk, feathers

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of John R. Hotson, 1946


title: Lady Seated in a Boston Rocker

creator: Jane Anthony Davis

medium: Watercolor and graphite on smooth-surfaced tan wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1966


title: Engaged capital

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Illustrations of What We Have Seen and Heard at Yokohama, a Newly Opened Port (Yokohama kaikō kenbun(mon)shi 横浜開港見聞誌)

creator: Hashimoto Gyokuran

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Card Number 364, Maggie Claire, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes


title: Christ Carrying the Cross

creator: Jacques Bellange

medium: Etching

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


title: Ring Composed of Continuous Keben Fruit Motifs

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)
Fruits

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 Last Supper

creator: Nicolaas van der Horst

date: early to mid-17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown washes, over black chalk; incised; rubbed with black chalk for transfer; fragment of sheet with Christ and five apostles behind him cut out, backed, and redrawn by the artist

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1949


title: Nose Ornament

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Gold (hammered)

country: Salinar (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Salinar

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


title: Abduction (plate nine from Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove)

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching, drypoint and aquatint on chine collé; first edition; state two of five

credit_line: Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2009


title: Trade Card for Thomas Smith, Engraver and Printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Charlie's Pet, from the Household Pets series (N194) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Rosette

date: 16th century

medium: Brass

country: German, Saxony

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
German, saxony

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Menalcus Watching Women Dance, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

creator: William Blake

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Piece from Sutra Cover with Chrysanthemum

date: 17th century or earlier

medium: Silk satin brocaded with silk and metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

date: 18th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Bronze statuette of a satyr dancing

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vase

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Sketches for a Bonnet and Accessories

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, graphite, gouache

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Ornament & architecture

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


title: The Crucifixion

medium: Gilded copper, cloisonné and champlevé enamel

subjects:
French
Enamels-champlevé & cloisonné

credit_line: Purchase, Michel David-Weill Gift and 2006 Benefit Fund, 2007


title: Hood from a Cope

date: late 16th or early 17th century

medium: Silk; linen

country: Spanish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Spanish
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Manuscript Copy of a Resolution of Congress

medium: Parchment paper

credit_line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Design for a Box-Lid

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

medium: Black chalk over graphite underdrawing

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: Head of a Man (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: Henry Brent

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Caricature of an Engraver (recto); Sketch for a Caricature (verso)

creator: Jean Charles Delafosse

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, colored washes, over black chalk (recto); black chalk (verso)

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


date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Card Number 738, Louise des Maiets, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Thomas Haaringh (Old Haaringh)

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Drypoint and burin; third of three states

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Jérusalem, Mosquée d'Omar, côté Nord, Intérieur de l'enceinte

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Figure of Hapy

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Necklace, chain

date: 1st century CE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Mammals


title: [Wagons Below Confederate Entrenchments, Belle Plain, Virginia]

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Cup Plate

medium: glass

credit_line: Bequest of Anne Du Pont Peyton, 1944


title: Designs for an Etui and a Chatelaine

creator: Pierre Moreau

medium: Pen and gray and black ink with brush and rose, violet, yellow, blue, and green wash. Two border lines in pen and black ink.

subjects: Drawing Roses

credit_line: Purchase, Anne Stern Gift, 1984


title: Ewer

medium: Glass

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


title: O Bella Giovane

creator: Fortunato Duranti

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 2000


title: Tankard

date: 19th century, after 1635 original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: [Kanpur Memorial]

creator: Captain R. B. Hill

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Miniature goblet

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Compote

date: 19th century

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: God the Father Appearing to Jacob

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

medium: Brush with colored oil paint and touches of brown ink; paper partly saturated with oil

credit_line: Gift of Robert Lehman, 1965


title: Jacket

creator: Haas Brothers Importers

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Wanamaker Munn, 1956


title: Court Game of Geography

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving, etching, and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Desk (bonheur du jour)

creator: Martin Carlin

medium: Oak, mahogany, tulipwood, sycamore, ebony, box and harewood, gilt-bronze mounts, soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Design for a Frieze with Acanthus Scrolls with the Theme of Love, plate 7 from "Decorative friezes and foliage" (Ornamenti di fregi e fogliami)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Chess Piece, probably a Pawn

date: 8th–11th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Card Number 215, Sutherland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) 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: Two Views of a Bracket

creator: Richard de Lalonde

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite underdrawing

credit_line: Gift of William Rieder, 2009


title: Tea cup (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Decorative border panel with a candelabra ornamented with foliate designs, from Life of the Virgin and Christ

creator: Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 31r)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953


title: Skirt band

date: 17th century (?)

medium: Silk on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Evening hat

medium: silk, rhinestones, horsehair, metal

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


title: Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Dow

creator: Samuel William Reynolds, the elder

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Openwork Fitting

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2003


title: Fragment of damask with marriage emblems

date: first half 16th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Amulet Case Surmounted by a Ram

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Tray

medium: Birchbark, moosehair

country: Huron

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


title: Seal Impression

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Glass; impressed or molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Milk jug with cover

