title: Laocoön and his two sons being attacked by serpents upon a pedestal, a temple to Minerva behind them, another temple and the sea in the background

creator: Marco Dente

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Plate with Flower and Bird Decor

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Arita ware, Kakiemon type)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan Birds Flowers

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Wathen, 1966


title: Fan leaf celebrating Rossini with music from the Barber of Seville

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Etching with stipple engraving printed in black and red ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Pincers (Tenailles)

date: 17th century

medium: Iron

country: French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Game Piece with the Blinded Samson Led by a Boy to the Philistine Temple of Dagon

medium: Walrus ivory

country: German

subjects: Architecture German Ivories-walrus

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1988


title: Seated Monk

creator: Denijs Calvaert

date: mid-16th–early 17th century

medium: Black and white chalk on blue paper

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2000


title: A well-dressed man standing in center looking towards the left, a seated man, possibly the engraver, is drawing with another man watching him to right, a view of Paris to left in the background, title page for "Various figures and lands" (Diverse figure e paesi)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Saturn in the guise of a horse being suckled by the nymph Philyra

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

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


title: Sunbonnet

medium: pineapple

country: Indian

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


title: Looking glass

medium: Gilded gesso, red pine, white pine

country: American or British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Cape

medium: wool, silk

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Paul Moore, 1955


title: Scarab seal

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Steatite

country: Cypriot

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


title: Seated Buddha

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Gold

country: Thailand

subjects: Sculpture Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Zalstem-Zalessky, 1961


title: Stained Glass Fragment

medium: Stained glass, lead

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Bottle

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Glass; blown, tooled on the pontil

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and/or printed

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


title: Head of falcon

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and The Guide Foundation Inc. Gift, 1966


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Dish

medium: White porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels (Hizen ware, Kutani type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Coat

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: Silk, cotton, metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-menswear

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George C. Cannon, in memory of Henry White Cannon Jr., 1967


title: Riding gloves

medium: leather

country: British

credit_line: The Jacqueline Loewe Fowler Costume Collection, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 1990


title: Plate 63: View of the gate of the shipyard and armory complex (Arsenale), Venice, 1703, from "The buildings and views of Venice" (Le fabriche e vedute di Venezia)

creator: Luca Carlevaris


title: Painted Bowl with Birds

date: 1st–4th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Birds Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


title: Reworked Olmec celt

date: 2nd century BCE–5th century CE

medium: Greenstone

country: Costa Rica

subjects:
Stone-implement
Costa rica

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Ornamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 2 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Pohono, Bridal Veil, 900 Feet, Yosemite

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Spouted Bowl

date: 12th–9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Tlatilco

subjects: Tlatilco Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1975


title: The contest between Apollo and Marysas

creator: Niccolò Vicentino

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in brown; Greek text printed in red on verso

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


title: Terracotta bottle

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: – My dear Holsteiner, I urge you to vote. – Pardon me, but am I going to end the same way as this one?, from "News of the Day"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Beads

medium: Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1933


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Arrowhead

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE (?)

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Burton Y. Berry, 1961


title: M'lle Seashesmy, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Reproduction of the Seal of Wilhelm, Graf von Catzenelnbogen, L. 12th–14th century

date: late 12th–14th century

medium: Electrotype

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


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


title: Return from the Christening

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


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


title: The Agony in the Garden

medium: White clay, unfired

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: Pendant fragment

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Carnelian

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE


title: Footed Cup

date: second half 14th century

medium: Brass; cast, engraved, and inlaid with black compound

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


title: Design for a Monumental Altar, plate C from "Unterschiedliche Neu Inventierte Altäre mit darzu gehörigen Profillen u. Grundrißen"

creator: Georg Gottfried Winckler

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Netsuke of Puppy on Straw Mat Biting String

medium: Wood, black pearls

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Ring

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Gold and gem stone

subjects:
Jewelry
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Comforts of Bath, Plate 1

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 6, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


creator: Makron


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


title: The Pyramid of Gaius Cestius, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching; first state of three (Hind)

credit_line: Gift of Edward W. Root, Elihu Root Jr. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant III, 1937


title: Two Alternate Designs for a Balustrade with Architectural Perspective

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown, gray wash and watercolor, over leadpoint or graphite, with ruled and compass construction; some dotted framing lines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Fibula

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Inlay: leg and foot

medium: Shell

subjects:
Sumerian
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Essempio di recammi, page 6 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Antonio Tagliente

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Ferret

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Copper alloy, silvered

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Stoning of Moses, Joshua and Caleb

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

medium: Tesserae, glass in wooden frame

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Reproductions-mosaic

credit_line: Johnston Fund, 1924


title: From the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 2) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


date: 6th/5th century BCE


title: Scarab Inscribed with the Name Amenhotep

medium: Steatite, glazed

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Vue générale d'Esné (No. 1 extrêmité Sud)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Cord

date: 19th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Peridot ring stone

date: ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Peridot

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Designs for a Ewer and a Lidded Vase, plate 2 from "Schöne und auf die neueste Facon inventierte Gefäße und Krüge"

creator: Jeremias Wachsmuth


title: A Travelling Tutor and Monkey Child

creator: George Murgatroyd Woodward

medium: Etching and aquatint


title: Karl Von Dalberg (1744–1817), Prince Primate of the Confederation of the Rhine under Napoleon

date: early 19th century

medium: Sardonyx and gold

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: The Committee  (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 10)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; fifth state five

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Weight

date: 2nd Millennium BCE

medium: Granite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Saint Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment

creator: Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1919


title: Portrait of Giovanni Ricasoli, aged 5

creator: Luigi Sabatelli

medium: Pen and dark brown ink

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Carolyn Bullard Gift, in honor of her brother, E. John Bullard, 2013


title: Twelve Poems from the New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern

creator: Hon'ami Kōetsu

medium: Handscroll; ink and gold on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Girl with Cherries

creator: Marco d'Oggiono

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890


title: Brush pot

date: 17th century

medium: Huanghuali (rosewood)

country: China

subjects: Woodwork China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Flintlock Pistol with Inverted Lock

creator: Joseph Egg

medium: Steel, wood (walnut, rosewood), horn

country: British, London

credit_line: Gift of Charles M. Schott Jr., 1917


title: Terracotta female head

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Asia Minor, Smyrna ?

