title: Button

medium: enamel

country: British

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Plate 8: Ox, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of three

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 Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Ornament

medium: Chalk

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Rank Badge with Mandarin Duck

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: William Hildreth "Bill" Hawes, 1st Base, Minneapolis, 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: Fichu

medium: cotton

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Design for the Transeptal Altars in the Klosterkirche Zwiefalten

creator: Johann Michael Feichtmayr

medium: Pen and gray ink, gray and gray-blue wash, and graphite. Framing lines in pen and black ink.

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange, 2008


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Dish (crespina)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Faenza

subjects:
Italian, faenza
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Afternoon dress

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Henry Beale Spelman and Mrs. John Taylor Arm in memory of their mother, Mrs. Henry Frothingham Noyes, 1942


title: Crucifix Pendant

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Gold, enamel

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

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


title: Conical Game Piece

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Earring (one of a pair)

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold, pearls

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-gold Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Actress posing on pile of boulders, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Polishing Stone (pulidor)

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Onesimos


title: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Tapestry Fragment

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peru; central coast
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Madere, from "Jeu de la Géographie"

medium: Etching, state iii

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


title: John James Audubon

creator: Francis d' Avignon

medium: Lithograph after a daguerreotype

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: The Holy Family in an Enclosed Garden

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Pen and reddish brown ink.


title: In the Zoological Garden

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching; first state of seven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Terrour or Fright (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 21, 1800

medium: Etching, printed in brown ink

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


title: [Carpenter Sawing a Plank of Wood]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Tumbler

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

date: after 1886

medium: Pressed cranberry with opalescent glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Mary, Queen of Scots (from "A Souvenir of the Abbey and Palace of Holyrood")

creator: John West

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Square-Headed Bow Brooch

medium: Gilded copper alloy inlaid with niello

country: Anglo-Saxon

subjects: Metalwork-copper Anglo-saxon

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Alastair B. Martin, Levy Hermanos Foundation Inc. and J. William Middendorf II Gifts, 1985


title: Bodice

medium: silk, linen

country: French

credit_line: Gift of International Business Machines Corporation, 1960


title: Incense Box with Chrysanthemums

date: second half of the 19th century

medium: Gold hiramaki-e on mother-of-pearl ground

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: Survey of Sturgeon Creek, Maine

creator: Anonymous, American, 18th century

medium: Pen and ink


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Steatite (?)

credit_line: Gift of Frederic Newlin Price, 1959


title: Ax Blade (Celt)

medium: Copper

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

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


title: Mace head

date: 7th–6th millennium BCE

medium: Stone, tan

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Design for Ceiling Decoration in Neoclassical Style

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Roman, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and colored wash, blue gouache, highlighted with white

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


title: Pair of vases

date: late 19th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1954


medium: Terracotta

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


title: The axe that may cut him has not been forged yet, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 7, 1871

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Cap crown

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Fan

medium: Gouche on parchement, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, in memory of Helen D. Sherman Pratt, 1926


title: Drum Handle

medium: Bone

country: Inuit

subjects:
Bone/ivory-musical instrument
Inuit
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Profile Warrior Ornament

medium: Silvered 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: Eight Designs for Decorated Cups

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

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


title: Rattle

medium: Gourd, wood, glass pellets

country: Native American (Arapaho)

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
Native american (arapaho)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Roundel with Three Apes Building a Trestle Table

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1990


title: Portrait of Niccolò Paganini

creator: Luigi Calamatta

medium: Engraving, stipple and roulette work on chine collé; third state of four

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Embroidered cross from an Omophorion

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread embroidery on foundation of silk satin backed with cotton plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1951


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: A Creek, or Side Street, Hong Kong

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Little Girl Practicing at the Bar

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Black chalk and graphite, heightened with white chalk on pink laid paper

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


title: Plaque Portrait of Benjamin Franklin

creator: Jacques Thouron

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Zisly. Henri, Gabriel. 21 ans, né à Paris IVe. Employé de commerce. Anarchiste. 26/2/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 47 (recto)

creator: Matthias Mignerak

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


creator: Painter of Brussels R 330

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Kazo

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Japanese (Ainu)

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / frame drum


medium: Terracotta


title: Impression

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Landscape at Margate

creator: George Richmond

medium: Black chalk

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: Four Flying Angels (recto); Two Flying Figures (verso)

creator: Francesco Allegrini

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (recto); two flying figures in pen and brown ink (verso)

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Shallow bowl with a recurved rim

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Kris

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood

country: Javanese

subjects: Krisse Javanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Spearhead

medium: Bronze

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


title: Falcon-headed sphinx recumbent on a pedestal with a ramp, and a feline(?) behind, possibly a gnomon for a shadow clock or instrument

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Portrait of Jafar Khan

date: 17th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Grain serving vessel (dui)

date: ca. 5th century BCE

country: China

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Addie W. Kahn, 1949


title: Insertion

date: probably 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace


title: Roof Seat Break #3898

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Demitasse Cup and Saucer

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

country: American

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


title: Lord-tolan prenant sa leçon de dance, La Passions, No. 7

creator: Basset

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967


title: Portrait of Jean de la Fontaine

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three (Bocher)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Edging

date: early 17th century

medium: Needle lace, punto in aria

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug) or olpe (jug)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Hematite

