title: Seated Buddha Reaching Enlightenment, Flanked by Avalokiteshvara and Maitreya

date: late 10th–11th century

medium: Black schist

country: India, Bihar, Nalanda monastery

subjects:
Sculpture
India, bihar, nalanda monastery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Dagger with Sheath

date: 19th century

medium: Steel, wood, silver, silver wire

country: Philippine, Mindanao

subjects:
Dagger
Philippine, mindanao

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: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Fan

medium: Mother-of-pearl, gilt bronze, paper, artificial pearls, glass, enameled copper

credit_line: Bequest of Clara Legg Bucknall, 1934


title: Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Blue Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Design for Omnibus or Wagonette, no. 3755

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Perfume vase

medium: Glass

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


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 43 (recto)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Obélisques du Palais de Karnac (Thèbes)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Vase fragments

medium: Terracotta

country: Neolithic, Gonia

subjects:
Vase
Neolithic, gonia

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: Menat fragment

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Jar

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Captain John Lovejoy

medium: Watercolor on ivory in gilded copper case; hair reserve verso

country: American

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


title: Celt

date: 10th–4th century BCE

medium: Stone

country: Olmec

subjects: Stone-implement Olmec

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1930


title: Jude, from the Martyrdom of the Twelve Apostles

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Dagger Sheath with Venus and Cupid, and a Candelabrum Supported by Cupid Below

creator: Jacob Binck

medium: Engraving

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


title: Dance Under the Trellis

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching; fifth state of seven (Hollstein)

credit_line: Bequest of Joan G. Smith, 2024


title: Design for a One-armed Gothic Style Sofa and Chair

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Cap

medium: Cotton, silk

country: European

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift in memory of Mrs. Karoline Goldschmidt, 1966


title: Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment

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

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Off She Goes

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: William Fly, Lashing a Prisoner, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Petticoat

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Miss Charlotte Huffington, 1953


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Chōryo and Kosekiko with the Shoe and the Dragon

medium: Lacquer, kinji, gold, silver, black and brown hiramakie, kirigane, metal inlay; Interior: nashiji and fundame

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1931


title: Side of a Greenhouse

creator: George Cochran Lambdin

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Augustus Barnard, 1979


title: Inlay, falcon hieroglyph

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Black Cañon, Looking Below From Big Horn Camp

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 103 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Mary, Queen of Scots

date: 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Shahsevan Double Saddle Bag

medium: Wool and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Inger G. and William B. Ginsberg, 2018


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk / Tapestry

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Set of four side chairs

medium: Walnut, burr walnut veneer, parcel gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Obi

date: late 19th century

medium: silk

subjects: Accessory-waist-womenswear Japan

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Netsuke of Tiger

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Bowl with ring handles

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Façade of the Hôtel de Chavannes, Paris (recto); Plan of a Circular Room (verso)

creator: Pierre Louis Moreau Desproux

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray and colored wash; triple framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1970


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite, brush and brown and green wash, and gouache

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


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Chlorite

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1984


title: Trade Card

creator: Reinier Vinkeles

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: James Tooley

creator: Auguste Edouart

medium: Cut paper silhouette

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


title: Le Jardinier du Couvent, plate 3 from "The Decameron"

creator: Léopold Flameng

medium: Etching

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


title: Coin

date: probably 10th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Card Number 180, Irene Verona, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Anthony John "Tony" Mullane, Pitcher, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Granada

creator: John Singer Sargent

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Fichu

medium: [no medium available]

country: British

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Onorio Marinari

medium: Black and red chalk on beige paper (the oval portrait); brush and gray wash over black chalk (the drawn frame)

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. Gift, 1980


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Bowl

medium: Jadeite

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Bowl with two bail handles

medium: Brass

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Drilled half almond seal

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1983


title: Border

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Marc Ghiron, 1971


title: The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca

creator: William Blake

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Judith

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Dragon Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Stanley Marcus, Neiman Marcus and Baron W. Langer von Langendorff, Evyan Perfums, Inc., 1975


title: Lefrançois. Charles, Albert. 27 ans, né le 10/11/67 à Paris XXe. Horloger. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Hat

creator: Edmé-François Herbault Despauvaux

medium: silk, straw

country: French

credit_line: Alfred Z. Solomon-Janet A. Sloane Endowment Fund, 2017


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Center Table

creator: Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company

medium: Rosewood, walnut, gilding, marble, brass, glazed ceramic tile

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1968


title: Slippers

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Herbert E. Winlock, 1941


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

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


title: Corset

creator: Corset Parisien

medium: cotton, metal, bone

subjects:
French
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Nelson McGeary, 1958


title: Panel fragment with a kneeling horned animal

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Iran

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1951


title: Bifacial Sickle Insert

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of The British School of Archaeology, 1926


title: Altar cloth

date: second half 16th century

medium: Linen, bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


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: Histamenon of Romanos III Argyros

medium: Gold

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Fragment of a box

date: 6th century

medium: Stoneware with celadon glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Menke, 1982


title: Border

medium: Embroidered net

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fragment of a Veil

medium: Silk; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of Marion Hague, 1919


title: Beads

date: 9th–12th century

medium: Lapis lazuli; cut


title: Sampler

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Chinese woman and servant

creator: Höchst Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Tenplum (sic) Iovis Ultoris, from a series depicting (reconstructed) buildings from Roman antiquity

medium: Engraving

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


title: Robe à l'anglaise

credit_line: Gift of Mary Tavener Holmes, 1983


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Shabti of the Overseer of the Fleet Hekaemsaf

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Leigh Hunt, 1916


title: I Mondi (1552)

creator: Antonio Francesco Doni

medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations.