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, asia minor, smyrna

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


title: Gold aureus of Diocletian

medium: Gold

subjects: Coin Roman


title: Card Number 35, Rita Chase, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Merritt Gregg, 1981


title: Landaulet #3150

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Quinze centimes un bain complet..., from Croquis Parisiens, published in Le Charivari, August 30, 1856

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

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


title: Bronze handle from a cista (toiletries box)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Praenestine

subjects: Bronze Praenestine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Terracotta figuring of a standing female votary holding a box

date: ca. 300 BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Apron

medium: wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: "The Battle of Pashan Begins", Folio 243v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

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

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


title: Standing Virgin and Child

creator: Circle of Jakob Kaschauer

medium: Limewood with paint

country: Austrian

subjects: Sculpture-wood Austrian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1962


title: First Scene, in Florence, from "The marriage of the gods" (Le nozze degli Dei)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Glass jug

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Tombak Gilded Plaque

date: probably 16th century

medium: Copper; chased, engraved and gilded (tombak technique)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 1996


title: Pin Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Late Roman

subjects:
Metalwork-silver
Late roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Hat

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Sheep, from a set of 16 plates

creator: Marcus de Bye


title: Plate with Joan of Arc

creator: Howell & James

medium: Painted earthenware, in original ebonized frame

credit_line: Purchase, Austin B. Chinn Gift, 2019


title: Incised bowl with birds

date: 7th–5th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Birds Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: Statuette fragment, beard

date: ca. 721–30 BCE

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Plaque with a Royal Woman

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of Mark and Supapon Schatten, in memory of Anthony Gardner, 1992


title: Piece (one of twelve)

medium: Silk, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Helen E. Ionides, 1966


title: Duster with the flowers of four seasons

date: 16th century

medium: Carved red lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Ojime

medium: Ojime

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: The Apotheosis of a Saint, Project for a Ceiling

creator: Johann Anwander

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray ink, over black chalk, on grayish prepared paper

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2010


title: Bustle

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of C.J. Vincente Minetti, 1972


title: Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono)

creator: Gotō Mitsumori (Keijō)

date: mid–late 18th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Sword furniture-fittings, sets of

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Covered box with peonies and seasonal flowers

date: early 15th century

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur M. Sackler Gift, 1974


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

creator: Tarquinia Painter


title: Dress

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Louise Gross, 1986


title: Glass pendant in the form of a miniature jug

date: 4th–early 5th century CE

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


title: Jar with four lugs

medium: Stoneware with dark brown glaze (Shanxi ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Card 415, Emma Abbott, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Snuff Bottle

date: 19th century

medium: Turquoise

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Finger stall

medium: Gold

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1921–1922


title: Dr. William Cullen, Late Professor of Medicine in the University of Edinburgh

creator: John Kay

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Portrait of Henry de la Tour, Vicomte de Turenne

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

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

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Koto (箏)

creator: Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan

date: early 17th century

medium: Various woods, ivory and tortoiseshell inlays, gold and silver inlays, metalwork, cloth, laquer, paper,

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2007


title: No. 181. Marshall Ave. Bridge, Minneapolis & St. Paul

creator: Henry P. Bosse

medium: Cyanotype

credit_line: Gift of Charles Wehrenberg and Sally Larsen, 2014


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Page 4v, from "Eyn New Kunstlichboich"

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: The Fashion Behind but not Behind the Fashion: 1829–T'is Thus to Follow the Mode

creator: William Heath ('Paul Pry')

medium: Hand-colored etching

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: Gift of Jill Spalding, 2022


title: Friar carrying a woman

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Wedding dress

creator: Moyen

medium: silk, cotton, leather

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward Greenbaum, 1968


title: Grotesque with a Bacchus Fountain Placed in an Architectural Structure

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 1540 after

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Design for 2 seat Phaeton, no. 3033a

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Scarab Decorated with Crossing Lines

medium: Green composition

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece


title: Hot milk pot

creator: Mathieu Bouvier

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Christ in Limbo

creator: Luca Penni

medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with brush and white gouache, on paper prepared with pale brown wash; outlines incised for transfer

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014


title: Terracotta sheep or bull

country: Helladic, Mycenaean

subjects:
Terracotta
Helladic, mycenaean

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Shield with Greyhound Held by Wild Man

creator: Martin Schongauer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

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


title: Arrowhead

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: View of the Villa Borghese

creator: Simon Felice

date: after 1677

medium: Etching

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


title: Cartouche for Le Pont Neuf

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Pen and brown ink with black chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Rank Badge with White Crane

date: late 19th century

medium: Silk

country: Korea

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Korea
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1953


title: The Deposition and Burial of Christ

date: early 20th century (14th century style)

medium: Stone

country: Italian (?)

subjects: Italian Reproductions-sculpture

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1926


title: Jar sherd

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Album Containing Twelve Paintings of Birds

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album of twelve leaves; color on pith paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China Birds

credit_line: Gift of Mary E. Cornell, 1958


title: Bird in the form of a whistle

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Glazed earthenware

subjects: Birds Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Drinking Horn

date: 19th century (original dated 15th century)

medium: Plaster cast

country: Danish

subjects: Danish Reproductions-miscellany

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Card Number 50, Frankie Kimble, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

country: Peru; central coast (?)

