title: Border

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1926


title: Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Anthony Abbot and Jerome

creator: Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella)

medium: Partially gilt silver

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: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Cricket, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

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: Fragment

date: mid-19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Administration Fund, 1921


title: Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

date: ca. 7th century

medium: Gilt bronze

country: Vietnam

subjects: Sculpture Vietnam

credit_line: Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1993


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Shell pendant or bead

medium: Shell

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1916


title: Bes Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: The Porter

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Etching; first state of four

credit_line: Gift of Anne Wikler Mininberg, in celebration of Anne's 75th birthday, 2013


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bottle

date: 18th century

medium: Pottery moulded in the paste and covered with a mottled glaze (Takatori ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Akhenaten body with garment

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Fish
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; central coast

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


title: Fringe

date: mid-18th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Design for a Coat of Arms with Two Dragons and Initials [?] in center (recto); Three Constructed Circles with Inscriptions (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over leadpoint on brown washed cream laid paper (still partly visible; recto and verso)

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Pheasant Among Snow–laden Bamboo on Hillside

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Piece

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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


title: The Sad Discovery; or, the Graceless Apprentice

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 30, 1785

medium: Etching

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


title: A Short History of Admiral David D. Porter, from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pitcher

medium: Blown-molded glass

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Ferrule

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Arhat (Luohan)

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood (foxglove) with pigment, multiple-woodblock construction

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2008


title: Abacus

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Frame Fragment from a Model Bed

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Askos in the form of an animal

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Roundel

date: 11th century

medium: Gold; filigree, granulation

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


title: The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as a Samurai in Fighting Trim

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Head of Christ

date: 19th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: European (Medieval style)

subjects:
European (medieval style)
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Circular Box (Pyxis) with Scenes from the Infancy of Jesus

date: early 14th century

medium: Elephant ivory with traces of polychromy

subjects: French Ivories-elephant


title: Design for a Concave Corner Cabinet (Possibly Part of a Larger Wall-Covering Unit)

creator: Anonymous, German, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash, watercolor, traces of ruled graphite lines

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1942


title: Head of a lion

country: Greek, South Italian/Sicilian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian/sicilian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: The Last Judgment

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

date: 15th century

medium: Woodcut; Derschau restrike


title: Fan

medium: silk, ivory, silver

credit_line: Gift of Miss Nellie J. Crocker, 1946


title: Omnibus

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; third state of three

credit_line:
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: La Grenouille et la Boeuf, plate 96 from "Fable de la Fontaine"

creator: Théophile Chauvel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Earring

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Joined lappets

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon, linen

credit_line: Gift of The Lady Reigate, in memory of her mother, Mrs. William Redmond Cross, 1979


title: Keyhole escutcheon

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Plate

creator: Ott and Brewer

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Scheider Gift, 1994


title: Terracotta statuette of a woman

date: 3rd century BCE

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Portable equatorial or equinoctical sundial

creator: Dominicus Lusuerg

medium: Silver

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


title: Fringe

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Fifth Ichikawa Danjuro as a Man Standing

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Ostrakon

medium: Limestone with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Vase fragment

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek

subjects:
Vase
East greek

credit_line: Gift of Elinor R. Price, 1926


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Terracotta cup

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Panoramic Landscape

creator: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

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

subjects: Print Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Ring-kernos

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


title: Zulu, from Types of Nationalities (N240) 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: Mr. James Bennett as Iago: "That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it. That she love him, 'tis apt, and of great credit" (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4)

creator: Martin & Johnson, New York

medium: Stipple and line engraving

credit_line: Gift of Edward Fenton, 1952


title: Entrance of the Cardinal and Archduke Albert to Brussels in 1596

creator: Anonymous, 16th century

date: after 1596

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Door Knocker with Plate and Nail

date: 15th–16th century

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1952


title: Square

date: 3rd–4th century


title: The Great Jewish Bride

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; second state of five

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


title: Base of an Altar Cross with Reading Angels Sitting on Dragons and Standing Church Fathers

medium: Gilded copper alloy

country: North Italian

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
North italian


title: Textile

date: 16th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Design for Phaeton or Hunting Wagon

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Hand colored lithograph with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: L'Estropié au Capuchon (The Beggar Wearing a Hood), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les Nains Grotesques" (Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Actor Nakamura Utayemon with Two Women Preparing for the New Year Ceremony

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

subjects: Print Japan


title: Relief panel

medium: Gypsum alabaster

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1932


title: Horizontal Panel with Armour at Center, Flanked by Two Tritons Playing the Horn

creator: Sebald Beham

medium: Engraving

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: The Virgin Mary adoring the Christ child, an angel holding a crown of thorns at right

creator: Frédéric Horthemels

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: [Bull from Glane, Canton of Fribourg]

creator: Adrien Tournachon

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

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


title: Base for a Cross

medium: Copper alloy, cast, filed, reamed, and scraped

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1962


title: Gold Curly Tailed Animal Pendant

date: 6th–8th century

medium: Gold

country: Conte (?)

subjects: Metal-ornament Conte

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


title: Candle Stand in the Shape of a Fantastic Animal

medium: Stoneware with green glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Herzman, 1990


title: Mrs. Charles Willson Peale (Rachel Brewer) and Baby Eleanor

creator: Charles Willson Peale

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Earring-hook type with pendants of pearls

medium: Gold, agate, pearls

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


title: Dog figure

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Fan leaf showing the interior of an opera house

creator: F. X. Willaeys-Delaire

date: probably 1830s–40s

medium: Etching and stipple engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Textile Design with Rosettes Forming Hexagonal Shapes Around Swirls

