title: Bowl

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted and incised decoration

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


title: Mat

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

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


title: Mirror Case

medium: Elephant ivory

country: French

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Francesco Niccolò Gabburri

creator: Lorenzo Maria Weber

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1979


title: Oedipus before the Temple of the Furies between his Daughters Antigone and Ismene

creator: Anton Raphael Mengs

medium: Pen and brown ink, bown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014


title: The Courtesan Hanaōgi of the Ōgiya Brothel in Yoshiwara (Ōgiya uchi Hanaōgi, Yoshino, Tatsuta)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Shabti of Seniu

medium: Glazed steatite, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Menat fragment

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Ritual Object (Bi)

date: late 19th to early 20th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913


title: Head of a Buddha

date: ca. 9th century (?)

medium: Stone with remains of lacquer gilding

country: Cambodia

subjects: Sculpture Cambodia

credit_line: Gift of Frank Vincent, 1885


title: Design for Extension Top Park Phaeton, no. 3486

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Futon Cover with Turtle, Crane, Pine, Plum, and Bamboo

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennan Ford, 2004


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Bottle

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Lakshmi

medium: Lithograph with black ink, watercolor, and glaze on paper

country: India, Kolkata, West Bengal

subjects:
Print
India, kolkata, west bengal

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021


title: Mlle. Raymonde, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Bolton Priory.  From the South

creator: Joseph Cundall

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Soft paste porcelain

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment regarding the visibility of Mercury

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: A guest to a horsemeat dinner, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, March 24, 1865

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Two Standing Male Figures

creator: Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on brownish paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961


title: Star- and Hexagonal-Tile Panel

date: late 13th–14th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome tiles glazed in turquoise and blue and molded under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Nast's Illustrated Almanac for 1871

creator: Thomas Nast

medium: Illustrations: electrotypes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Vase with flowers and birds

medium: Porcelain painted in polychrome enamels over the biscuit (Jingdezhen famille noire ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Design for Knife Handles with an Armed Woman and Susanna and the Elders, from Mansches de Coutiaus

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving and blackwork

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Necklace (part of a set)

medium: Gold, amethysts

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


title: Pocketbook with Its Fittings

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

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

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


title: Robe, Birthday or Ceremonial

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick Leech, in memory of Neysa McMein, 1950


title: Anthony Butler

creator: Charles Willson Peale

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

credit_line: Gift of James Parker, in memory of General and Mrs. Cortlandt Parker, 1974


title: Parisian Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: A House near a Grotto and a Roadside Chapel at Lake Nemi, with a View of Genzano from the North; verso: Sketch of Trees on the Border of a Lake, with Mountains in the Background

creator: Johann Martin von Rohden

date: early–mid 19th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2015


title: Eagle Pursuing Rabbit

creator: Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

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: Sulphur Creek and Road to Geysers

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Carole and Irwin Lainoff, Ruth P. Lasser and Joseph R. Lasser, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Marvin, Martin E. and Joan Messinger, Richard L. Yett and Sheri and Paul Siegel, 1986


title: Boots

medium: leather

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. John D. Newton, 1945


title: Piece

date: 18th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: A man on the ground drinking from a wine skin; folio 63 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula and Her Companions

creator: Johann Sadeler I

date: 1588 or later

medium: Engraving

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


title: Bergère hat

medium: straw

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1969


title: The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

creator: Simone Cantarini

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: An Encampment of Yogis

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Deccan, Aurangabad?)

subjects:
Painting
India (deccan, aurangabad )

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1985


title: Fire-offering ladle

medium: Iron damascened with gold and silver

country: Eastern Tibet, Derge, for Chinese market

subjects: Eastern tibet, derge, for chinese market

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 1993


title: Bowl

medium: Pottery; decorated in gold and colored enamels (Awata ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Cock Fight (from Sketchbook)

creator: Francis William Edmonds

date: ca. 1838 and after

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund, 1987


title: Vase (vaso)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Deruta

subjects:
Italian, deruta
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Anger (Ira) from The Seven Deadly Sins

creator: Pieter van der Heyden

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Trade Card for W. Percival, General Engraver & Ornamental Printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Portrait of a Humanist (possibly Johann Caesarius, Ph.D. and M.D., born Juelich 1468)

creator: Unknown

medium: Ground marble on ebony

subjects:
Gaming piece
Portraits

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


title: Pair of Ear Plugs with Hamsas (Wild Geese)

date: 1st century

medium: Gold

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Jewelry
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

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


title: Beer Street

creator: William Hogarth

date: February 1, 1751

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Michael, Theodora, and Bust of Christ, 57 A.D., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Miniature vessel

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Bequest of Charles K. Wilkinson, 1986


title: A Teenage Boy and Girl with a Viewer for an Optique Picture (Nozoki-karakuri); Kōbō Daishi’s Poem on the Jewel River of Kōya (Kōya no Tamagawa: Kōbō Daishi)

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Fragment of the Inner Rim of Siptah's Canopic Chest

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Washing the Sacred Elephant

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

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


title: A male saint kneeling before the Christ child

creator: Carlo Antonio Forti

medium: Etching

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


title: Cosmetic spoon

medium: Bone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1951


title: Caddy spoon

creator: Christoffel Oepkes

date: late 18th century–early 19th century

medium: Silver

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


title: The Dream of Aeneas

creator: Salvator Rosa

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Blade and Mounting for a Short Sword (Wakizashi)

creator: Yasutsugu

date: blade, early 17th century; mounting, 19th century

medium: Steel, wood, lacquer, leather, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), copper, gold, horn, silver

subjects: Sword Japanese

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


title: Sioux Chief, North America, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Point