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

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


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Group of Toronto 305

date: ca. 520 BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Leonard A. Cohn, 1941


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Wooded Island, plate 3 from "Ten Landscapes" (Suite de Dix Paysages)

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching; fifth state of five

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Algernon S. Sullivan, 1919


title: Bottle

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque blue glaze; silver

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


title: Head of a Bodhisattva

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Stucco on a clay core

country: India (Bihar, Nalanda)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (bihar, nalanda)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Covered jar on stand

medium: Earthenware with painted decoration

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Ancestral shrine painting

medium: Ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Korea

credit_line: Gift of the children of Lea R. Sneider, 2022


title: Bird Pendant

date: 4th–8th century

medium: Jadeite

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Stone-ornament
Atlantic watershed
Birds

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


title: Sebastian Gomez Discovered by His Master Murillo, At Work, from "Illustrated London News"

creator: Walter George Mason

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2016


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Crocker (Elizabeth Masten), 1937


title: Design for Sociable

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Wine goblet

medium: Glass, wheel engraved

credit_line: Purchase, Austin B. Chinn Gift, in memory of Larry D. Burns, 2025


title: Moored at the West Cliff

creator: Gu Yun

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Figure Lime Spoon

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Copper

country: Inca

subjects: Metal-implement Inca

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


title: Carving

date: 18th century

medium: Bluish agate

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Arrowhead

medium: Stone

country: European, Italian peninsula

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
European, italian peninsula

credit_line: Gift of Garrett C. Pier, 1908


title: Baron Joseph Dominique Louis (1755–1837)

creator: Pierre Laurent Canon

medium: Ivory

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


title: James H. "Jim" Manning, Shortstop, Kansas City Cowboys, 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: Walking dress

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 1956


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Agate

country: Achaemenid

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


title: David looking at the head of Goliath

creator: Giuseppe Caletti, called Cremonese

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

date: 15th century

medium: Stoneware painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze

country: Vietnam

subjects: Ceramic Vietnam Birds

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


title: Hollow Torqued Anklet

date: 300 BCE–CE 400

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Edging

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon, linen, horse hair

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Fan

date: late 18th century

medium: Paper, ivory and cut steel

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Figures in a Roman Arcade

creator: Hubert Robert

medium: Red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Female musician

date: 6th century

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1934


title: The Returning Sails of the Towel Rack

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Ball gown

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1983


title: Xylophone

date: 19th century

medium: Shell, wood, hemp, skin

country: African

subjects:
Idiophone-struck-bar-wood
African
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3398

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Bead, control

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: see 26.7.979

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Nathaniel Spear Jr. Gift, 1986


title: Set of four chutes (part of a set)

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Two Alternate Designs for an Altar

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, over leadpoint or graphite, with ruled and compass construction; scale at bottom in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Mirror frame

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Buddha

date: ca. 6th–7th century

medium: Pigments on mud plaster

country: China (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region)

subjects: China (xinjiang uyghur autonomous region)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1951


title: The forger standing by an anvil pulling a man in chains, from "The various operations of alchemy"

creator: Domenico Beccafumi

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Bust of a Woman Wearing a Fantastic Head-dress and Mask

creator: René Boyvin

medium: Etching

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Sherd

date: ca. 1st century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Nabataean

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1952


title: Ibacarre

date: late 19th century

medium: Tin, wood

country: Mozambican

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Earring pendant, bird

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan
Birds

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Key

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Tea bowl

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze (Jizhou ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Saint Veronica

creator: Bernard van Orley

medium: Wool, silk, gilded silver metal-wrapped threads (18-21 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Arc-shaped pendant (Huang)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2009


title: Saucer

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue decoration (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Storage jar

creator: Paracas artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, post-fire paint

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1974


title: Reliefs from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Parade Saddle

medium: Bone, polychromy, wood, birch bark

country: German or Tyrolean

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-saddle
German or tyrolean
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Sealing, from letter 22.3.518 from Heqanakht to Rahotep

medium: Mud, fiber

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Panel

date: 13th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Dummy canopic jar with jackal head

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Vase (one of a pair)

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in enamels on the biscuit (famille jaune)

credit_line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1964


title: Virgin and Child

medium: Painted and gilded stucco


title: Fragment of a terracotta vase

creator: Lion Painter

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Justice

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Bronze arrowhead

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Cylinder seal with monsters

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Faience

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Bottle-necked jar

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Dekishima Hanya Seated on a Cherry Tree

creator: Torii Kiyonobu I

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Trees

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


title: Apron

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Expedition 1920, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1920


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


title: [John Gibson]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Louise Leighton, from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 2) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Hercules and the Nemean Lion

creator: Niccolò Vicentino

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green (state ii)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: St. Peter's, drum, plans at two levels (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

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


title: [Claude Mirror]

creator: Unknown

medium: Glass, leather case

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1989


title: Gauntlet Sword (Pata)

medium: Steel, brass

country: Indian

subjects: Sword Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Phoebe and Hilaeria, the daughters of Leucippus, being abducted by Castor and Pollux

creator: Johann Friedrich Leybold

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962


title: Fragment of an Oliphant

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Ivory; carved

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Kylix, band-cup

date: 3rd quarter of 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Old Hungerford Bridge

creator: James McNeill Whistler

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: A Turkish Prince on Horseback

creator: Pieter Soutman

medium: Etching; second state of four


title: Throw Stick

medium: Ivory (tinted)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Nellie B. Hussey, 1942


title: Bottle, Feline face

date: 7th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, post-fired paint

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)?

