title: Pyramus and Thisbe

creator: Anonymous, German, 17th century

medium: Brush and brown and black gouache, heightened with white bodycolor

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2003


title: Needle

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Copper, bronze

country: Iran

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


title: Curtain panel

medium: Cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Robert Tuggle, 2009


title: Musicians and Onlookers

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Dish

creator: Cantagalli of Florence

date: 19th century, imitation of early 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

credit_line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Jug

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Ruin of Burg Schachenstein at Thörl in Styria

creator: Thomas Ender

date: mid-19th century

medium: Watercolor, over graphite (?)

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2010


title: Key

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: Spanish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Eastern Mediterranean or South Italian

subjects:
Glass
Eastern mediterranean or south italian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Knife with Sheath, Chopsticks, Picks, and Earspoon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, jade, wood, silver, tortoiseshell, shark skin, ivory

country: Chinese

subjects: Knive Chinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Wheellock Pistol

medium: Steel, wood (cherry), staghorn

country: German

subjects: German Firearms-pistols-wheellock

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Percussion Exhibition Pistol

creator: Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page

date: dated 1849

medium: Steel, gold

country: French, Paris

credit_line: Purchase, Ronald S. Lauder Gift, 2013


title: Ewer with cover (one of a pair)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Costa Rica

subjects:
Stone-ornament
Costa rica

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Valance

date: late 18th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Hippopotamus

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: No. 8: Captain

creator: Henri Merke

date: February 15, 1799

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


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

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment

date: early 16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


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


title: Design for a ceiling paianted in filagree patterns

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: watercolor, gouache, and gold paint on wove paper; inlaid in wove paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Reverse Copy of La Promenade (The Walk), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Design for the Stucco Decoration of a Rococo Ceiling

creator: Johann Oktavian Salver

medium: Brush and black ink and gray wash over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: 7th century BCE or later

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Terracotta oil lamp

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Christ Child

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Ivory


title: Bust of Minerva

creator: Louis Léopold Boilly

medium: Conté crayon, stumping, heightened with white chalk on faded blue paper

credit_line: Gift of Louis de Bayser, 2009


title: Animal (?)

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)

creator: Sandal Painter

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Sofa

creator: Duncan Phyfe

medium: Mahogany, gilt brass, tulip poplar

credit_line: Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1959


title: Glass marbled mosaic inlay fragment

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Saint Andrew

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Piece

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress, 1946


title: World of Fine Arts (Bijutsu Sekai) 美術世界

medium: Set of twenty-five volumes

country: Japan

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1985


title: Fragment of a blade

medium: Jade

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters. 1916


title: Giant Kangaroo, from the Wild Animals of the World series (N25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Three Horses Tended by Men; Stone Pavement (recto); Horses and Figures in a Landscape (verso)

creator: Umberto Boccioni

medium: Pen and brush and black ink on paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989


title: Plate

creator: Adams and Company

medium: Pressed yellow glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Marble statue of a seated lion

date: ca. 500 BCE

medium: Marble

country: Lydian

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Lydian

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


title: Fragment of a Corner of Siptah's Canopic Chest

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Skirt front

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1973


date: last quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Window with Shutter

medium: Pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1945


title: Coin

date: mid-8th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Fiore D'Ogni Virtu Per le Nobili Et Honeste Matrone, page 4 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Sealing with one circular seal impression

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: Sleeve Band

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Netsuke of Two Cats

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: The Princess Dwells in the Oak Tree Where ye Wild Pigeons Come to Feed Her, for "The Wonder Clock"

creator: Howard Pyle

medium: Pen and ink over graphite, on white artist's board

subjects: Drawing Trees

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


title: Galloon

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Badge of the Fiennes Family

medium: Pot-metal, colorless glass, and vitreous paint

country: British

subjects: Glass-stained British

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Mill Near the Grand Chartreuse, Dauphiny, part XI, plate 54 from "Liber Studiorum"

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

date: January 1, 1816

medium: Etching and mezzotint; first state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Collar lace

medium: Textiles-Laces

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies, 1926


title: Chocolate beaker and saucer

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Funerary stela of "follower [of the king ?]" Megegi and his wife Henit

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Terracotta fragment from an undetermined shape


title: Footed cup

medium: Glass

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: A Lump of Impertinence!

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 30, 1809

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Arrowhead

medium: Flint

subjects: Stone Japan

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


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Limestone with ink inscription

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Chessmen (32) and box

medium: Bone, wood

subjects:
Chess sets
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: View of Darjeeling and Himalayas

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Matthew Dontzin, 1985


title: Gelidium corneum, var. pinnatum

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Standing Warrior

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Bed, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray ink and gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Ochsner Hardware Co., Kimball, South Dakota]

creator: Matson Brothers

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Chair strip with dragons

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metal threads, and peacock feather embroidery on silk gauze

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Border

date: 16th century

medium: Linen, bobbin lace


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Saddle (Kura)

