title: Milk Jug


title: Teapot

creator: Staffordshire, England

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (creamware)

country: Staffordshire

subjects:
Teapot
Staffordshire
Earthenware
Ceramic
Creamware
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware

source: Art Institute of Chicago

source_id: aic

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — CC0 via the Art Institute of Chicago Open Access programme.

credit_line: Gift of Harry A. Root, Jr. in memory of Curtis Chapin Palmer


title: Cream Jug

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

subjects:
Stoneware
Staffordshire
Salt-glazed stoneware
Ceramic
European decorative arts


title: Milk Jug

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Creamware
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware


title: Ale Jug

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (creamware) and polychrome enamels

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Creamware
Lead-glazed earthenware
Ceramic
European decorative arts


title: Teapot

subjects:
Teapot
Staffordshire
Earthenware
European decorative arts
Ceramic
Creamware
Lead-glazed earthenware


title: Bowl

creator: Attributed to Wedgwood Manufactory

medium: Stoneware (redware)

country: Burslem

subjects:
Bowl
Burslem
Stoneware
Redware
Ceramic
Dish (vessel)
European decorative arts


title: Sauceboat

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware, polychrome enamels

subjects:
Salt-glazed stoneware
Staffordshire
Stoneware
European decorative arts
Ceramic


title: Teapot

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (agateware)

subjects:
Teapot
Staffordshire
Earthenware
Lead-glazed earthenware
Agateware
Ceramic
European decorative arts


title: Monk

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Lead-glazed earthenware
Agateware
Ceramic
European decorative arts


title: Teapot

creator: Staffordshire or Yorkshire, England

subjects:
Teapot
Staffordshire
Earthenware
Creamware
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware


title: Snuff Box

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Ceramic
Creamware
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware


title: Lion


title: Tankard

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (redware), slip-decorated

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Staffordshire
Ships & the sea
Earthenware
European decorative arts
Ceramic
Redware
Lead-glazed earthenware


title: Teapot Depicting Aurora in a Chariot

creator: Leeds, England

country: Leeds

subjects:
Teapot
Leed
Earthenware
Lead-glazed earthenware
Creamware
Ceramic
European decorative arts


title: Dish

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
Staffordshire
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Salt-glazed stoneware
European decorative arts
Ceramic


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware (creamware)

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
Staffordshire
Earthenware
Dish (vessel)
European decorative arts
Creamware
Ceramic


title: Vase

creator: England, Staffordshire or Yorkshire

subjects:
Vase
Staffordshire
Earthenware
Vessel
Creamware
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware


title: Teapot


title: Teapot

subjects:
Teapot
Staffordshire
Stoneware
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Salt-glazed stoneware


title: Teapot


title: Mug

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware, slip-decorated

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
European decorative arts
Ceramic
Lead-glazed earthenware


title: Basket

subjects:
Tableware
Staffordshire
Stoneware
European decorative arts
Ceramic
Salt-glazed stoneware


title: Miniature Coffee Pot


title: Plate

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
Staffordshire
Earthenware
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
Creamware
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware


title: Teapot

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (redware)

subjects:
Teapot
Staffordshire
Earthenware
Lead-glazed earthenware
Redware
Ceramic
European decorative arts


title: Wall Pocket


title: Cup and Saucer

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (blackware)

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Staffordshire
Ships & the sea
Earthenware
Ceramic
Lead-glazed earthenware
Blackware (black basaltes)
European decorative arts


title: Figure of a Sage

subjects:
Stoneware
Staffordshire
Salt-glazed stoneware
European decorative arts
Ceramic


title: Plate

creator: Théodore Haviland

medium: Porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding

country: France

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
France
Porcelain
Dish (vessel)
European decorative arts
Ceramic
Tableware

credit_line: Dr. Victor Levine gift in memory of his wife Wilhelmena Warner Levine


title: Plate

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
France
Porcelain
Dish (vessel)
Tableware
European decorative arts
Ceramic


title: Man as Old Age

creator: Possibly Ralph Wood

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (pearlware)

subjects:
Earthenware
Burslem
European decorative arts
Pearlware
Ceramic
Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Plate

creator: Worcester Porcelain Factory (Flight, Barr & Barr Period,1813—1840)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding

country: Worcester

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Tableware
Dish (vessel)
European decorative arts
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard C. Lydy through the Antiquarian Society


title: Goat

creator: England, Staffordshire

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
European decorative arts
Ceramic
Creamware
Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Bequest of Mildred Hofeller for the Betje and Simon Straus Collection


title: Vase

creator: England, Yorkshire

country: Yorkshire

subjects:
Vase
Yorkshire
Earthenware
Vessel
Pearlware
European decorative arts
Ceramic
Creamware
Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Señor Felipe De Espil


title: Teapot

creator: Worcester Porcelain Factory (Warmstry House Period, 1751–1783)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, underglaze blue decoration

subjects:
Teapot
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
European decorative arts
Porcelain
Ceramic
Teaware


title: Coffee Pot

subjects:
Teaware
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
Porcelain
European decorative arts
Ceramic


title: Teacup and Saucer

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Worcester
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Teaware


title: Sugar Bowl and Lid

subjects:
Sugar bowl
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Teaware


title: Slop Bowl

subjects:
Slop bowl
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Teaware


title: Coffee Cup and Saucer


title: Vase (part of a pair)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, underglaze blue, polychrome enamels and gilding

subjects:
Vase
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
European decorative arts
Porcelain
Vessel
Ceramic

credit_line: Joseph Maier and Arthur Lewis Liebman Memorial: Gift of Kenneth J. Maier, M.D.


title: Basket

subjects:
Tableware
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Ceramic
European decorative arts


title: Jar

creator: Svend Hammershøi

medium: Earthenware

country: Denmark

subjects:
Ceramic
Denmark
Cats
Forming
Arts and craft movement
Earthenware
Vessel
Glaze
Coloring
Decoration (process)
Firing (heating)
Glazing
Sculpting
Throwing (pottery technique)

credit_line: Gift of Sylvain Bellenger


title: Plate in the Three Chinese Houses Pattern

creator: Dublin, Ireland

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Dublin

subjects:
Ornament & design
Earthenware
Dublin
Landscape
Chinoiserie
Firing (heating)
Plate (general, dish)
Decorative arts
Tin glaze
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Delft
Glaze
Underglaze blue
Kiln

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Peter Spang III


subjects:
Ornament & design
Earthenware
Dublin
Landscape
Chinoiserie
Firing (heating)
Tin glaze
Decorative arts
Plate (general, dish)
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Delft
Glaze
Underglaze blue
Kiln


title: Covered Vase

creator: Crown Derby (England, founded 1750)

medium: Bone china, enamel, and gilding

country: England

subjects:
Ceramic
England
Skeletons & bones
Vase
Porcelain
Enameling
Aestheticism
Bone china
Enamel
Gilding
Slip casting
Aesthetic movement
English

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman


title: Pair of Covered Vases

subjects:
Ceramic
England
Skeletons & bones
Vase
Porcelain
Enameling
Aesthetic movement
Bone china
Enamel
Gilding
Slip casting
Aestheticism


title: Vase

creator: Ernest Chaplet (French, 1835-1909)

medium: Glazed porcelain

country: Sèvres

subjects:
France
Sèvre
Vase
Porcelain
Molding
Studio pottery
Glaze
Firing (heating)
Fin de siècle

credit_line: Partial gift of Jason Jacques; Irish Gala Purchase and Paul H. Leffmann funds


title: Tea Service

creator: Designed by Thomas Blocksidge (English)

country: Shropshire

subjects:
Ceramic
Shropshire
Skeletons & bones
Tea
Tea service
Porcelain
Enameling
Japanism
Bone china
Enamel
Gilding
Slip casting
Aesthetic movement
Aestheticism
Japonism


title: Flask

creator: Ancient Mediterranean

date: 4th century

medium: Glass

country: Syria

subjects:
Glass
Syria
Vessel
Palestinian
Syrian
Ancient art

credit_line: Gift of Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson


title: Paternal Complacency

creator: Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793)

medium: Chalk manner in black and white on blue laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
France
Ink
Paper
Chalk manner
Print
Laid paper

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund


title: Laffitte Street

creator: Jean Louis Forain

medium: Lithograph on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Albert Roullier Memorial Collection


title: "I don't dare take them down yet...it would hurt him too much"

medium: Lithograph on ivory vellum paper

credit_line: Gift of Frank B. Hubachek


title: Courtesan

creator: Artist unknown

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment


title: Crow on a Tree

creator: Shinso Yogetsu

date: Late 15th century

medium: Hanging scroll; Ink on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Trees
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Frederick W. Gookin Collection


title: Young Nobleman Admiring a Moonlit Garden, from the series Ise Shunkyo

creator: Yanagawa Shigenobu II (Japanese, active 1820)

date: 19th century

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono (fascimile)

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Bequest of Celia Schmidt


title: A sheet from a shunga album

creator: Japanese

medium: Woodblock print; sumizuri-e

credit_line: Gift of Robert G. Sawers, London, England


title: A sheet from a shunga album

creator: Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, d.1694)

