title: Scarab with the Representation of a Fish

medium: Green glazed faience

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


title: Egypt, from Flags of All Nations, Series 1 (N9) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

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


title: Inrō with “Chrysanthemum Youth” (Kikujidō)

date: first half of the19th century

medium:
Three cases; lacquered wood with togidashimaki-e imitating ink painting (togikirimaki-e) on gold and black lacquer ground
Netsuke: purple and green ceramic shishi (Chinese lion)
Ojime: inlaid metal with fruit basket

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan Fruits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Salad bowl (Saladier)

creator: Jean-Baptiste Guillibaud

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bronze bull

date: 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Suiseki Picture Album (Suiseki gafu) 水石画譜

creator: Satō Suiseki 佐藤水石

date: 1814, sixth month; preface dated 1814, fourth month

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Study of a Hand

creator: Jean-Baptiste Greuze

medium: Red and black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Richard Barsam, in memory of Edgar Munhall, 2018


title: Border

date: 17th century

medium: Needle lace, gros point lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Jacob Astor, 1888


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Gotō Eijō

date: late 16th–early 17th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Fashion plate

creator: Nicolaus Heideloff

medium: paper

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Gift of Mr. L. Douglas Pollard, 1971


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3228

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Picta poesis vt pictvra poesis erit

creator: Barthélemy Aneau

medium: Woodcut


title: Terracotta fragment from a closed shape

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Ōtsu-e of Uhō Dōji

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Village de Montaubant pris de Luchon

creator: Joseph Vigier

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory Ltd., 1972


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Thomas Milton

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Dr. François Mêlier

creator: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

medium: Graphite with graphite framing lines, corrected with white, on buff wove paper

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Bowl with cover (écuelle)

creator: Emanuel Drentwett

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Snuff bottle with stopper

medium: Glass

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

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


title: Design for large fireplace white tiles produced by Wedgwood's factory

creator: John Flaxman

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink over graphite

credit_line: Gift of Randolph Gunter, 1961


title: Water (one of four)

medium: Stucco and marble

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: The Deposition; Christ being taken from the Cross, a man on a ladder is holding the body while St John is supporting the weight with a cloth rope, from "The Passion of Christ", after Dürer

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Silhouette of Gräfin Ferrari

creator: Wilhelm Ackermann

medium: Cut paper pasted on etched frames

credit_line: Mary Martin Fund, 1969


creator: Douris


title: Portrait of a Young Man

creator: Pierre Narcisse Guérin

medium: Black chalk, stumping, heightened with white chalk

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2016


title: Statuette of cat

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Whorl

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Amber

country: Etruscan or Italic

subjects:
Miscellaneous-amber
Etruscan or italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Piece

date: mid-19th century

medium: Cotton and linen, applied

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Owl Tab Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper, shell, stone

country: Moche

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

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


title: Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael

creator: Nicolaes Maes

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Brayton, 1971


title: It is No Longer Lisette, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: Tony Johannot

medium: Intaglio

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


title: Candlestick (one of a pair)

creator: François II Lacassaigne

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Ella Morris de Peyster, 1957


title: Beaker

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Dish

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Nabeshima ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Portrait of Johann Gottlieb Samuel Rösel

creator: Ludwig Emil Grimm

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2011


title: Frontal Plate from a Tilting Heaume in French or German Style

medium: Steel

country: probably French or German

subjects:
Forgerie
Probably french or german

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

date: 14th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Pickering, 1969


title: Portrait de Alexandre Cabanel

creator: Jean-Baptiste Adolphe Lafosse

medium: Lithograph on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015


title: Guild vessel

medium: Pewter

subjects:
Metalwork-pewter
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Earring with chain pendants

medium: Gold

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


title: Lucia

creator: Frederic, Lord Leighton

date: possibly late 1870s

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


title: Dish with Design of Ascending Balloon

date: dated 1797

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze enamels (Hizen ware)

credit_line: Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry Collection, Bequest of Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry, 2000


title: Elsie Leslie, from the Actresses series (N246), Type 2, 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: Pharmacy bottle (one of a pair)

creator: Orazio Pompei

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka) with Blade

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

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Cloak Pin

medium: Enamel and gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Little Devil's Bridge over the Russ, above Altdorft, Switzerland (Liber Studiorum, part IV, plate 19)

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching and mezzotint; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1951


title: Pelerine

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Professor Talbot Hamlin, 1954


title: Oak forest with a pig

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Black and white chalk

credit_line: Gift of Robert Tuggle, 2008


title: Pitcher

creator: United States Pottery Company

medium: Mottled brown earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stanley Herzman, 1984


title: Bowl

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: A Waterfall, Moonlight

creator: Ralph Albert Blakelock

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Eda K. Loeb, 1952


title: Miranda (Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2)

creator: Caroline Watson

medium: Stipple engraving; printed in brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: The Scalp

creator: Frederic Remington

date: 1898, cast before 1939

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939


title: One Hundred Boys

medium: Woodblock print; ink on paper with additional hand coloring

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, by exchange, 2025


title: Fish hook

medium: Bone

subjects:
Fish
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Benzaiten (Goddess of Music and Good Fortune) Seated on a White Dragon

creator: Aoigaoka Keisei

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Cap

medium: linen

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: "Iskandar Slays the Habash Monster", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Richard S. Perkins, and funds from various donors, 2003


