title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Horses

medium: Lacquer, roiro, gold togidashi, nashiji, raden inlay; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Fireworks celebrating the peace between France and the Empire, January 1698

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

medium: Etching

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Bowl

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze, iron red and gold, colored enamels (Arita ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Uçetek Entari

date: 18th–early 19th century

medium: Cotton, silk, metal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Hamlin Shaw, 1955


title: Doncaster Fair or the Industrious Yorkshirebites

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Dagger with Sheath

date: ca. 14th–15th century

medium: Iron, silver

country: probably Central or West Asian

subjects:
Dagger
Probably central or west asian

credit_line: Purchase, Kenneth and Vivian Lam Gift, 2004


title: Frontispiece for the Society of Aqua-Fortistes

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

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


title: Louis XVI as the Benefactor of Surgery

creator: Esprit Antoine Gibelin

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

credit_line: Purchase, Mary Oenslager Fund and funds from various donors, 2018


title: Right Protect

date: September 1, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 18r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Raffaello Maffei (1456–1522)

creator: Silvio Cosini

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Edwin L. Weisl Jr. and Barbara Weisl, 1992


title: Rod

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Portrait of a Young Man

creator: Hans Memling

medium: Oil on oak panel

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Cushion Cover (Yastik)

date: 17th century

medium: Silk, cotton, metal wrapped thread; cut and voided velvet, brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Three designs for decorative borders

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; slip painted and glazed

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


title: Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Pincushion

creator: André Aucoc

medium: Silver gilt, mother-of-pearl, red velvet

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Doorway (one of a pair)

medium: Pine frame painted grey, red; blue and parcel-gilt mahogany door

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Fragment

date: mid-16th century

medium: Linen and wool

credit_line: Gift of H.A. Elsberg, 1928


title: Grave Monument with Cross, No. 731

creator: Alexander Maxwell

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Fragment of a Frieze with Bust of a Saint

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Emotion

creator: Charles Bazin

medium: Lithograph

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


title: A cow, seen from the front

creator: Adam von Bartsch

medium: Etching; third state of three (Rieger)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Cabinet Design

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite

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


title: Length

date: first half 20th century

medium: Silk / Plain weave crepe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Knud Nielsen, in memory of Walter Freudenfels, 1965


title: Distant View of the Cedars of Lebanon

creator: Francis Frith

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Pendant

medium: Gold

credit_line: Purchase, 1897


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Brougham #3775a

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Hanging depicting a European conflict in South India

date: before 1763

medium: Cotton, plain weave (drawn and painted, mordant and resist dyed)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and dyed

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Louis V. Bell Fund; Larry and Ann Burns and Brett and Sara Burns Gifts, in honor of Austin B. Chinn; and Austin B. Chinn and Joseph Conforti and Douglas Jakubowski Gifts, 2014


title: Crown Imperial (Fritillaria imperialis), from "Les Liliacées"

creator: Pierre Joseph Redouté

medium: Color stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Kathy and Michael Mouron, in honor of W. Graham Arader III, 2018


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragment of a hydria (water jar)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Reverse Copy of Jésus Comparait Devant Caiphe (Jesus Appears Before Caiaphas), from La Petite Passion (The Little Passion)

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching

credit_line: Museum Accession, Anonymous Gift, 1972


title: Cup and Saucer

date: 18th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Mahapratisara, the Buddhist Protectress

date: 10th century

medium: Black stone

country: India, Bihar

subjects:
Sculpture
India, bihar

credit_line: Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Gift, 1991


title: Small oval table

creator: Claude-Charles Saunier

medium: Satinwood and tulipwood

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


title: Earring, boat-shaped

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Situla

date: 600 BCE–CE 100

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Entombment

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: The Duke and his troops at Casalmaggiore, from "L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]"

creator: Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis)

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


title: Parrot (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain


title: Cup

date: mid 6th–5th millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Ubaid

credit_line: Gift of Oxford University, by exchange, 1949


title: Design for a Coat of Arms

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


title: Shoe buckles

medium: Metal

country: possibly British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous gift, 1956


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: James Peale

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Cover with three ring handles

date: 3rd–2nd century BC

medium: Gilt bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Cosmetic Spoon in the Shape of a Tilapia with Water Lilies

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Rowel Spur (Left)

date: early 16th century

medium: Iron, copper alloy

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Spoon

creator: Henricus Boelen

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Edith Holden, 1967


title: Ice cream cup (tasse à glace) (one of thirty-one) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: John Irwin, 3rd Base, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Cicada Stream (Semi no Ogawa)  蝉小川

creator: Hasegawa Myōtei 長谷川妙躰

medium: Set of three woodblock printed books; ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Shoes

creator: J. & J. Slater

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of C.J. Vincente Minetti, 1972


title: Cup

medium: Gold plate

country: Scythian

subjects: Scythian Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Purchase, 1885


title: Bronze, Constantine I, 323 A.D., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Glass beaker with inscription

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1959


title: Harness Ornaments

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Iron, gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Equestrian equipment
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, by exchange, 1906


title: Tile

creator: J. and J. G. Low Art Tile Works

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Adeline R. Brown, by exchange, 1977


title: Six Designs for Decorated Cups

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

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


title: Eyeglass Case with Banner and Books

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk and metallic thread tapestry (kesi), with some painted detail

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Column

creator: Maya artist(s)

medium: Limestone, pigment

country: Maya

subjects: Stone-sculpture Maya

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1963


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: From Sir William Hamilton's Collection

creator: James Gillray

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Gift of Philip van Ingen, 1942


title: Vase fragment

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Orage causé par l'Impôt sur le Thé en Amérique

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Ewer

date: late 8th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Designs for Three Planters, Three Candelabras, a Dish and a Serving Tray

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Disk

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Relief fragment from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape?

date: 6th century BCE?