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


title: Disc plaque or boss

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Nuri Farhadi, 1965


title: Design for Wagon, no. 904d

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache


title: Spoon

creator: William Scarlett

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Armorial panel

date: late 16th century

medium: Stained glass


title: Two Separate Designs for the Top and Bottom of a Rectangular Gold Enameled Box with Canted Corners

creator: Pierre Moreau

medium: Pen and black ink with brush and rose, crimson, green and gold wash

subjects: Drawing Roses

credit_line: Purchase, Anne Stern Gift, 1984


title: Vase

date: 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted in luster and blue on opaque white glaze under transparent colorless glaze

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1948


title: Dress

date: early 19th century

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Roger B. Child, 1966


title: Vase

creator: Charles Fergus Binns

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Leaf dish

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 2003


title: Turtle amulet

medium: Quartz and hematite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Dresser (Dressoir aux harpies)

date: ca. 1570–90, and 19th century

medium: Carved walnut with interior elements of oak, pine; iron locks and hinges.

country: French (Ile-de-France or Burgundo-Lyonnais)

subjects: French (ile-de-france or burgundo-lyonnais)

credit_line:
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
1975.1.2034


title: Seal

medium: Jade

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Double Spouted Miniature Silver Vessel

date: 11th–12th century

country: Chancay

subjects:
Metal-container
Chancay
Ships & the sea

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


title: Return of the Holy Family from Egypt (recto); Studies for the Return from Egypt (verso)

creator: Giovanni Baglione

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (recto and verso)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Goblet

medium: Blown lead glass

country: British or Irish

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, 1944


title: Costume Plate: Hispania Rustica mul. (with label on ground)

creator: Enea Vico

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Brisé fan

medium: Ivory, paper, tortoiseshell

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Arthur J. Cohen, 1965


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Head of a Goddess(?)

medium: Granodiorite (?)

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Tjes-Knot Amulet

medium: Wood (cedar)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, after Michelangelo's frescoes in the Pauline Chapel, Vatican Palace

creator: Michele Lucchese

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

country: Japan

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Card Number 117, Annie Robe, 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


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


title: Robe (Kosode) with Pine, Ivy, Chrysanthemums, and River

date: mid-19th century

medium: Crepe silk with resist-dyeing and silk- and metallic-thread embroidery

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 2018


title: Hat

medium: straw

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


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

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Horseshoe, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 5) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Design for Landau, No. 3935

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: John Bull Listening to the Quarrels of State Affairs

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching


title: Handle

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: St. Giles-in-the-Fields

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on cream laid paper removed from an old ledger

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: A lion, dragon and fox fighting each other, boats on the sea in the background, an oval composition

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th to early 17th century

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


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Cohen, 1929


title: Woman with Basket

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Graphite on dark buff wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Teabowl

creator: Kikkutei II

medium: Clay; thin, light glaze with decoration white underglaze (Sumidagawa pottery)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Overdoor (Dessus de porte)

date: 18th century

medium: Carved wood, old gilding on buff ground

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Maple Tree and Stream

creator: Ogata Kōrin

medium: Gold lacquer with dark gray ishime, gold, red, black, and silver makie, pewter, and mother-of-pearl; Ojime: bead with autumn wild flowers; Netsuke: rat eating peach; boxwood

subjects: Inrō Japan Flowers Trees

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


title: Stamp seal (scarab) with animal

date: late 8th–early 7th century BCE or later

medium: Glass (?), dark blue

country: Phoenician (?)

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


title: Pair of Dagger-Axes (<i>Ge</i>)

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze, lacquer

country: Chinese

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Chinese

credit_line: Purchase, Henry Keasby Trust, and Kenneth and Vivian Lam Gift, 2000


title: Ostrakon with a Letter from Lazarius to Epiphanius

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Lillian Grubb, 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: Piece

date: second half 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Saucer

creator: Thomas Danforth, III

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Joseph France, 1943


title: Design for Omnibus or Wagonette, no. 4052

creator: Brewster & Co.


title: Equal-Arm Brooch

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Papyrus fragments from the Book of the Dead of the Scribe Roy

date: possibly ca. 1314–1300 BCE

medium: Papyrus, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Candelabrum (one of a pair)

creator: David Willaume II

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Casserole with cover

creator: Jean-François-Nicolas Carron

medium: Silver; wood

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Stockings

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: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Card Number 325, Laura Burt, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Hatchet

medium: Nephrite

country: Switzerland

subjects: Jade Switzerland

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Samuel S. Howland, 1906


title: Panel

date: 15th century

medium: Wood (oak)

country: French

subjects: Woodwork-furniture French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Glass hexagonal bottle

date: ca. 25–50 CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Uninscribed shabti

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890


title: Implements Animated, Pl. 1, Dedicated to the Carpenters and Gardeners of Great Britain

creator: Charles Williams

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1978


title: Review of Troops at the Aoyama Parade Grounds

creator: Inoue Yasuji

date: June 1888

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: [Photo Collage: Two People Holding Girl in Water]

creator: Juan Pedro Chabalgoity

medium: Albumen silver prints, lithographs

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


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Esemplario di Lauori..., page 13 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

date: August 1, 1532

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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: Bi-truncated Blade Tool

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


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

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


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

date: early 5th century BCE


title: The Crossing Sweeper

creator: Seymour Joseph Guy

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


title: Yomut Main Carpet

date: probably mid-19th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

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


title: Cour du Palais Rhamsès-Meiamoun, à Médinet-habou (Thèbes) (Restes d'une Eglise Copte)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Double Bowl