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 7th century BCE or later

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Kris

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, ivory, wood, cord

country: Philippine, Mindanao

subjects:
Krisse
Philippine, mindanao

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Design for Female Figures for the Trevi Fountain

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Graphite, pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Whistle

medium: turkey bone, resin

country: Native American (Siouan, Oglala)

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Native american (siouan, oglala)
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Sugar bowl with cover and tray

creator: Joseph-Théodore Vancombert (né Van Cauwenbergh)

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Teapot

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Dress

medium: wool, silk

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Polaire Weissman Fund, 1990


title: Strainer spoon

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Birds among flowering branches against clouds

date: 17th century

medium: Silk tapestry (kesi)

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Birds
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Pottery Whistle

medium: Pottery, paint

country: Costa Rican

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Costa rican


title: Shirt

medium: unbleached linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of the Family of Thomas Coutts, 1908


title: Pope Sixtus IV

date: 15th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Earrings

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: metal

country: European, Eastern


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Cast Earring with Granulation

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Netsuke of a Woman

medium: Ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Sheet, linen mark, fine spin, irregular weave

medium: Linen, wax

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Ornament

date: ca. late 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 29 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut


title: Francisco Guerrero, the waistcoat maker and cut throat, murdering a woman

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Linen Cloth

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912


title: [La Comtesse Seated with Fan]

creator: Giovanni Morotti

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Miniature jar

date: 8th century

medium: Earthenware with brown-green glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Sadajiro Yamanaka, 1911


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Two Pronged Spear (Bident)

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Silver, hair

country: Javanese

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Javanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Necklace

medium: Black faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Little Evelyn

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on the cream laid paper used for "The Art Journal' edition

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Collar

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Wig

date: early 19th century

medium: hair

credit_line: Gift of the family of Thomas Coutts, 1908


title: Mbejn

medium: Wood, hide, polychrome

country: Fang people

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / cylindrical drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Oyama Tsunayoshi's Cross Examination

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

date: August 27, 1877 (Meiji 10)

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Portrait of Jacob van Veen, after Maarten van Heemskerck, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching; third state of three (Gonse)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, 1871, transferred from the Department of Paintings


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Parrot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

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


title: Fan

date: mid-19th century

medium: Paper and bone

subjects:
Fans
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of Gertrude Mumford, 1943


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Silk, linen, and metal thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Andromeda and the Sea Monster

creator: Domenico Guidi

medium: Marble

credit_line: Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift and Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, 1967


title: Earring

date: mid-1st century

medium: Gold, garnets, green glass

country: Sarmatian

subjects:
Gold and silver
Sarmatian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Scarf ends

medium: Silk and metal thread on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Robert J. and Mary B. Monks, 1953


title: At last, they are finally going to take care of us!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, January 25, 1869

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: January 25, 1869

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

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


title: Wax

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. C. Edwin Linville, 1981


title: Double Column

date: 13th century

medium: Marble.

country: French

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1934


title: Finger ring

date: ca. 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Peter Oliver Gift, 1980


title: Apollo, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; first state of five

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hartshorne, 1918


title: Nock of a bow

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Jar with Motifs of Plants and Water

medium: Pottery, paint (Decorated ware)

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899


title: Side Panel from a Sarcophagus

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Limestone

country: North China

subjects:
Sculpture
North china

credit_line: Purchase, John M. Crawford Jr. Bequest, 1994


title: Amulet: Pataikos astride crocodiles and with a scarab on his head

medium: Faience

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


title: Wineglass

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

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


title: Sultana and Attendant

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Actress wearing white cloth bonnet, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) 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: Panel with the Annunciation

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

country: Austrian

subjects: Glass-stained Austrian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1936


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: Kenneth Williams, C.F.- St. Louis, A, from Baseball strip cards (W575-2)

medium: Commercial photolithograph


title: Souvenir spoon with view of a mosque

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver, parcel-gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1901


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

date: last quarter of the 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Gnathian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, gnathian


title: Chalice

date: 6th century, 20th century restorations

medium: Silver, partially gilded

country: Syrian

subjects: Metalwork-silver Syrian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: President Lincoln's Inauguration Medal

creator: Salathiel Ellis

country: American

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


title: Lower Guinea, from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Convivio delle Belle Donne, page 4 (recto)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1532

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Plate (part of a set)

creator: De Porceleyne Bijl

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1927


title: Embroidered whitework coverlet

creator: Mary Walker Stith Jones

medium: Cotton embroidered with cotton thread

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1939


title: Tankard in Imitation of Metalwork Form

date: last quarter 16th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1940


title: Bowl

medium: Pottery

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Horse frontlet carved in relief with a female figure flanked by lions

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Plate

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Sard seal from a gold ring

date: ca. 400 BCE

medium: Sard

country: Greek

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1942


title: Terracotta pithoid jar

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

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


title: [Mourning Corsage with Portrait of Abraham Lincoln]

creator: Unknown

date: April 1865

medium: Black and white silk with tintype set inside brass button

subjects: Assemblage Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2013


title: Sample of Amethyst Quartz

date: 20th century

medium: Quartz

country: China

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, 1981


title: Oceanica, from the Races of Mankind series (T181) issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Panel

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Coin

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Sash with Flowering Plants

date: 17th century

medium: Silk, silver and gilded metal wrapped thread; taqueté, brocaded

subjects:
Botany
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


title: Woe to you, Maggots will be in your bed, and worms your coverlet (Isaiah 14:11), plate 4 from a series of Four Allegories of the Netherlands

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

medium: Etching

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


title: Limestone statuette of an oriental god or hero (?)

