title: Ornament with the Tree of Jesse

medium: Engraving on paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Engraving
Germany
Trees


title: The Adoration of the Magi

creator: Master E. S.

country: Germany

subjects: Engraving Germany

source: Art Institute of Chicago

source_id: aic

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: The Stickney Collection


title: The Tournament

creator: Master M.Z.

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: The Ill-Assorted Couple

creator: Israhel van Meckenem the Younger

medium: Engraving, with drawn additions in pen and ink, on two joined sheets of ivory laid paper


title: Christ Bearing the Cross


title: The Churchgoers


title: A Man and Woman Seated on a Bed


title: The Organ Player and His Wife

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper


title: The Five Foxes


title: The Lamb Receiving the Sealed Book, folio C from The Apocalypse

creator: Artist unknown

medium: Blockbook woodcut hand-colored with brush, stencil and watercolor with additions in pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper

subjects: Woodcut Germany

credit_line: Joseph Brooks Fair Fund


title: Johannes Gerson as a Pilgrim, frontispiece from Opera Johannes Gerson

creator: Unknown artist (German)

medium: Hand-colored woodcut in black on cream laid paper

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


title: The Man of Sorrows

medium: Hand-colored woodcut, printed on ivory laid paper

country: Italy

subjects: Woodcut Italy


title: Saint George with the Stork's Nest

medium: Engraving, printed in black, on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer


title: The Way of Salvation

medium: Woodcut in black hand colored with brush and watercolor on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper


title: Bookplate of Hildebrand von Brandenburg

medium: Woodcut in black with hand coloring on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper, with inscription in pen and brown ink, laid down on cream laid paper

credit_line: The Joseph Brooks Fair Collection


title: Christ on the Cross Between Mary and Saint John

creator: Unknown Artist

medium: Handcolored woodcut, printed through rubbing, on paper

country: Southern Germany

subjects:
Woodcut
Southern germany


title: The Nativity

creator: Nicolaus Alexander Mair von Landshut

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: The Tournament

medium: Engraving in black on ivory paper


title: Thistle Ornament With Wild Man

subjects:
Ornament & design
Engraving
Germany


title: Adoration of the Magi


title: Augustus and the Sibyl

medium: Engraving in black on paper


title: St. Peter


title: St. Luke Portraying the Madonna

medium: Engraving printed in black, on ivory laid paper


title: The Vintage of the Grapes of the Vine, from the Blockbook Apocalypse

medium: Hand-colored woodcut on cream laid paper

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.


title: Saint Anne, the Virgin, and Child


title: Saint Peter Martyr

creator: Unknown artist

medium: Metal cut printed on paper

subjects:
Dotted/metal cut
Germany


title: St. George Killing the Dragon

creator: Master B with Two Crossed Daggers

date: 15th century


title: Christ on the Cross With Two Angels

creator: Monogrammist AG (Anton Gerbel?)

medium: Engraving in black on off-white laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects: Engraving Netherland


title: The Madonna by the Fountain


title: Solomon's Idolatry

medium: Engraving in black on tan laid paper


title: The Warriors

medium: Engraving in black on ivory laid paper


title: The Beheading of St. John the Baptist

medium: Engraving on off-white laid paper


title: The Woman with an Owl

creator: After Master M.Z.

date: after 1512

medium: Etching in black on ivory laid paper


title: The Embrace

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper


title: The Annunciation


title: Death of the Virgin


title: The Betrayal, from The Passion

medium: Engraving on cream laid paper


title: The Adoration of the Magi


title: The Lamentation, from The Passion

medium: Engraving, printed in black, on off-white laid paper


title: The Flagellation, from The Passion

creator: Israhel van Meckenem, the younger


title: The Virgin and Child in the Garden

creator: Israhel van Meckenem the Younger (German, c. 1440/45-1503)

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper


title: The Saviour


title: The Holy Family


title: The Madonna of the Rosary


title: St. James Major, from Christ and the Apostles


title: The Madonna with St. Anne, St. Catherine and St. Barbara


title: St. Anthony


title: Saint Bartholomew and Saint Philip from The Twelve Apostles


title: St. Laurence


title: Saint Christopher

creator: Unknown engraver after Israhel van Meckenem the Younger (German, c. 1440/45-1503)


title: Saint Christopher


title: The Children's Bath


title: The Third Foolish Virgin, from The Five Foolish Virgins


title: The Falconer and the Lady


title: The Churchgoers


title: The Fight over the Trousers

medium: Engraving printed in black on ivory laid paper


title: The Singer and the Lute Player


title: Ornament With Flower and Eight Wild Folk

subjects:
Ornament & design
Engraving
Germany
Flowers


title: Ornamental Panel With Two Lovers


title: St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness

creator: Master of Saint John the Baptist

medium: Engraving in black, with pen and ink, on ivory laid paper


title: The Large Einsiedeln Madonna


title: Christ's Entry into Jerusalem

creator: Master of the Strache Altar


title: Drum-Shaped Vessels with Textile Motif

creator: Inca

medium: Ceramic and pigment

country: Peruvian South Coast

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Vessel
Peruvian south coast
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Buckingham Fund


title: Tivoli, Showing Rome in the Distance

creator: Francis Towne

medium: Pen and black ink and watercolor, with brush and black wash and touches of graphite, on ivory laid paper

country: Unknown Place

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Unknown place

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Temple Strut Fragment with Boar God, Varaha

creator: Nepal

medium: Wood

country: Nepal

subjects: Architecture Wood Nepal

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Simeon Solomon

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: England

subjects: Graphite England Portraits

credit_line: Sara R. Shorey Memorial Fund


title: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Fiery Furnace

medium: Watercolor and opaque watercolor, with traces of graphite, on cream wove paper

country: United Kingdom

subjects:
Drawing
United kingdom

credit_line: Regenstein Endowment Fund


title: The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon Moves Towards Infinity, plate one from To Edgar Poe

creator: Odilon Redon

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

country: France

subjects: Lithograph France


title: Frontispiece to Les baisers morts

creator: Félicien Rops

medium: Soft varnish ("vernis mou") etching, drypoint and roulette in brownish-red on cream wove paper

country: Belgium

subjects: Etching Belgium

credit_line: The Charles Deering Collection


title: Et que des yeux sans tete flottaient comme des mollusques, plate XIII of Tentation de St. Antoine

medium: Lithograph in black on pinkish-cream China paper laid down on ivory wove paper


title: Des Esseintes

creator: Odilon Redon (French, 1840-1916)

medium: Lithograph on chine laid down on cream wove paper

credit_line: Prints and Drawings Endowment


title: Jug

creator: Painted by Johann Schaper

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (faience) and pewter with enamel decoration

country: Nuremberg

subjects: Earthenware Nuremberg

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


title: Pharmacy Jug

creator: Switzerland, Winterthur

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (faience)

country: Winterthur

subjects: Earthenware Winterthur

credit_line: Atlan ceramic club Fund


title: Cider Jug

creator: France, Rouen

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (faience) and metal mount

country: Rouen

subjects:
Tin-glazed ware
Rouen

credit_line: Gift of Catherine Oglesby


title: Plate

creator: Veuve Perrin Manufactory

country: Marseille

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
Marseille

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson


title: Perfume Flask in form of a Book

creator: France

subjects:
Tin-glazed ware
France


title: Perfume Flask in the form of a Book

subjects: Earthenware France


title: Double-Sided Painted Banner (Paubha) with God Shiva

date: 16th-17th century

medium: Pigment and gold on cotton

subjects: Thangka Nepal

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Fund


title: Milarepa on Mount Kailash

creator: Tibet

country: Tibet

subjects: Thangka Tibet

credit_line: Asian Purchase Campaign Endowment and Robert Ross Fund


title: Painted Banner (Thangka) with the Medicine Buddha (Bhaishajyaguru)

creator: Central Tibet

date: 14th century


title: Painted Banner (Thangka) of Bon Deity Tonpa Shenrap

date: 16th century

medium: Opaque watercolor with gold on cotton

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: Fragment

creator: Probably Granada, Spain

date: Nasrid dynasty (1230–1492), late 15th century

medium: Silk, lampas technique; warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps and patterning and self-patterning wefts;

country: Spain

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Spain

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society; Mrs. Julian Armstrong Jr.; Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Fund, and the Nicole Williams Contemporary Textile Fund


title: Length of Dress or Furnishing Fabric

creator: France, possibly Lyon

medium: Silk, plain weave with self-patterning weft floats and areas of satin weave; watered (moiré)

country: Lyon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Lyon

credit_line: Belle M. Borland Endowment


title: Low Bowl

creator: Korea

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), 14th century

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze inlaid decoration of black and white clays

country: Korea

subjects: Bowl Korea

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Otto Madlener


title: Civil Official (Wenguan)

creator: China

date: Tang dynasty (618–906), 8th century

medium: Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes

country: China

subjects: Earthenware China

credit_line: Gift of Bertha Palmer Thorne


title: Buckle with Incised Petal Pattern

creator: India

date: 17th/18th century

medium: Jade with rubies and gold inset in the kundan technique

country: India

subjects:
Ornament & design
Buckle (strap accessory)
India

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Chester D. Tripp


title: Snowy Landscape

creator: Wen Zhengming (Chinese, 1470-1559)

medium: Hanging scroll; Ink and light color on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China
Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation


title: Dish with Dragons amid Clouds, Chasing Flaming Pearls

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

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue and overglaze yellow enamel

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Siegfried Schmidt


title: Man with Staff by a Stream

creator: Hua Yan

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China


title: Poem by Minamoto no Saneakira Ason, from an untitled series of Thirty-Six Immortal Poets

creator: Suzuki Harunobu 鈴木 春信

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban

country: Japan

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Marian Schaffner


title: Newly Published Perspective Picture of Mount Fuji in Spring from Tagonoura (Shinpan uki-e Tagonoura haru no Fuji)

creator: Utagawa Toyoharu

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Gidwitz


title: Newly Published Perspective Picture of the Gate of the Palace of the Dragon King (Shinpan uki-e Ryugu karamon no zu)


title: Takashima, from the series "A Collection of Flower-like Faces of Beauties (Bijin kagan shu)"

creator: Chobunsai Eishi

date: late 18th/early 19th century

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Tossing Dishes Over a Cliff


title: Women on a Pleasure Boat

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban pentaptych

subjects: Print Japan


title: The Naniwaya Pine Tree at Sakai in Izumi Province (Senshu Sakai Naniwaya no matsu), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)"

