title: Disegni Varij di Polifilo Zancarli (Friezes)

creator: Polifilo Giancarli

medium: etching

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


title: Vue de la chute du torrent de Gelten

creator: Charles Melchior Descourtis

medium: Color aquatint, etching, and engraving

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

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


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: Strip

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Dog Cart Phaeton #139

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Wrist Bell

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Copper

country: Japan

subjects: Jewelry Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: English Diplomat, from World's Dudes series (N31) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Foolish Virgins (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

creator: Sir John Everett Millais

medium: Wood engraving; proof

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Landscape with Two Pilgrims Walking Along a Road

creator: Pieter Baltens

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Amulet

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Baptismal Basin

medium: Earthenware

country: Mexican

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


title: Faisant son apprentissage au tourniquet de la bourse..., from Croquis Parisiens, published in Le Charivari, February 6, 1857

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: February 6, 1857

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Plate 1: a horse drawn cart carrying people and goods, dead horse in the foreground, from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; third state of four

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Chief Little Head, from the Indian Chiefs series (N681) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Watch

date: 19th century

medium: White metal gilt, painted enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Peter Plumb's Diary

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Gallic Spearman, France, B.C., from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes


title: Cap

medium: linen

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, 1938


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Men)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Walton Butterworth, 1979


title: Death (from the series A Love)

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching, engraving, and aquatint; third edition; state seven of nine

credit_line: Gift of Dr. F. H. Hirschland, 1952


title: Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Adrian H. Joline, 1914


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3402

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Costume Armor and Sword in the Classical Style

creator: Hallé

medium: Linen, papier-mâché, bole, gold leaf, graphite (helmet); silk, cotton, metal coils and spangles, metallic yarn (tunic); steel, wood, gesso, silver, gold leaf (sword)

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
French, pari

credit_line: Armor: Funds from various donors, 1988; sword: Purchase, Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, by exchange, and Rogers Fund, 1995


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Cohen, 1929


title: Letter

creator: Shōkadō Shōjō

date: early 17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2018


title: Fragment of the waist area of the king bending forward, Aten cartouches on the belt

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Venice: The Rialto

creator: Francesco Guardi

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Book cover with overall geometric and stripe pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Watch

creator: William Travers

date: early 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze, enamel, rhinestones


title: Vase

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Blown glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Bacchus and Ariadne from a set of The Loves of the Gods

creator: François Boucher

medium: Wool, silk (23-25 warps per inch, 9-10 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: From the Collection of James Stillman, Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922


title: Ring fragment

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1977


title: Userhat Kneeling Before Osiris and the Goddess of the West, Tomb of Userhat

creator: Norman de Garis Davies

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Fragment of a terrracotta neck-amphora (jar)

creator: Euphronios

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1983


title: General Andrew Jackson

creator: Asher Brown Durand

date: June 1828

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: The Institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper with St. Peter and St. Paul

date: mid-16th century

medium: Feathers and colored paper on wood, gilt wood frame

credit_line: Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Cup and saucer

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Ax of the Palstave Type

country: Irish

credit_line: Gift of H. C. Levis, 1923


title: Drum panel depicting a stupa with the Buddha’s descent from Trayastrimsa Heaven

date: late 3rd century CE

medium: Limestone

country: India, Nagarjunakonda Stupa Site 6, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Cap crown

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum, 1953


title: Polonaise Carpet

date: 17th century

medium: Cotton (warp), silk (weft and pile), metal wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Horace Havemeyer, 1956


title: Pyx

date: 15th century

medium: Silver and gilded silver

country: Spanish (?)

subjects: Metalwork-silver Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1954


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium:
Bone; tinted, incised, and inlaid with paint
Iron; remains of pin

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Terracotta relief plaque with head of Medusa

date: 2nd century BCE

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Gift of F. W. Rhinelander, 1898


title: Flask

creator: Bridgetown Glass Works

medium: Free-blown molded aquamarine glass

credit_line: Bequest of Constance R. Brown, 1939


title: Jasper intaglio: Harpocrates seated on a lotus

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Jasper

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Plan of the Roof and Section of a Pavilion in the Gardens of the Château de Saint-Cloud (recto); Study for the Exterior with Partial Plan of the Pavilion (verso)

creator: Pierre Contant d'Ivry

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

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a pot; unglazed on the inside

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Border

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Mantilla

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: silk

country: European

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Charlotte R. Stillman, 1951


title: Wall Sconce

medium: Gilt gesso, pine

country: American or British

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Bronze statuette of a standing male figure

medium: Bronze

country: Campanian or South Italian Greek

subjects:
Bronze
Campanian or south italian greek

credit_line: Purchase, Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen Gift, 2000


