title: Glass mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: The Descent from the Cross, from "The Small Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Beaker and saucer

creator: Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1983


title: Plate

creator: Castelli

date: 18th century

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pair of silver bracelets ending in snake's heads

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Jonathan P. Rosen, 1992


title: Asia! Thy trade, thy silks and spicy stores, But ill compensate for a Land of Slaves, Whilst Liberty disdains to bless thy Shores, And Luxury thy nerv'less sons depraves

creator: James Moore

medium: Mezzotint

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967


title: Coronation of the Virgin

date: mid-18th century

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: View of Futami Beach at Ise

creator: Shōtei Hokuju 昇亭北寿

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Hercules and Omphale

creator: Pinturicchio

medium: Fresco, transferred to canvas and attached to wood panels

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Earrings

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: metal

country: Croatian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Overgrown Roman arch spanning a road (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 34 recto)

creator: Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

medium: Graphite, pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Boots

medium: leather

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Beth Levine, 1993


title: Evening slippers

creator: Hobbs

medium: silk

country: British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James Dowd Lester, 1942


title: Château de Chenonceau, No 1, after Ducerceau

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching on laid paper; only state

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


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


title: Terracotta relief head of a woman

date: mid-5th century BCE

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Purchase, 1941


title: Quena (Kena)

medium: Copper

country: Moche, possibly

subjects: Aerophone-blow hole-end-blown flute (vertical)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1981


title: Model of a chariot with driver

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: [Untitled]

creator: Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2024


title: Fichu

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Alvah E. Reed, 1966


title: Cap

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Costumes-Accessories

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costumes-accessorie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Première Cataracte, Montagnes Granitiques Couvertes de Sables

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Mahavira in Puspottara Heaven: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Design for a Covered Goblet

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Design for Landau, No. 3292

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: Lillian Russell, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Clock-watch

creator: Daniel Quare

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: The Fourth Spring

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: La Bonne Mere

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Etching, third state

credit_line: Purchase, Roland L. Redmond Gift, Louis V. Bell and Rogers Funds, 1972


title: Man with a Lyre

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

medium: Engraving

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


title: Card 771, Mlle. Chabot, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Hippopotamus

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Cup and saucer

medium: Pottery, creamware

credit_line: Gift of Andrew Ferren, in honor of Emily Graff Ferren, 1999


title: Carnelian ring stone with Asclepius, the god of medicine

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

medium: Carnelian

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Scarab with Sobek and Uraei

date: ca. 1640–1500 B.C. (late Middle Bronze Age IIB-IIC)

medium: Steatite, traces of green glaze

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


title: Tartars Playing Polo

creator: Kano Eisen'in Furunobu 狩野永川院古

date: early 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of August Belmont, 1976


title: The First Nakamura Nakazō in the Role of Shimada no Hachizō

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Whitacre, Pitcher, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Flat Stamp

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Central Highlands

subjects:
Central highland
Ceramics-implement

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


title: Bowl with cover

date: mid-18th–19th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork Japan

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Mustard spoon

medium: Silver, parcel gilt

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


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Lamp

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: The Adoration of the Holy Trinity in the New Covenant

creator: Friedrich Sustris

date: 1588 or before

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash; laid down; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Anna Mont, in memory of Frederick Mont, 2010


title: Magic wand fragment

medium: Ivory


title: Apostle spoon

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Armchair (Bergère) (one of a pair) (part of a set)

creator: Louis Delanois

medium: Carved and gilded mahogany, modern silk damask

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1957


title: Pin

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


title: Fishkill Mountain, 1871 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Daniel Huntington

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of S.B. Luyster, 1936


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Fan

date: early 19th century

medium: Ivory, parchment, glass

credit_line: From the Collection of Ella Wolcott Clark Rogers, Gift of Ella Mabel Clark, 1948


title: Coach #4069

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Goblet with cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Zita Spiss, in memory of her father, Julius Triger, 1990


title: Neptune with a dolphin

creator: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

date: late 17th century or early 18th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Sleeves

date: fourth quarter 19th century

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lillian E. Glenn Peirce in memory of Mrs. Luther G. Tillotson, 1944


title: Decorated jar fragment

medium: Pottery and ink, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Wedjat Eye Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: George M. Pullman, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Portrait of a man, possibly the Marquis de Riancey

creator: Jean-Baptiste Nini

medium: Medallion: cast terracotta (terre de Chaumont); frame: gilt wood

subjects: Sculpture-miniature Portraits

credit_line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1949


title: Virgin and Child

date: 14th century

medium: Stone, paint

country: French

subjects: Sculpture French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Card Number 116, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Cup

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Fan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: The Universe Is Created

creator: Paul Gauguin

medium: Woodcut printed in color on wove paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


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: Capitol of Michigan in Lansing, from the General Government and State Capitol Buildings series (N14) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands


title: Standing Oriental Figure

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Margot Gordon, 2003


title: Terracotta kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: The Industrious 'Prentice Performing the Duty of a Christian (Industry and Idleness, plate 2)

creator: William Hogarth

date: September 30, 1747

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: The Octagonal Room in the Small Baths at the Villa of Hadrian (Tivoli)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Red chalk over black chalk or charcoal with partly ruled construction