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Wood, staghorn

country: Korean or Chinese

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-saddle
Korean or chinese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Table clock

creator: Daniel Picardi

date: 17th century

medium: Brass gilt, silver, glass, brass, steel

credit_line: Bequest of Thomas Egleston, 1900


title: Dish

medium: Lacy pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles W. Green, in memory of Dr. Charles W. Green, 1951


title: [Elderly Lady Sitting]

creator: Louis-Pierre-Théophile Dubois de Nehaut

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Female Figure

date: Undetermined

medium: Ivory (walrus)

country: Inuit

subjects:
Bone/ivory-implement
Inuit
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Passage Through Baltimore (from Confederate War Etchings)

creator: Adalbert John Volck

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: The Sack of Troy: Pyrrhus Killing Priam

creator: Franz Cleyn

date: before 1654

medium: Black chalk and gray wash; incised for transfer; framing lines in graphite; verso treated with red chalk for transfer

credit_line: Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2002


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 4th–2nd century BCE

medium: Chalcedony, bluish

country: Seleucid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Box, inscribed

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot

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


title: Terracotta hydria (water jar)

creator: Iliupersis Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1956


title: Thetis Standing with Two Tritons

creator: Anonymous, Italian?, 16th century

medium: Engraving

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


title: Two Studies for a Grotesque Head

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

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Black chalk, over graphite or black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz, 1949


title: Chain fragment

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Juggernaut Car, Madras

creator: Frederick Fiebig

credit_line: Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1989


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

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Gold ring with representation of the temple of Aphrodite at Paphos

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Architecture
Gold and silver
Roman, cypriot


title: Cuffs

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Samuel S. Howland, 1906


title: Unicorn Doorway

date: early 16th century

medium: Volcanic stone

country: French

subjects: Installation French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1948


title: Cattle Bell

medium: Brass plated iron sheet, leather

country: German

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Plate (one of a pair)

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Conical Boss from a Bowl

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


title: Two donkeys standing in a grassy yard, one in profile view facing right and another behind in three-quarter view, a dog and a building wall with two windows beyond

creator: Karel Dujardin

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Weymouth Bay

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; lettered proof, second state of six

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943


title: Allegory of Virtue

creator: Johannes Meyer the Younger

medium: Graphite with touches of pen and black ink

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2007


title: Terracotta fragment of an krater

date: first half of the 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian


title: Glass bowl fragments with cut decoration

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

creator: Lambert Suavius

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

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


title: Doctor Boloardo

creator: Meissen Manufactory


title: Bronze ladle terminating in two ducks' heads

date: 5th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Design for a Chimneypiece

creator: Sir William Chambers

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Trousers

medium: cotton, linen

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 1978


title: Hanging

date: 19th century

medium: Wool; plain weave, joined, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Sacred Eye Amulet

medium: Faience, apple green

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: One of Six Impressions from Worn Old Blocks

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Panel

medium: Stamped leather

subjects: Leatherwork Japan

credit_line: Gift of Clarence Hoblitzelle, 1908


title: Fragment of a Luster Dish

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed and luster-painted with scratches on the luster

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Broadsheet about a thief named Malvado Ignacio Parra, who is shown on horseback holding a sword

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on red paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946


title: Watch with automaton

creator: Charles Clay

medium: Case: gold and silver; Dial: champlevé gold

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Pectoral in the Shape of a Leopard

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Gold with turquoise inlay

country: North China

subjects:
Metalwork
North china

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Gallerie des Modes et Costumes Français Desinés D'Apres Nature

creator: G. F. R. Molé

medium: plates: engraving, aquatint

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Book

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Terracotta statuette of a boy

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, perhaps Attic

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, perhap attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Standing Guanyin

medium: Wood

country: China

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Chegah-Skah-Hdah (dance wand)

medium: Wood, metal, leather

country: Native American (Sioux)

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
Native american (sioux)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Strip

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Vase

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Plate

date: late 15th century

medium: Brass

subjects: Metalwork-brass German

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Foliate Pedestal for a Buddhist Image

date: late 12th century

medium: Partially gilded brass, copper base

country: India (probably Bengal)

subjects:
Metalwork
India (probably bengal)

credit_line: Purchase, The Manheim Foundation Inc. Gift and Rogers Fund, by exchange, 2009


title: Furniture Hardware


title: Dish

medium: Stonepaste; painted in black under turquoise glaze

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


title: Sheet of Figure Studies, Probably after the Antique (recto); Ornamental Designs (verso)

creator: Girolamo da Carpi (Girolamo Sellari)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Spencer Bickerton, 1934


title: Tab Ornament

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Salinar (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Salinar

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


title: Ornament with Decoration of Bird among Lotuses

country: Korea

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Korea
Birds

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Marble vase with high foot and four lug handles

medium: Marble

country: Cycladic

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cycladic

credit_line: Bequest of Gordon and Nina Bunshaft, 1995


title: Panel

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1913


title: Design for Omnibus or Wagonette, no. 4155

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Mug

creator: Saint-Cloud factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 2000


title: Helmet (Shokakutsuki Kabuto) in the Style of ca. 5th–6th Century

medium: Iron

country: Japanese

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


title: Seated satyr with silvered eyes

creator: Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

date: second quarter of the 16th century

medium: Bronze, silver inlay (eyes)


title: Studies for a Seated Figure of a Man with a Shovel

creator: Bernardino Poccetti

medium: Black and red chalk

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2008


title: Piece

creator: Burano Lace School

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Card Number 46, McNulty, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) 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: Scene on the Mersey

