title: Half Mask (Menpō) with Ear Guards

medium: Steel, lacquer

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Pendant

medium: gold

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: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Plate (one of a pair)

creator: Jean Chaslon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Sheet with stripe and abstract pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Pair of Earrings (with 16.10.416)

medium: Gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Terracotta rim fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)


title: No. 1: Cabin Boy

creator: Henri Merke

date: February 15, 1799

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Ellipses Containing a Stylized S-Shape Framed by Horizontal Undulating Garlands of Branches with Pearls and Rosettes

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Annie Summerville, Corsair Co., from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Newly Opened Port of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture (Kanagawa Yokohama shinkaikōzu)

creator: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

date: 2nd month, 1860

medium: Triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware; Redware

country: American

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


title: Knife

medium: Silver gilt, steel

credit_line: Bequest of Alfred Duane Pell, 1924


title: Comb Morion

medium: Steel

country: German, Brunswick

subjects:
Helmet
German, brunswick

credit_line: Purchase, The Sulzberger Foundation Inc. and Ronald S. Lauder Gifts, 1999


title: Staff Head

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded (?) copper, stone

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Bowl

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Ornament

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


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

date: 18th century

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Orchid Pavilion Gathering

creator: Ike no Taiga

medium: Hanging scroll: ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Orchids

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2024


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


title: Earrings

date: 2nd–1st millennium BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Bequest of Lester Wolfe, 1983


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Miss Margaret Taylor Johnston, 1908


title: Stylized figure

date: 6th–10th century

medium: Stone

country: Oaxaca

subjects: Stone-sculpture Oaxaca

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Bronze statuette of a youth

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Company C, 9th Indiana Infantry (Sherman's Veterans)

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Square Dish

medium: Painted enamel

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Fringe

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

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: Cast Silver Tube with Animal

date: 15th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (?) (cast)

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Fan

medium: paper

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn and Mrs. Alice Lewisohn Crowley, 1946


title: Kohl Bottle in the Shape of a Duck

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Iron; cast and engraved, gold overlay, inlaid eyes

credit_line: Gift of Arthur Jaffe, 1976


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Stonepaste; slip painted and glazed

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


title: Chlorite tripod

medium: Chlorite

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of a Stylized Archaic Character in Relief

medium: Lacquer, copper metal with dark patina, embossed relief, applied cord runners; Interior: black lacquer and metal

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Crossbow of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (reigned 1458–1490)

date: dated 1489

medium: Wood, horn, animal sinew, staghorn, birch bark, iron alloy

country: Central or Eastern European, possibly Vienna

subjects: Central or eastern european, possibly vienna

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Dish (one of a pair)

creator: Felice Clerici

medium: White-enameled earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Tights

date: early 19th century

medium: silk

country: Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Gilt-leather wall hanging (part of a set)

creator: De Gecroonde Son

medium: Leather, painted and varnished

credit_line: Gift of Rosine Lambiotte Donhauser, in honor of Victor and Marie De Meulemeester, 2012


title: The Colossus of Rhodes, plate 4 from "The Eight Wonders of the World"

creator: Philips Galle

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Le Bonne Petite Soeur

creator: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

medium: Etching

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


title: Scarab Ring of the Storeroom Overseer Im

medium: Beryl, gold

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Fragment

date: late 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Mary A. Witthaus, 1901


title: Naiad Supporting a Shell on her Head

creator: Joseph-Charles Marin

medium: Pale buff terracotta coated with a brownish-yellow varnish

subjects:
Sculpture
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Purchase, Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, 1975


title: Classical Landscape with Figures

creator: Henri Mauperché

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Copper Rattle and Stone Head

date: 3rd–10th century (?)

medium: Copper, stone

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Metal-musical instrument
Peruvian

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Segard. Émilien (dit Segard Fils). 18 ans, né à Saloüel (Somme). Peintre en voitures. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Whetstone

medium: Fine-grained quartzite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Jack of Hearts, from the Transparent Playing Cards series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, green slip painting, imitation luster, glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Card Number 260, Frankie Kemble, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Sword with Scabbard

date: 19th century

medium: Steel, textile, leather, silver

country: Caucasian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sword
Caucasian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Ce est ung tractat de la noble art de leguille ascavoir ouvraiges de spaigne... page 18 (recto)

creator: Willem Vosterman

date: after 1527

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Pomona with the cornucopia

medium: Onyx, gold, enamels, and pearls

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1938


title: Dagger

medium: Steel, gold, jade, ruby

country: Indian, Mughal

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, mughal


title: Buddha Shakyamuni

medium: Marble

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Pinhead

date: 1st century BCE–5th century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Second Yamashito Kinsaku as a Courtesan Standing in a Room

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

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


title: Outline Sketch of Tress (from Sketchbook VII)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

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


title: Funerary Cone of Iby

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Christ Kneeling, Carrying the Cross

creator: Anonymous, Spanish, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, with brush and brown wash.  Inscription in same brown ink, crossed out with pen and black ink.  Laid down on secondary sheet of paper

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1951


title: Embroidered picture

date: mid-17th century

medium: Wool, silk and metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Saint Peter's, apse, exterior elevation (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Linen, silk; tapestry weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vessel

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Earthenware, unglazed

country: Korea

subjects:
Ceramic
Korea
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1963


title: Cape

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Alan Graham, 1954


title: Iphicles Saved from a Serpent by his Brother Hercules

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Fund, 2006


title: Repeating watch

creator: Firm of Meuron et Companie, Geneva and Paris

date: late 18th century

medium: Gold, pearls, enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Length