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1953


title: Candle-bearing angel (one of a pair)

creator: Giuseppe Mazzuoli

medium: Terracotta with later remains of paint

credit_line: Gift of Ruth Blumka, in memory of her daughter, Victoria Blumka-Goldberg, 1991


title: Crescent Ornaments

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Copper

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Glass mosaic inlay fragment

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

medium: Glass

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


title: Vertical Panel with Scrolling Tendrils Rising from Center

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Olivia H. Paine, 1983


title: Lovett, Pitcher, Brooklyn, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Lamellar Helmet

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Iron, leather

country: probably Mongolian or Tibetan

subjects:
Helmet
Probably mongolian or tibetan

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2001


title: Jupiter Fighting the Giants

creator: Jacopo Zucchi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and mauve wash, highlighted with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on light tan laid paper

credit_line: Purchase, Giuseppe Gazzoni-Frascara Gift, 1999


title: [Medieval Court; Statue of Coleoni; Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata by Donatello, from the Court of Monuments of Christian Art; Equestrian Statue of Colleone]

creator: Philip Henry Delamotte

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


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

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


title: Pitcher

medium: Earthenware, spatterware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, 1944


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Tile

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Earthenware, glaze

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Ceramics-tile

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Saint Ita (of Toggenburg), from "The Habsburg Saints"

creator: Leonhard Beck

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix: eye-cup (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: Votive Stela with Three Hathor Cows

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Vase with dragon

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with incised decoration under brown glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


date: 5th century BCE


title: Incense

creator: Percival De Luce

medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on wove paper laid down on illustration board

credit_line: Gift of Miss Olive S. De Luce, 1922


title: Jar with Handles

date: 12th century

medium: Stoneware with applied white slip ribs and black glaze (Cizhou ware)

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Gladys Herzman, 1997


title: Flying Trapeze Leg Fly, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Scholars at a Lecture

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Costume ornament

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north or central coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Peru; north or central coast

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


title: Figurine of a Seated Personage with Folded Arms and Elaborate Headdress

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Gift of Jerome M. Eisenberg, 1966


title: [The Lion Court at the Alhambra, Viewed from Beneath the Portico Temple]

creator: Charles Clifford

subjects: Architecture Photograph

credit_line: Gift of C. David and Mary Robinson, 2007


title: Ornamental Engraving with the Tree of Jesse

creator: Israhel van Meckenem

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Trees

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Statuette of a man

date: 7th century BCE or later

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: L'Autonne, in L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Watteau Pientre du Roy en son Academie Roïale de Peinture et Sculpture Gravé d'après ses Tableaux & Desseins originaux...par les Soins de M. de Jullienne, Volume II, page 52

creator: Etienne Fessard

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert N. Straus, 1928


title: Vase

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain with turqoise glaze

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Netsuke

medium: Ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Arm of life-size statue

medium: Granite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Handkerchief

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Linen

country: Belgian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Brooklyn Museum Collection, 1935


title: Louis XV (1710–1774), King of France

creator: Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger

medium: White marble

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Bracelet of Hepy

medium: Gold, lapis lazuli

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Iron baluster

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Open Panel Sleigh # 3805

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, waterclor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Sundareshvara feeding sugarcane to the elephant

creator: Unidentified

medium: Ink and wash on J. Whatman paper watermarked 1798

country: India, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

subjects:
Painting
India, madurai, tamil nadu

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021


title: Cup in the shape of a lion's head

date: ca. 17th–16th century BCE

medium: Faience, glaze

credit_line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1956


title: [untitled]

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005


title: Strip

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Givors, Viaduc

creator: Edouard Baldus

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


title: Sagat (zills)

date: 19th century

medium: Brass or bronze

country: Syrian

subjects: Idiophone-concussion Syrian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Bowl with Cover

medium: Tinned copper; engraved

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


title: A View of the Wharves in Yokohama

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

date: 2nd month, 1861

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Habit à la disposition

medium: silk, paper

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Paula Fox, 1996


title: Relief Panel:  Presentation of a Statue

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Schist

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Ex Coll.: Columbia University, Purchase, The Christian Humann Foundation Gift, 1987


title: Water Jar (Mizusashi) with Pine Trees

creator: Ogata Kenzan

medium: Stoneware with underglaze iron oxide; lacquer cover

subjects: Ceramic Japan Trees

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


title: Terracotta fragments of undetermined shapes

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Bow Brooch

medium: Silver - cast.  Pin: copper alloy with silver overlay

country: Ostrogothic

subjects: Metalwork-silver Ostrogothic

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Pole End

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, 1961


title: Fragment of a Luster Bowl with a Peacock

date: 11th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


title: Glass head pendant

medium: Glass

country: Phoenician or Carthaginian

subjects:
Glass
Phoenician or carthaginian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Urban VIII (r.1623–44)

creator: Gasparo Mola

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


title: A Woman Kneeling

creator: Chōkōsai Eishō

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Six Seat  Phaeton #4084

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Knife with a Hand Holding an Orb

date: probably 3rd century

medium: Copper alloy handle, steel blade

country: Late Roman

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Late roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Actress reclining on chair, from the Actresses series (N666) to promote Stage Beauties Cigars

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Wedding dress

creator: Mme O'Donovan

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Louise M. Byrne, 1978


title: Card Number 238, Miss Kirker, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: The Nursery