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Funerary Cone of the Chief of the Medjay Didu

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Netsuke of Horse and Mouse

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Glass bowl fragment with cut decoration

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of John Woodman Higgins Armory, Inc., D/B/A Higgins Armory Museum, 1992


title: Bracelet

medium: hair, metal, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John C. Cattus, in memory of her mother, Mrs. William Gordon Ver Planck, 1948


title: Shield with Stag Held by Wild Man

creator: Martin Schongauer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


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

date: second quarter of the sixth 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: Bead

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stone (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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


title: Melancholy Courtesan

medium: Ink, gold and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Bundi, or Kota [?])

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, bundi, or kota )

credit_line: Purchase, Evelyn Kranes Kossak and Josephine L. Berger-Nadler Gifts and funds from various donors, 1995


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Svaramandala

date: late 19th century

medium: Gourd, wood

country: Indian

subjects: Chordophone-zither-plucked Indian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: The First Nakamura Nakazo as a Samurai

creator: Katsukawa Shunkō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Lake Biwa in Four Seasons

creator: Nukina Kaioku

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

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Robert and Betsy Feinberg, 2016


title: Panel

date: 16th century

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Pair of Ear Clips Composed of Fused Discs

date: 8th–early 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Victoria #4099

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Court cupboard

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Artist's water holder

medium: Jadeite, shades of green, varying from very light green to very dark bluish-green, with yellow and rich dead-oak-leaf

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Design for Three Low Gothic Style Arm Chairs

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Mahomed Sadikh Khan, Ruler of Lalpura, Afghanistan, from the Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers series (N189) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

date: dated 1645

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Lancet Window

medium: Limestone

country: French

subjects: Installation French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1935


title: Standing Buddha

medium: Silver

country: Thailand

subjects: Sculpture Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Muneichi Nitta, 2004


title: The Cottages at the Foot of a Mountain

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: Terracotta bust of a female figure

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Cretan

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, cretan

credit_line: Gift of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1953


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

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


title: Churn

medium: Wood; Probably cedar

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Musical Glasses

medium: Wood, various

subjects: Idiophone-friction American

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Hangings for state bed from Hampton Court, Herefordshire

medium: Blue silk damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-upholstery

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Jr., 1968


title: Icon of the Lamentation

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Reproduction of a Scythian sword sheath

date: 19th century, after 7th century BCE original

medium: Electrotype

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


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

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


title: George F. "Piano Legs" Gore, Center Field, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: The Crooked Stoop (Old Tom's Chop House) (from Scenes of Old New York)

creator: Henry Farrer

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


title: Le Corbeau et Le Limaçon (The Raven and the Snail), plate 8 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


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: Octagonal Tile

date: 15th century or later

medium: Stonepaste

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


title: Goat Pen

date: 1st–early 3rd century

medium: Earthenware with green lead glaze

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994


title: Harquebusier's Armor of Pedro II, King of Portugal (reigned 1683–1706) with Buff Coat

creator: Richard Holden

date: ca. 1683 and later; buff coat, 17th–18th century

medium: Steel, gold, leather, textile

country: British, London; buff coat, European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor for man
British, london; buff coat, european

credit_line: Armor: Rogers Fund, 1915; buff coat: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, 1929


title: [Two Bricklayers Holding Bricks and Trowels]

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


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

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Robe à la française

medium: silk, bast fiber

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Orme and R. Thornton Wilson in memory of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor Wilson, 1949


title: Juno, Seated on a Golden Throne, Asks Alecto to Confuse the Trojans (Aeneid, Book VI)

creator: Master of the Aeneid

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1945


title: Tassel

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920


title: Ointment Jar from a Foundation Deposit of Hatshepsut

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Flute

creator: Rudall & Rose

medium: Cocuswood, silver

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Bequest, 2005


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

medium: Terracotta


title: Ornamental frieze with putti and intertwined snakes, from Recueil de Différentes Compositions Frises et Ornements dessinées et gravées à la manière du lavis par La Grenée le Juene Se trouve chez l'Auteur, au Louvre et chez Basan, rue et Hôtel Serpente A Paris, in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

creator: Jean Jacques Lagrenée

medium: Etching and aquatint

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Naked Man Pursuing a Naiad, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Marco Dente

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Bead

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1974


title: Gespräch eines Redakheurs mit einem Staatsmann (Editor's Conversation with a Statesman)

creator: Moriz Jung

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Mummy of Ukhhotep, son of Hedjpu

medium: Mummified human body, linen, mummification material, painted and gilded wood, obsidian, travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Entrance to the Gankirō Tea House in the Miyozaki District, Yokohama, Bushu

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II

date: 3rd month, 1859

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Rapier with Scabbard

date: early 18th century

medium: Steel, leather, brass

country: Italian

subjects: Sword Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Bowl with Lid

date: 15th century

medium: Brass; inlaid in silver and gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Box

creator: Nathaniel Mills

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Standing cup

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: [House with Three Chimneys]

creator: Unknown

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1946


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Douris

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


title: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

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


title: Christ before Caiphas, from "The Passion of Christ"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

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


title: The Painted Lady, from "The Butterflies and Moths of America" Part 2

creator: Louis Prang & Co.

