title: Bowl depicting a Man holding a Cup and a Flowering Branch

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: Gift of Edwin Binney 3rd and Purchase, Richard S. Perkins Gift, 1977


title: Miss Darly, from the Actresses series (N203) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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 Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick


title: Ewer

date: 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed, luster-painted and incised

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1948


title: Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: receipt of glue

date: ca. 2049 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Design for Landau, No. 3647

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Silk; metal; cotton

country: Italian or French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian or french
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Pilgrim bottle vase

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain with crackled yellow glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Metal mold illustrating Hathor head

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Lead

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


title: Mug

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1954


title: Teapot

medium: Earthenware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Scale

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron, brass

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware; Redware with sgraffito decoration

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Design for Armchair, François Premier Style

creator: Robert William Hume

medium: Pen and ink, graphite, watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Jessie F. Hume, 1930


title: Relief fragment from tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Stamp Inscribed for the Goddess Renenutet

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Terracotta rim from a cup with triangles and parallel vertical lines

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Lalit Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Madhya Pradesh, Malwa)

subjects:
Painting
India (madhya pradesh, malwa)

credit_line: Gift of Jeffrey Paley, 1975


title: Sampler

date: late 19th century

medium: Linen, silk; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Olivia Sage, 1916


title: Cresting

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Sansovino-style frame

date: ca. 1570, adapted ca. 1960

medium: Pine back frame with lime upper moldings. Gilt; dark red-brown bole, blue background.

country: Venetian

subjects: Frame Venetian


title: Round Vegetable Dish

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and wash

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Emblem Drawing ("Hope sustains me")

creator: Jacob Matham

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and blue-gray wash; double framing lines in pen and brown ink, by the artist; framing lines in pen and brown ink, by a later hand

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)

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

medium: Steel, wood, lacquer, rayskin (samé), baleen, gold, silver

country: Japanese

subjects: Dagger Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Head of Luohan

medium: Limestone

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Stone Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Costa Rica

subjects:
Stone-implement
Costa rica

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Visiting a Friend

creator: Seki Shūkō

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Charles Stewart Smith Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, Charles Stewart Smith Jr., and Howard Caswell Smith, in memory of Charles Stewart Smith, 1914


title: Hercules about to hurl Lichas into the sea

creator: Antonio Canova

date: first half 19th century

medium: Onyx

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Animal

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Dress ornament

date: ca. 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Scythian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Scythian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Portrait of Ioannes Altus (Johann Alten), of the Swiss Guard, standing by the Quirinal and pointing out the antiquities of Rome

creator: Francesco Villamena

medium: Etching; first state of two

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: A Grotto

creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1988


title: The God of Good Fortune Daikoku, on Horseback, Being Led by an Ohara Maiden

creator: Hokkyō Kōitsu

date: probably 1834, year of the horse

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Steel, 1960


title: The Triumph of Eternity on Death, from The Triumph of Petrarch

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Landau)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Lidded bowl with ballgame scenes

creator: Río Blanco artist

medium: Ceramic, slip, paint

country: Central Veracruz

subjects:
Central veracruz
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Purchase, Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family Gift; and Mark and Anla Cheng Kingdon Foundation Gift, in memory of Leonard Bernheim, 2002


title: Length

date: 17th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Miss Margaret M. Tuttle, in memory of her mother, Mrs. Howard Mansfield, 1957


title: Knife (Tumi)

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-implement Chimú

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


title: Quilt, Album pattern

creator: First Reform Churches of Fishkill and Hopewell

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Eliza Polhemus Cobb, 1952


title: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

creator: Gerrit Pietersz. Sweelink

medium: Etching; second state of two

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved


title: Samuel Verplanck

creator: John Singleton Copley

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of James De Lancey Verplanck, 1939


title: Textile with Flower Motif

date: 15th century

medium: Silk

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
German
Flowers
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sultan Ahmed III Crowned in the Mosque at Eyups (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe, Asia and into Part of Africa...,"  London, 1724, vol. I, pl. 17B)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Panel

date: 18th century

medium: Linen, cotton, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Dress panels

date: possibly 1775–78

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Watch

creator: Firm of Terond and Ravier

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Lady May Fletcher-Moulton, 1926


title: Kneeling Saint and Lost Souls before the Madonna and Child, with Four Alternate Border Designs

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over graphite

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman


title: The Second Month

creator: Ishikawa Toyomasa

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and printed

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Men)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

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

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


title: Livre de Moresques, page 6 (verso)

creator: Francesco di Pellegrino

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Governor Seay, Alabama, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-1), issued by Duke Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Altar

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

country: Spanish

subjects: Sculpture Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Band

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1929


title: Polishing Stone

date: probably 19th century

medium: Agate

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: 7 of Collars, 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: Card Number 118, Annie Sutherland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Frontispiece with Dedication to Mr. Claude Charles De Baufremont, Marquis de Senecey, from "Les Exercices Militaires" (The Military Exercises)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Pair of Rowel Spurs

medium: Silver, iron

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
French, pari

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Scarab Finger Ring

medium: Faience, linen


title: Hudibras and the Lawyer (Plate 12: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined closed shape

date: 6th century BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric

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


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

date: 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Two fulcra (headrest) attachments in the form of mule's heads

date: ca. late 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Wineglass

date: possibly 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Terracotta fragment of a bowl

date: 5th/4th centuries BCE


title: Order of the Golden Fleece, Austria, from the World's Decorations series (N30) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Plate