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Michael Abraham, 1977


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Plate (one of a pair)

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain


title: Teacup (1 of 6) (part of a service)

creator: Meissen Manufactory


title: Capital

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Amulet of Khnum

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Reclining doe

medium: Gold

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: Halberd

medium: Steel, wood (deal), textile (velvet), brass

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Jasper, green

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


title: Bashlik

medium: [no medium available]

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937


title: Plaque with Christ as Mediator

medium: Champlevé enamel, copper

country: Mosan

subjects: Mosan Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Marble-slab table

medium: Mahogany, white oak, sweet gum, white pine, marble

country: American

credit_line: Gift of James De Lancey Verplanck and John Bayard Rodgers Verplanck,  1939


title: Sacrifice of Abraham

creator: Annibale Fontana

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Bronze, dark brown patina

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Cassone

date: late 15th century, with 19th century alterations

medium: Walnut (?)

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, 1944


title: The City Rout

creator: Richard St. George Mansergh St. George

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Upper Arm Defense (Rerebrace) with Fragment of  Lining Strap

medium: Steel, leather

country: Western European

subjects:
Armor part
Western european

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


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Forgiving Lovers

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

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


title: Spindle seat T-Cart Phaeton  (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

medium: Silver and gilded silver

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-silver Byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Henry J. and Drue E. Heinz Foundation, Norbert Schimmel and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 1986


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Venus ordering Psyche to take water from a fountain guarded by dragons, from "Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

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


title: Riq  رق  (Tambourine)

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, ivory, pearl

country: Egyptian

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / frame drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bonnet

date: mid-19th century

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Marjorie Park Swope, 1988


title: Brush

medium: Metal, hair, wool

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Eleanor Fayerweather, 1949


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stag pendant with bell feet

date: ca. early 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Spear Jr., 1978


title: Beads from Necklaces

medium: Amber, amethyst, glass, and copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-bead Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Relief Showing a Seated Woman Smelling the Blossom of a Water Lily

medium: Painted limestone

subjects: Flowers Lilies

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper-gold alloy (shakudō)

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Card Number 201, Dina Mars, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Rebecca and Eliezer taking leave of her father, Bethuel, set in a landscape, a large tree to the left

creator: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Mary Magdalene Praying at the Foot of the Cross

creator: Michel François Dandré-Bardon

credit_line: Purchase, Thomas and Lore Firman Gift, 2011


title: Figure of a woman

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1958


title: La Gageure des trois Commeres: La Servante, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine.  A Paris, de l'imprimerie de  P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

creator: Philippe Trière

medium: Etching; first state of three (Cohen)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Tile with a bound Nubian from the the side of a dais

medium: Faience

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


title: Altar Cloth

date: 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cartter Patten, in memory of Mrs. Sarah Key Patten, 1961


title: Melpomene, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"

creator: Léon Davent

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


title: Ponte San Rocco and Waterfalls, Tivoli

creator: François Marius Granet

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Leonora Brenauer Bequest, in memory of her father, Joseph B. Brenauer; Wolfe Fund, and Wolfe Fund, by exchange, 1996


title: Knob

date: 4th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Coptic

subjects: Coptic Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Freestanding Screen with Dancer

date: 17th century

medium: Ink, color, and gold on gilt paper, mounted on a lacquered screen

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Mold: Bes with Tambourine

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Figure 81: Lady Macbeth, moderate expression of cruelty

creator: Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation Gift, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors; Harris Brisbane Dick and William E. Dodge Funds; and W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift, 2013


title: Border

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace, Milanese lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: "Going One's Way"

creator: Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2025


title: The Widower

creator: James Tissot

medium: Etching and drypoint; published state

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: The Poet

creator: Gilles Demarteau

medium: Crayon-manner etching printed in black and red ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Reliquary

medium: Cloisonné enamel and bronze

country: China

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: Glass flask

date: 4th–5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Fragmentary faience statuette of Aphrodite

country: Egyptian, Ptolemaic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment of a terracotta lebes gamikos (round-bottomed bowl with handles and stand used in weddings)

creator: Mannerists

date: ca. 440 BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Partisan

medium: Steel, wood

country: Flemish

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Flemish

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: The Cabinet and Chair-Maker's Real Friend and Companion, or, the Whole System of Chair-Making Made plain and easy

creator: Robert Manwaring

medium: Illustrations: engraving, etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Dressing gown

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin R. Metcalf, 1969


title: Knight, Death, and the Devil

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Friedman, 1965


title: Bronze applique in the form of a bull's head

date: ca. 4th century BCE– 3rd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Italic or Roman

subjects:
Bronze
Italic or roman

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Helen H. Mertens, 1977


title: Ladle

creator: Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Reginald McVitty and Estate of Janet C. Livingston, 1976


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

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Chlorite lid of a vase

medium: Chlorite

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Sketch of Fountain

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Ostracon

medium: Pottery, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Miseries of London: Entering upon any of the bridges of London or any of the passages leading to the Thames being assailed by a group of watermen holding up their hands and bawling out. Oars Sculls. Sculls. Oars. Oars.