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Dish

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; brown-black slip, green slip decoration under glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Yosemite Falls, 2,634 feet

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

date: ca. 1872, printed ca. 1876

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Drawstring bag

medium: silk, glass, wood, leather

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Trust Gift, 1986


title: Figure of a Cleric in Half-Length

creator: Jacopo Confortini

medium: Red and black chalk, on gray-beige paper

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Italian Garden

creator: Friedrich August von Kaulbach

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Reisinger Fund, 1916


title: Coin Weight

date: 11th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Two Female Heads and Standing Figure (from Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching; proof impression of the only state (Glasgow 1); this is a fragment cut from the upper portion of "Sketches on the Coast Survey Plate" (Kennedy no. 1) by Whistler and mounted on a board with six other related fragments. Cited by Glasgow as the earliest known impression.

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


title: Fulham (Chelsea)

medium: Etching and drypoint; fifth state of five (Glasgow); printed in black ink on cream laid paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1982


title: Miss Fortes, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) 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: Apron

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: silk, linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Ostrakon with a Letter

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Garment Hook in the Shape of a Feline

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: North or northwest China

subjects:
Metalwork
North or northwest china

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


title: Ivory die

date: ca. 1st–3rd century CE

medium: Ivory

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Roman
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Five Dancing Putti

creator: Amico Aspertini

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Woodward Haven, 1930


title: Double flask

date: probably 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Vase with cover (vase urne antique)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Flask

creator: United States Pottery Company

medium: Mottled brown earthenware


title: Valley and Lake (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1998


title: Jar

date: 18th century

medium: Clay covered with black glaze over a reddish-brown glaze (Seto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893


title: Terracotta fragment of a kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Incense Box

creator: Dr. Bunkio Masaki

date: 19th century

medium: Clay roughly modeled with two small figures; light glaze (Seto ware)


medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: David Sears, Jr.

creator: Gilbert Stuart

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Several Gentleman, 1881


title: Harpoon head

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Trade Card for John Hancock, Engraver and Printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


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

creator: Goodwin & Company


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

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: Hat

creator: Samuel O. Aborn

medium: (a) beaver fur; (b, c) leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James F. Lawrence, 1965


title: Death carrying a child, from 'The five deaths' (Les cinq Morts)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of three

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


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: "A Tournament at Arms", Folio from a Divan (Collected Works) of Mir 'Ali Shir Nava'i

creator: Mir 'Ali Shir Nava'i

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, polychromy, brass

country: Madurese

subjects: Krisse Madurese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Panel with arms of the collegiate church of Saint Urse and Saint Victor and their fellow martyrs of the Theban Legion of Solothurn

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Scarab set in a ring bezel

medium: carnelian, gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

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


title: Frontispiece for Exercises de Devotion sur la Vie de Nostre Seigneur Iesus-Christ [...]

creator: Grégoire Huret

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Henry W. Kent, transferred from the Printing Office


title: Card Number 44, Bella Urquhart, 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: Euphrosyne, One of the Three Graces, 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


title: Design for Stanhope Gig, no. 3915

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: A Great Fair on a Grand Scale

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Lithograph, printed in color

credit_line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1951


title: Fragment

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Canopic Jar of Teti

medium: pottery, Marl A 4, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Horus falcon

medium: Faience

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


title: Plate

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Ainu robe

medium: Cotton and wool with applique (kiri-fuse)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1967


title: Chine, from "Jeu de la Géographie"

medium: Etching, state iii

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


title: Bowl with Thai mythical figures

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

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Full Blossom at Arashiyama on the Oi River

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Set of six spoons

creator: Jacques Anthiaume

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Base

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Saints Augustine and Francis, a Bishop Saint, and Saint Benedict

creator: Fra Filippo Lippi

medium: Tempera on paper, laid down on canvas, transferred from wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Broadsheet relating to the execution of Florencio Morales and Bernardo Mora

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Chinese Poem on Fishing and Zen

creator: Ōsen Keisan

medium: Hanging scroll: ink on paper decorated in gold

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2021


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Page of Calligraphy with Scribbled Bird and Insect?

