title: Fan

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: wood, paper, mother-of-pearl, gouache

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; H. Randolph Lever Fund, 1966


title: Landscape with Two Men on Horseback

creator: Pieter de Molijn

medium: Black chalk and gray wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: From the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus, Bequest of Rita Markus, 2005


title: Henri-Charles Maniglier

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift, 1994


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: First View of the Surroundings of Rochefort

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Trade Card for William Sharp, Engraver

creator: William Sharp

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Statuette of Bastet holding a figure of Nefertum

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Study of a Plant with Red-Purple Flowers (Sebastiana africana purpurea)

creator: Maria Moninckx

medium: Gouache and watercolor over graphite

subjects: Botany Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2013


title: Standing Female Figure

creator: Pierre Ignace Parrocel

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: The Four Deities of Mount Kōya

date: 16th century

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

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Reed Pipe

medium: spruce root, wood (red cedar or spruce)

country: Xaadas (Haida), Native American

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-pipe
Xaada (haida), native american

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Bell

medium: Brass, glass

country: Indian


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


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Pito

medium: cane

country: Colombian

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-pipe
Colombian


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Design for T-Cart, no. 3433

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Puzzle Card Number 15, "Base Ball" Puzzle, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Button or Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 69r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Cape

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George R. Galbraith, 1992


title: [Boy in Uniform]

creator: Jean-Baptiste Frénet

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift and Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2000


title: Coverlet

creator: David Daniel Haring

medium:
Cotton and wool; Doublecloth, woven on a hand-loom with a
 Jacquard attachment

country: American

credit_line: Mrs. Roger F. Brunschwig Fund, 1988


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

date: mid-17th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Arita ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Harry Packard, 1979


title: The First Month

creator: Ishikawa Toyomasa

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Fragment

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: [Captain Stanley,Grenadier Guards, A.D.C.]

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Ne laissez donc pas vôtre ami dans cet état-là!..., plate 4 from "Vulgarités"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Wall panel with poetic scenery of autumn

date: late 18th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel, gilt bronze, wooden frame

country: China

subjects: Cloisonné China Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2023


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Bronze box mirror

date: 2nd quarter of the 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Bead

date: 7th–6th millennium BCE

medium: Nephrite

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Necklace pendants and beads

date: ca. 17th–16th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Fragment of Kohl Tube

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Hilya (Votive Tablet)

date: 18th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper; mounted on wood

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


title: Terracotta tankard

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Neptune pursuing Coronis; Minerva interposes herself and turns Coronis into a crow

creator: Francisco Vieira de Mattos (Il Lusitano)

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2019


title: Welcome: Stained Glass Window from the Mrs. George T. Bliss House, New York

creator: John La Farge

medium: Leaded opalescent glass, cloisonne glass, copper wire, paint

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1944


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, punto avorio

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Stormy Landscape

creator: Hendrik Meijer

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2007


title: Terracotta fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Slippers

medium: leather

country: Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Claude Vignon

date: mid-to late 17th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Design for a Marble Topped Table with Gilded Pedestal and Lion's Feet

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Two-Handled Jar with Stag

date: early 1400s

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Italian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Sheepshearing

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Wood engraving on chine collé; proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Chalcedony, brown

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Vase in the form of a beggar's purse

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Bone china

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Peru; central coast (?)

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

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


title: Three Nude Male Figures; Study of the Right Hand of the Figure on the Left

creator: Pompeo Batoni

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Trade Card for Merrifield, Engraver

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Coin

date: before 750

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Head of a Youth

medium: Limestone

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: Bequest of Meyer Schapiro, 1996


title: Teapot

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Dish

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted in blue under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen, in memory of Richard Ettinghausen, 1979


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Sheet with oval and dot pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: [Yosemite National Park, California]

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Appliqué Figure of the Apostle James

medium: Gilded copper alloy

country: North German

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
North german

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Porringer

creator: John Cluett Jr.

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Denise Barkalow, 1961


title: Pair of Rowel Spurs

medium: Iron alloy, copper alloy

country: German or Netherlandish

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German or netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Rape of Europa

creator: Pinturicchio

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Jacot. Charles, Émile. 36 ans, né à Allenjoie (Doubs). Colporteur Anarchiste. 8/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Knob from a Crozier with the Entry into Jerusalem

medium: Elephant ivory

country: British or North French

subjects:
British or north french
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Terracotta half-figure of woman

date: probably late 4th–3rd century BCE

country: East Greek

subjects:
Terracotta
East greek

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


title: Terracotta plaque

date: 27 BCE–68 CE

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Lamp

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Gift of Noel E. Baker, 1952


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic


title: Nāgasvaram

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, metal

country: Indian (south)

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
Indian (south)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Textile Fragment

date: 11th century

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Kero

date: 16th–18th century

medium: Wood (escallonia), pigmented resin inlay

country: Quechua

subjects: Wood-container Quechua

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Vase rim fragment -  see 11.151.650

medium: Obsidian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Fragment of a cart or chariot

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Medal of Major General Z. Taylor