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)

medium: Color woodblock print; oban (trimmed)

subjects: Print Japan Trees


title: The Precincts of Naritasan Temple in Shimosa Province (Shimosa Naritasan keidai), from the series "One Hundred Famous Views in the Various Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei)"

subjects: Architecture Print Japan


title: The Eighth Month, from the series "Twelve Months in the South (Minami juni ko)"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych, trimmed


title: Viewing Cherry Blossoms at Ueno

creator: Katsukawa Shuncho

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban triptych


title: Distant View from beneath Shin Ohashi Bridge (Shin Ohashi kyoka no chobo), from the series "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji Seen from the Eastern Capital (Toto Fujimi sanjurokkei)"

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi


title: Viewing Votive Plaques at Mukojima

creator: Kubo Shunman (Japanese, 1757–1820)

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of oban triptych


title: The Sixth Month (Rokugatsu), from the series "Popular Customs of the Twelve Months (Fuzoku juni ko)"

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban, trimmed


title: The actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Sukeroku (R) and Onoe Kikugoro III as the white sake peddler Shinbei (L) in the play "Yukari no Edo-zakura"

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)

medium: Color woodblock print; two sheets of a shikishiban triptych, surimono


title: The actors Onoe Kikugoro III (R) as Nagoya Sanza and Iwai Kumesaburo II (L) as the courtesan Katsuragi in the play "Oichiza Soga no Shimadai," performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the first month, 1827

medium: Color woodblock print; right and center sheets of shikishiban triptych, surimono


title: Bowl

date: Jin dynasty (1115–1234), 13th century

medium: Jun ware; stoneware with opaque pale-blue and crimson-splashed glazes

subjects: Bowl China


title: Pier Table

creator: France, Paris

medium: Carved, gessoed, and gilded wood, marble top

subjects: Table France

credit_line: Wirt D. Walker Endowment


title: Laden Horse and Women Returning with Brush

creator: Teisai Hokuba

date: 19th century

medium: Color woodblock print

credit_line: Japanese print purchase Fund


title: Night Procession of Goblins (Hyakki yagyo no zu)

creator: Kawanabe Kyosai

medium: Handscroll; Ink and colors on paper

subjects: Handscroll Japan

credit_line: Japanese Print Purchase Fund


title: In The Mood for a Walk (Yuho ga shitaso), from the series "Thirty-two Aspects of Women (Fuzoku sanjuniso)"

creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi


title: Tile with Calligraphic and Vegetal Design

creator: Iran

date: Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), Early 17th century

medium: Fritware with overglaze decoration in blue, turquoise, white, and black

country: Turkey

subjects: Earthenware Turkey

credit_line: Mary Jane Gunsaulus Collection


title: Dish with a Prophetic Hadith

creator: Ibn Haji 'Imad Ali

date: Qajar dynasty (1796–1925), dated 1238 AH/1822 CE

medium: Fritware, painted in blue under a transparent glaze

country: Iran

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
Iran
Ships & the sea


title: Large shallow dish

creator: Uzbekistan

date: 18th/19th century

medium: Reddish stoneware decorated in manganese, green, and cobalt blue enamel on white opaque glaze

country: Bukhara

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
Bukhara
Ships & the sea


title: Tile with Pious Inscription

date: Ilkhanid dynasty (1256–1353), Late 13th/early 14th century

medium: Fritware with molded decoration, painted in blue under opaque turquoise glaze

subjects: Earthenware Iran


title: Bowl with Birds

medium: Fritware painted with gray and white slips under a transparent glaze

subjects: Bowl Iran Birds


title: Jar with Floral and Geometric Design

creator: Iraq

date: Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258), 9th century

medium: Earthenware oainted in luster with overglaze decoration

country: Mesopotamia

subjects: Ceramic Mesopotamia Flowers


title: Dish with a Landscape Scene

date: Safavid dynasty (1501–1736), Early 17th century

medium: Fritware, luster-painted over white and cobalt blue glaze

country: Isfahan

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
Isfahan
Landscapes
Ships & the sea


title: Pair of Tiles with Floral Design

creator: Turkey

date: Ottoman dynasty (1299–1923), c. 1560

medium: Iznik ware, fritware painted in blue, turquoise, red, green, and black under a transparent glaze

country: Iznik

subjects: Earthenware Iznik Flowers


title: Star-Shaped Tile

date: Ilkhanid dynasty (1256–1353), Late 13th century

medium: Lusterware, fritware with cobalt blue and turquoise underglaze and luster-painted overglaze decoration


title: Visiting Dai Kui on a Snowy Night 雪夜訪戴圖

creator: Xia Kui 夏葵 (Chinese, 15th century)

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

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China

credit_line: R. A. Waller Fund


title: Jar

creator: Korea

date: Joseon dynasty (1392–1897), early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with glaze

subjects: Stoneware Korea

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Fund


title: Watching the Waterfall 高士觀瀑圖

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and slight color on silk


title: Legends of the Yūzū Nembutsu Sect

creator: Artist unknown

date: Kamakura period (1185–1333), 14th century

medium: Handscroll; ink, colors, and gold on paper

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Returning Sails (Kihan), from the series "Eight Views of Snow Scenes (Yukimi hakkei)"

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国 (Japanese, 1769–1825)

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

credit_line: Estate of Marian Schaffner


title: God Shiva Seated in Loving Embrace with Goddess Uma on the Bull Nandi

creator: India

date: 9th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Madhya Pradesh

subjects:
Stone relief
Madhya pradesh


title: The Actor Sanogawa Ichimatsu I as Kumenosuke in the play "Na no Hana Akebono Soga," performed at the Nakamura Theater in the second month, 1741

creator: Torii Kiyomasu II

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, urushi-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan


title: The Actors Ichikawa Danjuro II as Onio Shinzaemon and Ichikawa Masugoro as Soga no Goro in the play "Furiwake-gami Hatsugai Soga," performed at the Ichimura Theater in the first month, 1735

creator: Torii Kiyonobu II

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, beni-e


title: Goddess Uma, Consort of Shiva

date: Vijayanagar period, about 1500

medium: Bronze

country: Tamil Nadu

subjects:
Bronze
Tamil nadu


title: Jar

creator: China

date: Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period (480–221 B.C.), 4th/3rd century B.C.

medium: Stoneware with impressed decoration

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Russell Tyson Fund


title: Lovers, a Cat, and a Mouse in front of a Folding Screen

creator: Attributed to Sugimura Jihei

medium: Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e


title: Fragment (Border)

creator: Italy

date: 16th century

medium: Linen, needle lace on a plain weave cut and drawn thread grid; glass beads; embroidered in double hem and overcast stitches

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy

credit_line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society


title: Cuff

creator: Belgium

medium: Cotton, mixed lace: bobbin part lace "Duchesse" bobbin part lace and "Point de Gaze" needle lace

country: Belgium

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Belgium

credit_line: Gift of Tiffany Blake


title: Dress Flounce

medium: Cotton "Point de Gaze" needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Marshall Field and Company


title: Border

creator: Belgium, Flanders

medium: Linen needle lace

country: Flanders

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Flander


title: Border

creator: Europe

date: 1675/1725(imitation of 17th century Venetian needle lace)

medium: Linen needle lace with woven tape

country: Europe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Europe


title: Corporal

medium: Linen, plain weave; edged with linen needle lace with raised details

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Louise Lutz


title: Fragment (Border)

creator: France

medium: Linen, "Point D'Alencon" needle lace

country: France

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France


title: Cover

medium: Linen, twenty-four squares of square netting (filet) embroidered in cloth, darning, and twined double running stitches; alternating with twenty-four squares of linen, plain weave; cut and drawn thread work embroidered in cross, darning, interlocking lace, overcast, and satin stitches; knots, overcast bars, buttonhole, darned, and woven wheels; needle lace filling; appliquéd with plain weave and embroidered in back, bullion, cross, half cross, detached chain, double running, running, satin, single satin, surface satin, and stem stitches; buttonhole wheels, eyelet holes, and French knots; edged with bobbin straight lace

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Collar

medium: Cotton, "Point de Gaze" needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emory Williams


title: Fan

creator: Brussels, Belgium or possibly France

medium: Mount of "point de gaze" needle lace. Pearl sticks with ivory tops and gold decorated pearl guards

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Winston


title: Scarf

credit_line: Bequest of Kate S. Buckingham


title: Border

credit_line: Gift of Edward Morris in memory of his wife


title: Panel

medium: Linen, "Point d'Alençon" needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson through the Antiquarian Society


title: Cuff

creator: Probably Belgium

medium: Cotton, bobbin and needle laces

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume accessory
Belgium

credit_line: Gift of Alice Pirie Hargrave


title: Flounce (Fragment)

medium: Cotton, "Duchesse de Bruges" bobbin part lace


title: Flounce (Furnishing)

medium: Linen, "Brussels" bobbin part lace with an imitation of needle made mesh, "Point d'Alençon," ground

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William H. Fifield


title: Border

creator: England, West Country

medium: Linen, "Brussels" bobbin part lace; regrounded with cotton needle made mesh

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England


title: Collar

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Albert Winston


title: Collar

credit_line: Gift of Carolyn M. Wicker


title: Dress Front and Pair of Cuffs

creator: Belgium, Brussels

medium: Cotton and linen, mixed lace of needle lace and "Duchesse" bobbin part lace

country: Brussels

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Brussel


title: Border

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Thomas B. Marston through the Antiquarian Society


title: Two Fragments (Border)

medium: Linen, "Point d'Argentan" needle lace with buttonholed mesh ground


title: Collar or Cuff (Fragment)


title: Child's Apron (Made from a Cover)

medium: Linen, needle lace on a plain weave cut and drawn thread work grid; armholes trimmed with machine-made lace and bobbin-straight lace tapes; embroidered in double hem, hem, and overcast stitches


title: Fragment (Border)

medium: Linen, "Point d'Argentan" needle lace with a buttonholed mesh ground


title: Pair of Lappets (Joined)

medium: Linen, "Point d'Argentan" needle lace with a whipped mesh ground

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume accessory
France

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, Mrs. Bertha Palmer Thorne, Mrs. Rose Movius Palmer, and Mrs. Gordon Palmer


title: Border


title: Border

creator: Belgium, Flanders, Brussels

medium: Linen, needle lace and bobbin part lace


title: Lappet

medium: Linen, Point d'Argentan" needle lace with whipped mesh ground

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Border


title: Border

medium: Linen, "Point d'Argentan" needle lace with bottonholed mesh ground


title: Half Shawl

medium: Linen, "Point de Gaze" needle lace applied to cotton, machine-made net

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. C. Phillip Miller


title: Collar

medium: Cotton, "Duchesse" bobbin lace with insets of "Point de Gaze" needle lace


title: Flounce

creator: Possibly made by Auguste Lefébure (French, born 1864)

medium: Cotton, "Point de Gaze" needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne


title: Handkerchief

medium: Linen, plain weave; edged with mixed lace; "Duchesse" bobbin part lace with inserts "Point de Gaze" needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Border


title: Three Borders


title: Sampler

creator: Katherine Veren (English, active c. 1676)

medium: Linen, plain weave; bands of cut and drawn thread work in interlocking lace and Romanian stitches; bands of linen, "Reticello" needle lace; and embroidered with silk in Algerian eye, hem, Montenegrin cross, running, double running, and satin stitches; buttonhole couching