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: The Jefferson Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson Burdick, 1951


title: Women spinning, weaving and sewing

creator: Master FG

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


title: Creation of Adam; Sleeping Adam, after Michaelangelo; Other Figures; Profile of Head of Man in Helmut (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

country: American

credit_line: Rogers fund, 1953


title: Adoration of the Magi

date: 16th century

medium: Verre églomisé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Desseins Arabesques a Plusieurs Usages Inventés par J.B. Toro

creator: Jean Bernard Toro

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: The Death of Camilla

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bartsch)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962


title: Cage crinoline

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James A. Cole, 1978


title: Head of a cat

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Scarab Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Glass Fragment

medium: Pot metal glass

country: Western European

subjects:
Glass-stained
Western european

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: In the Studio

creator: Alfred Stevens

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1986


title: Bracelet (part of parure)

medium: Gold, meerschaum

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert E. Rose, 1967


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920


title: Sandy Road with a Farmhouse

creator: Jan van Goyen

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Myra Mortimer Pinter, 1972


title: Juglet

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Nicolas Henri Jacob

medium: Card

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: U-shaped vase with handle (one of a pair)

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Fragment

medium: Nephrite

country: Russia (Siberia)

subjects:
Jade
Russia (siberia)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Trade Card for James Heskett, Map, Print, and Chart Seller

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Maps & charts
Print

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: View of the Villa Medici

creator: Giovanni Battista Falda

date: after 1677

medium: Etching

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


title: A Genealogy of the Prophet Muhammad

medium: Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper with leather binding

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2026


title: Ornament

medium: Chalk

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


title: Linen mark, Wah

medium: Linen

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Gospels cover

date: 19th century, after 18th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Basin

creator: William Adams

medium: Pottery

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


title: Roundel with a horned animal, lions, and griffins

date: ca. 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Gold foil, silver, iron, semi-precious stone or paste

country: Sarmatian

credit_line: Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970


title: Cape

creator: Liberty & Co.

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Roland L. Redmond, 1949


title: Étagère Shelves

creator: Alexander Roux

medium: Rosewood, chestnut, poplar, bird's-eye maple

subjects: American Birds

credit_line: Sansbury-Mills Fund, 1971


title: Vest

country: probably British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; A. Augustus Healy Fund, 1926


title: Bottle

date: ca. 1st–4th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Parthian or Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: [Interior View of the Ballroom for Lincoln's Second Inaugural Ball]

creator: Alexander Gardner

date: March 1865

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Impressions of intaglios after the statuary of Canova and Thorvaldsen

creator: Francesco Carnesecchi

medium: Gesso, paper, leather

credit_line: Gift of Joseph D. Ryle, 1992


title: La Mà

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

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


title: The Flight into Egypt; the Holy Family walking together, Saint Joseph pointing to the right and the Virgin carrying the infant Christ, an angel in front of her offering a flower, after Reni

creator: Anonymous

subjects: Print Flowers

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


title: Madonna and Child

creator: Lippo di Benivieni

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Gift of Robert Lehman, 1963


title: Sleeping Hercules

date: ca. 1505 or later

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Nanban Cabinet with Drawers

date: early 17th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, gold foil application, and mother-of-pearl inlays on black ground; gilt-bronze fittings

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Bead

date: 10th–4th century BCE

medium: Stone

country: Olmec

subjects: Olmec Beads-ornament

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Snuffbox with haymakers

creator: Robert Hancock

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


date: first half 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: Stock Lock

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Herbert S. Pratt, 1926


title: Ojime

medium: Ojime

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Tazza with cover

date: ca. 1550–55, with later restorations

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware inlaid with slip, with molded ornament, with 20th century unpainted foot

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramics-pottery


title: Insertion

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Mamluk Carpet

date: early 16th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

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


title: Egypt, from Flags of All Nations, Series 1 (N9) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Jug

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


title: Chessmen (32)

medium: Gold, silver, gems

subjects:
Chess sets
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Orphrey

date: 15th century

medium: Silk, gold thread

country: Spanish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Spanish
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1914


title: A Dancing Bear

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Coverlet

medium: Silk and metal thread on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Knife (Piha Kaetta) with Stylus, Pricker, and Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Gold, steel, velvet

country: Sri Lankan

subjects:
Knive
Sri lankan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Tile with characters

medium: Earthenware

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: A. J. Davis, Scrapbook VI

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Bound pages mounted with drawings and prints