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: The Lower Portion of the Genealogy of Maximilian; with the Left Edge of the Scroll for the Explanatory Text, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

creator: Hans Springinklee

medium: Woodcut and letterpress

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Gold and Niello Bracelet

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Gold, niello

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-gold Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Hercules and Deianira

creator: René Boyvin

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

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


title: Royal Guard, Germany, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: The Annunciation

creator: Nardon Pénicaud

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: High-Back Seat

date: 15th century

medium: Walnut

country: French

subjects: Woodwork-furniture French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: Frontispiece to "Le sorti di Francesco Marcolini da Forli intitolato Giardino di Pensieri"

creator: Giuseppe Salviati (Giuseppe Porta, called Il Salviati)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Pounce shaker with cover (part of a set)

medium: Silver, crystal

subjects:
Metalwork-silver in combination
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 1968


title: Waistcoat

medium: silk, cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Peter T. Denker, 1961


title: Gold earring with head of a bull

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Prudence, Love and Beauty

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

date: September 15, 1782

medium: Etching and stipple engraving, printed in brown ink; fifth state

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


title: Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

date: 14th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Adrienne Minassian, 1994


title: T. Ray, Pole Vault, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Fragments

date: 19th century

medium: Silks, satins, etc.

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Maria P. James, 1911


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Seven Designs for Decorated Plates

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

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


title: Fireplace and Grate Design with Sunflower Andirons

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

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


title: Fibula

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Collar

medium: Cotton

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Harold N. Weber, 1990


title: Shard

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1992


title: Pair of two-light wall brackets

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1952


title: Christ Sermonizing on the Bread from Heaven

creator: Daniel Hopfer

medium: Etching; first state of two

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


title: Altar Cloth

medium: Silk, metallic thread

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Head of Akhenaten in the blue crown, sign traces at nape of neck

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Petite Reine d'Etrurie

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Le Pompe: Opera Nova, page 7 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Ring

date: ca. 200–30 BCE

medium: Gold, garnet

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Jupiter and Calisto, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Allan Melville

creator: John Rubens Smith

medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on smooth surfaced off-white wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Charlotte E. Hoadley, 1946


title: Incense Burner

date: early 19th century

medium: Pottery decorated with white inlay (Satsuma ware, Mishima style); pierced brass cover

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Patch Box

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Hautbois Common, Norfolk

creator: John Crome

date: probably ca. 1810

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889


title: Monk at his devotions

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Dana B. Wotkyns, in memory of his mother, 1976


title: Incised Painted Bowl

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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


title: Proofs

creator: John Leech

date: before 1864

medium: Illustrations: wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Les Visites, Musée Grotesque, No. 21

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967


title: Diadem

medium: Copper alloy

country: Hallstatt

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Hallstatt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1950


title: Woman Reading to Children

creator: Virginia Granbery

medium: Wood engraving, working proof

credit_line: Gift of J. H. Granbery, 1944


title: Torso of a limestone fighting woman

date: late 6th or early 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Pair of cruets and cruet stands

creator: Paul de Lamerie

medium: Silver, glass

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


title: Light Crossbow (Schnepper) from the Armory of Sedlitz Palace

creator: Johann Gottfried Hänisch the Elder

date: dated 1733

medium: Steel, wood (walnut), staghorn, hemp, wool, gold

country: German, Dresden

subjects:
Archery equipment-crossbow
German, dresden

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2010


title: Leap Year

creator: T. Smith

medium: Stippled etching and aquatint

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


title: Elements from a Necklace

date: late 15th–16th century

medium: Gold, cloisonnè enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Spanish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Wrath (Ira), from "The Seven Vices"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Fragment of an Oil Lamp

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Broad Grins, or a Black Joke

creator: Thomas Rowlandson


title: Tea

creator: James Tissot

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1998


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Scene in a Farce called The Quaker

date: December 22, 1783


title: Copy of a Lithographic Print

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

date: before May 1844

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Jean Horblit, in memory of Harrison D. Horblit, 1994


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Face du grand corps de Logis du Château de Richelieu du côté du Parterre

creator: Adam Perelle

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


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

date: 5th century


title: Famille rose figures

date: 18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze mounts

subjects:
Metalwork-gilt bronze
Roses

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


title: Two Men, One Cutting a Silhouette

creator: Anonymous, American, 19th century

medium: Cut paper and ink wash

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


title: Allegory of Sculpture

creator: Johann Andreas Rauch

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white (partially oxidized), over black chalk; framing lines in pen and black ink

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 1998


title: Snuffbox

medium: Enamel on copper

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


title: A Bearded Man, Standing, and a Classical Head

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Pen and brown ink on tracing paper (mounted on heavy wove paper)

credit_line: Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp, in honor of Karen B. Cohen, 2001


title: Kalama, Columbia River, Washington (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Standing Female Deity (Study Collection)

date: 20th century

medium: Stone

country: Cambodia (?)

subjects: Sculpture Cambodia

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1991


title: Card 754, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Box with Landscape Scenes and Auspicious Emblems

date: 18th–early 19th century

medium: Carved red, green, and black lacquer

country: China

subjects: Lacquer China Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Embroidered darning sampler

medium: Silk and cotton on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Spoon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Glass jug

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Cup with characters for longevity (shou)

date: early 17th century

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Mandocello

creator: Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

medium: Spruce, maple, mahogany, ivoroid, mother-of-pearl, nickel silver

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2013


title: Shirt

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Martin K. Speckter, 1958


title: Triple Crucifix

creator: Kongo artist

date: 16th–17th century (central figure); 18th–19th century (top and bottom figures)

medium: Open-back cast brass (central figure), solid cast brass (top and bottom figures), forged iron nails, brass, copper, wood, ultramarine pigment

country: Kongo

subjects: Metal-sculpture Kongo

credit_line: Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1999


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Mount for Spear Shaft

medium: Gilded silver inlaid with niello

country: Late Roman

subjects:
Metalwork-silver
Late roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sealing fragment

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: WC&Co.