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


title: Collar

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Fred G. Gurley in memory of Bertha Brown and Alice Rosenthal


title: Border

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


title: Flounce


title: Collar with Lappets

medium: Cotton, "Point de Gaze" needle lace and "Duchesse" bobbin part lace


title: Collar


title: Handkerchief, Fragment of a Border, Collar, Two Cuffs


title: Borders


title: Flounce

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Border

medium: Linen, "Point d'Alençon" needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Honoré Palmer


title: Border


title: Border

medium: Cotton, mixed lace of a type known as "Application d'Angleterre"; bobbin lace motifs on a needle lace mesh ground

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Whitely


title: Dress Flounce

credit_line: Gift of Marshall Field and Company


title: Border

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A. W. Wickett


title: Stole

medium: Cotton, mixed lace: "Duchesse" bobbin lace with insets of "Point de Gaze" needle lace

credit_line: Gift from Mrs. Eugene S. Greensfelder


title: Collar

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward D. Kimball


title: Collar

medium: cotton, "Point de Gaze" needle lace


title: Handkerchief

medium: Linen, plain weave; edged with cotton,"Point de Gaze" needle lace


title: Flounce

medium: Cotton, "Point de Gaze" needle lace applied to machine made net

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Bentley Walker


title: Handkerchief

medium: Linen, plain weave; edged with cotton, "Point de Gaze" needle lace


title: Borders


title: Three Flounces


title: Revised 24th Street Elevation for Standard Club, Chicago, Illinois, Details and Sections

creator: Adler & Sullivan, Architects

medium: Graphite and ink on linen

country: Michigan Avenue at 24th Street

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural working drawing
Michigan avenue at 24th street

credit_line:
Gift of Friedman, Alschuler and Sincere, 1979
Transfer from Burnham Library Archives 1981


title: Standard Club, Chicago, Illinois, Revised Elevation and Details

creator: Adler and Sullivan

medium: Black and red ink on linen

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural drawing
Michigan avenue at 24th street

credit_line: Gift of Friedman, Alschuler & Sincere


title: Standard Club, Chicago, Illinois, Mosaic Floor for Vestibule and Main Hall


title: Standard Club, Chicago, Illinois, Mantel Details


title: Standard Club Addition and Alterations, Elevations

medium: Black and red ink on draughting linen


title: Standard Club Addition and Alterations, First Floor Plan


title: Addition and Alterations, Standard Club , Chicago, Illinois, Details

medium: Black and red ink with color wash on linen


title: Anvil

creator: European

date: 18th century

medium: Iron

subjects:
Arms and armor, miscellaneous
Europe

credit_line: George F. Harding Collection


title: Louis XIV - Submission of Cournea and Courtray

creator: Scaldis (?) (French, 17th century)

date: 19th/early 20th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Medal France

credit_line: Gift of Blewett Lee


title: Portrait Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul

creator: Henri Auguste (French, 1759–1816)

subjects: Medal France Portraits


title: Bonaparte Premier Consul de la Republic Française, Bataille De Marengo


title: Napoleon I Empereur Des Français Roi D'Italie

creator: D. Caque (French, 19th century)

medium: Copper


title: Napoleon Bonaparte -  Passage of Mt. St. Bernard May 18, 1800; Battle of Marengo June 14, 1800

creator: Jean-Pierre Montagny (French, 1789–1862)

date: 19th century copy of an earlier medal by Andrieu


title: Napoleon Bonaparte

creator: Emile Rogat (French, c. 1799–1852)


title: Napoleon Le Grand Empereur des Français

creator: B. M. Manfredini (Italian, 17th–early 18th century)

subjects: Medal Italy


title: Bonaparte Reip. Ital. Praeses, Anno III

date: 19th century


title: Napoleo. I Gal. Imp. Ital. Rex. Germanicus Ruthenicus

medium: Silvered copper


title: Napoleon Bonaparte


title: The Virgin

creator: Jean-Baptiste Daniel-Dupuis (French, 1849–1899)


title: Mines of Lens

creator: Louis Oscar Roty (French, 1846–1911)

medium: Silvered bronze


title: Medal commemorating Major General Zachary Taylor

creator: Charles C. Wright (American, active 1846–1847)

country: United States

subjects:
Medal
United state

credit_line: Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago


title: Portrait of Ichikawa Danjuro II as Kamakura no Gongorô

creator: Furuyama Moromasa

medium: Hanging scroll; Ink and color on silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan
Portraits

credit_line: The Woman's Board and Avery Brundage Endowments


title: Hebe and the Eagle of Jupiter

creator: François Rude (French, 1784–1855)

date: Modeled c. 1852, cast c. 1860–80

subjects: Statuette France

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. John H. Leslie


title: Plate

creator: Coalport and Coalbrookdale Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration and gilding

country: Coalport

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
Coalport

credit_line: Gift of Rose Bruskin and Thomas P. Oakley in memory of Martin E. Bruskin


title: Bodhisattva Maitreya

creator: China

date: Qing dynasty, 18th century

medium: Ink, gold, and color on cotton

country: China

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China

credit_line: Margaret Gentles Fund; Frederick and Nathalie Gookin Endowment


title: Tray for a Tea Service

creator: Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

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

country: Sèvres

subjects: Tray Sèvre

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


title: Bowl

creator: Robert Pottery Factory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, orange monochrome, and gilding

country: Marseille

subjects: Bowl Marseille

credit_line: Gift of Alfred D. Pell


title: Ophelia

creator: Odilon Redon

medium: Pastel on blue-gray wove paper

subjects: Pastel France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Theodora W. Brown and Mrs. Rue W. Shaw in memory of Anne R. Winterbotham


title: Dish from the Charlotte Louise Service

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
Sèvre
Ships & the sea


title: Flowering Lotus

creator: Attributed to Chen Chun

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Handscroll China

credit_line: Wirt D. Walker Fund


title: Brush Back

creator: Delft, Netherlands

date: Mid 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (Delftware) and wood

country: Delft

subjects:
Hairbrush (grooming tool)
Delft

credit_line: Bequest of Hans G. Cahen


title: Plaque

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (Delftware)

subjects: Earthenware Delft


title: Plate

creator: Possibly France in the Delft style

date: 19th or 20th century

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
France


title: Plate

creator: Augusteyne Reygensburgh

subjects:
Plate (general, dish)
Delft


title: The Courtesan Arihara of the Tsuruya, and Child Attendants Aoe and Sekiya (Tsuruya uchi Arihara, Aoe, Sekiya), from an untitled series of courtesans

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblcok print; aiban

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mary Diamond Stein


title: Geisha (Geigi), from the series “Three Amusements of Contemporary Beauties" ("Tosei bijin san’yu")

medium: Color woodblock print; naga-oban

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Gaylord Donnelley


title: Messenger with a Letter, from the series "Elegant Five-needled Pine (Furyu goyo no matsu)"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban


title: The Courtesan Seyama of the Matsubaya, from an untitled series of courtesans of the Matsubaya as five musicians

credit_line: Estate of Marian Schaffner


title: The Courtesan Matsukaze of the Matsubaya, from an untitled series of courtesans of the Matsubaya as five musicians


title: The Courtesan Kisegawa of the Matsubaya, from an untitled series of courtesans of the Matsubaya as five musicians


title: Two Girls, from the series "Twelve Physiognomies of Beautiful Women Representing Views of Famous Places (Meisho fukei bijin juni so)"

credit_line: Gift of Samuella Crosby


title: Likes Enjoying Herself (Tanoshimizuki), from the series "Eight Views of Favorite Things of Today (Tosei kobutsu hakkei)"

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. George Mann


title: A Box at the Kabuki Theater, from the illustrated book "Guide to the Actors' Dressing Rooms (Yakusha gakuya tsu)"

date: spring, 1799

medium: Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from book

credit_line: Charles F. Kelley Memorial Fund


title: Drums and Shamisen

medium: Color woodblock print; aiban

credit_line: Gift of Miss Samuella Crosby


title: Fond of Sake (Sakezuki), from the series "Eight Views of Favorite Things of Today (Tosei kobutsu hakkei)"

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


title: Atage, from the series "A Selection of Eastern Beauties (Azuma bijin erami)"


title: Shell-Matching Game, from the illustrated book "Gifts from the Ebb Tide (Shiohi no tsuto)"

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Shells & molluscs


title: Double Pillow

medium: Color woodblock print; oban (left sheet of a triptych)

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Kakogawa Konami, Oboshi Rikiya and the Maidservant Suki, (Kakogawa Konami, Oboshi Rikiya, gejo Suki) from the series "Models of Love Talk: Clouds Form Over the Moon (Chiwa kagami tsuki no murakumo) "

medium: Color woodblock print

credit_line: Japanese Print Purchase Fund


title: Hidematsu, Yasokichi, Izukiyo of the Otsuya (Otsuya uchi Hidematsu, Yasokichi, Izukiyo), from the series "Female Geisha Section of the Yoshiwara Niwaka Festival (Seiro niwaka onna geisha no bu)"

credit_line: Nathalie C. Gookin Fund in Memory of Frederick W. Gookin; Robert G. Sawers Publishing purchased from


title: Yoshiwara Picture Book: Annual Events, or Annals of the Green Houses, (Seirō ehon nenjū gyōji)

medium: Color woodblock-printed book

subjects: Book Japan

credit_line: Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Woman with Puppies