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Bamboo and Fences

creator: Tosa Mitsuoki

medium: One of a pair of six-fold screens; ink and light color on paper

subjects:
Screen
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Purchased with the Kate Buckingham Fund


title: Go Player dreaming of Chinese Sages playing Go

creator: Dunken (Japanese, active 19th century)

medium: Color woodblock print

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Mr. Edward Nahem purchased from. Louise Lutz purchased with funds provided by


title: Falconers on a Hunt

creator: Yabu Chosui (Japanese, 1814-c. 1870)

subjects:
Print
Japan
Asian art


title: Preparing to Serve Fish

creator: Nishiyama Hoen (Japanese, 1804-1867)

subjects:
Fish
Print
Japan
Asian art


title: Festive Gathering

creator: Eisai (Japanese, active mid-19th century)


title: Two Ladies Looking at an Insect Cage

creator: Shoji (Japanese, active 19th century)

subjects:
Print
Japan
Insects
Asian art


title: Incense Burner. Chrysanthemums, and Camellias

creator: Tanaka Shutei (Japanese, 1810-1858)


title: A Gathering of Monks


title: The Bamboo Cutter and the Moonchild

creator: Eisai (Japanese, mid-19th century)


title: Docked boats

creator: Numata Gessai (Japanese, 1787-1864)

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

credit_line: Purchased from Gallery Edo NYC. Nathalie Gookin Fund in memory of Frederick Gookin


title: Unknown

creator: Seki Suigaku (Japanese, active 19th century)


title: Poem Slips

creator: Insai (Japanese, active 1847-59)


title: Elongated Ovoid Vase (Meiping) with Stylized Flowers

creator: China

date: Jin dynasty (1115–1234), 12th century

medium: Cizhou ware; slip-coated stoneware with incised, combed, and overglaze painting in iron brown

country: China

subjects:
Vase
China
Flowers
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Russell Tyson


title: Viola Surviving the Shipwreck off the Coast of Illyria, from “Twelfth Night”

creator: George Romney

medium: Black chalk and charcoal on ivory laid paper, edge mounted on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
England
Paper (fiber product)
Charcoal
Chalk
Drawing (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Chief's Poncho

creator: Mapuche

medium: Wool, stripes of plain weave, warp ikat plain weave, and-two color complementary warp weave; plied warp fringe

country: Chile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Chile
Wool (textile)
Folk art
Weaving
Costume
Latin american

credit_line: Gift of The Chicago Public School Art Society


title: A Cow and Three Sheep

creator: Adriaen van de Velde

medium: Etching on paper

country: Holland

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Man Lighting a Rocket, also called Peace is Better than a Victory, from Communia Gaudia (The Wide-Spread Rejoicing at the Siege of Namur)

creator: Cornelis Dusart (Dutch, 1660-1704)

medium: Mezzotint in black on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Stanley Field Fund


title: Two Cows under a Tree

medium: Etching, printed in black, on paper

subjects:
Print
Holland
Trees
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Woolf


title: Woman Lighting a Rocket, also called Peace Gets Me Going, from Communia Gaudia (The Wide-Spread Rejoicing at the Siege of Namur)

subjects:
Mezzotint
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: The Battlefield

creator: Karel Dujardin

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection


title: Triton Blowing a Conch

creator: Jacques de Gheyn III

medium: Etching in black on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Etching
Netherland
Ink
Print
Laid paper
Paper
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund


title: Sarape

creator: Mexico, possibly Saltillo

medium: Cotton and wool, single dovetail tapestry weave

country: Mexico

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Mexico
Folk art
Weaving
Latin american

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Pair of Side Chairs

creator: Artist unknown (American, 18th century)

medium: Mahogany, white pine, American sweetgum, and upholstery

country: Boston

subjects:
Seating
Boston
Furniture
Mahogany
Pine
American decorative arts
American arts

credit_line: Gift of Wayne F. Miller


title: Panel

creator: Italy

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary binding wefts and two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut and voided velvet

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving - velvet
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. John V. Farwell III


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: United States

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller and engraved roller printed

country: United States

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Propaganda
Roller printing
Weaving - printed
Engraved roller printing
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland Memorial Fund


title: Sarape

medium: Cotton and wool, slit tapestry weave with warp fringe

credit_line: Gift of Robert Brady in honor of John Maxon


title: Veilleuse

creator: Staffordshire, England

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (creamware)

country: Staffordshire

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Ceramic
Creamware
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Harry A. Root, Jr. in memory of Curtis Chapin Palmer


title: Plate

creator: England, Staffordshire

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
Staffordshire
Earthenware
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Creamware
Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: The Amelia Blanxius Memorial Collection, gift of Emma B. Hodge and Jene E. Bell


title: Potpourri Vase with Shepherdess

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels and gilding

country: Chelsea

subjects:
Vase
Chelsea
Dogs
Animal
Soft-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Vessel
European decorative arts
Ceramic


title: Jug

creator: Worcester Porcelain Factory (Warmstry House Period, 1751–1783)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, transfer-printed decoration

country: Worcester

subjects:
Tableware
Worcester
Soft-paste porcelain
Porcelain
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts

credit_line: The Amelia Blanxius Memorial Collection, gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Potpourri Vase with Shepherd

subjects:
Vase
Chelsea
Dogs
Animal
Soft-paste porcelain
Rococo
Porcelain
Vessel
European decorative arts
Ceramic


title: Panel Showing Christ's Entrance into Jerusalem

creator: Germany, Schleswig-Holstein (from North Friesland, Bredstedt)

date: 17th century

medium: Linen and wool, plain weave, tied and free double cloth

country: Schleswig-Holstein

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Schleswig-holstein
Weaving

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Walter Byron Smith


title: Bag

creator: England or United States, New England

medium: Linen, twill weave; embroidered in wool threads (crewelwork) in chain stitch

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Fashion
Linen (material)
Twill weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Bag - needlework
Costume accessory - bag
Embroidering
Wool (textile)
Costume

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mildred Davison in honor of Mrs. John V. Farwell III


title: Petticoat

creator: United States, probably Rhode Island

medium: Silk, plain weave; backed with wool, plain weave; quilted with silk thread; batting of wool; top edge facing of wool, twill weave; skirt and side binding of silk, satin damask weave

country: Rhode Island

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Rhode island
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Textile Purchase Fund


title: Panel

creator: England

medium: Wool, worsted, damask weave; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Embroidery

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by John Maxon in honor of Mildred Davison


title: Chasuble

medium: Silk, plain weave; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in chain, individual back, running, and stem stitches; spangles; edged with silk, warp-faced cut weft fringe; lined with silk, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Needlework (visual works)
Liturgical
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. John D. Farwell III


title: Three friends Ikebana

creator: Utagawa Toyhiro (Japanese, 1773-1828)

date: Late 18th-early 19th century

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flora
Green (color)
Domestic scene
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Henderson


title: Cat

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware (agateware)

subjects:
Stoneware
Staffordshire
Cats
Animal
Ceramic
Salt-glazed stoneware
Agateware
European decorative arts


title: Ewe

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Creamware
Ceramic
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware


title: Cat

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (agateware)

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Cats
Animal
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware
Agateware
Ceramic


title: Ram


title: Cow

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Creamware
European decorative arts
Lead-glazed earthenware
Ceramic


title: Fox


title: Cat

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Cats
Animal
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts
Creamware
Lead-glazed earthenware


title: Horse and Rider

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware (creamware and redware)

subjects:
Earthenware
Staffordshire
Creamware
European decorative arts
Redware
Ceramic
Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Robert J. Dunham


title: Coffee Can and Saucer

creator: Wedgwood Manufactory

medium: Stoneware (jasperware)

country: Burslem

subjects:
Teaware
Burslem
Jasper ware
Stoneware
Ceramic
Inorganic material
European decorative arts

credit_line: The Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection of Old Wedgwood


title: Dish

creator: Designed by John Simpson III

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware, slip decorated

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
Staffordshire
Ships & the sea
Earthenware
European decorative arts
Ceramic

credit_line: Atlan Ceramic Club Fund


title: Praying Stool Cover (Prie-Dieu)

creator: France

medium: Wool, twill weave; embroidered with wool yarns in satin and outline stitches; French knots

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Coat of arms
Royalty
Wool (textile)
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of the North Shore Suburban Embroiderers' Guild


title: Beaker

creator: Augsburg, Germany

medium: Parcel gilt silver

country: Augsburg

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Augsburg
Ships & the sea
Silver
Metalwork
European decorative arts

credit_line: Miss Marjorie Kirk in memory of Max G. Kirk


title: Panel

medium: Silk, gilt metal strips, and gilt metal strips wound around silk fiber core, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary binding warps tying some supplemenatary brocading wefts in plain interlacing (lampas)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Fashion
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Julian Armstrong, Jr.


title: Panel

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts bound in twill interlacings and self-patterning ground wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in plain interlacings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Tiffany Blake


title: Panel (Dress Fabric)

creator: France, probably Lyon

medium: Silk, satin; brocaded in silk and metal thread


title: Two Panels

creator: France, Lyon

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and self-patterning ground wefts

country: Lyon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Lyon
Weaving
Silk (fiber)


title: Panel

medium: Silk, stripes of warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave and of plain weave with complementary ground weft patterning