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Edging

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Piece

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Dalmatic

date: first half 18th century

medium: Wool on linen

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1954


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Il Monte. Opera Nova di Recami, page 2 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Antonio Bindoni

date: after 1557

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Copy of Les Danseurs a la Flute et au Tambourin (Dancers with the Flute and the Tambourine), from "Les Caprices"

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Drop-leaf Table

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Panel with Medallion of Longevity

date: 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silk satin damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven


title: Door Hinge

medium: Wrought iron

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


title: Figure Group

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood

country: Soninke or Dogon peoples

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Soninke or dogon people

credit_line: Gift of Lester Wunderman, 1985


title: Card 895, Eliza Weathersby, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Reprint of Le Défilé Entrée des Chars de l'Afrique et de l'Aise (The Entrance Parade of the Chariots of Africa and Asia), from La Guerre d'Amour (Guerra d'Amore) (War of Love)

creator: Jacques Callot

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes, 1947


title: Elevation "della nuova Galleria"

creator: Giovanni Battista Silvestri

medium: Pen and ink, wash. On paper of O. & I. Honig

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on cotton; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Indjoudjian Frères, 1908


title: Winter Nocturne Study of Rushes

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Par nirvana (death and transcendence of the Buddha) and attendant arhats

creator: Qiao Bin

date: dated 1503

medium: Earthenware with polychrome glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Pin

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Farhadi & Anavian Co., 1967


title: The Negligé or Morning Dressing

creator: Jacques Philippe Le Bas

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Jelly Glass

medium: Blown pattern-molded lead glass

country: American or British

subjects:
Ornament & design
American or british

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1914


title: Bridle Cheekpiece

date: 11th–10th century BCE

country: China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Mirror in a vaguely ancient style

date: uncertain date

subjects: Mirror China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Prince Cambodgien et son Cortège

creator: Emile Gsell

medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

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


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

date: third 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: Glass mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

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


title: Sixteenth-century-style pendant

date: 19th century

medium: Gold, enamel, diamonds, pearls, rubies, emeralds, heliotrope

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


title: Tubular Bead

date: 10th–4th century BCE

medium: Stone

country: Olmec (?)

subjects: Olmec Beads-ornament

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Reservoir lavatory or portable cistern

medium: Pewter

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


title: Bracelet

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Dancer with Hobby Horse and Two Musicians

creator: Kubo Shunman

date: 1798, year of the horse

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Marjorie H. Holden Gift, 2012


title: Garroted Man

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, printed in blue (working proof)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Belt Buckle with Lynx Attacking an Argali

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

country: Eastern Siberia

subjects:
Metalwork
Eastern siberia

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


title: Axe head

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

credit_line: Purchase, The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1970


title: Boots

medium: leather

country: European

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


title: Portrait of a Baby

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2006


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Velvets

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-velvet


title: Terracotta pyxis (box) with lid

date: ca. 1–300 CE

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Scarab

medium: Glazed steatite

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


title: A woman getting out of bed in an elegant interior, with two servants about to help her get dressed, while her husband sits in an armchair at right

creator: Charles Joseph Flipart

medium: Etching

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Winged genius holding a olive branch and a banderole

creator: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

medium: Engraving (reverse copy)

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


title: Jug with strainer

date: ca. late 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Israelite

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


title: Dish

creator: De Witte Starre Manufactory

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1972


title: Buckle

date: 15th century

medium: Bronze

country: Spanish

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint


title: Sampler

medium: Silk and wool on linen

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


title: Figure of a woman

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Presentation square with characters of imperial gift

medium: Silk and metal thread embroidery on silk satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Julia St. Clair Krenz, 1936


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven


title: L'Apparition de S. Michel, archange (The Apparition of St. Michael, Archangel), May 8th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Card Number 758, Effie Shannon, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: The Chicago Platform and Candidate

creator: Louis Maurer

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of  A. S. Colgate, 1952


title: Rapier

medium: Steel, iron, gold, wood

country: French

subjects: Sword French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911


title: Two Roman Soldiers

creator: Augustin Pajou

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Bequest of James David Draper, 2019


title: Water pitcher

medium: Pressed glass, diamond thumbprint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Allegory of the Fine Arts

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Mythology
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Robe (Kosode) with Spring Rice Fields

date: late 18th–first half 19th century

medium: Plain-weave silk crepe with resist-dyeing and hand-painting

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

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


title: Clock

creator: Laurent Ridel

medium: Case: partly patinated and partly gilded bronze, gilded brass, and paste jewels; Dial: white enamel with gilded brass and steel hands; Movement: brass and steel

credit_line: Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Star of Bethlehem Quilt

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Gift of Robert E. Cole, in memory of Helen R. Cole, 1998


title: La Paysanne Viewed de Dos, Tenant un Panier a son Bras Gauche (The Peasant Woman Viewed from Behind, Holding a Basket in his Left Arm), plate 1 from "Varie Figure" (Various Figures)

medium: Etching; first state of four (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Cowroid Inscribed with a Nefer Hieroglyph

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: [Repairing Orange and Alexandria Rail Road Near Catlett's Station, After its Destruction by the Confederates]

creator: George N. Barnard

date: October 1863

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Card Number 91, Marie Jansen, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes


title: Book of Fancy Work, from the Honest Library series (N115) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Bodice

medium: silk, glass

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Joan Erental Herzfeld (Mrs. Thomas B.), 1981


title: Caster

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Suzanne de Peyster and Valerie de Peyster, 1997


title: Panel from an Ivory Casket with the Story of Adam and Eve

date: 10th or 11th century

medium: Elephant ivory, gilding, and polychromy

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Plate 20: an old Polish nobleman wearing a plumed hat in center, standing in profile facing right, another Polish man to right in background, standing in profile facing left, from "Diversi Capricci"