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on paper

subjects: Scroll Japan

credit_line: Gift of Roger L. Weston


title: Altar Cloth

creator: Italy

date: 17th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; appliquéd vertical strips of plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in long-armed cross and back stitches and appliquéd lower border of plain weave; embellished with pulled thread work (with silk floss) in two-sided Italian cross stitch and embroidered in back stitch; edged with silk, warp-faced plain weave with ground weft cut fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Wood, Mrs. Bertha Palmer Thorne, Mrs. Rose Movius Palmer, and Mrs. Gordon Palmer


title: Border (From an Altar Cloth)

creator: Italy, Milan

medium: Linen, bobbin part lace; embellished with glass beads

country: Milan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Milan


title: Picture

creator: England

medium: Silk, weft-float faced 7:1 satin weave; appliquéd with linen, plain weaves and silk, satin weaves; embroidered with silk, linen, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, feathers, metal wire and purl in bullion, eyelet, Roman, satin, split, stem, and tent stitches; raised work in a variety of buttonhole, raised stem, and trellis stitches with bullion picots; couching and embroidered cut pile; embellished with beads, mica and pearls

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England

credit_line: Gift of the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Fan with Monogram of Cantacuzene Family

creator: Belgium, Brussels

medium: Cotton, mixed lace: "Duchesse" bobbin part lace with insets of "Point de Gaze" needle lace; with tortoise shell guards and clasp embellished with gem stones

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Brussel
Minerals & gems
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Princess Cantacuzene in memory of Bertha Honoré Palmer


title: Insertion (For a Cover)

medium: Linen, needle lace; embellished with glass beads; edged with bobbin straight lace

credit_line: Gift of the Antiquarian Society


title: Man's Theater Costume (Reversible)

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 3:1 'Z' twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave; edged with bands of silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, laid work and couching; embellished with gilt-metal framed mirrors; trimmed with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave; collar: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave; embroidered with silk in eyelet and satin stitches; inner coat: silk, warp-float faced 7:1 and 4:1 satin weaves; embroidered with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton in satin stitches; laid work and couching; trimmed with silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, plain weave and with silk, knotted cut fringe wrapped with gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton threads; closures: silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave; lined with ramie, plain weave; glazed; inner lining: ramie, plain weave; metal buttons

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John J. Abbott


title: Panel (Dress Fabric)

creator: France

medium: Silk, plain weave with silvered-metal-strip-wrapped with silk supplementary facing wefts; embroidered with silk and silvered-metal-strip and wire purl in satin stitches; couching; embellished with silvered and colored metal spangles; semiprecious stones

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Textile Society


title: Two Fragments

creator: Italy or Spain

medium: Silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped linen, plain weave with plain and 1:3 twill interlacings of secondary binding warps and supplementary patterning wefts; embellished with pigment on paper forms affixed with wax

credit_line: Grace R. Smith Textile Endowment


title: Fragment (Bonnet Trim)

creator: Probably Europe

medium: Three tapes of horsehair, twill oblique interlacing; two tapes of horsehair and straw, twill oblique interlacing, openwork with supplementary wrapping elements; one tape of horsehair and straw, plain weave, openwork with raised profile formed by extended wrapped and twill oblique interlaced wefts; embellished with horsehair, cotton, and straw in twined tapes of twill oblique interlacing and florets of cotton plain weave with supplementary pile wefts forming cut solid "velvet" (velveteen); embroidered with straw in back stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Europe

credit_line: Found in Storage


title: Wrapping Cloth (pojagi)

creator: Korea

date: Choson dynasty (1392–1910), 19th century

medium: Silk, eighty-one pieced squares, outer edge, and backing, ribbons of plain gauze weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave; squares joined with silk in overcast stitches; edging joined with silk in back stitches; ribbon embellished with silk, plain weave tapes

country: Korea

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Korea

credit_line: Louise Lutz Endowment


title: Ceremonial Skirt (tapis)

creator: Abung people

date: Early 19th century

medium: Two panels joined: cotton and silk, stripes of warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave; warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts, and warp resist dyed (warp ikat) plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; appliquéd with wool, plain weave; embroidered with silk, cotton, pineapple fiber, silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped cotton and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped bast fiber (probably ramie) in buttonhole, double running, split, stem, straight and surface satin; laidwork and couching; embellished with metal-backed glass mirrors

country: Indonesia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Indonesia

credit_line: Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection


title: Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (tapis)

creator: Paminggir

medium: Six loom widths: four loom widths of: silk, cotton and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; embroidered with silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton in back and straight stitches; laidwork and couching; embellished with metal-backed glass mirrors; and two loom widths of cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk, cotton, gold leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton and gold-colored metal strip, in  back, double running, split, stem, and surface satin stitches; laidwork and couching; embellished with metal-backed glass mirrors

country: Sumatra

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Sumatra


title: Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (Tapis)

creator: Indonesia, South Sumatra, Lampung

medium: Cotton, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strip wrapped cotton, and silver-on-adhesive-coated-paper-strip wrapped cotton, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave with supplementary pile wefts; fulled and (      ) felt; embellished with gilt-metal coils on cotton and gilt-metal spangles

subjects:
Indonesia
Needlework (visual works)


title: Skirt Cloth (Kain panjang)

creator: Pesisir

medium: Cotton, plain weave; wax resist dyed (batik); edged with gilt-metal-strip wrapped cotton and silk, bobbin lace; and embellished with fragments of ----- and cotton, plain weave

country: Java

subjects:
Weaving - printed
Java


title: Paperweight

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

medium: Glass

country: Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche

subjects: Paperweight Saint-louis-lès-bitche

credit_line: Gift of Arthur Rubloff


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Clichy Glassworks (Cristalleries de Clichy)

country: Clichy

subjects: Paperweight Clichy


title: Paperweight

creator: European, possibly English

country: England

subjects: Paperweight England


title: Paperweight

creator: George Bacchus and Sons

country: Birmingham

subjects: Paperweight Birmingham


title: Handcooler

country: Saint-Louis

subjects: Paperweight Saint-loui


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Baccarat Glassworks (Cristalleries de Baccarat)

country: Lunéville

subjects: Paperweight Lunéville


title: Paperweight

creator: American

country: United States

subjects:
Paperweight
United state


title: Paperweight

creator: Val St. Lambert Co.

country: Liège

subjects: Paperweight Liège


title: Paperweight


title: Doorknob


title: Paperweight

subjects: Lampwork Lunéville


title: Doorknob


title: Paperweight

date: Mid 19th century

country: France

subjects: Paperweight France


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: England


title: Paperweight

date: Late 19th century


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: French


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Possibly Bohemian

country: Czech Republic

subjects:
Paperweight
Czech republic


title: Seal

creator: Gilliland Glass Manufactory

country: New York City

subjects:
Paperweight
New york city


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: New England Glass Company


title: Paperweight

subjects:
Sulphide (glass)
Saint-louis-lès-bitche


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Boston and Sandwich Glass Company

country: Sandwich

subjects: Paperweight Sandwich


title: Paperweight

creator: English


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Czech Republic, Bohemia

country: Bohemia

subjects: Paperweight Bohemia


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Unknown


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Pietro Bigaglia (Italian, 1786-1878)

country: Italy

subjects: Paperweight Italy


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

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


title: Doorknob


title: Paperweight

subjects: Glass France


title: Box


title: Paperweight


title: Handcooler


title: Paperweight

country: Baccarat

subjects: Glass Baccarat


title: Paperweight

medium: Glass, sulphide

subjects: Glass Lunéville


title: Paperweight

creator: Clichy Glassworks (Cristalleries de Clichy)

subjects: Paperweight Clichy


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

subjects: Paperweight England


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

subjects: Paperweight Saint-louis-lès-bitche


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Possibly France or Czech Republic


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Mount Washington Glass Co.

country: New Bedford

subjects:
Paperweight
New bedford


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

subjects:
Paperweight
United state


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: George Bacchus and Sons

subjects: Paperweight Birmingham


title: Paperweight

creator: France or Czech Republic

credit_line: Arthur Rubloff gift


title: Paperweight

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur Rubloff


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Baccarat Glassworks (Cristalleries de Baccarat)

subjects: Paperweight Baccarat


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: European, possibly English


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

creator: Possibly France or United States

subjects: Paperweight France


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight

date: late 19th century


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Vase


title: Handcooler


title: Doorknob


title: Paperweight


title: Paperweight


title: Bottle

creator: Islamic

date: 7th-12th century

credit_line: Gift of Julius and Augusta Rosenwald


title: Gaming Goblet with Glass Dice

creator: Probably Bohemia, Czech Republic

date: Late 17th century

medium: Glass; blown with wheel engraved decoration

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Bohemia
Ships & the sea


title: Large Beaker (Humpen)

creator: Bohemia, Czech Republic


title: Bottle

date: Early 18th century

subjects: Glass Bohemia


title: Beaker (Zwischengoldglas) Incorporating Three Dice

medium: Glass with engraved gold leaf decoration


title: Beaker

date: 18th century


title: Bottle


title: Goblet

creator: Germany, Nuremberg

country: Nuremberg

subjects: Glass Nuremberg


title: Beaker

creator: Schleswig, Germany

country: Schleswig

subjects: Glass Schleswig


title: Stirrup Glass (Sturzglas)

creator: Riesengebirge, Bohemia


title: Goblet with Cover

creator: Germany, Lauenstein

medium: Glass with gilding

country: Lauenstein

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Lauenstein
Ships & the sea


title: Goblet

creator: Germany

country: Germany

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Germany
Ships & the sea


title: Sweetmeat Dish

creator: Germany, Schleswig

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
Schleswig
Ships & the sea


title: Goblet


title: Covered Goblet (Pokal)

creator: Germany, Potsdam or Berlin

medium: Blown and molded glass with engraving and applied medallion


title: Tumbler with Cover

creator: Germany, Potsdam

country: Potsdam

subjects: Glass Potsdam


title: Goblet with Cover

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Potsdam
Ships & the sea


title: Tankard

creator: Potsdam, Germany

medium: Ruby glass with silver-gilt mounts

country: Southern Germany

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Southern germany
Ships & the sea


title: Beaker (Humpen)

medium: Blown glass with polychrome enamel decoration


title: Beaker (Humpen)

creator: Germany, Saxony

medium: Glass with enamels

country: Saxony

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Saxony
Ships & the sea


title: Beaker

creator: Samuel Mohn

medium: Glass; colorless, blown, transparent enamels and gilding


title: Beaker

creator: Saxony, Germany


title: Sugar Caster

creator: Silversmith: Elias Adam (German, 1669-1745)


title: Goblet (Pokal)