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving


title: Scarf Commemorating the World's Columbian Exposition

creator: United States, Illinois, Chicago

medium: Silk, weft-float faced satin weave self-patterned by main warp floats and areas of plain interlacing; extended ground weft cut fringe; woven on loom with Jacquard attachment; signature embroidered in couching

country: Chicago

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Chicago
Propaganda
Exposition
World' fair
Satin weaving
Silk (textile)
Weaving
Fringed
Couching (embroidering)
Embroidering
Fringe
Costume

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Christa C. Mayer Thurman


title: Panel

medium: Silk, stripes of warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps and plain weave; watered (moire)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor


title: Panel

date: Mid–18th century

medium: Silk, satin weave; brocaded

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Fragment

creator: Italy

date: 13th century

medium: Silk, twill weave, brocaded with metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. John D. Farwell, III


title: Tablecloth

creator: Germany, Nüremberg

medium: Linen, compound weave with insertions of brocaded linen

country: Nuremberg

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Nuremberg
Weaving


title: Apron

medium: Linen, plain weave; pulled thread work with silk floss in two-sided Italian cross stitch; inside waistband gathered by feather, running, and back filling stitches; edged in silk, warp twining with ground weft fringe, attached by buttonhole and detached buttonhole stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Fashion
Costume
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Fragment

date: late 14th century

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 2:1 twill weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Fragment with the Gyr Family Coat of Arms

creator: Germany, Cologne

date: 14th century

medium: Wool and linen, three and four color complementary weft, weft-float faced twill weave with inner warps

country: Cologne

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Cologne
Coat of arms
Royalty
Wool (textile)
Weaving


title: Panel

creator: Probably designed by Imitator of Jacques Courtois (French, active c. 1732)

medium: Silk and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and some self-patterning ground wefts

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Laurance H. Armour, Jr. and Margot B. Armour Family Foundation


title: Fragment

creator: Italy, Florence or Lucca

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving - velvet
Silk (fiber)


title: Stomacher

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, plain weave with needlework in silk; gold and silver foil wound around silk fibre core

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Louise Lutz


title: Length of Woven Silk

creator: France or Italy

medium: Silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts

subjects:
Weaving
France
Flower
Garland
Gold (color)
Floral motif
Floral
Foliage
Abstract shape
Satin weaving
Silk (textile)
"bizarre" style
Brocading
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Textile
Silk

credit_line: Purchased with proceeds from the Bonwit Teller Benefit


title: Panel

creator: England, Spitalfields

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps, supplementary brocading wefts, and self-patterned by ground weft floats

country: Spitalfields

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spitalfield
Fashion
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Weaving
Warp patterning

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mildred Davison in honor of Louise Lutz


title: Chasuble Showing the Arms of France

creator: Flanders, France or Spain

date: 16th century

medium: Linen and wool, plain weave with supplementary pile warps forming solid cut and uncut velvet; stamped; (known as velours de trek); edged with linen, warp-faced plain weave with extended ground weft uncut fringe off one side; lined with linen, plain weave; glazed

country: Flanders

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Flander
Coat of arms
Royalty
Costume
Weaving - velvet
Liturgical


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

medium: Silk, plain weave; painted; two panels pieced

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Weaving - printed
Piecing (needleworking)
Painting (image making)
Paint
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Don H. Reuben


title: Panel (Showing Symbols of the Four Seasons)

medium: Silk, satin weave self-patterned by reversing of faces; embroidered with silk floss, gold and silver gilt strips wound around silk fiber cores, in cross, running, satin, padded satin and split stitches; French knots; couching and laidwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Fashion
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Gold-gilted-silver-strip-wrapped silk
Couching (embroidering)
Embroidering
Knotting
Laid work

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Needlework and Textile Guild and the Frances Glessner Lee Foundation


title: Panel

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave self-patterned by floats of complementary ground wefts and by areas of plain interlacing

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Fashion
Satin weaving
Silk (textile)
Weaving

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Frances G. Lee Foundation


title: Panel

medium: Silk, warp-faced plain weave; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Fashion
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Textile Purchase Fund


title: Panel

medium: Silk, plain weave with brocading wefts


title: Fragment (Cut/Slashed)

medium: Silk, warp-float faced broken twill weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvet; slashed

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Fashion
Renaissance
Weaving - velvet
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Barrington Community Associates in honor of Christa C. Mayer Thurman


title: Panel (Dress Fabric)

medium: Silk, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with secondary binding warps tying supplementary patterning wefts, supplementary brocading wefts, and self-patterning ground wefts in 3:1 and 2:2 twill interlacing

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
"bizarre" style
Weaving
Silk (fiber)


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: Engraved by François Pieters (French, active c. 1830)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed

country: Munster

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Munster
Cotton (textile)
Copperplate printing
Plain weaving
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Robert Hixon Glore


title: Panel

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary binding warps tying supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts in weft-float faced 3:1 twill interlacing; two panels and one fragment pieced

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Weaving
Silk (fiber)


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Munster
Copperplate printing
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile


title: Panel

date: Directoire period, 1795/99

medium: Silk, warp-float faced satin weave, with areas of twill and plain weave, weft floats

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Women
Coat of arms
Swag
Royalty
Directoire
Silk (fiber)
Satin weaving
Weaving
European


title: Panel

creator: Probably Germany or Sweden

medium: Silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary brocading wefts

country: Germany

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Germany
Flower
Fountain
Garland
Silk (fiber)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Brocading

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Village Associates of the Woman's Board


title: Border

medium: Silk, warp-float faced satin weave; embroidered in satin stitch

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Fur
Satin weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Embroidering


title: Panel

creator: Possibly France (possibly for export)

medium: Silk, silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-stripe plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts and supplementary brocading wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Weaving
Silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk

credit_line: Royalties from The Warner Fund


title: Panel

medium: Silk and gilt strip wound around a silk fiber core, plain weave; with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Silk (fiber)
Plain weaving
"bizarre" style
Weaving

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Baruch


title: Bag

creator: England

medium: Silk, weft-float faced satin weave; embroidered in silk threads and gilt strip wound around a silk fiber core in couching and padded couching stitches; looped fringe attached in seams; draw-strings: silk, braid, terminating in tassels, interlaced through holes cut along upper edge; lining; silk, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Satin weaving
Silk (textile)
Bag - needlework
Costume accessory - bag
Costume accessory
Embroidering
Costume

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. William O. Petersen in honor of Mrs. John V. Farwell III


title: Panel

creator: Italy or Spain

medium: Silk and linen, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in weft-float faced 3:1 twill interlacings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving
Silk (fiber)


title: Double Bag

creator: France

medium: Silk, warp float-faced satin weave; with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts tied by main warp in twill weave; under side: silk, satin damask weave; blue lining: silk, satin damask weave; red lining: silk, warp-faced weft rib plain weave with ground weft fringe; braid and drawstring of silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Satin weaving
Silk (textile)
Costume accessory - bag


title: Caudle Cup

creator: Lambeth, England

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Lambeth

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Lambeth
Ships & the sea
Earthenware
European decorative arts
Ceramic

credit_line: Annette M. Chapin Fund


title: Tile with Moulded Floral Design

creator: Iran

date: 14th/15th century

medium: Fritware with molded decoration under opaque turquoise glaze

country: Iran

subjects:
Ceramic
Iran
Flowers
Asian art
Architectural fragment

credit_line: Logan-Patten-Ryerson collection


title: Zoomorphic Vessel

date: Early 13th century

medium: Fritware painted in black under a transparent turquoise glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
Iran
Ships & the sea
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph L. Valentine


title: Bowl wih Vegetal Decoration

date: 13th/14th century

subjects:
Ceramic
Iran
Sultanabad
Asian art
Decorative arts


title: Bowl with Hounds Chasing Hares

date: Late 12th/early 13th century

medium: Lusterware, fritware painted in blue and luster on an opaque white glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
Iran
Rayy
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Logan-Patten-Ryerson Collection


title: Bowl with Incised Decoration

date: 10th/11th century

medium: Earthenware with incised decorations and polychrome painting under transparent glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
Iran
Amol
Abbasid
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Arthur Upham Pope, Logan-Patten-Ryerson collection


title: Dish with Floral Motifs

date: Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), 16th century

subjects:
Ceramic
Iran
Flowers
Kashan
Asian art
Decorative arts


title: Bowl with Incised Decoration

date: 11th/12th century


title: Pair of Bowls with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

medium: Mother-of-pearl inlay, silver base (?) and interior

country: China

subjects:
Lacquerware
China
Asian art

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Carved Lacquer Oval-Shaped Box