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Arhats

date: late 14th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Document Sealing with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix: Komast cup (drinking cup)

creator: Falmouth Painter

date: ca. 570 BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: The Wrathful Protector Mahakala in a Six-Armed Form: Folio from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom)

date: 12th century

medium: Ink and color on palm leaf

country: India, Bihar or West Bengal

subjects:
Painting
India, bihar or west bengal
Palms

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Richard Benedek, 1986


title: Pottery Whistle

medium: Clay

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Mexican

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Dish

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bird Head Ornament

date: 19th century

medium: Argillite, shell

country: Haida

subjects:
Ornament & design
Stone-ornament
Haida
Birds
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Armchair

creator: Georges Jacob

medium: Carved and gilded beech; caning; modern silk velvet

credit_line: Gift of Commander and Mrs. Harold L. Crossman, 1982


title: Saint Nicholas of Bari and the Three Poor Girls

creator: Cristofano Cartaro

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Raymond E. Lewis, 1970


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Bobbin

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J.B. Johnston, 1910


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Street musician

date: early 17th century

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

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


title: Vase Fragment

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bordighera (Landscape with Distant Church)

creator: Elihu Vedder

medium: Graphite on white wove paper

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1973


title: Length of woven wool and silk

creator: Christopher Dresser

medium: Wool, silk

credit_line: Gift of Paul Walter, 1984


title: The Forge

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Drypoint, printed in black ink on cream wove paper; sixth state of six (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Panel

date: first half 16th century

medium: Carved oak

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1946


title: Coat

medium: wool

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1976


title: Milk jug

creator: C. G. K.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Robert L. Isaacson Gift, 1994


title: Palazzo Salviati-Adimari elevations (recto) Villa Farnesina stables, plan and section; drawing of a screw (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: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Arnaud. Eugène. 47 ans, né à Villeveyrac (Hérault). Ferblantier. Anarchiste. 20/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Old Testament figures

medium: Cloisonné

country: China

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edmond J. Safra, 1997


title: Courtesan Drinking Tea

creator: Yashima Gakutei

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Court presentation handkerchief

medium: Linen

country: Belgian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Margaret M. Cullen, 1934


title: Tumbler

creator: Andrei Kovalskii

medium: Silver, silver gilt and niello

credit_line: Bequest of Vladimir M. Eitingon, in memory of his wife, Nadine (Nadia) Eitingon, 1982


title: Fragment

date: late 16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: John Alexander "Bid" McPhee, 2nd Base, Cincinnati, 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: Valentine

creator: Esther Howland

date: mid 19th century

medium: Open-work cameo embossed  lace paper, colored paper wafers, die cut scraps, motto paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Head of a man

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1903


title: Covered compote

creator: James Gillinder and Sons

medium: Pressed glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Charles I, from the English Monarchs series

creator: Jean Dassier

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Stephen K. Scher Gift, 2014


title: Crown

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: The Virgin holding the infant Christ, an oval composition, after Reni

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Counter

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Bone; carved and incised

subjects:
Gaming piece
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Acheloös Painter

date: last quarter of 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Sketches of Roman Soldiers

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: The J.B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1952


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Dog Cart Wagon #602

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Painted bowl with stylized monkeys

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: Glass Palm Cup

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Glass

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-vessel Frankish Palms

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Chamber candlestick

creator: Pierre-Joseph Pontus

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Rondel with Images of Buddha

date: ca. 1st century

medium: Gray schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Gift of Margery and Harry Kahn, 1985


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Scarab Inscribed with a Decorative Motif

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Ribbon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Vue du Village de Hamarneh, près de Dendérah (Rive droite)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Well my friend, it seems you have lost..., from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Charivari, September 14, 1864

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 14, 1864

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

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


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes

date: second half of the 5th century BCE


title: Morrell, 1st Base and Manager, Boston, 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: Gleason, Pitcher, Philadelphia, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card


title: Figures in Gondola

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Moon flask with stylized floral decoration

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china with enamel decoration and gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Flowers
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: "The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)

creator: Mustafa ibn Vali

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994


title: Standing Farmer holding a Pitchfork

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Earthenware with green lead glaze

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

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


title: Illustration of Foreign Residences and the Catholic Church in Yokohama (Yokohama shōkan tenshudō no zu)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige III

date: 10th month, 1870

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

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Figures from an Antique Frieze, after Bartoli

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Edith de Montebello, 2024


title: Front of balcony

medium: Wood, polychromed and gilt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Design for a Chimneypiece

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Pen and brown and black ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Traveling spoon and fork

creator: Joseph-Baptiste Fuchs

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Mortimer Gordon, 1971


title: Amulet, Djed pillar

medium: Faience

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


title: Bowl with Two Rabbits

date: mid-9th–12th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mimbres

subjects: Mimbre Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1964


title: Madonna and Child (recto); Head and Bust of Saint John the Evangelist  (verso)

creator: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

medium: Brush and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk on brownish prepared paper (recto); black chalk, highlighted with white gouache (verso)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Lion

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1945


title: Newes Modelbuch in Kupffer  (Page 42r)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Charles R. Richards, 1929


title: (Design for a Dagger and Sheath)

creator: Augustin Hirschvogel

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Vest

medium: silk, cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lee Woodward Zeigler, 1952


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Winter landscape with fisherman

creator: Shi Zhong

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of  C. C. Wang, in honor of Wen C. Fong, 2000