creator: Georg Schwanhardt

medium: Glass and silver

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Nuremberg
Ships & the sea


title: Beaker

creator: Nuremberg, Germany


title: Winged Glass (Flügelglas)

creator: Germany, or Southern Netherlands


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Potsdam, Berlin, Germany

medium: Blown ruby glass with engraved decoration and silver gilt mounts

country: Berlin

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Berlin
Ships & the sea


title: Beaker with Prunts and Metal Rings

creator: German

medium: Green glass, base metal


title: Drinking Cup (Maigelein)

medium: Green glass

subjects: Glass Germany


title: Cup

date: 16th to 17th century


title: Beaker

date: 17th to 18th century


title: Box

medium: Amethyst glass and gilt bronze mounts


title: Bottle

creator: Germany, Cologne

date: Late Medieval Period

country: Cologne

subjects: Glass Cologne


title: Covered Tankard

creator: Southern Netherlands

medium: Glass with pewter mounts

country: Netherlands

subjects: Glass Netherland


title: Stirrup Glass (Sturzglas) with Silver Armilary Sphere Incorporating Dice

creator: Netherlands, Antwerp

country: Antwerp

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Antwerp
Ships & the sea


title: Goblet with Peasant Dancers and Musicians

creator: Probably engraved by Willem Mooleyser

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Netherland
Ships & the sea


title: Tankard

creator: Germany

medium: Glass with silver cover


title: Beaker

medium: Glass; blown, enameled, gold and silver foil decoration


title: Box Fragment

creator: Teotihuacan

medium: Wood, stucco, and pigment

country: Valley of Mexico

subjects:
Wood
Valley of mexico

credit_line: Gift of Hanoh Charat


title: Carved Box Incised with Figures, Birds, and Textile Patterns

creator: Chancay

medium: Wood

country: Peru

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Wood
Peru
Birds

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Vessel Incised with Panels of Textile-like Motifs

creator: Inca

country: Southern Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wood
Southern peru
Ships & the sea


title: Long Tube, Possbly for Lime, in the Form of an Animal

subjects: Wood Peru


title: Spoon with Long-Tailed Puma on Handle

creator: Possibly Inca

country: Nievería

subjects: Wood Nievería


title: Incised and Painted Container for Lime with Carved Stopper

creator: Probably Ica

medium: Gourd with leather and string

country: Peruvian South Coast

subjects:
Vessel
Peruvian south coast
Ships & the sea


title: Lime Container with Snake Skin Wrapping

medium: Gourd with wood, snake skin, wool

subjects:
Vessel
Peru
Reptiles & amphibians
Ships & the sea


title: Basket

creator: Pomo

medium: Plant fibers

country: California

subjects: Botany Basketry California

credit_line: Hugh Leander and Mary Trumbull Adams Memorial, Wentworth Greene Field Memorial, and Mrs. Siegfried G. Schmidt funds; Samuel P. Avery, Capital Campaign General Acquisitions, Highland Park Associates, Irving and June Seaman endowments


title: Pipe Bowl and Effigy Stem

creator: Artist unknown (Southern Cheyenne, Tsistsistas)

medium: Wood and catlinite

country: Central Plains

subjects:
Pipe
Central plain

credit_line: Gift of the Powell Family in memory of their parents Father Peter Powell and Virginia Raisch Powell


title: Pipe Bag

creator: Lakota

medium: Deer hide, porcupine quills, tin cones, horsehair, and glass and metal beads

country: Wyoming

subjects: Beadwork Wyoming


title: Pipe Bag

creator: Artist unknown (Cheyenne, Tsistsistas)

medium: Leather, glass beads, and sinew

country: Great Plains

subjects:
Beadwork
Great plain


title: Pipe Bag

creator: Artist unknown (Arapaho, Hinono’ei)

medium: Hide, glass beads, porcupine quills, horsehair, and dye

subjects:
Beadwork
Central plain


title: Balance-Beam Scale Insided with Bird, Fish and Geometric Motifs

creator: Possibly Ica

subjects: Fish Wood Peru Birds

credit_line: Buckingham Fund


title: Basket

creator: Mountain Maidu

country: Northern California

subjects:
Botany
Basketry
Northern california

credit_line: Through prior gifts of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wielgus; through prior acquisition of the Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Berry-Gathering Basket

creator: Weaver unknown (Klikitat)

medium: Plant fibers and hide

country: Columbia Plateau

subjects:
Botany
Basketry
Columbia plateau
Fruits

credit_line: African and Amerindian Curator's Discretionary Fund


title: Birchbark Pail

creator: Probably Penobscot

medium: Birchbark

country: Maine

subjects:
Vessel
Maine
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Wirt D. Walker Fund


title: Twined Basketry Bowl

creator: Sally Burris (Pomo, 1840-1912)

credit_line: Charles H. and Mary F. Worcester Collection Fund


title: Coiled Storage Basket with Serrated-line Design

medium: Natural vegetable fibers with pigment

subjects: Basketry California

credit_line: Bequest of Alan R. Brodie


title: Mirror

creator: Siena, Italy

medium: Walnut, glass, and gilding

country: Siena

subjects: Mirror Siena

credit_line: Gift of Martin P. Levy in memory of his father, George J. Levy


title: Cushion-Framed Mirror

creator: England

medium: Frame of walnut and pine (secondary), with marquetry of ebony, rosewood, holly, and other woods

country: England

subjects: Mirror England

credit_line: Gift of Emily S. Hulbert


title: Isaiah Temple, Chicago, Illinois, Alternate West Elevation

creator: Dankmar Adler

medium: Black and brown ink on linen

country: Chicago

subjects:
Architecture
Architectural drawing
Chicago

credit_line: Gift of Friedman, Alschuler and Sincere


title: Isaiah Temple, Chicago, Illinois, West Elevation


title: Isaiah Temple, Chicago, Illinois, Organ Screen Plan and Elevation

medium: Black and brown ink on linen with pencil notations

country: United States

subjects:
Architecture
Working drawing
United state

credit_line:
Gift of Friedman, Alschuler and Sincere
1980


title: Isaiah Temple, Chicago, Illinois, Organ Screen Detail


title: Lion Attacking Horse

creator: Italy

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (faience)

country: Italy

subjects:
Tin-glazed ware
Italy

credit_line: Gift of Catherine Oglesby


title: Bust of Shakespeare

creator: Wedgwood Manufactory

date: Late 18th century

medium: Stoneware (basaltware)

country: Burslem

subjects: Sculpture Burslem

credit_line: The Frank W. Gunsaulus Collection of Old Wedgwood


title: Pan Sitting on a Vase

creator: Frederick William Pomeroy (English, 1857–1924)

medium: Bronze

subjects: Statuette England

credit_line: Bequest of Chester D. Tripp


title: Fire Bellows

creator: Turkey

date: Ottoman dynasty (1299–1923), 18th/early 19th century

medium: Tortoise shell, ivory, leather, copper, and brass

country: Turkey

subjects:
Ornament & design
Decorative arts
Turkey
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Friends of Indian and Islamic Art of the Art Institute of Chicago


title: Nuihaku (Noh Costume)

creator: Japan

date: Momoyama period (1568–1615), 16th century

medium: Silk, plain weave; patterned with resist dyeing, impressed gold leaf, and embroidered with silk in satin, single satin, surface satin, and stem stitches; couching; lined with silk, plain weave; center back panels of silk, warp-float faced 3:1 twill weave self-patterned by areas of plain weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Charles H. Worcester


title: Landscape

creator: Wang Yuanqi (Attributed to)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China
Landscapes

credit_line: Russell Tyson Purchase Fund


title: Jar with Handles

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Earthenware Japan

credit_line: Robert Allerton fund


title: Piled Up Strange Peaks

creator: Qian Feng 錢灃

date: Qing dynasty (1644 –1912), 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects:
Hanging scroll
China

credit_line: Russell Tyson Endowment Fund


title: European Banquet Scene (or The Marriage Feast at Cana?)

creator: India

date: Mughal period, c. 1600

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

country: India

subjects:
Miniature painting
India

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Beauty Holding a Flower

date: Mid–17th century

medium: Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper

subjects:
Miniature painting
India
Flowers


title: Album Page with Two Sheikhs

creator: India and Iran

date: Safavid dynasty (1501-1722) and Mughal empire (1526-1857), 16th/17th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper


title: Prince Riding in Chariot Drawn by Goats


title: Asavari Ragini, page from a Garland of Musical Ragas (Ragamala) Set

date: Mid–to late 17th century

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper


title: Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

country: Avadh

subjects:
Miniature painting
Avadh

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Memorial


title: Portrait Medallion: Anne of Austria and her Son, the future King Louis XIV

creator: Attributed to Jean Warin, II (French, 1607–1672)

medium: Patinated bronze

country: France

subjects: Medal France Portraits

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Dr. Maxwell Reed Mowry and Mr. and Mrs. George O. Klotter; and the Russell Tyson Fund


title: Duke of Orléans

creator: Antoine Etex (French, 1808–1888)

medium: Marble

subjects: Bust/head France

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Tiffany Blake and Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: The Actor Iwai Sagenta I

creator: Attributed to Torii Kiyonobu I

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; hosoban, tan-e

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Lovers Leaving a Room

creator: Attributed to Sugimura Jihei

medium: Woodblock print; oban, sumizuri-e


title: Nakanocho in the Yoshiwara

creator: Attributed to Okumura Masanobu

medium: Hand-colored woodblock print; o-oban, beni-e


title: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva with Assembly

creator: Korea

date: late 16th/early 17th century

medium: Ink and color on hemp cloth

country: Korea

subjects: Painting Korea

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Fund


title: Susaki, from the series "New Perspective Pictures (Shin uki-e)"

creator: Shotei Hokuju

medium: Color woodblock print

subjects: Print Japan


title: Library of a Chinese Residence (Tokan shobo no zu)

creator: Artist unknown

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

credit_line: Bequest of Henry C. Schwab


title: Okina, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

creator: Tsukioka Kogyo

medium: Color woodblock print; triptych oban


title: Inro Decorated with the Animals of the Zodiac

creator: Koma Kyuhaku

date: 19th century

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan


title: Hagoromo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Shojo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Takasago, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right: 1943.833.4b)


title: Seio-bo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kumasaka, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Yu-ya, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Shakkyo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right: 1943.833.9b)


title: Soshi-arai Komachi, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Aoi no Ue, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kinuta, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Matsukaze, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Ikari-Kazuki, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kagekiyo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Sotoba Komachi, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Ataka, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right: 1943.833.14b)