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 16th or 17th century

medium: Carved red lacquer

subjects:
Lacquer
China
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Herzman in memory of Gladys Wolfson Herzman


title: Lacquer Box with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

medium: lacquer box in shape of double stalk of bamboo, cover with nacre, inlay foliated panel of 3 scholars in garden, surrounding inlaid border composed of six-pointed stars in diamond outline pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Lacquer
China
Lacquerware
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pinsof


title: Covered Box with Plant and Cloud Motif

creator: Vietnam

date: Late 15th/early 16th century

medium: Glazed stoneware with cobalt-blue underglaze

country: Vietnam

subjects:
Botany
Ornament & design
Decorative arts
Vietnam
Porcelain
Southeast asian
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Gentles


title: Tiered and Covered Box

medium: Carved cinnabar lacquer, and black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

subjects:
Lacquer
China
Asian art
Decorative arts


title: Miniature Water Dropper in the Shape of a Blowfish

subjects:
Ornament & design
Decorative arts
Vietnam
Porcelain
Southeast asian
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Cheney Cowles


title: Portrait of Sailor

creator: Chute & Brooks (Charles Wallace Chute [American, 1846-1923] and Tomas Brooks [American, active 19th century];

medium: Albumen print

country: Uruguay

subjects:
Cabinet card (albumen)
Uruguay
Portraits
Albumen silver print
Photographic process
Photography
Photograph
Latin american

credit_line: Gift of Robert Jesmer


title: Emperor Song Taizu Visiting Scholar on Snowy Night

creator: Attributed to Zeng Jing （Chinese, 1568-1650 )

date: late 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Florence Ayscough and Harley Farnsworth MacNair


title: Title slip 山水册頁 封面

creator: Liu Songfu (Chinese, ?- c. 1917)

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Painting
China
Paper (fiber product)
Chinese (culture or style)
Album leaf


title: Winter: Women Enjoying Writing, Reading, and Plum Blossoms

creator: Artist unknown (Chinese, 19th century)

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

medium: Hanging scroll; color and gold on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China
Flowers
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Lawrence Longley


title: Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, South Side of Inscription Rock, N.M.- No. 3., from the album "Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian," vol. 1

creator: Timothy O'Sullivan

country: United States

subjects:
Albumen silver print
United state
Collected by hugh edward
Photographic process
Photography
Photograph

credit_line: Photography Gallery Fund


title: Geographical & Geological Explorations & Surveys West of the 100th Meridian

medium: Albumen prints in two bound albums

subjects:
Albumen silver print
United state
Collected by hugh edward
Photographic process
Photography
Stereograph (albumen)
Photograph


title: Panel from a Skirt

creator: Possibly designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite

medium: Silk, plain weave with weft-float faced 2:1 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and brocading wefts

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Weaving
Costume
Women artist

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. John V. Farwell III and Mildred Davison in honor of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Panel from a Skirt

creator: Possibly designed by Anna Maria Garthwaite (English, 1720–1756)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Costume
Women artist


title: Panel (From a Skirt)


title: Panel

creator: France, Villefranche

medium: Linen, plain weave; resist printed

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving - printed
Printed textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Walter Byron Smith


title: Panel

creator: Italy, Venice

medium: Silk, 4:1 satin weave self-patterned by reversing of faces (satin damask)

country: Venice

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Venice
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland; Textile Purchase Account


title: Panel (from a Fabric Type known as Calamanco)

medium: Wool, satin weave; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Wool (textile)
Weaving

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Chasuble

creator: Spain

medium: Silk, plain weave; slashed; appliquéd with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave, slashed and interlaced with a warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave strip, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, bobbin-made tapes; edged with silk, twined fringe; lined with cotton, plain weave

country: Spain

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain
Needlework (visual works)
Liturgical
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Mary and Leigh Block Endowment


title: Panel

creator: England

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Block printing
Weaving - printed
Printed textile

credit_line: Textile Purchase Fund


title: Panel

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Block printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Printed textile


title: Panel

creator: Possibly made by, but sold by Harvey Nichols & Co. Limited, founded in 1831

medium: Cotton; balanced plain weave; block printed; picotage; glazed


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: After Daniel Mytens, the elder (Dutch, c. 1590-1647)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Dogs
Animal
Queen
Royal personage
Royalty
Copperplate printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Printed textile
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Laurance H. Armour, Jr. and Margot B. Armour Family Foundation


title: Panel

creator: Possibly designed by Jean Baptiste Pillement

medium: Cotton and linen, plain weave; block printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Block printing
Weaving - printed
Printed textile


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Copperplate printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Furnishing textile


title: Panel (Pillar Print)

creator: Manufactured by Stead McAlpin & Co., founded in 1835

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller and block printed; painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Roller printing
Weaving
Weaving - printed
Block printing


title: Panel (Pillar Design)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller printed; additional colors added by block or surface roller

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Block printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Roller printing


title: Panel (Pillar Design)

medium: Cotton, plain weave, roller printed; painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Roller printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving


title: Panel

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller printed; glazed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Roller printing
Weaving
Weaving - printed
Printed textile


title: Fragment (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: Designed by J.J. Pearman (English, active c. 1900-1925)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed and painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Block printing
Weaving - printed
Weaving
Furnishing textile


title: Border

creator: England or United States

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave, glazed, roller printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Roller printing
Weaving - printed

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. William M. Spencer and Mrs. Brooks McCormick


title: Panel

creator: France

medium: Cotton (glazed chintz), plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Weaving - printed
Weaving


title: Border (Furnishing Fabric)


title: Border

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed; glazed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Block printing
Weaving - printed


title: Border

medium: Linen, plain weave; block printed


title: Border

medium: Cotton, plain weave; glazed; roller printed


title: Border

medium: Cotton, plain weaver; block printed


title: Border

medium: Cotton, twill weave; block printed


title: Border

medium: Cotton, plain weave, block printed


title: Border


title: Border

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block printed


title: Border

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Block printing
Weaving - printed


title: Fragment (Furnishing Fabric)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; roller printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Roller printing
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. William M. Spencer


title: Bedcover (Unfinished in Three Sections)

medium: Cotton, plain weave, quilted in parts, design stamped in ink, lined with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Quilting
Cotton (textile)
Needlework - quilt
Stamping (marking)
Printing
Lining (process)
Plain weaving

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mildred Davison


title: Fragment

medium: Wool, twill weave; roller printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Roller printing
Wool (textile)
Weaving - printed


title: bedcover (Unfinished in three sections)

subjects:
Needlework - quilt
France
Quilting
Cotton (textile)
Stamping (marking)
Printing
Plain weaving
Lining (process)
Textile


title: Bedcover (Unfinished in three sections)

subjects:
Needlework - quilt
France
Quilting
Cotton (textile)
Lining (process)
Plain weaving
Printing
Stamping (marking)
Textile


title: Panel

medium: Wool, plain leave; embroidered with wool in chain stitch and French knots

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Flower
Wool (textile)
Embroidering
Needlework (visual works)
Wool (hair)
Plain weaving

credit_line: Royalties from The Warner Company


title: Ikat-dyed Blanket

creator: Iban

medium: textile

country: Malaysia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Malaysia
Resist dyeing
Weaving
Ikat dyed

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Alsdorf Foundation


title: Sampler

creator: Probably executed by Maggie Curtain (Belgian, active c. 1887)

medium: Forty-two bands of cotton and linen, plain weaves with cut and drawn work and embroidered with cotton, linen, and silk; and of cotton and linen, crochet, knitting, lacis, and lace; backed with cotton, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; edged with silk, plain weave

country: Belgium

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Belgium
Needlework (visual works)
Sampler
Silk (fiber)
Women artist

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken


title: One of Sixteen Album Leaves

creator: Hu Gongshou 胡公壽 (Chinese, 1823-1886)

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1882

medium: Album leaf; ink on silk

subjects:
Album leaf
China
Silk (textile)
Ink
Asian art
Painting


title: Ikat-dyed Blanket

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Lawrence O'Connor


title: Woman's Mantle (Iskallu)

creator: Aymara

medium: Wool, plain weave; joined in darning stitches; braided edge

country: Bolivia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Bolivia
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving
Aymará
Weaving
Costume
Latin american

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society


title: Coca Bag (Chuspa)

medium: Wool, stripes of plain weave and two-color complementary warp weave; edge overcast and interlaced in crossed warp weave; strap: plain weave; wrapped tassels

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Bolivia
Plain weaving
Wool (textile)
Aymará
Weaving
Accessorie (object genre)
Costume accessory
Costume accessory - bag
Latin american


title: Coca or Ceremonial Cloth (Inkuña)

medium: Wool, stripes of plain weave and two-color complementary warp weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Bolivia
Aymará
Wool (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving
Latin american


title: Panel

creator: United States

medium: Wool, twill weave; embroidered in wool in satin and cross stitches; two widths joined by embroidered overcast stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Flower
Circle
People
Twill weaving
Wool (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Colcha stitch
Embroidering

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Julian Armstrong, Jr.


title: The Orchid Pavilion Gathering

creator: Artist unknown (Chinese, 19th century)

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 19th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and light color on silk

subjects:
Handscroll
China
Orchids
Silk (textile)
Chinese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey McCormick


title: Border

creator: France, probably Lyon

date: Empire period, c. 1810

medium: Silk, satin weave with twill interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary patterning wefts and self-patterning ground wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Empire
Weaving

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mildred Davison in honor of Christa C. Mayer Thurman


title: Panel

creator: England or France

date: 1875/1900 (based on design from 1820s)