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; third state of four (De Vesme)

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Mythological figure

medium: Porcelain painted in polychrome enamels on the biscuit (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Mythology Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Body fragment of Nefertiti

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Bertha

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Philip S. Van Rensselaer, in memory of Mrs. Mary Tallmadge Van Rensselaer, 1909


title: L'Amerique, from "Almanach iconologique"

creator: Nicolas de Launay

medium: Etching with engraving


title: Seated Man; Standing Woman (from Sketchbook)

creator: Francis William Edmonds

date: ca. 1838 and after

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund, 1987


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Scholar Admiring Autumn Scenery

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Spindle Whorl

medium: Ceramic

country: Peruvian; north coast (?)

subjects:
Peruvian; north coast
Ceramics-implement

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


title: Dancer's Robe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Sylvia M. Allen, 1945


title: Shard

medium: Earthenware with lime glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Saber, from the Arms of All Nations series (N3) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

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


title: Jug

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Model Seive from a Foundation Deposit for Hatshepsut's Temple

medium: Rush

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


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Savages Let Loose, or the Cruel Fate of the Loyalists

creator: William Humphrey

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. W. Pinchot, 1910


title: Columbia from the Capitol

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970


title: Figure of Osiris

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Octodrachm with image of Arsinoe II

medium: Gold


title: Toy

date: ca. 1st century BCE

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1984


title: L'Oeuvre D'Antoine Watteau Pientre du Roy en son Academie Roïale de Peinture et Sculpture Gravé d'après ses Tableaux & Desseins originaux...par les Soins de M. de Jullienne, Volume II

creator: Antoine Watteau

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert N. Straus, 1928


title: Pillow Sham

medium: Linen lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ralphina Lowenstein, 1962


title: Allegory of Pride

creator: Lambert Cornelisz

subjects: Mythology Print


title: The Entombment of Christ

medium: Walnut with traces of paint

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


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

creator: Henry Louis Stephens

medium: Color lithograph with watercolor and gum

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1964


title: Bergère

medium: straw, silk

credit_line: Alfred Z. Solomon-Janet A. Sloane Endowment Fund, 2017


title: Relief fragment from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Four-Cornered Hat

date: 7th–10th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-costume

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


title: Stirrup-spout bottle with combat scene

creator: Moche artist

medium: Ceramic

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

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


title: Study of a Garland of Fruits and Vegetables

creator: Martinus Saeghmolen

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Fruits

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2013


title: Glass amphoriskos (flask)

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Wine cup

medium: Nephrite, white with light greenish tint

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette

creator: William P. Babcock

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Mold: Grapes with Cartouche

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: A horseman fighting two foot soldiers

creator: Gian Francesco Enzola

medium: Bronze

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


title: Tobacco box

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Copper, brass

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: The Annunciation

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: [African American Family at Gee's Bend, Alabama]

creator: Arthur Rothstein

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2001


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Riding habit

creator: J. White

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. H. Mandlebaum, 1953


title: Seal with head of Bes on the back, crocodile and Bes on the base

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Vase (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Bowl

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, incised under transparent green glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Ostracon with hieratic inscription

medium: Limestone, ink

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


title: Some of the Principal Inhabitants of the Moon, as They Were Perfectly Discovered by a Telescope...

creator: Samuel Ireland

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Decorated ware jar depicting boats and plants

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Heart Scarab of Ptahemua

medium: Steatite


title: Cylinder seal with animal and divine symbols

date: 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Egyptian Blue

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Bowl

creator: Chantilly

medium: Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Lead

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Near Tannah, Bombay Line

creator: Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming

date: December 2, 1869

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Harvey Salzman Gift, 2025


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Earthenware; blue decoration under glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Small, masked male figure playing a violin, from "Varie Figure Gobbi"

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Water container

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Agate

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Cléo de Mérode

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Crayon lithograph with scraper on china paper

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949


title: Miniature Bottle

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Glass; free blown


title: Textile Design with Vertical Undulating Garlands of Pearls and Ovals Framed with Pearls over Undulating Stylized Palm Leaves Separated by Undulating Garlands of Dots

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing
Palms

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Terracotta atramentarium (inkwell)

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1915


title: Wheellock Pistol

medium: Steel, wood, ivory

country: German, Saxony

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Madonna and Child with Saints Roch and Sebastian

creator: Michele da Verona

date: early 16th century

medium: Tip of the brush and brown ink, brown and some blue wash, heightened with white, on paper tinted brown.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Cushion Cover or Kneeling Mat

medium: Foundation: cotton warp and weft;  wool knotting

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Plate 4: equestrian statue of Caligula, seen three-quarters to the left, wearing a winged helmet and holding double-headed arrows, a military scene in the background, from 'Roman Emperors on Horseback'

creator: Adriaen Collaert

medium: Engraving, squared in graphite

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


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: François Clouet

date: second half 19th century

medium: Photogravure

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Male Callot dwarf

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: modeled ca. 1715–20, decorated ca. 1730–35

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1948


title: St. Bartholomew, standing in frontal view with head facing to right and holding martyr's palm with both arms, from "Christ and the Twelve Apostles"

creator: Master F. P.