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


title: Lace sample

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mme. Chatron, 1906


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Spoon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Gold pin with bud finial

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Design for an Overmantel or Door with a Variant

medium: Brush and brown wash with traces of crayon

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


title: Bowl

medium: Earthenware; painted and glazed

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Balamuth, 1968


title: Ferdinand de Neufville

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; third state of six (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Orme Wilson, 1963


title: Bronze charioteer

date: ca. 500 BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1957


title: Buckle

date: 12th century

medium: Bronze, patina

country: French, Haute-Savoie

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French, haute-savoie

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Well, are you finally finished?... after all, it's tiring to relax for such a long time, from "The countryside artists"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: February 2, 1865

medium: Lithograph on newsprint

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; incised, glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Gold roundel of bulbous form

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Spring

creator: Cephas Giovanni Thompson

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Madeleine Thompson Edmonds, 1971


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Wedding ensemble

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. W. E. Leever, 1941


title: Messenger Badge

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Tobacco box

medium: Brass and copper

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: Fantail Pigeon, from the Birds of America series (N37) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Study of a Bird

creator: Riza-yi 'Abbasi

date: dated 1043 AH/1634 CE

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

subjects: Codice Birds

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and Rogers Fund, 1985


title: Pater Patriae

medium: Oil on glass

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1964


title: Cuffs

medium: Applied

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Design for Knife Handles with Ovals Containing Fortitude and the Death of Lucretia

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving and blackwork

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1921


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Marble stele (grave marker) of Lysistrate

medium: Marble, Pentelic

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: L'Auberge (The Inn), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of four (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Water buffalo with boy

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Tortoiseshell ware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1940


title: Magic Wand

medium: Hippopotamus ivory

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


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

creator: Charles Percier

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

subjects: Architecture Album

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


title: Cap

medium: cotton, silk, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Expedition 1920 & 1921, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1921


title: Openwork furniture plaque with sphinx striding through a floral landscape

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

subjects: Assyrian Flowers Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Card 31, from the Girl Cyclists series (N49) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Angel

date: second half 18th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: Benjamin Trott

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Earring

date: ca. 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Silver, gold

country: Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Parrot on Branch of Blossoming Tree

creator: Unidentified artist

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

country: China

subjects: Painting China Trees

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Candlestick

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Cover

date: first half 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of I. Everson Winslow, 1951


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fertility goddess with floral band

creator: Mexica artist(s)

medium: Stone

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Mexica (aztec)
Flowers

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


title: Furniture element

date: ca. 18th century BCE

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork

creator: Mathais Beitler

date: after 1616

medium: Engraving and blackwork

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Title Page, Divers Anticke Faces

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; second state of two (NH)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Basket

medium: Brown ash splint, wood, pigment

country: Quinnipiac (?)

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


title: Casket

date: first half 16th century

medium: Wood

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Gisella

creator: Umberto Boccioni

medium: Drypoint, printed in brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Lydia Winston Malbin, 1989


title: Passage from an Inscription on Trust in the Mind (Xinxinming)

creator: Jiun Onkō

date: late 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll: ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2023


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: The Early Residence of the Dutch, Opposite Nagasaki

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Saint-Cloud factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes, 1924


title: Collection des Prix que la ci-devant Académie d'Architecture proposoit et couronnoit tous les ans.

creator: Prieur

medium: Printed book with hand colored etchings

subjects: Architecture Book

credit_line: By exchange, Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University, 1968


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Drawers

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: Wool, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969


title: Le Désespoir des Bouchers, from Actualités, published in Le Charivari, November 21, 1857

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: November 21, 1857

medium: Lithograph; third state of three (Delteil)

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


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


title: Study of a Nude Young Girl

creator: August Xaver Karl von Pettenkofen

medium: Brush and brown wash over black chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Half-hour sandglass

medium: Gilded silver, gilded bronze, glass, sand

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1912


title: Horses Driven to a Fair

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Fruit dish (Compotier ovale) (one of two) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Fruits

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Venus

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on medium weight off-white fibrous wove paper; first state of two (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Administrative Seal

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Four Friends of Calligraphy: Lady Komachi

creator: Yashima Gakutei

date: 19th century

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Domus Augustiana, cornice, profile projection (recto) Ara Grimani, base (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Dark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Mark J. Millard Gift, 1968


title: The Gun Boat Candidate, At the Battle of Malvern Hill

creator: Louis Maurer

credit_line: Gift of  A. S. Colgate, 1952


title: Hippopotamus amulet

medium: Limestone (pink)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Neptune Calming the Tempest Raised Against the Fleet of Aeneas

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bowl

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Cream and blue marbled beaker in "zwischengold" glass technique

date: early 18th century

medium: Lacquered and gilt double-walled glass (zwischengold) imitating polished, variegated marble

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


title: Sir Henry Spelman (Henricus Spelmannus Eques Auratus)

creator: William Faithorne the Elder

medium: Engraving; second state (after the addition of inscription on the tablet)

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Apron

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Thompson, 1952


title: Minerva and Mercury Arming Perseus

creator: Jan Muller

medium: Engraving; New Holl.'s third state of three

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Corset

medium: cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1987


title: Oriental Jasper Vase

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1917


title: Design for an Ewer, table and candelabra within an ornamental frame

creator: Abraham Drentwett the Elder

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash. Incised for transfer.

