title: J. B. Rousseau, after Aved

creator: Jean Louis Anselin

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Border Fragment

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Chimú (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chimú
Textiles-woven

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: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1882


title: Salad bowl (saladier) (one of six) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Maud Mullett, 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: Nymphs Bathing

creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Bowl

medium: Agateware (glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1944


title: Faience bowl

date: 13th–12th century BCE

medium: Faience

country: Cypriot

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Cypriot

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: The Assumption of the Virgin

creator: Bergognone (Ambrogio di Stefano da Fossano)

medium: Oil and gold on wood

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Panel

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

creator: Ferdinand Pierre Joseph Ignace Delamonce

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, over traces of graphite; squared in red chalk and graphite

credit_line: Gift of John Morton Morris, in memory of Lawrence Turcic, 1988


title: History of Sarah Bernhardt, from the Histories of Poor Boys and Famous People series of booklets (N79) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus

creator: Nicolas Poussin

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: Court Lady

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription

date: 2nd half of 7th century BCE

medium: Clay

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot


title: The Youth of France to M. Michel-Eugène Chevreul, Member of the Academy of Sciences, on attaining his Century

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Bronze, struck, silvered

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


title: Blue Bullfinch, from the Song Birds of the World series (N42) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

subjects: Print Birds


title: Double snuffbox

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gold, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Vase Pendant

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Glass

country: Egyptian possibly

subjects:
Glass
Egyptian possibly

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Miniature Drum with Four Frogs

date: ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Vietnam

subjects:
Metalwork
Vietnam
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Limestone statuette of a boy holding a pyxis

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Ostrakon with Lines from Homer’s Iliad

medium: Limestone with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Mantle

medium: silk, fur, jet

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Murray Crane, 1947


title: Parrot

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1942


title: Newfoundland, Two Dollars, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 1) for Duke brand cigarettes

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


title: Beads

medium: Gold, agate, carnelian

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite; framing lines in pen and red ink

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


title: Snowball: Thoughts of Heaven, from the series Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers (N75) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: American Tobacco Company

subjects: Print Flowers


title: The Adoration of the Magi

creator: Italian, Neapolitan Follower of Giotto

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: 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: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (below), Abraham about to Sacrifice Isaac (above)

creator: Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, squared in black chalk, on brownish paper. The empty triangular corners are tinted in gray-green wash, the right diagonal border tinted in gray wash

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: "Rustam Kills Isfandiyar with a Double Pointed Arrow", Folio from a Shahnama

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

date: 15th century

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2016


title: Figure

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stoneware painted in underglaze black, overglaze polychrome enamels (Cizhou ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. William H. Moore, 1955


title: Sunk relief fragment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


creator: Makron


title: Le fils de Ludovic Halévy

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Drypoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


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

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE


date: first half of the 5th century BCE


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Heart amulet of Painedjem I

medium: Serpentinite


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: Fatigue Dress, Private, 47th Regiment, New York State Militia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: A barefoot peasant on horseback crossing a river, another peasant on horseback and leading a horse on a bank to right in the background, plate 5 from "Diversi capricci"

creator: Stefano della Bella

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)


title: (Design for a Dagger and Sheath)

creator: Augustin Hirschvogel

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Pair of bracelets

medium: Silver, green faience, blue paste, carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Wine Glass

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Blown glass

credit_line: Purchase, Judith F. and William H. Hernstadt Gift, 1984


date: 5th century BCE


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Ensemble

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: cotton, wool, silk, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mabel Choate, 1940


title: Florence P. Stevenson, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Spotted Tail, Blackfeet Sioux, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N2) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Ring

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


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

date: second half of the 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Gnathian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, gnathian

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


title: A Reconstruction of the Arch of Septimius Severus

creator: Jan Goeree

date: before 1704

medium: Red chalk, pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Helen and János Scholz, 1958


title: Glass ribbed bowl

date: mid-1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: The Card Players

creator: Paul Cézanne

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960


title: Head of a bodhisattva

date: late 5th century

medium: Sandstone with traces of pigment

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942


title: [My Arab "Antelope"]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Face Mask Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper, shell

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Peasant Wrapped in his Cloak

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

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


title: Card Number 108, Fanny Rice, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Blue steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: The Allegory of the Sorbonne

creator: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

subjects: Mythology Painting

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


title: Bottle Fragment, Pilgrim

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware, glaze

country: Visigothic

subjects: Ceramic Visigothic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Section from a Qur'an Manuscript

creator: `Umar Aqta'

date: late 14th–early 15th century (before 1405)

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 29 (recto)

creator: Matthias Mignerak

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Fragment

medium: Nephrite, yellow and greenish yellow

country: China (possibly Turkestan)

subjects:
Jade
China (possibly turkestan)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Toe stall

medium: Gold

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1921–1922


title: Picture Book of Brocades with Precious Threads (Ehon takara no itosuji 画本宝能縷