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


title: Bottle vase

date: mid-18th century

medium: Porcelain with copper red glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Dress

creator: Franziska Noll Gross

medium: silk, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Edith Gardiner, 1926


title: Saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Brooch

date: late 18th century

medium: Gold, hair, and crystal

subjects:
American
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, Susan and Jon Rotenstreich Gift, 2000


title: Madonna and Child with Six Saints

creator: Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano)

date: late 1440s

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, silver, brass

country: Madurese

subjects: Krisse Madurese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hazard and Marion H. McVitty, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Lauriston H. Hazard, 1960


title: Harpoon point

medium: Bronze

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


title: Terracotta bowl

date: 2nd half of 1st century AD

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; overglaze painted (mina'i)

credit_line: The Grinnell Collection, Bequest of William Milne Grinnell, 1920


title: Fragments of Ceramics with Opacified Glaze

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Petticoat

country: Swedish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Expedition 1924, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1924


title: Bowl

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with peacock feather glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. George Fan, in honor of J. M. Hu, 1985


title: Gold earrings with bull's head

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Watch

medium: Metal, diamonds, enamel


title: Card Number 338, Annie Burks, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Java, from the Natives in Costume series (N16) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Edging

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Pair of vases

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Moore, 1923


title: Allegory of love, hope and plenty

creator: Johann Heinrich Balthasar Sang

medium: Glass, engraved and partly polished

subjects: Mythology Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Knife (Kard)

date: early 19th century

medium: Steel, ivory (walrus), gold

country: Persian, Qajar

subjects:
Knive
Persian, qajar

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


title: Padmapani

date: 13th century(?)

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

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


title: Design for Curtains

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Roller

medium: Sycomore wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Fire Pot

medium: Clay covered with a crackled transparent glaze, colored enamels, and gold (Sanuki ware, Takamatsu type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Fan

creator: Sauvage

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Magee Ellsworth, 1941


title: Reverend Charles Wadsworth

creator: Auguste Edouart

medium: Cut paper silhouette

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


title: Miniature coffeepot

creator: Elizabeth Roker

medium: Silver

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


title: House for Henry Whitney, New Haven, Connecticut (revised plan)

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Saint Margaret and the Dragon

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Animal Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Window Cornice

medium: Wood

credit_line: Purchase, 1917


title: God of the Trinity

medium: Limewood (?) with pastiglia, polychromy and gilding

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: Gift of Sam Fogg, 2016


title: Terracotta fragment of a pot; unglazed on the inside

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Shiva Seated with Parvati (Uma Maheshvara)

date: late 9th–early 10th century

medium: Stone

country: India (Almora)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (almora)

credit_line: Gift of Bette-Ann and William Spielman, 1978


title: Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Stone; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekanis lid (covered dish)

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: The Crossing of the Red Sea (Lunette or Fan?)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over lead on cream laid paper. Rubbed with black chalk or charcoal dust for transfer. Outlines stylus-incised for transfer

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Wright, 1949


title: Souvenir

date: late 18th century

medium: Gold, lacquer, diamonds

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Kosode Fragment

date: second half of the 17th century

medium: Ground of white satin (nume)

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and dyed

credit_line: Purchase, Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2000 Benefit Fund, and funds from various donors, 2001


title: Ewer with Inscription, Horsemen, and Vegetal Decoration

creator: `Umar ibn al-Hajji Jaldak

date: dated 623 AH/1226 CE

medium: Brass; inlaid with silver and black compound

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


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


title: Minnie Cummings, 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: Ceremonial Knife (Tumi)

date: 12th–15th century

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-implement Chimú


title: Drag # 3258

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink and watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Design for a Jug with Winged-figure Handle

creator: Anonymous, Italian?, 16th century

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

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1955


title: Gold ring with elliptical bezel

date: probably 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: Licenza, near Rome: Horace's Villa

creator: William Havell

medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) over graphite

credit_line: Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, in memory of E. Dudley H. Johnson and Laurie Vance Johnson, 2004


title: Side Chair

medium: Mahogany, maple, tulip poplar

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of 5th century BCE


title: Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, from "The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ"

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Pair of overdoors with Diana or a Nymph in an oval medallion supported by amorini

creator: French Painter

medium: Oil on canvas, grisaille

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Face Mask Ornament

medium: Silvered copper

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


title: The Baron proves himself a good shot

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching; reissue

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


title: Scarab for Maatkare (Hatshepsut), United with Amun

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Ichiyosai Hironao

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, 1943


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Il Monte. Opera Nova di Recami, page 4 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Antonio Bindoni

date: after 1557

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Card Number 95, Clara Ellison, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Gloves

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Miss Cornelia Prime, 1922


title: Officia M.T.C. Von den tugentsamen ämptern

creator: Marcus Tullius Cicero

medium: Woodcuts

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1918


title: Medallion

date: early 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Tunic Band with Repeating Motif of Confronted Griffins

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Sketch of a Man Seated; Sketch of a Dead Deer (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Hewes Hinckley

medium: Graphite on beige paper

credit_line: Purchase, Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund and Gifts in memory of  Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of  Hō-ō Bird in Flight (obverse); Inscription (reverse)

date: mid-19th century

medium: Lacquer, brown, red mottled ground, brown hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: silver and brown lacquer

subjects: Inrō Japan Birds

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


title: Martin Folkes (1690–1754)

creator: Jacques-Antoine Dassier

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2003


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Balamuth, 1971


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Silk on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Stirrup-shaped Ring with Oval Bezel with Diaper Design

date: Second half of the 9th–first quarter of the 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Overseer Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Charles Edward "Charlie" Duffee, 2nd Base, St. Louis Browns, 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: Spiral bead