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Headband: Two Infants with a Cardinal's Hat, a Third with a Banderole

creator: Claude Mellan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: An Actor Beside Water

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Steel, 1960


title: Collar

medium: Cotton, linen

country: Irish

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: James Wear "Bug" Holliday, Center Field, Cincinnati, 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: Design for 4 Seat Sleigh, no. 3868

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Window Seat

creator: Duncan Phyfe

medium: Mahogany, gilt brass, maple

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938


title: Glass Fragment

date: 14th or 15th century

medium: Pot metal glass

country: Western European

subjects:
Glass-stained
Western european

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Example of lace stitch

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Upper Arm Defense (Rerebrace)

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Panel

date: late 16th or early 17th century

medium: Silk; metal; cotton; hemp

country: Italian or Spanish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian or spanish
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Chandelier

medium: Brass

credit_line: Purchase, Morris Loeb Bequest, 1954


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

medium: Faience


title: Plate 42: Knife grinder

creator: Simon Guillain II

medium: Etching

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


date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Funerary relief

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Bracelet

medium: beads, silk, metal

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Bonnet

date: early 19th century

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Lee Carter Morse and Matthew Flesh Morse, 1950


title: The Clipper Yacht "America" – Built by Mr. George Steers of New York for John C. Stevens, Esq. and Associates of the New York Yacht Club

creator: Frances Flora Bond Palmer

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1951


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Collar

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 8 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Side chair

medium: Walnut, veneered, gilt-gesso

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Funerary Cone of the Chief Steward Padihorresnet

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Terracotta dish

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian, Teano

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian, teano

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Silver tetradrachm

medium: Silver

country: Greek, Attica

subjects:
Coin
Greek, attica

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Drawing of Sasanian rock relief: Shapur I (r. A.D. 241-272) and Roman emperor Valerian at Naqsh-i Rustam, southern Iran

creator: Lutf-'Ali Shirazi

medium: Paper, ink

country: Qajar

credit_line: Gift of Sassan Mokhtarzadeh, 1998


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Krisses

country: Javanese

subjects: Krisse Javanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Caddy spoon

creator: John Lias

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


title: Box

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Cowherd driving three horned cattle before him; below, in the foreground, a recumbent steer and a standing steer, marsh and trees beyond

creator: Paulus Potter

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Card Number 247, Miss Fulton, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Chisel

date: 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Stone, dark green

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1963


title: Chair Strip

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk;  lined with linen(?)

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1960


title: Terracotta askos (flask with a handle over the top)

creator: Mignot Painter

date: ca. 300 BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Armor

medium: Steel, leather

country: German, possibly Brunswick

subjects:
Armor for man
German, possibly brunswick

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1926


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Linen; plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Plate 2: Campo Vaccino, a buffalo and two shepherds in center, the Fontanone, various animals and people in the background, from "Roman landscapes and ruins" (Paysages et ruines de Rome)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes


title: Card Number 118, Duke, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: La Fuite de Clelie

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Side Chair

creator: Léon Marcotte

medium: Maple, pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. D. Chester Noyes, 1968


title: Terracotta lekane (dish)

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Plaque in the Form of an Upright Figure (Study Collection)

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century

country: Pakistan

subjects: Sculpture Pakistan

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1988


title: Teapot

creator: Alfred Welles

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: The Adoration of the Angels

creator: Carlo Maratti

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; second state of three (Bartsch)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Decapitator

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

credit_line: Gift of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1981


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Narihira's Journey to the East

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Album

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Drawings in pen and ink, graphite, gouache, and black chalk on off-white and toned wove and laid paper; cover missing

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970


title: Engraved copies of The Little Passion

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Piriform storage jar

medium: Serpentinite

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Oracle bone fragment

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
China
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of A. W. Bahr, 1923


title: The Herd at the Watering Place

creator: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

medium: Etching; third state of three (Mannocci)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Archers

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Metal thread, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Teabowl

creator: Ubagamochi

medium: Clay glazed; iridescent glaze inside (Ubagamochi ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Piece

date: late 19th century


title: Hanging Fragment with Bird and Basket

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Birds

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Design with a Cartouche

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite, pen and brown ink

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


title: "One Third of a Nation"

creator: O. Louis Guglielmi

medium: Oil and tempera on Masonite

credit_line: Gift of New York City W. P. A., 1943


title: Horizontal Panel Design with Two Young Male Figures Interspersed between Acanthus Rinceaux

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 17th century

date: 17th century (first half)

medium: Pen and brown ink over leadpoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Wineglass

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Candelabrum

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: The Overdrove Ox (Mad Bull on Westminster Bridge)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Euaion Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Dress Fragments

medium: Linen, wool

country: Coptic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-costumes-secular

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Curb Bit

medium: Iron alloy

country: German, Saxony, possibly Dresden

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
German, saxony, possibly dresden

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Bottle

medium: Porcelain with black glaze painted with gold

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Ledger Figures, Capt. Richard Black(y) Graham (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite, pen, ink, and watercolor on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of William Gedney Bunce, by exchange, 1979


title: Pasture Scene

creator: James M. Hart

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Colonel Charles A. Fowler, 1921


title: Cover

medium: Cotton, silk, metal wrapped threads; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Olivia Sage, 1916


title: Armchair (one of a pair)

medium: Gilded beech

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1971


title: Two Beasts and a Human Mask within a Circle

creator: Gaetano Piccini

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1960


title: Halberd

date: early 15th century

medium: Steel, wood, iron

country: Swiss

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Swiss

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


title: Stand

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (creamware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Four Sailing Vessels near a Breakwater

creator: Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman

medium: Etching; state I

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Dish with pommel scrolls

date: second half 14th century

medium: Carved black, red, and yellow lacquer (tixi)

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Bacchus, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Good Speculation!

