title: Portrait of Rinaldo Orsino, Archbishop of Florence (1474–1508)

creator: Bernardino Capitelli

date: early 17th century

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

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Cup

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

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


title: Shard

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1992


title: Maria Magdalena, Archduchess of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany

creator: Guillaume Dupré

medium: Lead

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Carpet

date: 17th century

medium: Wool (warp, weft and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922


title: Mordant

date: 13th century

medium: Bronze

country: French, Haute-Savoie

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

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: 9 of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards

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

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-paper
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1983


title: Scarab Inscribed for Nebrasahwy, the magistrate of a district

medium: Brown jasper

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Bronze statuette of a male votary

country: Minoan

subjects: Bronze Minoan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Textile Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Raw silk and metal wrapped thread; plain weave, brocaded (kincob)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Mademoiselle Isabelle Lemonnier (1857–1926)

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Pastel on canvas

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


title: Limestone head of a boy

date: 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelaneous grey ware with glaze (Jun ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Autumn (Wine Harvest)

creator: Charles Michel Campion

medium: Etching

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


title: Cover

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Wool on wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W.  Bayard Cutting, 1945


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Linen


title: Fragments of a terracotta kylix

date: mid 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of the Honorable Iris Cornelia Love, 2011


title: Lacquer Paintings of Various Subjects: Snow Shelter for a Tree with Sparrow

creator: Shibata Zeshin

medium: Lacquer on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan Trees

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


title: Fish amulet

medium: Stone

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


title: The Actor Sawamura Sōjūrō III as the Kumano Pilgrim Jissaku, actually Taira no Shigemori

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō 勝川春章

date: 1785 (Tenmei 5), 11th month

medium: Left sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Inrō with Cranes in Plum, Bamboo and Pine

medium:
Carved red lacquer
Netsuke: bird and flower; lacquer, tsuishu
Ojime: cricket among flowers; pierced and carved silver bead

subjects: Inrō Japan Birds Flowers

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1931


title: The Man of Sorrows at the Column

creator: Nicolaas Hogenberg

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Garnet ring stone with the head of the dog Sirius

date: 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Garnet

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Scene with Saint Peter Healing the Lame in a Rocaille Cartouche

creator: Johann Lorenz Haid

medium: Red chalk, over black chalk, red wash; framing line black ink, probably by the artist; verso: made red with chalk

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2016


title: Rushing Bear, Pawnee, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N2) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Saint Peter standing in the centre surrounded by Apostles distraught at the death of Christ who is shown ascending from the tomb in the upper section

creator: François Collignon

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


title: Gilt-leather wall hanging (part of a set)

creator: De Gecroonde Son

medium: Leather, silvered, painted and varnished

credit_line: Gift of Rosine Lambiotte Donhauser, in honor of Victor and Marie De Meulemeester, 2012


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain decorated with enamels (Arita ware, Imari type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Galloon

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite and watercolor

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


title: Decoration of a Fountain, from an Album with Prints recording the Festivities and Decorations organized in Florence for the 1589 Wedding of Archduke Ferdinand de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: People from Calicut, from "The Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian" (Triumph Des Kaisers Maximilian I)

creator: Hans Burgkmair

date: printed 1883–84

medium: Woodcut; restrike

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Village and Mountain (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Ruffed bustard

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Cup

date: mid 6th–5th millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Ubaid

credit_line: Gift of Oxford University, by exchange, 1949


title: Leda and the Swan, after Boucher

creator: Jacques Charlier

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962


title: Standing Old Man in Frontal View Leaning On a Staff

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Arrowhead

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Scarab Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut, Given Life Forever

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: A View of the Palace from the Lawn in the Royal Garden at Kew

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Silk, wool on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Tree (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: E. B. B.

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

subjects: American Trees

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Terracotta vase in the form of a bird

date: mid-7th century BCE

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian
Birds

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Figure pierced by an arrow, holding a serpent and surrounded by flames

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

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


title: Cottage Children (The Wood Gatherers)

creator: Thomas Gainsborough

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Lake Palaces

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Upper Arm Defense (Rerebrace)

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Broad collar terminal

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Hampstead Heath

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof touched with ink and white chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Coin

date: 8th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: A Short History: General Leonidas Polk, 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

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


title: General Salomon, President of Haiti, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-1) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Yellow glass ring stone

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

medium: Glass, yellow paste

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: A Visit to the Tombs

creator: Frederick George Byron

date: October 23, 1789

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Wash Basin

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Philip Holzer, 2001


title: The Deposition

date: late 16th century

medium: Rock crystal. Cut, polished, reverse painted, reverse gilt.

subjects:
Glass
Italian
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Antefix, satyr and maenad

date: ca. 500 BCE or later

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Terracotta Etruscan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Ring with Stone

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: The Jovial Crew

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: October 1, 1786

medium: Etching and aquatint


title: Chest of king with Aten cartouches

medium: pink quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


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


title: Halberd of Frederick of Hesse, Prince-Bishop of Breslau (reigned 1671–82)

date: dated 1676

medium: Steel, wood, textile

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Frontispiece to "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"

date: published ca. 1599–1622

medium: Engraving; third state

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


title: Body Fragment of a Glass Vase

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Coin

date: 8th–9th century


title: A Short History of General John Clifford Pemberton, from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Book cover with overall pattern of red and black squares and dots