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


title: Bottle vase

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain with black glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

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


title: Plate (part of a set of six)

creator: John Turner

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1952


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; mold blown, cold painted; tooled on the pontil

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


title: Cat (one of a pair)

medium: Porcelain with black enamel (Jingdezhen ware), modern plastic repair of eyes

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


title: Costume Design for "Officiers du duc Frédéric" [a]; Descriptive Sheet of Costume Accessories [b]

creator: Charles Bianchini

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor, over graphite underdrawing

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Robert R. Banks, 1969


title: Courtesans Beneath a Wisteria Arbor (Fuji dana shita no yūjo tachi)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Pieced cap border with tabs

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: To Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Third Republic

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Gold, struck

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Angelo Mariani, 1899


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Jean Montgomery Greenman, 1967


title: The Good Samaritan

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching, engraving and drypoint; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Water Jar (Mizusashi) with Geometric Patterns

date: ca. mid-19th century

medium: Stoneware with polychrome enamels and gold over finely crackled glaze (Satsuma ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

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


title: Arm Guard

date: 16th century

medium: Iron

subjects:
Armor part
Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Portrait of a woman, half-length, from the "Girls" series (T66), issued with Hunter Dog Cigarros by S. Monday & Sons

creator: S. Monday & Sons, Brooklyn, New York

medium: Commercial photolithograph

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Sugar tongs (part of a set)

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1927


title: Mexican Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Bronze statuette of a bull

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Panel

date: 11th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Scenes from "The Life and Adventures of Chevalier de Faublas" by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray

credit_line: Gift of George Mangini, 2009


title: Plaque

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Child's rattle and teether

medium: Silver, coral

subjects:
Metalwork-silver in combination
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Mrs. Thomas Clearwater, Leo D. Bretter Gift, Bequest of Adeline R. Brown, by exchange, Osceola Foundation, Inc. Gift, and Gifts of Dr. and Mrs. A.L. Garbat, Manya Garbat Starr and Julian A. Garbat, by exchange, 1978


title: Plate

creator: Robert Joseph Auguste

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: One from a Pair of Solid Open Bangles with Two Rows of Concentric Circles

date: 300 BCE–CE 400

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Collar

date: late 19th century

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1976


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: A woman confessing to a priest, from a group of drawings depicting Peruvian dress

creator: Francisco (Pancho) Fierro

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Edward Scriven

date: early 19th century

medium: Stipple engraving, etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Bronze statuette of a sheep

date: 6th–5th century BCE

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


title: Old Man with Divided Fur Cap

medium: Etching with some drypoint; first state

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1983


title: Sample

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Three Cartouches: Footman, Courtesan and Rising Sun

creator: Kubo Shunman

date: 19th century

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

country: Japan

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


title: Vase fragment

date: ca. 4000 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Neolithic, Nemea

subjects:
Vase
Neolithic, nemea

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: Krishna Subduing Kaliya, the Snake Demon: Folio from a Bhagavata Purana Series

creator: First generation after Manaku and Nainsukh

medium: Opaque watercolor and ink on paper

country: Northern India, Garwhal, Himachal Pradesh

subjects: Northern india, garwhal, himachal pradesh

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: River Scene with Windmill (from Plate 9, Outlines of Figures, Landscapes and Cattle...for the Use of Learners)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 20, 1791

medium: Hand-colored etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Design for a Hansom or Forder Cab, no. 3961

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Tray for twelve schnapps glasses

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Water Coupe

medium: Porcelain with incised decoration under peachbloom glaze

subjects: Ceramic China


title: Ring

medium: Gold (?): cast and engraved, carnelian seal

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


title: Medallion

creator: B. L. Vett

medium: Bronze

country: American

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Parting of Lovers: The Morning After

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

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


title: Broadway, New-York. Shewing [sic] Each Building from the Hygeian Depot Corner of Canal Street to beyond Niblo's Garden

creator: Thomas Hornor

medium: Aquatint and etching with hand coloring

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


title: Double-Bottomed Bowl

date: mid-16th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Cowherd

creator: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

medium: Etching; second state of six (Mannocci)

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


title: Scraper

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Man Drawing a Sword

creator: Barthélemy Prieur

date: early 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1924


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese


title: Beads

date: 9th–12th century

medium: Lapis lazuli; cut


title: King (Geo. 4th from England), from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving, etching, and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Table clock

creator: Caspar Behaim (Chasparus Bohemus)

date: case 1554, movement ca. 1680

medium: Case: gilt brass; Movement: iron stackfreed mechanism

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Copy after Rubens's "Wolf and Fox Hunt"

creator: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1990


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Chair panel

creator: Daniel Marot the Elder

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Quadrangular Vase (Fang Hu)

medium: Nephrite, white with pale greenish tint, calcined in part to a very faint brown

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Partial view of a Building [Templum Veneris], from "Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles"

creator: Lambert Suavius

medium: Etching

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


title: Pouch

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Glass, linen

country: Dutch

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Margaret S. Bedell, 1930


title: Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animals

date: 9th–7th century BCE

medium: Variegated brown Jasper (Quartz)

country: Phoenician

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Counterpane, Bolton type

medium: Cotton, woven

country: British, probably

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Courtney Brown, 1937


title: Petits Pékins (346 pages of textile samples)

medium: Leather, cotton, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-sample book

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Benjamin E. Marks, 1967


title: God the Father

creator: Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari)

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

credit_line: Gift of J. Peter Williamson, Mary F. Williamson, and Sybil B. Williamson, 2013


title: St. Peters from the Pincian Hill

creator: Jane Martha St. John

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Saint Mathew and the Angel

creator: Cesare Nebbia

medium: Red chalk, highlighted with white; the circular field of the image is incised with a compass