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Rooster figurine

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Seal with hole

medium: Steatite

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: A Rake's Progress, Plate 7

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carl Joseph Ulmann, 1929


title: Length of upholstery silk

creator: Philippe de Lasalle

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Jeanne, prends sans qu'on te voie . . . , from Le Rire, No. 129, 24 April 1897

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Foreman, Pitcher, Baltimore Orioles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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

date: 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Head of a Horse

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1923


title: Slippers

creator: B. Altman & Co.

medium: silk, leather, pearls

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Orme Wilson and R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Caroline Schermerhorn Astor Wilson, 1949


title: Fan

medium: Parchment, ivory, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1965


title: Design for Three Chairs with Slanted Backs, Green, Yellow and Blue Upholstery

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: A Rake's Progress, Plate 1

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, with angels crowning him at upper left

creator: Willem Panneels

medium: Etching

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Master of the Hounds

creator: Jean-Léon Gérôme

date: 1878 or after

medium: Heliogravure

credit_line: Gift of The Equal Justice in the Courts Committee of Nassau County, 2022


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


title: Bull Amulet

medium: Red jasper

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Ema (Votive Painting) of Chinese Lion Led by Utenō

medium: Ink and color on wood

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Medallion

medium: Silk;  on silk;  bound with silk;  bordered with silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Watch

medium: Smoke crystal or topaz; enamel

subjects:
Horology
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Elbow, with garment

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Piece

date: 16th century


title: Young Woman Playing the Flute by a Bridge

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Chest with drawer

medium: Painted yellow poplar, yellow pine, birch

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Pot

date: 15th century

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Ceramic French


title: Catskill Mountain House from Pine Orchard (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1998


title: Strainer

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1971


title: Johann (1498–1537), Duke of Saxony

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Oil on beech

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Armenian Manuscript Bifolium

creator: Illuminator Minas (?)

medium: Tempera and gold leaf on paper

country: Armenian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Armenian

credit_line: Gift of Linda Barker and Lore Hilburg, in memory of their mother, Judith E. Hilburg, 2014


title: Jacob Blessed by Isaac

medium: Silver, partly gilded

credit_line: Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1965


title: Scene of Westerners

date: 18th century

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

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2025


title: Armor for a Member of the Barberini Family

medium: Steel, gold, silver, textile, leather

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor for man-3/4 armor
Italian, milan

credit_line: George F. Baker Fund, 1926


title: Specimens of Tinted Glassware with Decorations in Gold and Blue

creator: Compagnia di Venezia e Murano

medium: Pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor on tissue paper

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


title: Pier table

creator: Charles-Honoré Lannuier

medium: Rosewood veneer, gilded gesso, brass, white metal, marble, glass with mahogany, ash, white pine, yellow poplar

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Gold earring with disc and pendant (missing)

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Pouter Pigeon, from the Birds of America series (N4) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Textile fragment

date: second half 15th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1954


title: Fibula, boat-shaped type

date: 8th–6th century BCE

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Hurricane Shade

medium: Free-blown glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Piece

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Silk on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: S. Médard, évêque (St. Medard, Bishop), June 8th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Scarab with Horned Animal and Uraei

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

medium: Steatite

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


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Julian James, 1906


title: Bronze statuette of a dancing satyr

date: late 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Piece

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Sickness Spears the Stag and Death Sounds His Horn (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag)

medium: Wool warp,  wool and silk wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965


title: Caire. Allée de Pyramides

creator: Félix Bonfils

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, 1985


title: Limestone inscribed base

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot


title: Stone Chisel

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Lydia Yeamans, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: “Preparing Food for the Warbler,” from the album Men’s Stamping Dance (Otoko dōka, uguisu no esa suri)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Page from a woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Necklace

date: 7th–5th Century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Glass Fragment

date: 11th century

medium: Colorless glass

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Raised relief fragment


title: Cameo of a Gentleman

creator: Erastus Dow Palmer

medium: Plaster

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Clark S. Marlor, 1983


title: Théodore Pavie (1811–1896), Orientalist, friend of the artist

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze, cast - single

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: Part of a Harness

medium: Leather, metal

country: British

subjects: Miscellaneous-leatherwork British

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


title: Le Vite de' Piv Eccellenti Pittori Scultori et Architettori...

creator: Giorgio Vasari

medium: Woodcut illlustrations

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Frances and Ethel de Forest, daughters of Robert de Forest

creator: George Collins Cox

credit_line: Museum Accession, 1946


title: Nightwatchman's companion

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Court Knife (Wedong) with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood, horn

country: Javanese

subjects: Dagger Javanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Brett #1038

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Iron fire-dog

date: ca. 550 BCE

medium: Iron

subjects: Miscellaneous-iron Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Plate

creator: Henry Roudebuth

medium: Earthenware; Redware

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


title: Tile

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Tool (?)