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print


title: Glass gold-band mosaic bowl fragment

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

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Design for a Figural Relief

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Black chalk heightened with white

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 45 (verso)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Censer

date: second half 18th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Faience amulet in the form of the dwarf god Pataikos

medium: Faience

country: Egyptian

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Egyptian

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


title: Arch

medium: Pink marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Terracotta lentoid flask

date: 11th century BCE

country: Levantine

subjects: Vase Levantine


title: A man and two women conversing at center; young men standing to their right and young women to their left; ships in the distance; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

creator: Mathäus Küsel

medium: Etching

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Kohl Tube

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Saucer

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted with chinoiserie

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


title: Plate 6: people dancing in the street accompanied by musicians, from "Customs and Pastimes of the Spanish People"

creator: Francisco Lameyer y Berenguer

credit_line: Gift of Mrs Henry J. Bernheim, 1958


title: Panel

date: 15th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Scarf

medium: [no medium available]

country: Spanish

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Guzman Blanco, President of Venezuela, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-1) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Shield Mount in the Shape of Bird

date: second half 6th century

medium: Copper alloy, "tinned" surface

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-copper Frankish Birds

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Cumean Sibyl

creator: Master with the Name of Jesus

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Armband (Bazuband), One of a Pair

medium: Gold, gemstones, and enamel

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Bracelet

date: probably 19th century

medium: metal

country: Indian

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Scherzo di Fantasia: Standing Warrior and King with Five Attendants

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with pale and dark brown wash, over leadpoint or black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Tazza

date: 17th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Elongated Buckle

date: 7th century (?)

medium: Copper alloy

country: Langobardic or Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Langobardic or frankish


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Wall Bracket for a Lamp

date: 11th century

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1979


title: Glass jar

date: 4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

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


title: Piece from a Kosode with Cherry Blossoms

medium: Resist-dyed silk satin damask (rinzu), embroidered with silk and metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Flowers
Textiles-dyed and embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennan Ford, 2008


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; buff slip, splashed polychrome glazes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Fragment of a terracotta kylix

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of the Honorable Iris Cornelia Love, 2011


title: Ensemble

medium: silk, fur

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James Sullivan, 1976


title: Granulated Tube Amulet

medium: Gold

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2002


title: Projections of Columns

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

date: 18th century

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

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


title: Lamp (one of a pair)

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Covered Sugar Bowl

medium: Pressed glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

country: Roman

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


title: Head of a Woman in Profile

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Alfonso d'Este (1486–1534), Duke of Ferrara

creator: Titian

medium: Oil on canvas


title: Snuffbox in the form of an armadillo

creator: Saint-Cloud factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration; silver mounts

credit_line: Purchase, Austin B. Chinn Gift, in honor of Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, 2020


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Broadsheet relating to a train that derailed in Zacatecas on April 18, 1904, a description in the bottom section continuing on verso after which the words to a song (corrido)

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Armorer's Anvil

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Coffin knob (?)

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1929


title: Breviarium Romanum

creator: Jan van Keerberghen

medium: Paper; leather binding with copper alloy mounts, and wood

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Tureen in the form of a capercaillie

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Juglet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: The Embroiderer

creator: Jean Jacques Flipart

medium: Etching and engraving with stippling; third and final state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup(

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Lapis lazuli

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Book Harmonium

medium: Wood, various materials

country: French or German

subjects:
Aerophone-free reed-harmonium
French or german

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Imperial Court Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George W. Bacon, 1959


title: Battle of Hercules and the Giants

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 15th century

medium: Engraving; first state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Scarab of an Official

medium: Bright blue glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Design for a Small Cabinet with Elaborately Carved Legs

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Essempio di recammi, page 9 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Antonio Tagliente

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: The Last Day of a Condemned Man

creator: Célestin Nanteuil

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Insect Ornament

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Gold (cast)

country: Calima (Yotoco)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Calima (yotoco)
Insects

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


title: Portrait Miniature of the Marquis de Lafayette

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Tripod bowl

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Tile Fragment

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Ring with Purple Stone in Lotus-shaped Mount

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

medium: Gold with purple stone

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Plate 64: The magistrates of the city of Brussels marching in the funeral procession of Archduke Albert of Austria; from 'Pompa Funebris ... Alberti Pii'

creator: Cornelis Galle I

medium: Etching with hand coloring

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

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


title: The last meal of Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Charles Bour

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Bronze handle of an oinochoe (jug)

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Hudson River Scene

creator: French or American Artist (possibly Victor de Grailly, Paris, 1804–1889)

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting American

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Cobra

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Black Methodists Holding a Prayer Meeting

creator: Pavel Petrovich Svinin

medium: Watercolor and pen and black ink on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Design for a Coffer

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Ink

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1950


title: Terracotta head of a woman wearing a high headdress

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian, tarentine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Beads, 24

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta fragments of stemless kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Glass Fragment

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Ella Brummer, in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1977


title: Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

country: German

subjects: German Enamels-champlevé


title: Risen Christ Appearing to the Disciples, from Old and New Testaments

creator: Augustin Hirschvogel

medium: Etching

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


title: Stone Animal Pendant

date: 9th–15th century

medium: Stone

country: Costa Rica

subjects:
Stone-ornament
Costa rica

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


title: Albert Sands Southworth

creator: Southworth and Hawes

medium: Daguerreotype

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


title: Meketre papyrus

medium: Papyrus, ink

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


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Gerard Lairesse, from "Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds"