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Watercolor and gouache on white wove paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Maiko Beach, Harima Province, from the series Views of Famous Places in the Sixty-Odd Provinces

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Angel

date: second half 18th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Gimp

date: mid-19th century

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Vase

medium: Grey stoneware (Cizhou ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Jug with Assyrian-inspired decoration

medium: Porcelain

country: British

credit_line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023


title: Teabowl

medium: Clay, thick glaze with whitish underglaze; design inlaid with white slip (Karatsu ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Cow

creator: Isidore Bonheur

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Edward Robinson, 1952


title: Pendant with relief of St. Anthony of Padua with Christ Child

date: late 17th century

medium: Gold, diamonds, wax

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


title: Pascaline

creator: Adrien Tournachon

medium: Salted paper print or albumen print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Denise and Andrew Saul Gift, 2005


title: Turk on a rhinoceros

creator: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Vase

creator: Miotti Family Workshop

date: 17th or 19th century

medium: Glass

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Colorless glass

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Christopher Columbus

creator: Jean-Baptiste Dedéban

medium: Pen, ink and brown wash heightened with gouache

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


title: Couple Entering Building, with Attendant  (from Cropsey Album)

creator: Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner

medium: Watercolor washes and pen and black ink on white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Historical Scene (Composition Study for Chapelle de Guise)

creator: Niccolò dell' Abate

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, highlighted with white gouache over traces of black chalk; framing outlines with pen and brown ink

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2004


title: The Ill-Matched Couple

creator: Israhel van Meckenem

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of M. Feltenstein, 2015


title: Collar

medium: Cotton

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


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: "Bahram Gur in the Sandal Palace on Thursday", Folio 230 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

creator: Nizami

date: dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

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

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Design for a Chimney Piece in the Gallery, now Dining Room, Harewood House, Yorkshire (Elevation)

creator: Robert Adam

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Defeat of Chief Uš-Turfan and his City

creator: Pierre Philippe Choffard

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 1: Genroku-style Courtesan

creator: Utagawa Kuninao

date: probably 1810s

medium: Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Dagger (Katar)

medium: Steel

country: South Indian, Thanjavur; blade, European

subjects: South indian, thanjavur; blade, european

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

creator: Villa Giulia Painter

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Panel with mythological scenes

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Mythology
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: A Concert

creator: Louis Licherie de Beurie

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white, on brown paper. Contours incised for transfer.

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1962


title: Portrait of Charles Gauzargues

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two (Bocher)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Amo (house post figure)

creator: Māori artist

medium: Wood

country: Maori people, Te Arawa

subjects:
Architecture
Wood-architectural
Maori people, te arawa

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


title: The Annunciation

creator: Jean Cousin the Elder

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Scraper

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Plate (assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Vive la France, Marchands de "Tableaux" se Preparant pour la Vente Publique / Picture "Dealers" Preparing for "Auction"

creator: Alfred E. Baker

medium: Lithograph, hand colored

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


title: Scènes romaines

creator: Bartolomeo Penelli

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Ed Morris, Pitcher, Pittsburgh, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Cup and cover

creator: Affabel Partridge

date: Chinese porcelain, Ming dynasty, ca. 1507–66, British mounts ca. 1570

medium: Porcelain, gilded silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Chinese Magician

creator: Jean-Baptiste Perronneau

medium: Etching


title: R.D. Munro, from the Sea Captains series (N127) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Ewer

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Sacrificial Vessel with Cover

medium: Rock crystal

subjects:
Hardstone
China
Minerals & gems
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: The Female Cat, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Village on a River

creator: Jan Ruischer

medium: Etching and drypoint, third state of three

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


title: Beaker

medium: Glass

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Linen and wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Ferrule

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Joseph

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving; reverse copy

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


title: Tea caddy (one of a pair)

creator: Christopher Jonsen

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Dish

date: early 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware

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


title: [Winter Quarters of Unidentified Union Army Regiment with Two Rows of Log Cabins]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fragment of orphrey

medium: Silk and metal thread on linen

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


title: Glass beaker

date: 4th century CE

country: Roman, Rhenish

subjects:
Glass
Roman, rhenish

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1959


title: David Young and Unknown Man, Newhaven

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Saucer with birds and flowers

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Statuette belonging to a monkey orchestra

medium: Alabaster

credit_line: Bequest of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1977


title: Trade Card for W. Francis & Co., Lithographers and Printers

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Commercial Lithograph

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


title: Insertion

date: late 16th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Cole Porter, 1951


title: Terracotta lydion (perfume jar)

date: 6th century BCE

country: Lydian

subjects: Vase Lydian

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Exploration of Sardis, 1916


title: Fragment

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


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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Alto Recorder in F

medium: Ivory

country: German

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-recorder
German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Chemise

medium: linen

country: American

credit_line: Gift of The Misses Faith and Delia Leavens, 1941


title: Samson and Delilah

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: "Burzuyeh is Summoned by Nushirvan on his Return from India", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1981


title: Ring with Hexagonal Bezel and Stone with "Sri" Inscription

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

medium: Gold with stone

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Calling their reserve conscripts to the colors, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Cardinal Jules Mazarin