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts tied by supplementary binding warps in weft-float faced 3:1 twill and plain interlacings; backed by plain weave of supplementary wefts tied by supplementary binding warps; Jacquard woven

subjects: Weaving on loom with jacquard attachment

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Louise Lutz


title: Border

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 3:1 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Flower
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Weaving


title: Panel

date: Empire period, c. 1800

medium: Silk, warp-faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 twill interlacings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Flower
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Empire
Weaving


title: Panel

medium: Silk and cotton, plain weave with self-patterning by two-color complementary ground wefts with supplementary pile warps forming cut, voided velvet

country: Northeastern France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Northeastern france
Flower
Urns
Directoire
Silk (textile)
Plain weaving
Weaving
European
Weaving - velvet
Cotton (textile)

credit_line: Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: Fragment of a Sampler

medium: Linen, plain weave; cut work with needle lace inserts; cut and drawn thread work embroidered in buttonhole, double hem, hem, and overcast stitches; date embroidered with cotton in cross stitches, Reticella pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Lace - needle

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. John V. Farwell III


title: Chair Cover

medium: Linen and silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back and tent stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Swag
Flower
Greek
Funerary art
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Empire
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (textile)
Embroidering

credit_line: Royalties from Perfect-Fit Industries and Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: Chair Cover

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back and tent stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Swag
Foliage
Funerary art
Urns
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Empire
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering


title: Panel

medium: Silk, stripes of warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; stripes of warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave self-patterned by ground weft floats; and stripes of plain weave self-patterned by ground weft floats

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Grape
Silk (textile)
Empire
Satin weaving
Weaving
European


title: Two Fragments

medium: Wool, twill weave; embroidered with wool yarns and linen thread in back, cross, running, satin and split stitches; couching; French knots and laid work

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Wool (textile)
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Panel

date: Empire period, 1804/14

medium: Silk and cotton, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut, voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Foliage
Empire
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Weaving
European
Weaving - velvet
Cotton (textile)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Barbara Campbell in memory of Martha Borland Willis


title: Panel

creator: France, Lyon

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and self-patterning ground wefts

country: Lyon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Lyon
Flower
Silk (textile)
Empire
Weaving


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: Manufactured by Robert Jones & Co.

medium: Linen and cotton, plain weave; copperplate and block printed

country: Middlesex

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Middlesex
Copperplate printing
Weaving - printed
Block printing
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Estate of Lila Erminger and the Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: Pillow Sham

creator: England

medium: Cotton, plain weave, underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and silk yarns in back, herringbone, individual satin, and satin stitches; laid work, couching, and French knots

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Plain weaving
Cotton (textile)
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering
Linen (material)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. John V. Farwell III


title: Pillow Sham

medium: Cotton, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and silk yarns in back, herringbone, running, and satin stitches; laid work, couching, and French knots;


title: Pillow Sham

medium: Cotton, plain weave; underlaid with linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and silk yarns in herringbone, individual satin, satin, and stem stitches; laid work, couching, and French knots


title: Patolu

creator: India, Gujarat

date: 18th/19th century

medium: Silk, cotton and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave, double ikat

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India
Plain weaving
Silk (textile)
Weaving
Weaving - printed
Ikat dyed
Cotton (textile)

credit_line: Gift of Robert T. Coffland in memory of Mary Hunt Kahlenberg


title: The Avenue

creator: Edouard Jean Vuillard

medium: Color lithograph, with touches of dark blue pastel, on grayish-ivory laid chine

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Fund, Harold Joachim Purchase Fund and William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: Poncho

creator: Peru or Bolivia

medium: Wool and cotton, plain weave with warp stripes and stripes of two color complementary warp weave; fringe

country: Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru
Plain weaving
Wool (textile)
Weaving
Cotton (textile)
Latin american

credit_line: Royalties from The Warner Fund


title: Landscape

creator: Artist unknown

date: 17th-18th century

medium: Handscroll; ink and colors on silk

subjects:
Handscroll
China
Landscapes
Silk (textile)
Chinese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Border

creator: Malta

medium: Silk, bobbin straight lace

country: Malta

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Malta
Lace - bobbin
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Edward Morris in memory of his wife


title: Cover

medium: Silk, bobbin straight lace (in concentric bands)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Albert Winston


title: Picture (Needlework)

creator: Europe or United States

date: Probably 19th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with wool yarns in cross, flat, tent and plush stitches

country: Europe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Europe
Bird
Animal
Cotton (textile)
Plain weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry C. Wood in memory of her mother, Sara Rozet Calvin


title: Untitled (Fern Study), c. 1850, from the Hatton Fern Album

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cyanotype and fern

subjects:
Cyanotype
England
Ferns
Photographic process
Photography
Photograph

credit_line: Henry Foundation Fund


title: Uxmal, Indian Bas Relief, Nun's Palace  (Uxmal, Bas Relief de l'Indien, Palais des Nonnes), plate 44 from the album "Cités et Ruines Américaines, Gide Paris" (1863)

creator: Désiré Charnay

medium: Albumen print

subjects:
Photograph
Pari
Albumen silver print
Photography

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Harvey and Beth Plotnick


title: Collar and Handkerchief

medium: Silk, bobbin straight lace (in strips); b: silk, plain weave; edged with silk, bobbin straight lace (in strips)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Malta
Lace - bobbin
Lace
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Winston


title: Hamlet and Guildenstern, plate 6 from Hamlet

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph in black on off-white China paper laid down on white wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Albert H. Wolf Memorial Collection


title: Going up the River at the Qingming Festival

creator: Attributed to Qiu Ying (Chinese, c.1495-1551)

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk.

country: China

subjects:
Handscroll
China
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Robert Sonnenschein


title: Border

creator: Italy

date: 1850/1900 (based on pattern from first half of 17th century)

medium: Linen, bobbin straight lace

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Lace - bobbin

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph L. Valentine


title: Borders

creator: Italy, Burano, Burano School of Lace

date: 1875/1900 (based on French lace of 1760s)

medium: Cotton, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Lace - needle

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Bentley Walker


title: Triumph of Caesar

creator: Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59–1629)

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black and light, medium and dark greenish gray on off-white laid paper

subjects:
Chiaroscuro woodcut
Italy
Woodcut (process)
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Woodcut
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of the Print and Drawing Club


title: Triumph of Caesar

subjects:
Chiaroscuro woodcut
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut
Print
Print and drawing


title: Triumph of Caesar

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black and light, medium and dark warm gray on off-white laid paper


title: Triumph of Caesar

creator: Andrea Andreani (Italian, 1558/59-1629)


title: Triumph of Caesar

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in black, light and medium brownish gray and dark gray on off-white laid paper


title: The Drowning of Pharaoh's Army

creator: Attributed to Martin Pepijn

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash with pen and black ink and opaque white watercolor on pieced, cream laid paper

country: Flanders

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Wash
Lead white
Opaque white pigment
White pigment
Pigment
Colorant
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Moses

creator: after Michelangelo Buonarroti

medium: Red chalk on ivory laid paper, laid down on gray wove paper

subjects:
Chalk
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Red chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Panel (Furnishing Fabric)

creator: China

medium: Golden yellow silk embroidered with a dragon in gold thread surrounded by clouds in the center, surrounded further by a border of chyrsanthemums and foliage in shades of cobalt blue and terracotta

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China
Qing
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Gift of Avrina Pugh


title: Shawl

creator: Belgium

medium: Cotton, mixed lace: bobbin lace of a type known as "Point de Gaze"

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Belgium
Lace - mixed
Lace
Costume

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: The Tale of Genji

creator: Artist Unknown

date: Early 17th century

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

country: Japan

subjects:
Screen
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Gold leaf
Ink
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton in honor of Mr. & Mrs. William McCormick Blair's fiftieth wedding anniversary


title: Saint Anne and Saint Joachim Offering the Virgin Mary as a Child to the Eternal Father

creator: Lorenzo Tiepolo (Italian, 1736-1776)

medium: Etching and drypoint on ivory paper

subjects:
Etching
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Charles Greene Fund


title: The Chat (Het Zoute Scholletje)

creator: Cornelis Visscher (Dutch, c. 1629-1658)

medium: Etching and engraving on ivory laid paper

country: Holland

subjects:
Engraving
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Horace S. Oakley


title: Head of an Old Woman (so-called portrait of Visscher's mother)

creator: Cornelis Visscher

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Engraving (printing process)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Hearing (De Fiool Speelder)

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Jan de Paep (De Beursknecht)

medium: Engraving on ivory paper


title: Jacob Westerbaen, lord of Brandwijk


title: Peter Isbrandi

subjects:
Print
Holland
Engraving (printing process)
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print and drawing


title: Adriaen Motmans

medium: Engraving on paper

subjects:
Engraving
Holland
Engraving (printing process)
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing


title: The Lamentation, from Cabinet Reynst

medium: Etching and engraving on paper


title: Susanna and the Elders, from Cabinet Reynst

medium: Etching and engraving on laid paper


title: Portrait of an Old Woman, Visscher's Mother

creator: Jan Visscher (Dutch, 1634-1692)