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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


title: Count Vauvineaux, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22a) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Dish with cover and liner

creator: Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert R. Livingston, 1973


title: Brocade

date: probably 17th–18th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-brocade

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Cap

creator: Abigail Lloyd Lott Zabriskie

medium: Cotton

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Louise G. Zabriskie, 1932


title: Stone Bead

date: before 16th century

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Beads-ornament

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Lillian Russell, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: A Wedding Scene

date: mid-18th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Central)

subjects:
Painting
India (central)

credit_line: Gift of Daniel J. Slott, 1977


title: Part of Buckle

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Gold or gilt brass

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 55 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Ox

creator: Tomotada

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bird Plaque Ornament

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Vicús

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Vicú
Birds

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


title: Corset

creator: Madame Warren's

medium: cotton, metal, bone, silk

subjects:
American
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Albert Ogden in memory of Sheldon Stewart, 1964


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Tortoise Swimming above Water Weeds (obverse);  Bamboo stems, Vines (reverse)

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Lacquer wood, roiro, imitated bamboo, gold, silver and coloured hiramakie, kirigane; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: String of 5 Beads

date: ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

medium: glass, gold foil

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: [Col. Topham Endeavoring with his Squirt to Extinguish the Genius of Holman]

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: [October 5, 1785], reissued 1793

medium: Etching

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


title: A Hail Storm

creator: Henry William Bunbury

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1971


title: Bronze mirror

date: early 3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Ewer

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

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


title: Twin Pines, Level Distance

creator: Zhao Mengfu

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973


title: Bronze statuette of a boy in the pose of an orator

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic or Boeotian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic or boeotian

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Brummer, 1957


title: St. Jerome in a Landscape

creator: Jean Jacques Lagrenée

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Vase

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)


title: Plaque with Saint William of Bourges

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Rock crystal

country: Akkadian

subjects:
Akkadian
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Fragment of a Band

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Port glass

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Edward Holbrook Collection, Gift of Mrs. Edward Holbrook and John S. Holbrook, 1921


title: Hairpin with Terminal Knob

medium: Bone

country: Roman

subjects:
Bone
Roman
Skeletons & bones


title: Designs for the Decoration of the Frizzen and Jaws of the Cock of a Firearm

creator: Nicolas Noël Boutet

medium: Pencil, ink, gray wash on paper

country: French, Versailles

subjects:
Work on paper-drawing
French, versaille

credit_line: Purchase, Clay P. Bedford Gift, 2004


title: Bowl with Lioness

medium: Earthenware

country: Byzantine

subjects: Ceramic Byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Sleigh #3868

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Monkey on Background of Flowers (obverse); Flowering Scrolls (reverse)

date: 19th century

medium: Lacquer, dark brown, grey and brown hiramakie, takamakie, fundame, red, silver; Interior: roiro and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan Flowers

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


title: Shoe Buckle

medium: Silver plate on copper

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Horse and female rider

date: 7th century

medium: Unfired clay with pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1951


title: Crochet Work

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Rank Badge with Quail

medium: Silk, metallic thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Wooded Landscape

creator: Gillis van Coninxloo

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and blue ink and washes in the same colors

country: Netherlandish

subjects: Drawing Netherlandish Landscapes

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Design for Dining Room Ceiling, Château de Cangé

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor, gouache

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Student at a Table by Candlelight

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; first of two states

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Friedman, 1965


title: Letter from George Washington to New York Governor George Clinton

creator: George Washington

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Work on paper-miscellaneous
American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Chest-on-chest

medium: Maple, white pine

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy O. and Diana Schubart, in memory of William Howard Schubart, 1953


title: Cup (part of a coffee service)

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

date: early 19th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: Tubular drill for carving jade

date: 20th century

medium: Steel

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, 1981


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Card 43, from the Girl Cyclists series (N49) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Limestone plinth with the feet of a female statuette (?)

date: late 4th–2nd century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot ?

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot

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


title: Juglet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Sword (Panabas)

medium: Steel, wood, cane (rattan)

country: Philippine, Malabang

subjects:
Sword
Philippine, malabang

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piece (one of two)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Sword with Scabbard

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood, horn, rattan, metal

country: Acheen

subjects: Sword Acheen


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 16 (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

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


title: A group of men at right pushing philosophers toward a fire with burning books at the left

creator: Marco Dente

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Relief fragment from tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: The Presentation in the Temple, from "The Life of the Virgin"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

subjects: Architecture Print

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


title: Rank Badge with Silver Pheasant

medium: Silk, pearls, and metallic thread embroidery on silk satin

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Terracotta fragments of column-kraters (bowls for mixing wine and water)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


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


title: Sketch of a Classical Pedestal

creator: Thomas Hardwick

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: James Dickson "Dick" Phelan, 2nd Base, Des Moines Prohibitionists, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: King Henry the Eighth and Anna Bullen

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Bellows

date: first quarter 16th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Halberd

medium: Steel, wood

country: German

subjects:
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Cardinal Jules Mazarin

creator: Robert Nanteuil

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Chaikin, 1961


title: Chicago, U.S.N., from the Famous Ships series (N50) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

subjects:
Photograph
Ships & the sea


title: Campaign Button

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1984


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Pendants and beads

date: ca. 18th–17th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Tripod vase