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

medium: Silver

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


title: Kerchief

medium: cotton

country: European

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1976


title: The Three Heroes of Shoku (Shu): Emperor Ryubi (Liu Fei) and His Friends Kwan-u (Kwan Yu) and Chohi (Chang Fei)

creator: Yashima Gakutei

date: first half of the 19th century

medium: Triptych of woodblock prints(surimono); gold, copper and silver on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Louis V. Ledoux, 1936


title: Kurfursten humpen

date: second half 17th century

credit_line: Gift of W.B. Osgood Field, 1902


title: Island and Coast, 1904 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame-Stamp

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Gift of Walter L. Hildberg, 1923


title: Edging

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Netsuke of Man Carrying Basket of Fish

medium: Wood

subjects: Fish Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: A Prospect of Westminster & A Prospect of the City of London

creator: Johannes Kip

medium: Two engravings, printed from two plates

credit_line: Purchase, Barbara and Howard Fox Gift, 2017


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Rowel Spur

medium: Iron alloy

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Brisé Fan with Three Representations of Pavilions in Landscapes

medium: Silver, brilliants

subjects: Fans Landscapes

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


title: Ornament cone

medium: Glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Border fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Drawnwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Jug in the shape of a woman's head

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Terracotta fragments of column-kraters (bowls for mixing wine and water)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Cornelis Jonson van Ceulen the Elder

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. E. Spingarn, 1957


title: Stand (part of a service)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Fort Burnham, front of Petersburg

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Shu amulet

medium: Light Blue Faience

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Papyrus Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Papyrus, Ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Dish

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Earthenware; tin-glazed and luster-painted

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Balamuth, 1968


title: Gold earring with glass beads

date: 3rd‒2nd century BCE

medium: Gold, glass paste

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek


title: The Blossoming of Aaron's Rod, from Old and New Testaments

creator: Augustin Hirschvogel

medium: Etching

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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bowl

creator: Stevens and Williams

medium: Blown amber and yellow opaque satin glass

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Hamilton Photography Studio, St. Johns, Michigan]

creator: Joseph L. Hamilton

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: The Blessed Catherine

creator: Giacomo Serpotta

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Walter T. Rosen, in memory of his mother, Mrs. Flora Tower Rosen, 1932


title: The Fourth Ichikawa Danjuro in the Role of Ukishima Danjo

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

date: 1769 Autumn

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Sampler

medium: Silk and cotton on linen

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


title: Xylophone, from the Musical Instruments series (N82) 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: Goblet

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Escarmouche dans un Cirque (Skirmish in the Circus), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: The Last Judgment; The Virgin and Child with a Bishop-Saint and Saint Peter Martyr; The Crucifixion; The Glorification of Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Nativity

creator: Master of the Dominican Effigies

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1981


title: Kate Uart, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Marble statue of Aphrodite loosening her sandal

medium: Marble, Parian ?

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Lotus

medium: Gilt bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Robe à la française

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1954


title: Salver

creator: Franchi and Son

date: 19th century, after 1558–59 original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Purchase, 1873


title: Half-length Bearded Man in Armor and Cape, Drawing Sword (Macbeth?); Three Standing Angels (or Witches?); Male Figure in Skins (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: From the Girls and Children series (N64) promoting Virginia Brights Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Sealing

medium: Clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Suerte XI: The death of the bull

creator: Anonymous, Spanish, 19th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Bag

date: 7th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


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: Ice Cream Plate from Mackay Service

creator: Tiffany & Co.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 2023


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Jack of Clubs, from Harlequin Cards, 2nd Series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Wall decoration with vegetal design

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Japan, from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Figure

date: 14th–early 15th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Mexica (aztec)

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Women in a Carriage

creator: Constantin Guys

date: 19th century

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

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


title: Plate

creator: Ulisse Cantagalli

date: 20th century

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)


title: Jug

date: 18th century

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware; pewter

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


title: Piece

date: mid-18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Richmond Hill

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Design for the Decoration of the Surround of the Barrel Tang of a Firearm

creator: Nicolas Noël Boutet

medium: Pencil, ink, gray wash on paper

country: French, Versailles

subjects:
Work on paper-drawing
French, versaille

credit_line: Purchase, Clay P. Bedford Gift, 2004


title: Beaker

creator: Etienne Guiart

date: first half 18th century

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Carmencita

creator: William Merritt Chase

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Sir William Van Horne, 1906


title: Woman Cutting Her Nails after GatHering Herbs

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan


title: Palazzo Caffarrelli-Vidoni, elevation; details (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Statuette

medium: Mud

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 5 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Gold and garnet pin

date: possibly 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Gold, garnet

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Eel, from the Fish from American Waters series (N8) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects: Fish Print


title: "Welcome": Study for a Window

creator: John La Farge

medium: Graphite, fixative layer, on off-white wove paper, laid down on pulpboard