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Design for a sculptural group with God the Father in a niche

creator: Pieter Verbruggen the Younger

date: late 17th–early 18th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2010


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Roman Horsemen, from Trajan's Column, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Marco Dente

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Plaque

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Gilded bronze

country: North China

subjects:
Metalwork
North china

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Vase

creator: G. M. Forsyth


title: Door drum section, tomb of Mereri

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: View of Rome (recto); A Woman's Head In Profile (verso)

creator: baron François Gérard

medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash (recto); pen and iron gall ink (verso)

credit_line: Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2021


title: Floral Decoration, Mastaba of Perneb

creator: Unknown Copyist

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1913


title: Piece with flower, fruits, and bats

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk satin brocaded with silk and metal thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Flowers
Fruits
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1960


title: Nose Ornament

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Salinar (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Salinar

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


title: Plaque with Censing Angels

medium: Champlevé enamel and gilded copper

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2001


title: Spontoon

medium: Steel, wood (beech), textile, gold, brass, iron

country: Italian, Savoy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
Italian, savoy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Tassel

date: 17th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: Famous Beauty Escorted by Women of Different Rank

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

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


title: Painted limestone funerary stele with a woman in childbirth

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone, paint

country: Greek

subjects: Miscellaneous-painting Greek

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Basalt mortar or plate

medium: Basalt

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Token

medium: Probably copper

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Frieze with Medici Coat of Arms and Putti (Embroidery Design?)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, watercolor, on vellum

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


title: Sketch of Arm and Sketch of Two Hands

creator: Thomas Hovenden

medium: Graphite, white gouache, on tan wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: The Lottery

creator: William Hogarth

date: after 1724

medium: Etching and engraving; eighth state of eight

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


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

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Reliefs from the tomb of Meketre

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Duck-shaped Seal with the Name of Thutmose III

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Frederica Gore Davis, 1917


title: Farrar, 1st Base, Philadelphia, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Mug

creator: Xenon Group

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

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

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Portrait of a Child

creator: German Painter

medium: Ivory

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


title: Constantia, from "Virtues"

creator: Maerten de Vos

medium: Engraving

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

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


title: Hermitage by a pine-covered bluff

creator: Yan Ciyu

date: second half 12th century

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

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank and Gift of Mary Phelps Smith, in memory of Howard Caswell Smith, by exchange, 1973


title: Frieze with a Pattern of Octagons and Squares

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Gypsum; carved

subjects:
Ornament & design
Stucco

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Flight into Egypt

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Drypoint, before first state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 2 (verso)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing


title: Sampler

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: A man

creator: Marie Honoré Renaud

medium: Wax

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


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with ox-blood glaze (Lang ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Knife (Kard) with Sheath

date: 19th century

medium: Steel, silver, irovy, velvet

country: Persian

subjects: Knive Persian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Priest's Stole (O-Hi)

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Anonymous gift, 1960


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Card Number 191, Miss Leo, 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


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: Le Combat au Pistolet (The Combat with Pistols), from "Les Combats de Cavalerie" (The Cavalry Combats)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

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


title: Christ, The Savior, from "Les Grands Apôtres Debout, Représentant Le Sauveur, La Bienheureuse Marie et Les Saints Apôtres" (The Large Standing Apostles, Representing The Savior, The Blessed Mary and The Apostles)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Dreaming Cat

creator: Hōzōbō Shinkai

date: mid-17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of John T. Carpenter, 2019


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Standing Male Nude Holding a Bow ("Poynter Apollo")

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Pen and brown and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William H. Osborn, 1963


title: Vase fragment

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Funerary Cone of the Royal Cup-Bearer Nefretper

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director:  Being a Large Collection of . . . Designs of Household Furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste . . .

creator: Thomas Chippendale

country: London: Thomas Chippendale, 1754

credit_line: Library Purchase


title: Terracotta head of a woman from a statue

country: Etruscan

subjects: Terracotta Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Palestine. Jérusalem. Partie occidentale des Murailles

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative

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


title: Relief with a temple scene

medium: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

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


title: Tray

creator: Bordeaux

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Zanze

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Cameroonian

subjects:
Idiophone-plucked / depressed
Cameroonian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: S. Gilles, ermite (St. Giles, Hermit), September 1st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Fruit dish (compotier ovale) (one of two) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Fruits

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Goblet

creator: Libbey Glass Company

medium: Blown, cut, and engraved glass

credit_line: Gift of Toledo Museum of Art and Owens-Illinois Inc., 1969


title: Netsuke of Owl

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Tassel

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: Candlestand (one of a pair)

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: From the Marion E. and Leonard A. Cohn Collection, Bequest of Marion E. Cohn, 1966


title: Ornamento nobile...Fatta da Lucretia Romana (Libro V of the Corona), page 7 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: [Photo Collage: Woman Holding Bird]

creator: Juan Pedro Chabalgoity

medium: Albumen silver print, lithograph

subjects: Photograph Birds

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


title: Étagère

date: mid-19th century

medium: Black lacquered, painted and gilded wood and papier mâché, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of George E. Dix, 1999


title: Frill, New York, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Rowel Spur

medium: Iron alloy, silver

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Rue des Toiles, Bourges

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching with drypoint; eighth state of eight

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


title: Settee (one of a pair)

creator: John Mayhew

medium: Gilded fruitwood; wool and silk (22-24 warps per inch, 9-10 per centimeter)