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain with clair de lune glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Rank Badge with Silver Pheasant

medium: Silk, metallic thread on silk


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Cup

date: late 17th–18th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque white glaze under transparent colorless glaze

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


title: Socks

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of C. Otto von Kienbusch, 1971


title: Reverse Copy of Le Gentilhomme de Face, La Main Droite sur la Hanche (Gentleman Facing Forward, His Right Hand on his Hip), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Service of Thanksgiving for Recovery of Prince of Wales medal

creator: Joseph Shepherd Wyon

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2003


title: Rainstorm—Cider Mill at Redding, Connecticut

creator: George Harvey

medium: Watercolor and gouache on white wove paper

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup and Morris K. Jesup Funds, 1991


title: Appliqué from an orphrey

medium: Silk, metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: April Showers (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


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


title: Candlestick with figures of caryatids and putti

creator: Italian

date: 19th century

medium: Copper alloy, with dark green to black patina.

country: Italian, Venice (?)

subjects:
Metalwork
Italian, venice

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Santa Barbara, from the Fancy Bathers series (N187) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Design for a Chair with Turned Front Legs

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: The Cardplayer

creator: Frans van Mieris the Elder

medium: Black chalk, probably moistened in certain areas, and gray wash on vellum.


title: Médînet-Abou (Thèbes), Constructions Postérieures - Fragment de Sculptures Sur la Face Nord-Est

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Stirrup

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Iron

country: West Slavic

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
West slavic

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Daoist priest’s ritual robe with celestial palace

medium: Silk and metal thread embroidery on silk satin

country: China

subjects:
Astronomy
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Flawed neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Vase of Flowers

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite and gouache on brown paper

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Gift of H.A. Elsberg, 1927


title: Hampstead Heath

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Bronze double-ax head

country: Minoan

subjects: Bronze Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Pier Glass Frame, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Five Legs and Three Feet

creator: Luca Ciamberlano

date: 17th century

medium: Engraving

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


title: Birdcage

medium: Mahogany and brass

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Krimsley, 1962


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

date: second quarter 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: Lifting Hook

medium: Wood and hemp rope

country: Coptic

subjects: Woodwork-miscellany Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Covered vase

date: 18th century

medium: Rock crystal

subjects:
Hardstone
China
Minerals & gems

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


title: A Peep into Friar Bacon's Study

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Flake Tool

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of C.T. Currelly, 1906


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Glass spouted jug

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Piece

date: 15th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress, 1946


title: Umbel Pendant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Putti Playing with Hoops (Cartoon for a Fresco in Parma Cathedral)

creator: Michelangelo Anselmi

medium: Black chalk; outlines pricked for transfer

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey and Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation Gifts, 2013


title: Toadfish, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print

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


title: Standing man Amulet

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: The first roll-call of the new legislature –Be still my beating heart... Go to the tribune for the first time!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, June 21, 1870

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1954


title: Cypriote base-ring juglet

medium: Pottery, black ware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Rocky Landscape with the Stigmatisation of Saint Francis

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Sauceboat tray (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Console ornament

medium: Wood, gilt

subjects:
Ornament & design
Woodwork-furniture

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Reliquary bust of a bishop-saint

date: early 17th century

medium: Bronze, fire-gilt; glass

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Head of a figure wearing a turban

creator: Félicien Rops

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Broccoli, 1980


title: Lappet

medium: linen

country: Flemish

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


title: Panel

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

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


title: Illustration for a Book:  Keys of a City Offered to a Procession of Cardinals Headed by a Riderless Horse

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Black chalk.   Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk

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


title: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Talleyrand

creator: Pierre Paul Prud'hon

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, in memory of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, 1994


title: Sickle Fragment

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


title: Druz Chief

creator: C.D. Fredricks & Co.

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2024


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


title: The Triumph of Love, from "The Triumphs of Petrarch"

creator: Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Transylvanian prayer rug

date: early 18th century

medium: Wool pile on wool foundation.

country: Turkish, possibly Kula region

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Turkish, possibly kula region
Textiles-rug

credit_line:
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
1975.1.2454


title: Holy-water stoup and sprinkler

date: 19th century, after early 16th century original

medium: Agate; silver-gilt mounts

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Vestment

medium: Silk, metal

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: Christ Blessing

creator: Segna di Buonaventura

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Bequest of Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965


title: Sharp-shooter, Germany, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sword

medium: Iron, wood, silver, copper alloy, ray skin, leather

country: Eastern Tibetan

subjects:
Sword
Eastern tibetan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Roof Seat Break #3955

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed open-work, partially gilded, lace paper, chromolithography

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Eagle pendant

creator: Chiriquí artist(s)

medium: Gold

country: Chiriquí

subjects: Metal-ornament Chiriquí

credit_line: Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991


title: Cup with cover and stand (one of a pair)

creator: John Parker

medium: Silver-gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Roosevelt Aitken Gift, 2011


title: Bangle with Rings

date: 300 BCE–CE 400

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Gipsies; Lewitha; Upper Lake; [Untitled]

creator: John Dillwyn Llewelyn

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Solidus

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Vase with the Eight Immortals

date: mid-19th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels, gilt and silver (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Bracelet

date: 16th century

country: Spanish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Spanish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Soldiers and peasants, sitting and fighting near a table

creator: Frans van den Wyngaerde

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Table knife and fork

medium: Steel

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: White-Faced Black Spanish Cock, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Digger

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Woodcut; second (final) state; posthumous edition

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Van Horne Norrie, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Case (Inrō) with Netsuke

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Inrō Japan


title: Valentine

creator: Kate Greenaway

medium: White card, chromolithography, gold lithography


title: Reverse Copy of Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, from The Story of Joseph

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: William C. Whitney of New York, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Design for a Classical Country House, Entrance Elevation

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Watercolor, pen and ink

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Queen Victoria

creator: William Charles Brown

medium: Woodburytypes

credit_line: Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 2011


title: recto: "Portrait of Prince Danyal", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

creator: Manohar

date: recto: late 16th century; verso: ca. 1500

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955


title: Firescreen

creator: Thomas Affleck

medium: Mahogany, walnut, brass

country: American

credit_line: Gifts and funds from various donors, by exchange, 1949


title: Bowl

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Paul E. Manheim, 1967


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bronze statuette of a lion

date: 6th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Funerary Cone of Djehutynefer

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Herbert E. Winlock, 1909


title: Broadsheet relating to skeletons rising from their graves, two skeletons duelling with swords

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on orange paper

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


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: Amor, Tod und Jenseits, from the series Intermezzi

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching and aquatint on chine collé

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


title: Pin

date: 4th century BCE

medium: bronze

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Ralph M. Chait, 1943


title: Orphreys, Two

medium: Silk and metal thread

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Visiting the Sick, from "Acts of Mercy" (Les Oeuvres de Miséricorde)

date: after 1635

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


title: Card Number 66, Miss Sadie Martinot, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Pair of candlesticks (part of a toilet service)

creator: William Fowle

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1963


title: Chamber candlestick or taperstick

creator: Christopher Binger I

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Louise and David Braver, 2006


title: Nile, 1904 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Earring

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold, granulation, filigree wire

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Headband

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Silver; fire gilded, with silver shot, pins, stamped beading evoking granulation, loop-in-loop chains, pendants, and table-cut carnelians

credit_line: Gift of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf, 2018


title: Stencil

date: 19th century

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Baluster

date: first half 18th century

medium: Deal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Terracotta fragment of a kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

date: late 6th century BCE


title: Pendant

date: 18th century

medium: Nephrite

country: China

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Bottle

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Bequest of Constance R. Brown, 1939


title: Plate 1: two children sitting on the ground, the child on the right drawing while the child on the left holding the album, the title page from 'The Book for Learning to Draw' (Livre pour apprendre à dessiner)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

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


title: Untitled

creator: Jean Jacques Caffiéri

medium: Plaster

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Sacrifice of Noah (?)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium:
Pen and brown ink, brush and yellow, red, green, blue, brown and gray watercolor, over black chalk on cream laid paper
Fragments of framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Ewe and Lamb

creator: Karel Dujardin

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Joan G. Smith, 2024


title: Joint Stool

medium: Maple

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Design for a Chimneypiece

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Ewer with floral scrolls

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Astragal frame

medium: Oak

country: French

subjects: Frame French

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Game piece with two noblemen in profile

date: mid-16th century

medium: Boxwood, walnut

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


title: Nose ornament

date: 10th–16th century

medium: Gold (hammered)

country: Colombia

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Colombia

credit_line: Gift of Meredith Howland, 1904


title: Fishnet sinker

medium: Bone

country: Japan

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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: Fragment

date: late 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Jews at a Luncheon

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Strip

date: 17th century

medium: Embroidered net, punto à rammendo, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Dish with immortals

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China


title: Folding Fan with Scene of Figures in a Courtyard Garden

medium: Silver, brass, paper, and silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Heyward Cutting, 1942


title: Column Shaft

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Sampler

medium: Wool, knitted lace

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


title: A man carrying  sack striding to the left

creator: Nicoletto da Modena

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

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


title: Key

date: 15th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: German or South Netherlandish

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
German or south netherlandish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Cape May, from the Fancy Bathers series (N187) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Model of a Dog

date: late 17th century

medium: Porcelain with polychrome enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Kakiemon type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan


title: Gold aureus of Hadrian

medium: Gold

country: Roman

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Gift of Joseph H. Durkee, 1899


title: [Five Japanese Women in Traditional Dress with Parasols]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Wrought Iron Gate Design (recto); Sketches for Bracket (verso)

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Watercolor (recto); graphite (verso)

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


title: David with the Head of Goliath

creator: Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Armchair (one of a pair)

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Portrait Panel of Benjamin Franklin

medium: Linden, holly, sycamore or harewood

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1947


title: View of a Town with a Canal

creator: Jan van de Velde I

date: early 17th century

medium: Etching; third state of three (Hollstein)

credit_line: Bequest of Joan G. Smith, 2024


title: Relief with two foreigners

medium: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Rosen, 1991


title: Le-Le- Cong Josshouse, Amoy

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Corbel with Crouching Male Figure

medium: Calcareous sandstone

country: Central or Western French

subjects:
Architecture
Sculpture-architectural
Central or western french

credit_line: Gift of Roy R. Neuberger, 1980


title: Su Dongpo in a Borrowed Hat

creator: Ōsen Keisan

date: late 15th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2018


title: Roller

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Elias S. David, in memory of Elias S. David, 1984


title: Young Woman Looks at Silhouette of a Male Prisoner being Led Away

creator: Tomioka Eisen

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Ein ney Furmbüchlein, Page 3, verso

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Flounce

date: second half 17th century

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1913


title: Collar

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, 1961


title: Terracotta barrel-shaped jug

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 24r)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Shoulder Cape (Pelerine)

medium: cotton, feathers

country: Native American(?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Native american
Feathers-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1976


title: Shrove-Tide, Denmark, from the Holidays series (N80) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Capital with Palmettes and Leaves

date: late 8th century

medium: Alabaster, gypsum; carved in relief

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1936


title: Specimen

date: 19th century

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Corchorus (or Yellow Rose) and Creeping Saxifrage

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan Roses

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


title: Title page, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching on chine collé

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Agwel

date: late 19th century

medium: Clay

country: Moroccan

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / goblet drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Bobbin

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Glass

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

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


title: Armlet

medium: Copper alloy

country: Celtic

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Celtic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Pickaxe with crouching lion

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Terracotta deep skyphos (drinking cup)

date: 11th–9th century BCE

country: Greek, Cretan

subjects:
Vase
Greek, cretan

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1914


title: Standing Figure of a Man with a Staff

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Black chalk and graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Bessie Potter Vonnoh, by exchange, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1996


title: The Descent into Limbo

creator: Andrea Mantegna

date: mid-15th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Tall Clock

creator: William Claggett

medium: Mahogany, red maple, tulip poplar

country: American

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1930


title: Polishing wheel for carving jade

date: 20th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Wood China

credit_line: Gift of Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, 1981


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Journey Home

creator: David Cox

medium: Watercolor with reductive techniques and black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Fern and Lewis Lowenfels, 2022


title: Sketch for Wall Decoration

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, washed with green

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Angel

creator: Salvatore di Franco

date: second half 18th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Binioù kozh (bagpipe)

medium: Wood, leather, cane reed, various materials

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-bagpipe
French


title: Part of the Entrance of the Polish Legation (G and H)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; first state


title: Peasant woman

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, silver

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


title: Coffer or chest key

date: 17th century

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Gift of Richard S. Perkins, 1975


title: Embroidered picture

medium: Wool

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Left Side of the Design for a Table with the Figure of a Siren

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk

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


title: Sheet with pattern of triangles

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Cuneiform tablet: list of witnesses

date: ca. 634 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Chest with drawer

creator: Robert Crosman

medium: Painted white pine, white cedar

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


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Textile fragment with cloud palmettes and characters of longevity (Shou)

date: 14th century

medium: Silk satin damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Weight Weighing Six Deben

medium: Bronze or copper alloy, filled with lead

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Man of War, Germany, from the Naval Flags series (N17) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

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


title: The Order of the Bust of Bolivar, or Order of the Liberator of Venezuela, from the World's Decorations series (N44) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Bead

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Spear Decorated with Tibetan Buddhist Symbols

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver, wood, pigment

country: Tibetan

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Tibetan

credit_line: Purchase, Kenneth and Vivian Lam Gift, and Funds from Various Donors, 2004


title: Mahavira Sitting at the Top of the Universe: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Painter of Acropolis 356

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: Incense Box

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Putto with Flute

creator: Niccolò Roccatagliata

date: 16th century

medium: Bronze, dark green marble plinth

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1945


title: Stone Oil Lamp

date: 9th century

medium: Steatite; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Preparatory Drawing for a Warrior Print

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

date: 19th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Basket

medium: Lacy pressed blue glass

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


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 71 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Act III (Dai sandanme): Actors Bandō Hikosaburō V as Hayano Kanpei and Sawamura Tanosuke III as Koshimoto Okaru, from the series The Storehouse of Loyal Retainers, a Primer (Kanadehon chūshingura)

creator: Utagawa Kuniaki II

date: 1862 (Bunkyū 2), 6th month

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st–2nd century CE

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Chalcedony, milky

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, 1899


title: Purse

medium: cotton, silk

country: probably British

credit_line: Gift of Stella Jolles Reichman, 1980


title: New Modelbüch (Page 28r)

creator: Andreas Bretschneider

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Design for a Ring, Plate 28 from 'Livre d'Aneaux d'Orfevrerie'

creator: Pierre Woeiriot de Bouzey II

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Sukia Figure

date: 10th–16th century

medium: Stone

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Atlantic watershed

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Hollihan III, 1993


title: Stockings

medium: cotton

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John G. Milmoe, 1993


title: Monumental Head of a Foreigner

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Lewis and Elaine Dubroff, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2017


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave, looped embroidery

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Tassel

date: early 19th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Jerkin

date: early 17th century

medium: silk, jute

country: European

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: A Fool and a Woman

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Plate

medium: Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware

credit_line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902


title: Madonna and Child (The Lehman Madonna)

creator: Andrea della Robbia

medium: Glazed terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation Inc., 1969


title: Alabaster mortar or deep bowl

medium: Gypsum (alabaster)

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot


title: Disk Brooch

date: 6th century

medium: GIlded silver, paste or garnet, iron core, and metal foil

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Square

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Cassone

date: second half 16th century

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Paint Roller

date: ca. 3500 BCE

medium: Earthenware

country: Thailand

subjects: Ceramic Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence R. Phillips, 1973


title: Fragment

medium: Nephrite

country: China (possibly Turkestan)

subjects:
Jade
China (possibly turkestan)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Parasol

medium: silk, metal, horn

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts from Various Donors, 1983


title: Roundel with Christ Condemned by Pilate

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: North Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
North netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1932


title: Terracotta oil lamp

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: Lower part of a vessel showing scene with boat, man, and cow

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1985


title: Horus Amulet

medium: Lapis lazuli

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Zither

date: late 19th century

medium: Bamboo or reed

country: Beninese

subjects: Chordophone-zither-plucked Beninese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Seated Male Deity and Female Attendant

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Gray sandstone

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Count Burckhardt (from "Once a Week," September 27, 1862)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

date: September 27, 1862

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1925


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman


title: Jugate heads of Germanicus (15 B.C.–19 A.D.) and Agrippina (d. 33 A.D.)

date: probably 17th century

medium: Onyx

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1939


title: Plate

date: mid-17th century

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Retté. Adolphe. 30 ans, né à Paris IXe. Homme de lettre. Cris séditieux. 21/1/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Painted Bunting, 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


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: La Basilica di San Marco in Venezia illustrata nella storia e nell'arte da scrittori veneziani : [volume 3]

creator: Camillo Boito


title: Book cover with overall floral and dot pattern

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: The Alms Gift of Dust

date: ca. 2nd century

medium: Schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Gift of Paul E. Manheim, 1967


title: Musette

creator: Forquin

medium: Ivory, leather, various materials

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-bagpipe
French

credit_line: Gift of Helen C. Lanier, 1982


title: Flagon (one of a pair)

creator: Richard Blackwell II

medium: Gilded silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Ornament

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bone

country: Iran

subjects:
Ornament & design
Iran
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Khalil Rabenou, 1958


title: Medallion

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Copy of L'Homme Qui Court (The Running Man), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: In Their Forties

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Crayon lithograph printed in olive green on imitation japan paper; only state

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949


title: St. Jude Thaddeus, from "Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Jar with dragon-shaped handles

date: 8th century

medium: Stoneware with white slip and glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Back Wheel, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: [Court of French and Italian Sculpture; Avenue in Front of Fine Arts Courts; View into Classical Sculpture Gallery; Avenue in Front of Sheffield Court]

creator: Philip Henry Delamotte


title: Papyrus fragments from the Book of the Dead of the Scribe Roy

date: possibly ca. 1314–1300 BCE

medium: Papyrus, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Philips & McClure, Augusta, Illinois]

creator: N. McDonald

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Coat

creator: Liberty & Co.

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stein, 1962


title: Tall-Footed Bowl (Hachi)

medium: Earthenware with pigment

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: 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: Lappets

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Coronation Procession of Charles II Through London (from John Ogilby's "The Entertainment of...Charles II," London, 1662)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: Terracotta stand with a satyr

date: 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Reliquary casket

date: early 17th century

medium: Silver gilt, glass, enamel on gold

credit_line: Gift of Ruth Blumka, in honor of Ashton Hawkins, 1985


title: The Sleeping Congregation

creator: William Hogarth

date: October 26, 1736

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Helmet (Bascinet) with Detachable Visor

date: probably early to mid-19th century in the style of ca. 1400

medium: Steel, leather

country: probably German

subjects:
Helmet
Probably german

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Mortar and Pestle

medium: Free-blown glass

country: American


title: Liverdun

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on gray chine on off-white wove paper (chine collé); third state of three (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Marble relief of Hermes, three nymphs, and Acheloös

medium: Marble, Island ?

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Manuscript Leaf with the Trinity in an Initial T, from an Antiphonary

creator: Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius

date: second half 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

country: Italian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

credit_line: Gift of Louis L. Lorillard, 1896, transferred from the Library


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: St. Matthew

creator: Martin Schongauer

date: second half of the 15th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Marianne Khuner, 1984


title: Tile

creator: Charles Volkmar

medium: Earthenware

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


title: Knife (one of a set)

creator: Antonio Gentili (Antonio da Faenza)

date: late 16th century

medium: Silver, gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

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


title: Francesco da Sangallo

creator: Francesco da Sangallo

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Ann and George Blumenthal Fund, 1950


title: Glass Fragments from a Vessel

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass

country: Coptic

subjects:
Glass-vessel
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cavalry Skirmish with a Fallen Drummer at Left

creator: Francesco Casanova

medium: Brush and gray and brown wash, heightened with white

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1983


title: Ada Somers, 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: Terracotta fragment of a stemless kylix (drinking cup)?