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

subjects: Codice Birds Insects

credit_line: Bequest of Adrienne Minassian, 1994


date: 480 BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Ste. Cécile, vierge et martyre (St. Cecilia, Virgin and Martyr), November 22nd, 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: Fragment of a Luster-Painted Open Vessel

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
Ships & the sea


title: Truncated Blade

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


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


title: Vase fragment

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: A Rider Falls into Water

creator: Henry William Bunbury

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Hanging Vase

medium: Pottery covered with glaze (Takatori ware)

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


title: Strip

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Mlle. Sorel, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) 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: Water Sprinkler

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: harvester contract

date: ca. 1640 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, by exchange, 1911


title: Apron

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James H. Post, 1952


title: Venice from the Bacino di San Marco

creator: Francesco Guardi

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965


title: La veste de Cygne

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Pair of finials

date: 17th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with crackled green glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, from "The Story of Joseph"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Bonnet

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry C. Taylor, 1979


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

creator: Abdul Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Candlestick

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of the Members of the Committee of the Bertha King Benkard Memorial Fund, 1946


title: Pair of Manuscript Covers with Buddhist Deities

date: late 11th century

medium: Distemper on wood

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Painting
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

credit_line: Fletcher and Rogers Funds, 1976


title: Plate

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1962


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

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Tate, Catcher, Boston, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Brocaded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pair of Tiger Claw Necklace Elements

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Element of a Border for an Icon Frame

date: 10th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel, gold

subjects: Byzantine Enamels-cloisonné

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Dish

date: early 15th century

medium: Earthenware, tin-glaze (Majolica)

country: Italian

subjects: Ceramic Italian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Bacchanal

creator: Pierre Parrocel

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Etching with engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Poems on One Hundred Ghost Stories (Kyōka hyaku monogatari) 狂歌百物語

creator: Masazumi Ryusai 正澄竜斎

medium: Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Puzzle Card Number 7, Tea Puzzle, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Maffet Ledger: Drawing

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and crayon on paper

country: Southern and Northern Cheyenne

subjects:
Paper-drawing
Southern and northern cheyenne

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968


title: Wreaths, 11

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Watch

creator: Jean Antoine Lépine

date: late 18th century

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Towel border

medium: Linen, silk

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


title: The Sacrifice of Noah

creator: Gerard Hoet

medium: Pen and point of brush and dark gray and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white; framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisah Whittelsey Fund, 2006


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Pen Holder and Ink Pad

date: 19th century

medium: Metal

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: Pietà (Design for an Altar)

creator: Peter Candid (Pieter de Witte, Pietro Candido)

medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2003


title: Hexagonal dish

medium: Stoneware with reddish-brown glaze

country: China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893


title: Mail Shirt

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: Possibly Turkish, Istanbul or Iranian

subjects:
Mail
Possibly turkish, istanbul or iranian


title: Picture Book with Mixed Verses on Jōruri (Puppet Theater) Ehon jōruri zekku)  繪本浄瑠璃絶句

creator: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

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


title: John Reilly, 1st Base, Cincinnati, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen print photograph, cabinet card


title: The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

creator: Jacques Louis David

medium: Black chalk, pen and black and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white gouache

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2006


title: Beaker

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Brother Joseph in the Alps

creator: Johann Christoph Erhard

medium: Etching; third state

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


title: Untitled

creator: Unrecorded  Edgefield District potter

medium: Alkaline-glazed stoneware with kaolin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Decorated Fitting

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2003


title: Dress

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of The Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969


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: Fashion Study: Woman in a White Floral Dress

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing
Flowers

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1982


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Dish with a scene of tea cultivation (one of a pair)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1971


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: A standing monk

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Black and white chalk on gray-brown paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Dwelling in landscape

creator: Song Maojin

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

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Doctrine, from the "Almanach iconologique"

creator: Benoit Louis Prevost

medium: Etching with engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Cup

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Buckle

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Orphrey

medium: Wool and silk on cotton

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
German
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Charles F. Iklé, 1963


title: Aeneas Carrying Anchises in the Burning of Troy

creator: Francesco Allegrini

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink on mount

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

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: Mrs. William Power (née Shed)

creator: John Henderson

medium: Colorless wax on black ground; frame: wood with brass mounts and glass

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


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

date: 5th century BCE


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


title: The Triumph of Love, from The Triumph of Petrarch

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Terracotta relief of a horseman

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian, tarentine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Queen of Denmark, from World's Sovereigns series (N34) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Crab on a Lotus Leaf

date: early 19th century

medium: Ivory body, patinated copper disk with mixed-metal and gilded details

subjects: Netsuke Japan Crustaceans

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


title: Putto at the left hold aloft grapes, another seated at the right holding an urn, an allegory of the seasons (Summer)

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948


title: Double-gourd vase (one of a pair)

creator: Adam Friedrich von Löwenfinck

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: Coupe #965

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: L'Idea della Architettura

creator: Vincenzo Scamozzi

medium: Printed book with engraved and woodcut illustrations

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942


title: Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite Leaving Olympus

creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

medium: Etching; engraving in state II

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964


title: Entrée du Prince de Pfalzbourg (Entrance of the Prince of Pfalzbourg), from "Le Combat a la Barrière"

creator: Jacques Callot

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Library Table, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Samples (4)

date: mid-19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Plaque

date: 5th–8th century

medium: Bone; carved

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1937


title: Glass trulla (pan)

date: 1st–4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragments of lekythoi (oil flasks)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Writing Box with Design of Chinese-Style Flower Arrangement (Inside: Design of Geese)

creator: Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō)

medium: Gold maki-e on black lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Fire screen (Écran) (part of a set)

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené

medium: Carved, painted and gilded walnut; modern cotton twill with silk embroidery