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Vase

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bruce B. Grynbaum, in memory of his parents, Gertrude and Maurycy Grynbaum, 1991


title: Inrō with Owl and Crows in Tree

medium:
Black lacquer ground with gold and silver togidashi maki-e and e-nashiji
Netsuke: seal-shaped with sheaf of rice around peony with pecking bird; ivory
Ojime: woven ball; caved and pierced bone

subjects:
Inrō
Japan
Birds
Skeletons & bones
Trees

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


title: Euterpe, Muse of Music, from the Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans series (N188) 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: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a contract involving a house

date: ca. 7th–4th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Albert Herman "Schelley" Schellhase, Catcher, St. Joseph Clay Eaters, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Human figure, possibly male

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Salad Plate

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chace, 1969


title: Vinaigrette or nutmeg box

creator: Thomas Willmore

medium: Silver

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric

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


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Tray of Yemeni Sultan al-Mu'ayyad ibn Yusuf

creator: Ahmad ibn Husayn al-Mosuli

medium: Brass; inlaid with silver

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


title: Ovolo frame

medium: Oak

country: Flemish, Liège (?)

subjects:
Frame
Flemish, liège

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 4th–5th century CE

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Looking Glass

medium: Pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Scabbard slide

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Purchase, Sir Joseph Hotung Gift, 2008


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: U.S. Life Insurance, Besore & Murray Agents]

creator: Unknown

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: "Layfaeete" [Lafayette?] (from Sketchbook)

medium: Graphite, pen and ink, and watercolor on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1979


title: Panel with Crucifixion

medium: Elephant ivory with silver and wood frame

country: European (Medieval style)

subjects:
European (medieval style)
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, in memory of Moses Lazarus, 1890


title: Shoes

medium: silk

country: probably French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1963


title: Portrait of Joseph Christophe de Verdun

creator: Louis Surugue

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Basketball (Convention Hall, Philadelphia)

creator: Michael Leone

medium: Gouache and glossy, opaque paint with graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Pennsylvania W. P. A., 1943


title: Glass amphora (jar)

date: early 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Aerarii Publici Rome, from a series depicting (reconstructed) buildings from Roman antiquity

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Edward Pearce Casey Fund and Carolyn H. Specht Gift, 2016


title: Decorated jar fragment with inscription

medium: Pottery and ink, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Armet

creator: Guillem Margot

medium: Steel, copper alloy

country: South Netherlandish, Brussels

subjects:
Helmet
South netherlandish, brussel

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


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Belt hook in the shape of a mythical creature

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Bronze inlaid with gold and silver

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Bronze cista (toiletries box)

date: early 3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan or Praenestine

subjects:
Bronze
Etruscan or praenestine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Cuirass

medium: Steel, iron, textile (velvet)

country: Indian, Hyderabad

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Indian, hyderabad
Armor parts-cuirasse


title: Design for Enamel "Plum" Bowl

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Drs. Bruce Barnes and Joseph Cunningham, in memory of Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, 2005


title: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

creator: Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Mademoiselle Nys

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Oil on unprimed wood

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


title: Roman Emperor

date: probably late 15th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck, in memory of the late James J. Rorimer, 1966


title: Small Sallet (<i>Celatina</i>)

creator: Missaglia workshop

medium: Steel

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Helmet
Italian, milan

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2024


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Inlay

medium: Lapis lazuli, copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton on wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 4v)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Palma with textile motif

creator: Classic Veracruz artist(s)

medium: Stone, pigment

country: Veracruz

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Stone-sculpture
Veracruz

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


title: Ecce Homo with three angels

creator: Gilles Rousselet

medium: Engraving

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


title: A View of the Ruins of the Archiepiscopal Palace and of the Church of Wrotham in Kent, from Edward Hasted's "The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent", vols. 1-3

creator: John Bayly

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bonnie and Manuel Schonhorn, 2014


title: Strap Hinge

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Earring-loop type, plain

medium: Gold

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


title: View through the Herculaneum Gate, Pompeii

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Hat Finial

medium: Glass top on gilded-metal base

subjects: Jewelry China

credit_line: Purchase, Everfast Fund, 1973


title: Knife (Khyber) with Sheath

medium: Steel, ivory, gold, iron, wood, leather

country: Afghan

subjects: Knive Afghan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Ornamental Panel

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Bird pendant

creator: Greater Nicoya or Central region artitst(s)

medium: Jade (jadeite)

country: Guanacaste-Nicoya

subjects: Stone-ornament Guanacaste-nicoya Birds

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1993


title: Square

medium: Cotton, silk, metal wrapped thread; plain weave, embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: marble

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Group of naked men engaged in battle in a wooded landscape, some on horseback; a dog at lower left.

creator: Domenico Campagnola

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1929


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: probably 12th–13th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Five Spades (black), from the Playing Cards series (N84) 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: The Head of a Woman Looking Up (Judith)

creator: Guido Reni

medium: Red and black chalk

credit_line: Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1992


title: Cover for 'Rosendito, Los Leones, y El Sapo', a young boy and man holding walking sticks

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress printed on green paper

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


title: Buddhist Temple Painting

date: early 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; color on silk

country: Thailand

subjects: Architecture Painting Thailand

credit_line: Gift of J. J. Klejman, 1959


title: Paperweight

creator: William Leighton Sr.