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Portique d'entrée de la Grande Galerie de la Pagode

creator: Emile Gsell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Vest

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry Mascarine Hubbard, 1942


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Netsuke of Rabbit

date: 20th century

medium: Crystal, wax

subjects:
Netsuke
Japan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Le Ministère de la Marine (the Admiralty, Paris)

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching; third state of seven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Rose Bowl

medium: Blown satin yellow and colorless glass

country: British, probably

subjects:
British, probably
Roses

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Lamp or Censer

medium: Gilded copper

country: North Italian

subjects:
Metalwork-copper
North italian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Wedding shoes

medium: silk, leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Macy Chamberlin, 1951


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Return of the Prodigal Son

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching, pen and ink

credit_line: Bequest of Ida Kammerer, in memory of her husband, Frederic Kammerer, M.D., 1933


date: mid-4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Piece

date: 15th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sopranino Clarinet in E-flat

creator: Henry Distin Mfg. Co.

medium: Wood, ivory, string, brass

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Dagger (Dirk) Blade

medium: Bronze

country: Irish

subjects: Dagger Irish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Miss Rita Hart, 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: Sugar bowl with cover

creator: M. H. P.

date: last quarter 18th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Tripod cauldron (Ding)

date: 13th–12th century BCE

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Terracotta bowl fragment

date: ca. 25–10 BCE

subjects: Vase Roman


title: Footed goblet with bulging bowl

creator: Philip Webb

medium: Flint glass

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2015


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Etienne Bouchardy

medium: Ivory laid on card

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Louis V. Bell, in memory of her husband, 1925


title: Cosmetic container (?)

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bone

country: Iran

subjects:
Iran
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Steelyard weight in the form of Athena

date: 6th–9th century (?)

medium: Copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Byzantine


title: Hanging or Prayer Rug

date: 18th century

medium: Taffeta, metal wrapped thread; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Panel

creator: Philippe Laurent Roland

medium: Oak, coated with dark greenish paint to resemble bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Pendant Plaque

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Lapis-lazuli

subjects:
Lapidary work-lapi
Byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos and Anonymous Gifts, 1984


title: Dagger in Gothic Style

medium: Steel, brass, red enamel

country: French

subjects: Forgerie French

credit_line: Gift of Jacques Reubell, 1923


title: Rocky Landscape

creator: Jan Both

date: mid-17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, over traces of black chalk, heightened with white. Framing line in pen and brown ink.

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Asile impériale de Vincennes, vue de Charenton

creator: Charles Nègre

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: [Surveyor]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: "The Beggar who Professed his Love for a Prince", Folio 28r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

creator: Farid al-Din `Attar

date: dated 892 AH/1486 CE

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

subjects: Codice Birds

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1963


title: Pendant

medium: Jade, seed pearls

country: China

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Specimen

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Crescent

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

credit_line: Gift of Jane Costello Goldberg, from the Collection of Arnold I. Goldberg, 1981


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazō in the Role of Kan Shōjō

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Whistler with the White Lock

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Drypoint, printed in black ink on greenish laid paper; only state (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Great War Chief, Navajos, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N2) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

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


title: Nail

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Horsemen Hunting

creator: Francesco Allegrini

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Server

creator: G. Gibbs

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Frances and Edward Munves, 1964


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: William Bond

date: October 28, 1822

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: String of 50 Eyed Beads

date: mid-10th–late 8th century BCE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Sheet with floral and bird pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Birds
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of D. Lorraine Yerkes, 1961


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Wineglass (part of a service)

medium: Glass, gold

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Chambers Hughes, 1963


title: Cup with cover

medium: Jadeite

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


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: Bracelet

medium: Gold, marble

credit_line: Bequest of Maria Morgan, 1892


title: Waistcoat

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of David L. Andrews, 1976


title: Fennelly, Shortstop, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Ear Ornament

medium: Gold

country: Zenú

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Zenú

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


title: Terracotta stirrup jar

medium: Terracotta

country: Helladic, Mycenaean

subjects:
Vase
Helladic, mycenaean

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


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Drawings of Ancient Sword Treasure, Kamakura, Hachiman Temple

medium: Ink on paper

country: Japanese

subjects: Architecture Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Marble arm

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Pair of Moccasins

medium: Native-tanned skin, porcupine quill

country: Seneca

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


title: Piece

creator: Miguel Forment and Co.

date: late 18th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

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


title: Mold for a Disk Ornament

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Vitae Patrum (Lives of the Desert Fathers)

creator: Saint Jerome

date: January 8, 1511

medium: Woodcuts

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Bandō Hikosaburō III in the Role of Obiya Chōemon and Iwai Hanshiro IV in the Role of Shinanoya Ohan, from the Play “Nihonmatsu Michinoku sodachi”

creator: Tōshūsai Sharaku

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; white mica ground

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Ornamental drawings (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Spring Rain Collection (Harusame shū), vol. 2: Cut Flowers: Clematis, Bush Clover, Iris, Camellia, and Azalea

creator: Kubo Shunman

date: 1815 (Year of the Ox)

medium: Privately published woodblock prints (surimono) mounted in an album; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Ornament

date: 9th–5th century BCE

medium: Shell

country: Tembladera

subjects:
Ornament & design
Shell-ornament
Tembladera
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1993


title: Major Thomas Pechell (1753–1826)

creator: John Hoppner

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Swift Neilson, 1945


title: The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon

creator: Camille Pissarro

credit_line: Gift from the Collection of Marshall Field III, 1979


title: Hammered Silver Miniature Crown

date: 11th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north or central coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north or central coast