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1992


title: Straight edge

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, partly gilded and silvered

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: "Interior Reception", Folio 36r from a Bustan of Sa`di

creator: Shaikh Zada

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1974


title: Card Number 75, Sadie Martinot, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Corset

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: cotton

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


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Tankard (Stein)

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware; pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1920


title: Wall tiles

date: 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Theodore A. "Ted" Kennedy, Pitcher, Omaha Omahogs/ Lambs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Henry IV of France

creator: Philippe Danfrie the Elder

medium: Lead

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Handkerchief

creator: Emma Radford

date: second half 19th century

medium: Linen and cotton, bobbin lace (Honiton)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Cup

creator: Manufacture Royale de La Margéride

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: The Daughters of Daniel T. MacFarlan

creator: Theodore E. Pine

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Gregg, 1950


title: Double-sided stamp seal: snake behind tree; winged dragon

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

medium: Iron, manganese oxide

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

subjects:
Bactria-margiana archaeological complex
Reptiles & amphibians
Trees

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1984


title: Two Bathers

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Koto (箏)

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, ivory, metal, silk

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Armband with Bells, Rings, and Thimbles, One of a Pair

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver, fire-gilded and chased, with decorative wire and applied decoration, loop-in-loop chains with bells, and turquoises

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry

credit_line: Gift of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf, 2022


title: Lithographic Plates

creator: Alexandre Désiré Collette

medium: Lithographs

country: French

subjects:
Work on paper
French

credit_line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, and funds from various donors, 2008


title: Portrait of Simon von Liebenstein (?)

creator: Hans Schwarz

medium: Charcoal (cut out along the contours, laid down twice)

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Drawers

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


title: Scribble (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

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

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

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


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Captain Mackenzie, Chess, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Statuette of a votary, female

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


title: Tile with the Heraldic device of the Nasrid kings

date: first third of 16th century

medium: Earthenware, impressed and glazed

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2011


title: Six putti playing with the arms of Mars

creator: Benigno Bossi

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Bierbauer, 2nd Base, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Fragments of a Carpet

date: mid-17th century

medium: Silk (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Pendant in the form of a fish

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Fish Bronze Cypriot


title: Seal Box

date: 3rd century

medium: Champlevé enamel, bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Roman Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of Ruth and Victoria Blumka, 1988


title: Pin

date: 5th–3rd millennium BCE

medium: Copper

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: For Life or Death from Stevengraph silk woven pictures (W500)

medium: Commercial woven color silk on lithograph


title: Disk inscribed with five-pointed star

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1906


title: November from a set of The Months of Lucas

creator: Master of the Months of Lucas

date: designed ca. 1535, woven 1732–37

medium: Wool, silk (20-21 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1944


title: Wilderness Colors

creator: Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)

medium: Album of twelve paintings; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: The Sackler Fund, 1972


title: Male figurine

medium: Ivory (Hippopotamus)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Flayed man seen from behind turning left

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

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


title: Card Number 633, Celia Ellis, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Lester Wallack Dressed as a Flemish Gentleman of 1578, from the set Actors and Actresses, First Series (N70) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Ribbon

date: second quarter 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Bacchus discovering Ariadne on Naxos

date: 15th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Saucer

creator: Saint-Cloud factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mildred R. Mottahedeh, 1978


title: Design for a Coat of Arms

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1961


title: Portrait

creator: Fred Becker

medium: Wood engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of the Work Projects Administration, New York, 1943


title: Right Leg Guard

medium: Steel, silver

country: Turkish

subjects:
Turkish
Armor parts-thigh and leg defense

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Kabuki Actor Onoe Kikugorō I in The Belle of Asakusa Temple (Keisei Asakusa no Kane)

creator: Torii Kiyohiro

date: 12th month, 1754 or 1st month, 1755

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Architecture Print Japan

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


title: Limes, from the Fruits series (N12) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Fruits

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


title: Sarangi

medium: Wood, ivory, parchment, metal

country: Indian

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted Indian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harold H. Krechmer, in memory of her husband, Harold H. Krechmer, 1982


title: Boston, from the Lighthouses series (N119) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Bead

date: 7th–6th millennium BCE

medium: Chlorite

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Seated Female Figure

date: 6th–9th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Remojadas

subjects: Remojada Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1969


title: Tiraz Fragment

date: 11th century

medium: Silk; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Mirror

medium: Bronze

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, cypriot

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


title: Border

medium: Bobbin lace, Chantilly lace, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Mack, 2nd Base, Baltimore Orioles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Plate

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1911


title: Box

date: 18th century

medium: Gold lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Bird Finial

date: 10th–16th century

medium: Bone

country: Tairona

subjects:
Bone
Tairona
Birds
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of David, Geila, and Tess E. Bernstein, in memory of Professor Mario Mignucci, 2004


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Piece

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Cupid with a Bird on a String

creator: Joseph Werner the Younger

date: 17th–early 18th century

medium: Brush and gray wash

subjects: Drawing Birds

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2007


title: Basket

creator: Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (Mintons "Majolica")

credit_line: Gift of James Parker, in memory of Elizabeth Lyman Frelinghuysen, 1984


title: Cascade, Nevada Fall on Left,  View above Vernal Fall

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Lid

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bowl

medium: Clay covered with a finely crackled transparent glaze (Satsuma ware?)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Inlaid Powder Horn

medium: Wood overlaid with horn, mother-of-pearl, and ivory; silver

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1976


title: Covered bowl

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hizen ware, Kurawanka 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: Copy of a Horizontal Panel with Tendrils Growing Outwards from a Vessel at Center

creator: Jacob Binck

date: after 1521

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

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


title: “Channel Markers” (Miotsukushi), from The Tale of Genji

date: late 14th–early 15th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper; Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) ivory roller knobs

subjects: Painting Japan


title: Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, page 16 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Eagle Pendant

date: 11th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Veraguas (?)