medium: Glass

country: American

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1983


title: Stays

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Reynolds, 1931


title: Portrait of George, 5th Duke of Marlborough, with Blenheim Palace in the Distance

creator: Richard Cosway

medium: Graphite and watercolor

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Brooke Russell Astor, 2007


title: Piece

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


title: Portrait of Dr. Henry Sacheverell

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

subjects: Ceramics-pottery Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Saint Catherine of Alexandria

creator: Auguste Gaspard Louis Boucher Desnoyers

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Vase

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Jewelled Mirror

medium: Nephrite, very light gray with very faint yellowish tint

country: India

subjects: Jade India

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Lamp

date: 2nd–6th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: S. Pierre d'Alexandrie (St. Peter of Alexandria), November 26th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

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


title: A Castle, plate 22 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Furniture element

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: Cup (part of a service)

creator: J. Spode

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Rev. W. P. Eigenbrodt, 1894


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


title: [Telegrapher]

creator: E. Webb's Union Gallery

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2024


title: Faience Udjat eye amulet

medium: Faience

country: Egyptian

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Egyptian


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

date: 13th–18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


title: Ogni cosa vince l'oro

creator: Agostino Carracci

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Bird Finial

date: 5th–10th century

medium: Gold

country: Zenu or Sinu

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Zenu or sinu
Birds

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


title: Bag or statue robe (?)

date: first half 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread, sequins, purl

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Guggenheim, in memory of her son, William Guggenheim Jr., 1950


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Cream Pitcher

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chace, 1969


creator: Painter of the Paris Gigantomachy

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Coin

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Saint Matthew

creator: Brabant (Diest or Leuven?)

medium: Walnut (solid) with later polychromy and gilding.

country: Brabant (Diest or Leuven?)

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
Brabant (diest or leuven )

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Door Handle

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: The Last Judgment

creator: Jean Mignon

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


title: Cap

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Louise G. Zabriskie, 1932


title: Chair

creator: Christopher Dresser

medium: Cast iron, wood

credit_line: Purchase, From the Marion E. and Leonard A. Cohn Collection, Bequest of Marion E. Cohn, by exchange, 2016


title: A Short History of General John Cabell Breckinridge, from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bowl

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Two Roman Busts

creator: Vincenzo Camuccini

medium: Lead graphite

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


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

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


title: Album of the Phoenix Bird (Ranpō jō) 鸞鳳帖

creator: Keian Tenrai 桂庵天籟

medium: Woodblock printed book (orihon, accordion-style); ink and color on paper with metallic pigments

country: Japan

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan
Birds

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


title: Grateloupia filicina

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Extreme Unction, from "The Seven Sacraments"

creator: Lorenzo Zucchi

medium: Etching

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


country: Greek, Attic


creator: Telephos Painter


title: Juno, Mars and Cupid, set within an elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving


title: Fashion (Mode)

creator: Otto Friedr. Carl Lendecke

medium: Color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Davenport, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Festival Robe

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk and metallic thread embroidery on silk gauze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Miss Marion Hague, 1943


title: Recruiting on a Broab [sic] Bottom'd Principle

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Bowl with Thai mythical figures

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Dancing Couple, with the Male Figure Mid-Step, from "The Small Wedding Dancers"

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

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


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

date: last quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Poem

creator: Zou Zhilin

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

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Andiron (feu or chenet) (one of a pair)

creator: François Rémond

medium: Gilded bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Textile Fragment

date: first half 17th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; brocaded

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Embroidered Mantle Fragment

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven


title: Kettle

creator: Kinkozan

medium: Faience with enamels; designs in low relief

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Chalice

creator: Israel Trask

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stephen S. FitzGerald, 1962


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: History

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Woman's Robe

date: second half of the19th century

medium: Silk tabby

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Minna H. Nagel, 1960


title: Powder Flask

date: 16th century

medium: Wood, leather, thread, brass, gold, black pigment

country: Italian, possibly Venice

subjects:
Italian, possibly venice
Firearm accessories-flask & primer

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bouillon bowl with cover

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

medium: Woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Walton Butterworth, 1979


title: The Yellow Swallowtail, from "The Butterflies and Moths of America", Part 2

creator: Louis Prang & Co.

medium: Color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick, 1948


title: Ten Bamboo Studio

medium: Eight volumes of woodblock-printed books; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Slop Bowl

creator: Thomas Danforth Boardman

medium: Britannia metal

credit_line: Bequest of Delight L. Sherwin, 1989


title: Profile Head of a Youth Looking to Upper Left, and Study of Clasped Hands

creator: Giacomo Cavedone

medium: Charcoal, highlighted with white, on brownish paper

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917


title: In the Zoological Garden

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching, drypoint, and aquatint printed in color; seventh state of seven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: The Judgment of Paris; man seated at left reaches out to a woman who is flanked by two others, set within an elaborate frame

creator: Battista Angolo del Moro

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Box with portrait of a woman, said to be Princesse de Ligne

creator: Jean-Baptiste Gillet

medium: Tortoiseshell, gold, ivory

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Portraits

credit_line: The Moses Lazarus Collection, Gift of Josephine and Sarah Lazarus, in memory of their father, 1888-95


title: Cup

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque light blue glaze and white glaze (rim)

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


title: Pair of urns and pedestals

creator: Robert Adam

date: ca. 1780 with latter additions

medium: Inlaid mahogany

credit_line: Purchase, Morris Loeb Bequest, 1955


title: Zoomorphic Figure

creator: Middle Niger artist

date: 9th–17th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Middle Niger civilization