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


title: Arrow-Shaped Spearhead

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Vietnam (North)

subjects:
Metalwork
Vietnam (north)

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


title: Chin Mask (Ho-Ate)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Glass network mosaic 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: Zephyr and Pysche (Zépir et Psyché)

creator: Pierre Claude François Delorme

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Galloon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

date: second half of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Sheet

medium: Linen, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Virgin and Child

date: 19th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: European (Medieval style)

subjects:
European (medieval style)
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Coat

medium: silk

country: British

credit_line: Catharine Breyer Van Bomel Foundation Fund, 1981


title: The Brook

creator: Edward Calvert

medium: Wood engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Dish

date: 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted in black, blue, and green with red and yellow slips

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


title: Bronze jockey-type helmet with cheek-guards

date: late 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Headscarf

medium: cotton, silk

credit_line: Gift of Miss Isabel Hapgood, 1911


title: Jalais Hill, Pontoise

credit_line: Bequest of William Church Osborn, 1951


title: Flat Plaque with Bells and a "Feather Man" in Rowing Position

date: ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Vietnam

subjects: Metalwork Vietnam


title: Seal Impression, Saint Giles

date: late 13th century

medium: Red wax

subjects: Miscellaneous-wax British

credit_line: Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1981


title: Miss Arnoldson as "The Sea Nymph," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Brooch in the Form of a Cicada

medium: Copper alloy, cast; copper alloy pin/spring

country: East Germanic

subjects:
Metalwork-copper
East germanic

credit_line: Purchase, William Kelly Simpson Gift, 1993


title: Statue of Tjeteti in middle age

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Broadside with 48 scenes relating to carnival in Barcelona

creator: Antonio Bosch

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Bronze sanguisuga-type fibula (safety pin)

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Buckle Shank

date: 7th century

medium: Copper alloy, tin

country: Visigothic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Visigothic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Jar

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Cup with a frieze of gazelles

date: ca. early 1st millennium BCE

medium: Gold

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Faience amulet of a erect uraeus cobra

medium: Faience

country: Egyptian

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Egyptian

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


title: Dance Paddle (?)

country: Austral Islanders

subjects:
Wood-implement
Austral islander

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1961


title: Dish

creator: Jean Louis Peuty

medium: Pewter

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


title: Our Scouts and Guides in 1863 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana

creator: McPherson & Oliver

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019


title: Brayette

date: 16th century

medium: Steel, copper alloy (latten), iron, brass

country: German

subjects: Mail German

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Sutra Cover

medium: Silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Standing Saint (Apostle?)

creator: Pedro  Duque Cornejo

medium: Pen and dark brown ink. Figure's left foot is reinforced with pen and black ink. On ivory paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Jaffe, 1956


title: Collar

medium: [no medium available]

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Rosefeld, 1943


title: Cream jug

creator: Davenport, Longport

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Dark blue printed ware

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


title: Newes Modelbuch in Kupffer  (Page 46r)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Charles R. Richards, 1929


title: Four Geese by the River

creator: Alfred Sisley

medium: Pastel

credit_line: Bequest of Joan Whitney Payson, 1975


title: Manuscript Leaf with Scenes from the Life of Saint Francis of Assisi

medium: Tempera and gold on parchment

country: Italian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Weisl Jr., 1994


title: Bead, control

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


title: Game piece

medium: Blue faience

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


title: Medici coat of arms in bottom center, title page 2 from "In Morte del Serenissimo Principe Francesco di Toscana, Orazione"

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Letterpress, etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Bonnet

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Thomas J. Pasik, 1969


title: Terracotta stand

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 44r)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Phaeton # 448

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Piece

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: A View of the Ancient City (Parthenon?)

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

date: after 1800

medium: Graphite

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


title: La Bergère

creator: Charles Jacque

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Prisoner Vessel

date: 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Colima

subjects:
Colima
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

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


title: Oil Night (Recto); Several Sketches of Heads (Verso) (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium:
Graphite on light tan wove paper (recto);
 black chalk (verso)

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


title: Studies of a kneeling man (recto); Study of a standing man at right, and small scene of a kneeling figure in an interior, probably the Virgin in the Annunciation (verso)

creator: Francesco Maffei

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph McCrindle Foundation Gift, 2024


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper, gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: David Showing Saul the Tip of His Coat

creator: Ferdinand Bol

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2001


title: Badge with Five-Clawed Dragon Surrounded by Plum Blossoms

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silk and metallic-thread embroidery on plain-weave silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Flowers
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Andrew Saul Gift, 1987


title: Covered jar

medium: Earthenware with blue glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Mandel, in honor of Dr. Allan Rosenfield, 2006


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: The Bagpipe Player

creator: Guillaume Bodinier

medium: Black chalk and watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Bruno and Thérèse de Bayser, in memory of Jacob Bean,1993


title: Fan

date: mid-18th century

medium: Kid, ivory, and gold

credit_line: The Moses Lazarus Collection, Gift of Josephine and Sarah Lazarus, in memory of their father, 1888-95