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Cuneiform tablet: receipt of unshorn sheep

date: ca. 2060 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry E. Coe, 1957


title: The Tamukkam or Tamkam

creator: Linnaeus Tripe

date: January–March 1858

medium: Albumen silver print from waxedpaper negative

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Slipper with Metal Ornaments

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Metal (hammered), camelid hair, cotton

country: Chimú or Chancay

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Chimú or chancay

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


title: Ceiling tiles

date: mid-16th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: Christ and the Woman of Samaria: an Arched Print

medium: Etching and drypoint, some plate tone; third of five states

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1923


title: Portrait of Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyal

date: 18th century

medium: Clay with polychrome, cold gold, and gilding

country: Bhutan

subjects: Sculpture Bhutan Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Steven Kossak Gift, Gift of Mrs. Rose F. Magnin, in memory of her husband, E. John Magnin, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 2021


title: Pattern Block

date: 12th century

medium: Stone (slate); carved

subjects:
Ornament & design
Stone

credit_line: Gift of Stora Art Gallery, 1932


title: Maniple

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel Stiefel, 1938


title: Column Base

medium: Pink marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Glass eye bead

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Phoenician, Cypriot

subjects:
Glass
Phoenician, cypriot


title: Valentine

creator: Esther Howland

medium: Cameo-embossed, open-work lace paper, chromolithography, colored paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)?

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Front Half of a Tournament Helm

medium: Steel, leather

country: Anglo-Flemish

subjects: Helmet Anglo-flemish

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Artisans, Beauties, and Annual Events

creator: Toyohara Kunichika

medium: Thirty paintings mounted as an accordion album; ink, color, gold and gold flecks on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021


title: Les étoiles de jois

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Relief fragments from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: The Nôtre-Dame Pump, Paris

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching on chine collé; eighth state of ten

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Study Head of an Old Man with a White Beard

creator: Anthony van Dyck

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Egleston Fund, 1922


title: Light and Shadow in Black Cañon, From Mirror Bar

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

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


title: Birdstone

medium: Limestone

country: Archaic

subjects: Stone-sculpture Archaic

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


title: Anne of Austria

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Ribbon Fragment

medium: Silk and metallic thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Bequest of Carolyn Kane, 2015


title: Ear Clip in the Shape of a Starfruit

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: Armor (<i>Yoroi</i>) of Ashikaga Takauji (1305–1358)

date: early–mid-14th century

medium: Iron, leather, lacquer, silk, copper, gold, pigments

country: Japanese

subjects:
Armor for man
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


title: Whitby, William P. Chapman House, Rye, New York (plan and partial elevation)

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Watercolor and ink

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Javanese

subjects: Krisse Javanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: A Royal Woman

medium: Gabbro

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Brygos Painter

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


title: Cardinal Bentivoglio

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940

creator: Samuel Colt

medium: Steel, silver, mother-of-pearl

country: American, Paterson, New Jersey

subjects:
American, paterson, new jersey
Firearms-pistols-revolver

credit_line: Gift of John E. Parsons, 1957


title: Strip

date: 16th century

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Snuffbox with miniature of Alexander I of Russia

creator: Jean Georges (or George)

medium: Two-color gold, enamel, diamonds; ivory

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fichu

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Bronze cylindrical cup

date: ca. 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman


title: Fragment of Dish

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed and luster-painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Covered Platter

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Saint Michael holding scales and a lance, a demon beneath him, from "Piccoli Santi" (Small Saints)

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

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


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Charles K. Davis, 1948


title: Bowl

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Porcelain decorated in blue, green, red-orange and gilt (Arita ware, Imari style)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward H. Wells, 1953


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Head of a Female Figure

date: 4th–5th century

country: Pakistan or Afghanistan

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan or afghanistan

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Stoll, 1980


title: A Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, in the most approved and elegant taste

creator: George Smith

medium: Illustrations: etching and aquatint, hand-colored

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Woman Standing Beside a Balustrade with a Poodle

creator: Paul Ranson

medium: Oil on panel

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Patricia Altschul, 2008


title: Fourree stater

medium: Electrum

country: Greek, Mysia, Kyzikos

subjects:
Coin
Greek, mysia, kyziko

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Gu

medium: Wood, various materials

country: Chinese

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / barrel drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: High Lands, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Alexandre Dumas

creator: Achille-Jacques-Jean-Marie Devéria

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Skirting of a linen kaftan

date: ca. 7th–9th century CE

medium: Linen

country: Alanic

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Simcox, 1999


title: Postilla super Epistolas et Evangelia; bound with Passio domini Nostri Jesu Christo

creator: Guillermus Parisiensis

medium: Woodcut on vellum binding

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Seal Stone

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Carnelian; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Terracotta statuette of a woman

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Marriage, from "The Seven Sacraments"

creator: Lorenzo Zucchi

medium: Etching


title: Pair of Earrings (with 16.10.337)

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Two Table Designs

creator: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Glass bottle shaped like a bunch of grapes

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Glass eye beads

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

country: Phoenician or Carthaginian

subjects:
Glass
Phoenician or carthaginian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Glass perfume bottle