subjects: Print Palms


title: Censer with cover

medium: Stoneware covered with glaze (Bizen ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Longcase clock with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, also known as the Graves Tompion

creator: Thomas Tompion

medium: Case: oak veneered with walnut, panels of oystershell-cut olive wood; marquetry panels of green-stained bone, ivory, various woods; mounts: gilded brass; dial: gilded and silvered brass; movement: brass, steel

subjects:
Astronomy
Horology
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of Marilyn Preston Graves, 1999


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

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


title: Sauceboat

creator: William Sheen

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Square

medium: Cotton, silk, metal wrapped thread; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Man on a Raft

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

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: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: La Revue (The Review)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes: Band or lip cups (drinking cups)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Design drawing

creator: Christopher Dresser

date: ca. 1883, based on earlier design

medium: Graphite, ink, and gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1992


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Goblet with bell

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Inlay of the upper part of a king with arms raised

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Study of Drapery

creator: Henri Lehmann

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Carl L. Selden Gift, in memory of Carl L. Selden, 1983


title: Number 18, Inseparable Couples, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Shabti of Neferrenpet

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


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

creator: Makron


title: Canopic jar lid of Ukhhotep

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Saint Cecilia. Vita et matyrium S. et gloriosae...

creator: Bernardino Passeri

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1972


title: Set of Sword-Hilt Washers and Pommels (Fuchigashira) and Sword Guards (Tsuba) for a Pair of Swords (Daishō)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Sword furniture-fittings, sets of

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


title: Amulet

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Octavius Caesar Augustus, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

creator: Abraham de Bruyn

medium: Engraving

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


title: Louis XIV (b. 1638, r. 1643–1715)

creator: Jean Varin

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1948


title: Waddling In!

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: August 1, 1799

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair)

creator: Pietro Bernini

medium: Marble

credit_line: Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1990


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Textile Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-brocade

credit_line: Bequest of Carolyn Kane, 2015


title: Cuirass (Char-aina)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Steel, gold, textile

country: Indian or Iranian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Indian or iranian
Armor parts-cuirasse

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1948


title: Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Stationery Box in Kōdaiji style

date: early 17th century

medium: Gold- and silver-foil inlay, gold maki-e, on lacquered wood

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1987


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

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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: A male skeleton leading a female skeleton to the left, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Sconce

medium: Maple

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Cup-Hilted Rapier

medium: Steel, wood

country: Spanish or Italian, Brescia

subjects:
Sword
Spanish or italian, brescia


title: Uraeus fitting from shrine

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Medal:  Bust of Annibale Bentivoglio

date: model ca. 1445 (old aftercast)

medium: Bronze

country: Italian, Bologna (?)

subjects:
Medal
Italian, bologna

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Bowl with Face

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, post-fired paint

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: [Chair Caner]

creator: Carlo Ponti

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in honor of W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg, 2026


title: Plate 3: The Marriage of Henry IV and Marie de Medici, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

creator: Pieter Nolpe

medium: Etching

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Palais de Gézyret, Pavillon Exterieur

creator: J. Pascal Sébah

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Allegory on Good Government in France

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; fourth state of six (BN)

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1976


title: Anklet, One of a Pair

date: 19th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Rank badge with two phoenixes

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1936


title: Landscape with Cupid and Psyche

creator: Richard Earlom

medium: Mezzotint with etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924


title: 'Franse Kerck', in: Tooneel Der Voornaamste Nederlands Huizen, En Lust Hoven, Naar T Leven Afgebeeld

creator: Carel Allard

medium: Color engraving (à la poupée)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Ein ney Furmbüchlein, Page 10, recto

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


medium: Terracotta


title: Halberd

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, wood, textile

country: Italian, possibly Brescia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
Italian, possibly brescia

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Five muses and a seated river god

creator: Giuseppe Diamantini

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: Brigandine Plate

medium: Iron alloy

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Bequest of Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Pair of dolphins

date: first half 18th century

medium: Lindenwood, gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Celery Dish

creator: Lyman, Fenton & Co.

medium: Mottled brown earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Stockings

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1937


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, 1941


title: Side Chair

medium: Walnut, yellow pine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Mug

creator: William Grundy

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Wide-Necked Cosmetic Jar

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Design for a monument to the First Punjab War, 1845–46

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Watercolour and graphite, heightened with gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2016


title: Transverse Flute in D

medium: Boxwood, brass

country: possibly American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1988


title: Vue du Louvre (View of the Louvre), from "Les Deux Grandes Vues de Paris" (The Two Large Views of Paris)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; fourth state of five (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Key

medium: Iron

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: 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: Jackson Rifles, Michigan Militia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Le petit Russe

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Design for the Basilica of St. Peter's in the Vatican, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Antonio da Labacco

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Assassination of Julius Caesar

creator: Vincenzo Camuccini

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

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Crossbow Brooch

date: second half 4th century CE

medium: Copper alloy inlaid with silver

country: Late Roman or Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper
Late roman or byzantine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1999


title: Vase with handles

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Porcelain with crackled glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Moorish, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.


