title: Wall mirror

medium: Carved and gilded basswood, glass and pine

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


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

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

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


title: Pin

medium: [no medium available]

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Jessie Rosenfeld, 1943


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of commodity disbursements to prebendaries, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 621 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Drawing for "La Colonne Trajane"

creator: François Boucher

date: 18th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1958


title: Piece

medium: Indigo-dyed cotton

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Gift of Amanda Stinchecum, 1982


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Limestone cippus base

medium: Limestone

country: Etruscan, probably Chiusine

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Etruscan, probably chiusine

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta head of a goddess

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, cypriot

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


title: Saint Francis with Françoise d'Anglure (one of a set of four)

medium: Colored, stained, and enameled glass

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Silhouette of a man facing left

creator: Rufus K. Cummings

medium: Cut paper heightened with graphite

credit_line: Mary Martin Fund, 1960


title: Watch

date: possibly 16th century

medium: Rock crystal, silver, gilt

subjects:
Horology
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ewer

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised and applied decoration (barbotine)

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1930


title: Hollyhocks (Althea rosea), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers

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


title: Portrait of Johann Christian Brand

creator: Adam von Bartsch

medium: Etching printed in brown ink; first state of four

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2006


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: Terracotta statuette of a Black African youth

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

country: Greek, Rhodian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, rhodian


title: Terracotta stemless kylix (drinking cup)

creator: St. Antimo Group

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Helen H. Mertens Gift, 1962


title: Unfinished cabinet panels

medium: Satin worked with silk, and metal thread, silk purl, linen, ink and pigment; primarily couching stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Sid R. Bass Gift, in honor of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, and Rogers Fund, 1998


title: Horse

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1941


title: Engaged capital

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Earring-hook type with pendant

medium: Gold


title: Fan

medium: Skin, ivory

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Roundel with Daniel Slaying the Dragon

creator: Pseudo-Ortkens

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1932


title: Blackwork Print with Two Vertical Panels Flanking an Oval at Center with Four Small Circles

creator: Hans de Bull

medium: Blackwork engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Panel

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with carved and plain ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Ensemble

medium: linen, cotton

credit_line: Gift of Chauncey Stillman, 1960


title: Belt Buckle with an Eagle

medium: Silver

country: Ostrogothic

subjects: Metalwork-silver Ostrogothic

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Magic Mirror with Image of the Buddha Amida

date: 19th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Mirror Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 35 (recto)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Panel

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Mail Coach #654

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Terracotta statuette of a woman

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Falcon figurine from a coffin or box

medium: Wood, gesso, paint

credit_line: Museum Accession


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Pulque Beaker

medium: Non-lead glass

country: Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


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

date: 17th century

medium: Bone

country: Tibet

subjects:
Bone
Tibet
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1991


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 10 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: The Execution of King Charles I (Title page: Engelandts Memoriael)

creator: Joost Hartgerts

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950


title: John Good "Long John" Reilly, 1st Base, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Tankard

creator: Nicholas Roosevelt

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Miniature saucepan with stand

creator: George Manjoy

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


title: Four Scenes from the Passion

creator: Bernard van Orley

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Bracelet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Design for Wall Decoration with a Funeral Monument Decorated with Columns and Putti Holding Garlands

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971


title: Netsuke of Two Rats

creator: Okatori

date: early 19th century

medium: Ivory, horn

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Alvin H. Schechter, 1985


title: Dizi

date: late 19th century

medium: Bamboo and bone

country: Chinese

subjects:
Chinese
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Alexander Jannaeus, 105 B.C. / Queen Alexandra, 78 B.C., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite, brush and brown and gray wash, and gouache

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


title: Blue-Painted Ibex Amphora from Malqata

medium: pottery, white cream slip, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Lady

creator: Thomas Birch

medium: Watercolor on paper

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: O Tempora, O Mores!

creator: Samuel Alken

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Orphée et Eurydice

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching, state i

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hartshorne, 1918


title: Ring

medium: Gold


title: Double Capital Fragment with the Stoning of St. Stephen

date: 12th Century

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Fogg Art Museum, 1922


title: Coat

medium: silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Loretta McKenna, 1961


title: Shallow Bowl

date: 18th century

medium: Pottery covered with a crackled glaze, designs in blue (Kyoto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Landscape with Rocks in a River (near Kronau?)

creator: Eduard Peithner von Lichtenfels

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Pen and black ink, and watercolor

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2008


title: Open-mouth Jar Inscribed for the Storehouse-Keeper of Amun Mery

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Column Shaft

date: late 13th–early 14th century

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Evening dress

medium: cotton, silk

country: probably British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Probably british

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1978


title: Drag #1115

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 24 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Nightgown

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A. A. Coster, 1940


title: Actress wearing dress with floral neckline, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph
Flowers