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Button

medium: porcelain, metal

country: French

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Landscape of the Four Seasons

creator: Unkoku Tōgan

date: late 16th–early 17th century

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

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

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


title: Jérusalem. (Environs) Tombeau des Rois

creator: Louis de Clercq

date: 1860 or later

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

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


title: Chalcedony scaraboid

date: ca. 500 BCE

medium: Chalcedony

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

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


title: Candlestick

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Pressed amethyst glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Ewer

date: 11th–13th or 15th–16th centuries

medium: Stoneware with opaque glaze

country: Vietnam

subjects: Ceramic Vietnam

credit_line: Gift of Betty and John R. Menke, 1991


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Book cover

date: after 1651

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1929


title: Corona delle Nobile et Virtuose Donne, Libro Terzo, page 23 (recto)

credit_line: Gift of the Guild of Book Workers, 1960


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Joseph Bordes

medium: Ivory

subjects: Miniature Portraits

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


title: Miniature Tunic

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Covered goblet

date: mid 16th century; ca. 1550–1600 (mounts); 19th-century? (lion finial)

medium: Colorless (slightly gray) and opaque white nonlead glass. Blown, "vetro a reticello", silver foil; silver-gilt mounts.

country: probably Italian (Venice); mounts probably German (Augsburg)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Bass Oboe in F

medium: Wood, brass

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: George Washington

creator: Pierre Joseph Chardigny

medium: Waxed plaster

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Plate

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: Sculpture

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Cabriolet #3701

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Elin

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; second state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island, Northumberland

creator: Thomas Girtin

medium: Watercolor and bodycolor (gouache)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Textile

date: 14th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: The Betrayal of Christ, from "The Small Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: St John the Baptist in the Wilderness

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Window Frame

date: 15th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Jacques Seligmann, 1909


title: Dagger with Sheath

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Steel, copper alloy, enamel, gold, glass

country: Iranian

subjects: Dagger Iranian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Handled "palace ware" pot

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1976


title: Saint Margaret of Antioch

medium: Alabaster, with traces of gilding

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: Gift of Anthony and Lois Blumka, in memory of Ruth Blumka, 2000


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Mirror

medium: Silver

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


title: Coin

date: probably 759–76 AH/1357–1374 CE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Three Designs for Ceilings, Hôtel Cottier

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Folio from a Buddhist Manuscript of Pancavimsatisahasrika Prajnaparamita

medium: Opaque watercolor on palm leaf

country: India (Bengal) or Bangladesh

subjects:
Painting
India (bengal) or bangladesh
Palms

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Carpet with Quatrefoil Design

date: probably 18th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift from the Collection of Hillary Black Dumas and Dr. D. Gilbert Dumas, 2009


title: Cherubs

creator: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

date: 16th century

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


title: Le Serpent (The Serpent), plate 9 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching and letterpress; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: End of a Noh wig band

date: late 18th century

medium: Embroidered silk satin with gold leaf patterning

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Teiji Ito, by exchange, 1984


title: Beheading of Two Male Saints

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk. Traces of red chalk at upper and lower right; framing lines in black chalk, and pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bead

date: 10th–14th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Saint Louis of France received into heaven by Christ and two angels who offer him the crown of France

creator: Charles Simonneau

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Crystal Ewer

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching

subjects:
Print
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1917


title: Richard J. Malone

creator: Lena Bradley

medium: Gelatin silver print

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


title: Model food offering, cake

medium: Mud

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


title: Stand

creator: Friedrich Schwestermuller II

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, in memory of Stephen M. Kellen, 2005


title: Double Capital

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Procession of Deities

medium: Painted limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Statuette of Harpokrates

medium: gilded silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Head of a Woman

medium: Limestone with traces of polychromy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Hayford Peirce, 1987


title: Funerary Cone of the Scribe Kanakht

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Zulufli-Baltadgi, Page destiné pour la garde des Princes enfermés, plate 10 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: Plate 10: Lidded Vase With a Handle in the Shape of a Griffin and A Frieze With Draped Dancing Figures, from "Antique Vases" (Vasa a Polydoro Caravagino)

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

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

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


title: News from America, or the Patriots in the Dumps

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

date: December 1, 1776

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Fragment of a Dish

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3553

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Cup-Hilted Rapier

date: mid-17th century

medium: Steel

country: Spanish

subjects: Sword Spanish

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Rowel Spur

medium: Iron alloy

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1911


title: Beaker (Krautstrunk)

date: late 15th or early 16th century

medium: Free-blown glass with applied decoration

subjects: Glass-vessel German

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Joseph Lowered into the Pit

medium: Silver, partly gilded

credit_line: Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1965


title: Carpet

medium: Wool; asymmetrically knotted pile

credit_line: Gift from the Collection of Hillary Black Dumas and Dr. D. Gilbert Dumas, 2009


title: Model chisel

medium: Copper, wood, animal hide

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Earrings

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: metal

country: European, Eastern

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Jayson S. "Jay" Faatz, Captain, Cleveland, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: 'Well-Known Folly' from the 'Disparates' (Follies / Irrationalities, Plate A)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

date: ca. 1815–19 (published before 1877)

medium: Etching and burnished aquatint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Fanchon