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1945


title: Card 408, Minnie Palmer and L. Chester, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Arrowhead

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Vessel in the Shape of a Lotus Bud

date: ca. 15th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Thailand

subjects:
Ceramic
Thailand
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Bronze kyathos (ladle) terminating in a duck's head

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1988


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Sealing

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


title: Amulet, crocodile

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Earrings

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: silver

country: probably Spanish

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


title: François Gérard (1770–1837), later Baron Gérard

creator: baron Antoine Jean Gros

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2002


title: Frontispiece for Book of Cartouches

creator: Johann Georg Hertel

medium: Etching and engraving (reverse copy)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: On the Road to Watersmeet, near Lynton, North Devon

creator: Arthur Julius Pollock

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Table Screen

medium: Nephrite, wood

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Bellows

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Fan

medium: Paper, tortoiseshell

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


title: Michael Cornelius Dorgan, Right Field, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

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


title: Classical Landscape

creator: George Lambert

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

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


title: Mantle

medium: silk

country: probably French

credit_line: Gift of Mr. A. M. Blumberg, 1950


title: Eye idol

medium: Gypsum alabaster

credit_line: Gift of The Institute of Archaeology, The University of London, 1951


title: Drachm of Aegina, 800 B.C., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Rabbet plane

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, wood

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Terracotta statuette of an actor

date: late 5th–early 4th century BCE

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Shellac Specimen for Jade Carving

medium: Shellac

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, 1981


title: Flying-Fish Pendant

date: 10th–15th century (?)

medium: Gold

country: Tolima (?)

subjects: Fish Metal-ornament Tolima

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


title: Fragment of a Band with Birds, Cross, and Head

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Birds

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: The Annunciation

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

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Gift of Fabrizio Moretti, in honor of Keith Christiansen, 2011


title: Detail from a headdress

medium: Muslin and silk thread; bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Doctor and His Daughter

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Stirrup

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: East European, possibly Balkans

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
East european, possibly balkan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a pot; unglazed on the inside

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Gondola prow

medium: Iron

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1958


title: Bronze spit

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: John A. McCarty, Pitcher, Kansas City Cowboys, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Pair of vase handles

date: late 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Plaque with the Last Judgement

creator: Monvaerni

medium: Painted enamel, copper

subjects: French Enamels-painted

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


title: Hammered Silver Miniature Crown

date: 11th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north or central coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north or central coast

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


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: The Pérussis Altarpiece

creator: Nicolas Froment

medium: Oil and gold on wood

credit_line: Purchase, Mary Wetmore Shively Bequest, in memory of her husband, Henry L. Shively, M.D., 1954


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with plain and carved ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: The Disturbed Slumber

creator: Real Fabrica de Buen Retiro

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1982


title: The Far Bank of the Ōi River at Kanaya

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Fan

medium: Paper, paint, gilt, foil, wood, mother-of-pearl, steel

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Carriage cloth, probably made for the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire

date: 18th century

medium: Wool, appliqued silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Bill Blass Collection, 1984


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


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


title: Terracotta mold fragment

date: ca. 2nd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Pietà

creator: Jacques Bellange

medium: Etching with stippling and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Trivet

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


title: Card Number 257, Miss Bell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl or Cup

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Jack A. Josephson, 1973


title: A View of Chester

creator: John Varley

medium: Watercolor, reinforced in places with gum, over graphite on card.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Study of a Male Nude

creator: Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari)

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Blackwork Print with Two Horizontal Panels and Four Bezels

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher

medium: Blackwork

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


title: Collar

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss C. Louise Avery, 1962


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

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


title: Chasuble

date: 1725–30 textile, cut and reshaped in the nineteenth century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1952


title: Seated Kubera (Study Collection)

date: 9th century(?)

medium: Stone

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1984


title: Portrait of Colbert

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: Flower Vase

medium: White porcelain with large crackle covered with a thin brown wash

subjects: Ceramic Japan Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Morning Glory (Convolvalus arrensis), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers


title: Saint Jerome Reading

creator: Bernardino Curti

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Design for the Cove of a Ceiling

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, over leadpoint, with ruled and compass construction; framing lines in leadpoint

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China or Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China or japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Dish

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Tin-glazed hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1973


title: Chalumeau in F

creator: Francis W. Galpin

date: 19th century copy of 17th century object

medium: Wood, cane

country: British

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Mlle. Lillis, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric

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


title: Hinged Cuff Bracelet

medium: Gold, carnelian, glass

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1922


title: View of Morrisville, General Moreau's Country House in Pennsylvania, Possibly The Woodlands, Pennsylvania

creator: Pavel Petrovich Svinin

medium: Watercolor on white laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Design for a Title Page

creator: Abraham van Diepenbeeck

date: 17th century

medium:
Pen and brown ink, black chalk, brown wash, white gouache;
Verso: rubbed with black chalk for transfer.