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

date: 1786, first month

medium: Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: The Alchemist, from "The Songs of Béranger"

creator: Alfred Johannot

medium: Intaglio

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


title: Saucer

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, Gift in Memory of Frederick P. Victoria, 1993


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


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

date: early 5th century BCE


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: The true maner [manner] of the execution of Thomas Earle of Strafford

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Aleksandr Orlovsky

medium: Lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Design for a Sedan Chair

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

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

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


title: Frieze Tile with Two Hunters

date: second half 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; molded, inglaze painted in blue and turquoise, luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1910


title: Aux Halles, Le marchand d'arlequins

creator: Louis Vert

medium: Gelatin silver transparency on glass

credit_line: Purchase, Jay H. McDonald Gift and funds from various donors, 2026


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Basket

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, 1939


title: Textile with Animals and Birds

medium: Silk, metal thread

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Birds
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Ein new Modelbuch..., page 2 (recto)

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

date: October 22, 1524

credit_line: Gift of  Herbert N. Straus, 1929


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Figures Riding an Elephant

date: 1st century BCE

country: India (Uttar Pradesh, Kaushambi)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (uttar pradesh, kaushambi)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987


title: Coin Weight

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Portrait of a Woman with a Balance

creator: Thomas de Keyser

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: From the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus, Bequest of Rita Markus, 2005


title: Plate

date: 18th century

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Capitulation or Occupation of Mantua, 1797

creator: Paris Mint

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Model of Red Bird, Symbol of the South (Zhuque)

date: 11th century

medium: Porcelain with bluish-white glaze (Jingdezhen qingbai ware)

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China
Birds

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994


title: Biedermeier Fashion

creator: Urban Janke

medium: Color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Feathered Band

date: 14th–early 16th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-featherwork

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Seven Angels with the Trumpets, from "The Apocalypse", Latin Edition

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Two Bodhisattvas

medium: Silk embroidery

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Jacket

medium: cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Maud Sargent, Sarah Sargent Ramberg, and William Sargent, Jr., 1965


title: Tea jar

medium: Clay, almost black glaze with brown overglaze (Takatori ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan


title: Clock

creator: Le Febvre, Fils

medium: Brass gilt

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, 1929


title: Gloves

date: 17th century

medium: leather, silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1940


title: Shard

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1992


title: Two Young Ladies at the Shore

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan


title: Statuette of Herakles holding apples

date: ca. 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: The Cemetery at Pronoia near Nauplia

creator: Carl Rottmann

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007


title: Netsuke of Ashinaga Beating a Drum

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Soup plate

creator: Crown Derby

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Page of Calligraphy from an Anthology of Poetry by Sa`di and Hafiz

creator: Sa'di

date: late 15th century

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

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Ladle

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


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

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 11 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Pair of plates

medium: Pewter

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


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

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: The Lovers

date: second quarter 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of George Mangini, 2009


title: Plate 6, Featuring 10 Coins Issued by European Princes in the 16th and 17th centuries, from "Les Monnaies" (The Currencies)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: David and Goliath

creator: Ugo da Carpi

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in green

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Painted Bowl with Incised Geometric Patterns

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paraca
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Various Moths and Butterflies

creator: Kubo Shunman

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: Wedding vest

medium: silk, cotton, leather

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Rose S. Hoyt, 1954


title: Pendant

date: 15th century

medium: Bronze, patina

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Spouted pot

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: James J. "Sun" Daly, Left Field, Minneapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Martydom of Saint Andrew (recto); Head of a Woman (verso)

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk on light tan paper (recto); black chalk (verso)

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Paternoster Pendant with the Virgin and Child (obverse) and the Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate (reverse)

date: ca. 1440–50; 19th or 20th century

medium: Sardonyx, enameled gold, and silver

country: Flemish or Burgundian, and Western European

subjects: Jewelry, precious metal and precious stone

subjects: Flemish or burgundian, and western european

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Design for a Chandelier

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink


title: Embroidered Border Fragment

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Jar

medium: Earthenware

country: Dutch

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Terracotta skyphos

date: second half of the 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Gnathian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, gnathian

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Plate

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

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


title: Bronze neck-amphora (jar)

date: ca. 460 BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

creator: Giambologna

date: modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer and Bequest of Ella Morris de Peyster, by exchange; Edith Perry Chapman Bequest; Robert Lehman Foundation Inc. Gift; Edward J. Gallagher Jr. Bequest, in memory of his father, Edward Joseph Gallagher, his mother, Ann Hay Gallagher, and his son, Edward Joseph Gallagher III; and Harris Brisbane Dick, Rogers, Pfeiffer, Louis V. Bell and Dodge Funds, 1983


title: Skirt

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Albert Gallatin

creator: James Sharples

medium: Pastel on light gray wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Josephine L. Stevens, 1908


title: Removing Snow from a Geta (Geta no yuki-tori)