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund,1952


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pair of lappets

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum, 1953


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Gilded, open work,  cameo embossed paper, chromolithography, colored paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Scene in the Yoshiwara

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

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

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 3rd–8th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Whistling Double Spout and Bridge Bottle

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Salinar (?)

subjects: Salinar Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1976


title: Ring

date: ca. 9th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Jar Lid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Simon François Ravenet

creator: Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: The Belgian Wagon (Plaustrum Belgicum), from "The Large Landscapes"

creator: Johannes van Doetecum I

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: [Portrait of Yale University Confectionery Worker]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2023


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Phoenix Flying Over a Paulownia Tree

creator: Isoda Koryūsai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Cup-Hilted Rapier

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects: Sword Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund. 1904


title: Sweatshirt

medium: Bamboo and lacquered silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-woven

credit_line: Gift of William E. Colby, 1945


title: Apron

date: probably 19th century

medium: wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: "She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd": plate 3 from Othello (Act 1, Scene 3)

creator: Théodore Chassériau

date: etched 1844, reprinted 1900

medium: Etching, engraving, roulette, and drypoint on chine collé; second edition (Gazette des Beaux-Arts)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: The Actor Ichimura Uzaemon IX

creator: Kitao Shigemasa

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


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Four doors with trims and one set of entre-portes

creator: Jean François Cuvilliés the Elder

medium: Wood, painted, carved and gilded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Cap

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Adele F. Emerson, 1931


title: Virgin and Child with Saint John of the Cross (?), Saint Sebastian, and Saint Peter of Alcantara

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Chamber Music Group

creator: Joseph Wolins

medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of New York City W. P. A., 1943


title: Garment Plaque in the Shape of a Wild Boar

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Northwest China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china

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


title: Bowl (one of a pair)

medium: Painted enamel

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Nativity

creator: Master IQV

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1996


title: Duke of Wellington

creator: Benedetto Pistrucci

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


title: Bridge in Snow

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 10th century

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

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Illustration design for "The Economy of Human Life"

creator: Frank Howard

medium: Watercolor

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


title: Reclining Man in a Mountainous Landscape with Waterfalls

creator: Johann Georg von Dillis

date: 18th–early 19th century

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

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2008


title: Jug with coat-of-arms of the Cleminius Family

creator: Abraham Helmhack

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Bequest of Helga Kramarsky, 2020


title: Johannis Van Kouwenhoven

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Grace Kouwenhoven, 1948


title: Farmington

creator: Samuel Colman

medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1973


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Sutra Cover

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Centaur with a Club, and Two Satyrs

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and dark brown wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Passementerie

date: 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ornament

date: ca. late 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Temperance (Temperantia), from "The Virtues"

creator: Philips Galle

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Poseidon Painter

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Saucer (part of a set)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Glass beaker

date: mid-1st–early 2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: L'Emplette Inutile

creator: Nicolas de Launay

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1983


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


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


title: Christ in Limbo; Christ walking down to the arched gateway to Limbo on the right, on the left a group of people including Moses, John the Baptist, Adam and Eve, from "The Passion of Christ", after Dürer

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Crochet Work

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


date: late 6th century/early 5th century


title: Pharmacy Jar

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Belt Buckle

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Iron, silver inlay, bronze

country: Frankish or Burgundian

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
Frankish or burgundian


title: Earring with plain loop and disc

medium: Gold

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Chalcedony, white

credit_line: Gift of Frederic Newlin Price, 1959


title: Dress

medium: cotton, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn and Mrs. Alice Lewisohn Crowley, 1944


title: Spoon

creator: Leonhard Rothaer I

date: late 17th century

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: [Yosemite National Park, California]

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Design for Panel Decoration Centered on a Passion Flower

creator: J. Hulme

medium: Watercolor, pen and black ink

subjects: Drawing Flowers

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


title: Building

creator: Cesare Nebbia

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Base

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Lead

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Donation Stela of Osorkon I dated to year 6

date: ca. 930 BCE

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Fibula, boat-shaped type

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Blade and Mounting for a Sword (Katana)

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

medium: Steel, wood, silver, iron, copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper, gold

country: Japanese

subjects: Sword Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Brayton Ives and W. T. Walters, 1891


title: Glass eye bead

medium: Glass


title: Shell Ornaments

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Female Figure

date: 3rd century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Chupicuaro

subjects: Chupicuaro Ceramics-sculpture


title: Terracotta fragments of a hydria (water jar)

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Netsuke of Turtle Crawling over a Rock

medium: Ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Alvin H. Schechter, 1985


title: Animal pendant

medium: Gold

country: Central American Isthmus

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Central american isthmus

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1974, 1977


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3277

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Dish

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Clarinet in B-flat

creator: Gautrot aîné

medium: various materials

country: French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Portal of the Temple of Romulus and Remus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Turquoise Glass Bottle with an Onion Shaped Body

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass, turquoise; dip-molded, blown, applied greyish foot ring and decoration

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


title: Towel border

medium: Linen, silk

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


title: Design for a Grotesque Decoration

creator: Luzio Luzzi (also known as Luzio Romano, Luzio da Todi)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Relief from the temple of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906


title: Statuette

date: 17th century

medium: Mud

country: China

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Pottery Rattle

medium: Clay

subjects: Idiophone-shaken-rattle Mexican


title: Morning dress

medium: cotton

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1975


title: Sealing

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


title: Insscribed Stone from Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

medium: Quartzite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Allegorical Figure Representing Metaphysics