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Petijean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: George Washington "Grin" Bradley, 3rd Base, Sioux City Corn Huskers, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Sedan chair

medium: Carved and gilded poplar and lindenwood; gilt-bronze mounts; leather, velvet

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1922


title: Death on horseback holding a trumpet, from 'The five deaths' (Les cinq Morts)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching with engraving; second state of three

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


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


title: Table or bracket clock

creator: John Andrews

medium: Gilded brass and steel; Case: walnut, walnut veneer, and gilded brass

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Plaque with Portuguese Traders and Manillas

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Edo people

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


title: Mustard spoon

date: first half 19th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Fragment of a Glass Bottle

date: 13th century

medium: Glass

country: Syrian

subjects: Glass-vessel Syrian

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


title: Plate 77: A well known spy

creator: Simon Guillain II

medium: Etching

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


title: Lamp

medium: Cast iron

credit_line: Gift of Rev. Charles Trexler, 1974


title: Fragments from a Book of the Dead

medium: Papyrus, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Mazer with cover

date: third quarter 17th century, in part (cover finial)

medium: Maple wood, silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1970


title: The Disciples in the Upper Room (?)

creator: Pieter Coecke van Aelst

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1952


title: Earring

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Standing Female Figure

date: 1st century

medium: Ceramic

country: San Sebastián

subjects:
San sebastián
Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of The Andrall and Joanne Pearson Collection, 2005


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: A Harlot's Progress, Plate 1

creator: William Hogarth

date: before April 1732

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Incense burner in the shape of a goose

date: early 15th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2020


title: Adoration of the Magi

medium: Wool warp, wool silk, and linen wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: The Lillian Stokes Gillespie Collection, Bequest of Lillian Stokes Gillespie, 1915


title: Stamp seal

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

medium: Lapis lazuli

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Bastian, 2nd Base, Philadelphia, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card

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


title: Decorated Column

date: late 10th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Thailand

subjects: Sculpture Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George Lindemann, 1997


title: Phaeton #854

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Shoes

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Miss Agnes Clarke, 1938


title: Fragment of a terracotta plaque

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Cretan

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, cretan

credit_line: Gift of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1953


title: Spill vase

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

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


title: Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with a Hunting Scene in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

creator: Nicolas Cochin

medium: Etching and burin

subjects: Print Flowers Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Cover

creator: S. T. M.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Eugen Grabscheid, 1982


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Ewer with Horsemen and Sphinxes

date: last quarter 12th–early 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome inglaze and overglaze painted and gilded on opaque white glaze (mina'i).

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


title: Yoke Ornament Shaped as Recumbent Deer

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Tinned bronze

country: Northwest China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Northwest china

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


title: Vase

creator: T. J. Wheatley & Company

medium: Earthenware

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


title: Sofa

medium: Rosewood

credit_line: Gift of Olive Huber, 1977


title: Pin

medium: Bronze

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


title: Design for the Ceiling of a Bedchamber at Goodwood House, Sussex

creator: James Wyatt

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, over graphite

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1958


title: Monteith

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: ca. 1870–80, after early 18th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Landscape with Birds

creator: Unidentified artist

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

subjects: Painting China Birds Landscapes

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


title: Design for Ceiling, Château de Cangé

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Cup

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Box with Medallion Top

medium: Ivory, porcelain

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Bonnet

medium: straw, silk

credit_line: Sadie M. Simon Memorial Fund, 1939


title: Mrs. James Merrill Cook

creator: Nelson Cook

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Katherine Batcheller, 1931


title: The Vanity of Women: Masks and Bustles

creator: Maerten de Vos

medium: engraved paper

country: Dutch

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Trust Gift, 2001


title: Pen Box with Architectural Cartouches

creator: 'Ali Ashraf

medium: Papier-maché; painted, sprinkled with mica, and lacquered

subjects: Architecture Lacquer

credit_line: Purchase, Patti Cadby Birch Gift, funds from various donors, and Paul Anavian and Massoud Nader Gift, 2008


title: Tankard (one of a pair)

creator: John Le Chartier

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1983


title: Standing Surya

date: 11th–12th century(?)

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

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


title: Trumpeter

medium: Oak, traces of polychromy and gilding

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Livre de Moresques, page 8 (verso)

creator: Francesco di Pellegrino

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Length

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1975


title: Glass fragment

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Panel with Figures

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Cotton, paint

country: Chancay

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chancay
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1959


title: Portrait of Philip III, King of Spain

creator: Pieter de Jode II

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Fleurs Tropicales et Palmiers (Tropical Flowers and Palm Trees)

creator: Oberkampf Manufactory

medium: Cotton, block printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Flowers
Palms
Textiles-printed
Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Head of an Angel

medium: Limestone

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: Purchase, Audrey Love Charitable Foundation Gift, 2006


title: Pair of vases

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory

credit_line: The F.O. Matthiessen Collection, Gift of Mrs. Emma Matthiessen, in memory of her husband, 1904


title: Untitled

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Handcolored woodcut

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Defense for the Left Forearm

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: possibly Tibetan

subjects:
Possibly tibetan
Armor parts-arm & shoulder

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 2001


title: Alabaster amphoriskos (small flask)

medium: Gypsum (alabaster)