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Design for a Classical Country House, Back Elevation

date: early 19th century

medium: Watercolo, pen and ink

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: Plaque Depicting a Goddess or Queen, and on Opposite Side a King

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Gioacchino Rossini

creator: Nadar

date: March 1856

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes and Annalee Newman Gifts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, and Nancy and Edwin Marks Gift, 1993


title: Five-tiered picnic box with design of wild pinks

medium: Gold maki-e, inlaid mother-of-pearl, and applied silver on black lacquer

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2019


title: James Delancey

medium: Oil on copper

country: European

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1941


title: And Now His Lifted Eyes The Ceiling Sought...

medium: Etching


title: Lintel

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Plate (one of a pair)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, 1939


title: The Creation of Eve, from The Power of Death (Allegory of Original Sin and Death)

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Gift of Henry C. Bernstein, 1973


title: Panel

date: second half 15th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Christ Before Pilate, from "The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ"

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (Sora Langi')

date: probably 18th century

medium: Cotton

country: Toraja people

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Toraja people
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of John B. Elliott, 1997


title: Samuel P. Avery (1822–1904)

creator: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Gift of the family of Samuel P. Avery, 1904


title: Handle of a hydria

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Head of a Fantastic Animal

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Samuel Lovett Waldo

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of George H. Story, 1906


title: Plate 5: Alexander Directing a Battle, from "The Deeds of Alexander the Great"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching, first state of two (Bartsch)

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


title: Ewer

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Coupé #3902

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Kakegawa

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Francesco I d'Este Dissolved the Seige of Reggio, from "L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]"

creator: Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis)

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


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnston, 1906


title: Design for a monument

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and ink, wash

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


title: Explanatory note relating to sculpture of Nymphy by Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler

creator: Franz Xaver Schwanthaler

medium: Pen and black ink on gray paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, 1977


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Beaker

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Zita Spiss, in memory of her father, Julius Triger, 1990


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Donatello

date: mid-15th century

medium: Stucco and colored glass (in halo)

credit_line: From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922


title: A Bouquet of Flowers in a Crystal Vase

creator: Nicolaes van Veerendael

subjects:
Painting
Flowers
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


creator: Euergides Painter

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Dan Casey, Pitcher, Philadelphia, 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: Fragment of a Cover

medium: Linen and silk; embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Dress

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Maud Sargent, Sarah Sargent Ramberg, and William Sargent, Jr., 1965


title: Covered Figural Dish

medium: Pressed amethyst glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Creamer

medium: Pressed purple marble glass


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Design for Gothic Style Cabinet with Mirror

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Earrings

medium: silver, pearl

country: Italian

credit_line: Gift of Nancy A. Dyer, 1965


title: The Sibyl

creator: Willem Drost

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Doccaina

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, brass, nickel-silver

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
Spanish

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Leogryph

date: ca. late 9th century

medium: Bronze

country: India (Bihar)

subjects:
Metalwork
India (bihar)

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


title: Couple Seated, Woman Reading

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Study of Two Soldiers Swordfighting

creator: Adam Frans van der Meulen

date: 17th century

medium: Black and white chalk, heightened with cream-colored gouache, on blue paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: [Rustic Cottage with Figures and Carts]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Piece

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Angel (one of a pair)

creator: Hendrik-Frans Verbruggen

medium: Oak

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1976


title: Observations sur les antiquités de la ville d'Herculanum avec quelques reflexions sur la Peinture & la Sculpture des Anciens & une courte description de quelques Antiquités des environs de Naples

creator: Charles Nicolas Cochin II

medium: Books

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1980


title: Tweedledum and Tweedledee, or, The Schoolmaster [i]s abroad!

creator: John Doyle

date: February 16, 1835

medium: Lithograph

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


title: News Received Through the Atlantic Cable From All Parts of the World, etc.

creator: Robert Charles Dudley

medium: Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892


title: Capital

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Night Rain at the Double-Shelf Stand, from the series Eight Parlor Views (Zashiki hakkei)

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print (first edition); ink and colors on paper, medium-sized print (chuban)

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


title: The Laundress: "La Blanchisseuse de la Place Dauphine"

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium:
Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago);
printed in black ink on medium weight ivory laid paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1946


title: The Approaching Storm

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Etching on chine collé; first state of two

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Trencher (one of a set)

date: mid-16th century

medium: Oak and sycamore woods, painted, silvered and yellow varnished; inscription: ink (animal or vegetable)

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Silver Atlatl Spear Thrower

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Silver (hammered and cast)

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-implement Chimú

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


title: Frieze with a Pattern of Interlaced Leaves

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

subjects:
Ornament & design
Sculpture

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


country: Greek, Attic


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1950


title: Key

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Strainer

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890


title: Six Crossbow Bolts

date: early 16th century; 14.25.1576g, probably 17th or 18th century

medium: Steel, wood (oak), staghorn, pigment

country: Central European, possibly German

subjects:
Archery equipment
Central european, possibly german

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Earring with plain loop and disc

medium: Gold

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


title: Cartouche with Duck and Nymphs

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching, counterproof of first state