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


title: The Dance Class

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1986


title: Column

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Terracotta

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Design for a Cornice

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and wash

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


title: Princely Couple

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

credit_line: Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 25v)

creator: Peter Quentel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Finial in the shape of a bird

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze inlaid with gold and silver

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China Birds

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Actress wearing unstructured cloth cap, from Stars of the Stage, Third Series (N131) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Map Case

creator: Louis Boudo

medium: Silver

country: American

subjects:
Maps & charts
American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Vase fragment

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: The Virgin Surrounded by Angels and Representatives of Secular and Ecclesiastical Authorities

creator: Pieter de Jode I

date: late 16th–mid 17th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Vase with flowers

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over a white sgraffito ground of vegetal scrolls (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

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


title: Ring with Oblong Bezel and "Sri" Inscription

date: Second half of the 9th–first quarter of the 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Pommel Plate

creator: Jörg Sorg the Younger

medium: Steel, gold

country: German, Augsburg

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-saddle
German, augsburg

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Emile Gauguin (1874–1955), the artist's son

creator: Paul Gauguin

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of the Joseph M. May Memorial Association Inc., 1963


title: Christ healing the Lepers

creator: Niccolò Vicentino

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in blue; first state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Sceptre

medium: Jadeite, pea-green with slight mixture of emerald-green and much flecked with black

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Forestry Guard, Italy, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Dish

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Sash

medium: Silk and metal thread (modern fringe)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Bust of a Woman

creator: Jean Antoine Houdon

date: 1794 or later

medium: Terracotta and paint

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: The Bather

creator: Richard Edwin Brooks

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Terracotta tray

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: The Experts

creator: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: U.S. Monitor "Saugus"

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Bottle

creator: Christopher Dresser

medium: Bone china

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1996


title: Alexander welcoming Thalestris and the Amazons

creator: Master FG

date: mid-16th century

medium: Engraving

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


title: Plaque in the Form of a Slaughtered Ox

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 4th century

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1926


title: Footed Bowl with Eagle Emblem

date: mid-13th century

medium: Glass; dip-molded, blown, enameled, gilded

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


title: Plaque from a Casket with a bird

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Bone with polychromy

subjects:
Coptic
Birds
Ivories-bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1978


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Terracotta fragment of a pot

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Piece

creator: Bromley Hall Printworks

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Annunciation, from "The Birth and Early Life of Christ"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Oracle bone fragment

medium: Inscribed bone

subjects:
Bone
China
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of A. W. Bahr, 1923


title: Plate 14: Six figures marching in a procession, two atop horses, a snake at bottom center; plate from 'Repraesentatio Der Fürstlichen Auffzug und Ritterspil... Herrn Johann Friderichen Hertzogen zu Württenberg und Teckh... und Fürstin Barbara Sophien ...' Stuttgart, November 6, 1609

creator: Balthasar Küchler

medium: Etching

subjects:
Print
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Ewer

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; painted


title: Stucco relief panel

date: 2nd half of 1st century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Roman

subjects: Miscellaneous-stucco Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1892


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

creator: Triptolemos Painter


title: Spoon

creator: Paul Revere Jr.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Covered butter dish

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Cup (Gobelet à pied)

creator: Jacques-Pierre Marteau

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Nature morte au lièvre

medium: Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Syrians Bringing Horses, Tomb of Rekhmire

creator: Nina de Garis Davies

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Sheet with overall dot and abstract pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Fragment of a Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Human tooth inlaid with jadeite

medium: Jadeite, pea-green

country: Mexico

subjects: Jade Mexico

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Joseph Stallings

creator: George Catlin

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Four Avenging Angels, from "The Apocalypse"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, 1940


title: Caparison

creator: Aubusson

medium: Wool, silk (18-20 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1953


title: Lovers Leap, Foochow

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) or dinos (deep round-bottomed bowl)

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 9th century

medium: Glass; stained and luster-painted

credit_line: Gift of Saeed Motamed, 1974


title: Kumara with a Peacock

date: 11th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Standing Taoist God

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with five-color biscuit on green ground

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Bramante's Plan for St. Peter's

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th to 17th century

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Ink and watercolors on laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Helen and Janos Scholz, 1958


title: Travelers Resting in the Forest

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; second state of four

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: Stirrup spout bottle with figure

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Handle of Mary, Queen of Scots's Coffin

creator: James Storer

date: October 1, 1822

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Model quatrefoil palmette capital

medium: Limestone

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


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Strainer

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Dish with chrysanthemum petal rim

medium: Stoneware with flambé glaze (Shiwan ware)

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


title: Hercules and Acheloüs

creator: Annibale Fontana

date: before 1584

medium: Rock crystal; gold and champlevé enamel frame

subjects:
Minerals & gems
Natural substances-rock crystal

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


title: Plate with lotus scrolls

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

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


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: Miniature Dress

creator: Ica artist

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Design for a ceiling with putti