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Middle niger civilization

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Syrop, 1987


title: Terracotta fragments from open shapes

date: 7th century BCE or later

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Pompone II de Bellièvre

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943


title: George Washington

creator: Emile Dupont-Zipcy

country: French

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Fichu

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William M. Polk, 1928


title: Double Vase

medium: Porcelain with a clair-de-lune glaze

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


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

creator: Group of Polygnotos

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1956


title: Panel

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Bird-Shaped Oil Lamp

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Bronze; cast, engraved, inlaid with silver and copper

subjects: Metal Birds

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts and Harvey and Elizabeth Plotnick Gifts, 2001


title: Mace Head

date: 1st–3rd century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-implement Vicú

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


title: The Lakeside

creator: Elbridge Kingsley

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Albert Gallup Collection, Gift of Jeanie Gallup Mottet, 1921


title: Standing cup

date: probably first half 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: Monk with Crucifix (recto); Monk with Book (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Red chalk, with white chalk highlighting (recto); red chalk (verso)

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund


title: Purse

medium: cotton, glass

country: probably Dutch

credit_line: Gift of Stella Jolles Reichman, 1980


title: Square vase with scenes of four seasons

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain painted in polychrome enamels over a yellow ground (Jingdezhen ware, famille jaune)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Village View

creator: The Master of the Small Landscapes

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Pair of chairs

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Double Capital

date: 11th–13th century

medium: Marble

country: Italian or French

subjects:
Sculpture-stone
Italian or french

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1922


title: Outer Confederate Line at Petersburg. Captured by 18th Corps, June 15, 1864

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Five Cranes by the Water’s Edge, from the series Three Sheets (Mihira no uchi)

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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

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


title: Gareki zakko, Vol. 2 (notes on miscellaneous rubble)

medium: Woodblock-printed book

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Betty and Paul Nomura, in memory of Nomura Shōjirō, 2018


title: Memorial Decoration for the Interior of a Building to Honor the Deceased Ernst Ludwig, 1725

creator: Alessandro Rossini (reported active 1702-1736)

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, highlighted with pink-brown gouache, over traces of leadpoint; framing lines in black ink

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gourary, 1990


title: Belt Buckle

creator: California Jewelry Co.

medium: Gold and champlevé enamel

credit_line: Purchase, Susan and Jon Rotenstreich Gift, 2000


title: Snuffbox with Trellis Patterns

medium: Enameled copper with silver rims

subjects:
Ornament & design
Snuffboxe
French

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sealing

medium: Clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Caricatured Indian, 2 Annas, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 2) 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: Portrait of Louis d'Orléans

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; second state of four

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Textile Design with Undulating Garlands of Stylized Flowers and Leaves Separated by Undulating Zig-Zagging Strips of Pearls

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing
Flowers

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: [Private James P. Bonnet and Unidentified Members of the 22nd New York State Militia in their Tent Camp, Near Harper's Ferry, Virginia]

creator: Mathew B. Brady


title: The Actor Segawa Kikunojo Third as an Oiran

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Sansa

medium: Wood, metal, vegetal cord

country: African

subjects:
Idiophone-plucked / depressed
African

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Ewer

date: late 12th–13th century

medium: Brass; fluted, engraved and repoussé, originally inlaid with silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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


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

date: second quarter of the sixth century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: String of 22 elongated disc beads

date: ca. 1st century BCE–5th century CE

medium: Translucent dark blue striated glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Ainu costume

medium: Elm-bark fiber with appliqué of indigo-dyed tabby (atsushi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy and The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, by exchange, 1984


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Weighted Fastener

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Fragment with Two Figures

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Linen, wool

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: One of a Pair of Overlapping Undecorated Anklets

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Vietnam (North, Highlands?)

subjects:
Jewelry
Vietnam (north, highlands )

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


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 23 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Beakers (2)

creator: Vezzi Factory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Group of the Phineus Painter

country: Greek, Chalcidian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, chalcidian

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Glass button

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache

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


title: Jar and Stand, Tomb of Nakht

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Teapot

medium: Stoneware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Screven Lorillard, 1953


title: Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

medium: Iron, lacquer, textile

country: Japanese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Netsuke of Sleeping Man and a Monkey

medium: Ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Brooch

date: early 20th century (original dated 5th century)

medium: Gilded silver

country: Hungarian

subjects: Hungarian Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Le Panier Misterieux (The Mysterious Basket)

creator: René Gaillard

date: 18th century

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jenny Philippsohn, in memory of Siegfried Philippsohn, 1955


title: The Tomb of Iyeyasu Tokugawa

creator: John La Farge

medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. Jerome Konheim, 1989


title: Chancelier Le Tellier

creator: Robert Nanteuil

date: 17th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: D'Alencan, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Plum Blossoms

creator: Kuwayama Gyokushū

date: late 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Flowers

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2025


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

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Florentine, 15th century

medium: Engraving (a later restrike)

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Fragment of a Female Figure

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Clay

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: John Kay

medium: Stipple and etching

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Steatite quadrangular seal

date: late 8th–early 7th century BCE

medium: Steatite

country: Greek

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1942


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pendant

date: late 19th century

medium: metal, stones

country: Russian

credit_line: Gift of H. Cecilia Bailey, 1975


title: Billingsgate at Bayonne, or The Imperial Dinner!