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

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


title: Portrait of Jean Honoré Fragonard

creator: Charles Louis François Le Carpentier

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort, in memory of Samuel P. Avery, 2015


title: Panel

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Mangle-board

medium: Oak

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


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: William Henry "Wattie" Watkins, Manager, Detroit Wolverines, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Terracotta jar with barbotine decoration

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Boss from a Horse Breast Collar

date: late 17th–18th century

medium: Copper alloy, gold

country: Ottoman or Tatar

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-horse trapping
Ottoman or tatar

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Shield of Arms and Wreath on an Arabesque of Thistle Branches

medium: Wool warp;  wool wefts

country: Netherlandish (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Artemisia in Mourning

creator: Philipp Jakob Scheffauer

medium: Marble

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, 2010


title: Textile with auspicious symbols

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silk gauze damask

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Bryn Mawr College, 1962


title: Kerchief

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alice Baker Furst, 1942


title: Candidates for Admission to the Paris Salon

creator: Felicien Myrbach-Rheinfeld

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Pen and brush and black ink, graphite.

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Kemancheh

medium: Wood, coconut shell

country: North African

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted
North african
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: La Conversion de S. Paul (The Conversion of St. Paul), January 25th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Feast Days of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: [American and Independence]

creator: James and Ralph Clews

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

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


title: Arrowhead

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1953


title: Oval dish

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Aet. 67. A.D. 1743

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Necklace

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Gold, Amethyst (or glass ?)

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Throw stick

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Iron, gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


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


title: Spoon

creator: Sebastianus Aurifaber

medium: Silver, partly gilded

credit_line: Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education, New York, in memory of Nicolas M. Salgo, 2010


title: Young Man Holding a Goblet

date: early 19th century

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Incense burner with feline head

creator: Tiwanaku artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Tiwanaku

subjects: Tiwanaku Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1969


title: Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Textiles-Velvets

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Dress

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John C. Cattus, in memory of her mother, Mrs. William Gordon Ver Planck, 1948


title: Shard

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1992


title: Vase with birds and portrait

creator: R. W. Martin and Brothers

medium: Stoneware

subjects: Birds Ceramics-pottery Portraits

credit_line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2013


title: Stole

medium: Leather

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1914


title: Coin

date: dated 186 AH/802 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Deer Hound, from the Dogs of the World series for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pyx

date: first half 17th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Card Number 110, Geraldine Ulmer, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: The Market at Gisors: Rue Cappeville

creator: Camille Pissarro

medium: Color etching and drypoint on laid paper; seventh state of seven; posthumous impression

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Limestone female head

date: late 6th–early 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Miss Ruth Stetson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: The Prophet Nahum, from Prophets and Sibyls

creator: Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Pitcher

creator: Isaac Hutton

credit_line: Gift of Miss Jeanette Olyphant, 1973


title: Setsubun Festival at Sensōji

creator: Suzuki Kiitsu

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Wenlock

creator: Alfred Capel Cure

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, in memory of Christopher Hemphill, 1987


title: Medieval Silver Cup

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite

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


title: Maids and Mistresses

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 1, 1791

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Double Capital

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: God of Longevity (Shoulao) and boy

date: 19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; silk tapestry (kesi) with ink and color

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Dropper

date: ca. 7th–10th century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Slop bowl

creator: Wood and Hughes

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2006


title: Fragment of Band

date: 4th–6th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Arthur S. Vernay Inc., 1922


title: Ewer

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur (The Transfiguration of Christ), August 6th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: 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: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


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

date: late 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Plaque

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1944


title: Bag

date: early 17th century

medium: Canvas embroidered with silk and silver thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1929


title: Netsuke in shape of Mount Fuji with Traveling Monk and Pine

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Dress

date: mid-19th century

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George D. Richmond, 1952


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Saint Jerome

creator: Johann Sadeler I

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: The Forge

creator: Léonard Defrance

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Mirror with symbols of the four cardinal directions

date: 7th century

subjects: Mirror China

credit_line: Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund for Asian Art, 2022


title: Lace Design

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink with wash

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Terracotta female musician

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and unglazed


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: Raised relief fragment depicting a hieroglyph

medium: Limestone, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Pricket Candlestick

date: probably 15th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1938


title: Coin

date: dated 376 AH/986 CE

medium: Silver


title: Blue paste paper

creator: Anonymous

date: 18th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Smith & Wesson Model 1 ½ Second Issue Revolver (serial no. 30451) with Case

creator: Smith & Wesson

medium: Steel, silver, gold, mother of pearl, brass, wood, velvet

subjects: American Firearms-pistols-revolver

credit_line: Purchase, Ronald S. Lauder, Steven V. Maksin, Alejandro Santo Domingo, and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gifts, 2021


title: Reconstruction of the Circus of Caracalla (above) and a View of the Ruins (below)

creator: Jan Goeree

date: before 1704

medium: Red chalk, brush and gray wash, pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Helen and János Scholz, 1958


title: Rapier with Scabbard

medium: Steel, silver, leather

country: German, Saxony

subjects:
Sword
German, saxony

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1929


title: Habitus variarum orbis gentium / Omnium pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae Gentium Habitus

creator: Abraham de Bruyn

medium: Engravings; Old full calf gold-tooled binding

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: The Factory Village

creator: Julian Alden Weir

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Cora Weir Burlingham, 1979, and Purchase, Marguerite and Frank Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 1998


title: Pictorial print

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Sheet, linen mark, medium spin, irregular weave

medium: Linen, wax

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895)

creator: Jean-Désiré Ringel d'Illzach

medium: Bronze, dark patina

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Schlossberg, 2013


title: Textile Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Onoe Matsusuke as the Ghost of the Murdered Wife Oiwa, in "A Tale of Horror from the Yotsuya Station on the Tokaido Road"

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Louis V. Ledoux, 1927


title: Johann Scheyring

creator: Lucas Cranach the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Jelly Glass

medium: Free-blown lead glass

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Jar with loop handles

medium: Stoneware with olive celadon glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Paul Singer, 1977


title: Decorative paper with an overall floral pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Nicosthenic

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Dress shirt

date: early 1900s

medium: linen, silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Heathcote Kimball, 1957


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: Isola Bella in Lago Maggiore

creator: Sanford Robinson Gifford

credit_line: Gift of Colonel Charles A. Fowler, 1921


title: Morse Fragment with the Archangel Gabriel

medium: Gilded copper

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
French

credit_line: Gift of Philippe Carlier, Brimo de Laroussilhe, in honor of William D. Wixom,1999


title: Belisarius Begging for Alms

creator: Heinrich Friedrich Füger

date: mid-18th–early 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over graphite underdrawing and white wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Mark Twain

creator: Charles Noel Flagg

credit_line: Gift of Ellen Earle Flagg, 1917


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Copper Bell with Head

date: before 16th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Metal-musical instrument
Peruvian

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


title: Marie Prescott, from the Actresses series (N246), Type 1, issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sporting Extra Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, silver, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Brocaded


title: Glass Fragments

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass (green)

country: Coptic

subjects: Glass Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Plate

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1962


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Tile

date: 18th century or later

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Coffin panel with painting of a bier

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Vendor of Cooked Apples and Pears by Moonlight, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 39

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)

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


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk


title: Yankees trying to be Turkish from my album - Esquisses at the Centenial [sic] Leon y Escosura

creator: Ignacio de León y Escosura

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Emma Avery Welcher and Amy Ogden Welcher, 1965


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

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


title: Bowl

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Side Chair

medium: Walnut, white oak, white pine

credit_line: Gift of James DeLancey Verplanck and John Bayard Rodgers Verplanck,  1939


title: The Strolling Musicians

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching

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


title: Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

medium: Dark blue glazed faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Un Mari qu'on Aime

creator: Paul-Emile-Anthony Morlon

medium: Black chalk, watercolor, and gouache

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1964


title: Penannular Earring

medium: Shell

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: Visiting dress

medium: silk

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1976


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


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: David Myers

medium: Vellum laid on prepared gessoed card

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Gold ring with garnet ring stone

date: late 4th–2nd century BCE

medium: Gold, garnet

country: Greek or Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek or cypriot


title: Tea Jar

medium: Clay covered with a mottled glaze; left-handed itogiri (Zeze ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Nose Ornament

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Gold

country: Calima (Yotoco)

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

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


title: Textile

date: 16th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Spontoon

medium: Steel, wood, textile, gold, metallic thread

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1929


title: Flask


title: Chalice of Peter of Sassoferrato

medium: Gilded silver and translucent enamel

country: Italian

subjects: Metalwork-silver Italian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1988


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Table fork

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, whalebone, bone, metal

subjects:
Metalwork-steel
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Glass jug

date: mid-1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1942


title: James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot (1836–1902)

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Pen Case and Inkwell

date: first half 19th century

medium: Gold, silver; partial gilded, probably cast

credit_line: Gift of Marilyn Jenkins, in memory of her father, Dr.  Arthur M. Jenkins, 1982


title: Spring, from "The Four Seasons" (Les Quatre Saisons)

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching; first state of two

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain with amber stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Mahakala with Shakti

medium: Gold with enamel

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

credit_line: Gift of Helen Stillman, 1994


title: Shoe Buckle

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Kaval

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Bulgarian

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

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Young Artists in the Studio

creator: Hubert Robert

medium: Red chalk, with framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Terracotta female head

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


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

date: late 5th/early 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Statuette of Hippo Goddess

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Male Saint in Ecstasy

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium:
Red chalk on cream paper.
Oval format

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Small tureen and stand

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1954


title: Card Number 392, Maggie Claire, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Necklace

date: 18th century

medium: Gold

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: The Aegean Sea

creator: Frederic Edwin Church

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. William H. Osborn, 1902


title: Five men fighting beasts, at lower left is a fallen boar

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving


title: Scarab Decorated with Scrolls

date: ca. 1700–1500 B.C. (Middle Bronze Age, MB IIB-IIC)

medium: Bright blue glazed steatite

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


title: Terminal, possibly for a scepter, with the name of Meketaten

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Statuette of a man with object in hand

date: 4th–1st century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Dress border