title: Manuscript Leaf with June Calendar, from a Royal Psalter

date: 13th century

medium: Tempera and gold on parchment

country: British

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Door knocker (one of a pair)

creator: Hubert Gerhard

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Vase with Incised and Impressed Designs

medium: Earthenware (blackware)

country: Thailand (Ban Chiang)

subjects:
Ceramic
Thailand (ban chiang)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Stoll, 1984


title: String of Beads

date: 9th–19th century

medium: Imitation lapis lazuli

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


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

date: 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Bowl with cover

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: The Flying Philosopher

creator: Unknown

medium: Etching with hand coloring

credit_line: Gift of Paul Bird Jr., 1962


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk / Tapestry

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: 67. Colosseum, Rome, Second View

creator: Calvert Richard Jones

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Chandelier

medium: Gilt bronze, glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick Wildman, 1964


title: Vase

date: first half of the 19th century

medium: Porcelain with mottled blue and black glaze


title: Staff Weapon (<i>Coresca</i>)

medium: Steel, wood, textile, copper alloy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: John Stoneacre Ellis Collection, Gift of Mrs. Ellis and Augustus Van Horne Ellis, 1896


title: The Corsican Munchausen – Humming the Lads of Paris

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 4, 1813

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Standing cup with cover

date: early 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

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


title: Sixteenth-century-style mortar

date: probably 19th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: "Cup-Tosser" Pitcher

creator: E. & W. Bennett Pottery

medium: Earthenware; drab green body

credit_line: Gift of Emma and Jay Lewis, 2011


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Horatius Cocles Leaping into the Tiber

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1920


title: Gold roundel of bulbous form

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Pellet Bell

date: 19th century

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-crotal bell
American

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Watch

creator: D. Edmonds

date: late 18th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Socks

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937


title: Fragment

date: first half 17th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Betty and John Menke, 1998


title: Ewer

date: 11th century

medium: Earthenware; under monochrome glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Iron, gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: The Holy Family and Kindred

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Handkerchief

medium: Linen, metallic

country: European

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the executors of the estate of Clara M. Blum in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blum, 1966


title: Box

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silver, niello, gilt lining

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Processional image of the goddess Gauri

date: ca. 18th century

medium: Brass with glass inlay and silver attachments

country: South India, Karnataka

subjects:
Metalwork
South india, karnataka

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2022


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Brocade

medium: Textiles-Woven

country: China or Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China or japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Two Dappled-Grey Horses Being Exercised

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Lappets

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Pilaster end

medium: Oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Calligraphic Exercise in French (Cursive Script)

creator: Anonymous

medium: Pen and black and brown ink.

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Sauce Dish

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Corbel with a Pair of Beard-Pulling Acrobats

medium: Limestone

country: French

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1934


title: And Enid Sang

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

date: September 1874

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952


title: Mirror

medium: Bronze

subjects: Mirror Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Drawers

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Jan Juta, 1950


title: Trimming

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Metal and beads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Snuff Bottle with the Artist Mi Fu Bowing to a Rock

medium: Chalcedony

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Frieze with putti, some riding a chariot pulled by animals, others riding animals and holding garlands

creator: Lucas Vorsterman II

medium: Etching; second state of two (Hollstein)

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


title: Incense holder (Navette)

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

medium: Rock crystal; silver-gilt mounts, set with amethysts and garnets

subjects:
Metalwork-electrotype
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, 1873


title: The Bend in the River

creator: Simon Mathurin Lantara

medium: Black chalk with touches of white gouache on figures, touches of pen and brown ink, on light brown paper

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift and Karen B. Cohen Fund, 1993


title: Jar stopper

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Pendant: Petals of Cornflower

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ear Ornament with Granulate Design

date: Second half of the 8th–second half of the 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Hercules Capturing the Cretan Bull, from "The Labors of Hercules"

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk on light tan paper, strips of cream paper with two ruled framing outlines in blue ink glued to edges of sheet

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Ornament, Possibly from a Necklace

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Bone; carved and incised

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897


title: Stingray and Gurnard

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

date: probably 1815

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: From Shifting Shade

creator: James M. Hart

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of DeLancey Thorn Grant, in memory of his mother, Louise Floyd-Jones Thorn, 1990


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: A Maiden Aunt Smelling Fire

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Box

medium: Iron, latten


title: Belgium, from Flags of All Nations, Series 1 (N9) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Banknote motif: the number 100 against an ornamental lathe work oval resembling woven rope with a border of grain, flowers and berries

creator: Cyrus Durand

medium: Engraving and etching; proof

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers
Fruits

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Deer and Maple Trees (obverse); Mount Fuji (reverse)

medium: Case: lacquer with pottery plaques; Fastener (ojime): coral; Toggle (netsuke): red lacquer carved with design of Chinese figure and plant

subjects:
Botany
Inrō
Japan
Corals & anemones
Trees

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Lappet

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1936


title: Cobra head

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Beaker

date: early 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: A street with buildings and arcades

creator: Anonymous, Italian

date: 1660–80 Rossi. Modern impression

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Virgin and Child, from an Adoration Group

creator: Hans Thoman

medium: Limewood with polychromy

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: Purchase, Audrey Love Charitable Foundation Gift, 2013


title: Pelerine

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Emily Cross, 1944


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1930


title: Beaker

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harry G. Friedman, 1951


title: The Betrayal of Christ, from "The Passion of Christ"

creator: Nicolas Cochin

date: mid 17th century

medium: Etching

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


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 33r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Fragments of Vase

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

creator: Master of the Dinteville Allegory

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Mythology Painting

credit_line: Wentworth Fund, 1950


title: We worship you, beloved voter, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, May 5, 1869

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph, pen and brown ink, and red pencil on newsprint; third state of four, proof (Delteil)