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


title: [The Ascent of Mont Blanc]

creator: Auguste-Rosalie Bisson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2005


title: Folding Shrine with Virgin and Child

medium: Elephant ivory with metal mounts

country: French

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Surface of the Water (Mizu no omo shū) 水之面集

creator: Komatsubara Suikei 小松原翠渓

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Earring with human face

date: 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Gold, garnet

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1897


title: Wreath

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


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

creator: Knapp & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Shekel, Simon Maccabaeus, 140 B.C., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Apollo or Orpheus surrounded by Animals

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Ceiling tiles

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Myron and Anabel Taylor Foundation Inc., 1960


title: Alabastron with duck handles

date: 1st millennium BCE–CE1st millennium

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Adoration of the Magi

medium: Cartapesta (papier maché) with polychromy and gilding

country: German

subjects: Sculpture German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2016


title: O-daiko

creator: Kodenji Hayashi

medium: Wood, metal, cloisonné, hide, silk, padding

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / barrel drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Snuff bottle with stopper

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Agate, jadeite

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Coach (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Cup Plate

medium: Lacy pressed glass

credit_line: Bequest of Anne Du Pont Peyton, 1944


title: Chariot Linchpin

date: 11th–10th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of John M. Crawford Jr., in memory of Joseph H. Heil, 1974


title: Sutra Cover

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Plate

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Laurence Eyre, 1958


title: Vase ornament (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze


title: Limestone cippus of Olympianos

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Limestone

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man, bearded hero, and lion contest frieze

medium: Marble

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Gift of Walter Hauser, 1955


title: Textile Fragment

date: 12th century

medium: Linen and silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Pair of jars with covers

creator: Mennecy

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Edward C. Post, 1915


title: Teapot with portrait of a woman

medium: Hard-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain-export Portraits

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


title: Knob (?) with the cartouche of Aya

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th/early 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: Face Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Stone (Alabaster (?))

country: Coptic

subjects:
Lapidary work-alabaster
Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: A vulture eating the innards of Titius, Cupid above two women to the left, set within and elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

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


title: Oriental Ewer Made from Agate

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1917


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: M. Ollinier, 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: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Agate

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: The Fox, the Flies, and the Hedgehog, from La Fontaine's "Fables", XII, 13

creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

medium: Brush and black ink and gray wash, heightened with white; framing lines in brush and black ink and blue wash

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1976


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Watercolor, gouache, over graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtis, 1953


title: Card 773, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Plate 78  from 'Los Caprichos': Be quick, they are waking up (Despacha, que dispiertan.)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Stole

medium: Wool

country: probably Scottish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Alvah E. Reed, 1966


title: Cap

medium: Silk, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James McF. Baker, 1948


title: Dish with ladies and boy

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels, and reticulated decoration (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Head protector

date: late 18th century

medium: silk

country: Swiss

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Cohen, 1939


title: Head of Amun

medium: Granodiorite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Creamer

medium: Blown pattern-molded colorless and blue glass

country: British

subjects:
Ornament & design
British

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1914


title: Spoon

medium: Metal, silver?

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Plate

date: early 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Catharine Van Vliet De Witt Sterry, 1908


title: Gold Sheet Fragment

medium: Gold

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-ornament Peruvian

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


title: Relief Trial Piece with the Head of the King

medium: Limestone

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


title: Christ mounted on a white Horse, from the Apocalypse

creator: Jean Duvet

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta tankard

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


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


title: Cup, fragmentary

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: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Sauceboat

creator: Eoff and Conner

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: "Autumn Crocus" Vase

creator: Emile Gallé

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Lloyd and Barbara Macklowe, 1984


title: Terracotta kalathos (basket)


title: Sampler

medium: Wool on wool

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


title: Netsuke of Cat with a Ball

medium: Ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Tanbūr

date: late 19th century

medium: mulberry, walnut, mother-of-pearl, camel bone, wire

country: Iranian (Persian)

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-plucked-fretted
Iranian (persian)
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Doorknocker with a Triton and a Nereid

date: late 16th century

medium: Bronze, iron (hammer and suspension loop)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920


title: Solidus

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Saint Aloysius Gonzaga holding a crucifix, with an angel holding a crown at left

creator: Joseph Wagner

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Marble fragments of a statue of the emperor Caracalla

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1940


title: Fragment of a Dish

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: The Reader

creator: Henri Jean Augustin de Braekeleer

medium: Etching on wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Eric Gillis, 2011


title: Panel from a sham

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of Miss Isabel Wolfstein, 1973


title: Bronze torch-holder

date: late 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Dog (A Foxhound Viewed from Behind)

creator: George Stubbs

medium: Roulette work with etching; first and only state

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


title: Bathsheba at the Bath

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta bottle

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Gnathian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian, gnathian

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Dressed Beef, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Knife (Phia Kaetta)

medium: Wood, brass, steel

country: Sri Lankan

subjects:
Knive
Sri lankan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: La Place Royale, equestrian statue of Louis XIII in profile facing the left in center, various horsemen and figures in background, plate 3 from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; undescribed state between second and third of five (De Vesme)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Adelaide Neilson, from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 2) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 6th century BCE

medium: Onyx, modern gold mount

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1899


title: Writing Box (Suzuribako) with the Poet Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

date: 18th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e and cutout gold- and silver-foil application; lead rim