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Fresco, transferred to canvas

subjects: Mythology Painting

credit_line: Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943


title: Bowl

medium: Pewter

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Card Number 38, Olga Brandon, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Two-handled pharmacy or storage jar with arms of the Orsini family and profile head of a man

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Tobacco box

creator: I. H. Becker

date: 18th century

medium: Brass, copper

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Close-Helmet

creator: Kunz Lochner

medium: Steel, leather

country: German, Nuremberg

subjects:
Helmet
German, nuremberg

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Theodore Offerman, in memory of her husband, 1939


title: Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

country: German

subjects: German Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Incense burner

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Earthenware with remnants of pigments

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Chinese Young Lady

creator: François Boucher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta statuette of a dancing girl

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Vase

medium: Bronze; cast with pierced decoration

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of George Blumenthal, by exchange, 1982


title: Augustine Heard & Co. Bungalow, Bangkok, Siam

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Standing Ceramic Figure

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Ceramic

subjects: Moche Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


title: Group of Seven Horses

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


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


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)


title: The Virgin Protectress of the City of Siena

creator: Francesco Vanni

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

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1962


title: Snuff bottle with design of coins

date: 19th century

medium: Glass

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Pair of feet

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Portrait of an Old Man

creator: Francisco Domingo y Marqués

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Martha T. Fiske Collord, in memory of her first husband, Josiah M. Fiske, 1908


title: Landscape with Farmhouse

creator: Boetius Adams Bolswert

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Anthracite Mirror

date: before 16th century

medium: Anthracite

country: Mexico (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Mexico

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


title: [Member of the Paris Commune: Hortense David, pointeuse à la Porte Maillot dans l’artillerie des fédérés, à perpétuité]

creator: Ernest Eugène Appert

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Denise Bethel, in honor of Etta Henley Bethel, 2017


title: Design for a Wall Fountain

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Lombard, 16th century

medium: Pen and gray-brown ink over leadpoint or graphite; framing lines in lead point or graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Case (Inrō) in the Shape of an Ink Stick with Design of God of Longevity (Jurōjin), Reading beneath a Star Constellation (obverse);Twelve-Character Inscription (reverse)

creator: Shibata Zeshin

medium: Roiro (waxen) lacquer with black hiramakie sprinkled and polished lacquer and takamakie sprinkled and polished lacquer relief; Interior: roiro; Netsuke: lacquer in shape of a worn ink stick; Ojime: black lacquer bead

subjects: Astronomy Inrō Japan

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


title: Fan

date: early 18th century

medium: Parchment, tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl and gold

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa oki nami ura), or The Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan


title: Bag

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lucien, 1983


title: The Town Wall of Regensberg

creator: Johann Christoph Erhard

medium: Etching; fourth state

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


title: Maniple

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk; metal; linen

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Last Judgment

creator: Pieter van der Heyden

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Border

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, bobbin lace, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1947


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Fire tool

date: third quarter 16th century

medium: Bronze, iron

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Portrait of a Man Reading

creator: Baron Dominique Vivant Denon

date: 18th–early 19th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Garden of Cursive Drawings (Ryakuga-en) 略画苑

creator: Kuwagata Keisai 鍬形蕙斎

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013


title: Clipper Ship "Great Republic"

creator: James E. Buttersworth

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Bag

date: last quarter 17th century

medium: copper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1930


title: Entry of Charles V into Munich, June 10, 1530

creator: Sebald Beham

date: 16th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954


title: Musician

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Rapier

date: late 16th century

medium: Steel, leather

subjects: Sword German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Mirror

medium: Glass, silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1944


title: Medal

medium: Metal

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Hand Pendant

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Stone-ornament Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: View of Mount Suskan  (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Tile from a Frieze

date: 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; molded, glazed

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


title: Simon 2e; Lesage; Belmare; Balzon

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Tea jar with cover

medium: (Iga ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Sampler

date: late 19th century

medium: Wool on canvas

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


title: Female Dancer with a Fan

date: perhaps 18th century or 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese Persons Beneath Pine Trees and Clouds

medium: Lacquer, dark brown ground, red, brown, green applied lacquer; Interior: dark brown lacquer

subjects: Inrō Japan Trees

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


title: Angel of the Annunciation

medium: Mud-wackestone with traces of polychromy

subjects: Sculpture-stone Italian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1967


title: Bronze statuette of a Scythian mounted archer

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan, Campanian

subjects:
Bronze
Etruscan, campanian

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Whistle

medium: Wood

country: Kuba

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Kuba

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2007


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Copy of A Roma encampment [formerly known as Le Halte des Bohémiens: Les Apprêts du Festin (The Gypsy Stopover: The Preparations for the Feast), from "Le Bohémiens, série appelée aussi Les Égyptiens, La Marche des Bohémiens, La Vie Errante des Bohémiens, Les Marches Égyptiennes" (The Gypsies, series also called The Egyptians, The Gypsy Troops, The Wandering Lives of Gypsies, The Egyptian Troops)]"

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: The Mildmay Sea-Piece (Liber Studiorum, part XIII, plate 40)

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching only; before first state of four

credit_line: Gift of Mary  W. Tweed, 1925


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Pendant in the form of a rosette with acorn, 5

