title: Marble relief fragment with the torso of a Hesperid holding apples

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Marble, Pentelic

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: The Birth of the Virgin

creator: Carlo Maratti

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; second state of two (Bartsch)

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: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: View of the Old Church of Amsterdam

creator: Hermanus Petrus Schouten

medium: Pen and brown ink and watercolor

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


title: Limestone head of a bearded male with a plain headdress

date: middle of the 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of the Courtier Yasusuke Playing Flute beneath Full Moon (obverse); His Brother Kidomaru Hiding among Autumn Grasses (reverse)

medium: Lacquer, roiro, gold, silver, black and red hiramakie, takamakie, togidashi; Interior: gyobu nashiji and fundame, boxes

country: Japan

subjects:
Inrō
Japan
Grasses & sedges

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


title: Band

date: 16th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: View of a Courtyard Surrounded by Buildings in Gothic Style with Central Clock Tower

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Graphite

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Amitayus Trinity

date: ca. 15th century

medium: Copper alloy with traces of gold paint, inlaid with silver and gold

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Uzi Zucker, 1979


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: V. Compteur et Mireur d'oeufs aux Halles - Paris

creator: Paul Géniaux

medium: Gelatin silver transparency on glass with applied color

credit_line: Purchase, Jay H. McDonald Gift and funds from various donors, 2026


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Chalcedony, milky

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Card Number 206, Maude Waldermere, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Axe

medium: Nephrite

country: North America (Alaska, Cape Prince of Wales)

subjects: North america (alaska, cape prince of wales)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Jug

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Glass

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


title: Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


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


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Piece

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silk


title: At Prayer

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Netsuke of Two Frogs Wrestling

medium: Wood

subjects:
Netsuke
Japan
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Landscape with a shepherd and a dog

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint; second of two states

subjects: Print Landscapes


title: Scene 7, from Jack and the Giant Killer, Scenes for a Toy Theater

creator: Benjamin Pollock

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Ceremonial Knife (Tumi)

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Copper (cast), silver (?)

country: Inca

subjects: Metal-implement Inca

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


title: Towel

date: late 18th century

medium: Linen


title: Knife (Kukri)

medium: Steel, wood

country: Indian or Nepalese, Gurkha

subjects:
Knive
Indian or nepalese, gurkha

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Nature

creator: Enea Vico

medium: Engraving

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Water Filter

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Funerary Cone of the Steward of the Vizier Amenemhat

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


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

date: mid-6th century BCE


title: Desk knife (Eraser)

medium: Steel, silver, enamel

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: [The Countess Canning, Simla]

creator: Jean Baptiste Oscar Mallitte

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Candelabra Designs and Stair Railing Designs, nos. CCCXCV–CCCXCVII and 398–400, plate 60 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

creator: Michelangelo Pergolesi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: A New Year's Scene

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: O'Rourke, Catcher, New York, from the Gold Coin series (N284) for Gold Coin Chewing Tobacco

creator: D. Buchner & Co., New York

medium: Commercial color lithograph reproducing drawing

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


title: George Burton Pinkney, 3rd Base, Brooklyn, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card


title: Piece

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Bowl with lotus

date: 12th century

medium: Stoneware with incised decoration under celadon glaze (Yaozhou ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, 1926


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: The Virgin Fainting and The Partition of the Garments (from Scenes from the Passion of Christ)

date: early 16th century

medium: Stone

country: French

subjects: Sculpture French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Papyrus Fragment

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Ink on papyrus

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Von Guericke, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: La Justice, from the playing cards (for quartets) "Costumes des Peuples Étrangers"

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3209a

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Vulture Bowl

date: 13th–15th century

medium:
Ceramic
.

country: Isla de Sacrificios

subjects:
Isla de sacrificio
Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1961


title: Vase

date: ca. 1550–1600 (modern foot)

medium: Glass, engraved

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


title: Cabinet

date: first half 17th century

medium: Walnut

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 8th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


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

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Tile

date: 13th century

medium: Earthenware, tin-glaze

country: Spanish (?)

subjects: Spanish Ceramics-tile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1929


title: Portrait of Caravaggio, turned to the right and looking at his reflection in a mirror

creator: Henri Simon Thomassin

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

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


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

creator: Phineus Painter

country: Greek, Chalcidian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, chalcidian


title: Maharana Amar Singh II, Prince Sangram Singh and Courtiers Watch a Performance

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Mewar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, mewar)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bimel Jr., 1996


title: [Stereographic View of Two Nude Women]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of John C. Waddell, 1998


title: Burgonet

medium: Steel, gold, leather, brass

subjects: Helmet French

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Card Number 237, Minnie Duprie, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Dish (coppa)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Gubbio

subjects:
Italian, gubbio
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Spoon

creator: Jonathon Reed

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Madonna and Child with St. John

creator: Jacopo Sansovino (Jacopo Tatti)

date: mid-16th century

medium: Bronze, dark brown patina

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial A, from an Antiphonary

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: German

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

credit_line: Gift of Miss Alice M. Dike, in memory of her father, Henry A. Dike, 1928