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


title: Collar

medium: cotton

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Sugar Bowl and Cover

creator: John Bayly

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Neptune in his Chariot being drawn by seahorses, from the 'Division of the Universe'

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Dress

medium: Cotton, linen

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. Jason Westerfield, 1967


title: Spindle whorl

medium: Picrolite

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


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


title: Skipping Rope, from the Pretty Athletes series (N196) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Bronze lid

medium: Bronze


title: View of the Piazza di monte Cavallo, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching; first state of four (Hind)

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


title: The Emperor's Carpet

date: second half 16th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Arrowhead or spear head

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Iron

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Roman Empress Faustina c. 125-176

creator: Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella)

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


title: Silver cochlear (spoon)

date: mid-1st century BCE

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Trimming

medium: Trimming with silk, cotton, and beads

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: "Jonah and the Whale", Folio from a Majma' al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Histories) of Hafiz-i Abru

creator: Hafiz-i Abru

medium: Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Denise Zola

creator: Emile Zola

medium: Gelatin silver print

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


title: La laçon de dessin. "L'artiste"

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


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


title: Edging

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James Boorman Johnston, 1908


title: Edging

medium: Bobbin lace, mechlin

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, in memory of Mrs. James Boorman Johnstone, 1925


title: Rest from Labour on Sunny Days

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching with stipple and aquatint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Curtain

medium: Silk, woven

country: French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Pin

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: The Suicide of Portia

creator: Jacques Bellange

medium: Etching with stippling and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame

medium: Gold, silver, and enamel worked in cloisonné

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Enamels-cloisonné

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Corset cover

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward Haynes, 1950


title: Horsemen near Munich

creator: Wilhelm von Kobell

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund; A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest; and Mary Oenslager Fund, 2018


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Entombment

creator: School of Nottingham

medium: Alabaster

subjects: Sculpture-stone British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Dish

date: first half 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Stone Dish

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Steatite


title: Large Rimmed Bowl

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: The Massachusetts Magazine, or, Monthly Museum of Knowledge and Rational Entertainment

medium: Serial publication, illustrated

credit_line: Purchased with income from the Library Fund


title: Candlestick

creator: Tiffany & Co.

medium: Iron, silver, gold, and copper

credit_line: Purchase, Sansbury-Mills Fund and Spencer Marks Gift, 2018


title: Sugar bowl with cover

creator: Chantilly

medium: Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain

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


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Mitre Shaped Cap

date: 11th–early 14th century

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Disk Brooch

medium: Gold, glass, copper alloy,  glass paste cabochons

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish


title: Fan

creator: Dubois

medium: bone, paper

subjects:
French
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. S. W. Quackenbush, 1917


title: Seal

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Edward B. Bruce, 1924


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Francesco di Simone Ferrucci

date: late 15th century

medium: Relief: stucco, painted and gilded; frame: wood

credit_line: The Erich Lederer Collection, Gift of Mrs. Erich Lederer, 1986


title: Dice

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Jet; drilled and inlaid with white pigment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Tenor, from World's Dudes series (N31) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Charger with birds

creator: Joseph-Théodore Deck

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Birds Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2013


title: Jupiter and Callisto

creator: Master FG

medium: Engraving

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


title: Mêr de Glace, Valley of Chamouni-Savoy, part X, plate 50 from "Liber Studiorum"

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching and mezzotint; third state of five (Finberg)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Tetsukuri no Tamagawa, from the series, "Six Tama Rivers" (Mu Tamagawa)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Netsuke of Tokutaro and Fox Disguised as a Woman

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Vase

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; free blown with applied decoration


title: Daniel's Copy-Book: Or, a Compendium of the Most Usual Hands of England, Netherland, France, Spain and Italy...Together with sundry Portraitures of Men, Beasts, and Birds...

creator: Richard Daniel

medium: Illustrations: engraving

subjects: Book Birds

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942


title: Henry Clay

creator: Savinien Edme Dubourjal

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Bequest of Vincenzo Botta, 1895


title: Rank Badge with Golden Pheasant

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Token of Zachary Taylor

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Collar

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

credit_line: Gift of Samuel S. Howland, 1906


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

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

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972


title: Funerary Cone

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cup (gobelet litron) and saucer

creator: Vincennes Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


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

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

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


title: Incense box

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Iron inlaid with gold and silver

country: Korea

subjects: Metalwork Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Design for a Painted Wall Decoration

creator: Francesco Stagni

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

credit_line: Gift of Peter Josten, 1967


title: A wild-haired, robed woman rushing to the right, seen from behind

creator: Cornelis Saftleven

medium: Black chalk, with touches of oiled black chalk

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


title: Rockaway #597

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Design for a decorative panel painted in rococco style

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite, pen and ink, watercolor and gold paint, heightened with white

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: To commemorate the Congress held at Paris (1872–3) to regulate the adoption of the Metric System

creator: Jules-Clément Chaplain

medium: Bronze, silvered (cliché), struck

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: The Victory of Scipio, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Master of the Die

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving; second state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


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: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th century/early 5th century

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


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

creator: Makron


title: Bowl

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Purchase, 1884


title: Broadsheet relating to a news story about the cause of a flood in Guanajuato, townspeople drowning