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

date: December 8, 1778


title: Belt Buckle and Counter Plate

date: 7th century

medium: Iron, silver inlay

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish


title: Female figurine

medium: Wood, ebony

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Insertion

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: A Summerland

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint with drypoint on chine collé; progress proof touched with white chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

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


title: Key Handle

medium: Copper alloy

country: Roman

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Roman

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


title: A poor woman to left, seen from behind, enveloping her child in a shawl, another woman seen from behind to left in background, a woman atop a horse and a man to right in background, plate 21 from "Diversi capricci"

creator: Stefano della Bella

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Cassone Front

date: late 14th century

medium: Poplar, gesso, gilding, and paint

country: Italian

subjects: Woodwork-furniture Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Pier Looking Glass

medium: Wood, marble

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave J. Bischof, 1961


title: Door (one of a pair)

date: 18th century

medium: Wood with gilt and paint

country: Thailand

subjects: Woodwork Thailand

credit_line: Purchase, Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Gift, 1967


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Deep Dish

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Sauce Dish

medium: Pressed glass, diamond thumbprint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Genii Gama Sennin and Tekkai

date: late 19th century

medium: Stoneware covered with thick bronze glaze; made to imitate Ao Bizen ware

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Coin

date: dated 377 AH/987 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Repeating and musical watch

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Female dancer

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1928


title: Le Grand Visir (The Grand Vizir), from the series "Caravane du Sultan à la Mecque..." (Caravan of a Sultan Going to Mecca)

creator: Joseph Marie Vien

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Card Number 352, Josset Gymnase, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Allegory of the Chase (one of a pair)

medium: Oil on canvas, grisaille

subjects:
Ornament & design
Mythology
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: The Pleasures of Margate

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Sheet with overall red floral pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Glass mosaic hemispherical bowl

date: 2nd–mid-1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Romesnil

creator: Louis-Rémy Robert

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1996


title: Fork

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, steel

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Basin

date: second half 18th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Joseph France, 1943


title: Seal-top spoon

medium: Silver, originally gilt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bow

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Bird sculpture

date: ca. 1000 BCE

medium: Ceramic

subjects: Iran Birds

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 1960


title: Glass Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Pot metal glass

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Scarab Inscribed for Thutmose I

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1905


title: Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)

date: 3rd century BCE

country: Greek, Egypt, Alexandria-Hadra

subjects:
Vase
Greek, egypt, alexandria-hadra

credit_line: Purchase, 1890


title: Pair of stirrups

medium: Walnut, bronze-gilt


title: La Sortie de bébé

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Drypoint; second state of two

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938


title: Sugar spoon

creator: A.C.C., Paris

medium: Silver

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


title: The South East Prospect of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, from "Overton's Prospects"

creator: Benjamin Cole

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Hammer

date: probably 18th century

medium: Steel, wood

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Doll's hat and hatbox

medium:
Hat: satin, ribbon, cord
Hatbox: bandbox covered with wallpaper

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

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

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Bowl

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ink Tablet with Black Stag Motif

creator: Fang Yulu

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Black ink

country: China

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Edwin Cowles, The Cleveland Leader, from the American Editors series (N35) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Armoire

creator: Hugues Sambin

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Pair of andirons

creator: Pere Jean-Antoine Ducerceau

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: View of the Salon in the Year 1753

creator: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching

credit_line: Wrightsman Fund, 2006


title: Vase

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stoneware (Cizhou ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: String of 5 beads

date: 3rd century BCE–3rd century CE ?

medium: Quartz

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Frontispiece, from "Frontispiece and four scenes from the life of Saint John Gualbert" (Frontispice et quatre vignettes pour une vie de Saint Jean Gualbert)


title: Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Stripes of Abstract Figures and Pearls

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


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

date: late 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Lucanian?

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, lucanian

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


title: Terracotta fragment from a closed shape

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: Slippers

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Art Worker's Club, 1945


title: Steamship Britannic, White Star Line, from the Ocean and River Steamers series (N83) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: [Gateway]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Design for a Catafalque or a Tomb Monument

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Wash over black chalk

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: [Cloisters of the Church of Saint John of the Kings, Toledo, Spain]

creator: Charles Clifford

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift, 1989


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Card 772, Louise Paullin, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Jar

medium: Earthenware

country: Dutch

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles C. Kalbfleisch, 1933


title: Openwork Belt Fitting

date: 7th century

medium: Copper alloy, "tinned" surface

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Seven Spades (black), from the Playing Cards series (N84) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Mittens

medium: Wool

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Sarah F. Milligan and Kate Milligan Brill, 1940


title: Sword (Mandau) with Scabbard and Small Knife

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Horn, cane, rattan, beads

country: Dyak

subjects: Sword Dyak

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Craftsman by the Twelve Sign of Zodiac

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

date: 19th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Gold pin

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Gold, iron ??