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Charles C. Harris, 1968


title: Dolman

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Thomas Campau, 1963


title: St. Claire

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Brazier

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Copper, brass mounts, iron bands

credit_line: Gift of Robert W. and Lockwood De Forest, 1919


title: Flintlock Longrifle

creator: David Cooley

medium: Wood (curly maple, ash), steel, silver, brass

country: American, Heidlersburg, Tyrone Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr. Gift, 2017


title: Plate

date: late 19th century in 18th century style

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Oswald von Eck

creator: Hanns Lautensack

medium: Etching

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


title: Bowl in "Faenza white" maiolica

creator: Leonardo Bettisi, known as Don Pino

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Jewelry set

medium: [no medium available] low alloy silver?

credit_line: Gift of Art Worker's Club, 1945


title: The Virgin helping infant Christ Child take his first steps

creator: Jacinto Enciso

date: 19th century

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Gold earring with pendant

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Tea Jar

medium: Clay covered with transparent glaze over white slip (Karatsu ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Phaeton #749a

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Repeater watch

creator: William Webster

medium: Copper, enamel, silver

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Netsuke of Cat on a Seal-Shaped Base

medium: Ivory; slight brown stain

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 15th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Mercury (Hermes), Juno (?) Mars, and a group of figures below (shepherds, musicians)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

credit_line: Mary Oenslager Fund, 2016


title: Jewelry set

medium: hair

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Cupid in a bower

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Fountain with Arms of Jacopo de' Pazzi

creator: Giuliano da Maiano

medium: Marble

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Dogs, plate 11 from "Various Animals" (Diversi Animali)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; third state of three (De Vesme)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Stand with jam pots (plateau à deux pots de confiture) (one of a pair) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

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


title: Beardless Man in Fur Cloak and Cap: Bust

creator: David Deuchar

date: second half 18th century

credit_line: Gift of George Hellman, 1942


title: Triptych with the Nativity and the Annunciation

creator: Master of the Orléans Triptych

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Seated Male Deity (?)

date: 15th–early 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Mexica (aztec)

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Salt spoon

medium: Silver

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


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Dish Depicting a Woman Bust and Floral Decoration

date: first half 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

subjects: Ceramic Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Hair Comb Decorated with Rows of Wild Animals

medium: Ivory

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


title: A Woman Burning Weeds

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Pen and brown (iron gall) ink, watercolor and wash over graphite on laid paper

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


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Border

date: early 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W.  Bayard Cutting, 1945


title: Title page

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Letterpress

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


title: The Parable of the Leaven (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

creator: Sir John Everett Millais

medium: Wood engraving; proof

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: "Gustaham Slays Lahhak and Farshidvard", Folio 349v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1970


title: [Winter Trees, Reflected in a Pond]

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Photograph Trees

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


title: Alternate Study for the Head of a Youth (Formerly a Pentimento Pasted to 1975.131.21).

creator: Jacopo Confortini

medium: Red and black chalk on light brown paper

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Two women of the zodiac standing beneath the signs of Libra and Scorpio

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

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


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sample

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of F.J. Schaetzel, 1919


title: Bed curtain border

date: early 19th century

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: Double-Sided Comb

date: 7th century

medium: Bone, iron pins

country: Frankish

subjects:
Bone
Frankish
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Fellow 'Prentices at their Looms (Industry and Idleness, plate 1)

creator: William Hogarth

date: September 30, 1747

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Inlay fragment, net design

date: ca. 1st–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Umbo or stud

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1976


title: Sword

date: ca. 14th–15th century; grip, later

medium: Steel, silver

subjects: Sword Italian

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Chalcedony, brown

country: Achaemenid

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


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Hyacinthe Rigaud

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Towel borders

medium: Silk, linen


title: Piece

date: mid-18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Girl with Parasol (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Brown ink on off-white wove paper

country: American

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


title: Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine, Francis of Assisi and John the Baptist

creator: Giovanni Battista Bonacina

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1994


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Ring of Hatnefer

medium: Silver, glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Card Number 132, Alice Harrison, 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: Shabti of the High Priest of Amun, Painedjem II

medium: Faience


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE


title: Design for a Gothic Style Mirrored Cabinet

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Small Portraits of the French Kings from Pharamond to Henri III, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: "Have you pray'd tonight, Dedesmona?": plate 12 from Othello (Act 5, Scene 2)

creator: Théodore Chassériau

date: etched 1844, reprinted 1900

medium: Etching, engraving, and roulette on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1900)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Portrait of a Lady

creator: Louis Antoine Collas

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2006


title: Probe, double

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Philippe-Emanuel Garbe

medium: Gold, enamel


title: From the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: The Fortunate Fishermen

creator: Joseph Vernet

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Piece (one of 116)

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: The Dead Alive!

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: July 1795

medium: Hand-colored etching; a reissue

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


title: Kerchief

date: late 19th century

medium: cotton

country: Philippine

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, 1961


title: Hatchet

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1931


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Piece


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Pierluigi Farnese 1503-47, Duke of Parma and Piacenza

creator: Gian Federigo Bonzagna

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of The Mark and Lottie Salton Trust, 2021


title: Watch

creator: Charles Cabrier II

medium: Enamel, silver

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Mug

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Subjects after Antique Cameos and Gems, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Engraving; state i before numbers

subjects:
Print
Minerals & gems


title: Calligraphy

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 17th century or later, spurious date of 1649

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

subjects: Calligraphy China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Limestone statuette of a temple boy

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Architecture
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Cup and Holder

medium:
Cup: Porcelain; glazed and gold painted
Holder: Silver; repoussé

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Pair of Earrings

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Gold; filigree and granulation

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts and Harvey and Elizabeth Plotnick Gift, 2006


title: Vase fragment

country: Greek, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, lydian

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


title: Gangsingan

medium: Bamboo

country: Javanese (West)

subjects:
Aerophone-free aerophone
Javanese (west)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Two horsemen dueling with pistols, one seen from behind riding towards the left, one riding towards right, from "Various cavalry exercises" (Diverses exercices de cavalerie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Ichikawa Kodanji as Seppu Shinsuke, Ichikawa Sadanji as Kishino Toshiaki, Ichikawa Danjūrō as Saijō Takamori, Onoe Kikugorō as Kurata Shinpachirō, Nakamura Chūtarō as Shōtarō, Onoe Kikunosuke as Magoichi, and Ichikawa Kōsaku as Tokumaru in the play Okige no kumo harau asa gochi

creator: Toyohara Kunichika

date: March, 1878

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Handkerchief

medium: silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Eva Vida, 2009


title: Column Shaft

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Water jar with clouds

medium: Porcelain with raised decoration under celadon glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1967


title: Triptych on a chain

date: 18th century

medium: Walrus ivory

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Wesley and Carolyn Halpert, 2002


title: Cuneiform tablet: receipt for silver

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid (?)

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: From the series "Sports Girls" (C190), issued by the American Cigarette Company, Ltd., Montreal, to promote Gloria Cigarettes

creator: American Cigarette Company, Ltd.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Collar

date: early 19th century

medium: cotton

country: probably British

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Salver

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Amelia B. Lazarus, in the name of Miss Emilie Lazarus, 1895


title: Letter box

medium: Lacquer with gold and silver

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: Saint Matthew(?)

creator: Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

date: late 1320s

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Crucifixion

creator: School of Nottingham

date: 15th century

medium: Alabaster with paint and gilding

country: British

subjects: Sculpture-stone British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Arm (?)

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Beaker

medium: Silver, partly gilded

credit_line: Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education, New York, in memory of Nicolas M. Salgo, 2010


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Standing male figurine with uplifted arms

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: George III

medium: Onyx and gold

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: A woman standing in the countryside pointing to a tub of water

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

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


title: Design for a Sofa, from: Nouvelle Iconographie Historique III, series Q

creator: Duval

date: 1771 or after

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


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


title: The Magnolia Vase

creator: Tiffany & Co.

medium: Silver, enamel, gold, and opals

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Winthrop Atwill, 1899


title: Lady Mary Cavendish-Bentinck (?-1843)

creator: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943


title: Boy letter-writer and girl in group

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Screen

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Wood; turned, carved, and painted

credit_line: Gift of Professor Maan Z. Madina and Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, in memory of their parents, Ali Agha Zilfo Madina and Najiyya Khanum al-Kurdi and Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Jenkins, 2008


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

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: Kylix Fragments

creator: Antiphon Painter

date: ca. 480 BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Purchase, David Geller and Stuart Tray Gifts, 1982


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Mourners and Soldiers from a Crucifixion

date: late 15th century

medium: Alabaster, traces of paint

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Sculpture-stone
South netherlandish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Chamber candlestick

creator: Tudor and Leader

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Frances and Edward Munves, 1964


title: Miniature goblet

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Frog Ornament

date: 11th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Veraguas

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Veragua
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Contrabassoon in C

creator: Johann Tobias Uhlmann

medium: Maple, brass

country: Austrian

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
Austrian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Ornamented Tweezer

date: 100 BCE–400 CE

medium: Hammered gold

country: Calima-Yotoco

subjects: Metal-implement Calima-yotoco

credit_line: Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991


title: Bonbonnière in the shape of a frog

medium: Enamel on copper

subjects:
Enamels-painted
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)?

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Design for an Urn

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, graphite

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1963


title: Statuette of a girl with lotus

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Covered jar with floral patterns

date: late 17th–early 18th century

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Mask of a satyr

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Grotesque Panel

creator: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

medium: Etching; second state of three

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Snuffbox with chinoiserie scene


title: Teapot, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Architectural Capriccio: Garden Entrance to a Palace (recto); Three Masked and Costumed Figures and Other Figure Studies (verso)

creator: Francesco Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and  brown wash, over black chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); pen and light brown ink for costumed figures; dark brown ink for the other figures; in graphite, drawing of a head in profile (verso)

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Tool bottle (from incense set)

date: second half 18th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper alloy

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Naval Blockade

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects:
Photograph
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Top hat, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.


title: Vase with coiling dragon

medium: Stoneware with applied decoration and crackled glaze (Shiwan ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Statuette of a cat

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Goldsmith's Bouquet, from "Newes Lauberbuechlein"

creator: Peter Aubry II

medium: Engraving

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


title: Pinhead

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Embroidery sample for a man’s suit

medium: Silk on wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


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

date: 5th century BCE


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Red Shirt, Dakota Sioux, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N2) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

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


title: Chasseur, Spain, 1853, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes


title: Close Helmet

medium: Steel, leather, brass, gold

country: Italian

subjects: Helmet Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with copper red glaze (Jingdezhen ware)


title: Saint Barbara

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Limewood with paint and gilding

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Arms of Joseph Marie, Second Duc de Boufflers

creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

date: designed in 1733, probably woven in 1740

medium: Wool, silk (21 warps per inch, 10 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Cecil Mortimer Singer, 1960


title: Fob

medium: silk, metal thread

country: French

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Donald Ordway, 1952


title: Quae Genus in Search of Service

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: August 1, 1821

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Wooden Spindle

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Wood, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-implement

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Covered vase with stand

medium: Crystal

country: China

subjects:
Hardstone
China
Minerals & gems

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


title: Card Number 118, Fay Templeton, 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


title: Skillet

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Book cover

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta pithoid jar

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

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


title: Bottle

medium: Paste covered with a light crackled glaze, (Banko ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


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


title: Three Beauties of the Kwansei Period

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: The Triumph of the Eucharist, Christ as the Man of Sorrows supported by two angels standing in a chalice

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Helmet

date: possibly 17th century

medium: Leather, lacquer

country: Yi or Nuosu people (Lolo)

subjects:
Helmet
Yi or nuosu people (lolo)

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2018


title: "The Angel Surush Rescues Khusrau Parviz from a Cul-de-sac", Folio 708v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1970


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Judgment of Clare

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Governor Morehouse, Missouri, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-1), issued by Duke Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Apothecary jar (albarello)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Faenza

subjects:
Italian, faenza
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Relief with royal titulature

medium: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

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


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Portrait Head Bottle

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1967


title: Spoon

creator: Nakagawa Joeki

date: 19th century

medium: White metal

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: William Shenkel, Pitcher, Milwaukee, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Fringe

date: early 18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Old Man with Staff (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

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

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


title: Design for an Entablature Carved with Acanthus

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

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


title: Small vase with dragon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Turquoise

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2020


title: Milk jug

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Mosaic cone

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Band Fragment

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peru; central coast
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Four Heads (from Characaturas by Leonardo da Vinci, from Drawings by Wincelslaus Hollar, out of the Portland Museum)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Tipi bag

medium: Tanned leather, glass beads, metal cones, horsehair, and dye

country: Lakota/ Teton Sioux, Native American

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019


title: Bronze arrowhead

date: 6th–4th century BCE or later

medium: Bronze

country: Greek or Achaemenid

subjects:
Bronze
Greek or achaemenid

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


title: Apple

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Cut Two & Right Protect

date: September 1, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Netsuke of Boy with a Fan

medium: Wood and ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Vest

medium: silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. John Alexander, 1924


title: Design for Silverwork with Garlands, Birds, and Grotesque Motifs

creator: Hieronymus Bang

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: The Doctor Dismissing Death

creator: Peter Simon

date: September 15, 1785

medium: Etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink


title: Christ before Caiaphas, from "The Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1968


title: Stamp Roller

date: 9th–15th century

country: Manteño

subjects: Manteño Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Gift of Joyce R. Strauss, 1994


title: Departure for the Sabbath

creator: Baron Dominique Vivant Denon

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1993


title: "Captured Indian Raja Brought to Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni", Folio from a Majma al-Tavarikh (World Histories)

creator: Hafiz-i Abru

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Fragment from a tomb door

medium: Wood, paint


title: Cup

creator: Tournai

medium: Soft-paste porcelain


title: A Gathering at Wood's Edge

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995


title: Angel announcing the Birth of Samson, from "The Story of Samson"

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

medium: Woodcut with pochoir (stencil) and hand coloring

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange; and A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2010


title: Piece

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, painted in black and red

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Cup (part of a set)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Penitent Saint Jerome

creator: Lucas Franchoys the Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009


title: Healing the Infirm (Jésus-Christ guérit plusieurs malades en Galilée)

creator: Claude Vignon

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Leo Steinberg, 2001


title: Ice pail with cover and liner (seau à glace) (one of three) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: View of the Church and Village of St. Cue, Cornwall

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Spanish Vase

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

credit_line: Gift of Louis R. Metcalfe, 1928


title: Torre dei Schiavi, The Roman Campagna (from Cropsey Album)

creator: Jasper Francis Cropsey

medium: Graphite, white gouache, and brown and gray ink washes on dark buff wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first half of the 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Mirror decorated with palmette and arabesque motifs

date: first half 12th century

medium: Bronze and silver

country: Korea

subjects:
Ornament & design
Mirror
Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

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


title: Situla (Bucket for Holy Water) with Saint Peter and Other Saints, Probably Apostles

medium: Champlevé enamel, copper, iron. Ground probably once gilded

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese-Style Mountain Landscape with Buildings beside Rocks

medium: Lacquer, kinji, nashiji, gold, silver hiramakie, takamakie, togidashi; Interior: gyobu nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan Landscapes

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


title: Incised bowl with dots

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: Baluster

date: mid-18th century

medium: Deal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1933


title: Design for a Settee

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1961


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Plate

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 1561 original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: High relief inlay fragment, frontal bust of a god in a feather garment and holding a scepter

date: ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

medium: Glass


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Helmet

date: possibly 16th–17th century

medium: Iron, copper alloy, textile

country: Western Tibetan or Central Asian, possibly Oriat or Kalmyk Mongol

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2001


title: Woman Standing near a Vase

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

medium: Engraving

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


title: Hokku poem “On a withered branch”

creator: Matsuo Bashō 松尾芭蕉

date: probably 1680s

medium: Poetry slip (tanzaku) mounted as a hanging scroll: ink on paper decorated with gold

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2020


title: Bottle

date: 18th century

medium: Glass, pewter

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


title: Full Moon

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; first state of two (BN)

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


title: Glass jar

date: 3rd to mid–4th century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Mask of a Bald Man with Pointed Ears and a Long, Parted Beard, from "Divers Masques"

creator: François Chauveau

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: The Death of the First Born

creator: Erastus Salisbury Field

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

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


title: Pontoon Bridge at Deep Bottom, James River

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Toe Cap from a Sabaton of Emperor Charles V

creator: Desiderius Helmschmid

medium: Steel, gold

country: German, Augsburg

subjects:
German, augsburg
Armor parts-solleret

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Modern Grace; -  or the Operatical Finale to the Ballet of Alonzo e Caro

creator: James Gillray

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Souvenir spoon with finial in form of John Bull

creator: Saunders & Shepherd

medium: Silver-gilt

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1900


title: An apostle resting his head on his right hand and holding a book, in an oval frame, from "Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles"

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

medium: Etching; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Mummy with a Painted Mask Depicting a Woman Holding a Goblet

medium: Mummified human body, linen, plaster, paint, mummification material

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Pendant or seal

date: 6th–5th millennium BCE

medium: Steatite


title: Support Arms, from the Parasol Drills series (N18) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Christ and the Woman of Samaria

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

date: 15th century

medium: Wood cut, hand colored

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: The Eleventh Month

creator: Ishikawa Toyomasa

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Wooden Spindle

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Wood, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-implement

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Core

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: A Hail Storm

creator: Henry William Bunbury

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


title: Village Street, cattle, sheep and herdsman in the foreground from Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones elenoantissimae ad vivum in apre deformatae

creator: Johannes van Doetecum I

medium: Etching; first state of three

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Model of the "Opening of the Mouth" ritual equipment

medium: Tray: limestone; vessels: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), greywacke

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Galloon

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fragments of a Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Incense Box (Kōgō) in the Shape of a Peach

date: second half 19th century

medium: Lacquered wood; gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, and cut-out gold foil application (kirikane)

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Constance D. Stieglitz, in memory of her husband, Marcel H. Stieglitz, 1964


title: Jar

date: 9th century

medium: Stoneware with natural ash glaze

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: A Portal of a Church

creator: Ernst Ferdinand Oehme

medium: Watercolor and brown ink, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on wove paper

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006


title: Limestone head of a beardless male with a diadem

date: first half of the 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: The Annunciation from the Hours of Charles of France

creator: Master of Charles of France

medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

country: French

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1958


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Portrait of an Old Gentleman

creator: James Sanford Ellsworth

medium: Watercolor on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Beads, string of eight

date: 18th century or later

medium: Glass

country: African, made in Europe

subjects:
Glass-ornament
African, made in europe

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Actress with fan, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Slippers

medium: leather, silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Pieces of slag from glazing process

medium: Glaze slag

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


title: Marrow spoon

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Altar frontal

date: 17th century

medium: Cotton, embroidered net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Silhouette of young woman, to right

creator: William Chamberlain

medium: Hollow cut paper


title: Fan

date: mid-19th century

medium: Chromolithograph on paper; ivory, gilded and silvered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Beatrix Farrand, 1942


title: Lavinia, Countess Spencer as Juno

creator: Richard Cosway

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Teabowl and saucer (not en suite)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Christ and the Woman of Samaria

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut; first state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape


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: Ceramic Fragment

medium: Earthenware; slip painted and glazed

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


title: Marble statue of Pan or a satyr with winnowing basket filled with offerings and cultic objects

date: ca. 2nd century CE

medium: Marble

credit_line: Purchase, Philodoroi Gifts, The Bothmer Purchase Fund, Mary Trumbull Adams Fund, Edward J. Gallagher Jr. Bequest, in memory of his father, Edward Joseph Gallagher, his mother, Ann Hay Gallagher, and his son, Edward Joseph Gallagher III, and Patricia and Marietta Fried Gift, 2024


title: Scotland, Thistle Mark, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 2) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Shabti of the Divine Consort Mutemhat Mehytenweskhet

medium: Faience


title: Great Pagoda at Foochow, the Largest in China

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Gourd-Shaped Case with Pattern of Pig-Faced Creature

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk and metallic-thread embroidery on silk damask

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Rosary or Necklace

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: Lion amulet

medium: Lapis lazuli


title: Four sketches (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Brown ink, gouache and graphite on greenish-brown wove paper

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


title: Saucer (one of 12) (part of a service)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, in memory of Francis P. Garvan, 1954


title: Fragment with an Armed Dancer

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Miniature Ax

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Design for a Garden Vase with Hunting Theme

creator: Paul Egell

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk, watercolor and white heightening

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2016


title: Bead

date: 11th century

medium: Gold; filigree and granulation

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nasser D. Khalili, in memory of Richard Ettinghausen, 1980


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Door from the Great Hall of Van Rensselaer Manor House, Albany, New York

medium: Pine

credit_line: Gift of the Trustees of Sigma Phi Society of Williams College, 1931


title: Document Sealing


title: Looking Glass

medium: Walnut, pine, glass, probably oak

country: British, probably

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Glass bowl

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Pax (Kußtafel or Monile)

medium: Silver, gilded silver, rubes (or spinels), and rock crystal

country: South German

subjects:
Metalwork-silver
South german
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, The Michel David-Weill Foundation Gift, 1992


title: Piece

date: 18th century


title: Betrayal of Christ, from "The Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Card Number 47, De Sotie, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Portrait of Madame Fournier

creator: Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert

medium: White chalk, black pastel, and red chalk

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Harvey Salzman, 2020


title: A Matador

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Oil on canvas

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