subjects: Metal-ornament Veragua

credit_line: Gift of Mica Ertegün, 2008


title: Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Flawed neutral Chalcedony (Quartz), possibly etched to produce mottling

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: La Force

creator: Jean Chartier

date: 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Janet S. Byrne, 1991


title: Cope

date: 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Bugaku Dances (front); Chinese Lions (reverse)

creator: Hanabusa Itchō

date: early 18th century

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


title: Vessel

date: 9th century

medium: Stone; carved and incised

subjects:
Stone
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Jug, barrel-shaped

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Donkey figurine

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: The Meal

creator: Charles Jacque

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Phaeton #406

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Folding square

creator: Michael Butterfield

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Carpet Fragment

date: 13th–14th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Modelbuch aller Art Nehens vn Stickens (Page 3r)

creator: Christian Egenolff

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Medal of Major General Peter B. Porter

creator: Moritz Fürst

medium: Bronze

country: American

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Bottle

medium: Pottery decorated in colors (Meppotani ware)

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


title: Chariot #3388

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


title: Ornamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 7 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Man in a Turban

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920


title: Chess Piece, Pawn

date: 8th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Tail-piece: Woman's Head (Cul-de-lampe: Buste de femme)

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Pin

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Ivory

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Furniture element

date: ca. 18th century BCE

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: Table Design

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite

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


title: Virgin and Child with the Monkey

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Jérôme Bonaparte (1784–1860)

creator: Baron François Joseph Bosio

medium: Carrara marble

credit_line: Bequest of Julie Braun-Vogelstein, in memory of her brother, Ludwig Vogelstein, 1971


title: Seven Diamonds (red), from the Playing Cards series (N84) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Italian Landscape

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Pen and brown ink (recto); red chalk (verso)

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1950


title: Basset Horn in F

creator: Johann Gottlieb Freyer

medium: Boxwood, ivory, brass

country: German

credit_line: Gift of The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1953


title: A Young Lady in a Garden

creator: Nishimura Shigenaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Plaque

date: 5th–8th century

medium: Bone; carved

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1937


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: Man in Cape with Staff Watching Melee; Seated Woman (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: La Gloria et l'Honore di Ponti Tagliati, E Ponti in Aere, page 7 (recto)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Étui

date: probably mid-18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, crystal, copper gilt

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1937


title: Stone votive breast

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cypriot

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


title: Mortar

creator: Guglielmo de Monaldis

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bamboo in wind and rain

creator: Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Edward Elliott Family Collection, Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1984


title: Goddess Tara

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

country: West Bengal, Calcutta

subjects:
Print
West bengal, calcutta

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


title: Glass and rock crystal beads

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Glass, rock crystal

country: Roman, Egypt, Alexandria

subjects:
Glass
Roman, egypt, alexandria
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, 1915


title: Figures inside a prison (recto), a monstrous animal (verso)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

date: ca. 1820–50 (or later)

medium: Brush with brown, black wash over red chalk on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Allegory of America, from the playing cards "Jeu de la Géographie"

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Charles Stewart Smith Memorial Fund, 1919


title: Jérusalem, Chemin de Beit-Lehem

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Spear (Sang)

medium: Steel

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Assembly of gods

creator: Master IO. F.F.

date: mid-15th century

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


title: Miniature trivet

creator: David Clayton

medium: Silver

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


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

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Cooking Vessel (Xian)

country: China

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Hinge

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1949


title: Copy of Le Gentilhomme aux Mains Jointes (The Gentleman with his Hands Joined), from "La Noblesse" (The Nobility)

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Fragmentary offering list with mention of unguents and incense; meat, bread, wine; and beer, fowl and desserts. The queen's name is at the lower left.

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Mordant

date: dated 1540

medium: Brass

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
German

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: "Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

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

credit_line: Bequest of Monroe C. Gutman, 1974


title: Single Spout Painted Jar

date: 7th–5th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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


title: Dress ornament

date: ca. 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Scythian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Scythian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Glass cylindrical bead

medium: Glass


title: Amulet of a cow?

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: Standard

date: dated 1690

medium: Textile

country: Spanish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Banner
Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: How to Escape Losing

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 22, 1791

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: 500 BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: The Marching Gypsies (Les bohémiens en marche), also called The Advance Guard (L'avant-garde)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Horse Dressed Up for a Tournament or Ceremonial Entry

creator: Baccio del Bianco

medium: Brown ink and wash

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


title: Gold earring with head of a lion

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Scene from a Ghost Story: The Okazaki Cat Demon

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Bottle, Drum

date: 1st–6th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davis Neal, 1970


title: Terracotta fragment of a bowl

date: 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Botanical plate with spray of fruiting fig

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Botany Ceramics-porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ignazio Peluso, Ada Peluso and Romano I. Peluso Gift, Mercedes T. Bass and Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2016


title: Aeëtes Gathers the Limbs of Absyrtes (Tandis qu'il fait les membres ramasser, Grecs font devoir de leurs voiles haulser...), from "Jason and the Golden Fleece"

creator: René Boyvin

medium: Engraving


title: Kabuki Actor in a Female Role Standing with a Fan

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

date: 19th century

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

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


title: Conoid seal

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Rock Crystal (Macrocrystalline Quartz)

country: Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

subjects:
Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Knife (Bade-bade) with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wood, steel

country: Malayan

subjects: Knive Malayan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Initial letter I on patterned background