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Volute-krater fragment

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Grain serving vessel (Gui)

date: late 11th–early 10th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Addie W. Kahn, 1949


title: Ring

date: 18th century

medium: metal

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1944


title: Bitters Bottle

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Clavicytherium

date: mid-18th century

medium: Wood, various materials

country: probably German

credit_line: Gift of Helen C. Lanier, 1981


title: A Land Storm, or Jack Tars Out of Their Element

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Stud

date: first half of the 7th century

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Leaf from an Ivory Diptych

medium: Elephant ivory with traces of polychromy

subjects: French Ivories-elephant


title: Women’s Kabuki

creator: Kano Takanobu

date: mid- to late 1610s

medium: Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, gold, silver, and gold leaf on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift; Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, Acquisitions, and The Camille M. Lownds Funds, 2017


title: Drawers

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Emery Herriett, 1939


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka) with Blade

medium: Steel, gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Glass bead

medium: Glass

country: Probably western Asiatic or Levantine

subjects:
Glass
Probably western asiatic or levantine

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


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Jennie Lowell, 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: Admiral, United States Navy, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Cricket cage

medium: Gourd, ivory

subjects:
Cricket cage
China

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Hexagonal vase with stylized phoenix handles

medium: Porcelain with turqoise glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Roman Scene

creator: Polidoro da Caravaggio

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Armchair (part of a set)

creator: Carlhian

date: frame early 20th century, style of 18th century; upholstery fabric ca. 1785

medium: Carved and gilded walnut

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Netsuke of Noh Mask: Hannya

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan


title: Flaying of Marsyas

creator: Guglielmo della Porta

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Saltcellar (?)


title: Seal of Louis XIV

medium: Red wax

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hartshorne, 1921


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Jésus au Jardin des Oliviers (Jesus in the Garden of Olives), from "La Petite Passion" (The Little Passion)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Ecce Homo, from "The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ"

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Bronze statuette of a striding warrior

date: early 5th century BCE

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1943


title: Dagger with Sheath

date: 19th century

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

country: Turkish

subjects: Dagger Turkish

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


title: Philadelphia Sunday Press, June 9, 1895

creator: George Reiter Brill

medium: Relief

credit_line: Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 1990


title: Terracotta fragment of a pot; unglazed on the inside

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: Roundel with Judgment or Allegorical Scene

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Mythology
Glass-stained
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1992


title: The King's Sons Shooting at Their Father's Corpse

creator: Anonymous, German, 16th century

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1996


title: A Siamese Mother 15 Days Before a Hot Fire, After Confinement

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Arak el Emir

creator: Louis Vignes

credit_line: Purchase, Susan and Thomas Dunn Gift, 2013


title: Scholarship Medal

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Enthroned Virgin and Child

date: mid-14th century

medium: Wooden core, painted canvas and gesso

country: Italian

subjects: Sculpture-wood Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Chinese Bellflowers

creator: Ogata Kōrin

date: 17th or 18th century

medium: Folding fan remounted as a hanging scroll; 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: Standing Female Nude (after the Medici Venus)

creator: Christian Daniel Rauch

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Thomas and Gianna Le Claire, 2010


title: Tray

creator: Andrew Ellicott Warner


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware

country: Mexican

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


title: Plate with medallion

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


title: Suspenders

medium: silk, cotton (?)

country: probably Spanish


title: Cover

medium: Linen; embroidered in silk

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Portrait of the Artist's Brother (John Inman?)

creator: Henry Inman

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Length

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Everfast Fabrics Inc. Gift Fund, 1969


title: Workshop Interior

creator: Thomas Wijck

medium: Black chalk, gray wash

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2005


title: Wedding slippers

medium: Wool, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. M. P. Mangam, 1939


title: Monkeys on Rocks and Trees

creator: Sesson Shūkei

date: 17th century

medium: Two-panel folding screen; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan Trees

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


title: Doll

medium: Painted wood, silk, muslin

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Pilgrim flask

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

medium: Ceramic

country: Seleucid or Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Com., Paris Militia, 14th Century, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pocket watch

creator: Firm of Breguet et Fils

medium: Gold, enamel, gilded brass and steel

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Georges E. Seligmann, in memory of his father, Simon Seligmann, the art collector, 1979


title: Vase

date: early 20th century

medium: Stoneware with inlaid decoration under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1915


title: Staff Weapon

medium: Steel, wood, iron

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Netsuke of Seated Baku (mythical animal)

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Handkerchief

date: late 18th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Letter to Pierre Marie Pietri, with envelope

creator: Eugène Delacroix

date: December 10, 1862

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, 2024


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Livre de Moresques, title page (verso)

creator: Cornelis Bos

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Portrait of Mark Akenside

creator: Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio

medium: Brush and brown wash over graphite

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


title: Gold earring with disc and pendant

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Mace

date: mid-16th century

medium: Steel

country: probably Turkish

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Probably turkish


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Veii Painter

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 8 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Bracket

date: 18th century

medium: Deal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Portable Desk-on-frame Table

medium: Maple veneer, mahogany, rosewood, tulip poplar, pine

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1918


title: Ramesses III and Prince Amenherkhepeshef before Hathor

creator: Nina de Garis Davies

date: original ca. 1197–1166 BCE

medium: Paper, tempera paint, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Panel

date: second half 16th century

medium: Carved walnut

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Prayer Rug with Inscription in Niche

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

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


title: Theodore Le Breton (1803–1883), French workman-poet

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze, cast - single

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: Cuttings from a Modelbook with a Rooster, a Hen and her Chicks, and a Rabbit

medium: Pen and brown and black ink, watercolor, on parchment

country: North Italian (?)