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Glass Panel of Elijah and the Widow's Son

creator: Jan van Diependale

date: early 16th century

medium: Pot-metal glass and vitreous paint

subjects:
Glass-stained
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lucy Lawrence Hutchinson and Mrs. Gladys Lawrence Hubbard, in memory of their father, Henry C. Lawrence, 1921


title: Female Callot dwarf

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

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1948


title: Wine pot

medium: Faience with design in relief, decorated in enamels (Kyoto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Ceremonial Metate

date: 4th–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Guanacaste-Nicoya

subjects: Stone-implement Guanacaste-nicoya

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Gimp

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Collar

medium: linen

country: Italian

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Drum

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, hide, metal

country: Sudanese

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / cylindrical drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Tube

date: 10th–4th century BCE

country: Olmec (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Olmec

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum, 1953


title: Dagger Sheath with a Nude Woman Above

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

credit_line: George Khuner Collection, Bequest of Marianne Khuner, 1984


title: Salt Shovel

creator: T. A. Davis

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Die Conditorei im Bildern

creator: Conrad Wegner

medium: plates: color lithographs with hand-coloring

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Seated Agastya

date: ca 8th–9th century (?)

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Sumatra)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (sumatra)

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


title: H.B.M. Consulate Bangkok

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Plate

creator: Pierre Chapelle II

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: "Design for a Clock in the Form of an Elephant with an Indian Driver", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

creator: Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari

date: dated 715 AH/1315 CE

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Kaftan

date: second half 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; taqueté (seraser)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Sakip Sabanci Gift and Rogers Fund, 2003


title: Teabowl

medium: Roughly potted; of coarse clay showing ridges and gashes; dark brown with splashes of crackled grayish glaze (Awata ware, Asahi type)

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


title: Purifying and Mourning the Dead, Tomb of Nebamun and Ipuky

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Ein ney Furmbüchlein, Page 6, recto

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Relief panel

medium: Gypsum alabaster

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1932


title: Venus and Mars discovered by Apollo, from "The Loves of the Gods"

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Lamp

date: 2nd–6th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

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


title: Portrait of Kiyohara no Motosuke, from the “Tameshige Version of Poetry Competition of Poets of Different Eras” (Tameshige-bon Jidai fudō uta-awase)

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 15th century

medium: Section of a handscroll mounted as a hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, 2014


title: Two Fragments of Ceiling Patterns, Tomb of Senenmut

creator: Nina de Garis Davies

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Wine Glass

medium: Blown pattern-molded lead glass

country: American, possibly

subjects:
Ornament & design
American, possibly

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Summer (L'Été)

creator: Charles Joseph Natoire

medium: Etching

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Ionic Entablature, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Tea caddy (one of a pair)

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Tunic with Felines

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Chimú

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chimú
Textiles-woven

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


title: "Animals (Deer?) Feeding Under Trees", Folio Fragment from a Dispersed Manuscript

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: Marcus Curtius Leaping into the Chasm

creator: Gaetano Gandolfi

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Heart amulet

medium: White Agate

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Saint Peter holding a large open book, keys by his side, from "Christ and the Apostles"

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Cover

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Linen and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: The Acquittal, or Upsetting the Porter Pot

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Children Playing with a Goat

creator: Jacob de Wit

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Hudibras in Tribulation (Plate 6: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Djerf-Hocein (Tutzis), Hemi-Spéos, Colosses de la Partie Extérieure

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Plate

creator: Samuel Ellis

date: first half 18th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Moore, 1923


title: Pair of armchairs (part of a set)

medium: Carved and polychromed walnut; received upholstered in beige silk brocade, currently upholstered with modern cotton and linen velvet (INST.1970.8.1, .2)

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Hunter Kelly, 1966


creator: Makron

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Chicken-form ewer (one of a pair)

date: late 17th–early 18th century

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

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: Pair of gold earrings

date: 6th century BCE or later

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Private, 1st Battery, New York State Militia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Spoon

medium: Steel; enamelled

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


title: Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 6 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Standing Female Attendant

date: late 7th–early 8th century

medium: Wood with pigments

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Enid A. Haupt, 1997


title: Ribbon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: The Virgin at top center in clouds with clasped hands and right foot raised, surrounded by cherubin; below, the twelve apostles stand together gesturing upwards

creator: Domenico Campagnola

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Gaming Die

date: 1st–3rd century

medium: Ivory

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara) or Afghanistan

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


title: Scarab Inscribed With the Name of Princess Neferure

medium: Green glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Madonna with Saints

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Rkan-Dung

date: late 19th century

medium: Copper

country: Chinese (Tibetan)

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Pendant

date: late 15th century

medium: Bronze, patina

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Cope

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1952


title: Cap

medium: glass

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Comb

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Dwyer, Pitcher, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Bronze statuette of a youth

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Studs

creator: Ball, Black & Co.

date: mid-19th century

medium: Gold and coral

subjects:
American
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Purchase, Susan and Jon Rotenstreich Gift, 2000


title: S. Demetrius et Ses Compagnons (St. Demetrius and His Companions), August 9th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Embossed Shield

medium: Steel, gold

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Shield
Italian, milan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Cuirass

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Leather, lacquer, pigment, iron, copper alloy, gold

country: Iranian

subjects:
Iranian
Armor parts-cuirasse

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Bottle

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Ear Clip in the Shape of a Starfruit