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1941


title: Officer, 1st Regiment, Massachusetts, V.M., from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Candlestick

medium: Cloisonné enamel

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Bequest of Margaretta A. Jones, 1906


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1913


title: Sunflowers

creator: Vincent van Gogh

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


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

creator: Umetada Motoshige

date: dated August 1645

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Glass pendant in the form of a jug

date: 4th–early 5th century CE


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: In honor of the sculptor, Eugene Guillaume

creator: Jules-Clément Chaplain

medium: Bronze, cast - double

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: A Cully Pillag'd

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Wine container (hu)

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze, bronze inlay

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2021


title: Small dwelling in a dense grove of trees

creator: Chen Mei

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China Trees

credit_line: Gift of Matthew J. Edlund, 2024


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Cup

date: early 16th century

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: [Winter Quarters, troops with row of cabins].  Brady album, p. 128

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Kneeling Priest, Pouring Libation

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Manuscript Leaf with a female saint (possibly Dorothy) in an Initial G, from a Gradual

creator: the Illustratore

medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1930


title: Waistcoat

medium: silk, cotton

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1968


title: Accessory set

medium: Linen

country: British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Marie A. Bond, 1956


title: [Photo Collage: Woman Holding "1880" Calendar for March and April]

creator: Juan Pedro Chabalgoity

medium: Albumen silver print, lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Drew Knowlton and William L. Schaeffer, 2017


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Jessie Leonard Hill, Charles R. Leonard Jr., and Laura Leonard Ault, 1978


title: A female figure in glory at center, surrounded by burning rocks; below Cupid sailing on a burning chariot; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

creator: Mathäus Küsel

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Bronze eyelet-type pin

date: ca. 14th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Bronze Mycenaean

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


title: Panel

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Belt Buckle

date: 7th century

medium: Iron, with silver and brass inlay

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Masked Figure

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Veracruz

subjects: Veracruz Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Albert J. Grant and Monique Grant Joint Revocable Trust, 2014


title: Sheet with overall crisscross pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948


title: The Sibyl and Emperor Augustus

creator: Master ES

date: 15th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1922


title: The Rainbow

creator: John Glover

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Susan H. Seidel Gift, 2002


title: Dish with King of Prussia inscription

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2014


title: Design for One Half of a Ceiling with Elaborate Medaillons and Figures

creator: Donato Giuseppe Frisoni

medium: Pen and brown ink over leadpoint or graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Africa, from Allegories of the Four Continents

creator: Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

medium: Wool, linen, hemp

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Le Benedicite, estampe appelée aussi La Sainte Famille a Table et St. Joseph Faisant Boire L'Enfant Jésus (The Grace, also called The Holy Family at the Table and St. Joseph Giving the Christ Child a Drink)

creator: Jacques Callot

date: early 17th century

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of four (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Scholarship Medal

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Last Judgment, after Michelangelo

creator: Tommaso Piroli

medium: Ink and graphite

credit_line: Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 1993


title: John M. Ward, Baseball Player, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pair of candlesticks (part of a set)

creator: Nicolas François Foulon

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Fruitwood (bois de Sainte-Lucie)

credit_line: Gift of Rosenberg and Stiebel Inc., 1963


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Column Base

medium: Pink marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Teapot (part of a set)

date: second quarter 18th century

medium: Earthenware, silver


title: Door Knocker

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Earring

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper alloy sheet, filigree, and granulation all with "tinned" surface

country: Avar

subjects: Metalwork-copper Avar

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Album

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 19th century

medium: Album of twelve leaves; ink and color on pith paper, bound in red damask

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1943


title: William H. Tuckerman, Pitcher, St. Paul Apostles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Engraved Bowl

medium: Copper alloy, wrought

country: Netherlandish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1965


title: Ring seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Marble, alabaster

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: La Vieille Femme Assise

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching, second state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: [Nine Portraits in Original Passe-Partout]

creator: James William Bailey

medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negatives with applied color

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2010


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: The Purchase of the Villa Medici as the Home of the Académie de France at Rome. 1808.

creator: Nicholas-Pierre Tiolier

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: Whisk Broom, from the Novelties series (N122) issued by Gail & Ax Tobacco to promote Navy Long Cut

creator: Gail & Ax Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Vue prise d'un Jardin du quartier Franc, au Kaire

creator: Maxime Du Camp

date: January 9, 1850

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Plaque with tribute bearers

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Cover for an Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Ink and color on wood, with metal insets

country: Nepal, Kathmandu Valley

subjects:
Painting
Nepal, kathmandu valley

credit_line: Gift of John and Evelyn Kossak, The Kronos Collections and Mr. and Mrs. Peter Findlay, 1979


title: Head of a Bearded Man Wearing a Turban (recto); Latin script (verso)

creator: Master of the Death of Absalom (?)

medium: Brush and black brown ink heightened with white gouache on slate gray prepared paper.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Louise Blouet "Le Margoin"

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Lithograph on vellum

credit_line: Bequest of Clifford A. Furst, 1958


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: He Looks and Doesn't Recognize Himself (Se mira y no se ve)

creator: Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

medium: Pen and dark brown ink with traces of black chalk; outlined with pen and dark brown ink on all sides