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Bowl

medium: Blown glass with applied decoration

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Banner with staff

date: 18th century

medium: Wood; brass; fabric

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Terracotta bell-krater (mixing bowl)

creator: Python

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Paestan

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, paestan

credit_line: Purchase, Jane Blaffer Owen Gift, in memory of Sarah Campbell Blaffer, 1976


title: Cap crown

date: second quarter 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 1888


title: Bells

date: 1st millennium BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Spear Jr., 1978


title: Segment from a bronze fibula (safety pin)

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Amber, bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Miscellaneous-amber Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Arrowhead

medium: Sandstone, chert or flint

country: Japan

subjects: Stone Japan

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


title: He was a regular on the front lines..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Thomas Joseph "Tom" O'Rourke, Catcher, Jersey City Skeeters, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Scarab

medium: Green feldspar

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


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: A Tavern at Monte Testaccio

creator: Jacob Wilhelm Mechau

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Sichel, 1966


title: Pair of Candelabra

creator: Tiffany & Co.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2024


title: Madonna

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Black chalk highlighted with white chalk on light brown paper

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Flintlock Longrifle

creator: Samuel Baum Sr.

medium: Steel, wood (curly maple, ash), brass, silver, bone

country: American, New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania

subjects:
Firearms-guns-flintlock
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Marion Eppley, 1956


title: Spindle whorl

medium: Faience


title: Hecube, Fredegonde, Ieanne Reyne de Naples, and Berthe, from "The Game of Queens" (Le Jeu des Reines Renommées)

creator: Stefano della Bella

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Cruet and soy frame

creator: Thomas Watson and Co.

medium: Sheffield plate, glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1946


title: Plate

date: 19th century

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Zurna

medium: Wood, metal, cord, reed

country: Turkish

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
Turkish

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Glass aryballos (perfume bottle)

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

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


title: Jug beak

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Album Containing Twelve Paintings of People Making Silk

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album of twelve leaves; color on pith paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Mary E. Cornell, 1958


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Rural Sports, A Milling Match

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 29, 1811

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Screen and Lady's Work-Box

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Joined Fragments

date: 14th century

medium: Silk (satin); brocaded with silk and metal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Title page, from "The History of Johnny Quae Genus, The Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax"

medium: Letterpress


title: Wine cup

creator: Jeffery Prescott

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Two Torchères

creator: Juan Dolivar

medium: Etching and engraving


title: Hercules carrying his club

creator: Niccolò Roccatagliata

date: possibly 17th century or later cast

medium: Bronze, on a later stone base

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Snow Bunting, from the Birds of America series (N37) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Callot dwarf

creator: Cozzi Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Irwin, 3rd Base, Washington, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen print photograph, cabinet card


title: Sketch of Clouds and Terrain (from Sketchbook VII)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Seated Woman in Profile after Antique Bas Relief

medium: Etching

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


title: [George Vicat Cole]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Burgonet

medium: Steel, leather

country: German

subjects: Helmet German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Cup

medium: Gold plate

country: Scythian

subjects: Scythian Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Purchase, 1885


title: Open Here I Flung the Shutter, from "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Transfer lithograph; final state of five

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Visitors with Torches Inside a Circular Building

creator: Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Hoüel

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash, heightened with touches of white, over traces of black chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971


title: Fragment of a Tunic with a Serpent Motif Shoulder Band

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Au Bon Marché-Comptoir des Modes, Chapeaux de Dentelles et de Crêpe, Été 1891

medium: Wood engraving


title: Coffeepot

creator: Tudor and Leader

medium: Sheffield plate, wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: 6th century/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Horse

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Wineglass

creator: David Wolff

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Card Number 246, Charlotte Tittell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Saucer

creator: Vienna

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


title: Strainer spoon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Head of Guanyin

medium: Wood

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Miss Natalie Hays Hammond and Miss Phyllis Connard Williams, in memory of Miss Alice D. Laughlin, 1953


title: Bonnet

creator: Best & Co.

medium: Straw, silk, wood, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward Haynes, 1950


title: Chasuble

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1952


title: A standing figure of a Bes-image

medium: Gold

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


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

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


title: The Flight into Egypt: Crossing a Brook

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching, engraving and drypoint

credit_line: Bequest of Julia H. Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1960


title: Arm at shoulder, Aten cartouches

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Design for 2 seat Phaeton, no. 3097

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black in, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Head of a Child, from Livre de Têtes Gravées d'apres F. Boucher et Autres (Book of Heads Engraved after F. Boucher and Others)

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Console Table

creator: John Henry Belter

medium: Rosewood, marble

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Max H. Gluck Foundation Inc. Gift, in honor of Virginia and Leonard Marx, 1999


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Michigan Class

date: late 6th century BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Fragments of a cart or chariot, S-shaped braces

medium: Bronze, Iron

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


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

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


title: Hinagata chō (Model Book)

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Jean de Mesgrigny

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Carnations and amaranthus

creator: Yun Shouping

medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; color on paper

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


title: Blade for a Straight Single-Edged Sword (Chokutō)

date: ca. 7th century

medium: Iron

subjects:
Sword blade
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, by exchange, 1906


title: Tray

creator: Michel-Toussaint Viot

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: One of a Set of Twelve Chair Strips

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry-George McNeary, 1966


title: Roundel

date: 6th century

medium: Linen, wool

credit_line: Gift of Albert Eugene Gallatin, 1965


title: Harmony in Yellow and Gold: The Gold Girl—Connie Gilchrist

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of George A. Hearn, 1911


title: Barbe

date: second half 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Miniature cruet with cover

creator: S. A.