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Rowel Spur (Left)

date: first half 17th century

medium: Iron alloy, silver

country: British

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
British

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Chinoiserie group

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


creator: Colmar Painter

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

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Sitting Dog

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Louis Guy

credit_line: Bequest of Joan G. Smith, 2024


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Design for a Vessel with Hunting Scenes

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink over graphite

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: Cap

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Clara G. Isley, 1972


title: [Group Portrait of Four Women, Two Men and Three Children in a Garden]

creator: Franz Antoine

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1948


title: Sheet with overall red star pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Christ (?) and an Apostle

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and bistre with sepia washes

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Desk or dresser box in book form, painted with the initial "T"

date: between 1800 and 1899

credit_line: Gift of Lynn and Bruce Heckman


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 6 (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 2nd century CE

country: Roman, Cnidian

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cnidian

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


title: John A. "Jack" Farrell, 2nd Base, Washington Nationals, 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: Glass weight

date: 1st century CE or later

country: Roman (?)

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Snuffbox

medium: Gold, enamel, porcelain

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: A Woman From Savoy

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

medium: Etching with some engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Morning dress

medium: Linen

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the International Business Machine Corporation, 1960


title: Vase with birds

date: first half 19th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels, and yellow glaze, with incised decoration (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds

credit_line: Gift of A. Sichel, 1879


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Cupid asleep, resting his right arm on his quiver and his left arm on his bow, an oval composition, after Reni

creator: Francesco Curti

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Fireboard

medium: Painted pine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Earring, trumpet-shaped

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: heroes wrestling rampant animals

medium: Jasper

country: Akkadian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Spoon

creator: Hendrick Jansen Sympa

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Hiram Jennings Fancy Groceries, Moberly, Missouri]

creator: True

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Portrait of Baudry, the Painter (1828–1886)

creator: Jules-Clément Chaplain

date: 19th century

medium: Bronze, cast - single

subjects:
Medal and plaquette
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: Dish in a Leaf Shape with Wave and Molded Double Leaf Design

date: mid-17th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Arita ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Harry Packard, 1979


title: Orphrey section made into cushion

date: second half 16th century

medium: silk, linen, metal

country: Italian or Spanish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian or spanish
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Adam and Eve Lamenting the Death of Abel

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving; second state

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


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

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Cream Jug

medium: Blown pattern-molded lead blue glass

country: American or British

subjects:
Ornament & design
American or british

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Terracotta vase in the form of a swan

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Foundation Inc., 1980


title: Cup and saucer (one of a pair)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1968


title: Snuffbox with music lesson scene

creator: Jacques Philippe Le Bas

medium: Enamel on copper

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


title: Copper Peapod Ornament

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Chimú (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Chimú

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


title: Vase

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Favrile glass

credit_line: Gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Terracotta olpe

creator: Attributed to Master of Vatican, 73

date: 3rd quarter 7th century BCE

medium: Terracotta, pigment

country: Greek

subjects: Vase Greek

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Knife Case

medium: Native-tanned skin, glass, silk, wool

country: Ojibwa

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


title: Portrait of Johann Georg Viberg

creator: Lucas Cranach the Younger

medium: Woodcut

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Bernardino Gamberia, private chamberlain of Innocent VIII, Bishop of Cavaillon, d. 1507

creator: Niccolò Fiorentino (Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli)

medium: Bronze

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


title: Piece

creator: Charles E. Barber

medium: Linen and cotton, woven

country: Spanish, possibly

credit_line: Gift of Harcourt Amory, 1963


title: The Baron crosses the Thames without the assistance of a bridge, ship, boat, or balloon, or even his own will

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching; reissue

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: The Lovers

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Spoon

creator: A.D. Boulenger

date: mid-19th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Bowl

medium: Semi-eggshell porcelain with famille rose enamels

subjects: Ceramic China Roses

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


title: Volute-krater fragment

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Jar

medium: Pottery (Nile clay)

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Study for a Cartouche

creator: Pierre Edmé Babel

date: mid-18th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1957


title: Panel

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1976


title: Abraham Entertaining the Three Angels

creator: Leonaert Bramer

medium: Brush and gray wash, heightened with white bodycolor, on blue paper; framing lines in brush and gray wash and white bodycolor

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


title: Pendant with sard

medium: Gold, sard

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


title: Rosette Brooch

date: first half 6th century

medium: Silver, gilding(?), garnets with patterned foil backings, ...

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Tassel

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Halberd

medium: Steel, wood (cherry), brass

country: Italian

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Fragment with royal feet

medium: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

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


title: Angel

medium: Limestone

subjects: Sculpture French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: The Empire means Peace, from 'News of the day,' published in "L'Album du Siège"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Scribe's Palette and Writing Utensils: Hank of Thread

medium: Plant fiber

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Dialectica, from "The Liberal Arts"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

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


title: Model shell

medium: Blue faience

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Village of Andelys - Chateau Gaillard, Coeur de Lion

creator: Alfred Capel Cure

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, in memory of Christopher Hemphill, 1987


title: Marble portrait of a veiled man

date: mid-3rd century CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Netsuke

medium: Black wood and ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Irish Setter, from the Dogs of the World series for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Dragon