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Shoe

medium: Leather

subjects: Miscellaneous-leatherwork British

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


title: Medal:  Self-portrait

creator: Alfonso Ruspagiari

date: model ca. 1566 or 1571 (cast 18th or 19th century)

medium:
Bronze (Copper alloy with chocolate
brown patina).

subjects: Medal Portraits

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Shark

date: 1st–5th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Tolita-Tumaco

subjects: Tolita-tumaco Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Margaret B. Zorach, 1980


title: Bracelet, Twisted Wire and Foliate

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Double Chambered Bottle

date: 14th–15th century

country: Inca

subjects: Inca Ceramics-container

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


title: Disk Brooch

medium: Gold, Worked in repoussé with twisted wire and filigree

country: Langobardic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Langobardic

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1952


title: Visiting ensemble

medium: silk

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1980


title: Jean-François-Paul de Gondi, Le cardinal de Retz

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Retreat from the Storm

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Sarina Tang and Peter M. Wood, 2002


title: Street at Saverne

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on heavy pale gray textured paper with (faded) blue fibers; third state of four (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James A. Cole, 1978


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: Carved Bead

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


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: Vase

medium: Faience

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


title: Card Number 181, Ruth Stetson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 1888


title: Creampot

creator: Stephen Reeves

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Bracelet

date: 3rd century

medium: Gilded silver

country: Pontine

subjects: Metalwork-silver Pontine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Glass network mosaic bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Bronze statuette of Mercury

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 66 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Fluid lamp

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Cut double overlay glass in pink and white with brass fittings and stepped marble base

credit_line: Purchase, Sylvia and Leonard Marx Jr. Gift, 2011


title: The Meeting, a man bows before a seated woman at center, while couples wearing masks converse in the background

creator: Charles Joseph Flipart

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Lake Vineyard and Orange Grove, Los Angeles

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Carole and Irwin Lainoff, Ruth P. Lasser and Joseph R. Lasser, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Marvin, Martin E. and Joan Messinger, Richard L. Yett and Sheri and Paul Siegel, 1986


title: Shadakshari Lokeshvara

date: 12th century

medium: Bronze with silver and copper inlay

country: India (Bihar)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (bihar)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Richard Benedek, 1982


title: Frame fragment (cross-bar)

date: first half 18th century

medium: Oak (?)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Alabaster spoon or ladle

medium: Gypsum (alabaster)

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Goblet

medium: Pressed glass, diamond thumbprint

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Covered jar with floral pattern

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

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Brush Holder

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Teabowl

date: early 17th century

medium: Clay covered with a dull black glaze. Name Seiran (Ko raku)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: The Actor Bando Hikosaburo 2nd as an Oiran in a Gauze Kimono, Standing, Tying Her Obi

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Saucer

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue


title: Folio from a `Aja'ib al-Makhluqat wa Ghara'ib al-Mawjudat (The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence)

creator: Zakaria bin Muhammad bin Mahmud Abu Yahya Qazwini

date: 17th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Richard Ettinghausen, 1975


title: Design for Dog Cart or 2 Wheeler, no. 3018a

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Untitled

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Butler and Rutter, 1880


title: Buddha Preaching

date: 8th–early 9th century

medium: Silver alloy

country: Central or northeastern Thailand

subjects:
Sculpture
Central or northeastern thailand

credit_line: Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1993


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Linen and silk; tapestry woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Figurine plaque: bearded man playing a drum

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1996


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: China Trays, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash


title: Square Bowl

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

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Open work, cameo embossed lace paper, colored paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Netsuke of Mask Maker

medium: Wood and ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Card Number 167, Modjeska, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) 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: Barbed Point

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-implement Vicú

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


date: late 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Tongs

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Handle of a mirror

medium: Bronze

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Roman, cypriot

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


title: A Forest Cascade at Hiram, Maine

creator: Henry Hitchings

medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on off-white Bristol board

credit_line: Gift of Elisabeth S. Rothschild, 1996


title: Dress

creator: Louise Kornmann

medium: silk

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. M. Julia Mullaney, 1942


title: Head of Aphrodite

medium: Wax, paint

country: Greek, Egyptian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-wax
Greek, egyptian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1941


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Bowl

creator: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Intaglio ?

medium: Amethyst


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

date: 2nd quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Mlle. Rosine Block, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Cup

date: ca. 1st century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Nabataean

credit_line: Gift of the American Expedition to Petra, 1967


title: Vase

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: The Courtesan Takigawa of the Ōgiya Brothel, from the series Seven Beautiful Komachi

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

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


title: Syzygy or the Conjunction of the Macrocosmic Unity with the Microcosmic Triunity from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum sapientiae aeternae

creator: Peter van der Doort

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2011


title: Tea Bowl with Crescent Moon, Clouds, and Blossoming Plum

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stoneware with black and brown glaze and pigment (Jizhou ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Landscape with Ruins