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1939


title: Landscape in the style of Ma Wan

creator: Gu Yun

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Jane DeBevoise and the Calello Family, 2024


title: Flagon

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 1612–13 original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

medium: Marble, gray marble

credit_line: Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1993


title: My Queen, from the Illustrated Songs series (N116) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Teabowl

medium: Clay; thin, light  glaze with fine crackle; incised lines on outside under glaze (Ki Seto ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Crutch Dagger (Zafar Takieh, "Cushion of Victory")

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Ivory, steel

country: Hilt, South Indian; blade, European

subjects:
Dagger
Hilt, south indian; blade, european

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Lead figure of a warrior with a spear and shield

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Pair of tassels

date: 18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Widow Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

creator: Henry Louis Stephens

medium: Color lithograph with watercolor and gum

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1964


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Ring with Oval Bezel and Raised Design of Fish

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Fish
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: Dagger with Sheath

medium: Steel, copper, gold, turquoise, gemstone

country: Indian, Sikkim or Bhutanese

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, sikkim or bhutanese


title: The God Danda and the Goddess Niksubha (Attendants of Surya, the Sun God)

date: 11th century

medium: Sandstone

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of Doris Wiener, 1983


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Teapot (part of a set)

creator: Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Bearded Man in Oriental Costume

creator: Ozias Humphrey

medium: Pen and brown ink and watercolor over graphite

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Inlay

medium: Glass

country: Modern?

subjects: Glass Modern

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Lizard Man Figure (Moko)

medium: Wood, obsidian, bone

country: Rapa Nui people

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Rapa nui people
Reptiles & amphibians
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Anonymous Gift, 1963


title: Brazier from the Burial of Amenhotep

medium: pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Priest's Stole

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Fragment of a Vase

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Plate

creator: Henry Will

medium: Pewter

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Joseph France, 1943


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Mona Lisa (La Joconde)

creator: Augustine Fauchery

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1947


title: Abacus

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Glass mosaic face bead

date: 1st century CE

country: Roman, probably Egyptian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, probably egyptian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Charles W. Green, 1947


title: Wall or Cove Decoration

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, washed

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Ace of Diamonds, Slack Rope, from Harlequin Cards, 2nd 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: Piece

date: 17th century


title: "Birth of Rustam", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Joseph V. McMullan Gift, 1965


title: Piece

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Coin

date: dated 354 AH/965 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Tassel

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fragment of a Relief

date: 3rd–7th century

medium: Stucco

country: Central Asia

subjects:
Sculpture
Central asia

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Disegni Varij di Polifilo Zancarli (Friezes)

creator: Polifilo Giancarli

medium: etching

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


title: Hanging

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Crawford, 1929


title: Sutro Tunnel Shaft No. 2

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: "Hamid Bhakari Punished by Akbar", Folio from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama. Folio from the Davis Album

creator: Abu'l Fazl

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


title: Horse harness rosette

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Plate 55: Miller alongside a horse

creator: Simon Guillain II

medium: Etching

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


title: Design for an Altarpiece

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: late 17th–early 18th century

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

subjects: Drawing Roses

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1982


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Glass cinerary urn with lid

date: mid-1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: The Rival Queens – Mary Queen of Scots Defying Queen Elizabeth

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Hand-colored lithograph with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Pendant

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Brass

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Fragment

date: early 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnston, 1906


title: Insertion

date: 16th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Blade

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: The Vision of Ezekiel

creator: Bonaventura Genelli

date: early 19th–mid 19th century

medium: Graphite, on tracing paper

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


title: A Travelling Knife-grinder at a Cottage Door

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Torso of an official of Nectanebo I

medium: Gray green diorite

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and John V. Hansen Egyptian Purchase Fund and Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2002


title: Boar Spear

medium: Steel, wood (pine), iron, leather

country: German

subjects:
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Holy Family with Saints

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Traveling Musicians

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Autograph notes

creator: Lorenz Frølich

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1966


title: Disc-shaped macehead

medium: Hornblende diorite

credit_line: Gift of The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: Tile from a Frieze

date: first half 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; overglaze painted (so-called mina'i)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Paul Cook, Catcher, Louisville Colonels, 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: The New Year 1896

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Design for Dog Cart or 2 Wheeler, no. 3875

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Nakamura Utaemon IV as Danshichi Kurobei

creator: Utagawa Kunimasu 歌川国升

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2011


title: A young man wearing a military coat

creator: Benigno Bossi

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Aqua-Colored Glass Bracelet

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass China

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


title: Icon with the Deesis

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Square

date: 18th century

medium: Linen; embroidered in silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1960


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Amulet of a lion

medium: Lapis lazuli

credit_line: Gift of Miss Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Model Saddle Bag for a Donkey

medium: Grass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Glass two-handled bottle (amphora)

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass, purple

credit_line: Gift of Renée E. and Robert A. Belfer, 2012


title: William "California" Brown, Catcher, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Dalmatic

date: 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silk; metal; satin

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The wounded soldier Scipio in the centre surrounded by figures