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco (?); carved, pigment


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 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: Count von Moltke of Oldenburg, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-2) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Orphrey

date: third quarter 14th century

medium: metal, silk, linen

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alastair Bradley Martin, 1949


title: Ladle

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after early 18th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cornetto in A

medium: Ivory, gilt ferrule

country: German

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated
German

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1952


title: Blade for a Sword (<i>Katana</i>)

date: late 16th century

medium: Steel, gold

subjects:
Sword blade
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Bashford Dean Bequest, 1970


title: Cover

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Watch

creator: Pierre Landré

medium: Case: gilded brass; Movement: brass and steel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Frontispiece for Vindicae Predestinationis et Gratiae

creator: Grégoire Huret

medium: Engraving

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


title: Vase

creator: United States Pottery Company

medium: Earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stanley Herzman, 1984


title: Vase fragment

date: 7th century BCE

country: East Greek

subjects:
Vase
East greek

credit_line: Gift of Elinor R. Price, 1926


title: Saucer

date: 19th century

medium: White porcelain decorated with black, silver and gold (Hizen ware, Kutani type)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Grace Church, New York

creator: Anonymous, American, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: The Steam Boats

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Etching; first state of three (Delteil)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


title: Federigo Asinari, Count of Camerano (1527–1575)

creator: Pietro Paolo Galeotti

medium: Bronze, brown patina, cast

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)?

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Unidentified profile portrait, man facing left

creator: Anonymous, German

medium: Cut black paper silhouette

subjects:
Cut paper
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Leopold Heinemann, 1948, transferred from the Library


title: Drinkers in a Tavern

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

date: 17th century

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

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: The Art of Preparing and Making the Materials used in Writing [School piece or Penmanship sheet]

creator: Carington Bowles I

medium: Etching and engraving, with pen and ink

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: White porcelain with green glass stopper

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Water receptacle with cover

medium: Nephrite, white with greenish tint

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Four Chandanri Sari Border Fragments

date: ca. 18th century

medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-brocade

credit_line: Bequest of Carolyn Kane, 2015


title: Eccentric Anthropomorph

medium: Copper

country: Nepal (?)

subjects: Metalwork Nepal

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


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

creator: Onesimos

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Hammered Gold Band with Bells

date: 1st–mid-16th century

medium: Gold (hammered)

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Limb (?)

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


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: Reverse Copy of the Frontispiece, from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons" (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Christ on the Cross, from "The Passion of Christ"

medium: Engraving

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


title: Border

date: 16th century

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Earring of simple form

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Bottle

medium: Earthenware, slip decoration

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Hexagonal ewer

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)?

date: 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Fan

medium: straw

credit_line: Gift of M. Winifred and Beatrice F. Hyslop, 1960


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Different Scenes from the Gospels and from Acta Aposotolorum

creator: Daniel Hopfer

medium: Etching; second state of two


title: Rockaway #3885

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Isaac Herbert

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Striped Bass, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print

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


title: Diverses Pieces de Serruriers

creator: Jean Berain

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Book cover with overall pattern of stars and dots

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Inro and Two Netsuke

creator: Kubo Shunman

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: Comb

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Blouse (Camisa)

date: first half 19th century

medium: Linen on pineapple fiber

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Eleanor Husted Leal, 1925


title: On Brothers Water, Cumbria

creator: Thomas Sunderland

medium: Black chalk or graphite on blue paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Dish

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Blown molded glass

credit_line: Purchase, Judith F. and William H. Hernstadt Gift, 1980


title: Panel for Elbow Pillow

medium: Silk (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Edna Bahr, 1962


title: S. Romuald, Fondateur des Camaldules (St. Romuald, Founder of the Camaldolese Order), February 7th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Feast Days of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Jawbone

medium: bone

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
American
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Glass globular bottle

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fuji from Gotenyama on the Tōkaidō at Shinagawa (Tōkaidō Shinagawa Gotenyama no Fuji), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: La Sainte Bible (vol. 2)

creator: Gustave Doré

medium: Steel plate engraving

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Carved Bead

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Arrivo

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

date: September 1, 1893

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Rescue (plate four from Paraphrase on the Finding of a Glove)

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching, drypoint and aquatint on chine collé; first edition; state four of seven

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


title: Bust of a Man in Fantastic Headgear

creator: René Boyvin

medium: Etching

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


title: The First Bando Mitsugoro as an Unarmed Man

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Loom equipment

medium: Wood

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


title: Plate 8: Arch of Drusus at the Porta S. Sebastiano in Rome (Arco di Druso alla Porta di Sebastiano in Roma), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Portrait of a Young Woman (Miss Seaton) (Dorothy Seaton)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

date: 1897, only printed posthumously

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

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1984


title: Armchair

medium: Mahogany, ash, brass sabots and casters

credit_line: Gift of Carswell Rush Berlin, 1996


title: Elevation and Top View of a Design for a Lidded Box

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and yellow wash, and red chalk over graphite

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1944


title: Cosmetic container

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Double Column Base

date: late 15th century

medium: Marble

country: French

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Vanderpoel Clark, 1967


title: Piece

creator: Stinton Bros.