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
North italian

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Florene Schoenborn, by exchange, 2024


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


title: White cross-lined bowl with geometric design

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Linstock

medium: Steel, wood, gold

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Plate 12: a shepherd sleeping on the ground, the Baths of Diocletian in the background, from "Roman landscapes and ruins" (Paysages et ruines de Rome)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Statuette

medium: Mud, gilded and polychromed

country: China

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Pettengill, 1931


title: Cap

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Lock

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 65 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Shu amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: The Tanabata Festival in the Flourishing City (Shichū han’ei Tanabata Matsuri), from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: 1857 (Ansei 4), 7th month

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Saùng-Gauk

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, deerskin, paint, cotton cord, metal, glass

country: Burmese

subjects: Chordophone-harp Burmese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: The Inume Pass in Kai Province (Kōshū Inume tōge), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Mascarade à la Grecque; Suite des Vases; and [Cheminées]

creator: Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Folding spoon and fork combination

date: probably early 19th century

medium: Silver, pearl shell

subjects:
Metalwork-silver in combination
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Horseman

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Pembroke Table

creator: Duncan Phyfe

medium: Mahogany, brass, tulip poplar, white pine

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


title: Altarpiece with Scenes of the Infancy of Christ

date: late 15th century

medium: Limestone, polychromed, gilding

country: North French or South Netherlandish

subjects:
Sculpture-stone
North french or south netherlandish

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


title: Landscape

creator: François Jean Sablet

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


title: Fringe

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Jardinière (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Bottle cooler (seau à bouteille) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Dish (one of a pair)

creator: Worcester factory

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


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, punto à rammendo, punto scrito, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Ponte del Piovan

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in brownish-black ink on very fine ivory laid paper; fifth state of six (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Stencil

date: early 19th century

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


title: Crochet Work

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Armlet of Amenhotep

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Female Nude (Danaë)

creator: French

date: late 17th century

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Glass Fragments

date: 4th century

subjects: Glass-vessel Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Fragment

date: first half 17th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Betty and John Menke, 1998


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

date: 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: General Ulysses S. Grant, from Leaders series (N222) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: One Hundred Chinese Boys

date: 18th century

medium: Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on gilded paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dillon, 2004


title: Bodice

medium: silk

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Ce est ung tractat de la noble art de leguille ascavoir ouvraiges de spaigne... page 3 (recto)

creator: Willem Vosterman

date: after 1527

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953


title: Loop-in-loop chain with intricate openwork medallion at the clasp and a gold Bes pendant

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Earring, trumpet-shaped

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: GOLD

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

medium: Terracotta


title: Box

medium: Tortoise shell

subjects:
Shell
China
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Mill near Colchester

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: A Row in the Play-Ground

creator: John Doyle

date: December 3, 1838

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: 2nd–mid-1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

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


title: Card 834, Miss Joice, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Necklace

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Gold, garnet, pearl

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Gift of Miss Sophie B. Steel, 1952


title: Kerchief

medium: Drawnwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Suit

medium: wool

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Ball gown

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mary Pierrepont Beckwith, 1969


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Covered Vase

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1939


title: Chalice veil

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Relief with foreign soldiers

medium: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

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


title: Furniture leg, lion's paw

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: Glass beaker

date: 1st century CE

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


title: Handkerchief

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Perseus and Andromeda, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Ewer

date: late 12th–first half 13th century

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

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


title: Collar (Ingqosha)

medium: Sinew, glass beads, button

country: Xhosa or Mfengu peoples

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Xhosa or mfengu people
Textiles-beadwork

credit_line: Gift of James J. and Gladys W. Strain, 2005


title: Statuette of a woman

date: mid 5th century BCE or later

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Examining Antique Arms

creator: José Villegas y Cordero

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


title: Tweezers

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Burgonet

creator: Filippo Negroli

date: dated 1543

medium: Steel, gold, textile

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
Italian, milan

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cosmetic jar

creator: Barnard Brothers

medium: Silver, glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Amos L. Beaty, 1961


title: Seated Immortal

date: 17th century

medium: Pottery

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of C. T. Loo, 1916


title: The Raising of Lazarus, with Christ standing at left

creator: Simon de la Vallée

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Design for a Military Trophy

creator: Jean Jacques Lagrenée

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash, yellow gouache

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971


title: Petticoat

date: second half 18th century

medium: silk

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Helen L. Latting, 1936


title: Ste. Marie Cléophée (St. Mary Cleophas), April 9th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Coat

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Nail

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Ritual Wine Container (zun)

date: late 11th century BCE

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1931


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware, slip decoration

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Ribbon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Agnes Pratt, 1932


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Wine container (Hu)

date: late 9th–early 8th century BCE

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber through the Live Oak Foundation, 1988