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


date: 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Alice Baldwin Beer, 1947


title: Gold bead

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Seated monkey, plate 3 from "Various Animals" (Diversi Animali)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of three (De Vesme)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Painted Ceramic Pedestal Plate

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Coclé (Macaracas)

subjects:
Ceramics-container
Coclé (macaracas)

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


title: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Vase (vase à monter) (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

date: vase ca. 1755–60, mounts ca. 1760–75

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, gilt bronze mounts

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


title: Armor of the Dukes of Alba

creator: Lucio Piccinino

medium: Steel, gold, silver

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Armor for man-1/2 armor
Italian, milan

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Marble statue of a member of the imperial family

date: 27 BCE–68 CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Bill Blass, 2002


title: Bed valance

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Envy from Ovid's "House of Envy" (Book II, lines 760-796) (recto); A naked woman (verso)

creator: William Hamilton

medium:
Recto: pen and black ink, brush and brown wash and watercolor, over graphite
Verso: pen and brown ink and graphite

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


title: Vase

creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

medium: Etching

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


title: Cormorants on Rock

creator: Unidentified artist

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

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Terracotta loutrophoros (ceremonial vase for water)

creator: Darius Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Watch

creator: Pierre Vernede

medium: Case: rock crystal and enameled gold mounts; Dial: gold, champlevé enamel, and painted enamel; Movement: gilded brass and partly blued steel

subjects:
Horology
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Annunciation

creator: Léonard Limosin

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Key

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Trivet

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Galloon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Histoire secrette de Neron, ov, Le festin de Trimalcion, traduit de Petrone, avec des notes historiques par M. Lavaur ...

creator: M. (Guillaume de) Lavaur

credit_line: Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 2009


title: Pendant

date: 11th century

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1915


title: Vessel in the shape of a kneeling ram

date: ca. 4th century

medium: Stoneware with celadon glaze (Yue ware)

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991


title: Pair of Snaphaunce Pistols

date: mid-18th century

medium: Wood (walnut), steel

country: Italian, Bologna

subjects:
Italian, bologna
Firearms-pistol

credit_line: Gift of Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1952


title: The Potato Peeler (reverse: Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat)

creator: Vincent van Gogh

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967


title: Fantastical Masked Masculine Heads

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

medium: Engraving; reverse copy


title: Silver coin (dirham) of Abu Sa'id

date: dated 719 AH/1319 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th century

medium: Linen; plain weave, embroidered in silk

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: A group of young men dancing as the gods look on from above; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

creator: Mathäus Küsel

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Seahorse pendant

creator: International Style artist(s)

medium: Gold

country: International Style

subjects:
Metal-ornament
International style

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


country: Greek, Attic


title: "Diane Chasseresse"

date: late 18th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Fish
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; central coast

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Jasper intaglio: Cynocephalus

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Jasper, yellow

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Small settee (Marquise) (part of a set)

creator: Georges Jacob

medium: Carved and gilded walnut; 18th-century embroidered silk-satin (not original to the frame)

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Coin

date: dated 264 AH/878 CE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Pair of Stirrups

medium: Iron alloy

country: German or Netherlandish

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
German or netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Bronze handle of a hydria (water jar)

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece (one of 116)

date: 19th century


title: Kneeling priest

medium: Bronze or cupreous alloy

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Lance Point

medium: Shafted Weapons

country: Spanish

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Spanish


title: Gaming purse

date: late 17th century

medium: silk, leather, metal, wood

country: French

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


title: The New Mill, near Lynton, North Devon

creator: John Percy

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Repeating watch

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Miss Annie Summerville, 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: Weymouth Bay

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof touched with white chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Ornament of Horse Trapping

date: 14th century

medium: Copper alloy, enamel

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Spanish

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, 1929


title: Necklace

date: probably 19th century

medium: coral, turquoise, felt, metal

country: Nepalese

subjects:
Nepalese
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Solidus of Constantius II (Sole Emperor, 353–361)

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Eve Herren, 1979


title: Letter from John Gibson to John Udny, containing information for Henry Farnum

creator: John Gibson

date: January 9, 1850

medium: Pen and black ink on blue paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, 1977


title: Easterly Winds

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Watercolor, pen and ink

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


title: Flounce

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin L. Jacobs and Mrs. Charles L. Rolland, 1990


title: Dish (part of a set)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Egg Cup

creator: Adams and Company

medium: Pressed yellow glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Dish

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

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Netsuke of Octopus Holding Clam

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Actress wearing wide-brimmed blue hat, from Stars of the Stage, Fourth Series (N132) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Vase

medium: Alabaster

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


title: Bouquet holder

medium: silver

country: probably French

credit_line: Gift of Frances H. Jones, 1952


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Tarquin and Lucretia

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving; first state

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


title: Plate 1: four street vendors from Madrid selling blueberries, onions, tea, and baskets, from 'Los Gritos de Madrid' (The Cries of Madrid)

creator: Miguel Gamborino

medium: Engraving with hand coloring

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2022


title: Die Generalpumpe

medium: Handcolored lithograph

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1974


title: Openwork Fitting

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2003


title: Fiore D'Ogni Virtu Per le Nobili Et Honeste Matrone, page 21 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Jizō Bosatsu Playing a Flute

creator: Kano Tan'yū

date: mid-17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: The Penance of Saint John Chrysostom

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

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


title: Wagon/Phaeton #488

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Fragment of a Dish Dedicated by Two Kings to the Goddess Hathor of Dendera

medium: Slate

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Mirror with Decoration of Paradise of the Immortals

medium: Bronze

subjects: Mirror Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Plate 10: Alexander Finding the Body of Darius, from "The Deeds of Alexander the Great"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching, first state of two (Bartsch)