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Underskirt

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. N. Thorne, 1943


title: Female Figurine

medium: Ivory, bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Sergeant Kendall and Mrs. Daniel Crena de Longh, 1966


title: Letter to Nakai Tōdō

creator: Sakai Hōitsu

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

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


title: Handkerchief

date: 19th century

medium: cotton

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


title: The Year's End from "The Peasants' Feast" or "The Twelve Months"

creator: Sebald Beham

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Pauli)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Coverlet

medium: Silk (plied and floss)

credit_line: Purchase, Everfast Fabrics Inc. Gift, 1969


title: Sellar Alp, Dolomites

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor and gouache on white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Hook

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Shellfish and Apparitions of the Yoshiwara Pleasure Quarter

creator: Chōbunsai Eishi

medium: Triptych of hanging scrolls with inscribed mountings; painting: ink and color on silk; calligraphy: ink on silk mounting fabric

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2020


title: Allegory representing the freedom of France with four silhouettes

creator: Anonymous, German, 18th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Album

credit_line: Mary Martin Fund, 2017


title: Mandora

medium: Wood, ivory, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Miss Alice Getty, 1946


title: Tureen with cover

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Tazza

creator: Reinhold Vasters

date: second half 16th century, mounts 19th century

medium: Rock crystal, gold, enamel, rubies, sapphires, pearls

subjects:
Minerals & gems
Natural substances-rock crystal

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Hebrew ritual lace (one of four)

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. J.P. Morgan (1868-1925), 1938


title: Figure

date: 3rd century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Chupicuaro

subjects: Chupicuaro Ceramics-sculpture

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


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

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 21, 1800

medium: Etching, printed in brown ink

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


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Fitting in the shape of a mythical bird

date: 8th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China Birds

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Glass Fragment

date: 14th century (?)

medium: Pot metal glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Two Studies of a Seated Male Nude

creator: Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci)

date: mid-16th century

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Keyed bugle in E-flat

creator: Henry Sibley

medium: Silver

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
American

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2016


title: Fashion (Mode)

creator: Otto Friedr. Carl Lendecke

medium: Color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Snuff bottle with theatrical scene

date: late 19th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze red and blue, coral stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Marie-Louise Garbáty, 1993


title: Belt Buckle

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver and brass inlay

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Brooch

date: 2nd–3rd century (?)

country: Roman

subjects: Metalwork-silver Roman

credit_line: Gift of Miriam N. Rosen, 2002


title: Sauce Dish

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Blown glass

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1967


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Aventurine glass with tourmaline stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Apparition of Saint Andrew in Glory

creator: Giulio Romano

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Folding stool

date: 19th century, in part 16th century

medium: Iron, brass, leather

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Turban from the Head of a Mummy of a Woman

date: 3rd–early 4th century CE

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Jar

date: 12th century

medium: Stoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1915


title: Spool-Shaped Game Pieces from Neferkhawet's Tomb

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep 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: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Textile

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Goldsmith's die

date: 3rd century BCE or later

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Child's Boot (one of a pair)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Sidrophel Examining the Kite Through His Telescope (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 10)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Fringe

medium: Cotton and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Parasol

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: wood, silk, metal

country: American

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: Kappa with a cucumber

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Design for a sepulchral monument (recto); Design for a monument (verso)

creator: Pieter Verbruggen the Younger

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over red chalk and black chalk or graphite, brown and brownish yellow wash (recto); pen and brown ink, black chalk (verso)

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2010


title: Orphrey

date: 16th century

medium: Silk, linen and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Sitting Dog

creator: Johann Adam Klein

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Joan G. Smith, 2024


title: Sea and Sky at Sunrise

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 17th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Woman at the Spinning Wheel

creator: Jules Breton

medium: Fabricated black crayon

credit_line: Gift of Jill Newhouse, 2017


title: The Broken Oar

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Pen and ink on tracing paper

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and PECO Foundation Gift, 2018


title: Stone axehead

medium: Miscellaneous-Stone

country: Greek

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Greek

credit_line: Gift of Andrés A. Mata, in memory of Elodia Mata, 2004


title: Piece

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Metal thread, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Card 771, Annie Summerfield, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Jar with Cover

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Box

date: 18th century

medium: Lacquer

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: Funerary Cone of the Herald Ibety

medium: Pottery

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


title: The Passing of King Arthur

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952


title: Dwarf amulet

medium: Ivory or bone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Cuneiform tablet: dilmun nigin-na, ershemma, to Marduk

date: ca. 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Seleucid or Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


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


title: Daisy Pendant

medium: Faience


title: Two pedestals with classical scenes

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

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


date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Painted Bowl

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1976


title: Plate 54 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'Appeals are in vain' (Clamores en vano)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, lavis, burin, burnisher

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Page from a Dispersed Kalpa Sutra (Jain Book of Rituals)

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Bowl

date: late 9th–early 10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip with polychrome slip decoration under yellowish transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Pope Paul III

creator: Alessandro Cesati

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: Portrait of a man, possibly La Mothe Fénélon (1651–1715)

date: probably 19th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt

subjects: Enamel Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Plate 5: Head of a woman, turned in profile to the right, from "Various heads and figures" (Diverses têtes et figures)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Pendant disk

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Thread winder

date: early 19th century

medium: Cut steel

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2011


title: Applique

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Alice Boney, 1955


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1946


title: Triumphal Entry of King

creator: Anonymous, German, 17th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: The Baby's Opera, A Book of Old Rhymes with New Dresses... the Music by the Earliest Masters

creator: Walter Crane

medium: Illustrations: wood engraving, printed in color

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Harpokrates amulet

medium: Faience, blue

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Plate 3: Emperor Tiberius on Horseback, from "The First Twelve Roman Caesars"

creator: Matthäus Merian the Elder

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


title: Incense Burner

medium: Enamel on bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1941


title: Platter

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Bouchenez. Adolphe. 36 ans, 27/2/94. (En rouge barrant la fiche: "Transféré à Mazas. À faire extraire").