title: Senju, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Ama, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kokaji, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

medium: Color woodblock print; oban diptych


title: Sumidagawa, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Oba-sute, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Shunkan, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Sakuragawa, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kagetsu, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Tsuru-kame, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Arashiyama, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Mochizuki, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Futari Shizuka, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Dojoji, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Fuji Taiko, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Funabashi, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kogo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

medium: Color woodblock print; right sheet of oban diptych (left: 1943.833.31b)


title: Hana-gatami, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Semimaru, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Hashitomi, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Hachi no Ki, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Sagi, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Uto, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Sessho-seki, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Sanemori, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Yashima, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Oeyama, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Momijigari, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right: 1943.833.42a)


title: Ohara-gokô, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Chikubushima, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Mekari, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Yamamba, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Yumi-Yawata, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kurama Tengu, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right: 1943.833.49b)


title: Kantan, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Tori-oi-bune, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Index Sheet, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Yoro, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Izutsu, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Ryo-ko, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Yoshino Tennin, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: To-sen, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kazuraki, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Taema, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Atsumori, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Fujito, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Atago Kuya, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Miidera, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Michimori, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Higaki, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Cho Ryo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Hyakuman, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Hashi Benkei, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kanehira, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Hanjo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Sumiyoshi-Mode, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Saigyo-zakura, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Tsuchi-gumo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Toru, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Scene of a No Drama: The Gold Charms, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Asukagawa, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Rasho-mon, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Hibari-yama, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kosode Soga, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Ema, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Toboku, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Adachiga Hara, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Tamura, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Index Sheet, , from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kayoi Komachi, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Omu Komachi, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Eboshi-ori, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Yokihi, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Awaji, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Tatsuta, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Nue, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Mitsu-yama, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Ebira, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Take no Yuki, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Genzai Shichimen, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Tomonaga, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Miwa, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Motome-zuka, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Teika, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Ukai, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Ikkaku Sennin, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Kogo, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of oban diptych (right: 1943.833.31b)


title: Kasuga Ryujin, from the series "One Hundred No Dramas (Nogaku hyakuban)"


title: Two Poppies

creator: Yokoyama Seiki

date: c. early 1820s

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

credit_line: Charles H. Mitchell Collection unrestricted gift


title: Mountain with Pine and Maple Trees

creator: Tanaka Shutei

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Trees


title: Bush Warbler Perched on a Signboard alongside a Bamboo-fenced Plum Garden

creator: Shibata Zeshin


title: Multitudes of Cranes

creator: Bokushin

date: spring 1863


title: Floating Shojo

creator: Chomu


title: Celebration: Bunraku chanter takes a new stage name

creator: Chogaku


title: Shamisen and Box

creator: Yabu Chosui


title: Clam Shells

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Shells & molluscs


title: Snowy Rabbit


title: New Year Gift

creator: Kamata Gensen


title: Actor on Kite

creator: Sato Hodai


title: Shoki Banner

creator: Matsukawa Hanzan


title: Zodiac Surimono

creator: Indai


title: Tiger

creator: Jujoen


title: Takemoto-School Surimono

creator: Nagayama Kien


title: Moon Viewing

creator: Yoshimura Koichi


title: Village in Cherry Blossom Forest

creator: Koseki Hisashi

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers


title: Tangerine and Chinese Legend

creator: Kosei

date: spring 1871


title: A Court Carriage


title: Egoyomi Daikoku

creator: Choshuntei Naokage


title: Mount Horai

creator: Kosetsu Ogino


title: Bamboo

creator: Yagi Oshuku


title: Folded Surimono with Kite

creator: Nakajima Raisho


title: Fish and Bamboo

creator: Maezawa Otei

subjects:
Fish
Woodblock print
Japan


title: Bamboo and Wreath


title: Tenman Shrine Bell

creator: Nakagawa Rogetsu


title: Wating for the Master

creator: Saika


title: Shamisen and Rat

creator: Imoto Rosui

date: spring 1864


title: Smoking Dragon

creator: Moriki Rosetsu


title: Seal and Cherry Blossom

creator: Sekkei


title: Meiji Dance Recital

creator: Sessei


title: Rabbit and Fish

creator: Shiko

date: spring 1855


title: Camellia

creator: Shokyo


title: Plums and Biwa

creator: Tanomura Shosai


title: Parrot and Bells

creator: Tanaka Shutei


title: Rice-Pounding Rabbit


title: Parrot and Fans


title: Egoyomi with Rabbits

creator: Soshu


title: Toy Centipede

creator: Unknown Artist


title: Boy Riding a Toy Horse

creator: Komatsubara Suiko


title: Meeting of a Poetry Club

creator: Fujii Teisa

medium: Color woodblock print, surimono


title: Almanac

creator: Matsui Toka


title: The Monkey Seal

creator: Osa Toho

date: spring 1884


title: The Cup of Long Life

creator: Shibata Zeshin

date: spring 1883


title: Clouds of Prince Genji

date: summer 1885


title: Poetic Travel

date: 1st month, 1883


title: Dragon head halberd


title: Bamboo Poetry Sheet

date: fall 1860


title: A Branch of White Plum Blossoms in a Porcelain Vase, with Two Carved Stone Seals

creator: Haruki Nanmei

subjects: Print Japan Flowers


title: Memorial Surimono

date: 2nd month, 1883


title: Man Holding Cherry Blossom Branch and Love Letter


title: Ship paintings

creator: China

date: mid 19th century

medium: Opaque and translucent watercolor on pith paper

country: Guangdong

subjects:
Painting
Guangdong
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Mrs. Clark C. Wright gift in memory of Clark C. Wright


title: Spinning Cloth, Preparing Tea Leaves, Preparing Silk

date: Early 19th century

medium: Watercolor on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lepman


title: School of Fish

creator: Soga Shōhaku 曾我 蕭白 (Japanese, 1730–1781)

date: Mid- to late 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects:
Fish
Hanging scroll
Japan

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Alsdorf Foundation


title: Bottle vase

creator: Korea

date: 12th/13th century

medium: Glazed stoneware with inlaid decoration

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Bequest of Russell Tyson


title: Handwritten Letter

creator: Soga Shōhaku 曾我 蕭白

medium: Two hanging scrolls, ink on paper

credit_line: Through prior gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel M. Nickerson


title: Flowers of Autumn and Winter

creator: Suzuki Kiitsu

medium: Six panel screen; ink, colors and gold leaf on paper

subjects: Screen Japan Flowers

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Miss Faith Wyatt


title: High Ranking Courtesan

creator: Mihata Jōryū 三畠上龍 (Japanese, active 1830–43)

medium: Ink, color, and gold on silk

subjects:
Hanging scroll
Japan

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Endowment


title: The Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô II (1689-1758)

creator: Katsukawa Shunsho 勝川 春章

date: 1788 (inscription 1829)

medium: Hanging scroll; Ink and colors on silk

credit_line: Frederick W. Gookin Collection


title: Standing Beauty in Blue Kimono

creator: Kaigetsudo Doshu

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Roger L. Weston


title: A Beauty Behind a Screen

creator: Miyagawa Chôshun

date: About 1750

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk

credit_line: Avery Brundage, Frederick and Nathalie Gookin, Samuel M. Nickerson and Louise Lutz Endowments


title: Pair of Shoes

creator: England

medium: Leather, silk, damask weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Ogden Armour through the Antiquarian Society


title: Pair of Shoes

medium: Silk, damask weave, and leather


title: Pair of Shoes

creator: Dixon Clement & Dixon (English, c, 1700s)

medium: Leather and kid


title: Pair of Shoes

creator: Probably France or Netherlands

medium: Leather, silk, satin weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France


title: Pair of Shoes

medium: Leather and kid; silk tassels


title: Pair of Shoes

medium: Leather, silk, damask weave; brocaded


title: Pair of Shoes

medium: Silk, compound weave, with buckles and guimpe


title: Pair of Shoes with Buckles and Pattens (Overshoes)

medium: Leather, silk and wool, compound weave


title: Architectural Strut with the Dikpala, Isana, Standing on a Bull

creator: Nepal

date: 17th century

medium: Wood with traces of red pigment

country: Nepal

subjects: Architecture Wood Nepal

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Architectural Strut with the Dikpala, Vayu, Standing on a Deer


title: Cross

creator: Possibly France

date: 19th century

medium: Glass or crystal with metal mounts

subjects:
Jewelry
France
Minerals & gems

credit_line:
Gift of Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne for 29.130 - 29.131 & a.

*Gift of Mrs. E. C. Chadbourne


title: Candelabra

medium: Clear and blue glass, gilding and brass mounts

subjects:
Candleholder - candlestick
England

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Josephine P. Albright


title: Candelabra

medium: Clear and blue glass, gilding and bronze mounts


title: Pair of Candelabra

medium: Glass and brass

subjects:
Candleholder - candelabra
England

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. John L. Kellogg


title: Candelabrum

creator: Made by Matthew Boulton

medium: Derbyshire fluorspar and gilt bronze with tortoiseshell veneered wood

country: Birmingham

subjects:
Candleholder - candelabra
Birmingham

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Medard W. Welch


title: "Rock Crystal" Vase

creator: Thomas Webb & Sons

medium: Glass

country: Stourbridge

subjects:
Vase
Stourbridge
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Harry and Maribel G. Blum, Richard T. Crane, Jr., Memorial, and Rosenwald Glass endowments


title: "Well Spring" Carafe

creator: Designed by Richard Redgrave

medium: Blown glass with enamel and gilt decoration

country: Lambeth

subjects: Glass Lambeth

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Oak Park/River Forest Associates


title: Bottle

creator: Germany

date: Mid 19th century

medium: Glass; blown, painted with polychrome enamels and silver mount

country: Germany

subjects: Glass Germany

credit_line: Gift of Julius and Augusta Rosenwald


title: Toasting Fork

creator: England, Bristol or Stourbridge

country: Bristol

subjects:
Fireplace equipment
Bristol

credit_line: Purchased from Mrs Robert Harvey, Chicago Dec. A. Sundry Acc. includes 1 - 3.


title: Poker

credit_line: Purchased from Mrs Robert Harvey, Chicago Dec. A. Sundry Acc. includes 1-3.


title: Fire Tongs

credit_line: Purchased from Mrs. Robert Harvey, Chicago Dec. A. Sundry Acc. includes 1 - 3.