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Vase

medium: Blown satin white glass

country: European, probably

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Veil

medium: Silk, machine net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Georgiana Schuyler, 1900


title: Shabti of the God's Wife Maatkare, daughter of Painedjem I

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Head of a Woman

date: 14th century

medium: Pot-metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Iain Nasatir, 1980


title: Vase

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

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Ceremonial Copper

date: 19th century

medium: Copper, paint

country: Tlingit

subjects: Metal-implement Tlingit

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


title: Figure of a swan or duck

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Books and a Bookcase

creator: Keisai Eisen

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Card 313, Mary Anderson, 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


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Conversion of Saint Paul with God the Father and Angels above

creator: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Bartsch)

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


title: Vase with peaches, pomegranates, and fingered citrons

date: early 18th century

medium: Soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware), silver mount

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Interruption or Inconvenience of a Lodging House

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: [April 1, 1789], reissued April 1, 1824

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Card 6, from the Girl Baseball Players series (N48, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


title: Handle for rope for lowering coffin

medium: Pine wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: South Dome, 6,000 feet

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

date: ca. 1872, printed ca. 1876

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Carole and Irwin Lainoff, Ruth P. Lasser and Joseph R. Lasser, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Marvin, Martin E. and Joan Messinger, Richard L. Yett and Sheri and Paul Siegel, 1986


title: Hammered Silver Miniature Scepter

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Candlestick

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Ribbon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of H. A. Elsberg, 1938


title: Bottle

medium: Free-blown molded amber glass

credit_line: Bequest of Constance R. Brown, 1939


title: Embroidered Border Fragment

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Wedding shoes

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Miss A. Gladys Peck, 1947


title: Button

medium: metal

country: British

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Footed Dish

creator: Ott and Brewer

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1997


title: Study of Hands (recto); Study for a Reclining St. Francis (verso)

creator: Daniele Crespi

medium: Red and white chalk on blue paper (recto); red chalk on blue paper (verso)

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


title: Arches in Ruins

creator: Hubert Robert

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Egrets at the Water's Edge

creator: Watanabe Seitei

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Carrie Turner, 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: Seal

medium: Jade

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913


title: New Illustrated Manual of Sukiya Architecture, 3 (Shinpan/Sukiya hinagata, san)

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Architecture
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Mural Decorations, from "Illustrated London News"

creator: Pierre Grenier

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019


title: Terracotta fragments of oinochoai (jugs)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Needlepoint valance (one of three)

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Chili, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Female figurine kneading dough(?)

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Phaeton (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Box with Chain

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Bronze with gilding

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Standing Nude Man (recto); Three Studies of Soldiers (verso)

creator: Taddeo Zuccaro

medium: Red chalk, highlighted with traces of white gouache (recto); red chalk (verso)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: Poem of Farewell to Liu Man

creator: Yelü Chucai

date: dated 1240

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Il Gobbo dei Carracci

creator: Arthur Pond

medium: Etching and aquatint, brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Luohan, after a set attributed to Guanxiu

creator: Unidentified

date: stone carved in 1757; rubbing 18th or 19th century?

subjects: Rubbing China

credit_line: Gift of Miss H. C. Wagner, 1959


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Fichu

date: mid-19th century

medium: Linen

country: Belgian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Robert C. Foster, 1970


title: Safavid Courtiers Leading Georgian Captives

date: mid-16th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; lampas

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1952


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Pointed lace

date: 17th century

medium: Needle lace, punto in aria

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Hamilton W. Cary, in memory of Mrs. Cary, 1906


title: Plaque with the Descent from the Cross

medium: Elephant ivory, whale bone, traces of paint, and gilding

subjects:
French
Ivories-elephant
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Tile showing a woman carrying a pot

date: 5th–6th century

country: India (ancient kingdom of Kashmir, Harwan)

subjects: India (ancient kingdom of kashmir, harwan)

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Anthony Gardner, 1994


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in memory of Charles Dikran and Beatrice Kelekian, 1999


title: Outer coffin of the Child Myt

medium: Wood (ficus sycomorus), paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Sutra Cover with Alternating Rows of Peonies and Lotus-like Flowers

date: 16th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Flowers
Textiles-woven

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


title: Changing Pasture

creator: Anton Mauve

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Choir Stall

date: 15th century

medium: Oak

subjects: Woodwork-furniture French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1936


title: Jug

date: late 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Dish with God of Longevity (Shoulao) and the Eight Immortals

date: early 18th century

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

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: My Garden in St. John’s Wood

creator: James Tissot

medium: Etching and drypoint; published state

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Ornament

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Male Nude

creator: Giovanni Battista Lombardi

date: 19th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Jill Newhouse, 2005


title: Bulls, from "Eaux-Fortes Animaux & Paysages"

creator: Karl Bodmer

medium: Etching

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


title: Pair of Stirrups

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Iron

country: Indian

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Plate 51: Linen cloth / dry goods vendor

creator: Simon Guillain II

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


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Book cover with overall abstract pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Bracelet

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Jerome M. Eisenberg, 1961


title: Bamboo and Rock in Snow

creator: Sakaki Hyakusen

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Le Pan de Muraille

creator: Henri Mauperché

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Pullah Fisherman

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981


title: Lid

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip-covered, carved decoration under a monochrome glaze (Garrus ware)

credit_line: Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1927


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Limestone statuette of a female votary

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Sunset Glow at Seta,  from the series Eight Views of Ōmi (Ōmi hakkei)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Portrait, from the Women's Portraits series (N198) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Half of an Arch [Porta Antonae], from "Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles"

creator: Lambert Suavius

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948


title: Allegory of Earth

creator: Charles Le Brun

medium: Brush and gray wash, over red chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Vue du Village d'Herment

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Papyri Fragments of a Letter

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Sauceboat (one of a pair)

creator: Paul de Lamerie

medium: Silver

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


title: Beaker (one of a pair)

date: dated 1605

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1962


title: Standing cup with cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Head of a lion

date: ca. mid-3rd millennium BCE

medium: Copper alloy, inlaid with shell

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: chous (jug)?

creator: Class of Vatican G 50

date: late 6th/early 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: Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto

creator: François Boucher

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: [Florence Anne Claxton]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Goblet

creator: Robert and William Wilson

country: American

credit_line: Gift of George H. Hull, 1970


title: [Yosemite National Park, California]

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative


title: Foundation peg in the form of the forepart of a lion

medium: Copper alloy

country: Hurrian

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1948


title: Gaita Asturiana

medium: Wood, goat- or deerskin, leather, cloth

country: Spanish

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-bagpipe
Spanish

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Mirror With Decoration of Flying Birds and Fishnets

date: 12th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Mirror Japan Birds

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


title: Bonnet

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes, 1943


title: Seal for Ring

date: 3rd century BC–7th century CE

medium: Gold, carnelian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Chemise

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Louis G. Smith, 1941


title: Meiping vase

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with Ge-type crackled glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Collar

date: late 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)


title: The Drama of the Sea, Brittany, from the "Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques"

creator: Paul Gauguin

medium: Zincograph on chrome yellow wove paper; first edition

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Miss Carson, 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: Plaque

medium: Pewter

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Piece

creator: Bannister Hall

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Pottery Bell

date: 19th century (?)

medium: blackware

country: Mexican


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Joan Bergère Drayton, 1967


title: A Short History of General Robert E. Lee, from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Measure

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Robert M. Parmelee and Mrs. William L. Parker, 1916


title: Bottle

medium: Pattern molded amber

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Schiff, 1980


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: Jephthah's daughter kneeling by the sacrificial altar, with her father standing at right

creator: Pietro Monaco

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Lieutenant General Thomas J. Jackson and His Family ("Stonewall Jackson")

creator: William Sartain

medium: Mezzotint, etching and stipple on chine collé

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


title: Weight in the shape of a duck

date: 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite


title: Reverse Copy of Le Mendiant a la Jambe de Bois (The Beggar with the Wooden Leg), from Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Plaque with tribute bearers

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Box

medium: Fruitwood (bois de Lucie)

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: The Mourning of Pallas

creator: Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson

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

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


title: Arrowhead

medium: Bronze

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, cypriot

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


title: Chasuble Front

date: 18th century

medium: Silk; metal; paper; linen

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Holy Woman

creator: Master of Rimini

medium: Alabaster

country: North French or South Netherlandish

subjects:
Sculpture-stone
North french or south netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Inc., 1991


title: Shooting Fish, from the series Fishers and Fish (N74) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: Knapp & Company

subjects: Fish Print

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


title: Shoulder Band Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: La Vierge et l'Enfant Jésus apparaissent au milieu d'un nuage sur un autel au pied duquel un reine est agenouillée en prières, au bas à droite (The Virgin and Christ Child Seated Amidst Clouds on an Altar, beneath which a Queen Kneels in Prayer at Lower Right), Third Sunday after Pentecost, scene 9 from Images des Fêtes Mobiles (Images of Moveable Feasts from the Christian Calendar), part of "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; fourth state of five (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Two illustrations for "The Economy of Human Life"

creator: Frank Howard

medium: Engraving on chine collé, proof

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


title: Corset

medium: Cotton, metal, bone

subjects:
American
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Finial in the Shape of a Tiger's Head

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Tinned bronze

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


title: Box

medium: Parian porcelain

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Waist Lame

creator: Wolfgang Grosschedel

medium: Steel

country: German, Landshut

subjects:
Armor part
German, landshut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: St. Philip

creator: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Watercolor and gouache, over graphite

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


title: Design for a Chandelier

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Jar with Zoomorphic Handle and Spout

date: late 11th–12th century

medium: Stoneware

country: Thailand

subjects: Ceramic Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1986


title: Study for a Title-Page: Allegory of Commerce and a Debtor's Prison (?)

creator: Romeyn de Hooghe

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, white gouache.

subjects: Mythology Drawing

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


title: La Majeste Royale

creator: Jean Duvet

medium: Engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Daisy Pendant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: late 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

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


title: Halberd

date: probably third quarter 15th century

medium: Steel, wood (oak), iron

country: Swiss

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Swiss

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Toby jug

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

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


title: 'Well-Known Folly' from the 'Disparates' (Follies / Irrationalities, Plate A)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

date: ca. 1815–19 (published before 1877)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint on Japan paper

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Scenes from a Legend; Coats of Arms

creator: Master of Charles of Durazzo

medium: Tempera on wood, embossed gilt and silver ornament

subjects:
Ornament & design
Painting

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


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Breastplate (<i>Kastenbrust</i>)

country: German

subjects:
German
Armor parts-breastplate

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


title: Flask

date: 9th century

medium: Glass; free blown, cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


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


title: Neapolitan, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Haystacks: Autumn

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Lillian S. Timken, 1959


title: Miriam, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

creator: Sir Edward John Poynter

medium: Wood engraving on India paper, mounted on thin card

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1926


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

country: Greek, South Italian, Gnathian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, gnathian