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Dish

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze, polychrome enamel (Arita ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Landscape with a Pedimented Temple and Two Figures

creator: Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects: Architecture Drawing Landscapes

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


title: Dish (one of a graduated set of seven)

creator: Paul de Lamerie

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of George D. Widener and Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, 1958


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Standing Man Carrying Fasces and Arms

creator: François Boucher

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1960


title: Plate (one of a pair)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Terracotta fragment of unidentified shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fibula, boat-shaped type

date: 8th–6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Corsage Piece

creator: Tiffany & Co.

medium: Silver, gold, diamonds

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1941


title: Pair of Flintlock Duelling Pistols

creator: Simeon North

medium: Steel, gold, silver, wood (walnut, hickory), horn

country: American, Middletown, Connecticut

subjects:
American, middletown, connecticut
Firearms-pistol

credit_line: John Stoneacre Ellis Collection, Gift of Mrs. Ellis and Augustus Van Horne Ellis, 1896


title: Known as "Sleep"

creator: Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

date: late 19th century

medium: Bronze, cast, oblong rectangle - single

credit_line: Gift of Victor D. Brenner, 1903


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)


title: Textile Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Pair of ornaments

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Conversion of St. Paul

creator: Laurent de La Hyre

medium: Engraving

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


title: Seki, Honjin Sotatsu

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Portrait of E.C. Genet

creator: Gilles Louis Chrétien

medium: Etching and aquatint

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Trade Card for G. Testolini, Engraver, Printseller and Frame Maker

creator: Gaetano Testolini

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Sample

medium: Silk and metal thread on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Virgin and St. Joseph Searching for Christ

creator: Joseph François Parrocel

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Monkeys' Festival

medium:
Maki-e with black on gold lacquer
Ojime: lacquered wood in the shape of a chestnut
Netsuke: carved ivory with a sleeping man and a monkey

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Glass two-handled bottle

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Smith Fund, 1913


title: Embroidered darning sampler

medium: Cotton on cotton

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


title: The Honey Moon (The English Dance of Death, plate 13)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: August 1, 1814

medium: Etching and aquatint with watercolor

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


title: Study of the Forearms and Hands of a Woman

creator: Sir Peter Lely (Pieter van der Faes)

medium: Black chalk with touches of red, heightened with white, on buff paper.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Bronze statuette of Hermes seated on a rock

date: 1st–2nd century CE

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Five-light candelabrum (one of a pair)

creator: Clodion (Claude Michel)

medium: Gilt and patinated bronze, serpentine marble

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Coach #3628

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Lobster on a Piece of Charcoal

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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

subjects: Print Japan Crustaceans

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


title: Shirt of Mail and Plate of Al-Ashraf Sayf ad-Din Qaitbay (ca. 1416/18–1496), 18th Burji Mamluk Sultan of Egypt

medium: Steel, iron, copper alloy, gold

country: probably Egyptian

subjects:
Mail
Probably egyptian

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, and Rogers, Acquisitions and Fletcher Funds, 2016


title: Panel (one of a pair)

medium: Carved oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: late 5th–6th century CE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Lead wreath of lotos buds

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: Rockaway #4010

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor


title: Terracotta aryballos (perfume vase)

creator: Duel Painter

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Plate 4: two fishermen on the bank of a stream at right, a waterfall at center, from 'Landscapes in the manner of Salvator Rosa' (Die Landschaften in Sal. Rosa's)

creator: Franz Joachim Beich

medium: Etching; second or third state of three

subjects: Print Landscapes Roses

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Piece of Cloth for Kimono with Pattern of Round Fans (Uchiwa), Bamboo, and Interrupted Stripes

medium: Plain-weave asa with warp and weft kasuri (ikat ) patterning

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1966


title: Handle

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Loie Fuller, 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: Mirror

date: early 18th century

medium: Walnut, glass

credit_line: Gift of H. Burlington, 1924


title: Earflare with ritual procession

creator: Chimú artist(s)

medium: Gold

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-ornament Chimú

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


title: Pigeons at Singleton; Caswell

creator: James Knight

medium: Albumen silver print and salted paper print

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on cotton

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ùhúnmwèlaò (head of an ọ́bà)

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: Early 15th–mid-16th century

medium: Brass, iron

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Edo people

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


title: Welch, C. Field, St. Louis, from the Gold Coin series (N284) for Gold Coin Chewing Tobacco

creator: D. Buchner & Co., New York

medium: Commercial color lithograph reproducing drawing


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Dagger (Jambiya) with Sheath

medium: Steel, silver, jade, diamond, gold, leather

country: Indian

subjects: Dagger Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Necklace

medium: Lapis lazuli

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1933


title: Cottage at Jersey

creator: Joseph Cundall

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952


title: Hammered Silver Miniature Scepter

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Two Women in a Garden

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Dressing Glass

medium: Lacquered wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Alto Shawm

creator: Francis W. Galpin

medium: Wood, brass

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Street Cart

creator: Egon Schiele

medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: W. S. Orr and Peter Scot Fraser

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Page from Eyn Newe kunstlich moetdelboech alle kunst (Page 5v)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Table

medium: Bird's-eye maple, maple, tulip poplar

country: American

subjects: American Birds

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1986


title: Dish

date: 12th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929


title: Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Urban VIII (Pope, 1623–44)

creator: Gasparo Mola

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Agate, banded

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Ribbon

medium: Cotton and linen on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Miss Harriet C. Abbe, 1921


title: Panel

creator: Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō)