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift and George and Lisa McFadden Gift, 1994


title: Sheet with floral pattern with a repeating line background

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Bowl

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Censer in form of Kinko Sitting on a Carp

medium: Stoneware covered with a thin glaze resembling bronze (Bizen ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Kneeling Female Figure (from Sketchbook)

creator: John Quincy Adams Ward

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Edward R. Grove, 1985


title: Bowl

date: 12th–9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Central Highlands (?)

subjects:
Central highland
Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1974


title: Rank badge with qilin

date: 19th century

medium: Silk and metallic thread embroidery on silk satin

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1946


title: [Studio Portrait: Male Street Vendor with Barrel on Head, Brazil]

creator: Christiano Junior

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2017


title: Candlestick

medium: Lacy pressed glass


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Woman's Robe with "Longevity" Medallions

medium: Silk and metallic thread tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-tapestrie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Plate

date: late 15th century

medium: Brass

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-brass German

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Souterrain de la Nerthe

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

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


title: A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Flowers

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


title: Textile fragment

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Wool, cotton

country: Sasanian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


title: Sutra cover with geometric pattern

medium: Silk lampas with metal thread

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


title: Spearhead or point

medium: Bronze

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: St. Audries Painter

date: ca. 550 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1956


title: Insertion

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Standing Beauty

creator: Kondo Katsunobu

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Francis T. Henderson Jr., in memory of Harold G. Henderson, 1976


title: Capital from a Reliquary Shrine

medium: Gilded copper alloy

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Page of Calligraphy

creator: Abd al-Majid Taleqani

date: dated 1176 AH/1763 CE

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Measure

creator: Auguste Loir

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Stephen Benjamin, 1992


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Seated Lady Holding a Shield with an Unicorn

creator: Martin Schongauer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Three of Spades, from the Transparent Playing Cards series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Textile fragment with scattered floral scrolls

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silk complex gauze, ink and pigments

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Flowers
Textiles-painted

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1998


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Border or flounce

medium: Linen, needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin L. Jacobs and Mrs. Charles L. Rolland, 1990


title: From the Girls and Children series (N58) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Terracotta oil lamp

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman


title: Erxian

creator: Golden Tone Workshop

medium: Wood, composition, silk, resin

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Plate with arms and motto of Earl of Errol

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Charles K. Davis, 1948


title: Mandala of Wakamiya of Kasuga Shrine (Kasuga wakamiya mandara)

date: early 14th century

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

country: Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997, and Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015


title: A Goose and a Gander with their Goslings Honking in Alarm as Two Foxes with their Cubs Emerge from the Rushes

creator: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

date: mid-18th–early 19th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Didier Aaron Inc. Gift, 2003


title: Hammered Silver Mirror Back (?)

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: Wood Duck, from the Game Birds series (N40) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Glass jar

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Plate 18, from "World in Miniature"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Court Official with Hammer and Staff

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: Late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Edo people

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, 1991


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: first half of the fifth century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Design for a Frieze with Wreath and Festoons

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and ink

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


title: Furniture elements

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Wood

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: The Virgin, hands folded on her chest, looking upwards

creator: Frédéric Horthemels

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Blank Award of the U.S. Coast Survey for "Gallery and Humanity"

medium: Bronze

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wait, 1908


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

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


title: Miniature Silver Jar

medium: Silver

country: Chancay

subjects: Metal-container Chancay


title: Fragment with the head of a man

medium: Faience

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2018


title: Card Number 719, Punie, 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


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: Emperor Vespasian on Horseback, plate 11 from "The First Twelve Roman Caesars"

creator: Matthäus Merian the Elder

medium: Etching

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


title: Fragment of a Toilet Dish with Cartouches of Amenhotep III

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: God the Father with dove

date: second half 18th century

medium: Wood, polychromed and gilt

country: probably Ecuadoran, Quito

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 5th century BCE


title: A rowboat full of men in center, a group of men standing on shore at left, a ship full of men, one firing a pistol, at right, from "Set of eight nautical landscapes" (Suite de huit Marines)

creator: Stefano della Bella

subjects:
Print
Landscapes
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: [Yosemite National Park, California]

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Rockaway #224

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Plague of Flies (Exodus 8:21)

creator: Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari)

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

credit_line: Gift of Alan N. Stone and D. Lesley Hill, 1984


title: Kohl Flask

date: 7th century

medium: Glass; blown, pinched, and applied decoration, tooled on the pontil

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Card Number 391, Nellie Beaumont, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

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


title: Whitechapel Cart #3449

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


title: Nata Ragina: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

creator: Mohamed

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Bikaner)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, bikaner)

credit_line: Gift of John and Evelyn Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1980


title: Dutch dancers

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: A collection of lace classification, [ca. 1906]

creator: Margaret Taylor Johnstone


title: Lacquer Hairpin with Geese

date: second half of the 19th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold, silver hiramaki-e on gold ground

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Hope Skillman Schary, 1981


title: Costume Ornament

country: Central coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Central coast

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


title: Writing cabinet

medium: Satinwood-veneer, inlaid with other woods, painted decoration


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Feasting on Antiquities Hall

creator: Jian Guzhai

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Ink

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Feather attachment for a statuette

date: ca. 721–30 BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Mrs. Ford and Mrs Page (Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2, Scene 1)

creator: Robert Thew

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942


title: Fragment of orphrey

medium: Silk and metal thread on linen

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


title: The Son of the Pope, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Weight

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Le Duelliste a L'Épée et au Poignard (The Duelist with a Sword and Daggar), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les Nains Grotesques" (Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs)

creator: Jacques Callot

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Bell

date: 1st century CE (?)

medium: Metal

country: Italian

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper Italian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Design for a Festival Float or Barge

creator: Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on faded blue paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Seated bodhisattva in pensive pose

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Plate

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Stoneware with white slip decoration on pale celadon glaze ("Swatow" ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Decorated fragment from the side of a canopic chest

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: A frieze arrangement depcting the Triumph of Love; Cupid in a Chariot led by goats, many other putti filling the composition

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Babylonian

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


title: Creamer

creator: Garrett Eoff

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Edging

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin L. Jacobs and Mrs. Charles L. Rolland, 1990


title: Frieze with Eros and a Siren

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Terracotta beak-spouted jug

country: Helladic

subjects: Vase Helladic

credit_line: Gift of Peter Sharrer, 1994


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Earring with acorn pendant

medium: Gold

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


title: Sketch of an Allegory of the Abolition of Slavery

creator: Anonymous, French School, 19th Century

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Mythology Sculpture

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2021


title: Designs for a clock, Illustrations for "Saggi di naturali esperienze"

creator: Circle of Giuseppe Cocchini

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

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


title: Lamp

date: 4th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; buff slip, brown slip decoration, sgraffito,  glazed

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1963


title: M'lle Geraldine, 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: Plate 11 from "La Tauromaquia": The Cid campeador spearing another bull

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, burin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Border

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Embroidered net

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Shaving jug

creator: John Williamson

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Beaker with “Posteleӱn Verkooping” (porcelain selling)

creator: Daniel Preissler

date: beaker ca. 1700–20; decoration ca. 1711–30

medium: Jingdezhen hard-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

credit_line: Purchase, Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 2025


title: Double spout and bridge bottle

date: 1st–6th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Head of an Iranian Nomad

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Stucco

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: View of Such Parts as are Seen from the Building at the Head of the Lake at Stowe, Buckinghamshire

creator: Jacques Rigaud

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942


title: Silver plate

date: 1st–2nd century CE

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Roundel

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Dress

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Section of a spoon handle

creator: Nicolas Gonthier

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Jacques Helft, 1939


title: Glass rectangular bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Design for a Headdress (front and side view)

creator: Baccio del Bianco

medium: Brown ink

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


title: Virgin and Child

date: early 16th century

medium: Wood, paint

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Renard Continues with His Lies from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; third state of four

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


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d'Argentan

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


title: Rocaille cartouche with flowers

creator: Beauvais

medium: Wool, silk (20-22 warps per inch, 8 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Flowers
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Arbor group

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1944


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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: Earrings

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: metal

country: European, Eastern


title: Plate (scodella)

creator: workshop of Guido Durantino

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Urbino and Gubbio

subjects:
Italian, urbino and gubbio
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sealing fragment

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Textile fragment with dragon medallions

date: 17th century

medium: Silk satin brocaded with silk and metal thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1946


title: Dish (piatto); The story of Hercules: the gods called upon Hercules to help them defend Olympus against the attack of the Giants, sons of Uranus and Gaea (Heaven and Earth)

country: Italian, Deruta

subjects:
Italian, deruta
Ceramics-pottery


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

medium: Drawnwork, muslin

credit_line: Bequest of Anna Thalmann, 1934


title: Study of a Male Nude (Althaemenes) in Despair Trying to Hide Himself

creator: Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard

date: mid-18th–early 19th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2011


title: Head of a Clay Figure (Dogū)

medium: Earthenware with incised decoration

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic 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: Vase

date: after 1885

medium: Blown satin peach and purple glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Vase fragment

medium: Blue and violet faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Bottle

medium: Porcelain with black glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Dog Cart # 3754

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Plate with figures in arbor

creator: Cornelis Pronk

medium: Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1984


title: Netsuke of Mouse in a Bag

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Louis XIV-style frame

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Florence

subjects:
Frame
Italian, florence


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 97r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: A Griffin

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state

credit_line: Gift of Anne W. and Dr. David T. Mininberg, in celebration of Anne's 65th birthday, 2002


title: Inscribed Stele

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Limestone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Portrait of a Woman, Said to Be the Comtesse de Guiche

creator: French Painter

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


title: Ripple molding

medium: Pine with mahogany (?) ripple top molding.

country: Spanish or Spanish provinces in Central America (?)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Mold for an Ankh Amulet

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Budai

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Piece

date: late 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Fichu

medium: cotton

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Sleigh #3871

medium: Graphite


title: Design for Omnibus or Wagonette, no. 3501

medium: Pen and black ink


title: Figure-top spoon

medium: Silver

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


title: Seal ring and modern impression: horned animal

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Livetta

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Obsidian seal set in a gold ring

medium: Jasper, gold, bronze

country: Greek

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: Late Babylonian grammatical text

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Jug

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Glass Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Glass

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Classical Landscape with Herdsmen in the Foreground

creator: Giovanni Battista ("Titta") Lusieri

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Martin Birnbaum, 1966


title: Coffeepot

medium: Painted tinned sheet iron

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


title: Stained Glass Panel with the Entombment

date: 15th century

medium: Pot metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: Francis L. Leland Fund, 1913


title: Border

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century


title: Yamauba and Kintarō Playing with a Cherry

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Isis amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Schimmel Foundation Inc. Gift, 1984


title: Vase with Flowers and Scholar’s Implements

date: early 18th century

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

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Jar with floral decorations and musicians

date: late 6th century

medium: Stoneware with applied decoration under celadon glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kaye, 2002


title: Openwork Headband

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Cotton

country: Chancay

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chancay
Textiles-costume

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


title: Finial with Wild Ram

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Northeast China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northeast china

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, 2002


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century


title: [Montage of Ecclesiastical Figures Posed in Political Satire]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2012


title: Baluster

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Cast iron

credit_line: Gift of A. E. Crowther, 1931


title: Fragment

medium: Embroidered net

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


title: Lake Scene in the Adirondack Mountains, 1864 (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: The Times

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 1788

medium: Etching

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


date: late 5th/early 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Button

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Jet; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Galloon

date: 18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Tubular Stone Bead

date: 5th century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Stone

country: Bahia

subjects: Bahia Beads-ornament

credit_line: Gift of Timothy, Peter, and Jonathan Zorach, 1980


title: Engraved Ivory Tusk

medium: Ivory

country: Inuit

subjects:
Bone/ivory-sculpture
Inuit
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Daniel H. Silberberg, 1968


title: Mlle Troisvalets dans le Papillon

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Teapot with cover

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Casket Plaque

medium: Ivory, traces of polychromy

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Byzantine
Ivories-bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Vessel

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

medium: Ceramic, glaze

country: Seleucid or Parthian

subjects:
Seleucid or parthian
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Pair of Book Covers Depicting Fath 'Ali Shah Hunting

medium: Pasteboad; painted and varnished

credit_line: Purchase, 2017 and 2018 NoRuz at The Met Benefits, 2023


title: Vesper Bell of the Temple of Great Buddha

creator: Kitao Shigemasa

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Architecture Print Japan

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


country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Lessons in Figure Painting in Water Colours

creator: Blanche F. MacArthur

medium: Illustrations: color lithographs

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


title: Trade card for J. Royle, bookbinder

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Commercial lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: A Female Allegorical Figure

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Oil on canvas, gold ground

subjects: Mythology Painting

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1984


title: The Flight into Egypt; the Virgin carrying the infant Christ, Joseph pointing to the left, trees behind them, after Reni

creator: Samuel Bernard

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Trees

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


title: Head of king Amasis from a sphinx

medium: Greenish limestone

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


title: Terracotta statuette of a seated woman

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, probably Attic

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, probably attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Bagpiper

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

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


title: Design for a Frieze with a Grotesque Vase and Festoon with a Ram and Putto.

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

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Fund, 1967


title: Chain with Birds and Geometric Motifs

medium: Cloisonné enamel, gold

country: Kyivan Rus’

subjects:
Kyivan rus’
Birds
Enamels-cloisonné


title: Judith placing the head of Holofernes onto a cloth held by another female figure, the foreshortened body of Holofernes gushes with blood from the neck

creator: Jacopo Palma the Younger

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Bronze horse

date: mid-8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

creator: Wang Gai

date: first edition printed in 1679

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Arundel House from the North (copy)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

date: 17th century (?)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Scarab seal

date: ca. 6th century BCE

medium: Rock crystal

credit_line: Gift in memory of Miss Marian Hunter Wright, 1942


title: J.A.D. Ingres, calling card envelope

creator: Anonymous

credit_line: Gift of F. C. Schang, 1979


title: Dress

creator: Liberty & Co.

medium: silk

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Trust Gift, 1986


title: Buckle Shank

date: 14th century

medium: Bronze, patina

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Pin with a nude male and an ibex

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Shoes

medium: Wool

country: European

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Herman Delman, 1954


title: Ornamental Panel Design

date: 18th or 19th century

medium: Gouache (bodycolor)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1961


title: Cushion

date: mid-17th century

medium: Silk on satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1929


title: Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for dates, archive of Bel-remanni

date: ca. 505 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Captain, Princess Hussars, Spain, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Seated Transcendent Buddha Vairochana

date: ca. late 9th century

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Ewer

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1941


title: Rhetoric (Retorique)

creator: Etienne Delaune

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: late 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Fille Turque, jouant du Tehegour, plate 51 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

creator: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: [Supplemento al no. 6 anno 2o del Ricoglitore di Cognizioni Utili (15 July 1839), p. 25]

medium: Ink on paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: [Woman, Tétouan, Morocco]

creator: A. Chauffy

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2017


title: Harpoon Head

date: 4th century

medium: Ivory (walrus)

country: Old Bering Sea

subjects:
Bone/ivory-implement
Old bering sea
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, The Houghton Foundation, Inc. Gift, 1977


title: Fragment of Archivolt with a Corinthian Capital

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: A Cottage on a Hill

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Etching


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic?

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Stela of Amenemopet, a Priest of Senwosret I

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Free Copy of Giotto's "Navicella" (recto); Copy of Adam in Masaccio's "Expulsion from the Garden of Eden", and other Figure Studies (verso)

creator: Parri Spinelli

medium: Pen and brown ink (recto and verso). glued onto a secondary backing sheet of paper drawn in pen and brown ink, over black chalk

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917


title: Marble bowl fragment with Phoenician inscription

date: ca. 389 BCE

medium: Marble, white

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot

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


title: Wine Pot

date: 13th century

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Miniature female effigy

creator: Inca artist(s)

medium: Gold-silver alloy

country: Inca

subjects:
Sculpture-sheet metal
Inca

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1974, 1977


title: Washington Irving, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


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


title: Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

creator: Polyteleia Painter

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: The Bothmer Purchase Fund and Louis V. Bell Fund, 1997


title: Galloping Horses

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel, 1985


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Pouch

medium: Glass, linen, silk

country: American

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


title: Design for Gig, no. 3917

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Figure-top spoon

medium: Silver

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


title: Woman teaching children to play the guqin zither, from four-print set “Women teaching children the four accomplishments"

medium: Woodblock print; ink on paper with additional hand coloring

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Douglas Dillon Fund, 2025


title: Dish

date: 19th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Cup of Violets, from the Novelties series (N122) issued by Gail & Ax Tobacco to promote Navy Long Cut

creator: Gail & Ax Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix or skyphos?

date: 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: La Caffarella (ou Grotte d'Egerie)

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching, third state

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


title: Oil Cruet

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Robert Macauley Jackson, 1920


title: Center Panel of a Triptych with the Crucifixion and the Entombment

medium: Elephant ivory

country: South Italian

subjects:
South italian
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta conical-hemispherical spindle-whorl with rounded base

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Lyra Viol

date: 17th century

medium: Wood

country: Italian

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-fretted Italian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Minature standing figure

date: 8th century

medium: Earthenware with polychrome glaze (Sancai ware)

country: China

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China


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

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


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

subjects: Print Birds


title: Hair Comb

creator: India Rubber Comb Company

medium: Vulcanite (India rubber and sulfur)

credit_line: Purchase, Susan and Jon Rotenstreich Gift, 2000


title: Shell engraved with winged female deity, sphinxes, and lotus plants

medium: Shell (Tridacna squamosa)

subjects:
Botany
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Inanna Gifts, 1999


title: Vessel

medium: Alabaster

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Nakamura Rikō

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first half of the 4th century BCE


title: The Judgment of Paris

creator: Master IO. F.F.

date: early 16th century

medium: Bronze

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


title: King of the Amazons, from the Occupations for Women series (N166) for Old Judge and Dogs Head Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Grotesque with a Victory Figure Under an Overgrown Pergola

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 1540 after

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Nebseny

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Captain Tew, A Calm, Rich Christian, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Plate 6: two male figures standing on a rock at right, a waterfall at center with another male figure on its left bank, from 'Landscapes in the manner of Salvator Rosa' (Die Landschaften in Sal. Rosa's)

creator: Franz Joachim Beich

medium: Etching; first state of three

subjects: Print Landscapes Roses

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Jewish Musician in Mogador Costume

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Graphite

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Katherine C. Horowitz and Scott Glassman, 2024


title: Costume Bell

date: 19th century (?)

medium: metal

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper
French


title: Yaksha Relief

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Stone

country: Nepal, Kathmandu Valley, possibly Deopatan

subjects: Nepal, kathmandu valley, possibly deopatan

credit_line: Purchase, The Christian Humann Foundation Gift, 1991


title: Snuffers tray

creator: D. & G. Holy

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Frederick Bradbury, 1925


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry T. Curtis, 1953


title: Souvenir spoon with William Shakespeare's house in Stratford and finial in form of bust of Shakespeare

medium: Silver, parcel-gilt

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


title: Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Figure of the Temple Musician Ihyt

medium: Wood, paste, gilding, paint

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Bronze statuette of a bull

date: ca. 2nd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Name Panel from the Mortuary Complex of Senwosret I

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Textile Design with a Seamless Pattern of Alternating Triangles Decorated with Pearls

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Reliquary

date: 15th century

medium: Basse taille enamel, silver, gilded copper, glass

subjects: Metalwork-copper Italian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Wedding Cup in case

creator: Robert Hennell III

medium: Silver, coconut; leather, blue silk, base metal

credit_line: Purchase, Jewish Ritual Art Acquisitions Fund, 2024


title: Young Man Moving Toward the Right on High Geta and Opening His Umbrella

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Portrait of the artist

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

date: about 1895

medium: Drypoint on heliogravure

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Double-Sided Comb

date: 7th century

medium: Bone, iron pins

country: Frankish

subjects:
Bone
Frankish
Skeletons & bones


title: Tea caddy

creator: Augustinus van der Steene

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Waste bowl

creator: Höchst Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mercedes Bass, 2007


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Piece

date: late 18th century


title: Tile Fragment

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: William Pitt

creator: Thomas Wyon the Younger

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2000


title: Vessel with Splashed Decoration

date: 10th century

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

subjects:
Ceramic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Maiden, Cupid and Frog

creator: William Henry Romaine Walker

medium: Ink and watercolor

subjects:
Drawing
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Purchase, Florence Waterbury Bequest, 1970


title: Design for a Surtout and a Tureen

creator: Juste Aurèle Meissonnier

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Initial letter D

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 15th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome underglaze painted under colorless glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Glass roundel with head of Herakles

date: ca. 2nd century BCE

medium: Glass, gold ? [No gold - CSL]

country: Greek (?)