title: Inkwell

creator: Whitefriars Glasshouse

medium: Glass; blown with millefiori canes

country: London

subjects: Glass London

credit_line: Gift of Charlotte Vern Olson


title: Candelabra

medium: Glass; colorless and dark blue, blown and cut, gilded bronze

country: England


title: Epergne

medium: Glass; colorless, free blown and cut

subjects: Glass England

credit_line: Mr. & Mrs. Leigh B. Block, gift in honor of the Centennial of the Antiquarian Society


title: Tall Goblet or Vase

medium: Glass; engraved

subjects: Vase England

credit_line: Gift of Harry Root


title: Vase

creator: England, Stourbridge

subjects: Vase Stourbridge

credit_line: Harry and Maribel G. Blum Endowment; J. and A.N. Rosenwald Fund; Rosenwald Glass Endowment; Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Varley


title: Covered Vessel with the Principal Bird and Peccary Heads

creator: Early Classic Maya

medium: Ceramic and pigment

country: Guatemala

subjects:
Vessel
Guatemala
Birds
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Joanne M. and Clarence E. Spanjer and African and Amerindian Curator's Discretionary funds; O. Renard Goltra and National Docent Symposium endowments; African and Amerindian Art Purchase Fund; David Soltker and Irving Dobkin endowments


title: Willow Bridge and Waterwheel

creator: Hasegawa Soya

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

subjects: Screen Japan

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham and Frederick W. Renshaw endowments


title: Page from a Qur'an Manuscript

creator: Probably Tunisia, Qayrawan

date: 10th century

medium: Ink and gold on parchment

country: North Africa

subjects:
Calligraphy
North africa

credit_line: Logan-Patten-Ryerson Collection


title: Shallow Bowl

creator: Fez, Morocco

date: Late 19th century

medium: Earthenware with blue over white slip ground under a transparent glaze

country: Morocco

subjects: Bowl Morocco

credit_line: Gift of Samuel A. Marx


title: Square Tile

creator: Morocco

medium: Buff pottery with polychrome painting over white glaze

subjects: Ceramic Morocco


title: Square Tile

subjects: Earthenware Morocco


title: Water Filter with an Elephant Figure

creator: Islamic; Fustat (now Cairo), Egypt

date: Fatimid dynasty (969–1171), 11th/12th century

medium: Earthenware with pierced and incised decoration

country: Old Cairo

subjects:
Ceramic
Old cairo

credit_line: Gift of Logan-Patten-Ryerson Collection


title: Water Filter with Geometric Design


title: Water Filter with Floral Design

subjects:
Ceramic
Old cairo
Flowers


title: Caudle Cup with Cover and Stand

creator: England

date: 19th century (Reproduction); 1664/65 (Original)

medium: Silver

subjects:
Drinking vessel
England
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Richard T. Crane Jr. Memorial Fund


title: Paperweight

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

country: Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche

subjects: Paperweight Saint-louis-lès-bitche

credit_line: Gift of Arthur Rubloff


title: Chalice

creator: Italy

country: Italy

subjects: Silver Italy

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Charles Zadok


title: Pair of Candlesticks

subjects:
Candleholder - candlestick
England

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Keith in memory of Alfred E. Hamill


title: Footed Salver

creator: Possibly John Sutton

subjects: Silver England

credit_line: Decorative Arts Purchase Fund


title: Caudle Cup with Cover

creator: Arthur Manwaring

subjects:
Drinking vessel
London
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stanley Keith


title: Teapot

creator: Johann Köpping

medium: Silver gilt and wood

country: Saint Petersburg

subjects:
Teapot
Saint petersburg

credit_line: Bequest of Bertha C. Loomis


title: Ewer

creator: Richard Morrell

medium: Silver gilt

subjects:
Ewer (vessel)
London
Ships & the sea


title: Chalice and Paten

creator: London, England

subjects: Silver London

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Bowl

creator: China

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

medium: Jun ware; stoneware with light blue and purple glaze

country: China

subjects: Bowl China

credit_line: Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: Artist unknown (Chinese)

date: Yuan dynasty (1260–1368) or Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

medium: Album leaf; ink and colors on silk

subjects:
Album leaf
China
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Covered Tripod Jar

date: Tang dynasty (618–907), first half of 8th century

medium: Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes

subjects: Ceramic China


title: Jar

subjects: Earthenware China


title: Armored Guardian

date: Tang dynasty (618–907), late 7th or early 8th century

medium: Buff earthenware with polychrome and gilding

credit_line: Gift of Russell Tyson


title: Conical Bowl with Blossoming Plum

creator: China, Jiangxi province

date: Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)

medium: Jizhou ware; glazed light gray stoneware with reserved papercut decoration


title: Battle Scene

creator: French

medium: White wax

country: France

subjects:
Wax portrait
France
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred E. Hamill


title: Pair of Casters

creator: Paul de Lamerie

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Exo


title: Goblet-Shaped Ewer

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William C. Brown


title: Wine Taster

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Eric Oldberg through The Antiquarian Society


title: Sauceboat

creator: Peter Archambo I

subjects: Sauceboat London

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deering McCormick


title: Quaich

creator: Glasgow, Scotland

country: Glasgow

subjects: Silver Glasgow

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harold T. Martin through The Antiquarian Society in honor of Mrs. Edgar J. Uihlein.


title: Jar in the Form of an Erotic Scene

creator: Chimú-Inca

medium: Ceramic

country: Peruvian North Coast

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Blackware (black basaltes)

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Coffer

creator: Russia or England

medium: Malachite, gilt bronze, steel, and velvet

country: Russia

subjects: Metalwork Russia

credit_line: Mrs. John J. Kellogg bequest


title: Miniature Kovsh

creator: Fabergé Workshop

medium: Bowenite and gold

country: Moscow

subjects: Gold Moscow

credit_line: Estate of Maribel G. Blum


title: Wide-Blade Knife with Two Seated Figures on Top

creator: Inca

medium: Copper

country: Alti Plano

subjects:
Metal
Alti plano


title: Pillbox

medium: Jade and gold

subjects:
Stone
Saint petersburg


title: Miniature Box with Lid in the form of an Egg and Stand

medium: Nephrite and gold mounts

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barancik


title: Cigarette Case

creator: Peter Carl Fabergé

medium: Silver, silve gilt, and enamel

subjects: Silver Moscow

credit_line: Mrs. Clive Runnells Memorial Fund


title: Cigarette Case

medium: Silver gilt, gold, enamel, diamonds, and rubies

subjects:
Accessorie (object genre)
Saint petersburg


title: Italian Peasants Resting

creator: Bartolomeo Pinelli (Italian, 1781–1835)

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Statuette Italy

credit_line: Harriott A. Fox Endowment


title: Centaur Abducting a Nymph

creator: Attributed to Francesco Fanelli (Italian, active c. 1608–1661)

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Siegfried Schmidt


title: Portrait Bust of an Unknown Man

medium: Painted terracotta

subjects: Bust/head France Portraits

credit_line: Richard T. Crane Jr. Memorial Endowment


title: Project for a Monument to a General

creator: Artist unknown (French, active 19th century)

medium: Wood and plaster

subjects: Sculpture France

credit_line: Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and the Estate of Roger McCormick [exchange of 1970.468]


title: Death Mask of Napoleon

creator: Dr. C. Francesco Antommarchi (Italian, 1780–1838)

date: Modeled 1821, cast 1833

country: Paris

subjects: Bust/head Pari

credit_line: Estate of E. Blake Blair


title: Saint George Slaying the Dragon

creator: Emmanuel Fremiet (French, 1824–1910)

subjects: Statuette France

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur Rubloff


title: The Massacre of the Innocents

creator: Francesco Bertos (Italian, active 1693–1733)

subjects: Relief Italy

credit_line: Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson


title: Napoleon Entering Cairo

creator: Jean Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: George F. Harding Collection


title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

creator: Cambodia, possibly Ta Prohm of Tonle Bati, Ta Keo province

date: Angkor period,  late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Cambodia

subjects:
Stone (unidentified)
Cambodia

credit_line: Samuel M. Nickerson Fund


title: Joan of Arc

creator: Henri Chapu (French, 1833–1891)


title: La Pensée

creator: Henri Chapu (French, 1833 1891)

subjects: Relief France

credit_line: Gift from the Edward A. and Inge Maser Collection


title: The Amazon

creator: Franz von Stuck (German, 1863–1928)

date: Modeled 1897, cast after 1907

country: Germany

subjects: Statuette Germany

credit_line: Gift of Daniel and Louise Bronoski


title: Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

creator: German; Rhenish, or South Netherlandish

medium: Painted walnut, gilding

country: Rhineland

subjects: Statuette Rhineland


title: Saint Syra

creator: French; Troyes

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Large scale
France

credit_line: Gift of Helen Swift Neilson


title: The Savoyard

creator: Jacques Dumont

medium: Etching on cream laid paper

subjects: Etching France

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


title: Church at Montigny-Sur-Loing, France, Travel Sketch

creator: George Washington Maher

medium: Ink on heavy paper

country: United States

subjects:
United state
Drawing (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Violet Wyld and the Kenilworth Historical Society


title: Sta. Maria della Salute, Venice, Italy, Travel Sketch

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
United state


title: Title Page and Front Cover of a Buddhist Manuscript with Manjusri (left) and Mantramanudharani, a Pancharaksha Goddess (right)

creator: Mongolia

date: 17th/18th century

medium: Wood, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, with silk border and dust cover

country: Mongolia

subjects:
Pen and ink drawing
Mongolia

credit_line: Margaret Gentles Fund


title: Final Page and Back Cover of Buddhist Manuscript With Four Guardian Kings


title: Royal Chair (Akonkromfi)

creator: Asante

date: Probably mid–/late 19th century

medium: Wood, brass, and leather

country: Ghana

subjects: Wood Ghana

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Jamee J. and Marshall Field


title: Cauliflower Tureen

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Factory (c. 1744–84)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels

country: Chelsea

subjects: Porcelain Chelsea

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chester W. Chapin and Annette Maltby Chapin in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry Chapin


title: Fragment

creator: Chancay

medium: Cotton and camelid wool; plain weave edged in slit tapestry weave with eccentric wefts

country: Peru

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peru

credit_line: Kate S. Buckingham Endowment


title: Cushion Cover

creator: Manchu

medium: Silk and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with interlaced outlining wefts; painted details; lined with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Russell Tyson


title: Pendents (For Bed Curtains)

medium: Silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts bound in weft-float faced 1:3 'S' twill interlacings

credit_line: Gift of the Orientals


title: Pendent (For Bed Curtain)


title: Parasol

creator: Produced by Gorham Manufacturing Company (Probably Handle) (American, Founded 1831)

medium: Black Chantilly lace overy ivory taffeta. Lined with thin white silk; wood handle in form of rustic sitck; folding handle; steel tubing frame