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


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


title: Melchizedek Offering Bread and Wine

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Plate with The Rape of Prosperina

creator: the "Milan Marsyas" Painter

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Peru, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: The Annunciation

creator: Federico Barocci

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: Commemorating the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 1909

creator: Jules Edouard Roiné

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Thomas L. Elder, 1910


title: Gold Strap End (Unfinished)

country: Avar

subjects: Metalwork-gold Avar

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Long-necked vase

medium: Porcelain with ox-blood red glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Scraper

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Herbert E. Winlock, 1926


title: Medallion with Two Young Warriors with Falchions and Bucklers

medium: Champlevé enamel and gilded copper

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé


title: Edging

date: mid-18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: The Mabel Metcalf Fahnestock Collection, the gift of Ruth Fahnestock Schermerhorn and Faith Fahnestock, 1933


title: Two sweetmeat dishes

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Glass eye bead

medium: Glass


title: Bridge-spouted jar

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1974


title: Cuneiform tablet: Urra=hubullu, tablet 13, bilingual vocabulary of domestic animals

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Glass octagonal bottle

date: 3rd–4th century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Mlle. Detchen, 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


title: Tambura

date: 19th century

medium: Gourd, wood, ivory, bone, paint, steel

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-plucked-unfretted
Indian
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: The American mosquito that just appeared in Mexico

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Panel

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Door panel from the "Cabinet Turc" of Comte d'Artois at Versailles

creator: Jean -Siméon Rousseau de la Rottière

medium: Oil on oak

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Textile Design with a Basketweave Pattern and Pearls

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Ornament

date: mid-19th century

medium: Silver, coral, turquoise, glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Corals & anemones

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


title: Buckle

medium: Bronze with silverplate

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: New Year's gifts for 1867, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, December 27, 1866

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: December 27, 1866

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Sugar bowl with cover (pot à sucre Bouret) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Charger

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1924


title: Fragment

date: late 16th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

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


title: Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

medium: Iron, lacquer, silk

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Edging

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Plate 28: Narcissus at the Well (Amore fui inardescens Narcißus in florem transmutatur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

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


title: Tile

medium: Tile-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Cup

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 1617 original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Le Crainte, Le Mépris, La Frayeur, from "Caractères des passions, gravés sur les desseins de l'illustre Monsieur le Brun"

creator: Sébastien Le Clerc, le Jeune

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Hugh McCormack, Skater, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Pair of salts

medium: Glass

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: “Stola” Coffin of an Unnamed Man

medium: Wood, gesso, paint, varnish

credit_line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890


title: Nose Ornament

date: 5th–10th century

medium: Gold

country: Colombia

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Colombia

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


title: Nightgown

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Edwin J. Gutman, 1944


title: Illustrated Single Work

date: 16th century or later

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: "Bahram Gur Shows His Skill Hunting, while Fitna Watches", Folio from a Haft Paykar (Seven Portraits) of Nizami of Ganja

creator: Nizami

date: mid-16th century

medium: Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Pochette

medium: Wood

country: German

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Funerary Cone

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Model of a Pagoda

medium: Amber

subjects: Amber China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Lid of a bowl with knob

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Augustine Stoïkoff dans le Papillon

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Side Chair

medium: Oak

credit_line: Purchase, The Edgar J. Kaufmann Foundation Gift, 1969


title: Artist's pallette, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 5) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Fancy Bridge No. 14, from the series, Views in Central Park, New York, Part 3

creator: Louis Prang & Co.

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick, 1947


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

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

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


title: Fragment of Ax

medium: Jadeite

country: Hungary

subjects: Jade Hungary

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Incense Burner

date: 18th century

medium: Pottery covered with crackled glaze, enriched with cloisonné; bronze rings at sides (Kyoto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan


title: Saint John

date: 13th century

medium: Wood with paint and gilding

country: Spanish

subjects: Sculpture-stone Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Bottle

date: 17th–18th century

medium: White metal (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Cabriolet #3568

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed open-work lace paper, chromolithography

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Piece

date: early 17th century

medium: Linen, drawnwork

credit_line: Gift of Lady Alan Johnstone, 1920


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: chous (jug)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Belt Buckle Tongue

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Iron, silver inlay

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Chest-on-frame

medium: White oak, yellow pine, white pine, poplar, maple

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Woodhull Overton, 1969


title: Viola d'Amore

medium: Wood, ebony, mother of pearl, metal strings

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape

date: 5th century BCE


title: Tripod offering dish

date: 8th century

medium: Earthenware with green and amber glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2023


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Ruins of Athens with a vaulted portico

creator: Laurent Guyot

medium: Hand-colored engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Various Designs of Strapwork and Grotesque Figures (recto); Grotesques with Term Figures (verso)

creator: Andrés de Melgar

medium: Pen and dark brown ink (recto); pen and gray-brown ink (verso)

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


title: Design for Cabinet Ornamented with Carved Knights and Ladies, and Two Chairs

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Cherry-Blossom and Maple-Leaf Viewing

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

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan Flowers

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


title: Saint Gerard with Gérard de Haraucourt (one of a set of four)

medium: Colored, stained, and enameled glass

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Fishtail knife

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of The Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


