title: The Execution of Maximilian

creator: Edouard Manet

date: 1868, published in 1884

medium: Lithograph on chine collé; first state of three

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Lieutenant, Old Guard, National Guard of the State of New York, 1887, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco 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: Beads

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Shell, stone

country: Iran

subjects:
Iran
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Fragment of a Bottle

date: 18th century

medium: Free-blown non-lead glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Edna M. Netter, 1937


title: Part of 21.9.553

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Imperial Court Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1935


title: Reliquary with Contents

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Schist with objects of silver and copper

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin N. Haas, 1987


title: Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1899


title: Banner

date: 16th century

medium: Silk, polychromy

country: Italian

subjects: Banner Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: A Journey in Search of the Artist's Parents

creator: Unidentified artist

date: Dated 1656

medium: Album of fourteen leaves; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: The Sackler Fund, 1970


title: Sage Floating on Lotus Leaf

medium: Album leaf; ink on silk

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Plate with portrait of Henri de Verger, Comte de la Rochejaquelein

date: dated 1794

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

subjects: Ceramics-pottery Portraits

credit_line: Gift of John Stemme, 1910


title: Trousers

medium: Leather

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 11th century

medium: Wool and twill; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: recto: "Portrait of Raja Suraj Singh Rathor", verso: Page of Calligraphy. Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

creator: Bishan Das

date: recto: late 16th century; verso: ca. 1640

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

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


title: Bowl

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; overglaze painted, so-called "mina'i" ware

credit_line: Milton A. Rauh and Florence L. Goldmark Collection, Bequest of Florence L. Goldmark, 1974


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Souvenir spoon

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

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


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

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Jug

medium: Stoneware

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Chisel

medium: Wood, bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Reverse Copy of Frontispiece, from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Head of Christ

creator: Cigoli (Ludovico Cardi)

medium: Oil paint on a sheet of paper that had previous writing by the artist in pen and brown ink (surface varnished)

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Carl L. Selden Gift, in memory of Carl L. Selden, 1987


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Grain Serving Vessel (Dou)

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Terracotta kylix: lip-cup (drinking cup)

creator: Centaur Painter

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


title: Saucer (soucoupe)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Clinton Gênet, in memory of "Citizen" Edmond Charles Gênet, 1909


title: Jar

date: ca. 2nd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Parthian or Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Two Flayed Men and Their Skeletons

creator: Domenico del Barbiere

medium: Engraving

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


title: One Hundred Newly Selected Designs by Kōrin (Kōrin shinsen hyakuzu)

creator: Ogata Kōrin

medium: Two volumes of Woodblock printed books; ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 5th century BCE

medium: Stone, white beige

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Promenade parasol

medium: silk, ivory, metal

credit_line: Gift of Miss Evelyn Mellen, 1951


title: Bourges

creator: Pierre Emile Joseph Pécarrère

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Panel with a Candelabrum Containing a Female Satyr Seated on a Helmet

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Pot

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic


title: Woodwork of a Room from the Colden House, Coldenham, New York

medium: Pine

credit_line: Purchase, The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, by  exchange, 1940


title: Spandrel Panel from Edgar H. Laing Stores

creator: James Bogardus

medium: Cast iron

credit_line: Gift of Margaret H. Tuft, 1979


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: James Johnston of Straiton (died 1841)

creator: Sir Henry Raeburn

medium: Oil on canvas

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Card Number 217, Sutherland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


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

creator: Eretria Painter

medium: Terracotta


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Ewer

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; overglaze painted (mina'i)

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


title: Allegory of Birth

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

medium: Engraving; second state of five

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Cap

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: wool

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Sally Hedden, 1945


title: Animal Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

credit_line: Gift of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1980


title: Altar frontal

date: second half 18th century

medium: Metal thread on silk

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Coin (Crown) Showing Edward VI

medium: Silver

country: British

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
British

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1922


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


title: Satyr whipping a nymph, who is shown from behind and bound to a tree, a second satyr bearing a club stands in the middle ground

creator: Agostino Carracci

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: View Above Handeck, Switzerland

creator: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc

medium: Watercolor heightened with gouache, on blue paper

credit_line: Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, in memory of Jacob Bean, 2018


title: Glass Fragments

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass (clear)

subjects: Glass Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Brougham #4063

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Plaque, Anne of Brittany

date: 15th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: French

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
French

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Belt Buckle with Raptors and Tigers

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Northeast China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northeast china

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


title: Chasse

date: 13th century

medium: Champlevé enamel and gilded copper

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Twelve spoons

creator: Paul de Lamerie

date: first half 18th century

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of George D. Widener and Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, 1958


title: Cricket cage

medium: Gourd, ivory

subjects:
Cricket cage
China

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


title: Sugar bowl (Model 247)

creator: Christopher Dresser

medium: Silver-plated nickel

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2020


title: Glass miniature jar

date: 4th–5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Gift of Elias Kempner, 1934


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite; squaring lines in pen and red ink