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Woodcut, criblé ground

credit_line: Gift of Henry W. Kent, 1941


title: Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia, after Antoine Pesne

creator: Johann Georg Wille

medium: Graphite

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


title: Mug

date: late 18th century

medium: Milk glass

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


title: Necklet (Musi)

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Publican

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Banknote motif: number 2 against a circular panel of lathe work with a scalloped edge

creator: Cyrus Durand

medium: Engraving; proof

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002


title: West Front of Houghton Hall in Norfolk, Perspective

creator: Thomas Ripley

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: [Dead Stag]

creator: Horatio Ross

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Tiraz Fragment with Inscription

date: 9th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Arm Guard

medium: Steel, brass, iron, textile

country: Indian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Indian
Armor parts-arm & shoulder


title: Peter Burke "Pete" Wood, Pitcher, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Water jar in the shape of a flower

medium: Carnelian

subjects: Hardstone China Flowers

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


title: Hydria fragment

creator: Hamburg Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Lucanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, lucanian

credit_line: Gift of Joseph V. Noble, 1958


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Pair of Stirrups (Yob Chen)

date: 16th–18th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver

country: Tibetan

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
Tibetan

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2002


title: Wavy-handled jar

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Actress standing in profile, from the Actresses series (N668)


title: Peonies Blown in the Wind

creator: John La Farge

medium: Leaded opalescent glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1930


title: Circular Box with Geometric Design

medium: Black lacquer with painted and incised decoration

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

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


title: Pendant with pomegranate

medium: Gold, agate

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Vase with landscape decoration

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels, with incised decoration (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Landscapes

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


title: Strip

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


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

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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Entombment (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Composition with Five Figures in Natural Setting, Two Male, Three Female, with a Lyre (Ponnassus?) (from Sketchbook)


title: Mirror with floral designs

date: 8th century

medium: Bronze, silver inlay

subjects: Mirror China Flowers

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Toddy spoon

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Julia W. Torrey, 1922


title: Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, Thebes

creator: Francis Frith

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1966


title: L'Elégant, from "Journal des Tailleurs"

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession


title:
The Third Princess with her Cat, from the "New Herbs I" (Wakana I)
 chapter The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari}

creator: Tsukioka Settei

date: 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Tritons Abducting Nereids

creator: Luca Cambiaso

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and grayish brown wash, over black chalk on three glued sheets of paper. The original paper surface is glued onto the mount; verso not visible.

credit_line: Gift of Martha Feltenstein, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Corbel

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: "Wild Rose" Lily vase

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: blown glass

subjects: American Lilies Roses

credit_line: Purchase, Dr. and Mrs. Burton P. Fabricand Gift and Max H. Gluck Foundation Inc. Gift, in honor of Virginia and Leonard Marx, 2013


title: Charles G. Buffington, Center Field, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Design for Curtains with Purple, White and Mink Fabric, Purple Fringes and Gold and White Pediments

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Labret

date: before 16th century

medium: Obsidian

country: Mexican

subjects: Glass-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Bird Plaque Ornament

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Vicús

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Vicú
Birds

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Double-Sided Comb

date: 7th century

medium: Bone

country: Frankish

subjects:
Bone
Frankish
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Estate Figure

medium: Wood, gesso, paint

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


title: Dish with beheading of St. John the Baptist

creator: Bernard Palissy

date: second half 17th century

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Border

date: 17th century

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, punto à rammendo


title: Coffer

creator: Michael Mann

date: late 16th century

medium: Steel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: To Commemorate the Arrival in London of the Princess Alexandra of Denmark to Wed Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VII) in March, 1863

creator: Alfred Benjamin Wyon

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of the Corporation of the City of London, 1908


title: Frontispiece for the comedy "The Buffoons" (Li Buffoni)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: Pendant

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Bone; carved and incised

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897


title: Man of Sorrows

date: 15th century

medium: Wood, paint

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1971


title: Vase fragment

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Vase
Roman, gaul


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Card Number 35, Rose Temple, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects: Architecture Photograph Roses


title: Textile Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and/or printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, 1927


title: Ophelia (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: Cephas Giovanni Thompson

medium: Graphite with white-chalk heightening on embossed grey green paper

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Corn Exchange, Mark Lane

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 1, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Scroll from the Compendium of Iconographic Drawings (Zuzōshō)

date: late 12th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper

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: Watch

creator: Firm of A. Meynadier et Cie

medium: Gold, enamel, silver, steel

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Lady May Fletcher-Moulton, 1926


title: Jar with three lugs

date: late 6th–early 7th century

medium: Stoneware with brown glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Sadajiro Yamanaka, 1911


title: Statuette of Neit

medium: Cupreous metal with precious metal inlay

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Broadside with 36 images of quadrupeds (animals)

creator: Juan Llorens

medium: Wood engraving

subjects: Print Mammals

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Tile in the form of a rekhyt bird surmounting a neb sign

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Helmet

date: 5th century

medium: Iron, copper, gold

country: Japanese

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1928


title: Oyah (Bibilia)

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Meredith Hart, 1920


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

creator: Eretria Painter

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Altar of Liberty

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Les épaules tombantes

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Textile Design with Vertical Rows of Alternating Lenses of Two Different Sizes Bordered by Pearls Separated by Vertical Scrolls of Ribbons Over a Stippled Background

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Pendant

date: 4th–8th century

medium: Jadeite

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Stone-ornament
Atlantic watershed

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


title: Embarking from Brighthelmstone to Diepp[e] (from, Imitations of Modern Drawings)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Resurrection of Christ

creator: Melchior Meier

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Plum-tree vase

date: 18th century

medium: Agate

subjects: Hardstone China Trees

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Necklace

medium: silver

country: Chinese minority (Laotian)