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


title: Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) With Phoenix Motif (鳳凰図鐔)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Copper alloy (sentoku), silver, copper

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


title: Crystal box with cover (part of a set)

creator: Johann Bernhard Hertz (Hentz)

medium: Silver, crystal; silver

subjects:
Metalwork-silver in combination
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 1968


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Peacock feather brooch

date: last quarter 19th century

medium: Silver, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, gold

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, in honor of Stephanie Fowler Levin and Clay Fowler, 2016


title: Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for silver, Egibi archive

date: ca. 543 BC

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1879


title: Stopped double pipe with bellows

medium: wood (red cedar or spruce), leather, metal, cord.

country: Xaadas (Haida), Native American

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-stopped pipe
Xaada (haida), native american

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Manet and his Easel

creator: Jean-Frédéric Bazille

medium: Charcoal, white chalk on blue laid paper faded to yellow-gray

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sleigh #3869

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Graphite with red crayon detail

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Dress

medium: silk

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. John Wells Parrish, 1953


title: Fireworks given by the Swedish ambassadors to honor Karl Gustav, Count Palatine, executed by Johann Carl, Nuremberg 1650

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Glass pendant in the form of a demonic mask

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Phoenician

subjects: Glass Phoenician

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bradley, The Taking of Castle Lawrence, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Mirror with a Handle in the Shape of a Young Woman

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

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


title: Design for a Tabernacle, plate 3 from "Tabernacle"

creator: Franz Xavier Habermann

date: printed ca. 1750–56

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Putti Supporting Coat of Arms above Archway

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th or 18th century

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash, over traces of graphite underdrawing

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


title: Crown Order of Wuertemberg, Germany, 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 Anatomy of the Horse, including a particular description of the bones, cartilages, muscles, fascias, ligaments, nerves, arteries, veins, and glands

creator: George Stubbs

medium: Illustrations: etching

subjects:
Anatomy
Book
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1953


title: Base for a mandala

date: first half 15th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel

country: China

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Gift, 1992


title: Victoria #3224

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


title: Tassel

date: 17th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Conway, Pitcher, Boston, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Head of the White Mountain Notch, Crawford House

creator: James Wallace Black

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1981


title: Relish Dish

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Faience amulet of a goddess with feline head

medium: Faience

country: Egyptian, Ptolemaic

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


title: Footed teapot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware with enamel decoration

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Afternoon dress

medium: Silk, cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Charles Nagel, 1952


title: Water Bottle

date: 18th century

medium: Paste covered with glaze, burnt transparent in thin parts (Kiyomizu ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Textile Fragment

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Ngya (commemorative post)

creator: Bongo artist

date: late 19th century

medium: Mahogany

country: Bongo

subjects: Wood-sculpture Bongo

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick and Louis V. Bell Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1973


title: VIEW OF / TRENTON FALLS

creator: Enoch Wood & Sons

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: Road near La Côte-Saint-André

creator: Johan Barthold Jongkind

medium: Watercolor over black chalk

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


title: Block Fragment

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Joseph Pulitzer, The New York World, from the American Editors series (N35) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Lansquenets and ladies

creator: Christoph Bockstorffer

medium: Etching; first state of two (Hollstein)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Panel

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Hair pin

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Talking It Over

creator: Enoch Wood Perry

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Erving and Joyce Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1980


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Bust of Patroclus

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

date: August 9, 1842

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Jean Horblit, in memory of Harrison D. Horblit, 1994


title: Stone Pendant

date: 1st–8th century

country: Mezcala

subjects: Stone-ornament Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


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

date: 440 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Caddy spoon

creator: Samuel Pemberton

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Seated Cavalier

creator: Jean-Baptiste Madou

date: mid-19th century

medium: Chalk and watercolor heightened with gouache

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2008


title: Sari

medium: Silk, cotton, and metal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Cope

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Edward Fowles, 1960


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

creator: Painter of the Louvre Centauromachy

date: mid-fifth century BCE

credit_line: Gift of Sylvia de Cuevas, 2013


title: Seated Gentleman Holding a Pipe (recto); Half-Length Study of the Same Man (verso)

creator: Francisco Bayeu y Subias

medium: Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue paper (recto); black chalk highlighted with white (verso)

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Boy dummy board

medium: Painted on softwood, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Frieze with Two Seated Buddhas

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Chand Bibi Hawking with Attendants in a Landscape

medium: Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on card-weight paper

subjects: Codice Landscapes

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 1999


title: Model Pick

medium: Wood, linen string

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Sewing casket with view of Weilburg near Baden in Austria

creator: Balthasar Wigand

medium: Wood veneered with mother-of-pearl; gilt-metal mounts partially enameled; gouache on paper; velvet lining; fittings of steel and mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Zita Spiss, in memory of her father, Julius Triger, 1990


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Tunic Ornament Showing Christ and the Virgin Flanked by Angels?