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Waistcoat

medium: silk

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Gerry, 1967


title: Plein Air Painter at an Easel

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

medium: Recto: aquatint and engraving; verso: red chalk

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


title: Mrs. Stuart Robson, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Earring-loop type, plain

medium: Gold

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


title: Limestone sphinx supporting a votive bowl

date: late 6th or early 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Glass lentoid bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Head of a King with a Nemes Headdress

date: ca. 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Crystalline or dense limestone

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Sculptors at Work, Tomb of Rekhmire

creator: Nina de Garis Davies

medium: Paper, tempera paint, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Mam

creator: David James Blaikley

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Egyptian (repro)

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-pipe
Egyptian (repro)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Calligraphy

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Studies of a Seated Woman from Behind

creator: Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2007


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: 18th century

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi)

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1946


title: Head

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Side Chair

medium: Walnut, maple, white pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; third state of three

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


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: St. Jacob Minor, 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

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze (Hirado ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Card Number 87, Agnes Folsom, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: 87. Tombeaux et Minarets, au Kaire

creator: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 2017


title: Design for a Ceiling, an Oblong with an Oval Center

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: [Ghulam Muhammad Mosque, Calcutta]

creator: Captain R. B. Hill

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Netsuke of Group of Animals

date: 19th century

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: General Clements, from the "Generals" series (T64), issued by D.H. McAlpin & Co. Tobacco Company

creator: D.H. McAlpin & Co. Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Rank Badge with Mandarin Duck

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Card Number 331, Empire Group, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes


title: Buckle

date: 7th century (?)

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Cinquedea

date: late 15th century

medium: Steel, silver, iron

country: Italian, Emilia

subjects:
Dagger
Italian, emilia

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Lion

date: after 1200

medium: Fresco, mounted on canvas

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Paintings-fresco

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1931


title: Pincushion

date: mid-19th century

medium: Silk, wool, glass, moosehair

country: Huron

credit_line: Ralph T. Coe Collection, Gift of Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, 2011


title: Piece

date: 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Matsuda Sorakichi, Wrestler, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Manzai Performers

creator: Kengetsudō

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Side Drum

medium: Wood, skin, cord

country: Dutch

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / barrel drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Jug with cover (one of a pair)

creator: Simon Pantin I

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Stronghold / A Great Rent, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: An old man having a shower accompanied by two other figures

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Stringing and Drilling Beads, Tomb of Rekhmire

medium: Paper, tempera paint, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Trophies of Marius, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Overseer Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Watch

creator: Edward Prior

medium: Silver, tortoiseshell, enamel


title: Band

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Netsuke

medium: Wood and bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: King, from a group of Donor Figures including a King, Queen, and Prince

medium: Marble, traces of paint & gilding

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-stone French


title: Prometheus

creator: Sebastiano de' Valentinis

medium: Etching with touches of drypoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1970


title: Bacchanale - Satyr and Nymph with Infant and Infant Satyr

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Etching, second state

credit_line: Jacob H. Schiff Fund, 1922


title: Ferret

medium: Copper alloy, silvered

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Apothecary bottle (fiasca da farmacia)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Castelli

subjects:
Italian, castelli
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Rank Badge with Mandarin Duck

date: late 18th century(?)

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1946


title: Ojime

medium: Ojime

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Object in the form of clenched fist

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1984


title: Plate

creator: Edmé Samson

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Bird with Lion's Head

medium: Marble

subjects: Sculpture China Birds

credit_line: Bequest of Florance Waterbury, in memory of her father, John I. Waterbury, 1968


title: Match Case

creator: Tiffany & Co.

medium: Gold, silver, brass, patinated copper, gold-copper alloy, silver-copper alloy, and patinated copper-platinum-iron alloy

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1941


title: Anthropomorphic Pendant

date: 5th–10th century

medium: Gold (cast)

country: Tolima

subjects: Metal-ornament Tolima

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


title: Flask

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: The Remains of a Shipwreck

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: An Interesting Story (Miss Ray)

creator: William Wood

medium: Ivory

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


title: Netsuke of Boy Sitting on the Shoulders of an Animal

medium: Wood; inlaid eyes


title: Study of Two Soldiers and a Hand

creator: Adam Frans van der Meulen

medium: Black and white chalk, heightened with cream-colored gouache, on blue paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


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

date: late 6th/early 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: Miniature Vessel

date: 15th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Inca

subjects:
Inca
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1966


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of delivery of halilu-tools, Ebabbar archive

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Pair of small vases

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Maharana Amar Singh II Is Shown Two Silver Elephants

creator: Stipple Master

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

country: India (Rajasthan, Mewar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, mewar)

credit_line: Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2003


title: Tromba Marina

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Wood

country: German or Swiss

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted
German or swiss

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Collar

date: 19th century

medium: Applied

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Beam compass

creator: Christopher Trechsler

medium: Brass gilt

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes

creator: Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Fish Painting

credit_line: Francis L. Leland Fund, 1913


title: Staff Officer, France, 1853, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: A Minstrel's Lay, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Water Bottle

date: 18th century

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Card 48, from the Girl Cyclists series (N49) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Chasuble

medium: Metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1939


title: Netsuke with Group of Six Men

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: The Dragon with two Horns and the Beast with Seven, from the Apocalypse

creator: Jean Duvet

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Brougham (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)

creator: Thomas Peat

medium: Enamel

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Paper Cut-Out

date: 10th century

medium: Paper; cut-out and pasted

credit_line: Gift of Nelly, Violet and Elie Abemayor, in memory of Michel Abemayor, 1978


title: Cypress Bough

creator: Mary Russell Smith

medium: Watercolor and gouache on paper

credit_line: Gift of Judith F. Hernstadt, 2007


title: Roof Seat Break #3796

medium: graphite, pen and black in, watercolor and gouache with gum arabic


title: Vest

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Beaumont Newhall, in memory of A. Lillia Newhall, 1940


title: Le Café au Jardin d'été à St. Pétersbourg, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

creator: J. Meyer

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008


title: Pinhead

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Banquet of the Piacevoli, Medici coat of arms at top center

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Terracotta fragment of a bowl?