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


title: Patch Box

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Writing Desk (Bundai) with Landscape and Geese

date: 17th century

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

subjects: Lacquer Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Ring

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Painter of Munich 2335

date: ca. 440 BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Purchased by subscription, 1899


title: Nine Designs for Decorated Cups

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

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


title: Strip

date: late 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Barbed Point

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-implement Vicú

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


title: Gimp

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Plate

medium: Pottery with celadon glaze (Longquan ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Covered Jar

creator: George Duncan and Sons

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite Raeder Laporte, 1991


title: Late ware jar with wavy painted decoration

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

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


title: Dagger with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, horn, wood, leather, silver

country: Caucasian

subjects: Dagger Caucasian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Necktie

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1974


title: Flora Autumnalis, Goddess of Autumn, from the Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans series (N188) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Botany Print

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Colorless glass

country: French or British

subjects:
Glass-stained
French or british

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Uçetek Entari

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Emily H. Chase, 1948


title: Design for a Chimneypiece

creator: John Yenn

date: late 18th–early 19th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Belt with scenes of bull and lion hunts

date: ca. late 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Urartian

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: The Entombment of Christ

creator: Andrea Briosco, called Riccio

date: probably early 16th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Vase

medium: Jadeite, light grayish-green with blue

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Horn

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Brass, leather

country: German?

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Table cover

creator: Nancy Parker

medium: Linen and cotton, woven

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Mlle. Joanne Hading, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Rose Window, Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris (277. Troyes. 1841. Cathedrale. Gde. Rose. Fichot-Paris [sic])

creator: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

medium: Daguerreotype

subjects: Photograph Roses

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 2016 Benefit Fund, and Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2016 (2016.614)


title: Garden Settee

medium: Cast iron

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1982


title: Textile Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1929


title: Plate 11: a cartouche with fruits, flowers, and leaves at top, a mask of a faun in profile to either side with a festoon of fruits and flowers in each of their mouths, from "Twelve cartouches" (Recueil de douze cartouches)

creator: François Collignon

medium: Etching; second state of four

subjects: Print Flowers Fruits

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Breeches

medium: leather

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1972


title: Open Solid Bangle with Applied End Decorations

date: 300 BCE–CE 400

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Plate depicting scene of Vulcan, Venus and Mars

creator: Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo

date: dated 1542

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Cornemuse

medium: wood, pewter, sheep or goatskin

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-bagpipe
French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: La Course de Chars sur la Place Santa Maria Novella a Florence (The Chariot Race on the Piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Henon. François. 52 ans, né le 5/5/42 à Lyon (Rhône). Caissier. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Piece (one of 116)

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Adam and Eve flanked by two trees, a town in the background

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Enoch Wood

medium: Dark blue printed ware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Isaac Gibson Jaffray, in memory of her husband, 1898


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Agate, mottled

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Frieze ornament (one of a pair)

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Dog Shearer

creator: Louis Léopold Boilly

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Square dish (one of a pair)

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: On ne s'avise jamais du tout, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine.  A Paris, de l'imprimerie de  P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

creator: Jean-Baptiste Patas

medium: Etching; first state of three (Cohen)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: In Honor of Charles Gounod, the Composer

creator: Jules-Clément Chaplain

medium: Bronze, cast - double

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: Piece

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Mr and Mrs W. Beach

creator: Jane Martha St. John

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Ostracon

medium: Pottery, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Miniature teapot (part of a set)

creator: Henry Flavelle

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


title: Border Fragment

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peru; central coast
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Passementerie

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Miss Harriet Abbe, 1920


title: Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora of Nicosthenic shape (jar)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: A Monumental Candelabrum with Victory Figure

creator: Jean Guillaume Moitte

medium: Pen and dark gray ink, brush and light and dark gray wash; framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2025


title: Sheet 2: A figure on a triumphal chariot surrounded by figures on horseback, from "The Triumph of Julius Caesar"

creator: Andrea Andreani

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks printed in pink

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1932


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Collar

medium: cotton

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Card 660, Miss Joice, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Baboon Amulet

medium: Faience

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


title: Snuff bottle

medium: Glass with green glass stopper

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Whose Sleeves? (Tagasode)

date: 17th century

medium: Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Cap crown

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Henrietta Seligman Lace Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Jesse Seligman, 1910


creator: Oltos

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Textile with deer and a woven inscription

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Warp-faced compound plain-weave silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of Douglas Dillon, 2001


title: Card Number 221, Lydia Thompson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Thanksgiving, for the Acquittal of Susanna (Daniel 13:63)

creator: Baldassare Croce

medium: Black chalk, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, on brownish paper

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Bead

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Stone (?), probably jet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Mat

date: 19th century

medium: Linen, embroidered net

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


title: S. Birin, évêque (St. Birinus, Bishop), December 3rd, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Terracotta column-krater (mixing bowl)

creator: Rodin Painter

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Miniature funnel

medium: Gilded silver

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


title: Vase with birds and flowers

medium: Porcelain painted inpolychrome enamels over black ground (Jingdezhen ware, famille noire)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds Flowers

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


title: Padlock

medium: Brass; cast

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Poetry by Arsène Houssaye

creator: Jules-Jacques Veyrassat

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Miss Frederick S. Hoppin, 1963


title: Incense burner

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China


title: Mold

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Plate 41: Robert Macaire, architect, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953


title: Peasant costume fragment

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wool on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stamp seal (cubical) with animals, monsters, and divine symbols

date: second half of 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Serpentine, black

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Madonna of Loreto, within a niche with an angel on either side

creator: Benoit Farjat

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


title: Warren William "Hick" Carpenter, 3rd Base, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Katsuyama Matagoro as a Yane-chi Seated on a Straw Mat on the Tiled Roof of a House

creator: Okumura Masanobu

date: probably 1709

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Gold and glass earring with head of a dolphin

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Gold, glass paste

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Needle ?

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1981


title: Page from a Dispersed Kalpa Sutra (Jain Book of Rituals)

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Buddha

date: 4th century

medium: Framed wall painting

subjects: Painting China


title: Fragment of a Hanging with a Tree

medium: Linen, wool

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Byzantine
Textiles-woven
Trees

credit_line: Gift of  Nanette B. Kelekian, in honor of Nobuko Kajitani, 2002


title: Teapot

creator: George Alcock

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Gerald S. and Alice C. Parker, 2002


title: Undecorated painted bowl

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: Cross-section of the church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, Rome, showing lantern, cupola, and altar

creator: Giovanni Francesco Venturini

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Card Number 178, Dallie Burns, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Net Trimming

medium: Trimming with net and satin

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Design for Dog Cart or 2 Wheeler, no. 4087

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Netsuke

date: 18th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Hollyhocks

medium: Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper

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


title: O'Brien, Catcher, Brooklyn, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Women and a Small Boy Gathering Shells on a Beach by the Sea

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Print
Japan
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Pendant

medium: Stone

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


title: Sketches of Armor and Figure (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium:
Graphite on wove paper with gilt edges, bound in a leather
 cover

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Terracotta fragment of a stemless cup or plate?

date: late 5th century BCE


title: Tile

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902


title: Stylized Figure Pendant

creator: Darién artist(s)

medium: Gold (hammered)

country: Darien

subjects: Metal-ornament Darien

credit_line: Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1977


title: The Family

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Marble portrait of the emperor Antoninus Pius

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1933


title: Hercules and Achelous

creator: Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

date: probably mid-17th century

medium: Ivory

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Textile

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Louis E. Seley and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 2007


title: Girl carrying a crucifix and stepping toward a pilaster, seen from behind

creator: Guido Reni

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Knife with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood

country: Javanese

subjects: Knive Javanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Miniature Bust of a Member of the Constantian Dynasty

medium: Dark blue glass

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1951


title: Bacchus

creator: François Girardon

medium: Bronze, later mounted on black marble socle

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


title: Head of a comic figurine

date: 5th–4th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: String of amulets

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Faience, carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Tweezers

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Fragment of a shrine

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: The Loyal League (Chushingura)

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni II

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: [Japanese Embassy, Navy Yard, Washington, DC]

creator: Mathew B. Brady

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Transitional Rapier

creator: Tomas Aiala

date: hilt, ca. 1625–50; blade, 17th century

country: Hilt, possibly French or Spanish; blade, Spanish, Toledo

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Altar cloth

date: 16th century

medium: Linen and silk, drawnwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Spring Mills Fund, 1973


title: Le Caracul (L'Astrakhan)

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Snowy Landscape

creator: Sakaki Hyakusen

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

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


title: Headdress

medium: Shell, beads

country: American

subjects:
American
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of J. Townsend Russell, 1959


title: The Holy Family, after Jacob Jordaens, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching; third state of five (Gonse)

credit_line: Purchase, 1871, transferred from the Department of Paintings


title: Burgonet

medium: Steel, gold

country: French

subjects: Helmet French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Dish

medium: Earthenware with slip decoration

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


title: Beads and fragments of a ring

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Box with Lock

date: 19th century

medium: Lacquer

country: China

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Ellen Barker, 1942


title: Actress wearing hand-colored blue necklace, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Asia (part of a set)

creator: Castelli

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Nocturne: Dance House

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in dark brown ink on medium weight ivory laid paper; fourth state of six (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Lantern, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Slippers

creator: Melnotte

medium: Leather

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Herman Delman, 1954


title: Caricature of Georges-Auguste Couthon (called Aristide, 1756-1794), President of the Convention in 1793, on the way to the guillotine on July 28, 1794 (10 Thermidor, An II)

creator: Baron Dominique Vivant Denon

medium: Pen, black ink over black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Vulcan, Neptune, Athena and other Gods making Shackles to pull Jupiter from the Heavens, set within an elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

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


title: Funeral procession of Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: William Nelson Gardiner

medium: Stipple engraving; proof

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


title: Biface

medium: Flint

country: Acheulean

subjects: Tool Acheulean

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and Friends of Arms and Armor Gifts, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, and funds from various donors, 2018


title: The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, Vol. III

creator: James Barton Longacre

medium: Illustrations: etching

subjects: Book Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Eloquence (also known as St. Paul Preaching at Athens)

creator: Enoch Wood

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1937


title: Wedding necktie

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Gerard Post Herrick, 1957


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: Woman wearing brimmed hat, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.


title: Axe Head

date: late 9th–early 13th century (carving); prehistoric (axe head)

medium: Stone

country: Byzantine (carving)

subjects:
Stone-flint
Byzantine (carving)

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Lawrence J. Majewski, 1999


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

date: first half of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Carpet with vine scroll and palmette pattern

date: late 19th century

medium: Wool pile on cotton foundation.

country: Indian, probably Poona

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Indian, probably poona
Textiles-rug

credit_line:
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
1975.1.2458


title: The Pentecost, with the Apostles and the Virgin sitting in a circle, the Holy Spirit appearing above them, and a donor kneeling at left

creator: Frédéric Horthemels

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Holy Family with St. John the Baptist (recto); Study of a Foot (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk (recto); red chalk (verso)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1952


title: Ganesha

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Bronze

country: India (South India)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (south india)

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Plate (tondino)

creator: Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Iwai Hanshirō IV

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

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


title: Table carpet with unicorns

medium: Wool, silk (14-16 warps per inch, 6 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of P. A.B. Widener, 1970


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: William Bond

date: October 28, 1822

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: A Night March, Plate 16 from "Life Studies of the Great Army"

creator: Edwin Austin Forbes

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: The Holy Family with the Virgin holding Christ over the cradle

creator: Giulio Carpioni

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Towel Ends

medium: Silk and metal thread on linen; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Rockaway (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Wineglass

date: probably ca. 1760

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Piece

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


title: Frederick Behaim von Schwarzbach 1491-1533, Nürnberg Councilman

creator: Unknown

medium: Ground marble on ebony

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


title: The Epiphany of the New Antichrist (L'Epiphane du Nouveau Antichrist)

creator: Romeyn de Hooghe

medium: Etching and letterpress

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


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Design for a Very Large Cabinet, with Renaissance Ornament and Lamps

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Pair of Drop Earrings with Rubies

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: Portrait of an Italian Woman

creator: German Painter

medium: Oil on linden

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


title: Snuff bottle with scene of a lotus pond

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Overlay glass with coral stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Slide for Strap

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Bronze gilt

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Fragment of a Tapestry Cartoon: Foot in a Buskin, Drapery, and a Plant

creator: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

medium: Brush, yellow, blue, green, brown, black and white gouache, over some black chalk

subjects: Botany Drawing

credit_line: Gift of John W. Lisle, in memory of his father, Joseph William Lisle, 1922


title: The Garden of M. de Nue Outside of the Suburb of S. Marceau near Paris

creator: Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman

medium: Etching; second state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Flageolet in D

creator: Denis Noblet

date: before 1839

medium: Wood, ivory

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Les Cothurnes

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

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


title: Glass monochrome dish fragment

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

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


title: Carnelian ring stone

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Carnelian

country: Italic

subjects:
Gems
Italic
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Newes Modelbuch in Kupffer  (Page 22r)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Charles R. Richards, 1929


title: Easby Abbey.  The Refectory

creator: Joseph Cundall

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1952


title: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Card Number 24, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bishop

medium: Oak

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: A radiant female figure beset by dark spirits; page 45 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Brush and point of brush, brown and gray washes, over touches or chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Plate

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Fragment with Aten cartouche

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic, paint

credit_line: Purchase, Colt Archaeological Institute Inc. Gift, 1985


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: China (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Statuette of a woman

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Gold earring with winged Eros

date: 3rd‒2nd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Locrian Ajax (Ajax Locrien), from "Les Images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates Sophistes grecs..."

creator: Thomas de Leu

medium: Engraving and letterpress

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: François Delpech's Print Shop

creator: Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet

medium: Lithograph with 20th century lettering addition (“Rockman Prints")

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1977


title: Shell-shaped snuffbox

creator: Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, gilt metal

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Tile Fragment

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Terracotta askos (vessel) with horse protome

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Vase
Cypriot
Ships & the sea


title: Thirteen Designs for Decorated Cups

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

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


title: Spout Cup

creator: Joseph Edwards Jr.

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Pottery Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware, glazed (faience)

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Hair / Ear Ornament, One of a Pair

date: 19th century

medium: Gold and silver, imitation pearl

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Old Phalerum (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Vase

date: 17th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1966


title: Fragment of a Grotesque Decoration with a Term and Putto

creator: Andrés de Melgar

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, and some brush and brown wash (recto); pen and dark brown ink with brush and brown wash, over black chalk (verso)

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


title: Collar

medium: [no medium available]

country: British

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Bowl

date: 18th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1954


title: The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter

date: late 17th century

medium: Hand-illustrated set of three volumes; ink, color, gold, and silver on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Plate

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in famille verte enamels on the biscuit

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1960


title: Pitcher

medium: Blown satin pink and orange glass

country: British, probably

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Armor (<i>Yoroi</i>)

date: early 14th–early 15th century

medium: Iron, leather, lacquer, silk, gilt copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Armor for man
Japanese

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1928


title: Vase (pot à fleurs)

creator: Vincennes Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1972


title: A Page from the Jie Zi Yuan

date: first edition printed in 1679

medium: Circular fan-shaped. woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Cup (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Design for One Half a Chapel with the Dove of the Holy Ghost above the Main Altar, and a Statue of an Evangelist at right

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with gray and light red chalk wash, over black chalk, with ruled construction

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Salome receiving the head of John the Baptist, surrounded by three men and a child bearing a torch, the Baptist's body lies on the ground

creator: Hendrick Goudt

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: The Dyer's Boat (Bas-Meudon)

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1922


title: Fragment of a Head of Avalokiteshvara

date: ca. 8th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Kalimantan)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (kalimantan)

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Götz, 1995


title: Bracelet with spirally twisted strands and a Herakles knot at the bezel

date: 2nd century CE

medium: gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Lock

date: 16th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Panel

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with carved and plain ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Figurine of animal

medium: Clay

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


title: Textile Design with Alternating Palmettes Decorated with Pearls Flanked by Bundles of Leaves

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Vase fragment

credit_line: Gift of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1923


title: Ostracon with sketch of a door

medium: Limestone, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: La Jeunesse indifférente

creator: Nicolas Dupin

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: [E. Adkins Gun Merchant]

creator: Unknown

medium: Ambrotype

credit_line: Gift of Charles Wilkinson, 1965


title: Seishu Awabi-tori no Zu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta hydria (water jar)

creator: Olcott Painter

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Terracotta scyphus (drinking cup)

date: ca. 15 BCE–60 CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Miniature porringer

creator: P. H., London

medium: Silver

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


title: Caricature of a Seated Man with a Book and a Cane

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Iceberg Cañon, Looking Above

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986


title: Vase fragment

medium: Faience

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Sofa

creator: Samuel McIntire

medium: Mahogany, white pine, birch

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Leaf from a Kalpa Sutra (Jain Book of Rituals)

creator: Bhadrabahu

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Lion pin

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze, iron

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Glass ribbed bowl

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Fräulein Ilga, 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: Judic, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


title: Bag

date: 7th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with carved ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Vase

medium: Paste; surface with decorations in relief

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: William Leighton Leitch

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Slide Guard

date: dated 1650

medium: Brass

country: Italian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Italian

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Dish with tiger and bamboo

medium: Hard-paste porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Hizen ware; Kakiemon type)

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


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: Spencer

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>)

date: 18th century

medium: Copper alloy (sentoku), silver, gold, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Adrian H. Joline, 1914


title: The Removal and Destruction of the Chariot and the Horses of the Sun

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher

date: published 1643/1646

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Fern and Lewis Lowenfels, 2022


title: Forêt de Fontainebleau

creator: William Harrison

medium: Carbon print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Alain Paviot, in memory of Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr., 1987


title: Souvenir spoon

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

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


title: Woman Washing Clothes

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Piece (one of 13)

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Bookbinding

date: 14th century

medium: Leather

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Funerary Cone of the Scribe Min

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Herbert E. Winlock, 1909


title: Apron

date: early 1840s

credit_line: Purchase, Martin and Caryl Horwitz Gift, 1989


title: Horizontal panel

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: “The Courtesan Hanazuma Reading a Letter,” from the series Beauties Compared to Flowers (Bijin hana awase)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Belt Buckle

date: late 6th–early 7th century

medium: Iron, silver inlay

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment of a Frieze

date: 11th century

medium: Terracotta; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Skyphos

creator: Group of Altenburg 331

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Roundel with Joseph Presenting his father, Jacob, to the Pharoah (from a Series of the History of Joshua)

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1932


title: Earrings

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: metal

country: European, Eastern


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Rapier

date: late 16th century

medium: Steel, silver, iron wire, gold

subjects: Sword Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Adze head

date: 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1961


title: [Profile of the Prince Imperial]

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Copper Animal Ornament

date: before 16th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peruvian

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


title: Glass pinhead

medium: Glass


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Pocket bottle

medium: Blown-molded glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Schiff, 1980


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Gold ring with cameo glass portrait of the Emperor Augustus

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Gold with glass

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Robert Haber and The Artemis Group, 1995


title: Dominique François Arago (1786–1856)

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

credit_line: Gift of Maria Reinis, in memory of Joseph G. Reinis, 2015


title: Dish

date: second half 15th century

medium: Porcelain

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift and Seymour Fund, 2004


title: Panorama near Bloemendael Showing the Saxenburg Estate

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, by exchange, and Edwin D. Levinson Gift, 1945


title: [Group of 3 Stereograph Views of Connecticut, United States of America]

creator: S. C. Northrop

medium: Albumen silver prints

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, in memory of Kathleen W. Naef and Weston J. Naef Sr., 1982


title: Electrum Signet Ring with Monogram

date: 7th century

medium: Electrum

subjects: Metalwork-electrum Frankish


title: "Fairies Descend to the Chamber of Prince Manohar", Folio from a Gulshan-i 'Ishq (Rose Garden of Love)

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

subjects: Codice Roses

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2011


title: Snuff Bottle with Five Bats

date: late 18th century

medium: Chalcedony with jadeite stopper

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Ivory plaque with a fallen human figure

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Elephant Ivory

country: Cypro-Phoenician

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Cypro-phoenician
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Address-card of the printseller, Rochoux

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching from two plates; first state of five

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Kabuki Actor Nakamura Denkurō II

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Limestone statuette of a boy holding a dove

date: 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Monju on a Lion

creator: Shūsei

date: late 15th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Netsuke of Kyōgen Mask; Usume (or Okama or Ofuku)

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Miniature beaker

date: early 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Mirror with dragons and knob-and-swirl design

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Mirror China

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Elizabeth V. Cockcroft, by exchange, 2008


title: Dunvegan Cup

date: early 20th century (original dated 10th century)

medium: Wood, silver

country: Irish

subjects: Irish Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Crochet Work

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace


title: Cabinet

creator: Martin Carlin

medium: Oak veneered with tulipwood and amaranth, holly, and ebonized holly; gilt bronze, soft-paste porcelain, marble, mirror glass, silk

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Fragment of a Jar

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; opaque white glaze, splashed polychrome glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: A Glen in Sorrento

creator: Thomas Hartley Cromek

date: mid-19th century

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Williams Middleton

creator: Mary Roberts

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Purchase, Dale T. Johnson Fund and Jan and Warren Adelson Gift, 2007


title: Edmond Duranty

creator: Edgar Degas

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Hat

medium: straw

credit_line: Gift of Miss Frances Morris, 1938


title: Milk jug with cover

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt; silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Poet

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain


title: Dalmatic

date: 15th century

medium: Silk; metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Chastisement of Cupid

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Tin-glazed hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Study for "Sparking" (from Sketchbook)

creator: Francis William Edmonds

date: ca. 1838 and after

medium: Brown ink, graphite, on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund, 1987


title: Seated male figure

creator: Lagunillas artist(s)

date: 200 BCE–200 CE

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Nayarit

subjects: Nayarit Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Purchase, Pat and John Rosenwald Gift, Arthur M. Bullowa Bequest, and Discovery Communications Inc. Gift, 1999


title: Femmes Annamites, Cochinchine

creator: Emile Gsell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Marqueta Fragment

medium: Silver amalgam

country: Mexican

subjects: Metal-implement Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890


title: Pair of wall brackets

medium: Carved and gilded wood

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Textile fragment

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

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: Extension Top Phaeton #118

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Flower vase

creator: Ralph Wood the Elder

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramics-pottery Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, 1944


title: Moonrise at Sunset

creator: Dwight William Tryon

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Gift of George A. Hearn, 1910


title: Bellona

date: late 16th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: Bowl

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Ancestral Pueblo (Mesa Verde)

subjects:
Ancestral pueblo (mesa verde)
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Kate Wells, 1892


title: King Sigurd the Crusader (in "Good Words for 1862," p. 248)

creator: Sir Edward Burne-Jones

date: April 1862

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Sinclair Hamilton, 1965


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: The Seceding Alabama Delegation in Congress (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. 5, no. 215, cover)

creator: Anonymous, American, 19th century

date: February 9, 1861

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Ten dishes with chrysanthemum petal rim

date: 14th century

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: "Luhrasp Hears from the Returning Paladins of the Vanishing Kai Khusrau", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Pinhead

date: 1st century BCE–5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Old Ferry Stairs

creator: William P. Chappel

medium: Oil on slate paper

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


title: Enamel Plaque with the Annunciation

medium: Silver with translucent and opaque enamels

subjects:
South netherlandish
Enamels-basse taille

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1993


title: Ibis-headed god, Thoth

medium: Bronze or cupreous alloy

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Plum

creator: Jin Lan

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

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986


title: Butterfly and Mask of Yakko (the footman of a samurai)

creator: Ayaoka

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

subjects:
Print
Japan
Butterflies & moths

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th century

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1929


title: Plate

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Mandeville Johnston, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. S. Johnston, 1914


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Locking box in book form

date: between 1800 and 1899

credit_line: Gift of Lynn and Bruce Heckman


title: Halberd of Johann Georg, Prince-Elector of Brandenburg (reigned 1571–98)

date: dated 1570

medium: Steel, wood, textile

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Re-Harakhty amulet

medium: Gold sheet

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


title: George Heathcote

creator: Gilbert Stuart

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Heathcote Art Foundation, 1986


title: William J. "Kid" Gleason, Pitcher, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Polish Mazurka, from National Dances (N225, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Obsidian bead in the form of of a figure-of-eight shield

medium: Obsidian

country: Minoan

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Amulet

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Hanging

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton, silk; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Pendant

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Gold, glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Dress

medium: cotton, wool

country: probably British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Probably british

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Funerary Cone of Kha

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Pompomasos (Leaping Frogs), Three Brothers

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects:
Photograph
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Design for a Box-Lid

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

medium: Pen with gray and black ink, over graphite underdrawing

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


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

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Spider Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche
Spiders & arachnids

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


title: Fan

date: early 19th century

medium: Skin, brass

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Length

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Gerry, 1982


title: Saint Francis Kneeling in a Grotto, holding a Book and a Skull

creator: Nicolaas van der Horst

date: 1627  or before

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown washes; incised for transfer

subjects:
Drawing
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. William Middendorf II, in memory of Walter Liedtke, 2015


title: Plaque in the shape of a rabbit

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Javelin

medium: Shafted Weapons

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Bellarmine jug

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of M. Harris, 1910


title: Wager cup

creator: Jonah Clifton

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1927


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Bead

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Marble (calcium carbonate) (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

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


title: Marble portrait bust of a man

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Funerary Mask

date: ca. 125 CE

medium: Plaster, paint

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1900


title: Scarab of the Lady Sathathor

medium: Steatite

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


title: Terracotta pyxis with lid (box)

date: late 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Plateau (Banette)

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Amphoriskos

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 18th–17th century BCE

medium: Steatite (?)

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


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Portrait of the Poet Sigismond Boldoni

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Design for a Small Gothic Pedestal Table and Two Brackets

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Ceremonial axe

creator: Taíno artist(s)

medium: Greenstone

country: Taíno

subjects: Stone-implement Taíno

credit_line: Gift of Vincent and Margaret Fay, 1982


title: Folding armchair

date: 16th century

medium: Walnut

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


title: Ewer

date: 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Riverscape with Two Sailboats and Several Figures; verso: A Mountainous Landscape near a River with a Horse-Drawn Barge and Several Figures

creator: Cornelis Claesz. van Wieringen

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink; framing line in pen and brown ink, probably by the artist; verso: pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Van Day Truex and Frits and Rita Markus Funds, 2016


title: Design for Bed with Canopy

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Coin

date: probably 758–68

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Temple relief

medium: Limestone

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


title: Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


title: Flayed man seen frontally, holding a stick

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

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


title: Hills (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

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


title: Mrs. Papendiek and Her Son

creator: Sir Thomas Lawrence

medium: Red and black chalk

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Glass Panel of Head of Angel

date: late 15th century

medium: Clear glass, paint, silver stain

country: German or Swiss

subjects:
Glass-stained
German or swiss

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


title: Rectangular Plaque

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Plate 20: Cacasenno eating a bowl of pasta, from "Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno"

creator: Giuseppe Maria Crespi

medium: Etching

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


title: Gravestone of Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, died Shawwal 532 A.H. [June/July 1138 A.D.]

date: dated 532 AH/1138 CE

medium: Steatite; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Vase and Kitchen Knife

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Fragment of a cart or chariot, plaque with socket

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Strainer spoon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Princely Couple

date: early 2nd century

medium: Terracotta

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Lady de Grey, from the Actresses series (N203) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: [Imambara and Collectors House on the Ganges, Hooghly]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Lion

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: Gulf of Corinth (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite and watercolor on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Goblet

date: 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Bowl (Tecomate)

date: 12th–9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Olmec

subjects: Olmec Ceramics-container

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


title: Nigenkin ( 二弦 琴 )

medium: wood, metal, cloth, silk

subjects: Chordophone-zither Japanese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Pair of saltcellars

date: third quarter 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Ring

date: 11th century

medium: Gold; filigree and granulation

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, 1971


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


title: Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal: letter order, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 494 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Gift of Matilda W. Bruce, 1907


title: Philip de Mornay

creator: Léonard Gaultier

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Cheval glass (psyché)

date: early 19th century

medium: Mahogany, gilt bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Vessel fragment

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Gift of James H. Schwartz, 2006


title: Zenobia, from Pierre Le Moyne's "La Gallerie des femmes fortes"

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Coat

medium: wool, linen, metal

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Shovel

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Border

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

creator: Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. Gordon Douglas III, 1975


title: The Bode Valley with Rocks and Trees; verso: Landscape Studies

creator: Karl Blechen

medium: Graphite, brush and gray wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation Gift, 2006


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Leather; tooled and gilded; ink on paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Lead disk with a hole in the center

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Card Number 2, Miss Lillian Grubb, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Horseback exercises not without hazards, from "The regeneration of man through gymnastics"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: November 4, 1865

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; third state of three (Delteil)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Userhat and Wife Receiving Offerings, Tomb of Userhat

creator: Norman de Garis Davies

date: original ca. 1299–1290 BCE

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Conventionalized Design of Fans Floating on the River

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


title: Cor d’orchestre

creator: Courtois Neveu Aine

medium: horn: brass, white metal, polychrome; case: wood, paper, iron, chamois leather, paint

country: French

subjects:
Musical instrument
French

credit_line: Purchase, Herbert Heyde Gift, 2023


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Armchair

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Axe

date: 12th–11th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: N. Thomas

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Pair of finials

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Necklace

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Gold

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Handkerchief

medium: Linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George C. White, in memory of her mother, Mrs. Stephen van Rensselaer, 1922


title: Anatomical drawing

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and gray wash on blue paper

subjects: Anatomy Drawing

credit_line: Jenny Philippsohn, in memory of Siegfried Philippsohn, 1954


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Cylinder seal with three-figure contest scene

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Flawed neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Domed Projecting Rectangular Entrance to a House near Russell Square

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Watercolor and pen and ink

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Sash Fragments

date: 14th–early 16th century

medium: Cotton

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Furuichi Dance (No. 2 of a Set of Four)

creator: Yashima Gakutei

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


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


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


title: Suggestion for the Decoration of Top Right Side of Portal, plate 4 from "Allerneueste Façon von Auszierungen zu Portalen"

creator: Jeremias Wachsmuth

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Minister of Foreign Affairs

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Vessel: Footed Base

creator: Dogon artist

country: Dogon peoples

subjects:
Dogon people
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Lester Wunderman, 1977


title: Apocalypsis S. Ioannis/ Die Offenbarung S. Johannis

creator: Hermann Gülfferich

medium: Woodcuts

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: Smiting weather god or warrior with horned headgear

date: ca. 14th–13th century BCE

country: Canaanite

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1987


title: Christ on the Cross (Schr. 2789a)

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

date: 15th century

medium: Pasteprint; with hand coloring; mounted on a sheet of heavy grey paper

credit_line: Gift of Thomas O. Mabbott, 1961


title: Emilie-Louise Delabigne (1848–1910), Called Valtesse de la Bigne

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Pastel on canvas


title: Cityscape

medium: Ink on paper

country: India (Rajasthan)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan)

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk thread on silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: John Murphy, Champion Driver of Trolling Horses, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Louis XIV in Notre-Dame de Paris on January 30, 1687 at a Thanksgiving Service after his Recovery from a Grave Illness

creator: Guy Louis Vernansal the Elder

medium: Oil paint on paper, mounted on canvas

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1984


title: Hat

medium: straw

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry Curtiss, 1945


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Tile fragment, part of a wig from a figure of the king

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Edward S. Harkness Gift and by exchange, 1922, 1929, 1935


title: Le Tondeur de chiens, plate 21 from "Bohémiens de Paris"

date: February 15, 1842

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Covered bowl with ring handles

date: second half 18th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Button

medium: watercolor

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: [Seated Elderly Woman Wearing Plaid Dress and Bonnet]

creator: William Hardy Kent

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Wholecloth coverlet

medium: Cotton, printed

country: American or British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel S. Schwartz, 1967


title: Cup

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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


title: Forges

creator: Louis Lafon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Charles Isaacs, 2008


title: Miyako Shell

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

date: probably 1821

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

country: Japan

subjects:
Print
Japan
Shells & molluscs

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


title: [Man with Moustache]

creator: Unknown

medium: Opaltype

credit_line: Museum Accession, 1953


title: Bread Seal

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Half of bracelet clasp: double knot

medium: Gold

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Ewer

date: probably 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Nude statue, seen from behind

creator: Auguste-Louis Lepère

medium: Woodcut printed in black and gray

credit_line: Gift of Paul L. Rittenhouse,1959


title: Pull of Engraved Firearm Ornament

medium: Ink, paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French

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


title: Roundel with Christ Taking Leave of His Mother

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: South German

subjects:
Glass-stained
South german

credit_line: Gift of Louis R. Slattery, in honor of Ashton Hawkins, 1985


title: Amethyst ring stone

date: 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Amythyst

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Seated Female Nude, Facing Left

creator: Wilhelm Lehmbruck

medium: Chalk on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Mold for a Ring Bezel with an Ankh Hieroglyph

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Random Sketches by Hokusai, Volume 12

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1910


title: Fragments (5)

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Paper weight with chi dragons

date: 18th century

medium: Soapstone

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Carnelian ring stone

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Chalice and Paten

creator: Antonio Forcada y la Plaza

date: late 18th and early 19th century

medium: Silver gilt

country: Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Dish with lotus pond

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: La Rue des Chantres (Rue des Chantres, Paris)

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Spindle stick

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Terracotta krateriskos (small mixing bowl)

creator: Group of Copenhagen 3817

date: ca. 300 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Darby Nock Bequest, in memory of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1969


title: Frog Bottle

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Moche

subjects:
Moche
Ceramics-container
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1967


title: Sand Shaker

medium: Lacy pressed glass, metal

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


title: Beaker

creator: Friedrich Egermann

medium: Glass, with green and red overlay, cut, polished, engraved, and gilt

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Artist's paint pallette, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Awl

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Saint Hubert and the Stag

date: early 16th century

medium: Limestone with paint

country: East French

subjects:
Accessory
East french

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Menna's Daughter Offering to her Parents, Tomb of Menna

creator: Nina de Garis Davies

date: 1922; original ca. 1396–1347 BCE

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Admiral Vernon's taking of Porto Bello, 1739

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Persea fruit pendant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Border

medium: Drawnwork, linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Cuneiform tablet: receipt for silver

date: ca. 537 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Gimp

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco(?); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Gloriosa Superba (Climbing Lily)

creator: Pierre Joseph Redouté

medium: Watercolor and gilt on vellum

subjects: Drawing Lilies

credit_line: Gift of Anne H. Bass, 2015


title: Vase

medium: Cloisonné enamel

country: China

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 23r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Fan

medium: Paper, paint, gilt, ivory, metal, glass, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Relief Fragment with Parts of Heads of Prisoners

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2003


title: Pair of perfume burners

medium: Bronze, chased, partly gilded and partly patinated

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1977


title: Doctor Syntax, in the Middle of a Smoking Hot Political Squabble, Wishes to Whet his Whistle

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Knob

medium: Blown glass, brass

credit_line: Gift of John Lee Newton, 1967


title: Medal

creator: John A. Bolen

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Corset

creator: Worcester Corset Company

medium: cotton, metal, bone

subjects:
American
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of E. A. Meister, 1950


title: Spoon

date: ca. 9th–10th century CE

country: Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Spearhead

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Iron

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Moonlit Landscape

creator: Henri-Joseph Harpignies

medium: Charcoal on off-white laid paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Set of five panels

medium: Oak, painted

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Ghost of My Departed Husband, or Wither my Love ah wither art thou gone

date: [April 1, 1808], reissued September 1, 1811


title: Embroidered Sampler

creator: Lydia Headly

medium: Embroidered silk on linen

credit_line: Gift of Barbara Schiff Sinauer, 1984


title: Saint Wenceslas at the Vintage, Attended by Angels and Putti

creator: Franz Anton Maulbertsch

date: mid-18th–late 18th century

medium: Brown ink with gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Christie's Gift, 2002


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)