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Needle Case

medium: Ivory, gold

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Stencil with Bats on a Lattice

medium: Paper

country: Japan

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Helen M. Meserve Gift, 1981


title: Hunting trophy with game birds and artichoke, from "L'Artiste"

creator: Charles- Alphonse Deblois

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1971


title: Double Capital

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar 1604-39

creator: Johann Blum

medium: Silver

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


title: Limestone snake-charmer

date: 1st half of the 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Beaker

creator: Vienna

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

credit_line: The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995


title: Plate 6: The Israelites Defeated by the Canaanites for Having Disobeyed Moses, from 'The Battles of the Old Testament'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Textile for a handscroll

date: dated March 18, 1714

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk and paper backed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Painting
China

credit_line: Bequest of Elizabeth Hamm Glass, 1991


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Birth and Baptismal Certificate

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper

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


title: Design for Three Chairs

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: human figure flanked by sphinxes, birds

date: ca. 14th century BCE

medium: Hematite

subjects: Cypriot Birds

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Charles Le Bastier

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Crowned  Buddha

date: 9th century

medium: Brass

country: India, Ancient kingdom of Kashmir

subjects:
Sculpture
India, ancient kingdom of kashmir

credit_line: Gift of Ben Heller, 1970


title: Banknote motifs: the number 5 and a portrait of Thayendanegea

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving and etching; proof

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002


title: Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

date: ca. 1872, printed ca. 1876

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: A Basket and Birds

creator: Jan Fyt

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Birds

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: Designs for Two Chairs

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Bracelet with Assyrian-inspired design

medium: Gold

country: British

credit_line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023


title: Hemispheroid seal

medium: Chlorite or steatite, black

credit_line: Purchase, 1899


title: Roger Connor, 1st Base, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


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


title: Gold quatrefoil with palmettes and rosette

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Panel

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with plain and carved ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type)

date: 15th century (textile); 19th century (chair, with various earlier parts)

medium: Walnut, partly turned and carved; red plain velvet.

country: Italian

subjects: Woodwork-furniture Italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Scarab Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Bird

date: ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java, Lumajang, Pasiran)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java, lumajang, pasiran)
Birds

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


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Saucer

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: View of the Yokohama Pleasure Quarters of Kanagawa at Cherry Blossom Time

creator: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

date: 2nd month, 1860

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: King's attendant

date: second half 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta head and wooden limbs; body of wire wrapped in tow; silk and satin garments with silver and gold metallic thread; brass sword

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Coin purse

medium: Glass, silk, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, 1966


title: Cover

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Miss Laura S. Forbes, in memory of Mrs. John E. Forbes, 1908


title: National Railway Station Restaurant, Vienna X, Josef Pohl (Restaurant Staatsbahnhof, Wien X, Josef Pohl)

creator: Gustav Kalhammer

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Ring with scaraboid

medium: Silver, agate


title: Dress

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Reynolds, 1931


title: Textile

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Greenman Stillman, 1931


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

creator: Persephone Painter

date: ca. 440 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Amelia E. White, 1941


title: Daphnis Running toward Chloe

creator: baron François Gérard

medium: Black chalk, brush with brown and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on light tan wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2012


title: Side chair

medium: Mahogany, white pine

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1932


title: Netsuke of Seated Tiger with Tail Curled beside Him

creator: Minkō

medium: Wood; brass and horn inlay

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Alvin H. Schechter, 1985


title: William Pitt

creator: Thomas Wyon the Younger

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


title: Hibiscus Mutabilis and Long-Tailed Bird

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Birds

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Card Number 189, Fannie Summerville, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Terracotta vessel fragment with incised lines and punctations

country: Cretan

subjects:
Vase
Cretan
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1911


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 5th century BCE

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


title: Fringe

medium: Silk and cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Souvenir spoon with view of Hospice St. Gothard and arms of Switzerland

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

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


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Window onto Bamboo on a Rainy Day

creator: Gion Nankai

date: first half 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Bust of a Young Man

creator: Jean de Saint-Igny

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2002


title: Giraffe with Two Keepers

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Charles-Antoine Callamard (1769–1821)

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

date: mid-19th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, by exchange, 1992


title: Jeremiah J. "Miah" Murray, Catcher, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Candlestick (one of a pair)

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Winter

creator: Charles Audran

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Matthias from the Martyrdom of the Twelve Apostles

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Armrest

creator: Beauvais

medium: Wool and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1935


title: Fichu

medium: [no medium available]

country: Spanish

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

subjects: Ceramic Coptic


title: Armlet of Amenhotep

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Prince, Bicyclist, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Self-portrait

creator: James Peale

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: [Rev. Spirson?]

creator: Richard Smith

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Study for the Astor Library, New York

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Watercolor, ink and graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Tea Spoon

creator: Myer Myers

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harry G. Friedman, 1952


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Limestone figure holding a mask

date: probably late 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Bronze sestertius of Trajan

country: Roman

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Caddy spoon

date: early 19th century

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


title: Le Couronnement D'Épines (The Crowning with Thorns), from La Grande Passion (The Large Passion)

creator: Jacques Callot

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Head of a male figure

date: ca. 4th–5th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Kushan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1974


title: Portrait of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey

creator: Jacob Houbraken

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Pull of Engraved Firearm Ornament

medium: Ink, paper

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French

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


title: Groups of Men Talking

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Walter Lowry, 1957


title: Sleigh with Rumble Seat #3869

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Phaeton # 635

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache


title: Papyri Fragments

medium: Papyrus and ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

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


title: An Oiran in Night Attire, pausing, with one Hand on the Screen that Surrounds Her Bed