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Plate 12: Joshua Mutilates his Enemies' Horses, from "The Battles of the Old Testament"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

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


title: Le Gentilhomme au Manteau Posé sur la Hanche (The Gentleman with his Mantle on his Hip), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Nichols, Left Field, Pittsburgh, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Large Octagonal Plate

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

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Bowl or basin

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Old Schoolfellows, from "Illustrated London News"

creator: Harvey Orrin Smith

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015


title: Goetz Aided by the Gypsies, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

creator: Eugène Delacroix

date: after 1845

medium: Wood engraving (or possibly stereotype) on newsprint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Cuneiform tablet: unidentified fragment

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jadeite

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo as a Kyokaku

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Card Number 77, Loi Fuller, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Iron, silver, gold, lacquer, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Masauji Goda, 1906


title: Terracotta fragments of pots; unglazed on the inside

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Man of Sorrows Seated, title page of "The Small Passion" (copy)

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Female sphinx amulet

medium: Beryl

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Pair of console supports

medium: Carved and stained wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Goat (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite on wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1998


title: Shabti of Nebneheh

medium: Faience

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Piece

medium: Silk


title: Frances Stuart, Countess of Portland

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of three (New Hollstein)

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1917


title: Textile Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Mountains Overlooking Lake Maggiore, May 11, 1869 (verso, from sketchbook)

creator: Jervis McEntee

medium: Graphite, white gouache, watercolor, on blue paper

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1982


title: Phaeton #179

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Awl

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Votive Menat fragments

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: The Gift of the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty by the French to the American Republic, 1886

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Bronze, silvered, struck (obverse only)

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: Decorated ware jar with vertical bands of wavy lines

medium: Pottery, paint


title: Mercury

creator: Giambologna

date: 17th–18th century?

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Three Boys Save the Despairing Pamina from Suicide

creator: Moritz von Schwind

medium: Pen and black ink with watercolor

credit_line: Karen B. Cohen, Mary Oenslager, and Edward Pearce Casey Funds, 2003


title: Seated Shakyamuni

date: 9th century

country: India (Jammu & Kashmir, ancient kingdom of Kashmir)

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Piece

date: 18th 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: St. George and the Dragon

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Boxwood

subjects: Sculpture-miniature-wood German

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Dancing Bes alongside seated group of musicians

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1923


title: Relief Panel with Lion Family

medium: Marble (Proconnesian marble)

country: South Italian

subjects:
Architecture
Sculpture-architectural
South italian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Prussian Hussar, Red Prince Uniform, Germany, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Portrait of a Girl

creator: Nathaniel Rogers

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Ear Ornament, Cylinder Hoops

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: Vase in the form of an archaic wine vessel (gu)

date: 17th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel

subjects:
Cloisonné
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Edging

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Henry Carl "Hank" Gastright, Pitcher, Cleveland, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Fragment

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


title: Bronze ornament in the form of a seated male sphinx

date: ca. 27 BCE–14 CE

medium: bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Bronze
Roman

credit_line: Gift of Malcolm Wiener, on the occasion of the reinstallation of the Greek and Roman galleries, 2006


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Bracelet

date: 12th century

medium: Gold, with granulated bosses and niello designs

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1976


title: Condiment Dish

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chace, 1969


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Inlay, rosette

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Double crocodile pendant

creator: Coclé (Macaracas) artist

medium: Gold, tourmaline

country: Coclé (Macaracas)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Coclé (macaracas)

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


title: Terracotta jug

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Moss agate scaraboid seal

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Agate, moss

country: Greek

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems
Mosses & lichens


title: Beaker

date: mid-19th century

medium: Glass; blown, a retorti

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


title: Jug with cover

creator: John Chartier

medium: Silver, wood

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Earring with pendant

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman


title: Haddock, from the Fish from American Waters series (N8) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print

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


title: Ornament in the form of a bird

date: 19th century

subjects:
Ornament & design
Glass
Birds

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Parody of Minamoto no Tametomo

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Figurine of female

medium: Clay

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


title: Plate 7: two figures at right about to cross a stone bridge, a fisherman in the foreground, from 'Landscapes in the manner of Gaspar Dughet'

creator: Franz Joachim Beich

medium: Etching; second state of two

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Forearm with Aten cartouche

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: A naked man at left showing an axe to a woman at right

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1929


title: Detail with a Horned Mask Wearing a Whimple, from a Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle

creator: Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving and blackwork

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


title: Casket

medium: Wood, iron; gilded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Lucidario di Recami, page 4 (recto)

creator: Iseppo Foresto

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


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: Hollow-Base Projectile Point

medium: Chert

credit_line: Gift of The British School of Archaeology, 1926


title: Clara Pilvois

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Border

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Stool

date: possibly 19th or first half 20th century

medium: Oak, turned.

country: Northern European

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
Northern european

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: May Bradford, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sutra Cover with Multicolored Clouds on an Overall Fretwork

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2011


title: 'People deserve bad political leaders when they tolerate them', caricature no. 46 from 'San Baltasar' (July 1873). A bound volume of caricatures and political satires from the Mexican newspapers 'La orquesta',  'El Padre Cobos', and 'San Baltasar: periódico chusco, amante de decir bromas y grocerias, afecto a las convivialidades, y con caricaturas'

creator: Constantino Escalante

medium: Lithograph

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


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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Inside the Garden at Takao

creator: Hasegawa Sadanobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Edging

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Trade Card for Jones and Barriff, Engravers and Printers

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Plate with landscape of the West Lake

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with powder blue glaze and gold decoration (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Shirley M. Mueller, 2018


title: Fire Tongs

medium: Brass

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: "Plaque from a Tantric Ritual Apron": Kirtimukha

medium: Bone

country: Tibet

subjects:
Bone
Tibet
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1991


title: Casserole with cover

creator: Pierre-François Goguelye (or Gogly)

medium: Silver gilt; ebony

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Temperance

creator: Peter Flötner

credit_line: The Erich Lederer Collection, Gift of Mrs. Erich Lederer, 1986


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial B, from an Antiphonary

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: German

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

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


title: Frame in the form of a book

date: second half 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze, velvet

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Textile with Foliated Scrolls

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block-printed, mordant dyed

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

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1930


title: Vase

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stoneware with marbled slip decoration (Cizhou type ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1940


title: Fragment of relief

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Terracotta stamnos (jar)

creator: Berlin Painter

date: ca. 490 BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Christos G. Bastis, in honor of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1988


title: Jupiter and Europa, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; first state of five

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hartshorne, 1918


title: Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Louis XV Regency style frame

date: style of early 18th century, heavily restored at unknown later date

medium: Carved and gilded wood.

country: French

subjects: Frame French

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Desert Lake, near Ragtown, Nevada

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Fan

medium: Parchment, ivory, and glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1965


title: Design for a Six Arm Candelabra

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Cap

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, 1976


title: Pelisse

medium: silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. F.D. Millet, 1913


title: La Défilé a Pied (The Parade on Foot), from Le Combat a la Barrière in the Palace at Nancy by Henri Humbert, printed by Sebastien Phillipe

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching in red ink; second state of two (Lieure)

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


title: Card Number 57, Billie Barlow, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Funerary cone

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Gift of the Earl of Carnarvon, 1913


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

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


title: Candlestick, Pricket

date: 15th century

medium: Brass

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Metalwork-brass
South netherlandish

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Scroll back side chair

creator: Duncan Phyfe

medium: Mahogany

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld, 2009


title: Seated Eros

date: 3rd century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Cap

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Miss Eleanor Mitchell, 1942


title: Pair of terms

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1994


title: Philadelphia Sunday Press, May 26, 1895

creator: George Reiter Brill

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 1990


title: Volute-krater fragment

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Plaque with the Last Supper

date: 15th century (?)

medium: Elephant ivory

country: British or French (?)

subjects:
British or french
Ivories-elephant

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


title: Convivio delle Belle Donne, page 6 (recto)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1532

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Lady Ruthven

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Manfred Heiting and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 1997


title: Dagger

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Steel

country: Indian

subjects: Dagger Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Salome

date: early 20th century (original dated 14th century)

medium: Tesserae, glass in wooden frame

country: Italian

subjects: Italian Reproductions-mosaic

credit_line: Johnston Fund, 1924


title: Purse

medium: cotton, silk, glass

country: probably Dutch

credit_line: Gift of Stella Jolles Reichman, 1980


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Hamano Haruchika

date: early 19th century

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, 1943


title: Stone Celt

medium: Stone

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Souvenir spoon with view of a high bridge over a stream and arms of Switzerland

date: late 19th century

medium: Gilt and enamel

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


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 54 (verso)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Joseph (from a nativity)

date: 18th century (?) possibly later

medium: Wood, polychromed and gilded; ivory touched up with polychromy (face and shoulders)

country: Ecuadorian and Philippine

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Plate with pheonix and monkeys

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

country: China

credit_line: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Menat Counterpoise, Psamtik I

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: [Peacock's Throne Room, Teheran]

creator: Luigi Pesce

credit_line: Gift of Kay Gregory, 1967


title: A Young Woman of Frascati

creator: Jacques Louis David

medium: Red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink, irregularly cut

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Gold Earring

medium: Gold

country: Ostrogothic (?)

subjects: Metalwork-gold Ostrogothic

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Gentleman with a Glove

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

medium: Etching (reverse copy)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted


title: Cherries, from the Fruits series (N12) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Fruits