subjects: Glass Greek


title: Design Amulet in the Form of a Fly

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Card Number 385, Pauline Markham, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Beads

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Glass and crystal

subjects:
Jewelry
Japan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Netsuke of Boy

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain painted in enamel colors

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Ellen Barker, 1942


title: Dance ensemble

date: 20th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Teiji Ito, in memory of Yuji and Teiko Ito, 1964


title: Figure of a Cow

medium: Porcelain decorated in blue under the glaze (Arita ware, Imari type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Penannular Earring

medium: Gold

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Broadside with 48 scenes of different subjects

creator: Antonio Bosch

medium: Etching (photo-relief?)

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Fragment of a Box

date: ca. 5th century

medium: Stone

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

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


title: Chin Mask (Ho-ate) with Gorget

medium: Iron, lacquer, silk, leather

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Vase
Roman, gaul

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

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


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: Altar Cruet

medium: Champlevé enamel and gilded copper

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: The Sentinels. C. Grove

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: The Peasant and His Wife

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Head of Ceres

date: mid-19th century

medium: Sardonyx and silver-gilt

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: Timothy John "Tim" Keefe, Pitcher, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Creamer

creator: Gorham Manufacturing Company

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Gift of D. Frederick Baker and the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2016


title: Seal Matrix

date: 19th or 20th century (13th century style)

medium: Bronze

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Metalwork-bronze
South netherlandish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1981


title: Bracelet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Design for Landau, No. 4179

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Plaque

date: second quarter 13th century

medium: Champlevé enamel, copper


title: Aryballos (perfume vase) with trefoil opening

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Faience


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Victor Vanhove

creator: Félicien Rops

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Dana Broccoli, 1981


title: Valentine

creator: Esther Howland

medium: Cameo-embossed  lace paper, chromolithography, metallic die-cut, graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Jar

date: ca. 6th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Isis amulet

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: The Egyptians Crossing the Red Sea, from Das Buch Granatapfel

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut and letterpress

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


title: Artists Examining the Work of a Rival (Artistes en train d'examiner le tableau d'un rival), from Le Public du Salon, published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: White-Throated Shag, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Pin

medium: enamel

credit_line: Gift of Miss Jessie Rosenfeld, 1943


title: Outer Robe (Uchikake) with Maple Tree and River

date: first half of the 20th century

medium: Resist-dyed silk satin damask embroidered with silk and metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan
Trees

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Cory, 1962


title: Actress wearing feathered costume, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 1888


title: Two Courtesans and a Geisha

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Bellows

date: late 16th century

medium: Walnut, bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Card 467, Estelle Clayton, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


title: Seven Designs for Hats.

creator: Baccio del Bianco

medium: Brown ink and washes

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


title: Dawn (Head of Hypnos)

creator: Simeon Solomon

medium: Blue, red, brown and black chalk; framing lines in black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


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


title: Tulip vase from a garniture

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamel, gold

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


title: Volute-krater fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Tankard

creator: Frederick Bassett

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, in memory of her husband, 1940


title: Painted Box for Game Pieces

medium: Wood, polychromy and metal mounts

country: German

subjects: Woodwork-furniture German

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1976


title: Bronze cylindrical cup

date: ca. 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: China (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Barrel Piano

creator: George Hicks

medium: Wood, various materials

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Jernegan's Lottery Medal

creator: John Sigismund Tanner

medium: Silver, struck

credit_line: Gift of Edward Holbrook, 1906


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, sporadic pigment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Candelabrum (one of a pair)

creator: Villeroy

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze mounts

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


title: Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono)

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

subjects:
Japanese
Sword furniture-fittings, sets of

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


title: Wine bottle

medium: Porcelain decorated with colored enamels (Hizen ware, Kutani type)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Section of a Columbarium

creator: Pietro Paolo Coccetti (Cocchetti)

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

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


title: Morning dress

date: late 1870s

medium: cotton

country: probably American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Probably american

credit_line: Gift of Art Worker's Club, 1945


title: Piece

medium: woven

country: Chinese

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


title: Blouse

medium: [no medium available]

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Beaker

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Zita Spiss, in memory of her father, Julius Triger, 1990


title: Design for an Oval Mirror over a Side Table

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Brush and watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Nefertum

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Tea gown

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. R. Turner Wilcox, 1955


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Guanyin Figure

date: 18th century

medium: Soapstone

country: China

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

creator: David Claypoole Johnston

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed, open-work lace paper, colored paper, green ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: See 09.180.1605

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vase

medium: Blown overlay glass

country: British, probably

credit_line: Gift of Jerome Gratenstein, 1973


title: Fatigue Dress, Artillery, United States Army, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Bead with Faces

date: 4th–8th century

medium: Jade Quartz (chrysoprase or prase)

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Atlantic watershed
Beads-ornament

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


title: Ensemble

credit_line: Gift of Ida Lincoln Cooper, 1943


title: Design for a Chimneypiece

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

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


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Wedding veil

date: late 19th century

medium: linen, silk, metal, glass

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1931


title: Palatium Valerianu[m], from a series depicting (reconstructed) buildings from Roman antiquity