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


title: The Creeping Green Room

creator: Jian Guzhai

medium: Black ink

country: China

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Plaque with Head

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Terracotta fragment of a fish plate

date: late 6th century BCE

subjects:
Fish
Vase
Greek, attic


title: L'art de composer et de peindre l'éventail, l'écran, le paravent : ouvrage orné de 16 aquarelles et 112 dessins de l'auteur

creator: Gustave Fraipont

credit_line: Thomas J. Watson Library


title: Papyrus

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Marble portrait of a young woman

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver

date: ca. 652 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", Probable Results of The Industry of All Nations in The Year '51, Showing What is to be Exhibited, Who is To Exhibit, in Short How Its All Going to Be Done

creator: George Augustus Sala

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1963


title: Terracotta appliqué

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian, tarentine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Lobed bowl

date: 11th century

medium: Porcelain with white glaze (Ding ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: The Urchin

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Etching, final state (II) in brown ink on laid white paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Earrings

medium: metal, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Miss Jessie Rosenfeld, 1943


title: Shared Feelings in the Bedchamber of Komurasaki and Gompachi

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Pin

date: 7th–5th Century BCE

medium: GOLD

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fukurokujin

medium: Pottery covered with lustrous glaze passing from light green to brown (Takatori ware)

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


title: Hudson River Scene

creator: John Frederick Kensett

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of H. D. Babcock, in memory of his father, S. D. Babcock, 1907


title: Publius Horatius

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

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


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone


title: Mosaic glass fragment

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


creator: Triptolemos Painter


title: Rooster and Hens

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekanis (covered dish)?

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Le Chasse au Cerf (The Stag Hunt), from "Paysages Gravés pour Jean de Médicis appelées aussi Paysages Dessinés a Florence, Vues de Florence, Paysages d'Italie, et Paysages Définitifs" (Landscapes Engraved for Giovanni de'Medici, Landscapes Designed in Florence, Views of Florence, Landscapes of Italy, and Definitive Landscapes)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of three (Lieure)

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; molded and glazed

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Samuel B. Grimson Gift, 1970


title: Juglet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Dish

date: early 16th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Limestone statuette of Artemis with a fawn

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Jug


title: Wild Animals, from antique wall paintings, plate 3, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, mid-16th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: The Penance of Saint John Chrysostom

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Folding knife

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, silver, horn, metal

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Band Fragment

date: 4th–6th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Recuay

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Recuay
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1929


title: Corona delle Nobile et Virtuose Donne, Libro Terzo, page 26 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of the Guild of Book Workers, 1960


title: Album of Landscapes

creator: Yi Jeong

date: late 15th or early 16th century

medium: Album of eight leaves: ink on silk;

country: Korea

subjects: Painting Korea Landscapes

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain, green stone stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Two Daughters of Menna, Tomb of Menna

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Un Aigle Jetant une Vieille Plume (An Eagle Dropping an Old Feather), plate 15 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)


title: La Ronde (The Round Dance), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1940


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Comforts of Bath, Plate 8

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 6, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Two saucers (part of a service)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Paul B. Zeisler Jr., 1967


title: Lion pin

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

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


title: Noli me Tangere

creator: Martin Schongauer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Netsuke

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory with metal disc

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Halberd Head

date: 1122 BCE–255 BCE

medium: Shafted Weapons

country: Chinese

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Chinese

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Dish

medium: Clay partly covered with drawing under a transparent, finely-crackled glaze; top covered with a thick second glaze (Awata ware, Zhun type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Dress

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread, turquoise; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Chester Dale, 1953


title: Mars, Venus and Cupid

creator: Simone Cantarini

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Statuette of a warrior-11

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

credit_line: Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1924


title: Gulf of Corinth (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 16th–15th century BCE

medium: Faience

country: Kassite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Bronze tail of a horse

date: 1st or 2nd century CE

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Paedopaegnion: Third Title Page: Petrus vanden Avont Belga Antuerpianus pictor

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; missing the portrait in the center

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Glass mosaic fragment

medium: Glass

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


title: Carpet

date: 16th century

medium: Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: "Three Trees of India", Folio from a Baburnama (Autobiography of Babur)

date: late 16th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, Anonymous Gift, in honor of Amy Poster, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2013


title: Stencil with Pattern of Chrysanthemums in Rushing Water

medium: Paper reinforced with silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Stencil
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and linen

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


title: White Poppies on Gold Ground

creator: Ogata Kōrin

medium: Six-panel folding screen; color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1949


title: Summer

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Carclew House

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

date: August 1841

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Beads

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: St. Austle, Cornwall

medium: Watercolor, graphite, pen and ink

credit_line: Bequest of Vera A. H. Pratt, 1978


title: Conoid seal

date: ca. 12th–9th century BCE

medium: Hematite

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


title: Plait Ornament (Jadanagam)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Gold; inset with rock crystal, rubies, emeralds, and amethysts

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


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

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


title: Lucidario di Recami, page 15 (recto)

creator: Iseppo Foresto

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)?

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: A warrior facing left wearing a plumed hat and holding a cane, from "Figurine"

creator: Salvator Rosa

medium: Etching

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


title: Card Number 140, Jennie Reeves, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Souvenir

medium: Steel, gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sake Cup with Sea Bream and Auspicious Poem

creator: Aoki Mokubei

date: first half 19th century

medium: Porcelain with polychrome enamels over transparent glaze (Kyoto ware)

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: Glass striped mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


creator: Dokimasia Painter


title: Large Piloncito Coin

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
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: Piece

medium: Silk


title: Geometric Polychrome Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Clay

country: Ancestral Puebloan (Four Mile)

subjects:
Ancestral puebloan (four mile)
Ceramics-vessel

credit_line: Gift of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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


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


title: Sample of Cloth

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Bed curtain border

medium: Linen, silk, metallic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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: Le Colin-Maillard

creator: Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Burton Emmett, 1929


title: Panel

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Chalice veil

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Textile Fragment

date: early 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Terracotta stamnos

creator: Deepdene Painter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Fragment of an Imported Chinese Bowl

date: late 7th–first half 8th century

medium: Earthenware; applied relief medallion under three color (sancai) glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Stylized Flowers Decorated with Pearls Framed by an Interlacing Pattern of Garlands of Branches over a Stippled Background

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Drawing
Flowers

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Linen with ink mark

medium: Linen, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1924


title: Gold crescent-shaped earring

date: 5th century BCE–1st century CE

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: String of beads

medium: Shell, bone and faience

subjects:
Shells & molluscs
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Sheet with overall floral pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Design for an Alter with Saint Michael and the Dragon

creator: Johann Baptist Modler

medium: Pen and black and touches of brown ink, brush and gray and touches of pink wash

credit_line: Purchase, Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

creator: Hu Zhengyan

date: first edition printed in 1633

medium: Leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Pair of clock ornaments

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: The Agony in the Garden

creator: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1932


title: Earring, baule type

date: 7th–5th Century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: The Old Admiralty in London

creator: Carl Gustav Carus

medium: Graphite, and brown wash

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2008


title: Vase fragment

medium: Blue faience, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Bacchanal

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite, heightened with white on wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Professor Maan Z. Madina and Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, 2006


title: Needle

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Ganymede with eagle and eaglet

creator: Benvenuto Cellini

date: probably 18th century

medium: Bronze, partially oil-gilt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Necklace (Chandanhar)

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Mirror

medium: Inlaid bronze

subjects: Mirror Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: [Waitress]

creator: Ed. Wiekhorst

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Pharmacy Jar

date: 15th century

medium: Earthenware

country: French

subjects: Ceramic French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Stone Bead

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Beads-ornament

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Sealing wax case (étui)

credit_line: Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1937


date: mid-4th 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: S. Costanza, drum, interior, elevation; column shafts, profiles; narthex, section; stair, detail plan (recto) stair, plans; window, elevation (verso)

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: Willie Harradon, Cyclist, The Youthful Phenomenon, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Limestone head of male votary with fillet

date: late 6th or early 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Pendant Medallion with Michael Slaying the Dragon

medium: Mother of pearl, tempera, and silver

subjects: Sculpture-miniature French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1975


title: S. Fortunat, évêque (St. Fortunatus, Bishop), October 14th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Jug with rope pattern

medium: Crystalline and banded travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Buhr. Victor. 25 ans, né à Cologne (Allemagne). Peintre décorateur. Anarchiste. 2/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


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


title: Man Playing Guitar (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Black ink on off-white wove paper

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


title: Gold spiral with double lion-griffin-head terminal

date: 1st half of the 4th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek, cypriot


title: Cameo Medallion

country: British

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: St. Martin

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

medium: Metalcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Dish with stylized flower scrolls

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue and café-au-lait glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Persée et Méduse

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching, state i

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hartshorne, 1918


title: Plate 8 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'It always happens' (Siempre sucede)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, drypoint

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Ornament with insect

medium: Bronze

country: Korea

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Korea
Insects

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Card Number 184, Katie Powell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Seated Artist, Viewed from the Rear, Painting at an Easel (from Whistler Album)

medium: Graphite on paper


title: Diana Resting with Her Hounds (recto); Flora Seated by a Vase with Two Harks on the Ground, after Jost Amman (verso)

creator: Hermann Weyer

date: 1607 (verso)–ca. 1615 (recto)

medium: Pen and black ink and gray (olive) wash (recto); pen and gray ink (verso)

subjects: Botany Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, David Tunick Gift, 1995


title: Running Elk

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

date: modeled between 1824 and 1826, cast before 1875

medium: Bronze (sand cast)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1971


title: Figure 75: Nun saying her prayers

creator: Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

credit_line: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation Gift, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors; Harris Brisbane Dick and William E. Dodge Funds; and W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift, 2013


title: The Deforests, Whirlwind Dancers, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

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


title: Scarf

date: late 19th century

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: The Christ Child Holding the Orb

date: early 17th century

medium: Boxwood

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George F. Cahill, 1961


title: Vase

creator: John Bennett

medium: Painted and glazed earthenware

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1985


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Chaire Painter

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Portable diptych sundial

creator: David Beringer

medium: Fruitwood and paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Paul R. Hays, in memory of Jacques B. Rice, 1968


title: Yuhuchun vase with lotus petals

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stoneware with incised decoration (Cizhou ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Bowl

date: 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque blue glaze

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


title: A Half Pay Officer Who Has Been at Dinner with Captain Broad

creator: Matthias Darly

date: October 26, 1771

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2011


title: Terracotta bird-shaped vase

subjects: Vase Cypriot Birds

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


title: "Vintage Scenes"

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: The Senator Returning from the Vatican

creator: Constantin Guys

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

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Shipwreck

creator: Thomas Cole

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1977


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


title: Spindle Whorl

medium: Ceramic

country: Peruvian; north coast (?)