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: The Captured Turk

creator: Pietro Tacca

medium: Pearwood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1905


title: Pykars or Peddlers; from Twenty four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in Bengal

creator: Alexandre-Marie Colin

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Waite Hoyt, P. Yanks, from Baseball strip cards (W575-2)

medium: Commercial photolithograph

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


title: Le Portement de Croix (Christ Carrying the Cross), from "La Grande Passion" (The Large Passion)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Design for Three Vases

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and graphite

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1961


title: Brush Pot with King Wen and the Scholar Jiang Taigong

date: mid-17th century

medium: Porcelain with incised decoration painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Textile Fragment

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Harbor

creator: Josef Presser

medium: Oil on wood

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: probably 13th–14th century

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Plate

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Design for a Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling with a Loggia

creator: Faustino Trebbi

medium: Pen and ink and wash

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Ornamental drawings (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Mark J. Millard Gift, 1968


title: Border

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William H. Bliss, 1915


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Standing Peasant Girl

creator: François Bonvin

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


medium: Terracotta

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


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


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape

date: late 5th/early 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Earring, crescent-shaped

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Bowl

medium: Ceramic

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Model Vase from a Foundation Deposit

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

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


title: Sample

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Livre de Moresques, page 12 (verso)

creator: Francesco di Pellegrino

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Box

medium: Silver, tortoiseshell

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)


title: The CAPITOL/ WASHINGTON

creator: Enoch Wood & Sons

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Isaac Gibson Jaffray, in memory of her husband, 1898


title: The Siege of a Fortress

creator: Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sheep, from a set of 16 plates

creator: Marcus de Bye

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Glass jar

date: 2nd half of 1st–mid-2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Gold earring with glass pendant in the form of a bird

date: late 5th–late 3rd century BCE

medium: Gold, glass

country: Phoenician

subjects:
Gold and silver
Phoenician
Birds

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


title: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Stone Temple Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo as a Warrior

creator: Torii Kiyoshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

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


title: A Stag and Four Hinds on a Grassy Knoll (with Base)

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

date: after 1770

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


title: Veduta degli avanzi del Foro di Nerva, l'arcade et la muraille (The Forum of Augustus [erroneously called the Forum of Nerva])

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Miniature cup (part of a dollhouse set)

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Column Shaft

date: late 12th century

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 19th–16th century BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Chasuble

date: late 16th or early 17th century

medium: Silk; linen


title: Glass mosaic dish fragment

date: 2nd–mid-1st century BCE

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

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


title: Jar

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Porcelain with ivory glaze (Ding ware)

country: China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Misty Rain on the River in Spring

creator: Wu Shixian

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

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Medal and Button

date: late 19th century

medium: Green with white stripes

subjects: Medal Japan

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


title: Rev. Stephen Hislop, Missionary

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Button or Bead or Spindle Whorl

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Stone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Dickey

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: linen

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Cora Ginsburg, 1993


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–10th century

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

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones


title: Dish

creator: Thomas Danforth, III

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Plan and elevation of a rococo arch

creator: Anonymous, German

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass


title: Portable diptych sundial

creator: Hans Tröschel the Younger

medium: Ivory, brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stephen D. Tucker, 1903


title: Architecture

creator: Louis Félix de La Rue

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Sketchbook Sheet of Ornamental Studies, (recto and verso)

creator: Giovanni da Udine (Giovanni dei Ricamatori)

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Alice F. Steiner, 1985


title: Beads, 10

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Strip with corner

date: 16th century

medium: Linen, cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Statuette of a swan ?

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Obol

date: ca. 273–6 CE

medium: Silver

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Aper amulet

medium: Gold sheet

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


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Vue de Syout - Palais du Pacha

creator: Maxime Du Camp

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


title: [Calligraphers]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print with applied color

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1985


title: Old Man and Children

creator: Meizhi

date: 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

credit_line: Bequest of Katherine S. Dreier, 1952


title: Suggestion for the Decoration of Lower Right and Top Right of a Framel, plate 1 from an Untitled Series with Rocailles Ornaments for Window, Pier Glass and Door Frames

creator: Jeremias Wachsmuth

date: printed ca. 1750–56

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Seated goat

date: 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Linn Howard, 2024


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Broth bowl with cover (écuelle)

date: first half 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Robert M. Parmelee and Mrs. William L. Parker, 1916


title: Guglet

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Philip Holzer, 2001


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: Strip

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Jar (Tsubo) with Landscape

medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Arita type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan Landscapes

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


title: Scarab Inscribed for Hatshepsut

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Pair of Stirrups (<i>Abumi</i>)

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Iron, lacquer, mother-of-pearl

country: Japanese

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Tom and Lore Firman Gift, in honor of George and Ruth Kosaka, 2008


title: Jacob Peter "Eagle Eye" Beckley, 1st Base, Pittsburgh, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Jupons, corsets et relève jupe de la Maison de Plument, from Les Modes Parisiennes Illustrées

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Steel engraving with hand coloring

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: A Maja standing with hands on her hips

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

date: 19th century ?

medium: Etching, drypoint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

medium: Green glazed steatite


title: Relief Fragment from the Tomb Neferu or Khety

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Rock crystal rectangular prism

medium: Rock crystal

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Hat

medium: straw

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Madonna and Child with St. John