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Wright, 1949


title: Luna

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Vase

date: second half 19th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: Miss Melba, 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: Scarab Decorated with Papyrus and Winged Beetles

medium: Blue glazed steatite

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


title: Scent bottle

creator: Saint James's Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1971


title: Sealing wax case (étui)

creator: Joseph Etienne Blerzy

medium: Gold and enamel

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


title: Brush and cover

medium: Red lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Spy-glass

date: early 19th century

medium: ivory, gold metal

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1944


title: Plaque

medium: Brass, marble

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Capital

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Design for a Porcelain Candelabra with Seven Branches

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Graphite, brush and gray and yellow wash, and gouache

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


title: Kongōyasha Myōō

date: 12th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: New Modelbüch (Page 26r)

creator: Andreas Bretschneider

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Card Number 145, Miss Fuller, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Four-Armed Goddess, possibly Sarada

date: late 9th century

medium: Chlorite schist

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Perry J. Lewis, 1984


title: Hercules

medium: White marble

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Pottery Whistle and Rattle

medium: clay (blackware)

country: Mexican

subjects:
Mexican
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Gold Slide for a Belt or Strap

medium: Gold

country: Avar

subjects: Metalwork-gold Avar


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

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: Monte Cavallo

creator: Eugène Constant

medium: Albumen print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Dress

creator: Fox

medium: wool, silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mary Louise Deming in memory of her mother, Mrs. Nelson Lloyd Deming, 1959


title: Dressing gown

medium: linen, cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Alexander G. Klein, 1962


title: Memorial

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Pelerine

medium: Cotton

country: Irish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Margaret M. Cullen, 1934


title: Tear-shaped Elements

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Gold; repoussé

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy


title: Glass mosaic perfume bottle

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Clock hand

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Edward Colonna, 1908


title: Buckle

date: 7th century

medium: Silver

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Byzantine


title: Polonaise Carpet

date: 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Byron C. Foy, 1952


title: Votive Plaque with Seated Buddhas

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Design for a Reliquary

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; tinted and incised

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Nicolaas Henneman in the Cloisters at Lacock Abbey

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

date: February 23, 1841

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Mirror (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


date: 5th century BCE


title: Column Shaft

medium: Stone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: View of the Flavian Amphitheater, called the Colosseum, from "Vedute di Roma" (Roman Views), part II

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching; second state of four (Hind)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Border

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Textile Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and/or printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Adam and Eve in Paradise

creator: Unknown

date: 18th Century

medium: Oil on canvas

country: Peruvian (Cuzco)

credit_line: Gift of Sharon Li Baldwin, in honor of James Kung Wei Li and Julie Chu Lu Li, 2022


title: Flagon

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Elevation and transverse section of a domed and colonnaded hall

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: graphite, watercolor, and gold paint

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Pendant amulet

medium: Gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Kobako with cover

medium: Gold maki-e on black lacquer

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Chalcedony

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1984


title: Handkerchief

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Barbara K. Morrill (Mrs. James P.), 1976


title: Society Couples Dancing

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving

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


title: Necklace

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

medium: Lapis lazuli, white stone

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: A Giant Monkey in Uniform Holding up Pierrot and a Man with a Whip

creator: Anonymous, French, Austrian or German, second decade19th century

date: after 1825

medium: Lithograph touched with pen and brown ink and graphite

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1990


title: Votive figure

medium: Stone, white

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1950


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Right side of a book cover with pattern of stripes, vines, and dots

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Owl Head

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Panel

date: 18th century

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: From an Original Sketch of William Hogarth's in the Collection of Mr. Morrison

creator: Richard Livesay

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Story of Orpheus and Eurydice

date: early 17th century

medium: Wool on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Bronze handle from a cista (toiletries box)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Praenestine

subjects: Bronze Praenestine

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: [Seated Young Woman Wearing Collar with Large Bow, Resting Arm on Table]

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Service vessel with bamboo, plum blossoms, butterflies, and birds

date: 13th century

medium: Silver with chased and punched decoration and parcel gilding

country: China

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Birds
Butterflies & moths
Flowers
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1997


title: Frankie Raymond, 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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fragment of a Flower

date: 11th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel, gold

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-cloisonné Flowers

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ear Ornament, Rows of Teeth

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


date: late 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Bowl

creator: W. T. Copeland and Sons

medium: Porcelain

country: British

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Mazer Bowl and Foot

date: early 20th century (original dated ca. 1529)

medium: Maple with gilded silver mounts

subjects: British Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1911


title: Theuerdarnk on a Boar Hunt, from [Theuerdank] Die geuerlicheiten vnd einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen vnd hochberümbten helds vnd Ritters herr Tewrdannckhs

creator: Hans Burgkmair

medium: Woodcut on vellum


title: Jar

date: 18th or 19th century

medium: Pewter

subjects: Metalwork Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Plate 24: Venus and Psyche standing at right, pointing to the underworld at center, into which Psyche enters, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Specimen

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Portrait of Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain

creator: Pieter de Jode II

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Mrs. Richard Galloway

creator: John Hesselius

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1922