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
France

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Stole

creator: France, Calais or Lyon

medium: Silk, Pusher machine lace


title: Border

creator: Italy, probably Abruzzi

medium: Linen, bobbin straight lace

country: Italy

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy


title: Fragment

creator: Italy, probably Venice

medium: Simple satin damask, brocaded


title: Half Shawl

creator: Probably France, Bayeux

medium: Silk, bobbin straight lace (made in vertical strips)

country: Bayeux

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Bayeux


title: Jacket

creator: Probably England

medium:
Silk and mohair, Pusher machine lace with silk, warp frame machine border, and cotton, plain weave undersleeves edged with cotton crochet border; lined with silk, warp-float faced 7:1 satin weave
closures: silk wrapped cotton cordius + crochet cording

country: England

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
England


title: Horse

creator: China

date: Tang dynasty, (A.D. 618–907), 1st half of 8th century

medium: Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glazes

country: China

subjects: Earthenware China

credit_line: Partial Gift of Rose Movius Palmer


title: Saint Policarpus from Lives of the Heiligenleben, Sommerteil (Saints, Summertime), Plate 2 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century

creator: Unknown Artist (Augsburg, 15th century)

date: 1475, portfolio assembled 1929

medium: Woodcut in black with hand-colored additions, and letterpress in black (recto and verso), on cream laid paper

subjects: Woodcut Germany

credit_line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund


title: Saint Wilbolt from Heiligenleben, Winterteil (Lives of the Saints—Wintertime), Plate 3 from Woodcuts from Books of the 15th Century

medium: Woodcut in black with hand-colored additions, and letterpress in black (recto and verso), on cream laid paper, tipped onto cream wove paper mat


title: Aristotle and Phyllis

creator: Master M.Z.

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper

subjects: Engraving Germany

credit_line: Clarence Buckingham Collection


title: View of Crossing in Saint Peter's

creator: Follower of Louis Jean Desprez

medium: Pen and black ink and brush and black and gray wash, with touches of brown and yellow watercolor and graphite, on ivory laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper

country: France

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
France

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Bathsheba, from A Collection of Prints in Imitation of Drawings

creator: William Wynne Ryland (British, 1732-1783)

date: 1764, published 1778

medium: Crayon manner printed in red on cream laid paper

subjects: Engraving England

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Isaac K. Friedman


title: Partisan

creator: Italian

medium: Steel, wood (pine), iron, velvet, and tassel

subjects:
Edged weapon-staff
Italy

credit_line: George F. Harding Collection


title: Narwhal Tusk

creator: Northern European

date: 16th/17th century (?)

medium: Ivory

country: Northern Europe

subjects:
Arms and armor, miscellaneous
Northern europe


title: Corsesca

medium: Steel, leather covered wood, latten (copper alloy), brass, and tassel


title: Ahlspiess

creator: European

medium: Steel, wood (chestnut), and brass

country: Europe

subjects:
Edged weapon-staff
Europe


title: State Halberd

creator: German, Saxony

medium: Steel, iron, wood, velvet, and attached tassel

country: Saxony

subjects:
Edged weapon-staff
Saxony


title: "Eared" Spear

creator: Viking, possibly Swiss

date: 10th/11th century, possibly 13th/14th century

medium: Steel and oak

country: Switzerland

subjects:
Edged weapon-staff
Switzerland


title: Halberd

creator: German

date: late 17th to early 18th century

medium: Steel, wood (ash), and brass

subjects:
Edged weapon-staff
Germany


title: Halberd

creator: German or Swiss


title: Halberd

creator: German (Saxony)

medium: Steel, wood, and velvet


title: Poleaxe

date: 19th century in the late medieval style

medium: Steel and wood


title: Spontoon of the Holstein Regtiment

creator: Swedish

medium: Steel and wood (ash)

country: Sweden

subjects:
Edged weapon-staff
Sweden


title: Partisan

creator: Northern Italian

date: late 16th century

medium: Steel, wood, brass, velvet weave, and attached tassel

country: Northern Italy

subjects:
Edged weapon-staff
Northern italy


title: Hanging

creator: Eastern India

date: 19th century

medium: textile

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India

credit_line: Gift from Mrs. Roy E. Sturtevant


title: Halberd

medium: Steel and wood (oak)

country: Germany


title: Officer's Half-Pike (Spontoon)


title: Partisan

creator: French

date: early 17th century

medium: Steel, wood (oak), and iron

subjects:
Edged weapon-staff
France


title: Bill (Roncone)

creator: Northern Italian, Milan

date: early 16th century

country: Milan

subjects:
Edged weapon-staff
Milan


title: State Halberd

medium: Steel, brass, wood, and velvet weave, attached tassel


title: Rapier with Extendable Handle

subjects:
Edged weapon-sword
Germany


title: Vase

creator: France, Nancy

medium: Glass

subjects: Vase France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Cyrus Bentley


title: Bowl

subjects: Bowl France

credit_line: Gift from Mrs. Cyrus Bently, Chicago for Study collection


title: Vase

creator: Nancy Daum Glassworks (French, founded 1875)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Castle in memory of her parents Vacia and Charles D. Duncan


title: Clutha Vase

creator: Designed by Christopher Dresser (English, born Scotland, 1834-1904)

medium: Blown glass

country: Glasgow

subjects: Vase Glasgow

credit_line: Richard T. Crane, Jr. Endowment


title: Stand with St. John Nepomuk

creator: Bohemia, Czech Republic

country: Bohemia

subjects: Glass Bohemia

credit_line: Gift of Julius and Augusta Rosenwald


title: Vase

creator: France

credit_line: Gift of David Adler


title: Candlestick with Madonna and Child

medium: Glass with gilt bronze mounts

subjects:
Candleholder - candlestick
Bohemia


title: Bowl

creator: Ireland

country: Ireland

subjects: Bowl Ireland


title: Claret Glass

creator: England, Sussex

date: Early 19th century

country: Sussex

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Sussex
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Presented by Mrs. G. Herbert Jones


title: Tankard (Trick Glass)

creator: Czech Republic (Formerly Bohemia)

subjects:
Drinking vessel
Bohemia
Ships & the sea


title: Goblet

creator: England

date: Late 18th century

subjects:
Drinking vessel
England
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Julius Rosenwald


title: Goblet

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Robert Allerton, Chicago


title: Carafe

creator: Possibly Normandy, France

date: 18th century

medium: Glass; non-lead

subjects: Glass France

credit_line: Gift of Barbara and David Morowitz, In Honor of Richard Marcus


title: Water Glass

subjects: Glass Sussex


title: Sin Mi (Woman's Funerary Skirt)

creator: Tai Neua

date: Late 19th century

medium: Silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; resist dyed; edged with cotton and silk, plain weave

country: Laos

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Laos

credit_line: Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowment


title: Susanna and the Elders

creator: English

medium: Silk, wool, and linen, slit, and single interlocking tapestry weave, with eccentric wefts; and metal strip-wrapped-silk outlining wefts

country: England

subjects:
Weaving - tapestry
England

credit_line: Gift of Neville and John Bryan


title: Fragment

creator: East India, Assam

medium: Silk, plain weave with plain interlacings of secondary binding warps

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
India

credit_line: Gift of the James D. Tigerman Estate


title: Portrait of Eye of a Lady

creator: Artist unknown (English, active 19th century)

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects:
Miniature painting
England
Portraits

credit_line: Mary Louise Stevenson Fund


title: Portrait of Louis XIV in armor

creator: Attributed to Pierre Bordier (French, active 17th century)

subjects:
Miniature painting
France
Portraits


title: Portrait of a Man in Armor

creator: D.M. (English, active 1663-1676)


title: Headrest (Isicamelo)

creator: Swazi

medium: Wood and pokerwork

country: Eswatini

credit_line: African Decorative Arts Fund


title: Portrait of Duchess of Gloucester

creator: Ozias Humphry (English, 1742–1810)

date: Late 18th–early 19th century

medium: miniature painting

credit_line: Colonel Alexander F. and Jeannie C. Stevenson Memorial Collection


title: Portrait of Edith Mildmay

creator: William Grimaldi (English, 1751–1830)


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: Thomas Flatman (English, 1637–1688)

date: Late 17th century


title: Portrait of Mary of Modena

creator: Attributed to Nicholas Dixon (English, c. 1645–after 1708)

medium: Watercolor on vellum


title: Portrait of a Lady

creator: George Engleheart (English, 1752–1829)


title: Portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart (1688-1766)

creator: Nicolas Prévost (French, active 17th century)

country: France


title: Portrait of Andrew Burnside

creator: Attributed to George Place (English, after 1775–1809)


title: Portrait of Nell Gwynne (supposedly)

creator: Peter Cross (English, c. 1645-1724)


title: Portrait of a Young Child


title: Portrait of Charles I

creator: After John Hoskins the Elder (English, c. 1590-1665)


title: Portrait of Edmund Rodney Pollesfen Bastard (1825-1856)

creator: William Ross (English, 1794–1860)


title: Portrait of Lady Bridget Poulett

creator: James Nixon (English, baptized 1741, died 1812)


title: Portrait of a Lady

creator: Horace Hone (English, 1756–1825)


title: Portrait of Prince Potemkin

creator: Attributed to Johann Baptist Lampi, I (Austrian, 1751-1830)

country: Austria

subjects:
Miniature painting
Austria
Portraits


title: Portrait of Marianne, Marchioness Wellesley

creator: Simon Jacques Rochard (French, 1788–1872)


title: Portrait of an Officer

creator: Thomas Day (English, 1732–1807)


title: Portrait of Mrs. Kegan

creator: Charles Shirreff (English, c. 1750–c. 1831)


title: Portrait of Jean Lambert Tallien

creator: Georges Antoine Keman (French, 1765–1830)


title: Mask

creator: Ibibio

date: Unknown

medium: Wood

country: Nigeria

subjects: Wood Nigeria

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Wielgus


title: Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun)

creator: Yoruba

medium: Wood and pigment

subjects: Mask Nigeria

credit_line: Tillie C. Cohn Endowment Fund


title: Ritual Vessel

creator: Inland Niger Delta region, Mali

date: 12th /17th century

medium: Terracotta

country: Mali

subjects:
Earthenware
Mali
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Claire B. Zeisler