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Fragment of brocaded silk with imitation slashing

date: 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: In the theater - a gripping fourth act, from 'Theater sketches'

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: February 13, 1864

medium: Lithograph; first state of two, proof (Deltiel)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Portsmouth Children (Children, Portsmouth)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on ivory laid paper; only state (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Snuffbox with mythological scenes

date: 18th century

medium: Gold, enamel, diamonds

subjects:
Mythology
Metalwork-gold and platinum

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Herrscher, from the series Vom Tode Zweiter Teil

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching

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


title: An old skinny man at left talking with a fat man at right

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

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


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Bronze helmet with cheek-guards

date: mid-4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Tumbler

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

medium: Pressed cranberry glass, two-piece mold

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1985


title: Ewer for Hot Water (Yutō)

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Wood with coatings of red over black lacquer (Negoro ware) and exposed zelkova (keyaki) wood with transparent lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2019


title: Pantalets

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Reese, 1955


title: Pictorial print

date: early 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Gus Hill, Champion Club Swinger, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Small Drum

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Indonesia(?)

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

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


title: Pap boat

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Robert M. Parmelee and Mrs. William L. Parker, 1916


title: Bird on a Plum Branch

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Birds

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


title: Architectural ornament: head of Garuda

date: 15th century

medium: Stoneware with polychrome glazes

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Ceramic
China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Phaeton (unnumbered)

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Round Plate

date: dated 1917

medium: Pewter, coconut shell

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Paul Singer, 1993


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Copper Knife

date: before 15th century

medium: Copper (hammered)

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-implement Peruvian

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (bottom is mortar or plaster?); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Card Number 319, Mlle. Anyibous, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: "Great Hornbill", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

creator: Mansur

date: recto: ca. 1540; verso: ca. 1615–20

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955


title: Squeaking a Ground Cherry, from the series Seven Fashionable Useless Habits (Furyu nakute nana kuse)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Monkeys Hanging from Trees Above Waves (obverse); Monkeys Seated on Rocks (reverse)

medium: Lacquer, roiro, silver nashiji, gold, silver, black and red hiramakie, kirigane; Interior: nashiji and fundame, two upper cases divided, spoon

subjects: Inrō Japan Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Tile Panel

medium: Stonepaste; painted and glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Rank Badge with Golden Pheasant

date: first half 20th century(?)

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Anonymous gift, 1960


title: Chinese Bulbul, from the Song Birds of the World series (N42) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Face Mask Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded (?) copper, shell

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1980


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved


title: Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

creator: Meleager Painter

date: early 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1956


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Turtle

date: second half 19th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Dish

medium: Jadeite, translucent greenish-gray

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Fragment

date: 8th century

medium: Silk or linen or cotton / Plain cloth weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Ten Kings of Hell

creator: Jin Chushi

date: before 1195

medium: One of five of a set of ten hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Mirror with animals of the four directions and other mythical creatures

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Mirror China

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


title: Sauce Dish

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chace, 1969


title: Steatite triangular prism

medium: Steatite

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Garden Table

medium: Cast iron

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1968


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

date: 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Pitcher

date: 14th century

medium: Earthenware, tin-glaze (Majolica)

country: Italian

subjects: Ceramic Italian

credit_line: Gift of Wilhelm Bode, 1911


title: The Adoration of the Magi with the Virgin, Christ Child, and Joseph at center, set against architectural details

creator: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

medium: Engraving

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Enthroned Virgin and Child

medium: Birch with paint and glass

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-wood French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: Edwin John "Ed" McKean, Shortstop, Cleveland, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cloud study (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 14 recto)

creator: Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

medium: Brush and yellow wash with touches of blue over graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Saint Anthony

creator: Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Fort Johnson, James Island, South Carolina

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Theatre set with alchemist's workshop

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Colored chalk

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


title: Cann

creator: Richard Van Dyck

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Watch

creator: Thury

medium: Gold, painted enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Catherine II (1729–1796), Empress of Russia

date: second half 18th century

medium: Verre églomisé

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Benedictine Antiphonary

creator: Belbello da Pavia

medium: Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment; binding: leather over wood boards with copper alloy corner mounts and bosses

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

credit_line: Gift of Robert Lehman, 1960


title: Column Shaft

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Pull of Engraved Firearm Ornament

medium: Ink, paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French

credit_line: Purchase, Gift in Memory of Herbert G. Houze, 2025


title: Edna Wallace-Hopper, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Stencil

date: 19th century

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


title: [Sleeping Cat]

creator: Calvert Richard Jones

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005


title: Statuette of a woman wearing a mantle over head

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Tankard

medium: Glass; pewter

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Minerva Presenting Two Portraits to Apollo

creator: Eustache Le Sueur

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk, squared in red chalk. Contours incised for transfer; framing lines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1982


title: The Nativity

creator: Ludwig Krug

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Derby

medium: wool

credit_line: Purchase, 1949


title: Devil's Canyon, Geysers, Looking Down

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1989


title: Wall-bracket (console d'applique)

medium: Terracotta, gilded; marble top

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Spoon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits


title: Wine container (zun)

date: ca. 11th–10th century BCE

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Jun Tsei Tai, 1977


title: Longcase clock

creator: Vincent van Amelonsen

medium: Walnut and walnut veneer

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Cup (part of a set)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: horned animals

date: ca. 14th–13th century BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Cypriot