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Edward Pearce Casey Fund and Carolyn H. Specht Gift, 2016


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Orphrey woven with figurative repeat design of seraphim with IHS Christogram in glories

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silk and linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, 1933


title: Double collar

medium: cotton

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, 1949


title: Bead in the Form of a Persea Fruit

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Ornament for deity

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold with precious stones

country: Nepal

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Nepal

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Sallet

medium: Steel

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Helmet
Italian, milan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Terracotta conical-hemispherical spindle-whorl with flat base

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: "Portrait of Jahangir Holding Flower", Folio from the Davis Album

date: second half 17th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Flowers Portraits

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


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 51r)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Count William III of Holland Permitting the Beheading of his Bailiff, plate 7 from "Thronus Justitiae, tredecim pulcherrimus tabulis..."

creator: Willem van Swanenburg

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

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


title: Virgin and Child

medium: Limestone with original paint, gilding, and glass

subjects: Sculpture French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1937


title: Capital

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Retablo Design with Figures

creator: Anonymous, Spanish, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk

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


title: Ingirisu-jin

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

date: 1863, 7th month (Bunkyu 3)

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1960


title: Gareth and Lynette

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952


title: The Letter

creator: Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1912


title: Akasaka Kiri-Ratake Uchu Yu Kei

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Alice Evans, 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: Harbor Scene

creator: Flemish Painter

medium: Vellum

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Design for a Monogram Surmounted by a Crown

creator: Charles Monblond

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink

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


title: Moses Telling the Israelites to Gather the Manna and Moses Striking the Rock

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Tār

medium: Wood, bladder?, bone, mother-of-pearl

country: Iranian (Persian)

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-plucked-fretted
Iranian (persian)
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Spindle

date: 2nd–7th century

medium: Thorn, ceramic, thread

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-implement

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


title: Limestone head of Apollo

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Card and backgammon table

medium: Mahogany, mahogany veneer, inlaid maple, beech, yellow poplar, white pine; brass

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Inscribed limestone base

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Roman, cypriot


title: Terracotta vase in the form of a basket

date: late 8th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Gift of the Greek Government, 1930


title: Chiriu, Station No. 40

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

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


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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk on canvas

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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


title: Dish

creator: Bernard Palissy

date: first half 17th century

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Shoes

medium: leather

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Clarence R. Hyde, 1928


title: Fragment of a Canopic Chest of Queen Tiya

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Sword-Hilt Collar (Fuchi)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: S. Athanase, évêque (St. Athanasius, Bishop), May 2nd, 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: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: 6th century/early 5th century BCE

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


title: The Fountain Worker

date: early 19th century

medium: Ink, wash, and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan)

credit_line: Gift of Subhash Kapoor, in memory of his parents, Smt Shashi Kanta and Shree Parshotam Ram Kapoor, 2008


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese


title: Le Tombeau (The Tomb), plate 20 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Cape

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, 1888


title: Openwork Fitting

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2003


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: St. Peter's in the East, Oxford

creator: Alfred Capel Cure

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

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


title: Landscape

creator: Constant Troyon

medium: Watercolor

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

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


title: Collar

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss Jessie Rosenfeld, 1943


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Stanza de Venti nel Teatro di Belvedere di Frascati (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 2, 'Le fontane delle ville di Frascati' (plate 7)

creator: Giovanni Battista Falda

date: 1691 or after

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of D. W. Langton, transferred from the Library


title: Door panel

creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

medium: Oak, painted and gilded

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Composite Elephant

date: early 17th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, Rogers Fund, and Alastair B. Martin, Margaret Mushekian and Time-Life Inc. Gifts, 1985


title: Mortar

date: 12th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1927


title: Chinoiserie with a woman playing a musical instrument, from Suite de Figures Chinoises. . .Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt (Series of Chinoiserie Figures. . .From the Chambers of Mr. d'Azaincourt)

creator: Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Hoüel

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Varie Figuræ et Probæ

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; fourth state of five


title: Gold earring with convex disk and small disk

date: 1st–2nd century CE

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Relief fragment from a procession of attendants - see 31.3.1-1

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: In the Country Winter, from the Magic Changing Cards series (N223) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: The Irish Baronet and his Nurse

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 20, 1799

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Untitled

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: M.H. de Young, San Francisco Chronicle, from the American Editors series (N35) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Watch

creator: Frederick Courvoisier

medium: Gold, niello, silver

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


title: Bust of a Female (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

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

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a krater (deep bowl)

date: late 5th century BCE/early 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Vase with Two Winged Figures Draping a Term

creator: René Boyvin

date: 17th century (late)

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: A Sunday in the botanical gardens, published in Souvenirs d'Artistes

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

subjects: Botany Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Fringe

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

date: 19th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: The Virgin in profile facing right reading to the infant Christ

creator: Marco Dente

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


title: Vinaigrette

creator: William Thompson II

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Herbert K. Reis, in memory of Rose-Frances K. Reis (Mrs. Ralph A. Reis), 1983


title: Cephalus Receiving the Spear and Hound from Procris

creator: Laurent de La Hyre

medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1972


title: Panel

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vigil Light

creator: Richards and Hartley Flint Glass Co.