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


title: Medicine Bundle Bowl and Bag

medium: Wood, wool, native-tanned skin

country: Ho-Chunk

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


title: Musical Monster, from "Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds"

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

date: December 8, 1778

medium: Etching

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


title: Panel

medium: Silk and silver thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Fire Screens, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray ink and gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Terracotta bowl on a high stand

date: late 8th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Animal Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: Jewelry Elements

medium: Gold, carnelian, lapis lazuli


title: Collar

medium: Linen

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous gift, 1944


title: Time Marker

medium: Wood, lime

country: Papua New Guinean

subjects:
Idiophone-concussion
Papua new guinean

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Herbaceous Peony

creator: Hu Yuan

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

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Broadsheet relating to 'la Tarasca' (the carnival monster)

creator: Anonymous

medium: Photorelief and letterpress on green paper

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


title: Card Number 54, Agnes Folsom, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Panel

medium: Silk; metal

country: Italian or French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian or french
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Spoon

date: 1st–4th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Portrait of Rabelais

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching; later state, with plate reduced

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1922


title: Panel

date: 16th century

medium: Carved oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Cap

medium: cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Susie Barstow Skelding, 1934


title: see 07.228.209

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: Glass bottle

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Oil Lamp

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

creator: Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Pitcher

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1937


title: Pendant: winged female head

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Amber

country: Italic

subjects: Miscellaneous-amber Italic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Saucer

medium: Stoneware with splashed glaze (Jun ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, 1926


title: Miniature Tripod Vase

date: 15th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Mexica (aztec)
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Buildings Along the Hofvijver in The Hague

creator: Valentijn Klotz

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print


title: Feathered Crown

medium: Feathers (Paradise Tanager, Macaw), cotton, skin, cane, copper

country: Chimú

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chimú
Feathers-costume

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


title: Pitcher

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: George Washington

creator: Anna Claypoole Peale

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Reliquary, Hand from

date: 13th century

medium: Copper, silver-plated

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-copper French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


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: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China or Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China or japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Scarab depicting a griffin

medium: Green paste

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Model shell

medium: Blue faience

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


title: Furniture cover with dragons and flowers

medium: Silk brocaded satin with gold thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Flowers
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Hammered Silver Miniature Club

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Scarab with Coil Design

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: The Comedian, from the Magic Changing Cards series (N223) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company

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


title: Juniper Lake Aug 23 1885, Mount Tacoma Washington (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

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


creator: Painter of Berlin 2268

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: French, Country, from World's Dudes series (N31) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Suit

medium: cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1976


title: Square Wall Tile

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: National Railway Station Restaurant, Vienna X, Josef Pohl (Restaurant Staatsbahnhof, Wien X, Josef Pohl)

creator: Gustav Kalhammer

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Sardonyx ring stone

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

medium: Sardonyx

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Seed Rattle

date: late 19th century

medium: Shell, cord

country: Papua New Guinean (Bismarck Archipelago)

subjects: Papua new guinean (bismarck archipelago)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Man-of-War's Man, Spain, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Tapestry Panel Fragment

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chimú
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Three magicians burning a snake, from the Scherzi

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Etching; first state of two

subjects:
Print
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund; Dodge and Pfeiffer Funds; Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Gift of Bertina Suida Manning and Robert L. Manning, 1976


title: Medal Commemorating the Coronation of George II

medium: Silver

country: British

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
British

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1922


title: Textile fragment

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Wool

country: Sasanian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


title: George Washington

creator: Horatio Greenough

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Falconer, 1884


title: Coupé #3175

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Hat

medium: Wool, feathers, metallic, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edwin Carrington Ward, 1924


title: Saddle Pommel

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2003


title: Juglet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Private, City Troop, Philadelphia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

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


title: Chessmen (32)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Amber

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


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: Reception by the Japanese of the Americans at Yokohama

creator: Sensai Eiko

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Card Number 551, Lillian Grubb, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Two Children Playing with a Ball

creator: Peter Flötner

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white bodycolor

credit_line: Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2007


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Harold S. Wright, 1966


title: Millefiori pinhead

medium: Glass, amethyst

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Shoes

medium: leather

credit_line: Purchase, Council of Fashion Designers of America, 1988


title: Illustrated book

medium: Ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan


title: Mexico y sus Alrededores. Colección de monumentos, trajes y paisajes

creator: Casimiro Castro

medium: Lithographs and letterpress

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


title: Vue prise dans les jardins de la Ville d'Est a Tivoli

creator: Jean Claude Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Isao Honma and Mr. and Mrs. Shinjiro Okajima, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Tatsugoro Okajima, 1972


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid?