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Bowl

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; painted in black slip and polychrome pigments under a transparent colorless glaze (buff ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Garland

medium: Wood, gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Slippers

medium: silk, leather

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Six Clubs (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: Brigandine Plate

medium: Iron alloy, copper alloy

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Medallion

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Plate 13:Jupiter and Callisto (Calisto a Iove comprimitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

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


title: Terracotta trick vase

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Saint Stanislaus Kostka holding the Christ child in his arms

creator: Joseph Wagner

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Mail Shirt

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Iron, leather, textile

country: Tibetan, possibly Bhutanese or Nepalese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Mail
Tibetan, possibly bhutanese or nepalese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Cloisters in a Nunnery

creator: Simon Quaglio

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2004


title: Mlle Mourawieff et Mérante

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Stays

date: late 18th century

medium: silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. F.D. Millet, 1913


title: Apron

medium: Cutwork, drawnwork, embroidery, linen

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1936


title: Cup

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Halberd of Ferdinand IX, Count Palatine of the Rhine and Duke of Bavaria

date: dated 1584

medium: Steel, wood, textile

country: German, Bavaria

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
German, bavaria

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1929


title: Study for "Flying Victory"

creator: William Wyon

medium: Wax on slate

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ignazio Peluso, Ada Peluso and Romano I. Peluso, 2007


title: Saucer

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Fastening a Corset – A Passing Conquest, from "Elles"

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Crayon, brush and spatter lithograph with scraper printed in five colors on wove paper

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949


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

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: late 15th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Faience aryballos (oil flask) in the form of a hedgehog

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Faience

country: East Greek

subjects:
Miscellaneous-faience
East greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Panel

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Hollow Bangle with Striations and Pellets

date: 300 BCE–CE 400

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Courtesan Reading a Letter

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Album page with Poor Jo

creator: George James Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (EP)

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative, photomechanical reproductions, ink, and graphite

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Spade-shaped schematic female (?) figure

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Ducks and Reeds

creator: Kano Tan'yū

medium: Album leaf; ink on paper


title: Amulet illustrating a baboon in a boat

medium: Green faience

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Silver ring

medium: Silver, gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Frank Sylvester "Silver" Flint, Catcher, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Slippers

medium: leather, linen, wood

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Jordan L. Mott, 1955


title: Landscape at Famars

creator: Henri-Joseph Harpignies

medium: Watercolor over graphite on beige wove paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Gloves

medium: leather

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Angel sitting on a bracket

date: second half 18th century

medium: Wood, polychromed and gilt

country: probably Ecuadoran, Quito

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Design for Bed

date: 19th century

medium: Graphite

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


title: Dutchman, from World's Smokers series (N33) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Cushion Cover for Chair Pad

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, 1976


title: Rural Architecture, or a Series of Designs for Ornamental Cottages

creator: Peter Frederick Robinson

medium: Lithograph

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Book

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Textile Fragment

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk

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


title: New Zealand Parrot, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

subjects: Print Birds


title: Corset

date: early 18th century

medium: a,b) silk, linen, metal; c) silk, linen, paper

credit_line: Millia Davenport and Zipporah Fleisher Fund, 2003


title: The Sudarium Held by One Angel

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Etching

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Rattle

medium: wood, gourd, leather, glass beadwork, cord

country: Native American (Chippewa: Ojibwa)

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
Native american (chippewa: ojibwa)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Pochette (Kit)

medium: Wood, ivory

country: European

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Lord's Prayer

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Unglazed porcelain (Parian ware)

credit_line: Gift of Patricia and Martin Levy, 2017


title: Flayed man seen from behind, his right arm extended

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving


title: An Easy Introduction to Dancing: or, the Movements in the Minuet Fully Explained

creator: George Bickham, Jr.

medium: Illustrations: etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: The Lamentation

creator: Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Terence Cardinal Cooke, 1984


title: Spindle Whorl or Button

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Snuffbox with a Scene of Venus and Cupid

creator: Joseph Etienne Blerzy

medium: Gold and enamel

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Bronze situla (bucket) handle with panthers attacking deer

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, J. Paul Getty Trust Gift, 1986


title: Sèriè à la Ristori

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Shawl (Chaddar)

date: 17th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: La Mon and Cary, from the Actresses series (N203) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: A Theater Audience

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Pen and black ink, gouache, and watercolor over black chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Fragment of a sheet with a pattern of dots in circles

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948


title: Water Pitcher

creator: New England Glass Company

date: after 1883

medium: Blown glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: The Plays of William Shakespeare, vol. 1, containing The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Merry Wives of Windsor

creator: William Shakespeare

medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1971


creator: Lid Painter

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

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


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Piece (one of 116)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Boss or appliqué

date: 1st millennium BCE–CE 1st century

medium: Gold

country: Iran

credit_line: Bequest of Lester Wolfe, 1983


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Fish hook

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Dish

date: early 16th century

medium: Brass

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-brass German

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Pendant, bust of a man

date: ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Miniature cruet stand

creator: David Clayton

medium: Silver, glass

credit_line: The Joseph M. and Aimee Loeb May Collection, 1963


title: Faience amulet in the form of the dwarf god Pataikos

medium: Faience

country: Egyptian

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Egyptian

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


title: Out-Buildings in Palace Courtyards

creator: John Thomson

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


title: Normandy Sketchbook

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Graphite and watercolor, period binding