subjects:
Peruvian; north coast
Ceramics-implement

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


title: Shrine, Saint Manchan

date: early 20th century (original dated 12th century)

medium: Wood, bronze, brass, enamel

country: Irish

subjects: Irish Reproductions-enamel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Honey dish

medium: Pressed glass, diamond thumbprint

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Model food offering, cake

medium: Mud

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


title: Bone plaque with a hole at one end

date: 7th century BCE?

medium: Ivory

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Greek, laconian
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1924


title: Geometric gold weight

creator: Akan artist

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Akan peoples

subjects:
Metal-implement
Akan people

credit_line: Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1994


title: Sword with Scabbard Mounts

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Iron, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects: Sword Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Silver bracelet fragments

medium: Silver

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


title: Phrygian Sibyl, from the series of Sibyls

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 31r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Apollo and Marsyas

date: 15th century

medium: Bronze, light color with dark brown lacquer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Design for a coiffered ceiling

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, gouache, and watercolor

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 3rd century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, probably Egyptian

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, probably egyptian


title: Glass Fragment

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Ella Brummer, in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1977


title: In Honor of Admiral Lord Howe, 1794

creator: Conrad Heinrich Küchler

medium: Bronze, struck

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


title: Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)

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

medium: Steel, ironwood, silver, rosewood, ivory

subjects: Dagger Japanese

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


title: Block Statue of a Prophet of Montu and Scribe Djedkhonsuefankh, son of Khonsumes and Taat

medium: Gabbro

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Dancers as Orientals

creator: Villeroy

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Nude woman (Venus) reclining in a landscape

creator: Domenico Campagnola

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: The Martyrdom of St. Peter Martyr

creator: Francisco Camilo

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash over black chalk, highlighted with white on off-white paper. Squared in red chalk and traces of construction lines in black chalk, close to borders

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Bodice

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: Vase fragment

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Violin Horn

medium: Wood, brass, various materials

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 5 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano


title: Noh Mask: Ō-Tobide

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Lacquered wood, gold

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Crouching Cat Figurine

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Lionberger Davis, 1966


title: Zoomorphic Brooch

medium: Copper alloy, champlevé enamel

subjects: Roman Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of Dany Kornfeld, 2002


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Panel with stumpwork embroidery

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Clio, from "Twelve Muses and Goddesses"

creator: Léon Davent

medium: Etching

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


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

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Handle of a bowl

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Lady of the period of Henry III

date: 19th century

medium: Wax

credit_line: Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888


title: Border

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Flax (Hank)

date: early 19th century

medium: Flax

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Meseroll, 1932


title: Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative


title: Plaque fragment

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: James B. "Chippy" McGarr, 2nd Base, Kansas City Cowboys, 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: Le Maraviglie del Mondo nuovo

creator: Stefano della Bella

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

credit_line: Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2023


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Pitcher

creator: United States Pottery Company

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Ebenezer Storer

creator: John Singleton Copley

medium: Pastel on laid paper mounted on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Thomas J. Watson, 1940


title: Andrew Varick Stout

creator: Charles Loring Elliott

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of his great-grandson, Andrew Varick Stout, 1965


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Terracotta figure of a woman

date: mid-5th century BCE

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Card 303, Vernoni Jarbeau, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Figure

date: 6th–9th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Remojadas

subjects: Remojada Ceramics-sculpture

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


title: The American Fleet Defeating Rais Hamdu off Cape Gata

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2018


title: Pilgrim bottle (one of a pair)

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Alabastron

creator: Bulas Group

date: early 4th century BCE


title: Clock case and vase

creator: George E. Ohr

medium: Earthenware

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


title: Design for the Breastplate of a Suit of Armor

creator: Etienne Delaune

medium: Pen and brown ink with light blue wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Design for Panel Decoration

creator: J. Hulme

medium: Watercolor, pen and black ink

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


title: Mosaic floor with Egyptianizing scene

medium: Stone and glass

country: Roman

subjects: Miscellaneous-mosaic Roman

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1945


title: Card Number 62, Kate Castleton, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 10 (recto)

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Agricultural deity with digging stick

creator: Huastec artist(s)

medium: Sandstone

country: Huastec

subjects: Stone-sculpture Huastec

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


title: Seated female figurine

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: A Youth at a Stream

creator: John Henry Foley

medium: Lead with golden brown lacquer patination

credit_line: Purchase, Fanny Shapiro Bequest and Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Java Grosbeak, from the Song Birds of the World series (N23) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Length

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick van Beuren Joy, 1983


title: Icon with Christ Pantokrator

date: ca. 1350 or later

medium: Steatite, green

country: Byzantine

subjects: Steatite Byzantine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1979


title: Bow Brooch

medium: Silver - cast.  Pin: copper alloy.

country: Ostrogothic

subjects: Metalwork-silver Ostrogothic

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Porta Pia, elevation (recto) Porta Pia, window, elevation; section (verso)

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: Gift of Janos Scholz and Anne Bigelow Scholz, in memory of Flying Officer Walter Bigelow Rosen, RCAF, 1949


title: Raised relief fragment with remains of hieroglyphs

medium: Limestone, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Sampler

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

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


title: Afternoon dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Amelia Opdyke Jones, 1955


title: Landscape with Well

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Fragment of a Relief

date: 8th century

medium: Stucco wit color

country: Central Asia

subjects:
Sculpture
Central asia

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: The Standing Virgin Lamenting the Dead Christ at the Foot of the Cross

creator: Anonymous, German, 17th century

medium: Pen and black ink, pink, blue and gray wash.