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Study for the Ceiling of a Salon in the Hotel de Mazarin

creator: François Joseph Belanger

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Belt Buckle with Animal-Combat Scene

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Gilded bronze

country: North China

subjects:
Metalwork
North china

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


title: Celt pendant

creator: Greater Nicoya or Central region artitst(s)

medium: Jade quartz (chrysoprase or prase)

country: Guanacaste-Nicoya

subjects: Stone-ornament Guanacaste-nicoya

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


title: Portrait of an Old Woman

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on buff paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Silver bracelet fragments

medium: Silver

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Hand-towel Rack (Tenugui kake) with Chrysanthemums and Meandering Stream

medium: Gold and silver maki-e on lacquered wood

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2005


date: early 5th century BCE


title: Snuff bottle with stopper

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Agate

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Pair of Keros with Carved Feline Handles

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Wood, pigmented resin inlays

country: Quechua

subjects: Wood-container Quechua

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Gold ring

date: late 4th or early 3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Door Knocker

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-iron French

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Terracotta rim fragment from a shallow bowl

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Jar

date: about 4th century

medium: Apparently almost colorless glass with a brown or yellowish tint. Blown, the body inflated in a dip mold, the rim finished at the furnace.

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Snuffbox

creator: Jean Georges (or George)

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Self-portrait

creator: Thomas Gimbrede

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Bowl

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and incised, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Morning, or, the Man of Taste

creator: Henry William Bunbury

medium: Hand-colored etching with roulette

credit_line: Gift of Adele S. Gollin, 1976


title: Mlle. Daireaux, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sleeve Button

creator: Jonathan Clarke

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Un Gentilhomme et Son Page (A Gentleman and his Page), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Burns, Shortstop, Baltimore Orioles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques : avec leur explication

creator: Denis Diderot

credit_line: Jane E. Andrews Fund, in memory of her husband, William Loring Andrews, 1955


title: Vase

medium: Red amber

subjects: Amber China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Candlestick (one of a pair)

creator: Bruce J. Talbert

medium: Wrought brass, inset with cabochons and quartz

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 2015


title: Dish

medium: Pottery (Jun ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, 1926


title: Ice cream cup (Tasse à glace) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Candelabrum

medium: Sheffield silver plate

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Katzenbach, 1969


title: Frieze ornament

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

date: 8th century

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942


title: Improvement in Weights and Measures; or, Sir John Seeclear Discovering Ye Ballance of Ye British Flag

creator: James Gillray

date: December 1, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Two Atlantes in Conversation

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Graphite on laid paper

credit_line: Karen B. Cohen and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2005


title: Candlestick (one of a set of six)

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: One of a Pair of Crescent-Shaped Earrings with Rosettes

date: 12th century

medium: Gilded silver with enamel worked in cloisonné

country: Kyivan Rus’ or Byzantine

subjects:
Kyivan rus’ or byzantine
Enamels-cloisonné

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Saint Eustace and Saint George

creator: Hans Süss von Kulmbach

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 2007


title: Seal Stone

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Nephrite

credit_line: Gift of Virginia Bailey, 1980


title: Floral print

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Flowers
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Viscera figure with human head (Imseti)

medium: Mud, wax

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Trumpeter Gritten and Trumpeter Lang at Woolwich

creator: Cundall & Howlett

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Amulet, Taweret

medium: Lapis lazuli


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Bustle

medium: Linen, cotton, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Louise M. Coleman, 1949


title: Watch

creator: Suzanne de Court

date: first quarter of 17th century

medium: Case of brass with plaques of painted enamel on copper, partly gilt and partly silvered, and silver-gilt mounts. Dial of brass with traces of gilding and with a silver chapter of hours; in the center a disk of painted enamel on copper and a gilt-brass hand.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Rooster

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1927


title: Plaque; Wedjat Eye

medium: Agate

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


title: Chair seat

date: mid-19th century

medium: Wool, cotton, glass paste

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Plate 12: Head of a child, from "The Book for Learning to Draw" (Livre pour apprendre à dessiner)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Folded Cloth Amulet

medium: Sheet gold

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1920


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


title: The Death of Britannicus

creator: Alexandre Denis Abel de Pujol

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache over graphite and red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bruno de Bayser, 2004


title: Adoration of the Shepherds

creator: Master of Liechtenstein

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, and white gouache on off-white paper prepared with light brown wash; framing line in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, François van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2008


title: Bottle, Falcon

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 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: Etching of Firearm Ornament

creator: Jean Henequin

medium: Ink, paper

country: French, Metz

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French, metz

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


title: Greek National Waltz, from National Dances (N225, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Cope with a Hood

date: early–mid-18th century

medium: Silk, satin weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with  silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in satin, split, and stem  stitches; laid work and padded couching; lined with silk, plain weave;  watered (moir‚).

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-ecclesiastical


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Silk on canvas

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


title: H.W. Slocum, Jr., Lawn Tennis Champion of New England 1887/88, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Medal:  Don Inigo d'Avalos

creator: Pisanello (Antonio Pisano)

date: model ca. 1449–50 (old aftercase)

medium: Copper alloy with light brown patina; pierced.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Child's Coat

date: late 19th century

medium: Wool; double interlocking twill tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1983


title: Virgo Argentinensis (Unmarried woman from Strasbourg)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Gift of Carl J. Ulmann, 1924


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

country: Japan

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


title: Portrait of Charles Gauzargues

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching; first state of two (Bocher)

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Salad Plate

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chace, 1969


title: Belt buckle with dragons

medium: Jade (jadeite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix:band-cup

date: mid-6th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Gift of the Honorable Iris Cornelia Love, 2011


title: Knife with Sheath, Chopsticks, and Earspoon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, ivory, brass, gold

country: Chinese

subjects: Knive Chinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Calm, part IX, plate 44 from "Liber Studiorum"