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Bowl

creator: Cristalleries de Saint-Louis

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Paperweight

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Paul and Irene Hollister, 1980


title: The Bride Taken Home

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: The Arch Duchess Maria Louisa Going to Take Her Nap

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970


title: Dish with Bands of Geometricized Patterns

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue with comb pattern around the foot  (Nabeshima ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Ring to lift kettle

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Duct Flute

date: late 19th century

medium: cane

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

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Scenes from the Bhagavata Purana

date: early 19th century

medium: Ink on paper

country: India (Pahari Hills, Kangra)

subjects:
Painting
India (pahari hills, kangra)

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


title: Prima parte de' fiori, page 13 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista Ciotti

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo with a Sword, Fighting the Actor Ichikawa Raizo II who is Armed with a Lance

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Lappet

date: 17th century

medium: Needle lace

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; mold blown, applied decoration

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: The Duet, No. 2

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on grayish laid China paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Pitcher and stand

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Gravures de Boucher pour les Oeuvres de Molière [Figures de Boucher pour Molière]

creator: Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse

date: mid-18th century

medium: Graphite, etching, engraving, mezzotint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942


title: Uçetek Entari

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread, cotton; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of David Leon Dalva II and Leon J. Dalva Jr., 1966


title: Shallow Round Dish on tall Pedestal Decorated with Fruit and Female Masks

creator: Erasmus Hornick

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray and yellow wash

subjects: Drawing Fruits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1958


title: Set of four three-light wall brackets

creator: Charles Cressent

medium: Gilt bronze

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


title: Ceremonial halberd blade or finial

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2019


title: Trees and Rocks

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Red chalk on light tan paper. Fragments of red chalk framing outline

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Coverlet

medium: Bobbin lace, Brussels bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1944


title: Belt Plate Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Iron, silver inlay

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Gold aureus of Antoninus Pius

medium: Gold

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Gift of Joseph H. Durkee, 1899


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Shaker

creator: Thomas Danforth, III

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Joseph France, 1943


title: Mlle Guibert[?]; Mlle Laurent

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Orpheus and Eurydice, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: The Artist's Mother Seated at a Table Looking Right: Three-Quarter Length

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; New Holl.'s second state of three

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of a pot; glazed on the inside

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace, punto avorio

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


title: The lake of Kuggsuak at Tasermiut, Greenland

creator: Lars Møller

medium: Color lithograph

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


title: Card 622, Mattie Fuller, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Six Month

creator: Ishikawa Toyomasa

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

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


title: Seated Buddha

date: dated 524

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur M. Sackler Gift, 1974


title: Child god (Harpokrates?) amulet

medium: Lapis lazuli

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Apparel

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Silk and metal thread on velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Horse bit cheekpieces

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Ben-Zion, 1984


title: Reel

medium: Clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–15th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

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


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk


title: Male attendant

date: 8th century

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Levitt, by exchange, 1978


title: Apple of Discord Thrown by Eris at the Marriage of Peleus and Thetis: Study for Fresco in the Hall of Henri II at Fountainebleau

creator: Francesco Primaticcio

medium: Red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on beige paper

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917


title: Short Sword and Sheath with Animal Motifs

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Northeast China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northeast china

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


title: Rubbers

medium: rubber

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard Blackwell, 1941


title: A Woman Standing by a Seated Man

creator: Thomas Wijck

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Sleeve

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Cotton on linen

credit_line: Gift of Countess Thérèse Pálffy, 1908


title: Coat

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. J. C. Hawthorne, 1946


title: Pebble

medium: Nephrite

country: China, Turkestan

subjects:
Jade
China, turkestan

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Glass monocrome dish fragment

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

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


title: Bowl with Lid

medium: Porcelain decorated with polychrome overglaze enamels

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Walter Sachs, 1964


title: Flask

medium: Blown pattern-molded lead glass

country: European, probably

subjects:
Ornament & design
European, probably

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1914


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Armchair (fauteuil à la reine)

creator: Jacques Gondouin

medium: Carved and gilded beech; modern silk lampas

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1944


title: Vendor of Glassware, plate 19 from "Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac"

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)

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


title: Fireback

date: 18th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: From the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Flounce

date: late 17th century

medium: Needle lace, Point de France

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1924


title: Edging

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Jack A. Josephson, 1973


title: Bowl

medium: Paste covered with glaze (Seto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan


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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Plate

creator: Jean-Baptiste Guillibaud

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Spatula in the Form of a Hand

date: 3rd–7th century

medium: Bone, turquoise, pyrite

country: Moche

subjects:
Bone/ivory-implement
Moche
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Inkwell

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1911


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

country: Greek, Attic


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Belt slide with a falcon attacking a swan

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Gift, 1991


title: Apparels for a Requiem Mass

date: ca. 1700 (embroidery) patched and reassembled to current shape in the 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Bonaparte proclaimed Emperor

creator: Bertrand Andrieu

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of Hon. Levi P. Morton, 1885


title: The Sawhorse, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, scratching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Smith and Wesson .32 Caliber Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 17156

creator: Smith & Wesson

medium: Steel, silver, copper-platinum-iron alloy, nickel

country: American, Springfield, Massachusetts and New York

credit_line: Gift of Gerald Klaz, M.D., Trustee - The Gerald Klaz Trust, 2003


title: The Little Puck

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Ariadne on Naxos Approached by Bacchus

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Short Sword with Ornate Handle

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: North China

subjects:
Metalwork
North china

credit_line: Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw Art Foundation, 2003


title: Saturn

creator: Sir Nicolas Dorigny

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Sichel, 1966


title: Plateau


title: Figure Holding a Spear and a Helmet

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Red chalk, brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Pendant

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Pebble, bronze bands missing


title: Ushnishavijaya Enthroned in the Womb of a Stupa

date: dated 1510–19

medium: Distemper on cloth

country: Nepal

subjects: Painting Nepal

credit_line: Zimmerman Family Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2012


title: Beaker (Humpen)