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


title: Life in Camp, Part 1: Surgeon's Call

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Color lithograph

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


title: Smiting god figure

date: ca. 1500 BCE

country: Canaanite

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Water receptacle

medium: Nephrite, white with light grayish tint and flakes of snow

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Terracotta fragments of pots

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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Mace head with reclining bulls

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Border

medium: Needle lace

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


title: Gold spiral

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Part of Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread; on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: [Album Page of Portraits]

medium: Albumen silver and salted paper prints from paper negatives

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1997


title: Leaf from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

date: first edition printed in 1633

medium: Individual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Tea bowl with paper cut decoration

date: 12th–late 13th century

medium: Stoneware with paper cut decoration and tortoiseshell glaze (Jizhou ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Avalokiteshvara Padmapani

date: 7th century

medium: Bronze inlaid with silver and copper

country: Pakistan (Swat Valley)

subjects:
Metalwork
Pakistan (swat valley)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick and Fletcher Funds, 1974


title: Engaged cassetta frame

medium: Poplar. Gilt; red-orange bole. Sight edge: linen extended over moldings.

country: Sienese

subjects: Frame Sienese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Buddhist Ascetic, or Lohan

creator: Villeroy

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, gilt bronze

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Card Number 192, Black Hussar Group, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Prodigal Son

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Actress looking over shoulder, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Cherub

medium: Polychromed wood

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Pin

date: 5th–8th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1937


title: Candelabrum

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: [Acropolis, Athens, Greece]

creator: James Robertson

date: Early 1850s

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Henderson Ledger Artist A

medium: Pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, and ink on paper

country: Southern Arapaho

subjects:
Paper-drawing
Southern arapaho
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 1999


title: Two Designs for the Hilt of a Sword (recto); Two Designs for Helmets (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, mid-16th century

date: 16th century

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

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


title: Collar

medium: Cotton

country: Irish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1965


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Design for an Enameled Watchcase and Châtelaine with Mythological Figures

creator: George Michael Moser

medium: Pen and ink, gouache (bodycolor)

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1949


title: Small Sheet

date: 4th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: St. Peter, from "Christ and the Apostles"

creator: Lambert Suavius

medium: Engraving; backed with a print by J. A. Fridrich

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


title: Bowl

date: late 11th–12th century

medium: Porcelain with black glaze (Ding ware)

country: China

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Earthenware; incised decoration through slip under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Buckle Shank

date: late 6th–7th century

medium: Copper alloy (bronze), gold, iron

country: Visigothic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Visigothic

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Bowl with dragons (one of a pair)

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with incised design under clear glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Incense Burner

date: 12th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Nasli M. Heeramaneck, 1929


title: Buffalo, from Quadrupeds series (N41) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

subjects: Print Mammals

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


title: Bust of a Female Deity (Yakshi?)

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Gray clay

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Miniature Bottle

date: 11th–late 15th century

medium: Silver, gilt

country: Chimú or Chancay

subjects:
Metal-container
Chimú or chancay

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Coatdress

date: early 1830s

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John C. Cattus, 1952


title: Plate 96: View of the facade of the Pisani Palace in Campo Santo Stefano, Venice, 1703, from "The buildings and views of Venice" (Le fabriche e vedute di Venezia)

creator: Luca Carlevaris

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Piece

date: 19th century

country: Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Bust of a wild man or rustic

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Scarab of an Official

medium: Steatite


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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Oil Lamp

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: late 16th–early 17th century

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

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Insertion

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Card Number 221, Annie Dunscomb, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Salver (one of a pair)

creator: Paul de Lamerie

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Les Jocrisses de L'Amour

creator: Luc Leguey

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and black and blue wash, blue crayon, graphite, corrected with white on tracing paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968


title: Piece

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Statue of the Overseer of Stonemasons Senbebu and Family

medium: Sandstone

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1956


title: Cup

date: early 20th century (original dated ca. 1481)

medium: Gilded silver

country: British

subjects: British Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1911


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: Plate 1, from "World in Miniature"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Case

medium: silk

country: European

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Collection Fund, 1932


title: Collar

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Galloon

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Manchu Woman's Shoe

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Silk, wood (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Albert Perkins, 1945


title: Turtle amulet

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Young Man and Old Woman

creator: Jacob Matham

medium: Pen and brown ink; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, Van Day Truex Fund, Susan H. Seidel Gift, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2005


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Demaskiert (Unmasks)

creator: Ernst Oppler

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century


title: Trade Card for J. Hughes & Co., Engraver

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1965


title: Curfew Hour

creator: Albert Pinkham Ryder

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Illustrated book

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Pelerine

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Jean L. Keith in memory of Christine Keith, 1968


title: Gold ring with two horizontal ribs

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot or Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot or greek