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


title: Design for the Decoration of an Oval Dish with a Bacchanal

creator: Filippo Lauri

medium: Red chalk, wash

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Goldschmidt Gift, 2019


title: Seascape with Seven Figures and a Dog

creator: Nicolaas Aartman

medium: Brush and gray and black ink, with watercolor, over traces of black chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1975


title: Medal and Button

date: late 19th century

medium: White triangular ribbon with yellow stripes

subjects: Medal Japan

credit_line: Gift of Edward D. Adams and Jacob H. Schiff, 1906


title: Terracotta jug with horse's head in relief

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Lydia Thompson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) 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: <Tiraz> Textile Fragment

date: late 10th century

medium: Cotton; plain weave, painted

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), title page (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: The Rape of Ganymede

creator: Giovanni Bernardi da Castel Bolognese

medium: Lead

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


title: Seal

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Edward B. Bruce, 1924


title: Design for a Frieze

creator: Henri Sallembier

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

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


title: St. Augustine

creator: Nicolas Pitau

medium: Engraving with etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Minnie Ward, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Philadelphia Sunday Press, November 15

creator: George Reiter Brill

date: second half 19th century

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Purchase, The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn H. and Leonard A. Lauder Fund Gift, 1997


title: Jug

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

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


title: Gold aureus of Lucius Verus

medium: Gold

country: Roman

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Solomon's Idolatry [I Kings, 11:1-8]

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: King David with Angels

creator: Morazzone (Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache over traces of charcoal or black chalk; squared in red chalk on blue paper

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey Gift, 2001


title: The Pitcher, "Just watch me twist it," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Study of Man between Trees

creator: Odilon Redon

medium: Drawings

subjects: Drawing Trees

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


title: Pair of tassels

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, 1921


title: River god in a landscape

creator: Frederik Ottens

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Length

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Gift of Doris Meltzer, 1967


title: Design of Antique Pitcher

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


title: Model ax

medium: Copper, wood, animal hide

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917


title: Vase

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Applied glass

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


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fan

medium: Silk, ivory.

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


title: Untitled

creator: Unrecorded  Edgefield District potter

medium: Alkaline-glazed stoneware with kaolin slip

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of the American Wing Fund and Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society Gift, 2022


title: Scarab Inscribed for Amenhotep III

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


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

date: second half of the 5th century BCE


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Dining table

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Equestrian Statue of Henry II, King of France, in the Palazzo Rucellai by Daniele de Volterra

creator: Antonio Tempesta

date: Published early 17th century


title: Cleopatra Asked to Pay Tribute to Rome from a set of The Story of Antony and Cleopatra

creator: Justus van Egmont

date: designed ca. 1650, woven 1650–77

medium: Wool, silk, silver and silver-gilt thread (20-22 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Elizabeth U. Coles, in memory of her son, William F. Coles, 1892


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Cuneiform tablet: receipt for barley, Esagilaya archive

date: ca. 557 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Still Life with Grapes

creator: Carducius Plantagenet Ream

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Peck Stacpoole Foundation, 1999


title: Necklace, chain

medium: Gold, glass

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: [Bewhiskered Man in Hat and Plaid Vest]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Boy Holding a Sword, Standing near a Table in an Interior (recto); Various Sketches of Figures and Ornamental Forms (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, black chalk (verso); framing lines in pen and brown ink, by a later hand

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of James David Draper, in memory of Walter Liedtke, 2015


title: Tea Jar

date: 18th century

medium: Clay covered with a mottled glaze; left-handed itogiri (Seto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893


title: Imitation second-quarter-seventeenth-century medallion with miniature

date: 19th century

medium: Gold, enamel, pearls; oil on copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal

creator: James Gillray

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Gift of Adele S. Gollin, 1976


title: Bottle

medium: Clay; brown metallic glaze and thick overglaze (Zeze ware)

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


date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Water Jar

date: early 19th century

medium: Pottery covered with glaze and decorations in colors

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven


title: Pendant (part of a set)

medium: Wood, carved and gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Ball Player

date: 7th–10th century

medium: Ceramic, paint, slip

country: Nopiloa

subjects: Nopiloa Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1989


title: Netsuke of Seated Lion

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan


title: Dish (one of a pair)

creator: Anthony Ficketts

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: N. Hudson, Pitcher, St. Louis Browns, 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 Annointing of Christ's Body

creator: Adam von Bartsch

medium: Etching and aquatint in brown ink

credit_line: Gift of David and Elizabeth Tunick, 1991


title: Libation Cup

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

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Picture of Men and Women from all nations (Bankoku danjo jinbutsu zue)

creator: Utagawa Yoshiiku

date: 4th month, 1861

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Tea jar

medium: Clay, mottled light and dark brown glaze; (Seto ware)


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 15th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Man with Walking Stick (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Black ink and graphite on buff wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970


title: Milk pot with cover

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Nikoxenos Painter

date: ca. 500 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Dagger with Sheath

medium: Steel, wood, cane (rattan), textile, brass, leather, twine

country: Philippine, Mindanao

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Dagger
Philippine, mindanao

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: The Artist's Sister-in-Law

creator: Johann Gottlieb Glume

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943


title: The Rabbit Hunter

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: Title Page, Diversae Effigies

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of three

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Christ, right hand raised in the gesture of blessing, from "Piccoli Santi" (Small Saints)

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

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


title: Inscribed Stele

date: 6th–7th century?

medium: Limestone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Reverse copy of Balais Balais (Brushes Brushes), plate 5 from "Le Cris de Paris" (The Cries of Paris)

creator: Jacques Philippe Le Bas

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966


title: Piece

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Chemisette

medium: Linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Sarah B. Russell, 1956


title: Alto Flute

creator: Boehm & Mendler, German

medium: Silver, gold

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Bequest, 2007


title: Column of Dilius and Obelisque Fountain

creator: Anonymous

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961


title: Cobra head for architectural frieze

medium: Faience

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: La Frayeur

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Terracotta plate

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: U.S. Gunboat "Mendota", James River