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Armorial panel

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: The Dead Hare

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of three

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


title: Tankard

creator: W. F., London

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Satyrs Abducting Nymphs

creator: François Jean Sablet

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

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1986


title: Souvenir spoon

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1900


title: Design for a Wall Decoration with a River God and Putti carrying the Symbols of King François I

creator: Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001


title: Upper Lake

creator: John Dillwyn Llewelyn

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Hatchet

medium: Jadeite

country: France

subjects: Jade France

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Designs for Two Tombs

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

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


title: Half-Moon Tile (Kawarake)

creator: Raku Tannyu

date: 19th century

medium: Earthenware (Raku ware)

country: Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

country: Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

subjects:
Glass
Eastern mediterranean or italian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez par J.B. Toro

creator: Jean Bernard Toro

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

medium: Steel

country: German, Nuremberg

subjects:
German, nuremberg
Armor parts-thigh and leg defense

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Qanbūs

date: 19th Century

medium: Wood and skin.

country: possibly Saudi or Syrian

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-plucked-unfretted
Possibly saudi or syrian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: "Wid me one hand," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Base for a Water Pipe (huqqa) with Floral Medallions

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze, and with brown glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Fragment of a box (?) with elephants

date: ca. 5th century

medium: Bronze

country: North or West India

subjects:
Sculpture
North or west india

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Playing Tric Trac

creator: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

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


title: Plaque

medium: Porcelain

country: French

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Osiris

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Sheet with overall dot and floral pattern

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Rank Badge

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and metallic thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Design for a Multi-paned Stained-glass Window, Church of the Divine Paternity, New York

creator: Clayton and Bell

medium: Watercolor and pen and ink

credit_line: Gift of Helena Bienstock, Cynthia MacKay Keegan and Frank E. Johnson, 2012


title: Coin Weight

date: 12th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Plate 27: The Dutch During a Surprise Attack of the Roman Camp on the Moselle, from The War of the Romans Against the Batavians (Romanorvm et Batavorvm societas)

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching, first state of two, issue 1 (Bartsch)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of the Society for Women's Work, Stockholm, 1908


title: Ostracon

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


date: late 6th century BCE/early 5th century BCE

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


title: Saint Anne kneeling holding the Virgin, with Saint Joachim holding his staff at right

creator: Giuliano Traballesi

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941


title: Wine bottle cooler (one of a pair)

creator: Chantilly

medium: Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain, silver

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Piece

creator: Oberkampf Manufactory

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: The Murder of Julius Caesar (Iulius Caesar Veneris beneficio in Cometam mutatur), plate 150 from Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

medium: Etching

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Portrait of a man

creator: Joachim Smith

medium: Colored wax; frame: wood

subjects: Sculpture-miniature Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1939


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug) or olpe (jug)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: [Rapid, Yen-Ping]

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Scholar viewing a waterfall

creator: Ma Yuan

date: early 13th century

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1973


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Roman remains at Tivoli, from "Roman Ruins"

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of three

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: La Dame au Masque (The Lady with a Mask), from "La Noblesse" (The Nobility)

creator: Jacques Callot

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Mokugyo (木魚)

medium: Wood

country: Japanese

subjects:
Idiophone-struck-slit drum
Japanese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cowroid Seal with Maat inscription

medium: Faience, Prussian blue

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Four: The Confluence of the Huai and Yellow Rivers

creator: Xu Yang

date: dated 1770

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk, lacquer box

credit_line: Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1984


title: Bustle

medium: cotton

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Harold Koda, 2008


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Card Number 626, Belle Urquehardt, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Plaque

creator: Ott and Brewer

medium: Porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, David S. and Elizabeth W. Quackenbush Gift and funds from various donors, 2011


title: Wide-rimmed bowl depicting figures from Virgil's Aeneid

creator: Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Bones and Banjo, from the Musical Instruments series (N121) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones


title: Goblet

date: probably late 17th century

medium: Bubbly colorless (very faint gray), opaque white, and transparent turquoise blue nonlead glass. Blown, trailed, pincered, "vetro a retorti".

country: Northern European (possibly south Lowlands or Germany)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Plate

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Square-form vase with decoration of Su Shi’s first and second “Rhapsody on Red Cliff”

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Julia and John Curtis, 2015


title: Hasp

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Textile with Boar's Head Roundels

date: 7th century

medium: Silk split-stitch embroidery on plain-weave silk

country: Iran, Afghanistan or China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region)

credit_line: Purchase, Sir Joseph Hotung Gift, 2004


title: Dressing gown

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Jason Westerfield, 1967


title: Cope

date: 15th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: The Israelites holding out their cloaks to collect the manna raining from heaven, Moses standing in the background

creator: Jean Raymond

medium: Engraving

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


title: Four Heads (from Characaturas by Leonardo da Vinci, from Drawings by Wincelslaus Hollar, out of the Portland Museum)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta


title: Knife

medium: Nephrite

country: North America (Alaska, Cape Prince of Wales)

subjects: North america (alaska, cape prince of wales)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Hand warmer or flask in the shape of a book

date: first half 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Egg Cup

medium: Opaque glass with enamel decoration

country: British

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1951


title: Wonders! Wonders!! Wonders!!!

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: August 1, 1809

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Harness Trapping

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze, (with high tin content)

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Edward B. Bruce, 1924


title: Shield (Dhàl)

date: 19th century

medium: Hide, silver, iron, lacquer

country: Indian

subjects: Shield Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Pelerine

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Townsend Russell, 1925