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: The Francis Lathrop Collection, Purchase, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani

date: late 11th–early 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; molded and pierced, monochrome decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 1968


title: Statue of Pasquin in the House of Cardinal Ursino, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Nicolas Beatrizet

date: after 1582

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962


title: Woman's Ceremonial Robe

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert J. Dellenback, 1975


title: Saint Christopher

creator: Anonymous, German

date: 16th century or later

medium: Metalcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Water vessel

medium: Stoneware with glaze

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Ribbed Penannular Earring

medium: Gold

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Panel with arms of an abbot of Lichenow

date: 17th century

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Retouched Blade

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Manhood

creator: Claude Gillot

medium: Etching

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Stonepaste; slip painted and glazed

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


title: Leslie Carter as Zaza, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies Cigarettes

creator: Frederick Moladore Spiegle

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Dress

creator: Liberty & Co.

medium: silk, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Trust Gift, 1986


title: Trellised Targe for the Tilt

medium: Steel, gold

country: German, Augsburg

subjects:
Shield
German, augsburg

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Situla

date: 19th century

medium: Silver plate

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Headdress

medium: Silver

subjects: Jewelry China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Watch

creator: J. Tramieri

medium: Rock crystal; gilded brass; steel, partly blued; silver

subjects:
Horology
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Pair of Ear Clips with Leaf-Shaped Bezel

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

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Salad Plate

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

country: American

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: male worshiper, dog surmounted by a standard

date: ca. mid-2nd millennium BCE

medium: Carnelian

country: Kassite

credit_line: Gift of The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr., 1985


title: Scarab with Figure Upholding a Sacred Boat

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Pierre Armand du Cambout de Coslin, évêque d'Orléans

creator: Grégoire Huret

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Pekin-car

creator: William Thomas Saunders

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981


title: Box-board for chess and backgammon

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1953


title: Pair of quilted panels

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Sloane Coffin, 1975


title: Drawing of a Grotesque after a 16th-century Decorative Relief

creator: Filippo Cretoni

medium: Black chalk or graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Terracotta pelike (jar)

creator: Polygnotos

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Poem by Kakinomoto Hitomaro, from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Gypsum (?); carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: The Fall and Redemption of Man

medium: Wool warp, wool, silk, silver and gilt wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Oliver H. Payne, 1917


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Figure

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


title: Sakya Pandita (1182–1242)

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Distemper on cloth

country: Tibet

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Broadside with verses regarding the military leader Macario Romero, who is shown on horseback riding alongside Indians

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on beige paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946


title: Jurōjin, God of Longevity and Wisdom

medium: Ivory, wood

subjects: Sculpture Japan

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


title: Dorothy Dene in Colors of Columbia Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N140) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Man Speaking in an Oratory Pose (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: Terracotta standlet

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Winter Breviary from the Diocese of Constance

medium: Paper with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold

country: South German or Swiss

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
South german or swiss

credit_line: Purchase, bequest of Florene Schoenborn, by exchange, 2024


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ostrakon with a Letter from Christodorus (?) to Psan

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Second Form of the Afghanistan Medal, 1842

creator: William Wyon

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Plate 40: Hay carter

creator: Simon Guillain II

medium: Etching

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


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with glaze over which is decoration in colored enamels

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Roundel with Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Colorless glass, silver stain, vitreous paint

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1932


title: Mitts

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Miss Bertha Coolidge, 1926


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Rug or Hanging

medium: Cotton warp, wool or hair weft

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Terracotta statuette of a standing girl

date: early 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, probably Boeotian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, probably boeotian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Copper alloy razor

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: [Untitled]

creator: Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Covered Box from an Altar Set

medium: Jadeite, emerald-green mingled with light gray and markings of dead oak leaf

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Kasperltheater

creator: Hans Kalmsteiner

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Count Dress, Scotland, 1740, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Scott (of Peel)

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Galoshes

medium: rubber, leather

country: probably Central American

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


title: Funerary Cone of the King's Son of Kush Merymose

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: The Archangel Raphael (Study for a stained-glass window in the chapel of Notre-Dame de la Compassion-Saint-Ferdinand, Neuilly)

creator: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: Strip

date: 16th century

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Peasant with Cow and Calf, in the Unterberg near the Berchtesgaden

creator: Johann Christoph Erhard

medium: Etching; second state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943


title: Brazil, from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Brother Philippe's Geese

creator: Nicolas Lancret

medium: Oil on copper

credit_line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 2004


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: John C. New, The Indianapolis Journal, from the American Editors series (N35) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Funerary relief

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Purchase, 1902


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: [View of Large Plant with Sign Requesting Viewers Not to Touch; Telescope Gallery]

creator: Philip Henry Delamotte

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Botany Photograph

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Woman Dancer in Daimyo's Palace