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Martyrdom of Saint James the Lesser, from "The Little Apostles" (Les Petits Apôtres)

creator: Jacques Callot

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: The Entombment

creator: Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, horn, silver

country: Philippine, Maguindanao

subjects:
Krisse
Philippine, maguindanao

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Cup

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of the Members of the Committee of the Bertha King Benkard Memorial Fund, 1946


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: J.H. Calvert & Co Fine Stationery, Seattle, Washington]

creator: Rothi and Sanstrom

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


date: 5th century BCE


title: Jérusalem. Église Ste Anne appartenant à la France

creator: Louis de Clercq

date: 1860 or later

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

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


title: Column Base

medium: Pink marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: [Two Shoe Salesmen]

creator: Erskine, Proctor & Tully

medium: Collodion print

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2025


title: Plaque carved in relief with Egyptianizing creature

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Hand mirror

medium: Silver, glass

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


title: Model Solar Boat of Imhotep

medium: Wood, stucco, paint

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


title: Building the Bridge to Lanka

creator: Seu Family

date: mid-18th century

medium: Ink and wash on paper

country: India (Pahari Hills, Guler)

subjects:
Painting
India (pahari hills, guler)

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


title: Handle or Ornament

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; carved, incised, and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Necklace

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Band

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Hammered Silver Arc Ornament

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Silver, gilt

country: Chimú

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Chimú

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool canvas

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


title: Death of the Virgin, lying on a chair at center, surrounded by Apostles, inside a temple

creator: Jean Le Clerc

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted


title: The Three Men on the Rock

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; third state of three

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


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Jar with handles

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. G. W. Neville and Miss Cardwell, 1906


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

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

country: Japan

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


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial D, from an Antiphonary

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: Italian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

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


title: Terracotta pitcher

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1941


title: Glass ribbed bowl

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Christabel

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Design for Stage Set

creator: Giovanni Battista Natali III

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob S. Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Union Park, New York

creator: Sarah Fairchild

medium: Watercolor, gouache, pen and ink, and graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1979


date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Pot

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Pomander

date: 17th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Arthur Curtis James, 1920


title: Woven piece

creator: William Morris

medium: Wool, woven

country: British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, Sansbury Mills Fund, In memory of Mrs. T. Clearwater, 1976


title: Cup and saucer

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

country: Austrian, Vienna

subjects:
Austrian, vienna
Ceramics-porcelain

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Ein new Modelbuch..., title page (recto)

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

date: October 22, 1524

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Herbert N. Straus, 1929


title: Goblet (Roemer)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Amelia B. Lazarus, in the name of Miss Emilie Lazarus, 1895


title: Three designs for decorative borders

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: pen and ink, wash and watercolor over graphite on wove paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Burmese Jadeite Specimen

date: 20th century

medium: Jadeite

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, 1981


title: Plate (part of a service)

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


title: Mrs. George Clinton (Cornelia Tappen)

creator: Thomas Bluget De Valdenuit

medium: Conté crayone, charcoal (?), and white-chalk heightening on off-white laid paper coated with gouache

country: American

credit_line: Purchase,  Anonymous Gift, 1940


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. William H. Herriman, 1910


title: Shoes

date: mid-19th century

medium: leather, metal

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. R. G. Duval, 1946


title: Snuffbox

creator: Antoine Daroux

medium: Silver, gilt

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Demi-Monde II 57

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Rinceaux with Two Children Holding a Royal Crown Over the Letter "L," plate 3 from "Decorative friezes and foliage" (Ornamenti di fregi e fogliami)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Entrance to The Hague from the South East

creator: Jacob Elias La Fargue

medium: Pen and brown ink, wash, heightened with white gouache

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Terracotta jug

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Adze

medium: Wood, bronze or copper alloy, leather

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven


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

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: The Chinese Junk "Keying" [commanded by] Captain Kellett, as she appeared in New York Harbour, July 13th, 1847 –-- 212 days from Canton –-720 tons burthen

creator: Nathaniel Currier

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Tassel

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Coin

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

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Juno persuading Athena to nurse the young Hercules, set within an elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

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


title: Sword Cane

medium: Steel, wood, horn, brass

country: Philippine, Moro

subjects:
Philippine, moro
Swords-accessorie

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Adoration of the Magi

creator: Niccolò Vicentino

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in green

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Flowers and Birds

creator: Taki Katei

medium: Album of twelve leaves; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Birds Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Harold B. Bilsky, 1975


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: 18th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: The Visit

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: August 1, 1799

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Border

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cantle Plate

medium: Steel, gold

country: Italian, possibly Milan

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-saddle
Italian, possibly milan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1921


title: Fan

medium: Ivory and tortoiseshell

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Cream jug

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Constance D. Stieglitz, in memory of her husband, Marcel H. Stieglitz, 1964


title: Theodore A. "Ted" Kennedy, Pitcher, Des Moines Prohibitionists, 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: Dust pan, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Portail de la Cathédrale de Louviers

creator: Edmond Bacot

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1995


title: Clara Pilvois

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Card Number 125, Claxton, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Hagi no Tamagawa

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Tankard (Kanne)

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware; pewter

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


title: Emperor's Twelve-Symbol Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Miss Alice Boney, 1945


title: Fan Design with Views of Mount Vesuvius and the Tomb of Virgil

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Opaque watercolor on parchment

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Forepart of a leopard

medium: Bronze

country: Parthian

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889