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing


title: A Resting Herd


title: The Robbery of the Wagons

medium: Etching on paper


title: The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Elizabeth, from Cabinet Reynst


title: Virgin and Child, with Tobias and the Angel, from Cabinet Reynst


title: Portrait of Andrea Odoni, from Cabinet Reynst (Variarum imaginum a celeberrimis artificibus pictarum Caelaturae; Engravings of various images painted by famous artists)

subjects:
Engraving
Holland
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Johannes Wachterlaer


title: The Large Limekiln, from Cabinet Reynst

medium: Engraving and etching in black on ivory laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Engraving
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: The Calling of Abraham (or The Annunciation to the Shepherds), from Cainet Reynst


title: The Old Coquette, from Cabinet Reynst

creator: Jeremias Falck (Polish, c. 1610-1664/77)

medium: Engraving on cream laid paper

country: Poland

subjects:
Engraving
Poland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Page from the Canticum Canticorum (The Song of Solomon)

creator: Unknown artist

medium: Woodcut on paper

country: Germany

subjects:
Woodcut
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: Abraham Leaving Haran (The Calling of Abraham), from Cabinet Reynst


subjects:
Woodcut
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Athena, from Cabinet Reynst; Variarum imaginum a celeberrimis artificibus pictarum Caelaturae (Cabinet Reynst: Engravings of various images painted by famous artists)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harry L. Calvin


title: A Flower Piece

creator: Eric Hebborn (British, 1934-1996)

medium: Black chalk, with watercolor, on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Chalk
Holland
Flowers
Paper (fiber product)
Watercolor
Water-base paint
Paint
Coating (material)
Chalk stick
Black chalk
Inorganic material
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: David Adler Fund


title: The Three Magi: Caspar, King of Tarsus

creator: Jacques Bellange

country: France

subjects:
Etching
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection


title: The Miracle of St. Anthony of Padua

medium: Etching and drypoing on ivory paper


title: Das Neue Jerusalem

creator: Gustav Sigismund Peters

medium: Woodcut in black, with hand-coloring, on paper

country: United States

subjects:
Woodcut
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print
Print and drawing
Women artist

credit_line: Hannan Fund


title: Melchior, from the Three Magi


title: The Three Magi: Balthasar, King of Sheba


title: Saturn

creator: Niccolò Vicentino (Italian, active c. 1540-1550)

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut on tan laid paper

subjects:
Chiaroscuro woodcut
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Inge and Edward A. Maser in memory of Harold Joachim


title: Johann Matthias, Count von Schulenburg.

creator: Giovanni Marco Pitteri (Italian, 1702-1786)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Haas


title: Portrait of Artist and Pupil

creator: Pieter Jansz. Quast (Dutch, 1606-1647)

medium: Black chalk with stumping on vellum

subjects:
Chalk
Holland
Portraits
Black chalk
Stumping
Drawing technique
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Venus Mourning the Death of Adonis

creator: Luca Cambiaso

medium: Woodcut printed in black on paper

subjects:
Print
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print and drawing


title: Design for Title Page of the Groot Placaatboek: Allegory of the Submission of the City of Utrecht to Emperor Charles V

creator: Jan Wandelaar

medium: Pen and black ink, with brush and brown and gray wash, heightened with touches of lead white (partly discolored), over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper

subjects:
Mythology
Ink or chalk wash
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Wash
Graphite
Lead white
Opaque white pigment
White pigment
Pigment
Colorant
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: The Hurdy-Gurdy Player

subjects:
Engraving
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: The Pancake Woman


title: The Topers

medium: Etching on ivory paper

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: The Pistol Shot


title: The Ford, plate 1 from Four Landscapes

subjects:
Engraving
Holland
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: A Mother an Swathed Child Riding a Donkey, plate 4 from Four Landscapes


title: Pope Alexander the Seventh

medium: Engraving on ivory paper


title: Shepherdess Riding on a Donkey, plate 2 from Four Landscapes

medium: Etching and ngraving on paper


title: Rinaldo Leaving Armida

medium: Etching and drypoint on paper

subjects:
Etching
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Endowment and Print and Drawing Purchase Fund


title: Emperor Maximilian I

creator: Attributed to Jan Muller (Dutch, 1540-1617)

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper

credit_line: Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection


title: Philip Roveen

medium: Etching and engraving on paper


title: Helena Leonora de Sieveri (Helena Tromper Du Bois)

medium: Engraving in black on paper

subjects:
Intaglio
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Anonymous gift


title: Study for Saint Margaret

creator: Maerten de Vos

medium: Brush and gray wash, over incising, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper

subjects:
Flander
Drawing (visual works)
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: A Young Woman Giving Directions to a Person

creator: Jean Le Pautre

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Memorial Endowment


title: Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant John the Baptist

creator: After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael

medium: Black and red chalk, with touches of pen and black ink, on gray laid paper, laid down on blue wove paper, laid down on card, laid down in album

subjects:
Chalk
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Black chalk
Inorganic material
Red chalk
Black ink
Colored ink
Ink
Coating (material)
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing


title: Standing Man with a Hat, Facing Left, from Figures de Modes

creator: Jean Antoine Watteau

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Portrait of a Bearded Man (so-called portrait of Giorgione), from Cabinet Reynst; Variarum imaginum a celeberrimis artificibus pictarum Caelaturae (Cabinet Reynst: Engravings of various images painted by famous artists)

creator: Cornelis van Dalen, II (Dutch, 1638–c. 1664)

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Print and drawing
Netherland
Portraits
Ink
Paper
Print
Engraving
Laid paper

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund


title: Young Woman on the Beach

creator: Edvard Munch

medium: Burnished aquatint and drypoint in purple, blue, gray and yellow, inked à la poupée, on cream laid Arches paper

country: Norway

subjects:
Aquatint
Norway
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: First Scene of The Rhinegold

creator: Henri Fantin-Latour

medium: Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on grayish-ivory china paper laid down on thick cream wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Finale to the Twilight of the Gods

medium: Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on grayish-ivory laid china paper with brushmarks

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Scraping
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund


title: The Damnation of Faust: The Appearance of Marguerite

medium: Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on grayish-ivory china paper laid down on ivory wove paper


title: Réveil

medium: Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on grayish-ivory laid china paper with visible brushmarks


title: Apotheosis

medium: Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on grayish-ivory chine laid down on cream wove paper


title: The Capture of Troy: Act III, The Apparition of Hector, from Hector Berlioz's Opera "The Capture of Troy (1855-58)"

medium: Lithograph in black with scraping on stone, on grayish-ivory chine laid down on thick ivory wove paper


title: Attraction I

creator: Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863-1944)

medium: Lithograph in black ink on grayish-ivory China paper

subjects:
Lithograph
Norway
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: The Apostle

creator: Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen

medium: Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory wove chine

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Print
Print and drawing


title: The Common Man

medium: Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on grayish wove China paper


title: The Sick Child

medium: Soft ground etching and etching from a zinc plate on grayish-ivory China paper

subjects:
Etching
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: On the Beach

medium: Lithograph in 5 colors (yellow ochre, brown, red, orange and blue) on grayish-ivory wove chine


title: Instructions for the Day

creator: Jean Louis Forain

medium: Lithograph with gray printing ink on thin white laid proofing paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Frank B. Hubachek


title: Mist on the Thames

creator: Joseph Pennell

medium: Aquatint on gray laid paper

subjects:
Aquatint
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection


title: Day, plate 6 from Dreams

creator: Odilon Redon

medium: Lithograph on grayish-ivory China paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Paper
Ink

credit_line: The Stickney Collection


title: Untitled, plate from Je regardais et je vis...

creator: Jean de Caldain (French, 19th century)

medium: Lithograph in black on light gray China paper laid down on white wove paper


title: Chapel of Saint Margaret in the City of Nuremberg, from Collection of Memorable Medieval Buildings in Germany

creator: Domenico Quaglio II

medium: Lithograph in black with gray-green and pale red-orange tint stones on cream wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Endowment


title: Sappers, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome

creator: Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (French, 1804-1860)

medium: Lithograph on gray wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper


title: Combat in Pamfili, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome

medium: Lithograph in black on gray wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper


title: Opening the First Parallel, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome

medium: Lithograph in black over a gray-tan tint on ivory wove chine laid down on ivory wove paper


title: Sappers going to the trenches, from Souvenirs d’Italie: Expédition de Rome


title: Count Robert de Montesquiou

creator: Beatrix Godwin Whistler

medium: Lithograph on grayish-ivory wove china paper

country: Paris

subjects:
Lithograph
Pari
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing
Ink
Wove paper
China paper
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of the Crown Family in honor of James N. Wood


title: Count Robert de Montesquiou

medium: Lithograph on grayish-ivory china paper

subjects:
Lithograph
Pari
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Paper
Ink
China paper
Women artist


title: Cupid

creator: Dominique-Vivant Denon (French, 1747-1825)

medium: Lithograph in black on cream wove paper

credit_line: Harold Joachim Purchase Fund


title: Quai des Grands Augustins, Paris

creator: Donald Shaw MacLaughlan

medium: Etching in black on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Etching
United state
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Tapisserie

creator: Aristide Joseph-Bonaventure Maillol

medium: Zincograph in black on buff wove paper

subjects:
Zincograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Albert Roullier Memorial Collection


title: Adam and Eve


title: Val d'Ema

medium: Etching in black on buff wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Walter S. Brewster


title: “- Here is the public minister who will say some very unpleasant things to you.... so try to cry a little from one eye at least.... it usually does some good!...,” plate 21 from Les Gens De Justice