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Dagger (Katar) with Sheath

medium: Steel, gold, leather

country: Indian

subjects: Dagger Indian

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Horizontal Panel with a Row of Flowers Above a Frieze with Figures in a Landscape, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

creator: Nicolas Cochin

medium: Etching and burin

subjects: Print Flowers Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Virgin and Child

medium: Boxwood

country: South Netherlandish


title: Saint Petronilla

medium: Limestone, paint

country: Catalan

subjects: Sculpture Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: Limestone head with of a beardless male with a wreath of leaves

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Covers for 'La Pesadilla de Alejito o el Almuerzo de Acotes' and 'Juan Ceniza'

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on pink paper


title: Departure for the Hunt

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: The J.B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1951


title: Plaque

date: 13th–early 14th century

medium: Carved black lacquer

country: China

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Wallpaper

creator: Arthur and Robert Wallpapers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Button

medium: glass

country: French

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Deer by Mountain Stream

creator: Taki Katei

date: dated January 1896

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Daniel Slott, 1981


title: Pot with Flowering Plant

medium: Nephrite

subjects: Botany Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Incised bowl with geometric pattern

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paraca
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: Border

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Captain, Royal Escort, Spain, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: The Supper at Emmaus

creator: Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Pyramid monument for J.B. van Bree

creator: G. Fock

date: 1857 or after

medium: Pen and brush with gray ink, brush and gray wash, with traces of ruled graphite lines

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


title: Tarquin attacking Lucretia, a servant at left witnessing the scene

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

medium: Engraving

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


title: Stockings

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Frederick A. Drake, 1931


title: Dress

medium: wool, silk

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: Relief fragment, tomb of Mereri

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: Limestone altar

date: late 5th century BCE

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


title: [The British Soprano Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa (1836-1874)]

creator: Jeremiah Gurney

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Roses

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Vase

creator: Dorflinger Glass Works

medium: Cut blown glass

credit_line: Gift of Katheryn Hait Dorflinger Manchee, 1974


title: Bowl

medium: Stone

credit_line: Courtesy of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1978


title: Beaker

creator: Jean-Jacques Kirstein

medium: Silver-gilt

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: Satyr and Child

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1929


title: Bodhisattva Guanyin

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Leaded brass

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Dutch Freighters or Flutes (Naues Mercantoriæ Hollandicæ, vulgo VLIETEN)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first or second state of two, the number may have been abraded

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Street Scene: Vendor of Brushes

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Walter Carlebach, 1969


title: Terracotta hydria (water jar)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Without a Cloud

creator: Sophie Anderson

date: after 1870

medium: Mixed method engraving

credit_line: Gift of Ellen Robinson, 1960


title: Mount Fuji

creator: Ike no Taiga 池大雅

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2020


title: A child wearing a large mask and inserting his hand through the mouth

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Peru; central coast (?)

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

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


title: Tripod incense burner

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stoneware with celadon galze (Longquan ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Box

medium: Silver, tortoiseshell

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Captain, Princess Hussars, Spain, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Boy holding birds

creator: Ottweiler Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

subjects: Birds Ceramics-porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943


title: Letter-Box and Plum Blossoms

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers


title: Pair of Earrings with Red Stones

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Ten Wise Men Among the Disciples of Confucious

creator: Yashima Gakutei

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Centre Square and the Marble Water Works, Philadelphia

creator: Pavel Petrovich Svinin

medium: Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, and graphite on off-white laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Vessel

medium: Faience

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


title: The Pissing Man

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

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


title: Hilda Hollins, 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


title: Terracotta head from a statue

country: Greek, South Italian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Vase with floral patterns

medium: Porcelain with underglaze incised decoration (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Snuffbox

medium: Enamel on copper

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


title: Slippers

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Peter McBean and Mrs. E.M. Smith, in memory of Nathalie Lorilard Bailey Morris, 1968


title: Triptolemus, from "The Rural Gods"

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Lotus and waterbirds

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Pair of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1988


title: Saint Anne with the Virgin and Child

medium: Limewood

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Inverary Castle and Town, Scotland (Liber Studiorum, part XIII)

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching only; before first state of three

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


title: Standing Buddha

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Stone with traces of color

country: Thailand

subjects: Sculpture Thailand

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1982


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: Nathaniel Rogers

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Glass mosaic ribbed 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: Miniature Square-Headed Brooch

date: first half 6th century

medium: Gilded silver, garnet; iron pin

country: Anglo-Saxon

subjects: Metalwork-silver Anglo-saxon

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Length of dress silk

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, by exchange and funds from various donors, 2017


title: Studio delle virtuose Dame, page 27 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1918


title: Plate 1: Part of the Forum of Nerva (Parte del Foro di Nerva), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–6th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Arthur S. Vernay Inc., 1922


title: Purse mount

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

medium: Iron chased and parcel gilt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Inlay: banquet scene with a seated figure holding a palm frond

medium: Shell

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Palms
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Valance

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Plate 21, from "World in Miniature"

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Card Number 10, Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Group of Laborers in a Field (recto); Angel Appearing to a Kneeling Saint (verso)

creator: Giovanni Battista Maganza the Elder

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and pale brown wash, over black-chalk (recto and verso)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Gordon Douglas III, 2014


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Key

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Perils of the Sea

creator: Winslow Homer

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: The First Shilling Day–Coming Out

creator: George Cruikshank

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