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: A Man Mounting a Horse

creator: Anthony van Dyck

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Siegfried Bieber, 1949


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Standing cup

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Tripod

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Gilt ripple frame

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Sicily (?)

subjects:
Frame
Italian, sicily

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Abdon and Sennen carrying the early Christian martyrs off for burial

creator: Guillaume Courtois

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1979


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Escutcheon

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1949


title: Francesco I d'Este Makes an Effort to Save his Crown by Allying Himself with the Barberini Prince and an Unidentified Cardinal, from "L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]"

creator: Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis)

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


title: Decanter with stopper

date: probably late 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Frederick V 1723-66, King of Denmark and Norway 1746-66

creator: Paul Heinrich Goedecke

medium: Gold

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fish-shaped vessel

date: 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Gypsum alabaster, shell

subjects:
Fish
Shells & molluscs
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1984


title: Plate Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip with splashed polychrome glazes under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Esemplario di lavori, page 12 (verso)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1529

medium: Woodcut (pages inlaid, modern vellum binding)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Finial

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Bronze; cast and chased

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1973


title: Design for Vis-à-vis with Canoe Bottom (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Mules

medium: Leather

country: Middle Eastern

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Beth Levine in memory of her husband, Herbert, 1994


title: Earrings

medium: hair, metal

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles H. Richards, 1937


title: Bench

medium: Spruce, white oak

country: Dutch, probably

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Part of a Circular Medallion

medium: Jadeite

country: Myanmar (Burma)

subjects:
Jade
Myanmar (burma)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Bronze statuette of a bull

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Helen H. Mertens, 1977


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: The Attack

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching and aquatint


title: Cord

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Brass

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Arms of the State of Pennsylvania, 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: S. Mathias, apôtre (St. Matthew, Apostle), February 24th, 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: Ribbed mosaic glass bowl

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman, probably Italian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, probably italian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Horse Race at Kamo

creator: Sumiyoshi Hiromori

date: 18th century

medium: Handscroll; ink, color and gold on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Armored horse and rider

date: 6th century

medium: Earthenware with pigment

country: China

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: One of a Set of Four Earrings

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: Tomb Surmounted by the Madonna and Child in an Oval Wreath

creator: Angiolo Falconetto

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: La Dame au Vêtement Ample (The Woman with Ample Clothing), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Vertical Oval Vignette of a Mountainous Landscape with Two Shepherds in the Foreground.

creator: Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti

date: late 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink. Framing outlines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967


title: Officers of U.S.S. Hunchback

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


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

date: mid-6th century BCE


title: Amulet

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Silver ?

country: Coptic

subjects: Metalwork-silver Coptic

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Medal

medium: Metal

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Vertical Panel with a Pear Shaped Design with a Mounted Soldier and Centaurs

creator: Abraham de Bruyn

medium: Engraving

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


title: Coin

date: dated 363 AH/973 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Furniture element

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: Netsuke of Dog

date: 19th century

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Bronze handle of a patera

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek, South Italian or Etruscan

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, south italian or etruscan

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: The Second Segawa Kikunojo in the Role of Tegoshi no Shosho

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Large red polished ware jar

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899


title: Design for Omnibus or Wagonette, no. 3513

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: From the Girls and Children series (N65) promoting Richmond Gem Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Minerals & gems

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


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Bow

medium: wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Four Angels holding back the Winds, from the Apocalypse

creator: Jean Duvet

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Productions of the Leeds Photographic Society

creator: T. Dixon

medium: Salted paper prints

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Bread Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Tapestry with Armorial Bearings and Badges of John, Lord Dynham

medium: Wool warp;  wool wefts with a few silk wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1960


title: Plaque with the Symbol of the Evangelist Mark

medium: Champlevé and cloisonné enamel on gilded copper

country: French

subjects:
French
Enamels-champlevé & cloisonné

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Earring

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Plated

subjects: Jewelry Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Design for a title page

creator: Jean Bernard Toro

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and wash

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1962


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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


title: Le Gentilhomme Enroulé dans son Manteau Bordé de Fourrures (The Gentleman Wrapped in a Fur-Lined Mantle), from "La Noblesse" (The Nobility)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Finial with child

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913


title: Dancer with a Fan

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Pastel and charcoal on buff-colored wove tracing paper

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


title: Three Sisters

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Necklace

medium: glass, metal, cotton

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Book cover with overall circular pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

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


title: Takanawa no Zu

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: The End of the Fishing

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: La Nuée d'Orage

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching and drypoint

credit_line: Bequest of Joan G. Smith, 2024


title: View of Delft after the Explosion of the Gunpowder Arsenal on October 12, 1654

creator: Herman Saftleven II

date: 17th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, by exchange, and The Mnuchin Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey and Werner H. Kramarsky Gifts, 1995


title: Lock

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European or French (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-iron
European or french

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Alabaster inscribed "alabastron"

date: 4th century BCE ?

medium: Dark alabaster

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot

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


title: Terracotta fragments of stamnoi (jars)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta relief with head of a woman

country: East Greek

subjects:
Terracotta
East greek

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926


title: Peasants and Hay Wagon on a Country Road

creator: Jan Brueghel the Elder

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Wedjat Eye Amulet

medium: Faience, aragonite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Compote

medium: Lacy pressed glass

country: American

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


title: New Year's Day at the Ōgiya Brothel, Yoshiwara

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


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

date: early 4th century BCE


title: Maat

medium: Copper alloy with traces of gilding

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 64 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Floral Decoration

creator: Pierre Ranson

date: 18th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Flowers


title: Annie Livingston, 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: Portrait of a Patrician (probably Wolfgang Vitil, Augsburg 1495-1540)

creator: Unknown

medium: Ground marble on ebony

subjects:
Gaming piece
Portraits

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


title: Counter

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Bone; carved and incised

subjects:
Gaming piece
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1897


title: Sample

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Limestone male head

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Bishamon (or Idaten) Pursuing an Onî (Demon) on Clouds

medium: Lacquer, roiro, rubbed fundame, gold and silver  hiramakie, applied metal; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Annia Galeria Faustina, wife of Marcus Aurelius

creator: Giovanni del Cavino

date: 16th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: Miniature corbel in the shape of a hand

medium: Ceramic, bitumen

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Border

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Embroidered net, punto à rammendo