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper

credit_line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund


title: A Bad Night, plate 36 from Los Caprichos

creator: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

medium: Etching and aquatint on ivory laid paper

country: Spain

subjects:
Etching
Spain
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: There They Go Plucked (i.e. fleeced), plate 20 from Los Caprichos

subjects:
Etching
Spain
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Aquatint
Print
Print and drawing


title: Bon voyage, plate 64 from Los Caprichos


title: Until Death, plate 55 from Los Caprichos

medium: Etching and aquatint in warm black on ivory laid paper


title: Two Beauties on a Veranda

creator: Kitao Masanobu (Santo Kyoden)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Silk (textile)
Japanese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment


title: Three Beauties Chatting by a Veranda

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

date: About 1792

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Oriental Art


title: Yakshi

creator: India

date: Kushan period, 2nd century

medium: Red sandstone

country: Mathura

subjects:
Sandstone
Mathura
South asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers

creator: Yamaguchi Sekkei

date: Late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Pair of six-fold screens; ink, colors, and gold paint on paper

subjects:
Screen
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Painting
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Leo S. Guthman


title: Landscape of the Four Seasons

creator: Sesson Shukei

medium: Pair of six-fold screens; ink and light color on paper

subjects:
Screen
Japan
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Ink
Painting
Asian art
Arts of asia 100

credit_line: Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation


title: Landscape of the Four Seasons

subjects:
Painting
Japan
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Ink
Arts of asia 100


title: Palepai (Ceremonial Hanging)

creator: Indonesia, South Sumatra, Southeast Lampung, Kalianda district

medium: Cotton, silk, and gilt-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts

country: Indonesia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Indonesia
Paper (fiber product)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Jules Cyril in honor of his wife, Dorothy Cyril


title: Tampan (Ceremonial Cloth)

creator: Indonesia, Sumatra, Southeast Lampung, Kalianda district

medium: Cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Indonesia
Weaving
Costume


title: Pair of Waistcoat Front Panels

creator: India, for the European Market

medium: Cotton, plain weave foundation; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk thread in chain stitches

country: India

subjects:
Waistcoat (garment)
India
Flower
White (color)
Red (color)
Green (color)
Garland
Foliage
Embroidering
Cotton (textile)
Silk (fiber)
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Costume component
Costume
Needlework (visual works)
Textile
Costume - embroidery
Embroidery
Garment
Needlework - costume
Plain weaving

credit_line: Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: History of Psyche

creator: François Perrier (French, 1590-1650)

medium: Etching on laid paper

subjects:
Engraving
France
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Alfred E. Hamill


title: Paperweight

creator: Clichy Glassworks (Cristalleries de Clichy)

medium: Glass

country: Clichy

subjects:
Paperweight
Clichy
Lampworking
Glass
Lampwork
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Ella Grace Brown Burdick


title: Snuff Bottle with Bug-Eyed Long-Tailed Fish and Fronds

creator: Ye Zhongsan (Chinese, 1875-1945)

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1909

medium: Banded agate with inside-painted decoration

country: China

subjects:
Fish
Snuff bottle
China
Agate
Porcelain
Ceramic
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore A. Shaw, Jr. Collection


title: Dish with Floral Petal Rim

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng period (1723–1735)

medium: Stoneware with milky blue Jun ware-style glaze

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Flowers
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Russell Tyson


title: Paradise: Canto XV (Fifth Heaven, Sphere of Mars) from Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), Plate 48 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century

creator: Unknown Artist (Venice, late 15th century)

date: 1491, portfolio assembled 1929

medium: Woodcut in black, and letterpress in black (recto and verso), on cream laid paper

country: Italy

subjects:
Woodcut
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Venus and Cupid

creator: Jacopo Francia

medium: Engraving on paper

subjects:
Print
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Lucretia

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper


title: The Coronation of the Virgin, from a Book of Hours

creator: Attributed to Willem Vrelant or his workshop (Bruges)

medium: Manuscript cutting in tempera and liquid gold on parchment

subjects:
Tempera
Netherland
Medieval
Manuscript
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. R. Stanley Johnson in honor of Anselmo Carini


title: The Holy Mountain, folio 3 from The Holy Mountain (Monte Sancto di Dio)

creator: Baccio Baldini (Italian, c. 1436-1487)

medium: Engraving in black with letterpress on verso, on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Engraving
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Blum-Kovler Foundation


title: Judith with the Head of Holofernes

creator: Girolamo Mocetto (Italian, c.1470-after 1531)

subjects:
Engraving
Italy
Engraving (printing process)
Paper (fiber product)
Printing
Print
Print and drawing


title: The Mass of St. Gregory, from a Book of Hours

creator: Willem Vrelant or his workshop (Bruges)


title: The Judgment of Paris

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut in black on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Woodcut
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: Panel (Dress Fabric)

creator: France

medium: Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with brocading wefts and self-patterned by areas of plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France
Fruit
Flower
Foliage
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
"bizarre" style
Weaving
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Brocading

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Laurance H. Armour, Jr. and Margot B. Armour Family Foundation


title: Portion of an Orphrey Band with Coat-of-Arms

creator: Germany, Cologne

date: 15th century

medium: Linen, silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, bands of weft-float faced 1:2 twill weave with inner warps and bands of weft-float faced 1:2 complementary twill weave

country: Cologne

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Cologne
Coat of arms
Royalty
Weaving
Liturgical
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Don H. Reuben


title: Florida Jay

creator: Robert Havell (English, 1793-1878)

medium: Hand-colored engraving, with aquatint, on ivory wove paper

country: England

subjects:
Etching
England
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Debut of the Valkyrie

creator: Henri Fantin-Latour

medium: Lithograph in black with scraping on stone on thick ivory wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Centaur Aiming at the Clouds

creator: Odilon Redon

medium: Lithograph in black on light gray China paper laid down on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing
Paper
Ink

credit_line: The Stickney Collection


title: Panel

creator: Italy for the Portuguese market or Portugal for export to Macao

medium: Silk, silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterned by ground wefts

country: Portugal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Portugal
Dogs
Animal
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Edwin A. Seipp


title: Sampler

creator: Mary M. Wallace (active c. 1796)

medium: Tabby weave wool ground; embroidered in silk twist

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Wool (textile)
Embroidering
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Sampler
Silk (fiber)
Women artist

credit_line: Gift of Agnes Lawson Fenerty


title: Panel from a Cope

creator: Italy, Venice

medium: Silk and gilt and-silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:3 and 2:2 'S' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps, supplementary brocading wefts and self-patterning ground wefts

country: Venice

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Venice
Weaving
Liturgical
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Elizabeth M. Schultz Endowment


title: Fragment

creator: United States

date: early 19th century

medium: Sample of stripe and check patterns of blue, white and tan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
United state
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Robert McComb


title: Untitled

creator: T. G. Richardson

medium: Albumen print (carte-de-visite)

subjects:
Carte-de-visite (albumen)
United state
Collected by hugh edward
Albumen process
Photographic process
Photography
Card photograph
Photograph

credit_line: Kovler Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Mrs. Everett Kovler, Blum-Kovler Foundation Gift


title: First View of Yosemite Valley from the Mariposa Trail

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen print

subjects:
Photography
United state
Lundberg collection
California
Landscape
Albumen process
Albumen print from collodion negative
Photograph
Photographic process
Photographic material
Photographic print

credit_line: The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Leonian Charitable Trust


title: Untitled (Portrait of a Seated Woman)

creator: John Plumbe

medium: Daguerreotype

subjects:
Portrait
United state
Lundberg collection
Portraits: female subject
Photography
Photograph
Photographic process
Daguerreotype
Daguerreotype (process)
Photographic processe
Photographic technique


title: The Satyr with the Cynical Smile, plate 5 of 8 from "Les Origines"

medium: Lithograph in black on light gray China paper, laid down on white wove paper


title: Two Joined Panels of Brocaded Yellow Furnishing Wool

creator: England, Probably Norwich

medium: Wool, worsted, damask weave; brocaded

subjects:
Weaving
England
Flower
Foliage
Fruit
Basket
Wool (textile)
Brocading
Textile

credit_line: Mary Ann Judy Endowment Fund


title: Necklace (Patrihar)

creator: India

date: 19th century

medium: Turquoise, gold, and seed pearls inset in the kundan technique, with polychrome enamel (minakari)

subjects:
Jewelry
India
Turquoise
South asian
Gold
Pearl
Enamel
Asian art
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson


title: Lovers in the Garden, from an Untitled Series of Erotic Prints

creator: Hishikawa Moronobu

medium: Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e

country: Japan

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art
Woodblock

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Polygonal Tile

creator: Iran

date: Safavid dynasty (1521-1722), Late 16th/17th century

medium: Fritware with polychrome glaze within black wax resist outlines (cuerda seca technique)

country: Isfahan

subjects:
Earthenware
Isfahan
Ceramic tile
Inorganic material
Asian art
Ceramic
Architectural fragment

credit_line: Logan-Patten-Ryerson Collection


title: Dish with Moutain Landscape

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong period (1736–1796)

medium: Famille-rose enamel on copper or brass base

country: Guangdong

subjects:
Porcelain
Guangdong
Landscapes
Roses
Ceramic
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Miss Naomi Donnelley


title: Tile with Floral Motifs

subjects:
Earthenware
Isfahan
Flowers
Ceramic tile
Inorganic material
Asian art
Ceramic
Decorative arts


title: Gui-Shaped Bowl with Elephant Handles

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Chongzhen period

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze enamel

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Ceramic
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Miniature Table

date: Qing dynasty (1644-1911), 17th century

medium: Turntable in three colors with dragons, Buddhas, and Fu dogs.