medium: Pressed colorless and opalescent glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941


title: Gilt silver phiale mesomphalos

date: late 5th century BCE

medium: Silver-gilt

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Gift of Mary and Michael Jaharis, in honor of Thomas P. Campbell, 2015


title: Puritan spoon

creator: Stephen Venables

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Dish with fish

date: late 16th century

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

country: China

subjects: Fish Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1923


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

date: 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Richard Bernard Godfrey

date: January 1, 1778

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Minerva and Mercury

creator: Domenico Marchetti

medium: Etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink; second state

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Cage crinoline

date: mid-19th century

medium: horsehair

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: St. Andrews. The Spindle Rock

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Inlay depicting male torso

medium: Shell

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Arch with Beasts

medium: Marble

country: French

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1922


title: Panel

creator: Jean Goujon

date: second half 16th century

medium: Carved walnut

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Link from a belt with Figure of Justice

date: late 16th century or second quarter 19th century

medium: Gold, enamel and rubies

country: possibly German; probably French or German

subjects: Jewelry, precious metal and precious stone

subjects: Possibly german; probably french or german

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Burgonet

medium: Steel, gold, copper alloy

subjects: Helmet French

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Don Luigi Meets Donna Anna in the Museum

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Earring, crescent-shaped

medium: Gold

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


title: Doctor's Sword (<i>Chatō</i>)

creator: Yoshiteru

medium: Wood, mother-of-pearl, silk

subjects: Sword Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Etsuko O. Morris and John H. Morris Jr., 2018


title: Pot

date: A.D. 3rd century

medium: Pottery


title: Mug

medium: Glass

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana Manuscript

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Mewar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, mewar)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Findlay, 1980


title: Lifting Engine "Vibbard" from Draw at Long Bridge, March 1864

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

date: March 1864

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Tucker Factory

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Allegory of Africa, from "The Four Continents"

creator: Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Segawa Kikunojo III in an Unidentified Role

creator: Tōshūsai Sharaku

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper with mica ground

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Finger stall

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1921–1922


title: Bridal casket

medium: Teak, mother-of-pearl veneer and painted interior with silver mounts

country: India, Gujarat, and Goa or Lisbon

subjects:
Shell
India, gujarat, and goa or lisbon
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund for Asian Art, 2024


title: Scarf

date: 18th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: Flemish

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Covered Jar with a scene of lotus pond

date: 16th century

medium: Stoneware with relief decoration under colored glaze (Fahua ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Two Children, One With A Sword, Another With A Helmet

creator: Gabriel Huquier

medium: Etching and Engraving

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


title: Portable hook

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Madame Lilliana Teruzzi, in memory of her mother, 1973


title: Mu Yu

date: early 20th century

medium: Wood, polychrome

country: Chinese

subjects:
Idiophone-struck-slit drum
Chinese

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2006


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Belt Buckle Attachment Plate Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Iron, silver overlay

country: Frankish or Burgundian

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
Frankish or burgundian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Twelve long-handled teaspoons

medium: Silver, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Donald Gill, 1990


title: Cosmetic spoon pendant

date: ca. 7th–9th century CE

medium: Metal

country: Alanic

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Simcox, 1999


title: Length

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Adele Pharo Azar, in memory of her late husband Jemile Wehby Azar, by exchange 1988


title: Actress wearing ornate headpiece, from Stars of the Stage, Third Series (N131) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Edging

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Collar

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 1888


title: Vest

medium: wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Lower Legs Fragment

medium: Marble

country: Coptic

subjects: Sculpture-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Dagger (Katar)

medium: Steel

country: Indian

subjects: Dagger Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


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


title: Sample

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Panel with Hunting Scenes

medium: Ivory

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2003


title: Stamp

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: The Lesson

creator: William G. Campbell

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Token of Abraham Lincoln

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Applique

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Alice Boney, 1955


title: Orpheus Charming the Animals

date: second quarter 17th century

medium: Canvas worked with silk thread; tent, stem, split, knot, long-and-short, and couching stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Sample

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of F.J. Schaetzel, 1919


title: Lev Shreve, Pitcher, Indianapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Plate 1, Outlines of Figures, Landscapes and Cattle...for the Use of Learners

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Shard

medium: Earthenware with dark blue glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Menke, 1982


title: Louisiana, from Flags of the States and Territories (N11) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Banknote vignette showing three men on a scaffold laying a brick wall

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving and etching; proof

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002


title: Napoléon III (1808–1873), Emperor of the French

creator: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and George Blumenthal Fund, Munsey and Fletcher Funds, funds from various donors, Agnes Shewan Rizzo Bequest and Mrs. Peter Oliver Gift, 1974


title: Lydie Barel, Des Bouffes, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


title: Catafalque

creator: Jeremias Gottlob Rugendas

medium: Engraving


title: Calf's head

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Casket with scenes of Genesis

creator: Suzanne de Court

date: first quarter 17th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt; silver mounts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mendelsohn, 1980


title: A standing man in a niche with his elbow resting on a column

creator: Bartolomeo Crivellari

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Plate 25: Robert Macaire, the genteel beggar, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953


title: Candlestick

date: late 13th–first half 14th century

medium: Brass; inlaid with silver, gold, and black compound

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


title: [Two Men by Monumental Elephant Statues, China]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1985


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948