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

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: Designs for borders and corners, acanthus

creator: Robert William Hume

medium: Pen and ink

credit_line: Bequest of Jessie F. Hume, 1930


title: Drunken fisherman by a reed bank

creator: Tang Yin

date: early 16th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Bequest of John M. Crawford Jr., 1988


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk lampas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1946


title: Henderson, Pitcher, Pittsburgh, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen print photograph, cabinet card


title: Sunk relief fragment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Chest with a Single Drawer

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Gold lacquer with hiramaki-e and mother-of-pearl inlay; gilt copper fittings

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Barbara and William Karatz Gift, 2008


title: Card Number 98, May Steele, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: 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: Number 5, The Restored Card, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Gore (notched flute)

date: late 19th century

medium: bamboo

country: Norfolk Island, Polynesian

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

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Seated actress with chin resting on hand, from the Actresses series (N668)


title: Dr. John Collins Warren

creator: Southworth and Hawes

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937


title: Horizontal Landscape with the remains of the Nymphaeum, mistakenly identified as the Temple of Minerva Medica in Rome, from "Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles"

creator: Lambert Suavius

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Book Landscapes

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


title: Japanese Drawing

date: early 19th century

medium: On paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of John Achelis, 1907


title: Design for a Box-Lid

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

medium: Black chalk with graphite

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


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


title: Evening coat

creator: Manby

medium: wool, silk

country: French

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


title: Purse

medium: leather, silk

credit_line: Gift of Catharine Oglesby, 1959


title: Wide-rimmed bowl with Beautiful Margarita

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Tapestry Tunic

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Camelid wool

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Claudia Quentin, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2020


title: Skein of Camelid Hair

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peruvian

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: King of Bavaria, from World's Sovereigns series (N34) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Pair of Arm Guards

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, gold

country: Indian

subjects:
Armor part
Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Tassel

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Relief fragment from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: [Untitled]

creator: Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

creator: Ambrosiana Painter

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Gnathian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian, gnathian

credit_line: Louis V. Bell Fund, 1965


title: La Frayeur

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Purchase, The Camille M. Lownds Fund, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, Louis V. Bell and 2012 Benefit Funds, and C. Jay Moorhead Foundation Gift, 2015


title: Strung Rattle

medium: Shells, cord

country: Central African

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
Central african
Shells & molluscs


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip with polychrome slip decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Cage crinoline

medium: cotton, metal, leather

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Charlotte Church Collins, in memory of my mother, Alice Slocum Church, 1976


title: [Richard Ansdell]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Tall Clock

creator: John Doggett

medium: Mahogany, maple, white pine

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1942


title: Lock and Key

medium: Iron, wood

credit_line: Gift of General William Barclay Parsons, 1924


title: Dance ensemble

medium: silk, wool

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


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

creator: Knapp & Company

subjects: Fish Print

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


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Le Repos de bébé

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Drypoint; second state of three

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Plate 15: Hercules standing in a niche, wearing a lion skin and holding a club, viewed from behind, with his head turned to the left, from a series of mythological gods and goddesses

creator: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Pot

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Fragment with the cartouche of Akhenaten

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Man

date: second half 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta head and wooden limbs; body of wire wrapped in tow; cotton and silk garments with gold buttons as well as buttons wrapped in silver thread

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: One rejoices in a pure, unspoiled happiness when harvesting ones own apples... at least as long as one doesn't break one's neck, from "The joys of country life"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 14, 1865

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Daybed

creator: School of Toulon

date: second quarter 18th century

medium: Carved walnut, green damask


title: Standing court lady

date: 8th century

medium: Earthenware with colored glaze (Sancai ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Offering table with hand beneath

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Joseph V. Noble, 1968


title: Voyageurs appréciant de moins en moins les..., from Les Agréments des Chemins de Fer, published in Le Charivari, December 25, 1856

date: December 25, 1856

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

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


title: The Death of the Virgin, from "The Life of the Virgin"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Joined lappets

medium: Bobbin lace, Point de Paris

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Donald P. Spence, in memory of her mother, Mrs. William Redmond Cross, 1979


title: The Expulsion from Paradise, from "The Small Passion"

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975


title: Portrait of actress wearing multiple necklaces, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects: Photograph Portraits


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Agony in the Garden, from "The Passion of Christ"

creator: Abraham Hogenberg

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


title: [Untitled]

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of People (Benkei and Yoshitsune)Talking to Child Carrying a Large Basket (obverse); Two Running Children (reverse)

medium: Lacquer, kinji, nashiji, gold, silver, black and brown hiramakie, metal inlay; Interior: fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Card Number 152, Stella Sawer, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Armchair

medium: Primary: mahogany.  Secondary: cherry (medial braces); mahogany (front braces) ; white pine (rear braces, top and bottom edges slightly chamfered); maple (slip seat).

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Moore, 1923


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: Combined Title-page

creator: William Blake

medium: Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold

subjects:
Print
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Daimyo's Processions Passing along the Tōkaidō

creator: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Edinburgh.  Greyfriars' Churchyard

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Hydrangeas and Peonies

creator: Takahashi Sōhei

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2025


title: Port Scene

creator: Pierre Moreau

medium: Etching

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


title: Harpoon

medium: Copper

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

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