medium: Silver

credit_line: The Joseph M. and Aimee Loeb May Collection, 1963


title: Prick Spur

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

country: Celtic

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Celtic

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Wineglass with Catherine II of Russia

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Warrior

creator: Tsurana

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Earring-hook type

medium: Gold

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Belt Buckle Loop

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Iron, silver inlay

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Tenjin Traveling to China

creator: Konoe Nobutada

date: late 16th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Ostracon with hieratic inscription

medium: Limestone, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Covered Beaker

creator: Hans Greiff

medium: Silver, gilded silver, enamel, and glass

subjects: Metalwork-silver German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1950


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware, gaudy dutch

country: British (American market)

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


title: The Eritrean Sibyl, from "Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel"

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

medium: Engraving; second state of five (BLL)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Tuhfat al-Ahrar (The Gift to the Noble)

creator: Maulana Nur al-Din `Abd al-Rahman Jami

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen canvas


title: Pietro Piantanida of Milan

date: 16th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Abraham Lincoln

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Warner Communications Inc. Purchase Fund, 1976


title: Teabowl

medium: Roughly moulded, showing wheelmarks; fawn-colored clay, light gray glaze almost to the foot; design of daikon (large radish) in brown outlines with leaves in brown and blue (Awata ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: The Three Roads

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Hyderabad)

subjects:
Painting
India (hyderabad)

credit_line: Gift of Jeffrey Paley, 1975


title: Court attendant with eben (ceremonial sword)

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Edo people

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


title: Bracket

date: 18th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Hydria

creator: Perth Group

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Gift of L. P. di Cesnola, 1876


title: Textile Design with Alternating Horizontal Garlands of Branches with Abstract Swirls and Rosettes Flanked by Stylized Leaves and Framed by an Interlaced Ornamental Motif

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Glass jug

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Dish

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (delftware)

credit_line: Purchase, Anita M. Linzee Bequest, 1937


title: Toilet box

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Netsuke of Cranes in a Lotus Pond

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory with metal disc

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Sealing fragment

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Grand Parterre du Jardin de la Royne mere a Luxembourg, in "Traité du Jardinage selon les Raisons de la Nature et de l'Art"

creator: Michel van Lochom

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Broadsheet relating to a ballad about camp life hardships for women, woman wearing a dress with her hands on her hips

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on pink paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Curtain

creator: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1996


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Earthenware; slip-covered, incised, painted and glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Am Meer, from the series Intermezzi

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Prints

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of R. Milton Mitchell Jr. and F.J. Peplow, by exchange, 2007


title: Necklace with Inset Stones and Braided Wire

date: 8th–early 10th century

medium: Gold with stones and wire

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Plate 3: Portrait of Ferdinand Cardinal Infante of Spain, in military armor; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

creator: Jacobus van Schoor

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Anthony Bleecker

creator: Joseph Wood

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of James and Genevieve Bleecker, 2003


title: An Angel Trampling a Skeleton, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler

creator: Theodor de Bry

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones


title: Pair of tripod candlestands (torchères)

creator: François de Cuvilliés the Younger

medium: Carved and gilded pine

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


title: Bowl with Green, Yellow, and Brown Splashed Decoration

date: 10th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Study of a Seated Male Nude

creator: Philipp Otto Runge

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Black and white chalk

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2008


title: Ornamental Design with a Mask and an Eagle between Two Fauns below

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Fibula, bow-shaped

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Evening Glow on a Traveling Drama  [Chinese watching a Kabuki play]

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

date: 1st month, 1861

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Inscribed Pot Fragment

medium: Pottery, whitewash, ink

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


medium: Terracotta

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


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


title: Atalanta and Meleager

creator: Peter Paul Rubens

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: “Hanaōgi of the Gomeirō,” from the series Comparing the Charms of Beauties (Bijin kiryō kurabe: Gomeirō Hanaōgi)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

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


title: Arrowhead

date: 2nd–1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Jerome M. Eisenberg, 1962


title: Pelgrom. Elise (femme Schouppe). Deux photographies, dont une légendée: Reprod. faite 22/2/93.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Rectangular Plaque

date: middle of 6th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Carl Gustave Carus (1789–1869), Saxon physician, man-of-letters, and painter

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze, cast - single

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: S. Ignace, martyr (St. Ignatius, Martyr), February 1st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Feast Days of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Dish (part of a service)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: model introduced 1738

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Rosenberg and Stiebel Inc., 1948


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Insertion

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Melchizadek offering bread and wine to Abraham

creator: Battista Franco

medium: Etching and engraving; third state

credit_line: Gift of Miss Helen J. Baker, 1937


title: Spear Heads

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Towpath

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Carl Fredrik Liljevalch

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; fourth state of five

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1917


title: Christiana Stille Keen

creator: Matthew Pratt

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Maria Jesup Fund, 2008


title: Handle

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass

country: Coptic

subjects: Glass-vessel Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Libel Hunters on the Lookout, or Daily Examiners of the Liberty Press

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Bowl

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Pictures with Letters

creator: Iwasa Matabei

medium: Fourteen figures on seven folded sheets; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

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


title: Scarab of an Official

medium: Green glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Console table (one of a pair)

medium: Wood, partly gilded and painted; marble

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Joint stool

medium: Soft maple

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: The Upturned Head of a Young Boy in Profile

creator: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white on gray paper

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: After Sweet Meat Comes Sour Sauce, or Corporal Casey Got into the Wrong Box

date: November 30, 1810


title: Male Figure Running (recto); Three Pen Studies of Male Heads (verso)

creator: Micco Spadaro (Domenico Gargiulo)

medium: Pen and brown ink (recto); three pen studies of male heads (verso)

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Syrian Goats and Bird

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

subjects: American Birds

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Landscapes of the Twelve Months

creator: Gong Xian

medium: Album of twelve painting leaves; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1980


title: Gold earring with pearl pendant

date: 1st‒2nd century CE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Statuette of Nefertum

medium: Cupreous alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Fuddling cup

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (delftware)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1938


title: Landau #809

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Basin

date: first half 16th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace, punto avorio

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


title: Storm God vessel

creator: Teotihuacan artist(s)

medium: Soapstone

country: Teotihuacan

subjects:
Stone-container
Teotihuacan
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of the Austen-Stokes Ancient Americas Foundation, 2012


title: Card case

medium: Mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Herbert K. Reis, in memory of Rose-Frances K. Reis (Mrs. Ralph A. Reis), 1983


title: [Girl with a Sitar]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Sheet of Sketches, from "Livre d’étude d’après les desseins originaux de Blomart"

creator: François Boucher

medium: Etching

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


title: Vest

medium: Wool, metal wrapped thread; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Murray Crane, 1947


title: Loving cup

creator: Richard Williams

medium: Silver, silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: The Surrender of the Khan of Badakhsan

creator: Pierre Philippe Choffard

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: Bowling, from the Games and Sports series (N165) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

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


title: Textile swatch (one of 8)

date: early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Purchase, 1985, Funds From Various Donors


title: Pair of vertical panels

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Robert Pfeiffer, 1969


title: Memorial of the old Temple Bar

creator: C. H. Mabey

medium: Lead, struck

subjects:
Architecture
Medal and plaquette

credit_line: Gift of the Corporation of the City of London, 1908


title: Ryan, Right Field, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Camel

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Brush holder with lotus decoration

date: mid-19th century

medium: Porcelain with openwork design

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Head of a Satyr

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Annie Boyd, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: L'Abreuvoir

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Drypoint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Jar

medium: Diorite

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and The Guide Foundation Inc. Gift, 1966


title: Shield

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood, brass

country: Sumatran

subjects: Shield Sumatran

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Unidentified, furniture support with winged lion motif, elevation

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Dark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Mark J. Millard Gift, 1968


title: Small desk

medium: Satinwood, purpleheart, padouk and other marquetry woods on oak substrate; mahogany interior; brass mounts; leather-lined writing surface

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


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: An Outdoor Luncheon

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Black and red chalk with stumping

credit_line: Gift of Stephen A. Geiger, 2021


title: City with a Column and a Church, from "Roman Ruins and Buildings"

creator: Johannes van Doetecum I

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Canale del Squero, Venice

creator: Andrew Fisher Bunner

medium: Black ink and graphite traces on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899


title: Stamp seal (scaraboid) with animal

date: 12th–7th century BCE

medium: Limestone, olive gray

country: Syro-Anatolian-Levantine

credit_line: Purchase, 1899


title: Vase fragment

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Glass bowl

date: mid-2nd–early 1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Cole Porter, 1951


title: Cylinder

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Green jasper

subjects: Jewelry Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Jérusalem, Village de Siloam, Vue générale

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Pendant Cross

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Bone

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones


title: Designs for Components of Stage Sets: at Bottom: Spiral and Wreathed-Colonnaded Pavillion with Central Arch Surmounted by Military Trophy and Another Hanging Inside Arch; at Top: Centralized Pavillion Decorated by Pediment Surmounted by Fountain

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

medium: Pen, brown ink with black chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972


title: The Triumph of Hypocrisy

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 11, 1787

medium: Stippled etching and aquatint

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


title: Scene 5, from Jack and the Giant Killer, Scenes for a Toy Theater

creator: Benjamin Pollock

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Child's Robe

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-tapestrie


title: Seal Amulet Decorated with a Hippopotamus

medium: White mica schist

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose III

medium: Steatite, glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Pinkney, 3rd Base, Brooklyn, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Kohl Jar

medium: Serpentinite, galena

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Scarab with the Representation of a Falcon and Hieroglyphs

date: ca. 1700–1600 B.C. (Middle Bronze Age IIB)

medium: Bright blue glazed steatite


title: The Betrayal of Christ

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Fireworks display by Lorenz Müller as proof of his mastership, Nuremberg 1635

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching, state before letters

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Clothing the Naked

creator: François Hutin

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2020


title: Head of a Female Figure from the Tomb of Khety

medium: Wood, paint and paste fill

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Mustard pot

medium: Enamel on copper

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


title: Hot Water Plate

creator: Henry Will

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


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

date: late 5th/early 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian


title: Arrowhead

date: ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


title: Flute

medium: Ceramic

country: Tairona People; La Aguja Style

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-recorder
Tairona people; la aguja style

credit_line: Gift of Roberta Lee Boxer, 1984


title: Two Design Drawings for Day-Beds

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and gray ink over black chalk on cream laid paper

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


title: Bowl with bosses and lotus pattern and demotic weight on rim

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Chisel

medium: Bronze, bone

country: Roman

subjects:
Bronze
Roman
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


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


title: Bifolium from the "Nurse's Qur'an" (Mushaf al-Hadina)