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Warrior Ornaments

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche


title: St. John the Evangelist, striding in three-quarter view toward the left and holding a chalice with snakes in his right hand, an eagle stands behind his right leg

creator: Master F. P.

date: 16th century

subjects:
Print
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Small terracotta trefoil-mouthed jug

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1914


title: Saint Sebastian

date: 17th century

medium: Silver, partly gilt

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Leon y Escosura, 1903


title: Galloon

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Alfonso Miliotty

creator: James Tassie

medium: Glass paste

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Vitrioleuse, from "L'Estampe Originale"

creator: Eugène-Samuel Grasset

medium: Lithograph, hand-stenciled in five colors

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Design for a Valance with Bundles and Garlands of Flowers and Leaves Decorated with Gardening Tools upon which Small Birds Rest

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

subjects: Drawing Birds Flowers

credit_line: Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Colossal marble head of the emperor Augustus

date: ca. 14–30 CE

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

medium: Engraving

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Adrien Jean Maximilien Vachette

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Design for a Chandelier

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: The Sale of the Pet Lamb

creator: Otto Knirsch

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Saucer (one of 12) (part of a service)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, in memory of Francis P. Garvan, 1954


title: A Beauty Looking Down upon a Young Man Reading a Love Letter

creator: Utagawa Toyoharu

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for reeds and sheep, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 627 BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Relief fragments from tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Cup (part of a set)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial B, from an Antiphonary

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: German

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

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


title: Session House, Clerkenwell

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Pendant

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Piece

medium: Gold, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Ocarina

medium: Ceramic

country: Tairona People; Gayraca style

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-vessel flute
Tairona people; gayraca style
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Roberta Lee Boxer, 1984


title: Fabric Armor and Helmet with Buddhist and Taoist symbols

date: possibly 18th century

medium: Cotton, hemp, copper alloy, iron

country: Korean

subjects:
Armor for horse and man
Korean

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Pendant: Petals of Cornflower

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Pitcher

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Blown overshot glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: William E. "Will" Fuller, Catcher, Milwaukee, 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: Moses Striking the Rock from a set of the Life of Moses

creator: Agostino Melissi

medium: Wool, silk (13-15 warps per inch, 6 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of the family of Frederic W. Rhinelander, 1920


title: Beads

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Faience, Egyptian blue, stone, glass, cowrie shells

country: Iran

subjects:
Iran
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Tray with scholars

date: 15th century

medium: Black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: The Twelve Ages of a Man: The Second Three Ages (18-36), or Summer

creator: Bernard van Orley

medium: Wool, silk (16-20 warps per inch, 6-8 per cm.)

credit_line: Gift of The Hearst Foundation, in memory of William Randolph Hearst, 1953


title: Embroidered darning 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: Spoon

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, in memory of her husband, 1941


title: Record plaque (Plaque d'Insculpation)

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Jacques Helft, 1964


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries 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: Summer Court Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Handkerchief

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Mole Cricket (Kera); Earwig, (Hasami-mushi), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Page from woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Beaker (one of a pair)

creator: Jacques Filassier

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Mirror and Needlecase

medium: Glass, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1944


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Nightlife in Philadelphia—an Oyster Barrow in front of the Chestnut Street Theater

creator: John Lewis Krimmel

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Wineglass

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Maria P. James, 1911


title: Smooth surfaces, bar-like

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: S. Pantaléon, médecin (St. Pantaleon, Doctor), July 27th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Sake Cup with Scenes from the Noh Plays Pine in the Winds, Yōrō Falls, and The Tengu of Mount Kurama

creator: Shomosai

date: first half 19th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e and cutout gold- and silver-foil application

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Water, from "Four Elements"

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Candlestick

medium: Silver plate on copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Column Base

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Dish

date: first half 18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Terracotta column-krater (mixing bowl)

creator: Rueff Painter

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller 3rd, Nelson A . Rockefeller, Laurance S. Rockefeller and David Rockefeller, 1974


title: Terracotta miniature amphora

date: ca. 8th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Miss Theo, 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: Mallet

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1913


title: Kali

medium: Chromolithograph on paper

country: India, Kolkata, West Bengal,

subjects:
Print
India, kolkata, west bengal,

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 2013


title: An allegorical scene showing the benefits of James' reign at center, Wise Government trampling Rebellion at right, and Liberty trampling Avarice at left

creator: Simon Gribelin II

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Tea Jar

medium: Clay covered with glaze

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3195a

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watwercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Studies for the Assumption of the Virgin

creator: Juan Carreño de Miranda

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of black chalk on paper washed yellow brown

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Fan design in honor of Ferdinand VII, King of Spain

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Hand-colored engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: A man warning townspeople about what could happen to them from a broadside entitled 'Deportados a las Islas Marias'

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: ca. 1880–1910  (a later impression)

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Hanging

date: mid-18th century

medium: Cotton; plain weave, embroidered in silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and/or printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Jean Starr Untermeyer, 1960


date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Coupé # 746

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache and metallic ink


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes


title: [The Hötel de Ville after the Commune]

creator: Hippolyte-Auguste Collard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Portrait of a Young Woman

creator: James Nixon

medium: Ivory

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1939


title: Offering bearer statuette

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1924


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

medium: Albumen photograph