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


title: Head of Woman in Profile; Apollo and Daphne, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: published ca. 1599–1622

medium: Engraving; third state

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Card 7, Steve Taylor, from the Prizefighters series (N269) issued by P. Lorillard Company to promote Mechanics Delight Long Cut Tobacco

creator: P. Lorillard Company

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


title: Jacket

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ernest C. Richards, 1998


title: Limestone footstool

date: 1st half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Crypt of Kirkstall Abbey, part VIII, plate 39 from "Liber Studiorum"

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

date: February 11, 1812

medium: Etching, aquatint and mezzotint; second state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Dress border

date: early 19th century

medium: Metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Monkey amulet

medium: Ivory or bone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Virgin and child with angels

medium: Bronze, on a later gilt base

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs and Mr. Peter G. Sachs, in memory of Miss Edith L. Sachs, 1978


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Briseis Painter

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1927


title: Band

date: 16th century

medium: Cutwork, embroidery, needle lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Aaron Burr

creator: James Van Dyck

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Piece

date: 19th century


title: Nine-Gem (Navaratna) Talismanic Bracelet, One of a Pair

medium: Gold, enamel; inset with emeralds, turquoise, garnets, sapphires, diamonds, agate, coral, pearls, and topaz

subjects:
Jewelry
Corals & anemones
Minerals & gems

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Egyptian Revival demi-parure

creator: Carlo Giuliano

medium: Gold, turquoise, ruby, rose-cut diamond, enamel, seed pearl

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Roses

credit_line: Gift of Judith H. Siegel, 2015


title: Justice Welch

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Study for the Figure of Aeolus

creator: Pellegrino Tibaldi

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Sally and Howard Lepow Gift, 2007


title: Design for a wine cooler

creator: Thomas Fletcher

medium: Pen and ink with brush and wash

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


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


title: Dress Border

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk


title: A Tailors Wedding

date: February 20, 1814

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Turban Helmet

date: late 15th–16th century

medium: Steel, iron, silver, gold

country: Turkish, possibly Istanbul, in the style of Turkman armor

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Vase fragment

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Two-Colored Tile

date: late 14th–early 15th century

medium: Fired earthenware with slip decoration and lead glaze

subjects: British Ceramics-tile

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1991


title: Female figure playing a lyre

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Toggle

date: 100 BCE–200 CE

medium: Walrus ivory

country: Okvik, Native American

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2021


title: Page of Calligraphy in Ornamental Style

creator: Malik Muhammad Qazvini

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Codice

credit_line: Purchase, Elizabeth S. Ettinghausen Gift, in memory of Richard Ettinghausen, 1998


title: Ewer

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and incised, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Madonna and Child

creator: Battista Angolo del Moro

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Pair of gold disk earrings with pendant Erotes

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Arbor group

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Vase with floral scrolls

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Newsman

creator: Suzuki Shin'ichi

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: The Annunciation

creator: Fra Filippo Lippi

medium: Tempera on wood

credit_line: Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943


title: Corset

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel Davis, 1940


title: Button

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Pin

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Silver

country: Chimú (?)

subjects: Metal-ornament Chimú

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


title: Small octagonal table

date: early 20th century (?)

medium: Walnut

country: Italian or American

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
Italian or american

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Plate

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Fruits

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


title: Hat Badge: Woman Choosing Between Youth and Old Age

medium: Gold, gold filigree and enamel

country: probably Flemish (Malines)

subjects: Jewelry, precious metal and precious stone


title: Box

creator: Johann Christian Sick

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family; Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts and The Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation Inc. Gifts; Rogers Fund; and Cynthia and Steven Brill, Werwaiss Family Charitable Trust, and Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gifts, 2005


title: Henry "Heinie" Kappel, Left Field, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Miniature Linen Sheet From Foundation Deposit 2 of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Naked Figure leaning on a Pedestal

creator: Juste de Juste

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1973


title: Dish

creator: William Maunday

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Christ in the Tomb

date: 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888


title: Perpsective View (uki-e) of a Kabuki Theatre, with a Performance of  The Crest Patterns of the Soga Brothers and Nagoya Sanza (Mon-zukushi Nagoya Soga)

creator: Okumura Masanobu

date: 1748 (Enkyō 5), first month

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1947


title: Bead, tubular

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Skewer needle

date: 18th century

medium: Steel, buckshorn, brass

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Frontispiece to the Bible

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; first state (?) of three (BN)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Intoxication

creator: Célestin Nanteuil

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: A cartouche supported by a duck below and decorated with two nymphs whose arms become tree branches, plate 6 from "Nouvelles inventions de Cartouches"

creator: Stefano della Bella

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Vase

medium: Stoneware (Kairakuen ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Design for a Tankard

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Wash and gouache on gray paper

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


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


title: Posthumous Portrait of a Queen as Parvati

date: 14th century

medium: Andesite

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)
Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, 2000 Benefit Fund, 2001