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Asian art


title: Blue-and-White Box

date: Ming dynasty (1368-1644), 17th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Asian art
Ceramic


title: Dish with Openwork Rim

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Tianqi period (1621–27)

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue and copper red


title: Carved Lacquer Boxes

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), early 15th–late 16th century

medium: Carved cinnbar lacquer

subjects:
Lacquerware
China
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Horse Groom

date: Tang dynasty (618–906)

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment


title: Carved Lacquer Bowl

date: Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)

medium: Carved lacquer with silver inlay

credit_line: As an anonymous gift Mr. P. R. Slagle.


title: Circular Box

date: Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662–1722)

medium: Lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay and gold leaf

credit_line: Gift of Russell Tyson


title: Box with Boating Scene

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

medium: carved red lacquer

subjects:
Lacquerware
China
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Philip Pinsof (one-sixth interest in 1961) for 56 items


title: Fragment

creator: Egypt

date: Arab period (641–969)/Fatimid period (969–1171)/Ayyubid period (1171–1250)/ Mamluk period (1250–1517), 9th/13th century

medium: Silk, plain simple cloth

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Mamluk
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Birds and Flowers

creator: Attributed to Zhou Zhimian (Chinese, active c. 1580-1610)

date: Ming dynasty (1368-1644) or later

medium: Unmounted; ink and color on silk

subjects:
Ink and color on paper
China
Birds
Flowers
Asian art
Painting

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Clean Young High School Students, They Even Try Selling Off their Latin Dictionary, plate 24 from Professeurs et Moutards (Professors and Rascals)

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier

medium: Lithograph in black on white wove paper

country: France

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment


title: The Dormitory of a Distinguished Boarding School, plate 14 from Professeurs et Moutards (Professors and Rascals)


title: How to Convince a Young Man to Finally Learn to Pay his Respects to his Parents, plate 26 from Professeurs et Moutards (Professors and Rascals)

credit_line: Anonymous gift in memory of Carter H. Harrison


title: Title Page, after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher (Dutch, 1587-1652)

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Etching
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: A Convent, plate thirteen after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)


title: Large Farm, plate ten after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)

country: Flanders

subjects:
Etching
Flander
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing


title: The Pond, plate nine after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)


title: Large Sheds, plate 21 after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)


title: Village Road, plate fourteen after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)


title: A Farmyard, plate five after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)


title: A Castle, plate 22 after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)


title: The Swann's Inn, plate six after Pictures of Farms, Country Houses and Rustic Villages (Praediorum villarum et rusticarum casularum icones)


title: “You remember now that young Cabassol is far too good in translation that I would allow anyone in this class to molest him... he is under my immediate protection! At the final exams it is he who will hold up the honour of Bilboquet High school,” plate 32 from Professeurs Et Moutards

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison Collection


title: Mr. Jean-Joseph-Chaboulard... first prize for good health!, plate 28 from Professeurs et Moutards

creator: Honoré Victorin Daumier (French, 1808-1879)

credit_line: Sidney A. Kent Fund, gift of Martin A. Ryerson and the Print and Drawing Club


title: Which proves again that already since high school man supports himself on the shoulders of his kin in order to advance in life, plate 30 from Professeurs Et Moutards

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carter H. Harrison


title: Day Dress

creator: French

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
France
Cotton (textile)

credit_line: Belle M. Borland Endowment Fund


title: Death the Strangler, The First Outbreak of Cholera at a Masked Ball in Paris, 1831

creator: Alfred Rethel

medium: Woodcut on cream wove paper

country: Germany

subjects:
Woodcut
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print
Print and drawing


title: Paperweight

creator: Saint-Louis Glassworks (Cristalleries de Saint-Louis)

medium: Glass

country: Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche

subjects:
Paperweight
Saint-louis-lès-bitche
Millefiori glass
Millefiori
Glass
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Atlan Club


title: Fragment

creator: England

date: 17th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and wool yarns in tent stitch

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Seated Hercules

creator: Adriaen de Vries

medium: Black chalk, with pen and brown ink and touches of red chalk, on buff laid paper, pieced together and tipped onto blue laid paper

subjects:
Chalk
Netherland
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Black chalk
Red chalk
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing
Paper

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Bowl with Dragons

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel

credit_line: Bequest of Grace Brown Palmer


title: Vase with Ribs

date: Ming dynasty (1368 –1644)

medium: Stoneware with green and brown glazes

subjects:
Stoneware
China
Ceramic
Asian art

credit_line: Bequest of Kate S. Buckingham


title: Bowl with Floral Scrolls

date: Song dynasty (960–1279)

medium: Stoneware with underglaze carved decoration

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Flowers
Asian art

credit_line: Avrina Pugh gift


title: Tile depicting Khusrau Happening upon Shirin Bathing

date: Qajar dynasty (1789-1925), late 19th century

medium: Fritware with molded decoration and underglaze painting

country: Iran

subjects:
Earthenware
Iran
Fritware
Ceramic
Ceramic tile
Inorganic material
Asian art
Decorative arts

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Fragment of a Chair Seat

creator: Designed by Thomas Wardle (English, 1831–1909)

medium: Cotton, twill weave with supplementary pile wefts forming cut solid (velveteen); block printed; fringe: cotton, silk and wool; woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England
Chicago
Weaving - printed
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of the Chicago Architecture Foundation


title: Heavenly Ganymede, from Specimens of Polyautography

creator: Henry Fuseli

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
England
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund


title: Sauceboat

creator: Plymouth Porcelain Factory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding

country: Plymouth

subjects:
Tableware
Plymouth
Hard-paste porcelain
Porcelain
European decorative arts
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Eugene D. Buchanan


title: Pair of Candelabra

creator: Rome, Italy

medium: Bronze, marble

subjects:
Candleholder - candlestick
Italy
Bronze
Candleholder
Statuette
Functional object
Furniture

credit_line: Maurice D. Galleher Endowment


title: Wall Clock

medium: Pine, carved, gessoed, and gilded; enamel, brass, and glass

subjects:
Clock
England
Furniture
Glass
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Antiquarian Society through Mrs. Harold T. Martin Fund


title: Dish with Floral Petals

medium: Yue-type ware; celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze molded and incised decoration

country: China

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Flowers
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Otto Madlener


title: Double Gourd-Shaped Vase

medium: Porcelain with coral red glaze

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Corals & anemones
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Pear-Shaped Vase

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period (1662–1722)

medium: Porcelain with copper red peachbloom glaze

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Ceramic
Asian art

credit_line: Sarah G. Larson gift


title: Baluster-Shaped Vase

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong period (1736–1795)

medium: Porcelain

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Cylindrical Jar with Lotus Scrolls

medium: Stoneware with white and black glazes

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Russell Tyson received from Bluett & sons; London, England


title: Fragment

medium: Stoneware with black glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Russell Tyson


title: Seated Scholar

medium: Cizhou ware; slip-coated stoneware with iron brown and yellow, green and red glazes

subjects:
Stoneware
China
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Bertha Palmer Thorne


title: Camel Figurine

medium: Cizhou ware; slip-coated stoneware with iron brown glaze

credit_line: Mrs. Robert D. Michels, gift


title: Standing Figure


title: Cylindrical Water Jar with Figures in a Landscape

medium: Stoneware painted in underglaze blue

subjects:
Stoneware
China
Landscapes
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson


title: Miniature Vase

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), c. 19th century


title: Cylindrical Covered Jar with "Hundred Antiquities"

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue


title: Miniature Vase with Dragons Chasing Flaming Pearls

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng reign mark and period (1722–1735)


title: Bowl with Sprays of Pomegranate and Peaches

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng period (1723–1735)


title: Bowl with Grapes, Willow Tree, and Bird

date: Yuan or Ming dynasty, 14th century

medium: Cizhou ware; stoneware with white slip and iron-brown glazes

subjects:
Stoneware
China
Birds
Trees
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of Chester D. Tripp


title: Dish with Bird and Butterfly by a Branch

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Kangxi period (1662–1723)

medium: Porcelain with famille verte enamel decoration

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Birds
Butterflies & moths
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of the Orientals


title: Dish with Two Birds on Plum Branch

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Birds
Asian art
Ceramic

credit_line:
Purchased from Mr. John Sparks, London. *Gift of the Orientals

*Gift of Orientals


title: Bowl

date: Northern Song dynasty (960-1127)

medium: Ding ware; stoneware

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Newton S. Noble


title: Stem Cup

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

medium: Glazed porcelain with underglaze molded and incised decoration

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Ceramic
Asian art
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Bruce Borland, through the Antiquarian Society


title: Vase with Stylized Flowers

date: Jin dynasty, c. 13th century

medium: Cizhou ware; stoneware with aqua blue and black glazes

subjects:
Stoneware
China
Flowers
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Russell Tyson


title: Vase

medium: Slip-coated stoneware with white glaze


title: Zun-Shaped Vase with Dragons and Landscapes

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Landscapes
Asian art
Ceramic