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Foreigners Visiting the Famous Site of Mount Gongen in Kanagawa

creator: Utagawa Yoshikazu

date: 2nd month, 1861

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Saint Peter

medium: Alabaster, with traces of polychromy

country: North French or South Netherlandish

subjects:
Sculpture-stone
North french or south netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ernst Payer, 1991


title: Chess Piece, Probably a Pawn

date: 8th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Lentoid Bottle ("New Year's Bottle")

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1940


title: St. Matthew (copy)

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

date: after 1511

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored

credit_line: Gift of Harry Friedman, 1961


title: University of the City of New York, Washington Square (facade of main building)

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Watercolor and pen and brown ink

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Earrings

date: 16th century–19th century

medium: gold

country: probably Spanish

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Pair of miniature vases

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: String of beads

medium: Lapis lazuli, carnelian, gold (restrung from this photo)

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


title: Cup with handles

date: early 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: [Photo Collage: Man Reading Newspaper]

creator: Juan Pedro Chabalgoity

medium: Albumen silver print, lithograph

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


title: Bride Box

medium: Cedar

country: European

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


title: Collar

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Study for "M. de Pourceaugnac"

creator: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater

date: early 18th century

medium: Red chalk with touches of graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bruno de Bayser, 2000


title: Horse bit cheekpiece in form of a winged, human-headed quadruped

date: ca. 8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

subjects: Iran Mammals

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Woman with an Accordion daguerreotype

creator: Ron Fasand

medium: Daguerreotype

country: American

subjects: Painting American

credit_line: Purchase, Frederick M. Lehman Bequest, 2005


title: Two Women in a Café

creator: John Singer Sargent

date: late 1880s

medium: Charcoal on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Basin

creator: François-Desiré Froment-Meurice

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1999


title: Oliver Wendell "Patsy" Tebeau, 3rd Base, Cleveland, 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: Scarab Decorated with Circles

date: ca. 1700–1500 B.C. (Middle Bronze Age IIB-IIC)

medium: Steatite, traces of green glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Fragment of a Shoulder Band

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Spill Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Footed plate with horned animals

date: ca. 4000 BCE

medium: Ceramic, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Almanach royal, année M.DCC.LVIII

credit_line: Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 2009


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


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Lysippides Painter

date: ca. 530 BCE

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: God The Father Creating (?) (recto); Study of neo-classical statue of a nude male (verso)

creator: Luigi Sabatelli

medium: Pen and brown ink over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)

credit_line: Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 1998


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


title: Champlevé furniture or cosmetic box plaque with a winged youth

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Water pot

medium: Stoneware with crackled brown glaze (Shiwan ware)

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


title: Belt Plate

date: 7th century

medium: Iron, silver inlay

country: Frankish or Burgundian

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
Frankish or burgundian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3942

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Buckle

date: dated 1500

medium: Brass

country: possibly German

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Possibly german

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Letters to Henry Farnum from John Gibson and Benjamin Spence

creator: John Gibson

medium: Pen and brown ink on blue paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, 1977


title: The Four Seasons

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: A woman who gave birth to three children and four animals

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Glass beaker

date: 4th century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Elias Kempner, 1934


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Tanbūra

date: 19th century

medium: wood, skin, various materials

country: Sudan

subjects: Chordophone-lyre-plucked Sudan

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Portrait of a Young Man Wearing a Hat

creator: Anonymous, German, 16th century

date: early 16th century

medium: Black chalk, watercolor; framing lines in pen and brown ink, by a later hand

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Ian Woodner Family Collection, Harry G. Sperling, and Van Day Truex Funds, 2016


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

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


title: Three-Sided Section of a Portable Shrine with Scenes from the Life of the Buddha

medium: Phyllitic schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Gift of Evelyn Kossak, The Kronos Collections, in honor of Samuel Eilenberg, 1994


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Brussels lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Sampler

medium: Wool on cotton canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Cosmetic Dish in the Shape of a Trussed Duck

medium: Hippopotamus ivory (tinted)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Triumph of Patience

creator: Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

date: 16th century

medium: Prints

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


title: Youth with two old Men

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Pier glass

medium: Gilded gesso, mirror glass with pine

country: American or British

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


title: Carpet Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Wool; symmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Table knife

date: late 18th–first quarter 19th century

medium: Steel, buckshorn, silver

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Sencha Tea Jar with Peony Arabesque and Plum in Cochin (Kōchi) Style

creator: Eiraku Tokuzen

date: late 19th century

medium: Stoneware with relief decoration and polychrome glazes; imitation gold lacquer repair (kintsugi); pewter cover (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Card Number 40, Thursby, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


medium: Faience


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Goblet

date: 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Blade for a Sword (Katana)

creator: Iyonojō Munetsugu

date: early–mid-17th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword blade
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Etsuko O. Morris and John H. Morris Jr., in memory of Dr. Frederick M. Pedersen, 2007


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Little Communicant (La Petite Communiante)

creator: Jules Bastien-Lepage

medium: Pen and black ink, black chalk and charcoal, stumped

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1987


title: Currency

creator: Kru artist

date: probably 19th century

medium: Brass, fired terracotta core

country: Kru peoples

subjects:
Metal-implement
Kru people

credit_line: From the Collection of Nina and Gordon Bunshaft, Bequest of Nina Bunshaft, 1994


title: Mirror Case

medium: Silk, metal thread / Embroidery;  split stitch, couched

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Not surprising that it will be long with all these erasures, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, April 24, 1872

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Miniature Dress

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Armchair (fauteuil)

creator: Nicolas Heurtaut

medium: Carved and painted walnut; silk needlework upholstery

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Spoon or ligula

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Design for an Oil Lamp

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite, brush and gray wash, watercolor, and gouache

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


title: Waist

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert E. Peirce, 1944


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic