title: Partridge cruelly accused and maltreated by his Wife, from "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

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


title: Card Number 177, Lillie Olcotte, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Offering Tray (Talam)

date: 10th–11th century(?)

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


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

date: second half 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: Glass Fragments from a Vessel

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass

country: Coptic

subjects:
Glass-vessel
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua

creator: Anton Raphael Mengs

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1951


title: Harmoniflûte

creator: Bouton

date: second half 19th century

medium: Wood, metal, various materials

country: French

subjects:
Aerophone-free reed-harmonium
French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Actor Sawamura Kodenji as a Woman at the Time of the Tanabata Festival

creator: Torii Kiyonobu I

medium: Monochrome woodblock print with hand-coloring  (tan-e ); ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 17 (recto)

creator: Matthias Mignerak

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Horn

date: 19th century

country: Probably Mende people

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Probably mende people


title: Sugar box with cover

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: ca. 1720, decorated ca. 1725–35

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Le Général Washington, Commendant en Chef des Armées Americaines, né en Virginie en 1733 (General Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Armies, born in Virginia in 1733 [sic])

creator: Charles Willson Peale

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Ie Station. Jésus est condamné à mort. Une cour intérieure de la caserne turque où la tradition place l'endroit du prêtoire où Jésus fut jugé

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: The Annunciation

creator: Maestro Esiguo (possibly Alesso di Benozzo, Italian, Pisa 1473–1528 Florence)

medium: Tempera and gold on wood

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Faience workshop refuse

medium: Low-fired whitish clay

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


title: Funerary Cone of the Steward Kaemre

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1913


title: The Last Supper, from "The Large Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Coin

date: 8th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Silver gilt spirals and bead

date: 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

medium: Gold, silver

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1992


title: Beaker

creator: T. K.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Juglet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Cornflower Pendant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Panel

date: last quarter 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Madam Blubber's Last Shift or The Aerostatic Dilly

medium: Etching

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


title: Saucer (part of a set)

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

credit_line: Joint Bequest of Harriet K. and Grace Wilkes, 1922


title: Fibula fragment

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Edomite

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1977


title: Cover for 'El Casamiento Fustrado', a man and woman walking arm in arm, a train in the background

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress in brown ink on tan paper

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


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelanous ware with celadon glaze (Longquan ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1934


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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: Man Speaking (from Sketchbook)

creator: Francis William Edmonds

date: ca. 1838 and after

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund 1987


title: Tambourine, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 4) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sofa

creator: Julius Dessoir

medium: Rosewood, replacement showcovers

credit_line: Gift of Lily and Victor Chang, in honor of the Museum's 125th  Anniversary, 1995


title: Plain Disk

medium: Copper alloy

country: Roman

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

date: ca. 420 BCE

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


title: Cabochon for a Ring

date: probably 9th–12th century

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved


title: A somewhat naive nurse, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, January 4, 1871

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on newsprint

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1954


title: Coffin for a mummified shrewmouse

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Richard Benenson, 1985


title: Covered bowl

medium: Porcelain decorated with enamels (Arita ware, Imari type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Tropical Scenery, Cliff - Limon Bay

creator: John Moran

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Landscapes

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


title: Hand of a Seated Deity

medium: Granite

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Chair Seat

medium: Linen embroidered with wool

credit_line: Gift of A.D. Compton, 1924


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


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: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, from "The Apocalypse"

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, 1940


title: The Coquettish Widow

creator: Bernard Lepicié

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: La Vierge au sepulcre

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching

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


title: Knife with Sheath, Chopsticks and Belt Loop

medium: Steel, wood, ebony, ivory, silver, brass, leather, coral

country: Chinese, Manchuria or Mongolian

subjects:
Knive
Chinese, manchuria or mongolian
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Creampot

creator: Benjamin Burt

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Scarab Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Standing Ceramic Figure

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


title: Coffer lock and key

date: probably early 16th century

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Jérusalem, Vallée de Hinnom, Détails de la frise de la retraite des Apôtres

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Fragment of textile with horses

date: ca. 5th–7th century CE

medium: Silk textile

country: Sasanian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Inanna Gifts and Rogers Fund, 2004


title: George Washington

medium: Probably porcelain

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Strip

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Chocolate cup (part of a service)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Pot

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: The Rajah Starting on a Hunt

creator: Edwin Lord Weeks

medium: Oil on canvas.

credit_line: Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914


title: The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals, from "The Apocalypse", Latin Edition

credit_line: Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919


title: Sheet with two borders with a curved drapery against a curtain

creator: Anonymous

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

credit_line: Gift of D. Lorraine Yerkes, 1961


title: Card 745, Maggie Arlington, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Arcades with Riders in Fantastic Thickets

medium: Wool warp;  wool and silk wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

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


title: Peasant Paying his Bill

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Mace head

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


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


title: Landscape with Pavilions and Cranes

creator: Unidentified artist

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

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Vase

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain with glaze and designs in relief (Awaji ware)

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


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai Sketchbooks, volume 14 (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, jūyonpen)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 1st century BCE

medium: Chalcedony, bluish

country: Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Candlestick

creator: Jean-François Balzac

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Face Mask Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper, shell

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1980


title: Harvard / Hall. Mafs.

creator: Job & John Jackson

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

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


title: Galloon

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Earring with bird

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan
Birds

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Netsuke

medium: Wood

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Plan for Library Table with Moldings, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Miniature tea caddy

creator: David Clayton

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


title: Vase with Plum Blossoms

medium: Porcelain with applied decoration (Dehua ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Gilbert Ireland, 2012


title: Mary Anderson in Old Russian Costume as a Girl of Kioursk, from the set Actors and Actresses, First Series (N70) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Pierre-Victor Corbin (1815–1850)

creator: Antoine Etex

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Shepherd Gallery Associates, in memory of Dr. Michael Lawrence, 1975


title: Cream jug

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

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


title: Banjo

creator: Hercules McCord

medium: Metal, wood

subjects: Chordophone-lute-plucked American

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Belt

medium: Gilded silver, beryls, garnets

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


title: John Sowders, Pitcher, St. Paul Apostles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Mon ami..., lâche lui ta canne.... from Aux Bains de Mer, published in Le Charivari, September 28, 1859

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 28, 1859

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

credit_line: Myra Carter Church Fund, 1957


title: Palatium Claudie Imperatoris, from a Series of Prints depicting (reconstructed) Buildings from Roman Antiquity

creator: Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Fragment

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Bead

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


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


title: Winged cup

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Dish with Dragons and Lotuses

date: early 16th century

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1963


title: Arrowhead

medium: Flint

country: Frankish

subjects: Stone-flint Frankish


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Tile

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration and glazed

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2007


title: Amoy Houses

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Insertion

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: View of Nantes

creator: Lambert Doomer

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: 2 of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards

medium: Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold

subjects:
Miscellaneous-paper
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1983


title: Mantel clock (pendule de cheminée)

creator: Julien Le Roy

medium: Case: gilded and patinated bronze on a base of oak veneered with ebony with gilded-bronze mounts; Dial: white enamel with black numerals; Movement: brass and steel

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1991


title: Cap-Shaped Plaque with Lion

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Gold Sheet Fragment

medium: Gold (hammered)

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-ornament Peruvian

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


title: Card Number 182, Miss Mysbo, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) 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: Trompe de Chasse in D

creator: Courtois père

medium: Brass

country: French

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
French

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2002


title: A Young Man as a Seller of Love Prophecies

creator: Okumura Toshinobu

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Portable Harp

medium: Wood, various materials

country: British

subjects: Chordophone-harp British

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) in Despair

creator: Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard

date: mid-18th–early 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2011


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Bird Seated on the Stalk of a Flowering Peony (obverse); Peonies (reverse)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Gold lacquer, porcelain, white ground, red, yellow, blue, green enamels; Interior: plain

subjects: Inrō Japan Birds

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Designs for the Decoration of Firearms

creator: Nicolas Noël Boutet

medium: Pencil, ink, gray wash on paper

country: French, Versailles

subjects:
Work on paper-drawing
French, versaille

credit_line: Purchase, Clay P. Bedford Gift, 2004


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Sultana Reading in the Harem

creator: Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Double Column Base

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Glass Fragment

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Colorless glass

country: South Netherlandish (?)

subjects:
Glass-stained
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: A False Bacchus Crowning Drunkards

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Pendant in the form of a ram's head

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Censer

date: 16th century (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-brass
South netherlandish


title: Jar

date: 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Colima

subjects: Colima Ceramics-container

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Scenes of the Four Seasons in Kyoto

creator: Genki (Komai Ki)

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Jewelled Pendant

date: 19th century

medium: Nephrite with very faint grayish tint, pearl, and coral

country: India

subjects:
Jade
India
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Bullfight in a divided ring, from the 'Bulls of Bordeaux'

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Obelisk Grave Monument, No. 34

creator: Alexander Maxwell

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Border

date: early 18th century

medium: Textiles-Laces

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Bird-Shaped Brooch

medium: Gilded silver and garnets with patterned foil backings

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish Birds

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Reclining lion

date: 332 BCE–364 CE

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Cup or Bratina

medium: Gold plate

country: Scythian

subjects: Scythian Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Purchase, 1885


title: Great Bear, Delaware, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N36) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

country: Greek, Attic


title: M'lle Sarah, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Masked Figure Pendant

date: 4th–8th century

medium: Jadeite

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Stone-ornament
Atlantic watershed

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur M. Bullowa Bequest, 1994


title: A provincial family was forced to pay a high price for an insignificant show, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Yvonne Möen Cumerford, 1965


title: Bifolium with Foliated Initial C, from a Gradual

date: second half 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

country: Italian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

credit_line: Gift of Louis L. Lorillard, 1896, transferred from the Library


title: Block fragment inscribed with epithets of the king

medium: red/yellow quartzite

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Watch Hill, Rhode Island, from the Surf Beauties series (N232), issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Study for a Seated Prelate (Saint Gregory the Great)

creator: Carlo Maratti

medium: Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper

credit_line: Gift of Sir John Pope-Hennessy, 1981


title: Bronze plaque of a woman

date: 2nd half of the 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Serpentine

country: Akkadian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: The Ascension of Christ, after Raphael

creator: Nicolas Beatrizet

medium: Engraving; first state (?)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Design for the painted decoration of a ceiling

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: watercolor and gouache on laid paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Plaque, female face

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Drinking harlequin family

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Crinoline lady with cavalier

creator: Johann Paul Rupert Härtl

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


medium: Terracotta

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Tray

medium: Lacquer

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3594a

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Harpoon head

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Frame

medium: Wood, gilt

credit_line: Gift of Robert Fridenberg, 1926


title: Saint Roch at left distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci

creator: Francesco Brizio

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Sichel, 1966


title: Elephant Sword

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Iron or steel

country: Indian

subjects: Sword Indian

credit_line: Gift of Jeri Garbaccio, in honor of Donald J. La Rocca, 2015


title: Bouquet of Flowers

creator: Odilon Redon

medium: Pastel on paper

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George B. Post, 1956


title: The Bridegroom Offering a Crown to the Bride, from a "Canticum Canticorum" block book, second edition

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 15th century

medium: Woodcut printed in brown

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Model Rocker

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Nose Ornament

medium: Gold

country: Zenú

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Zenú

credit_line: Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 2002


title: From the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 4) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: "Le Port de Cherbourg"

creator: Petitpierre et Cie

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Private School

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: [George Gilbert Scott]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Collection, Gift of the Centennial Committee, 1970


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Roncone

medium: Steel, wood, brass

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Welcoming Descent of Amida and Bodhisattvas

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 14th century

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

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942


title: Jug

creator: Haviland & Co.

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Gift of George Haviland, 1923


title: Ceremonial Knife (Tumi)

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Chimú (?)

subjects: Metal-implement Chimú

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a contract

date: ca. 7th–4th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Figure of a king as part of a group proffered by an official of Ramesses II

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890


title: Silky Cock, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Oionokles Painter

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Mandolin

creator: Angelo Mannello

medium: Spruce, maple, tortoiseshell, ivory, mother-of-pearl, metal

country: American

credit_line: Gift of the family of Angelo Mannello, 1972


title: Foliate Grotesque Head

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

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Black chalk, over graphite or black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz, 1949


title: Candlestick

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of Allan B. A. Bradley, 1938


title: Fragment

date: mid-18th century

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Seal

medium: Jasper, Quartz

country: Minoan, Crete

subjects:
Gems
Minoan, crete
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: The Second Draught of Fishes by Saint Peter, from Das Plenarium

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut (hand-colored)

subjects: Fish Print

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


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


title: Pedestal (one of a pair)

date: 16th century

medium: Alabaster, with traces of gilding

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Sheet with overall pattern of squiggly lines

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Turnstone, from the Game Birds series (N13) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: At the Shrine of Venus

creator: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

medium: Photogravure

credit_line: Gift of Ellen Robinson, 1960


title: Bifacial knife with handle

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: An Eagle with Wings Spread

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Charcoal, heightened with white chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Vue du Temple d'Amada - Coupole ruinée d'une Eglise Copte

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: Emeu Wren, from the Song Birds of the World series (N42) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Vase

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Porcelain with crackled yellow glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Plate

creator: Samuel Melville

medium: Pewter

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


title: Medal Commemorating First Japanese Embassy to the United States

creator: Anthony Paquet

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Mandala of Manjuvajra, Tantric Form of the Bodhisattva Manjushri

medium: Distemper on cloth

country: Tibet

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1977


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: General Butler's Headquarters, Chapin's Farm, Virginia

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue

credit_line: Gift of Marie-Louise Garbáty, in memory of Eugene L. Garbáty, 1975


title: Targhe ed altri ornati di varie e capricciose invenzioni (Cartouches and other ornaments of various and capricious invention, page 9)

creator: Jacob Floris

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Ring with Almond-Shaped Bezel with "Sri" Inscription

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Tankard

creator: Francis Bassett, I

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1939


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: Isis and Horus

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: A Southern Rider, from "Some American Riders," for "Harper's New Monthly Magazine," August 1891

creator: Frederic Remington

medium: Woodblock

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Figures under a Tree

creator: Auguste Renoir

medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white laid paper

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Crown

creator: Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s)

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Lambayeque (sicán)

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1966, 1977


title: Sampler

medium: Linen, silk and metal thread on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Mirror

date: 12th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects: Mirror China

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1912


title: Temple Model

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Architecture
Mexica (aztec)
Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Kabuki Actor Ōtani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei

creator: Tōshūsai Sharaku

medium: Woodblock print; ink, color, and white mica on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Kanrin Picture Album (Kanrin gafu) 閑林画譜

creator: Okada Kanrin 岡田閑林

date: 1845, second month (Kōka 2)

medium: Set of two woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Horse Bridle Ornament (Katanga Njara)

date: 19th century or earlier

medium: Silver or bronze

country: Sumba Island

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-implement
Sumba island

credit_line: Gift of Anita E. Spertus and Robert J. Holmgren, in honor of Douglas Newton, 1990


title: Charles George Gordon, from the Great Generals series (N15) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Reticule

date: early 19th century

medium: silk, metal, glass

country: French

credit_line: Gift of E. Dudley James, 1959


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Gold Glass Medallion with a Mother and Child

date: early 4th century

medium: Glass, gold  leaf

country: Roman

subjects:
Glass-gold glass
Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Jug

date: 18th century

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Primer

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wood, silver, steel, niello

country: Caucasian

subjects:
Caucasian
Firearm accessories-flask & primer

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Falconer with Two Ladies, a Page, and a Foot Soldier

medium: Wool warp;  wool and silk wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Harriet H. Jonas, 1974


title: William Shakespeare

creator: John Quincy Adams Ward

date: 1870, cast after 1910

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Fly Whisk

date: 15th century

medium: Ivory with tin beads and palm-leaf fibers

subjects: Ivorie China Palms

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2004


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

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: Les costumes populaires de la Turquie en 1873: Ouvrage publié sous le patronage de la Commission impériale ottomane pour l'Exposition universelle de Vienne

creator: Osman Hamdi Bey

medium: Collotype; letterpress

credit_line: Irene Lewisohn Costume Institute Library


title: Head of a youth

creator: Andrea della Robbia

medium: Glazed terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: "The Court of Ravana", Folio from a Ramayana

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

credit_line: Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2002


title: Tolo Tolo

date: late 19th century

medium: Bamboo, wire, cord

country: Basuto Tribe

subjects:
Chordophone-musical bow
Basuto tribe

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Terracotta fragment from a closed shape

date: second half of the 5th century BCE


title: Pair of candlesticks

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008


title: Mask (one of a pair)

medium: Lead

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Candelabra

date: 16th century

medium: Iron

country: Spanish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Spanish

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Natural Horn

creator: John Köhler

medium: brass, leather

country: British

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)


title: Design for Vis-A-Vis Carriage

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Hand colored Lithograph with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Candelabrum perfume burner (one of a pair)

creator: Matthew Boulton

medium: Derbyshire spar, gilded bronze, wood, silvered copper

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: A Happy New Year, from the New Years 1890 series (N227) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pilaster (Tetramorph) from the Parapet of a Pulpit with Symbol of the Evangelists

creator: Giovanni Pisano

medium: Marble (Lunense marble from Carrara), traces of paint

country: Central Italian

subjects:
Sculpture-stone
Central italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Arrow point, Apries

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1909


title: A Sybil reading facing right

creator: Ugo da Carpi

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in brown

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Lady seated at spinet

creator: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Lillian Russell, from World's Beauties, Series 1 (N26) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Box

medium: Silver, tortoiseshell, gold

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Transverse Section of the Small Theater at the Palace of Caserta, with a View of a Stage Design

creator: Luigi Vanvitelli

medium: Pen and black-gray ink, brush and gray wash, over freehand underdrawing in graphite (figures) and traces of compass and ruled construction lines in graphite

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


title: Stylus

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Mirror

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, cypriot


title: Band

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Turk Wearing Turban Seen from the Front, plate 15 from "Varie Figure" (Various Figures)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: The Arch of Titus (Veduta dell'Arco di Tito)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred J. Marrow, 1964


title: Wooded Landscape with Ruins

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Anonymous gift, 1968


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Jug

creator: Simon Pantin I

medium: Silver, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Earring with chain pendant

medium: Gold


title: The Union Cavalry and Artillery Starting in Pursuit of the Rebels up the Yorktown Turnpike (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VI)

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Pratiqve de la Guerre. Contenant l'usage de l'Artillerie, Bombes & Mortiers, Feux Artificiels & Petards, Sappes & Mines, Ponts & Pontons, Tranchees & Travaux, auec l'ordre des Assauts aux Breches. Ensemble vn traite des Feux de Ioye/par le sievr de Malthvs…

creator: Francis Malthus

medium: Illustrated book

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


title: Hengar near Camelford, Cornwall

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


title: Icelandic, Lady of Reykjavik, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

creator: Wang Gai

date: first edition printed in 1679

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


medium: Terracotta

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


title: [Girl Reading]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1985


title: Bugle in E

creator: Johann Bernhard Logier

medium: Copper, brass, ivory

country: German

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
German

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Barnard College, by exchange, 1998


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Netsuke of Noh Mask

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Elbow

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: The Mountain Stream

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: The J.B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1951


title: Tea jar with cover

medium: Takatori ware

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Tumblers and Bells, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Washerwomen (Les Laveuses)

creator: Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

medium: Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2010


title: The Crucifixion

creator: Francesco Granacci (Francesco di Andrea di Marco)

medium: Tempera and gold on wood

credit_line: Gift of Nancy, Carolina, and Isabelle Richardson, and Purchase, Friends of European Paintings Gifts, 2006


title: Saint Luke Painting the Virgin

creator: Hans Burgkmair

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Sword, small

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

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


title: Aten cartouche for jewelry

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Ethel McCullough Scott, John G. McCullough, and Edith McCullough Irons, 1972


title: Coin

date: dated 377 AH/987 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Covered Bowl

medium: Cloisonné enamel on gilt copper

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Girl in a Landscape with a Basket of Flowers

creator: François Boucher

medium: Etching, first state of two

subjects: Print Flowers Landscapes

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


title: Queen Victoria of England, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-1) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Philip Melanchthon, Full-Length Towards the Right

creator: Lucas Cranach the Younger

medium: Woodcut; first state of six (Hollstein)

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Disk ornament

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Colombia

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Colombia

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1891


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

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Ornament in the Shape of a Lotus Flower

date: ca. 12th century

medium: Bronze with traces of gilding

country: Cambodia or Thailand

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Cambodia or thailand
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Heller, 1991


title: Nubie, Grand Temple d'Isis, a Philœ, Galerie Orientale

creator: Maxime Du Camp

date: April 1850, printed 1852

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

credit_line: Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2015


title: "Marriage of Figaro"

creator: Jean-Baptiste Huet I

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Jug


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Privy Council of a King

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Netsuke of Man Carrying a Frog in One Hand and a Branch in the Other

medium: Ivory

subjects:
Netsuke
Japan
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Double gourd vase

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: A Short History of General Henry W. Halleck, from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


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

date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Virginal

medium: Wood, parchment, ivory, paint

country: Italian

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1953


title: Baku, Mythical Animal

date: 18th century

medium: White porcelain (Hirado ware)


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: [Civil War View]

creator: Thomas C. Roche

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Weeping Willow and Cherry Blossoms

creator: Nakayama Komin

medium: Hiramaki-e with nashiji on black lacquer, roiro, nashiji, gold and silver hiramakie, gold and silver foil; Interior: nashiji and fundame; Ojime: ivory bead with vines and grasses in gold lacquer; Netsuke: woven basket with shell and gold lacquer)

subjects:
Inrō
Japan
Flowers
Grasses & sedges
Shells & molluscs

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


title: The Attarouthi Treasure - Chalice

medium: Silver and gilded silver

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-silver Byzantine

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


title: Englishmen in November, Frenchmen in November

date: November 25, 1788

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


title: Plate 76 from "Los Caprichos": You understand?... well, as I say... eh! Look out! otherwise... (¿Està Umd...pues, Como digo..eh!  Cuidado! si no...)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint

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


title: Bill

medium: Steel, wood

subjects:
Shafted weapon
British

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Piece with pheasants and exotic flowers

creator: Bromley Hall Printworks

medium: Fustian, copperplate printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Flowers
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: The front row spectators, from 'Theater sketches,' published in Le Charivari, April 9, 1864

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

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


creator: Brygan Group


title: Goddess Dhumavati

medium: Lithograph, printed in black and hand-colored with watercolor and selectively applied glaze

country: West Bengal, Calcutta

subjects:
Print
West bengal, calcutta

credit_line: Purchase, Robert and Bobbie Falk Philanthropic Fund Gift, 2021


title: Songs of Innocence: Spring

creator: William Blake

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

subjects:
Print
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Bodkin or skewer

medium: Silver, steel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Towel border

medium: Linen, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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: Bronze head of a youth

date: 3rd quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29)

creator: John James Audubon

medium: Print

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Cat Statuette

medium: Cupreous metal

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


title: Marsh Grass

creator: Milne Ramsey

medium: Watercolor, white, and graphite on paper

country: American

subjects:
American
Grasses & sedges

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1974


title: Bottle

date: late 11th–early 12th century

medium: Thrown and molded in relief; earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Joan L. Simon, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, Virginia L. Kahn, Dr. Marjorie G. Lewisohn, 1954


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Ornament in the Form of a Bud

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: Design for Rococco-style wall and cove ornament in the salon of the Hotel de Luynes, owned by the Duc de Sabran

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: pen and ink and watercolor on wove paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Standing Buddha

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Bronze with silver inlay

country: Burma

subjects: Sculpture Burma

credit_line: Gift of Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation, 1993


title: W. McMickan, from the Sea Captains series (N127) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Wine Bottle with Three Friends of Winter

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Theron Curtiss

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Belt Buckle

date: 7th century

medium: Iron, silver and copper alloy inlay

country: Frankish or Burgundian

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
Frankish or burgundian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Marble-slab table

medium: Mahogany, marble

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund; The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves and Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, by exchange; and funds from various donors, 1961


title: Salt

date: 19th century, after 1613–14 original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Cephalus and Procris, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Tankard

creator: Georgius Olescher Sr.

date: late 17th century

medium: Gilded silver

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


title: A cartouche flanked by Apollo and Pan, plate 5 from "Nouvelles inventions de Cartouches"


title: Fragment of a Cover

date: 3rd–6th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Young Man Approaching Old Bearded Man Who Stands on Steps (recto); Male Nude with Bent Right Knee (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk underdrawing (recto). On off-white paper. Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over black chalk underdrawing (verso)

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


title: Dipper, from the Birds of America series (N4) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects: Print Birds


title: Textile Sample Book

medium: Textiles-Sample Books

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-sample book

credit_line: Gift of Everfast Industries Inc., 1971


title: Design for a Mirror to go over a Cabinet

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: The Mouse Catchers

creator: Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1983


title: Sword with Scabbard

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood, horn, gold

country: Acheen

subjects: Sword Acheen

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Shawl

medium: silk, wool

country: probably French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1984


title: Rehse, Pitcher, 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: Elizabeth Stuart, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Netsuke of Three Boys Playing around a Screen

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: The Road to Preferment Through Clarke's Passage

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Seal

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of A. W. Bahr, 1958


title: Flowers in a Vase

creator: Zacharie Astruc

medium: Watercolor over traces of graphite

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Grégoire Tarnopol, 1971


title: Bronze kylix (drinking cup)

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Piece from a Summer Robe (Katabira)

medium: Dye-patterned plain-weave ramie

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Potpourri

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china and unglazed porcelain (Parian ware)

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Portrait of P. Tapé

creator: Guillaume Thiemet

date: second half of 18th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Carolyn Bullard Gift, in honor of E. John Bullard and funds from various donors, 2014


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Lieutenant General, Fatigue Dress, Spain, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Watch and chatelaine

creator: John Rich

medium: Agate, gold, diamonds, rubies, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bibi Lalouette

creator: James McNeill Whistler

date: 1859 [later printing]

medium:
Etching and drypoint; second state of two, with the scratch removed (Glasgow);
black ink on cream laid Japan

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1917


title: Border Tile

creator: J. and J. G. Low Art Tile Works

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George F. Leonard, 1971


title: The Country Dance

creator: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

medium: Etching; second state (?) of four (Mannocci)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Bottle

medium: Clay; glaze strongly marked with splashes (Seto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: [Gerald Massey]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Albert Ten Eyck Gardner Collection, Gift of the Centennial Committee, 1970


title: Shepherd

date: 18th century

medium: Gouache on paper

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Terracotta jug with trough spout

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Darning sampler

creator: Treijntje van der Kamp

medium: Silk embroidery on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Textile sample

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Theater of Marcellus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Pirro Ligorio

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Piece

medium: Silk, woven

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Miss M. E. Powell, 1925


title: Cover

date: early 17th century

medium: Embroidered net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: View of Kynsburg over the Weistritz River Valley in Silesia

creator: Johann Heinrich Bleuler

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Gouache over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2007


title: Egg

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Glass

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


title: Blade

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Mahakala, Protector of the Tent

medium: Distemper on cloth

country: Central Tibet

subjects:
Painting
Central tibet

credit_line: Zimmerman Family Collection, Gift of the Zimmerman Family, 2012


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Officer in a Red Coat

creator: John Ramage

medium: Watercolor on ivory in gold locket

country: Irish

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Smallsword

medium: Steel, gold, wood, textile

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sword
French

credit_line: Gift of Jean Jacques Reubell, in memory of his mother, Julia C. Coster, and of his wife, Adeline E. Post, both of New York City, 1926


title: Jewelry set

date: probably 19th century

medium: ivory

country: African

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Mme. Lillas, 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: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)


title: Meiping vase

date: 19th century

medium: Stoneware with red glaze (Shiwan ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Seal

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Black basalt; carved

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Tabernacle frame

date: early 16th century

medium: Pine and poplar

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Frame
Italian, venice

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Dish

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Journey for Eternity, No. 1

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1965


title: Terracotta column-krater (mixing bowl)

creator: Painter of the Bari Orestes

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Bowl

medium: Horn

country: Tlingit

subjects:
Bone/ivory-container
Tlingit
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Linen fragment

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of the Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1914


title: Candlestand

medium: Wood

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sherman, 1967


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Chalcedony, milky

country: Sasanian


title: Camp with Ambulance

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Cherub (?)

date: 17th century (?)

medium: Andesite, remains of plaster

country: Colonial

subjects: Stone-sculpture Colonial

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Landscape with a horseman and a windmill in the distance

creator: Anton Crussens

medium: Pen and brown ink on vellum, brown ink framing lines

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Plate 3: two horsemen crossing a river to right, a woman with two baskets atop a donkey to left, trees to the left and right, a bridge in the background, from "Various Landscapes" (Divers Paysages)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of two

subjects: Print Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Terracotta fragment of a mold for a Megarian bowl

country: Greek, Asia Minor

subjects:
Vase
Greek, asia minor

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool canvas

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


title: Spoon

medium: Bronze

country: Coptic

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Inlay fragment

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Polychrome glass

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Needle sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wood, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

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


title: Carpet

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: Funerary Cone

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Piped cup

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


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

date: second half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Coast Scene with a Windmill

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Engraving; second state

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


title: Specimen

medium: Crochet


title: Dagger with Sheath

medium: Steel, silver, gold, wood

country: Persian

subjects: Dagger Persian

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


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: A Donkey Lying on the Grass, with an Italian Greyhound (on a Base)

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

date: late 18th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, various shades of gray wash

subjects:
Drawing
Grasses & sedges

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Scarab with name of Akhenaten

medium: Gold


title: Tea jar

medium: Black lacquer with red design

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: Fish slice

creator: Edward Aldridge I

medium: Silver

subjects: Fish Metalwork-silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Design for a Sconce

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Glass mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Galloon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; blown, applied and painted, tooled


title: Plum Garden at Kamata (Kamata no umezono), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: 1857 (Ansei 4), 2nd month

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Plate 3: Vase with a satyr's mask and garlands, from "Antique Vases" (Vasa a Polydoro Caravagino)

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

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


title: Saint Simon

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

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


title: James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851), American novelist

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze, brown patina, hollow cast

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Processione sulla facciata della Grande Scala

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Kay Gregory, 1967


title: Miss A. Boyd, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Saint Martin Brings a Dead Man to Life

medium: Linen plain weave underlaid with linen plain weave and embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in split and stem stitches, laid work, and couching, including or nué

country: Flemish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Flemish
Textiles-ecclesiastical


title: Jewelry casket

creator: Pietro Giusti

medium: Carved walnut, ebony, lined with red velvet

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of John D. Rockefeller, by exchange, and  Rogers Fund, 1998


title: Key

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Tsii' Edo' Ai (Apache Fiddle)

creator: Lawrence Gotelay

medium: Wood; sinew, horsehair, polychrome

country: Native American (Apache)

subjects:
Chordophone-zither-bowed
Native american (apache)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


title: Saucer

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: Arrowhead

medium: Sandstone, chert or flint

subjects: Stone Japan

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


title: Sword (Dha)

medium: Wood, brass

country: Burmese

subjects: Sword Burmese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Snuffbox

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gold

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Kohl stick

medium: Wood

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


title: Lot and His Daughters

creator: Claude Mellan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Saloon at the Marine Pavillion (An Excursion to Brighthelmstone)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Clarkson, Pitcher, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Geraldine Ulmer as "The Huntress," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Gong

date: late 19th century

medium: Metal, wood, skin

subjects: Idiophone-struck-gong Burmese


title: Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, page 20 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Fragment

date: early 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H. K. Porter, 1909


title: Bertout. Marie, Ismérie. 41 ans, née à Reims. Marchande de vins. Pas de motif. 26/2/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Kero

date: 15th–early 16th century

medium: Wood (prosopis ?)

country: Inca

subjects: Wood-container Inca

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: A Trip to Scarborough

creator: James Bretherton

medium: Etching

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century–early 19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1906


title: Key Handle

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Jérusalem, Chapelle anglaise

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Absalom Comforting Tamar

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Elephant carrying a vase

medium: Jade (nephrite) with semiprecious stone inlays

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Fork

date: 15th century

medium: Iron, copper alloy, partially gilded, silver and niello

country: Italian

subjects: Metalwork-iron Italian

credit_line: Gift of Anthony Blumka, in honor of Justin Nasatir, 2010


title: Design for 4 Seat Sleigh, no. 3742

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Pillowcase

medium: Linen, filet

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1954


title: Pair of pedestals

medium: Pine, painted in pale yellow and white

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Spouted vessel in decorated ware

date: ca. 3500 BCE

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Banding piece

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; incised

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


title: Sō Sām Sāi

medium: Coconut, skin, ivory, mother-of-pearl

country: Thai

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted Thai

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Beaker

medium: Zwischengold glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: The art of the Saracens in Egypt

creator: Stanley Lane-Poole


title: Lidded Basket

medium: Ash splint, wood, pigment

country: Oneida

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bowl

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

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Picture Book of Japanese Poetry

creator: Unidentified artist

medium:
Two volumes;
Vol. 1-11 double-page black and white prints with text
Vol. 2-11 double-page black and white prints with text

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Pilgrim Sudhana (Shancai tongzi)

date: late 15th–early 17th century

medium: Wood (linden) with pigment; single woodblock construction

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Frontispiece to "Tristram Shandy," Volume 1

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Painted Cup from Tutankhamun's Embalming Cache

medium: Pottery, pigment

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909


title: Book 4, Fable 3: the Opinion (L'Opinion), from "Fables Nouvelles"

creator: Nicolas Henry Tardieu

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Miss Caurabel, 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: Four Women Passing a Group of Trees

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Trees

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1949


title: A shepherd sleeping on the ground at right, three horses at left, other horses and various figures to right, the Baths of Diocletian in the background, plate 12 from "Roman landscapes and ruins" (Paysages et ruines de Rome)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; fourth state of nine (Talbierska)

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Imitation Splashware Dish

date: 10th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Drawers

medium: cotton

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Millia Davenport, 1962


title: Modello for Ceiling Fresco with Papal Coat of Arms

creator: Bernardo Castello

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over traces of black chalk, on blue paper; squared in black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Cylinder

date: 7th century or later

medium: Green jasper

subjects: Jewelry Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Scene of Martyrdom, after Giovanni Angelo Canini

creator: Jean Robert Ango

medium: Red chalk, over traces of black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Miss O'Neil in Juliet

creator: Charles Turner

date: December 16, 1814

medium: Stipple engraving, printed in red ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Rank Badge with Egret

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: The Case Is Altered

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Roman Emperor

creator: Reinhold Vasters

medium: Gold, enamel, semi-precious stones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Armored warrior

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl, 1925


title: Four Putti representing the Four Elements

creator: Rudolf Meyer

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2007


title: Panel of crimson velvet

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress, 1946


title: Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)

date: last quarter of 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Fragment of an Icon with Scenes from the Life of Christ

date: 12th century

medium: Steatite

country: Byzantine

subjects: Steatite Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Friedman, 1958


title: Anthropomorphic mask

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Bodhisattva

medium: Gilt bronze, wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: String of Beads

date: 4th century

medium: Bees wax

country: Coptic

subjects: Miscellaneous-wax Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Aristanemi's Bridal Pavilion (top) and Witnessing Animals for Slaughter (bottom): Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Square dish (one of a pair)

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Thomas Joseph "Tom" O'Rourke, Catcher, Jersey City Skeeters, 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: Workshop of Intaglio Printers, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

creator: Charles Jacque

date: July 1852

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Philip Hofer, 1934


title: A Wat and Priests Houses, Bangkok

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Two bound volumes of issues of the Mexican newspaper 'El Hijo del Ahuizote'

creator: Daniel Cabrera Rivera

medium: Books

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1959


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

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


title: Bead

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


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: Three-leaf clover, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 5) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Flowering Crabapple and Pair of Birds

creator: Shen Quan

date: dated 1744

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Birds

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


title: Insertion

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Chair strip with dragon and auspicious symbols

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Jacob Henegar, 1982


title: Wait, we still need this to get the weight right!, from "News of the Day"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: October 1, 1866

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: The Music Room

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on medium weight cream laid paper; first state of four (Glasgow)

credit_line: Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Statuette

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ivorie China

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


title: Galloon

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Pocket knife

creator: Jean Gavet

medium: Gold, steel

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Towing a Boat in a Rainstorm

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 12th century

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

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Shirtwaist

medium: cotton, linen

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Wanamaker Munn, 1956


title: Burgonet

medium: Steel, leather, textile

country: South German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
South german

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Suit

medium: Wool, cotton

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: Vulture Pectoral

medium: Gold sheet

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Fragment of a Mantle

medium: Cotton; plain weave, resist-dyed (ikat), embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1929


title: Column with crouching lions at the base

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Untitled

date: 15th century or later (?)

medium: Velvet

country: European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
European
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Source Unknown


title: Apothecary vase (vaso da farmacia)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Castelli

subjects:
Italian, castelli
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Catherine of Aragon and Cardinal Wolsey (Shakespeare, King Henry VIII, Act 3, Scene 1)

creator: Edward J. Potbury

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harriet McDonald, 1941


title: S. Nicéphore et Ses Compagnons (St. Nicephorus and His Companions), February 25th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Episode from the "Gesta Romanorum": The Emperor and the Page

creator: Jörg Breu the Elder

medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash. Framing line in pen and black ink.

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2009


title: Dish

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

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


title: Fragment

medium: Nephrite

country: New Zealand

subjects:
Jade
New zealand

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Jasper triangular prism

medium: Carnelian agate

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: [Seated Young Woman with Hand Raised to Jawline]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Cast Brass Figure

date: before 16th century

medium: Brass (cast)

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-sculpture Peruvian

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


title: Ein ney Furmbüchlein, Page 2, recto

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Two ladies and two gentlemen dancing within an ornate architectural setting, a fountain at center in the background, a scene from "Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni"

creator: Francesco Galli Bibiena

medium: Engraving

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 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: Glass gold-band mosaic bottle

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Sketches in Outline

creator: Henry Moses

medium: Etching and engraving; some graphite sketches

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


title: Cowrie shell

medium: Silver, cowrie shell

subjects:
Metalwork-silver in combination
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


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

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Designs for Leather

creator: Kubo Shunman

date: 19th century

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Scene 3, from Jack and the Giant Killer, Scenes for a Toy Theater

creator: Benjamin Pollock

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Landscape

creator: David Johnson

medium: Graphite and white-chalk heightening on grey wove paper

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1997


title: Mathematics (one of a pair)

medium: Oil on canvas; frame: wood

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Mashrabiya Screen

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Robert W. and Emily De Forest, 1910


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: A Short History: Rear-Admiral Raphael Semmes, from the Histories of Generals series (N114) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Dish

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Wat Elephant

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Boy with a Black Spaniel

creator: François Hubert Drouais

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


title: Admiral Sir Chaloner Ogle (1726–1816)

creator: George Romney

credit_line: Gift of Lennen and Newell Inc., 1953


title: Panel from the Palace of Westminster

creator: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

medium: Oak

subjects: Architecture Woodwork-architectural

credit_line: Purchase, The James Parker Charitable Foundation and Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2015


title: Shallow bronze bowl with swinging handles

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Phrygian

subjects: Bronze Phrygian

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


title: Drachm

date: ca. 57–38 BCE

medium: Silver

country: Parthian

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: St. Antonis Poort, Amsterdam

creator: Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman

date: mid-17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Dagger with Sheath, Belt, and Accessories

medium: Iron, leather, bone, horn, ray skin, copper, silver, textile

country: Tibetan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Knive
Tibetan
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Architectural Design with a Decorated Frieze Containing a History Scene and Landscape

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite

subjects: Architecture Drawing Landscapes


title: Bobbin

medium: Brass and beads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Local ring dial

creator: T. W.

medium: Brass

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


title: Tankard

creator: John Will

medium: Pewter

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1930


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Henry Meyer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Small jadeitite axe

date: 5th–4th millennium BCE

medium: Steatite, green

country: Cretan

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cretan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Half Mask (Menpō)

medium: Iron, lacquer

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask


title: Armchair (fauteuil)

creator: Beauvais

date: first half 18th century

medium: Carved and gilded beechwood; Beauvais tapestry upholstery

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Pelerine

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Emily T. Clay and Ellen Thomas, 1961


title: Inlay, satyr

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Faucet (one of a pair)

medium: Gilt bronze