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

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


title: The River Elbe Downstream of Hamburg by Moonlight

creator: Christian Ernst Morgenstern

medium: Black chalk, brush and gray ink, heightened with white, orange and yellow gouache

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2004


title: Fragment of the Upper Edge of Siptah's Canopic Chest

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Chalice veil (Poteriokalumma)

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1925


title: Suspension Part for a Musical Instrument

date: 10th–11th century(?)

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

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


title: Figure of a seated Chinese man

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: The Agony in the Garden

creator: Nicolas Poussin

medium: Oil on copper

credit_line: Gift of Jon and Barbara Landau, in honor of Keith Christiansen, 2021


title: Card 34, from the Girl Cyclists series (N49) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Bangle

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Thompson, R. F., Detroit, from the Gold Coin series (N284) for Gold Coin Chewing Tobacco

creator: D. Buchner & Co., New York

medium: Commercial color lithograph reproducing drawing


title: Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Books

medium: Gold, silver togidashimaki-e, hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, cut-out gold foil application

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1946


title: Master Jacob, for "The Wonder Clock"

creator: Howard Pyle

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926; transfered to the Print Department, 1967


title: Figurine of a horse

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Breaking the Legs (John Beaver, Roman Military Punishments, 1725)

creator: William Hogarth

date: after 1725

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Parure: tiara, necklace, and brooch

creator: Luigi Saulini

date: mid-19th century

medium: Onyx and gold,

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: Sheet with overall dot pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Saint Joseph at left and a bishop at right standing before the altar of the Virgin and Christ Child

creator: Marco Dente

medium: Engraving

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

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


title: Pioger. Louise (veuve Lefèvre). 45 ans, né à Mézières (Sarthe). Giletière. Disposition du préfet. 8/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Dish with Unidentified Coat of Arms

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Comforts of Bath, Plate 10

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 6, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Candlestick

medium: Gilded copper with champlevé enamel

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Double Saddle Bag (Khorjin)

date: second half 19th century

medium: Wool and cotton; sumak brocaded, wool slit tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven-brocade

credit_line: Gift of Inger G. and William B. Ginsberg, 2015


title: Crayfish

creator: Watanabe Seitei

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: 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: Tiles (4)

date: 16th–17th century

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Card Number 320, Mlle. Menilli, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Courtesan and Attendant with a Cage of Fireflies

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Tea jar

medium: Pottery (Mino ware, Oribe type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Panel

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Hammered Silver Pin (tupu)

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver, gilt (?)

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Tankard

creator: Ludwig Wachman

medium: Silver-gilt

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008


title: Buckle Shank

date: first half 6th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Visigothic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Visigothic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: The Theatrical Bubble; being a new Specimen of the Astonishing Powers of the Great Politiico-Punchinello in the Art of Dramatic Puffing

creator: James Gillray

date: January 7, 1805

medium: Etching and aquatint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Funerary Scene in a Temple

creator: Pierre Moreau

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

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


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood

country: Sumatran

subjects: Krisse Sumatran

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Coffeepot

creator: Harvey Lewis

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arthur C. Steinbach, 1968


title: Trencher (one of a set)

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Oak and sycamore woods, painted, silvered and yellow varnished; inscription: ink (animal or vegetable)

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Door Handle

date: late 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Table knife

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1962


title: Theseus Slaying the Minotaur (second version)

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

date: first version modeled in 1843, second version modeled ca.1857, possibly cast between 1857 and 1875

medium: Bronze (sand cast)

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Merman (one of six)

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, silver

credit_line: Purchase, The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund and Gift of Mrs. Harold D. Shattuck, by exchange, 1982


title: Bowl in the shape of a chrysanthemum flower

date: 18th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: India

subjects: Jade India Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Knave of Nooses, from The Cloisters Playing Cards

medium: Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-paper
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1983


title: Jarabe, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) 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: Recto: Temple Types: in Antis and Prostyle (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, nos. 2, 3); Verso: Temple Types: Peripteral (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, no. 5).

creator: Sangallo family

medium: Pen and dark brown ink

subjects: Architecture Manuscript

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange, 2008


title: Finger Ring

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Gold, with niello & sapphire intaglio

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-gold Byzantine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Tall Clock

creator: Jacob Diehl

medium:
Mahogany, satinwood veneer with white pine,
yellow poplar

country: American

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1980


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted under turquoise glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Painted Gorget

medium: Steel, textile (silk), polychromy, gold, copper alloy

country: Western Europe, probably British or Dutch

subjects: Western europe, probably british or dutch

credit_line: Purchase, Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, by exchange, 1992