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on parchment

credit_line: Purchase, James and Diane Burke Gift, in honor of Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, 2007


title: The Temptation of St. Anthony

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

date: late 18th century

medium: Box: ivory with tortoiseshell lining; cover: ivory, porcelain (?), glass and brass

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Defense for the Lower Right Leg (Greave)

date: mid-15th century

medium: Steel, iron, silver, gold, leather

country: Turkish, possibly Bursa

subjects:
Turkish, possibly bursa
Armor parts-thigh and leg defense

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Grapes

creator: Motsurin Jōtō (Bokusai)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2022


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

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


title: Resurrection | Prophet Jonas

creator: Concz Welcz

medium: Silver, old fire-gilding

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


title: Design for a Monumental Altar, plate A from "Unterschiedliche Neu Inventierte Altäre mit darzu gehörigen Profillen u. Grundrißen"

creator: Johann Michael Leüchte

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel ou sont contenues plusieurs figures de l'invention de maitre François Rabelais

creator: François Desprez

medium: Letterpress text with woodcut illustrations

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


title: Philadelphia Sanitary Fair

creator: Anthony Paquet

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


title: Netsuke of Two Men Wrestling

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Tapestry Room from Croome Court

creator: Robert Adam

medium: Plaster, pine, mahogany, bronze-gilt, marble, lapis lazuli, steel; wool and silk (22-24 warps per inch, 9-10 per centimeter)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (The Insect Book) (Ehon mushi erami) 画本虫撰

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

date: probably 1823 (later edition)

medium: One from a set of two polychrome woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan
Insects


title: Interior of Fort Sedgwick, before Petersburg

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: [Two Japanese Men in Traditional Dress]

creator: Suzuki Shin'ichi

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Comb

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Plate 34, from "Trattato delle Piante & Immagini de Sacri Edifizi di Terra Santa" (Treatise of the Plans & Images of the Sacred Buildings of the Holy Land)

creator: Jacques Callot

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Cap

medium: wool, cotton, linen

country: French

credit_line: Alfred Z. Solomon-Janet A. Sloane Endowment Fund, 2015


title: Head of male statue, perhaps Babaef

medium: Granite

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1964


title: Bracelet

date: probably 14th–15th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Portrait of Wife of Su Wansan (?)

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Intérieur (Interior)

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

credit_line: The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1952


title: Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 11 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Relief fragment possibly from the tomb of Mereri

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: Bowl of Dates

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Creampot

creator: Andrew Ellicott Warner

medium: Silver

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1987


title: David with the Head of Goliath / Grave Digger

creator: Virginia Granbery

medium: Wood engraving, working proof

credit_line: Gift of J. H. Granbery, 1944


title: Netsuke of Turtle


title: Achilles about to kill Hector, Pallas Athena between them

creator: Giovanni Maria Benzoni

medium: White marble

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lawrence Kip, 1899


title: Composed Armor for a Youth or Small Boy

date: ca. 1590 and later

medium: Steel, brass, leather

country: French or Italian

subjects:
Armor for child
French or italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Pair of dogs

creator: Mennecy

date: possibly 18th century

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Bodice

date: 18th century

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Side chair (one of a pair)

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Mahogany; tent stitch embroidery on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Sibylle Agrippa, from "Douze Sibylles"

creator: Gilles Rousselet

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Plate 1: a horseman riding towards the left, followed by a dog, in a rocky landscape

creator: Lodovico Mattioli

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1970


title: Collar

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, 1964


title: Min-ch'oi Temple & City Wall of Yen-ping

creator: Lai Afong

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: Strip (one of two)

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of J. Sanford Saltus, 1912


title: Band Fragment

date: 10th century

medium: Silk; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1929


title: Camel

date: first half 12th century (possibly 1129–34)

medium: Fresco transferred to canvas

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Paintings-fresco

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1961


title: Table decorated with floral scroll

medium: Lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl and metal wire

country: Korea

subjects: Lacquer Korea Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Baissez le Rideau, La Farce est Jouée (Bring Down the Curtain; the Farce is Over), published in La Caricature no. 201, September 11, 1834

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 11, 1834

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Louise Bechtel, 1958


title: Landscape

date: dated 1661

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color washes on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

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


title: Crowns, Mitres, Maces, etc.

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: [Countess de Castiglione, from Série des Roses]

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

subjects: Photograph Roses

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


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Cup

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hizen ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Campanile San Stefano, Venice

creator: Andrew Fisher Bunner

medium: Black ink and graphite traces on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899


title: George Canning (1770–1827), British conservative statesman

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze, cast - single

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Vase with dragon

medium: Porcelain with incised decoration and underglaze cobalt blue

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Cope with a Hood

country: Italian or Spanish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian or spanish
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Band

date: early 17th century

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, linen and silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Redmond Cross, in memory of Miss Catharine Newbold, 1922


title: Cup and Saucer

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hazard and Marion H. McVitty, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Lauriston H. Hazard, 1960


title: Les Bouquets ou la fête de la grand-maman

creator: Louis Philibert Debucourt

medium: Etching and aquatint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, Transferred from the Library, 1923


title: Vase

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Mother and Baby; Sketch of a Tree (from Sketchbook)

creator: Francis William Edmonds

date: ca. 1838 and after

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper mounted on inside of back sketchbook cover

subjects: American Trees

credit_line: Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund, 1987


title: Allegory of the church

creator: Johann Jakob Thurneysen, the Elder

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Piece (one of 116)

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909