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching, aquatint and mezzotint; third state of seven (Finberg)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Twin-spouted vessel

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

subjects:
Iran
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Saint John the Baptist

medium: Limestone with traces of paint

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1934


title: Scarab With Throne Name of Amenemhat VII (Sedjefakare)

medium: Blue glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Boots

medium: Leather

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Marion Fisher, 1952


title: Cuneiform tablet: record of bovine disbursements

date: ca. 2045 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Purchase, by exchange, 1911


title: Shimizu Temple

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; Benizuri-e; small print (hosoban)

subjects: Architecture Print Japan

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


title: Basin with scene of Daoist immortals

date: 17th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel

country: China

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Cous du Kadisha, Monte Libon

creator: Félix Bonfils

date: 1860s–80s, printed ca. 1870

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John L. Swayze, 1982


title: Regena

creator: Morton Schamberg

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Gift of Jean Loeb Whitehill, 1973


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Bifolium with Initial L, from an Antiphonary

date: 14th century (?)

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

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


title: Nobleman Receiving a Kyoka (Humorous Poem) from Shibanoya Sanyo, a Master of Kyoka

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Bedroom Scene

creator: Okumura Masanobu

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1945


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

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Two Beads

medium: Jadeite

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Trattato dell' arte della pittura, scultura et architetettura

creator: Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo

medium: Printed book

credit_line: Purchased with income from the Library Fund


title: Ribbon

date: 18th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Pharmacy Jar with the Arms of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Console table

medium: Carved and gilded oak; marble

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Faust

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching, engraving and drypoint; first of seven states

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1920


title: Earring

date: 3rd century

medium: Gold, green glass or emerald

country: Ostrogothic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Ostrogothic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Plaque with Enthroned Virgin and Child

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Carolingian

subjects: Carolingian Ivories-elephant


title: Python Crushing a Crocodile

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

date: modeled 1840 or 1841, cast after 1847

medium: Bronze (sand cast)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Sam Lovill, Porter at the Royal Academy

creator: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

medium: Black chalk heightened with white chalk over graphite

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth A. Lohf, 1981


title: Terracotta fragment from a kantharos: head vase

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: New Künstlichs Modelbuch (Page 6 recto)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Dagger

medium: Ivory, iron, steel

country: Indian

subjects: Dagger Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Vase with landscape

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

subjects: Ceramic China Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Woven silk

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Spiral Ring

date: 300 BCE–CE 400

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Glass beaker or lamp

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres

creator: Denis Diderot

credit_line: Bequest of Marianne Khuner


title: Design for an Occasional Table

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray, blue, rose and yellow wash. Framing lines in pen and black ink.

subjects: Drawing Roses

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1959


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: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Corinthian?

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk


title: Deep bowl

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Astley's Amphitheatre

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 1, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Tile with characters

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Ceramic China


title: Cup

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Blown glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

date: 20th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. McFadden, 1949


title: A Standing Grenadier of the Municipal Guard

creator: Edouard Detaille

medium: Watercolor over graphite, heightened with white

credit_line: Gift of Jeffrey L. Berenson, 2002


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Egg Cup

medium: Pressed glass


title: The Sailor's Return

date: October 10, 1799

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Kohl Jar and Stick (with 16.10.373a, b)

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Dish with cover (part of a set)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Animal Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: Design for Two Vases

medium: Pen and brown ink, black chalk, and watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1961


title: Sidney Douglas Farrar, 1st Base, 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: Collar with square tabs

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Needle lace, Point plat

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Maisons de la porte d'Auteuil

creator: Charles Soulier

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Paula and Robert Hershkowitz, in memory of Sam Wagstaff, 2009


title: The Laughing Audience

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Mezzotint with etching


title: Princess Elise Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

creator: Bertrand Andrieu

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Saint Malo, from the Fancy Bathers series (N187) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Creamer

creator: John David Jr.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Coney Island, from the Fancy Bathers series (N187) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.


title: Spring Morning in the Mountains

creator: Xie Shichen

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of John N. Loomis, 1991


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

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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Disk Brooch

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper alloy, champlevé enamel

country: Merovingian

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Merovingian

credit_line: Gift of Bastiaan Blok, 1991


title: Proofs of Bank of New York One Dollar Bill and Two Dollar Bill

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving; proof

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002


title: Evening dress

medium: cotton

country: American or European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American or european

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. M. Dow Brine, 1924


title: Pair of wild boars

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Yankee Bass Viol

creator: William Darracott, Jr.

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Hodges Warren, 1979


title: Allegory of the Christian Faith with Christ at center, holding the cross

creator: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Chinese Soldier

creator: François Boucher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta oil lamp

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Head of a Woman

creator: Wilhelm Lehmbruck

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Erna S. Blade, 1995


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

country: Japan

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Strip with corner

medium: Linen, cutwork

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Bowl

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Technical Drawing of a Fireplace Mantel for Knoll (now Lyndhurst), Tarrytown, New York

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; overglaze luster-painted

credit_line: The Grinnell Collection, Bequest of William Milne Grinnell, 1920


title: Seal

medium: Brown soapstone

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1916


title: Carpet

date: probably 18th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph V. McMullan, 1973


title: Bowl

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted in black under turquoise glaze

credit_line: Henry G. Leberthon Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wallace Chauncey, 1957


title: Two-handled cup with cover

creator: Simon Pantin I

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1958


title: Double Spout and Bridge Bottle with Foxhead

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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