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Souvenir spoon with view of Havana Fortress from the sea

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and niello

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


title: Shabti of the Adoratrice of Hathor ("Duahathor")  Henettawy, wife of Painedjem I

medium: Faience

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Designs for a Mirror Frame and Table

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Drawings

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


title: Cat

medium: Cupreous metal, precious metal inlay

credit_line: Gift of David Dows, 1945


title: Netsuke of Octopus and Monkey

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Top for standard

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1949


title: Soldier standing holding a staff and viewed from behind, from the series 'Capricci e habiti militari'

creator: Filippo Liagno

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Edward M. Daily, Pitcher, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

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


title: Alexander the Great and King Poros

creator: Martin Altomonte

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

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2003


title: Album of Sketches for Lacquer Decoration (Makie) 蒔絵

creator: Kozōtei Makihan 小蔵亭 蒔半

medium: Ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Vinaigrette

medium: Gold, stone

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Basket

medium: Bamboo

subjects: Basketry Japan


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Neoclassical Vase

creator: Benigno Bossi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Various Ornamental Designs

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk; inlaid into paper mount with gray wash framing lines

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1948


title: Perseus and Andromeda

creator: Jean-Louis Delignon

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942


title: Sample

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pair of gold boat-shaped earrings

date: ca. 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Roman, Asia Minor

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman, asia minor

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Head of a female

date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Limestone or lime plaster

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Purchase, Nathaniel Spear Jr. Gift, 1988


title: Panel with San Millán

creator: Master Engelram and his son Redolfo

medium: Elephant ivory, with glass inlay

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Ivories-elephant

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1987


title: Early Morning

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Lithotint with scraping, on a prepared half-tint ground, printed in black ink on cream wove paper; third state of four (Chicago)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: If I had known....., from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 29, 1866

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Apron ornament

date: 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Design for an Urn

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink.  Framing lines in pen and brown ink.

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Chisel

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Two horses ascending the bank of a river at right, following a procession of horses and one horseman to the left, plate 7 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 a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Clothing Beggars

creator: Abraham Bosse

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Element from a Stalactite Squinch (Muqarnas)

date: 10th century

medium: Stucco; painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: [View of Houses on Hillside, Chattanooga, Tennessee]

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Fragment

date: late 15th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Upper Leaf of Sundial

medium: Elephant ivory with paint and gilding

country: German

subjects: German Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1987


title: Ensemble

medium: silk, fur

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Chester Chamberlain, 1952


title: Seal

medium: Bowenite

country: China

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1927


title: Bird in shell at the center of the lintel, with a frieze of trophies, surmounted by an overmantel with candelabra and flanked by chairs. (Ch. décorée d'une frise de casques et d'armures . . .)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

subjects:
Print
Birds
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1973


title: Fraktur Motifs

creator: Johann Heinrich Otto

medium: Watercolor and pen and iron-gall ink on off-white laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Ewer

date: early 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902


title: Jug

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Ring

date: 3rd–12th centruy

medium: Bronze, glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Phaeton  #544

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Jewelry set

date: probably 19th century

medium: ivory

country: African

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Crucifixion with the Virgin and St. John the Evangelist

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

date: 15th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, black and red ink, brown and red wash,  with some white heightening

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1918


title: Pair of Penannular Earrings (with 16.10.474)

medium: Gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Interior of a Chapel

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Sports of a Country Fair, Part the Second

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: October 5, 1810

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Collar

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, 1888


title: Shard:  Head of Offerer

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

credit_line: Gift of Andrew Hale and Kate Fitz Gibbon, 1992


title: [Alfred Marshall Mayer with Chemistry Equipment]

creator: Unknown

medium: daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Gift of A. Hyatt Mayor, 1974


title: Plate

date: 16th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Terracotta pithoid jar

medium: Terracotta

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Portrait of a Stallion

date: 18th century

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Stephen Bourgeois, 1914


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: Wall Bracket

date: 14th century

medium: Iron

country: Italian

subjects: Metalwork-iron Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Spindle

medium: Mud, wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Cricket cage

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gourd, wood

subjects:
Cricket cage
China

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


creator: Bowdoin-Eye Painter


title: Djîzeh (Nécropole de Memphis), Pyramide de Chéphren

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


creator: Heidelberg Painter

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in memory of Charles Dikran and Beatrice Kelekian, 1999


title: Card Number 340, Irene Verona, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sleigh  #4112

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Spirals

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Collar

country: Maltese

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. George Ernst, 1931


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: Poem in Seven-Syllable Meter

creator: Ni Yuanlu

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

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: The Actor Otani Hiroji III, Armed with a Sword

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Sisters

date: early 19th century

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, 2017 and 2018 NoRuz at The Met Benefits, 2024


title: Slippers

creator: Marsh

medium: Leather

country: British

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


title: Tunic with Confronting Catfish

medium: Camelid hair, tapestry-weave

country: Nasca-Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca-wari
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1929


title: Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Samson Carrying the Gates, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

creator: Frederic, Lord Leighton

medium: Wood engraving on India paper, mounted on thin card

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1926


title: Newhaven Fishermen

creator: Hill and Adamson

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937