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: Scene showing the construction of a building

creator: Melchior Küsel

medium: Etching

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


title: Scenes from the life of Joan of Arc

creator: Hartmann et Fils

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Lappet

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Frog Ring Fragment

medium: Faience, blue, green

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Pomegranate textile

creator: Associated Artists

medium: Silk, woven

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Boudinot Keith, 1928


title: Priest's Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of E. G. Kennedy, 1932


title: Dish

date: second half of the 17th century

medium: Stoneware with iron glaze and blue-drip glaze (Shimoshirakawa Arita ware, Suisaka type)

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: Openwork Belt Fitting

date: 7th century

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Piece

date: 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Graziella, from "Illustrated London News" Christmas Number

creator: Charles Edward Perugini

date: December 6, 1886

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2013


title: Boss and Nail

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Half of a Prayer Bead with the Lamentation

date: early 16th century

medium: Boxwood, silver

country: Netherlandish

subjects: Sculpture-miniature-wood Netherlandish


title: Galloon

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Prayer Book

creator: 'Abd al-Qadir Hisari

date: dated 1180 AH/1766 CE

medium:
Manuscript: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Binding: leather and gold

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2014


title: Sleeve Band

date: 19th century

medium: Silk;  on silk;  metallic trim

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Earring

date: ca. 7th–9th century CE

medium: Metal, gold(?)

country: Alanic

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Simcox, 1999


title: Pharmacy Jar

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Italian

subjects: Ceramic Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Sea monster

creator: Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

medium: Bronze

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Woodmonger in Culla Caste, from Indian Trades and Castes

creator: Anonymous, Indian, 19th century

medium: Watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Ribbon

credit_line: Gift of Miss Harriet Abbe, 1920


title: Chest (cassone)

medium: Wood covered with gesso and paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1905


title: Newhaven Fisherman

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: L'arco degli argentari, adossato alla chiesa di San Giorgio al Velabro

creator: Eugène Constant

medium: Albumen print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: [Family Seated by Thatched Hut, South America]

creator: Unknown

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: The Third Ichikawa Yaozo in the Role of Otokodate Sukeroku

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Solomon Building the Temple, from "The Story of Solomon"

creator: Maarten van Heemskerck

medium: Engraving

subjects: Architecture Print

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Deposition, from "The Small Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919


title: Portable equatorial sundial

creator: Ludewig

medium: Brass, water-gilded and silvered; silver

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Arm Defense

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Iron

country: Tibetan or Mongolian

subjects:
Armor part
Tibetan or mongolian

credit_line: Purchase, Kenneth and Vivian Lam Gift, 2007


title: Earflare Frontal

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper, stone

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: The Little Café au Bois

creator: James McNeill Whistler

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Set of Amulets

date: 30 BCE–30 CE

medium: Wax, gold leaf

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Tea caddy (part of a set)

medium: White enamel on copper painted in polychrome enamels

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Vase fragment

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Sergeant Piemonte Cavalry, Italy, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint Basil the Great and Saint John the Baptist and Donor

creator: Niccolò dell' Abate

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash. Mounted on board

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Christ on the Cross

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Sarrabuddhadakini

date: 12th century

medium: Mud stone

country: Bangladesh or India (Bengal)

subjects:
Sculpture
Bangladesh or india (bengal)

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


title: Waist and Extravagance

creator: William Heath ('Paul Pry')

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Gift of Jill Spalding, 2022


title: Design for the Decoration of a Ceiling with the Allegories of the Four Continents and the Signs of the Zodiac

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Base for a Water Pipe (Huqqa) with Irises

date: late 17th century

medium: Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, inlaid with brass (bidri ware)

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and Rogers Fund, 1984


title: Hanging Flower Vase

date: 18th century

medium: Clay covered with a partly-transparent glaze, with streaks (Kiyomizu ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan Flowers

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


title: Court Cupboard (recto); Half-page of rectangles, numbered and lettered (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


title: Portrait of the Princes Camillo and Francesco Borghese

creator: Giuseppe Cades

medium: Red and black chalk, stumped; heightened with white

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2017


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes

date: 7th century BCE or later

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Netsuke of Fox Holding Baby and with Brush in Mouth from the Kabuki Play "Shinoda Zuma, Kuzonoha"

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Maples at Mama, from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Handle fragment (?)

medium: Walrus ivory

country: Old Bering Sea II, Native American

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


title: Dish

date: 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted in black, blue, and green with red and yellow slips

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


title: Arcadian Landscape with several Figures and a Statue of Diana

creator: Gerard Melder

medium: Watercolor and gouache

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2000


title: Jar with painted vines

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Gift of Oxford University Expedition to Nubia, 1926


title: Marie Burroughs in Colors of the New York Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N140) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Band

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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: Venus and Adonis

creator: Peter Paul Rubens

date: probably mid-1630s

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Harry Payne Bingham, 1937


title: Glass cage cup fragment

date: late 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass, dichroic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Mermaid

date: first half 16th century

medium: Bronze, black lacquer patina

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


title: Tea Spoon

creator: T. Denison

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Fille Turque, jouant du Canon, plate 50 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

creator: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Panel fragment

medium: Carved oak

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1946


title: Circular Basket with Lid

medium: Grass, palm leaf

subjects:
Grasses & sedges
Palms

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Fire, from The Four Elements

creator: Pierre Alexandre Aveline

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


title: Plants and Vegetables

creator: Unidentified artist

date: dated 1740

medium: Album of eight double leaves; ink and color on paper

subjects: Botany Painting China

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