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

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: [Moorish Vase, Granada]

creator: Señan y Gonzalez

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John L. Swayze, 1983


date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bronze statuette of a Black African youth

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: L'Aveugle et son Chien (The Blind Man and his Dog), from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons" (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Shoe buckles

medium: metal

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Frederick Bradbury, 1925


title: The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint; third state of three

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1920


title: Ewer with female figure

creator: Joseph Landais

medium: Glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Wallis Katz, in memory of Marshall Katz, and in celebration of the Museum's 150th anniversary, 2020


title: Frog Seal Amulet with a City Hieroglyph (?) on the Base

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Window guard

date: 16th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of The Hearst Foundation, 1956


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Etienne Carjat

creator: Etienne Carjat

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Helen and Janos Scholz, 1958


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Sleeve Band

date: 19th century

medium: Silk;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Uninscribed Scarab Bead

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Terracotta sauceboat

country: Helladic

subjects: Vase Helladic

credit_line: Gift of the Greek Government, 1927


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


title: Buckle

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Iron, gold foil, copper alloy rivets

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: River of Omue and Bridge of Oda

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Woodblock print; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1947


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

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

medium: Etching

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


title: Part of a border

medium: Silk on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: A Centennial Memorial

creator: George Hampden Lovett

medium: White metal

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wait, 1907


title: Candelabra

medium: Wrought iron

country: Spanish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Spanish

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Goyu, Tabibito Ryujo

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, 1945


title: Pair of boat-shaped earrings with filigree and granule decoration

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Fruit dish (compotier carré) (one of six) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Fruits

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Faith (Fides), from "The Seven Virtues"

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving; first state

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Vampyr, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

creator: Henry Louis Stephens

medium: Color lithograph with watercolor and gum

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1964


title: Bottle, Geometric Designs

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1976


title: Water Filter

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Firescreen panel

creator: Philippe de Lasalle

medium: Silk on silk


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Landscape: Copy of "Walking Along in the Autumn Forest" by Ni Zan (1301-1374)

creator: Wu Tong

date: dated 1834

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color washes on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Medallion

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread on silk

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1944


title: Chafing Dish

creator: John Coney

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Ornament

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Appliqué Figure of Christ

date: 13th century

medium: Champlevé enamel and gilded copper

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Ostrakon

medium: Limestone fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Handkerchief

medium: Textiles-Embroidered


title: Tobiolus Makes a Propitiatory Sacrifice, from "The Story of Tobias"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Landau)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: Preface and Essay on Exemplars of Scrupulous Behavior

date: 20th century

medium: Ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Rubbing China

credit_line: Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1977


title: Dish in the shape of a peach

medium: Malachite

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Vase

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Strainer handle

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Rowel Spur

medium: Iron alloy

country: Hungarian

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Hungarian

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Tubular bead

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Saint Anthony of Padua

creator: Maso di Banco

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943


title: Design for a Cabinet with Glass Side Doors and a Porcelain Plaque

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite, watercolor and scratching on gray ground

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


title: Coin

date: 12th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Earring

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Electrum

country: Viking

subjects: Metalwork-electrum Viking

credit_line: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1951


title: Glass cylindrical bottle

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Seated Figure

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Greenstone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Stone-sculpture Mezcala

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Wool and linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Fragment

date: early 16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Pilgrim's Badge with head of Saint Thomas à Becket

date: 15th century

medium: Tin-lead alloy

subjects: Metalwork-lead British

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1986


title: Clothes brush (one of a pair)

creator: Barnard Brothers

medium: Silver

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


title: Model of Papyrus Roll

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


title: Presumed Portrait of Jacopo Alvarotto

date: probably 18th century

medium: Black chalk, brown wash

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Saint Helen finding the true cross

creator: Jerôme David

medium: Engraving

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


title: Entrée du Niagara dans le Lac Ontario

creator: Charlotte Bonaparte

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Family at Rest

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: David in Prayer (facsimile)

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint (facsimile)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Clara Binswanger, 1961


title: Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite on blue paper

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


title: Piece

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: An Exhibition

creator: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

date: January 29, 1776

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

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


title: The Little Marine - Souvenir of Medway

creator: Félix-Hilaire Buhot

medium: Etching and aquatint; between third and fourth states of six

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1921


title: A woman standing, facing the left in profile, wearing a hat and a lace collar, reading from a prayer book, from "French Nobility at Church"

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Arabesque Design on Dark Ground

creator: Virgil Solis

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Axe head

medium: Bronze

country: Hattian

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955


title: Tarawangsa

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, silk, parchment, mother-of-pearl, metal

country: Javanese (Sunda)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: La Présentation au Peuple (The Presentation of Christ to the People), from "La Grande Passion" (The Large Passion)Passion)

creator: Jacques Callot

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Element

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Gold

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Oriental Street Scene

creator: Eduard Hildebrandt

medium: Brush and black ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk on paper with light tan wash.

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1970


title: Cup

creator: Vinzenz Hofer

date: 16th century

medium: Silver, parcel gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Wagon drawn by bulls

medium: Copper

credit_line: Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1966


title: Card 781, Irene Verona, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Hinge

medium: Wrought iron

country: American

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


title: Stirrup-Shaped Ring with Oblong Bezel with Sri

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

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Four-Legged Jar (Yonsoku-tsubo)

date: 9th century

medium: Stoneware with green glaze and relief decoration (Sanage ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Fiore D'Ogni Virtu Per le Nobili Et Honeste Matrone, page 13 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Shoulder Band Fragment

medium: Wool; tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1926


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress, 1946


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bathing suit

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Mirror with Sconces, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray wash, graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Fishes

creator: Watanabe Seitei

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Fish Painting Japan

credit_line: Charles Stewart Smith Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, Charles Stewart Smith Jr., and Howard Caswell Smith, in memory of Charles Stewart Smith, 1914


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Sample

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: Key

date: 13th century (?)

medium: Iron

country: French (?)

subjects: Metalwork-iron French

credit_line: Purchase, De Souhami Collection, Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Three Small Beads, Cog-Wheel-Shaped

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass China

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


title: Cuff Bracelet with Lion Cub Amulets

medium: Gold, carnelian, lapis-lazuli, turquoise glass

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926 (26.8.123a–g); Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1987 (1987.399.2a); Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1988 (1988.17h)


title: Coal bucket, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 5) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Ogee frame

medium: Oak lower moldings; lime upper moldings. Carved, gilt; brown-orange bole.

subjects: Frame French

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Framed Design for an Architectural Interior: Coffered Ceiling with Central Hexagonal Cartouche and Walls with Floral Ornament and Drapery.

creator: Antonio Basoli

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, gray, blue, orange, green wash, over traces of graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Drawing
Flowers

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


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


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

date: early 5th century BCE

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


title: Gardener

creator: Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, Anita M. Linzee Bequest, 1940


title: Portrait of Ferdinand Lesseps

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965


title: Design for the Base of a Vessel with Three Dolphins

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

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

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea

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


title: Angel

date: second half 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta head; wooden limbs and wings; body of wire wrapped in tow; various fabrics

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: The Death of Munrow

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware with enamel decoration

credit_line: Purchase, Funds from various donors, The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, and The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation Gift, in memory of George Munroe, 2016


title: Plate 22 from "Los Caprichos": Poor little girls! (Pobrecitas!)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint

credit_line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918


title: Roses against a green ground

medium: Cotton and wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Roses
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Charger

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1964


title: Box (part of a set)

date: last quarter 17th century

medium: Leather, gilt, wood, silk and brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Fatman, in the name of her late husband, 1931


title: Ancestor Figure (Silum or Telum)

date: mid to late 19th century

medium: Wood, paint

country: Anjam people

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Anjam people

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


title: Handkerchief

date: late 19th century

medium: Plain weave and bobbin lace; warp: undyed linen, Z spun, 42 per cm; weft: undyed linen, Z spun, 26 per cm; lace: undyed linen, 2 Z spun, S plied

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain decorated with colored enamels (Ao Kutani style)

country: Japan

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


title: The Three Fates

creator: Anonymous, Italian, North Italy, 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Joseph McCrindle Fund, 2014


title: Covered vase with immortals

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Mold for Grape Cluster Pendant

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Sea Pool with Shells and Seaweeds

creator: John Dillwyn Llewelyn

medium: Salted paper print

subjects:
Photograph
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Piece

creator: Bromley Hall Printworks

medium: Cotton and linen (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Hampton Lawrence Carson, 1915


title: Textile fragment with repeating pattern of waves and birds in flight

medium: Silk

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Japan
Birds
Textiles-woven

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Pierre-Innocent Zurich

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Alphonse de Lamartine

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

date: 1830, cast before 1856

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2009


title: Figure of a hawk (one of a pair)

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain with clear glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Plaque with the Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger

creator: School of Nottingham

date: 15th century

medium: Alabaster with paint and gilding

country: British

subjects: Sculpture-stone British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Ornament with Squirrels and Grapes

medium: Amber

subjects:
Ornament & design
Amber
China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Jar

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Gift of Charles B. Hoyt, 1928


title: New Künstlichs Modelbuch (Page 27 recto)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Jackson E. Reynolds, 1951


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)


title: Favre. Pierre, Maurice. 29 ans, né le 30/11/64. Ciseleur. Anarchiste. 15/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Plate

creator: Pierre Brebiette

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)


title: Ornamental Knife

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Colombia (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Colombia

credit_line: Gift of Mica Ertegün, 2008


title: Venus and Cupid

creator: Nicolò Boldrini

medium: Woodcut (key block only)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Cannon Ball

date: late 14th century

medium: Iron

country: French

subjects:
French
Firearms-cannon ball

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Tasso in Prison, from "L'Art"

creator: Léopold Flameng

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Tinsel and metal thread

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Whorl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Wood

country: Coptic

subjects: Woodwork-miscellany Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Mrs. Albert Bridges

creator: Henry Inman

medium: Watercolor on off-white Bristol board

credit_line: Bequest of Eliza K. DeLamater, 1926


title: Jug

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

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


title: Snake ring

date: 1st century CE

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: The Rape of the Sabines

creator: Francesco Allegrini

medium: Pen and brown ink, over a little black chalk.  Framing lines in pen and brown ink on mount

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880