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in memory of Arthur G. Cohen, 2024


title: Shell Pendant with the Name of Senwosret II

medium: Gold, carnelian

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Medallion with the Virgin from an Icon Frame

medium: Gold, silver, and enamel worked in cloisonné

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Enamels-cloisonné


title: The Holy Family with Scriptural Scene in Background

creator: Guido Reni

medium: etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Sports of a Country Fair

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: October 5, 1810

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Inlay, hieroglyph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Shabti of the Adoratrice of Hathor Henettawy, wife of Painedjem I

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Carnelian scarab

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Carnelian

subjects:
Gems
Etruscan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Earring, trumpet-shaped

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: GOLD

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Louis XIII as Hercules

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching; third state of four (Join-Lambert and Préaud)


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Awl

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot


title: Panel

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Mrs. Chester Hamilton Lehman Fund, Everfast Fabrics Inc. Fund, and Rogers Fund, 1976


title: Caddy spoon

date: second half 19th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Rustic Scene – A Woman Washing Clothes in a Stream

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Gouache

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Central Salon of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo

creator: Giacomo Quarenghi

medium: Pen and black ink, brush with gray, green, pink, blue, brown, and yellow wash, over ruled construction lines in graphite; fragments of framing lines in black ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1997


title: Head of male statue

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1964


title: Bowl

medium: Ceramic, post-fired paint

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Virgin and Child

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Oak, polychromy

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-wood French

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Multnomah Falls, Oregon

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

date: 1867, printed later

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Bronze griffin attachment

medium: Bronze, amber perhaps

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1941


title: John McPherson, Champion Shot-putter of the World, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Plaque with winged Re-Harakhty

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Actress wearing military-inspired costume, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Hokku on “New Year’s Crow,” with a Painting of a Courtier

creator: Yosa Buson

date: ca. mid-1780s

medium: Hanging scroll: ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2023


title: Bird seller (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

subjects: Birds Ceramics-porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Samuel Gray Ward

creator: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1912


title: Strainer spoon

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Pylon shaped stela of Ramesses II

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Woman and Child Catching Fireflies

creator: Eishōsai Chōki

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Incised Bone Balance Beam

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Bone, pigment

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Bone/ivory-implement
Peruvian
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Femme Persienne, plate 91 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

creator: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Portrait of a Man in Armor with Two Pages

creator: Paris Bordon

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1973


title: Pocket welt from a waistcoat

medium: Silk on silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Chest-on-frame

medium:
Painted yellow poplar, chestnut, birch, ash, oak,
white cedar

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Apothecary jar (albarello)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Naples

subjects:
Italian, naple
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Polishing Stone

medium: Stone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Ceiling design for a house on the rue Velezai

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Study for Raising Lazarus ? (recto); Two Standing Men (verso)

creator: Stefano dall' Arzere

medium: Pen and brown ink, with some brush and brown wash

credit_line: Purchase, Stephen Freidheim Foundation Gift, in honor of Carmen Bambach and Ricky Luna, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, and funds from various donors, 2019


title: Shawl

medium: silk

country: probably British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn and Alice L. Crowley Bequests, 1984


title: "Rescue of Bizhan by Piran", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Wendy Findlay, 1983


title: Bronze arrowhead

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Shabti of Merneptah

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Dagger with Sheath

date: 19th century

medium: Steel, jade, gold, emerald, diamond, ruby

country: Turkish

subjects: Dagger Turkish

credit_line: Gift of Giulia P. Morosini, in memory of her father, Giovanni P. Morosini, 1923


title: Square

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Hanging

medium: Silk, gold, and silver; brocaded

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Bliss, 1942


title: Rōben Waterfall at Ōyama in Sagami Province (Sōshū Ōyama Rōben no taki), from the series A Tour of Waterfalls in Various Provinces (Shokoku taki meguri)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: A Long Minuet

creator: Henry William Bunbury

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Johannes Gutenberg, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: A Tartar Soldier, Canton

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005


title: Triumphal Float in a Garden with Pavilions, from an Album with Prints recording the Festivities and Decorations organized in Florence for the 1589 Wedding of Archduke Ferdinand de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine

creator: Orazio Scarabelli

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Coat

medium: cotton

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Orme Wilson and R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Caroline Schermerhorn Astor Wilson, 1949


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Spouted Bowl

date: 12th–9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Tlatilco

subjects: Tlatilco Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1974


title: Botanical Studies (recto); Botanical Studies (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Watercolor over graphite

subjects: Botany Drawing

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1968


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: Glass monochrome inlay fragment

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Kris

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, ivory, horn, silver, cord

country: Philippine, Jolo

subjects:
Krisse
Philippine, jolo

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Strip

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace, Milanese lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: The Enraged Musician

creator: William Hogarth

date: November 30, 1741

medium: Etching and engraving; second or third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Fragment with Personifications of Victory and the Nile

date: 6th century

medium: Elephant ivory

subjects: Byzantine Ivories-elephant

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1971


title: Portrait of a Man

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: The Chester Dale Collection, Bequest of Chester Dale, 1962