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Foreigners, One holding a Cock

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Lacquer, roiro and nashiji, gold, silver and black hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Key Handle

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Roman

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


title: Isis and Horus

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: George III double sovereign

creator: Benedetto Pistrucci

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2001


title: Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Ōtsu-e of Shōmen Kongōyasha (Vajrayaksha)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink, color, and hand-colored woodblock print on paper

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: Terracotta fragment of a vase?

date: 7th–4th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric

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


title: Strip

date: 17th or early 19th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Hufstader, 1979


title: Glass spindle whorl

date: ca. 1st–2nd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: St. Eustache, Paris

creator: David Cox

medium: Watercolor and graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Drawings and Prints and Krugman Family Foundation Gifts, 2019


title: Elbow or shoulder

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Benjamin Franklin

creator: Jean François Janinet

medium: Color aquatint with hand-coloring

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: The Courtesans Murasaki and Shūshū Play the Kitsune-ken Hand game

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

date: Probably early 20th century, based on 1770 images

medium: (based on two pages of a woodblock-printed book (ehon); ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Spindle

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Wood, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-implement

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Evening slippers

creator: Melnotte

medium: Silk

country: British

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


title: Gold earring with woman's head and beryl and garnet beads

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Gold, beryl, garnet

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Louisiana Heron, from the Game Birds series (N40) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Woman with a Pink

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

date: early 1660s

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Coffin

medium: Sycomore wood, paint


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Landscape with Two Trees in Foreground (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

subjects: American Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Fragment

medium: Textiles-Laces

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


title: Jérusalem, Saint-Sépulcre, Bas-relief (porte murée)

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Young Couple Seen From Behind

creator: Hippolyte-Omer Ballue

date: mid-19th century

medium: Watercolor over graphite

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


title: Square

medium: Linen, silk, and gold thread; plain weave, embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Plate twelve from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

creator: De Lacollombe

date: dated 1736

medium: Engraving

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Work on paper
French, pari

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goelet Gift, 2013


title: Bradley, The Seat of Thomas Dawes, plate 449 from "The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire"

creator: Johannes Kip

medium: Hand-colored etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Windowpane

date: 18th century

medium: Free-blown glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Alice Dacre and Frankie Raymond, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Head of a satyr

creator: Louis Marin Bonnet

medium: Crayon-manner engraving with red ink

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


title: Kameyama, Yuki Hare

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Greek


title: Glass openwork finger ring

date: ca. 4th century CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: S. Dominique, fondateur de l'Ordre des Pères Prêcheurs (St. Dominic, Founder of the Order of Preachers), August 4th, 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: Figure Studies:  Woman holding a Shield, a Dancing Female, and a Priest Supported at an Altar before a Group of Onlookers

creator: Bernardino Poccetti

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Spear

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wood, steel, twine, resin

country: Indonesian

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Indonesian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Kajou pelet

country: Balinese

subjects: Krisse Balinese


title: Gilded silver relief

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Silver, gold

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Footed Dish

creator: Richards and Hartley Flint Glass Co.

medium: Pressed colorless and opalescent glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Mark, from The Four Evangelists

creator: Pieter Feddes van Harlingen

medium: Etching

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2014


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

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


title: Roman Soldiers Defending a City Plagued by Famine

creator: Louis Fabritius Dubourg

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray and brown wash; framing lines in pen and black ink, possibly by the artist

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Undersleeves

medium: Cotton, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Hilda Loines, 1945


title: Tankard

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2014


title: Bronze dupondius of Nerva

date: 97 CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Covered jar

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Blown Amberina glass


title: [Laurent  ?]

creator: George Gardner Rockwood

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Study of a Plant

creator: Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

medium: Watercolor over graphite; framing lines in graphite

subjects: Botany Drawing

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2007


title: Pottery Whistle

date: 19th century

medium: Clay

country: Mexican

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Mexican

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Victoria sovereign

creator: William Wyon

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2001


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Mold for a Disk Ornament

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: James G. Fogarty, Right Field, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: ca. 3rd century–538

medium: Iron

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: The Reverend Fathers, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Picturesque Views/ Newburg/ Hudson River.

creator: James and Ralph Clews

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lawrence C. Hogeboom, 1876


title: Chinese Characters in Various Scripts and Waka Poems

creator: Horie Yorinao (Tōgen) 堀江透玄

date: mid-17th century

medium: Six-panel folding screen; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Ryo Toyonaga and Alvin E. Friedman-Kien Gift and funds from various donors, 2020


title: Lion Devouring a Horse

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph on chine collé; fourth state of five

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Sketches of Rowboats (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium:
Graphite on wove paper with gilt edges, bound in a leather
 cover

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Pair of clock ornaments

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Spencer

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Trust Gift, 1991


title: Armor

date: ca. 1540–50 and later

medium: Steel, leather

country: German, possibly Lower Saxony

subjects:
Armor for man
German, possibly lower saxony

credit_line: Armor: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Helen Fahnestock Hubbard, in memory of her father, Harris C. Fahnestock, 1929; mail: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, 1929


title: Pair of vases

medium: Tin glazed earthenware

country: Dutch

subjects: Ceramic Dutch

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Serpentine axehead

medium: Serpentine

country: Anatolian

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Anatolian

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1936


title: Gloves

date: early 19th century

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Martine Weaver, 1950


title: Drop-leaf Dining Table

medium: Mahogany, tulip poplar, white pine

credit_line: Purchase, Ella Elizabeth Russell Bequest, in loving memory of Salem  Towne Russell, 1933


title: Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene

medium: Veined and flawed neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Half of Double Saddle Bag (Khorjin)

medium: Wool; sumak brocaded, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven-brocade

credit_line: Gift of Inger G. and William B. Ginsberg, 2015


title: The Five Senses and the Four Elements

date: second quarter 17th century

medium: Canvas worked with silk thread; tent, rococo, knot, and couching stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a promissory note, Egibi archive

date: ca. 6th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Coin

date: 8th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Frame

medium: Carved and gilded wood


title: Pair of vases

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Charles C. Paterson, 1982


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Ring

date: possibly second half 18th century

medium: Gold, silver, diamonds

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1941


title: Relief of a goose

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: The Pool (Memory of the Forest of Chambord)

creator: Théodore Rousseau

medium: Oil on wood


title: Marie Adélaïde de Savoie (1685–1712), Duchesse de Bourgogne

creator: Pierre Gobert

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of the Marquis de La Bégassière, 1963


title: From the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen print photograph, cabinet card

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


title: The Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1983


title: Design for a ceiling with trompe l'oeil balustrade

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, gouache, and water color

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Key

date: 17th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Four Figure Studies (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Limestone statuette of a seated beardless male votary writing on a scroll

date: late 5th or early 4th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Vase decorated with cranes amid clouds

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Hino Kumawakamaru (Warrior)  From the Book: Taiheiki

creator: Yashima Gakutei

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: The Declaration of Love

creator: Jean François de Troy

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Jug

medium: Lustered earthenware

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Miniature Shaft and Pin

creator: Middle Niger artist

date: 12th–16th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Middle Niger civilization

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Middle niger civilization

credit_line: Bequest of John B. Elliott, 1997


title: Measure (one of a set of seven)

medium: Pewter

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


title: Abduction of Proserpine

date: possibly 17th century

medium: Sardonyx

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1939


title: Strainer

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Copy after a Sculpture of the Sleeping Eros Based on an Antique Model (from Cassiano dal Pozzo's 'Paper Museum')

creator: Giovanni Angelo Canini

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Colonial Commodus, 250 B.C., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Medallion

date: 13th century (before 1227)

medium: Copper, champlevé enamel

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Orange strainer

creator: James Goodwin

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1970


title: Court Robe

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Mary S. Greer, 1964


title: First prize for growth – Prussia: Note: the prize winner is a bit deformed, from "News of the day"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: The Hunter and the Dogs

creator: Pieter van Laer, called Il Bamboccio

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Joan G. Smith, 2024


title: Chamber candlestick

creator: Augustin Courtauld

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Agalmatolite

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Cap

medium: Cotton, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Selma Brody, 1957


title: Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Terrace and Gardens

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor, graphite, and wax on white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Study for 'Le Ranelagh'

creator: Henri-Edmond Cross (Henri-Edmond Delacroix)

medium: Watercolor over black chalk on cream wove paper

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Tughra (Insignia) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: The Dance of the Scarves

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Francis M. Weld, 1948


title: Incense Burner

date: 18th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork Japan


title: Tankard or flagon

date: dated 1749

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: The Silver Tomb of St. John Nepomuk in the Cathedral of St. Veit's Prague, designed by Fischer von Erlach, 1729

creator: Jeremias Jakob Sedelmayr

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Wineglass

date: 16th century (?)

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Visite aux Tentes des Turcos...., from Au Camp de Saint-Maur, published in Le Charivari, August 13, 1859

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of four (Delteil; Hazard & Delteil)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Pair of Flintlock Turn-Off Pistols

creator: Daniel Moore

medium: Steel, wood (walnut), silver

country: British, London

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


title: Englishman Sorting Fabrics

creator: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

date: 2nd month, 1861

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Double Bell

date: late 19th century

medium: Iron

country: Cameroonian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Glass Beaker

date: late 6th–early 7th century

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-vessel Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Miniature Stand for Game of Go

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hirado ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Fragment of Sari

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Knife (Piha Kaetta) with Sheath

medium: Ivory, silver, brass

country: Sri Lankan

subjects:
Knive
Sri lankan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Vase

creator: Chelsea Keramic Art Works

medium: Stoneware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2018


title: Dog Cart Phaeton #621

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Garden Bench

medium: Cast iron

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


title: Simeon, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

creator: Maarten van Heemskerck

medium: Etching; second state

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


title: Flask

creator: Dyottville Glass Works

medium: Free-blown molded aquamarine glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Tea caddy

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: [Untitled]

creator: Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Muldoon, Wrestler, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Mars standing at the left leaning on a shield, Cupid at the right

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


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


title: L'Aveugle et son Compagnon (The Blind Man and his Companion), 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: Coffeepot

creator: Martin-Guillaume Biennais

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Bag

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1929


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: A Rounder, from the Talk of the Diamond set (N135) issued by Duke Sons & Co., a branch of the American Tobacco Company

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Gloves

date: 17th century

medium: leather, metal thread, silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Irene Lewisohn, 1940


title: Seven Designs for Decorated Cups, including Venice, Osborne Tapetry and Osborne Patterns

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Glass eye beads

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta statuette of an old nurse and a child

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, Boeotian or Attic

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, boeotian or attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Dwarf

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Schloss, 1985


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title:
Radha and Krishna Walk in a Flowering Grove
 (recto); Krishna Fluting (verso)

creator: the Kota Master

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Kota)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, kota)

credit_line: Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2003


title: Jérusalem, Porte de David, Intérieur

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Relief of king's head in blue crown, head of child god on opposite side

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Box

creator: Mennecy

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, silver

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


title: Manuscript Leaf with the Annunciation, from a Book of Hours

medium: Tempera, ink and shell gold on parchment

country: Netherlandish

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Netherlandish
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Alice M. Dike, 1927


title: Design for Bed and Canopy

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Brush and brown wash over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Galloon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Military epaulets

medium: Wool, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Eleanor Fayerweather, 1949


title: Tell el-Yahudiya juglet

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Cushion Cover (Yastik)

medium: Silk, linen (?); cut and voided velvet, brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Soldier

creator: Polidoro da Caravaggio

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Piece

date: first half 15th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Arm, left shoulder with Aten cartouche

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


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


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Roses and Plum Blossoms

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers Roses

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


title: Marble portrait bust of a woman

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Nice, France, from the Surf Beauties series (N232), 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: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th century

medium: Linen; plain weave, embroidered (?)

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Female Saint

creator: Jan van Steffesweert

medium: Oak with traces of polychromy

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
South netherlandish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Sacrifice to Diana

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

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


title: Portrait of Constantin Meunier, Belgian painter and sculptor (1831–1905)

creator: Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

date: late 19th century

medium: Bronze, cast, single

subjects:
Medal and plaquette
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Victor D. Brenner, 1903


title: Limestone statuette of a temple boy

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Architecture
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Ithyphallic falcon treading on two snakes

medium: cupreous alloy

credit_line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890


title: Four-light antique candelabrum decorated with arabesques (one of a pair)

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

date: modeled ca. 1845, possibly cast between 1857 and 1875, or between 1876 and 1899

medium: Bronze (sand cast)

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2002


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Roundel with horned animals

date: ca. 9th–7th century BCE

medium: Shell, gold foil, stone inlay

country: Iran

subjects:
Iran
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Frontispiece with litte boy holding a basket, from "Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher" (First Book of Figures after porcelains from the Manufacture Royale de France, devised in 1757, by Mr. Boucher)

creator: Pierre Etienne Falconet

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Card Table

creator: John Finlay

medium: Maple, oak, tulip

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Russell Sage Gift, 1970


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

medium: Bronze, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven


title: Jug with portrait of Frederick the Great

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Portraits

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


title: Esrāj

medium: Wood, metal, wire, ivory

country: Indian

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-fretted Indian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Basilard

medium: Steel, wood, gold

country: Italian

subjects: Dagger Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Incense burner with fish-shaped handles

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: China

subjects: Fish Metalwork China

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


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of the Society for Women's Work, Stockholm, 1908


title: Right forearm with Aten cartouche

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Vue générale des Ruines de Louxor, prise de l'Ouest (Thèbes)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Bread Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Pair of rosettes

date: early 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Christening dress

medium: linen, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry William Walker, 1958


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Interior of a prison in which sits a woman (possibly a theatre set)

creator: Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Evening overdress

medium: silk, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Designated Purchase Fund, 1983


title: Cylinder jar

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Letter to Samuel P. Avery with a drawing of a military figure

creator: Ernest Meissonier

medium: Pen and ink with washed in gray, black and brown, with gouache

credit_line: Gift of Emma Avery Welcher and Amy Ogden Welcher, 1965


title: Canonization scroll of Li Zhong

creator: Unidentified artist

date: colophon dated 1641

medium: Handscroll; ink color, and gold on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Cup with cover

creator: M., London

medium: Silver, partly gilded

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Roof tile fragment

medium: Earthenware with drak blue glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H. Fairfield Osborn, 1929


title: Turban Ornament

medium: Silver sheet; gilded, applied with filigree, inlaid with enamel and colored glass/pearls

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Card Number 390, Elsie Pettie, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Perspectival Drawing of an Armchair

creator: Peter Flötner

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2007


title: Ring with scarab bezel

medium: Glazed steatite, copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Coat

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Terracotta head of a woman

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Cretan

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, cretan

credit_line: Gift of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1953


title: Edging

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Design for a Monstrance

creator: Stefano della Bella

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Souvenir spoon with view of lakefront and town and arms of Savoy

medium: Gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1908


title: Coin

date: dated 375 AH/985 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Ornament

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Glass, Egyptian Blue

subjects:
Ornament & design
Iran

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1961


title: Fragment

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


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

subjects: Print Birds


title: Furniture element

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ivory, gold foil

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: Spoon

medium: Gilt bronze

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


title: Carp, from the series Fishers and Fish (N74) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: Knapp & Company

subjects: Fish Print


title: Platter (one of a pair)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Tile

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

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


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: Ceramic Fragment

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Jack A. Josephson, 1973


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Vase

creator: George E. Ohr

medium: Earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2018


title: Sarcophagus

date: 14th century

medium: Limestone

country: Catalan or Italian

subjects:
Sculpture
Catalan or italian

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1935


title: Limestone male head

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Two female figures seated in the clouds flanking an angel and another flying above carrying a banderole

creator: Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: Bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Stoneware with inlaid decoration under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1915


title: Wineglass

date: 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Pendant

medium: Gold, pearls, rubies, enamel

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


title: Transparency: Exhibited at R. Ackermann's in the Strand on the 27th November 1815, the Day on which the General Peace was Celebrated in London

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 27, 1815

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Four-Cornered Hat

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1983


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Small oval box

creator: Johann Christian Neuss

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Water Coupe

medium: Porcelain with incised decoration under peachbloom glaze

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Copper, gold, silver, copper alloy (sentoku)

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese


title: Chair Strip

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk;  lined with linen (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1960


title: God the Father with Four Angels

creator: Bertoia (Jacopo Zanguidi)

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

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1991


title: Louisiana to General Zachary Taylor

creator: Charles Cushing Wright

medium: Bronze

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Orchids and bamboo

creator: Zheng Xie

date: dated 1742

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China Orchids

credit_line: Edward Elliott Family Collection, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1981


title: Seal of Thutmose III

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Classical Border Elements with Vines and Leaves

creator: Thomas Hardwick

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Panel, blue-resist textile

medium: Cotton, painted and block-printed resist, dyed

country: Indian textile for American market

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Indian textile for american market

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Geoffry N. Lawford, 1964


title: Une maison de la rue de la Victoire, from "L'Artiste"

creator: Marie-Alexandre Alophe

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1975


title: Drunkeness of Bacchus

creator: Peter Paul Rubens

medium: Engraving and etching; first state of four (Hollstein)

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


title: Ensemble

medium: silk, cotton

country: French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Pendant, Openwork and Granulation

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Lotus Pendant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Shoe buckles

medium: metal, paste

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Frederick Bradbury, 1925


title: fragment of gypsum from foundations?

medium: Gypsum ?

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Plate

creator: Chantilly

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Footless Cup or Lid

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Fan

medium: Skin, ivory

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Singer Standing Between Two Smokers

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching


title: Basin

creator: William Bradford Jr.

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stephen S. FitzGerald, 1962


title: Glasscock, Shortstop, Indianapolis, 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: Bead

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Maya

subjects: Maya Beads-ornament

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Figure in a Long Robe, Seated

creator: Romain Cazes

medium: Black chalk highlighted with white chalk

credit_line: Gift of Albert E. Gallatin, 1907


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

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta cup

date: early 1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Silver

country: Japanese

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


title: Saint John the Evangelist

medium: Wood and paint

country: Austrian

subjects: Sculpture-wood Austrian

credit_line: Gift of Thomas F. Ryan, 1912


title: To C.W. Field, from the State of Wisconsin for laying the Atlantic Cable, 1867

creator: Alfred Borrel

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Figure of the Finding of Moses

creator: William Beattie

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, The Edgar J. Kaufmann Foundation Gift, 1968


title: Bronze statuette of a youth dancing

date: late 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Polysiphonia fruticulosa

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Watch

creator: Firm of Esquivillon Frères et De Choudens

medium: Gold, pink and blue jewels, steel

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


title: Terracotta two-handled bowl with spout

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Bronze earring

date: ca. 7th–9th century CE

medium: Metal

country: Alanic

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Simcox, 1999


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Dr. Foulis

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Sofa (part of a set)

creator: Filippo Pelagio Palagi

medium: Mahogany veneered with maplewood and mahogany, covered with modern silk brocade

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1987


title: Private, Ancient and Honorable Artillery, Boston, Massachusetts, V.M., from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Boating

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Misty Landscape

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Agate scarab

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Agate

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gems
Etruscan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Crab in Basket (obverse); Crab in Bamboo Leaves (reverse)

date: 19th century

medium: Lacquer, roiro, gold hiramakie, ceramic, pewter and aogai inlay; Interior: red lacquer, roiro, nashiji and fundame

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan Crustaceans


title: Earring with pendants

date: 3rd century CE or later

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Lucretia, formerly described as Agnes Dürer, the artist's wife

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Lead

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


title: Belt Fitting

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Gilded copper alloy

country: Avar

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Avar

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Belt Mount

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Copper alloy, silvered

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Gareki zakko, Vol. 1 (notes on miscellaneous rubble)

medium: Woodblock-printed book

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Betty and Paul Nomura, in memory of Nomura Shōjirō, 2018


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Collar

date: late 1890s

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Janos Scholz (Helen Marshall), 1978


title: Redingote

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harry T. Peters, 1950


title: Arms of Pope Pius IV (Giovanni Angelo Medici of Milan, reigned 1559–65)

date: mid-16th century

medium: Marble

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Joseph-Henri Altès (1826–1895)

creator: Edgar Degas


title: Vase with birds and flowers

medium: Porcelain painted in polychrome enamels over black ground (Jingdezhen ware, famille noire)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Tiraz Fragment

date: dated 304 AH/916–17 CE

medium: Linen and silk; embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Collar

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Florance Rogers Dietrich, 1942


title: Dish with fish

date: late 16th century

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

subjects: Fish Ceramic China

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


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

creator: Robert Brichet

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazō in the Role of Ono Sadakurō

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Netsuke of Ōni on Vadra, Crouching

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Rectangular table

creator: Bernard II van Risenburgh

medium: Tulipwood, purplewood and kingwood, gilt bronze, leather, brass


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Successful Fortune Hunter, or Captain Shelalee Leading Miss Marrowfat to the Temple of Hymen

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

subjects: Architecture Print

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


title: Cup

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Le Diable a Paris. . . Paris et Les Parisiens, Vol. II

creator: Andrew Best Leloir

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1961


title: Lyngbya vermicularis

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Rosette ornament, lid (?)

medium: Faience, paste

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Band

date: early 13th century

medium: Champlevé enamel and gilded copper

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Cylinder seal with geometric design

date: ca. 9th–7th century BCE

medium: Faience

country: Assyrian or Iranian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted

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


title: Vajra

date: 12th century

medium: Bronze

country: Vietnam

subjects: Sculpture Vietnam

credit_line: Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1992


title: Terracotta fragment of kylix (drinking cup)

date: 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Solidus

medium: Gold

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Inlay, rekhyt bird

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Plate

creator: Clérissy Manufactory

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

creator: Wang Gai

date: first edition printed in 1679

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Saxophone, from the Musical Instruments series (N82) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Side Chair

medium: Maple, ash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Coin

date: probably 758–68

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: New Year's Day, United States, from the Holidays series (N80) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Juglet

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Timothy J. Brosnan, 2nd Base, Minneapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


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: Jackal

medium: Cupreous metal

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


title: The Draped Figure, Seated

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping, printed in black ink on cream laid paper; unrecorded proof before the only recorded state (Chicago)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Panoramic Landscapes

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, gray, blue and green washes, over black chalk

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

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


title: Dinos


title: James Reynolds, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Basin

creator: Samuel Margas Jr.

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Lantern dedicated to Arsène Alexandre

creator: Henri Guérard

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2025


title: The actor Otani Oniji in the role of Omoni Hikoshichi

creator: Torii Kiyomasu I

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

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Coin

date: 8th–9th century


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


title: Piece (one of 116)

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vase with archaic bronze pattern

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Gold earring with head of a goat

date: 4th‒3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek


title: The Death of the Devil, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Neckband, Cuffs, for Imperial Woman's Dragon Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread, paint

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry-George J. McNeary, 1967


title: A Group of Four Children, with Dogs

creator: Paul Sandby

medium: Brush and brown ink and brown washes over pencil.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Beaumaine, Variettees/ Callet, Opera Comique/ Miss Ruth Stetson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 4) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

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


title: Bottle

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Crucifix

medium: Copper alloy, gilding

country: German

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Plates 3 and 4, from "Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa" (Treatise of the Plans & Images of the Sacred Buildings of the Holy Land)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching and engraving; plate 3: first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Kambura Station

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

medium: Terracotta


title: Fragment of a votive bracelet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: La Paysanne Vue de Dos, Tenant un Panier a son Bras Gauche (The Peasant Woman Viewed from Behind, Holding a Basket in his Left Arm), plate 11 from "Varie Figure" (Various Figures)

medium: Etching; third state of four (Lieure)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Jug

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


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


title: Hair Ornament

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver, silver gilt and gun metal

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Bead

date: 9th–19th century

medium: Agate

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Cap

medium: cotton, silk

country: Flemish

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Berle Jr., in memory of her grandmother, Florence Van Cortlandt Bishop, 1953


title: Design for Landau, No. 4054

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: Musical Party in the Open Air

creator: Gerrit Pietersz

medium: Engraving

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


title: Humphry Clinker Smashing a Dish at Dinner..., an illustration from Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" (London, 1793), Vol. 1

creator: Charles Grignion, I

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: The Prix de Rome Winners of 1817:  Léon Cogniet, Achille Michallon and Antoine Garnaud

creator: Léon Cogniet

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Renée Sacks Bequest, 2008


title: Sheet with overall pattern of stars inside ovals

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Holy Family

creator: Claude Cherpignon


title: Pendant, One of a Pair

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Sheet gold with granulation

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Phaeton #143

medium: Pen and black ink


title: Bronze ring fragments

date: 5th–4th centuries BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Gems
Minerals & gems

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


title: Bust of Mary Washington

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Scarab

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Plate (one of a set of twelve)

creator: Thomas Farren

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Cann

creator: Stephen Emery

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Incense Burner

medium: Clay with finely crackled glaze (Satsuma ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Votive boot

date: ca. 900 BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Jerome M. Eisenberg, 1962


title: Jug

date: early 16th century

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Gift of John Stemme, 1910


title: Table screen with landscape scene

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Jade (jadeite)

subjects: Jade China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Standing Crowned and Jeweled Buddha

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Wood with traces of red lacquer, gesso and gold leaf

country: Burma

subjects: Sculpture Burma

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1992


title: Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, graphite, black chalk

subjects: Architecture Album

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Piece of Cloth for Bedding

medium: Plain-weave cotton with weft kasuri (ikat ) patterning

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1966


title: Beads

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Glass; drilled

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Mug with Freemason symbols and motto

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Glass beaker with inscription

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Philip II 1527-98, King of Spain 1556-98

creator: Gianpaolo Poggini

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