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

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

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Escutcheon Plate of a Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense)

medium: Steel, gold

country: German, probably Augsburg

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-shaffron
German, probably augsburg

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Lauder Gift, 1985


title: Design for Three Chairs with Green Upholstery

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Miniature Bottle

date: 11th–late 15th century

medium: Copper, silver gilt (?)

country: Chimú or Chancay

subjects:
Metal-container
Chimú or chancay

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


title: Bonnet

medium: silk

credit_line: Purchase, Marcia Sand Bequest, in memory of her daughter, Tiger (Joan) Morse, 1978


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Mask

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Romkun, Breri, or Igana people

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Romkun, breri, or igana people

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1978


title: Hope

creator: Pierre Brebiette

medium: Etching on blue paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2007


title: Mask of a Bald Man with Tufty Sideburns, from "Divers Masques"

creator: François Chauveau

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: Female Figure

date: 11th–16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Michoacan (?)

subjects: Michoacan Ceramics-sculpture


title: The Tempter

creator: Sir John Tenniel

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Skewer

creator: John Letelier Sr.

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Amelia B. Lazarus, in memory of Miss Emilie Lazarus, 1895


title: Over Robe (Uchikake) with Mount Hōrai

date: late 18th century–first half 19th century

medium: Figured satin-weave silk (rinzu) with paste-resist dyeing, stencil-dyed dots, and silk- and gold-thread embroidery

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Jonas M. Goldstone, 1970


title: Design for Landau, No. 4060

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Tray

creator: Henry Clay

date: first half 19th century

medium: Black lacquered, painted and gilded papier-mâché

credit_line: Gift of George E. Dix, 1999


title: Beaker

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Seal, discoid

medium: Jasper

country: Minoan, Crete

subjects:
Gems
Minoan, crete
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: The Watermill

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; fourth state of four

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, Rogers Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Gift of Henry Walters, by exchange, 1970


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of school exercise tablet, Urra=hubullu, tablets 14, 20, 21

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Marigold: Disdain, from the series Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers (N75) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers

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


title: The Toilette

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Etching with roulette, bitten tone; final state (II) on blue laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Rest on the flight into Egypt, Mary holding and looking at the infant Christ while St. Joseph reads

creator: Simone Cantarini

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Collar

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Anne Donahue Connor, 1942


title: Floor tile

date: late 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Janet K. Smith, 1941


title: Sampler

creator: Anna Denlinger

medium: Silk and wool on linen, embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Woodland Scene with a Peasant, a Horse, and a Cart

creator: Thomas Gainsborough

medium: Watercolor,  gouache (bodycolor), gray wash and black chalk

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


title: Portrait medal of Vittorino Rambaldoni da Feltre (obverse); A Pelican (reverse)

creator: Pisanello (Antonio Pisano)

date: model 1446–47 (possibly cast 15th or 16th century)

medium: Bronze (yellowish copper alloy with brown patina and traces of black lacquer or wax)

subjects: Medal Portraits

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Train

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Jordan L. Mott, 1955


title: Pendant

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Burton Y. Berry, 1961


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: From the Girls and Children series (N58) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Jar with cover

medium: Soft-paste porcelain (?), silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Jug with lotus handle

credit_line: Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900


title: Augustine Heard & Co. Steamer "White Cloud"

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Tiger, Tigress and Cub

creator: Kishi Chikudō

medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Sachiko and Lawrence Goodman Gift, 2018


title: Partisan

medium: Steel, textile (velvet, silk)

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1926


title: Grotesque Head With a Large Eyebrow Looking to the Left Within a Circle

creator: Gaetano Piccini

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz, 1960


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Incense burner

date: late 18th–first half 19th century

medium: Porcelain with red flambé glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Bead

date: probably 9th–12th century

medium: Bone

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Clam Fish, Warm Springs, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N36) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Pair of earrings with pendants of female heads

medium: Gold

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek or roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Embroidery

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Snuffbox

creator: Jean Moynat

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Bail handle from a situla

date: 600 BCE–CE 100

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905


title: Prussian Officer of 1725, from World's Smokers series (N33) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Vase

date: second half 19th century

medium: Copper alloy with inlaid silver details

country: Japan

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: Cover for 'Coleccion de Comedias y Zarzuelitas para Niños', woman on stage flanked by two men

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on pink paper

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


title: Dragon

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Cuneiform tablet: temple account

date: ca. 482 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

subjects: Architecture Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Chinese Character Meaning “Treasure”

date: late 17th century

medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Imari type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Medal of Brigadier General James Miller

creator: Moritz Fürst

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Halfbeak on a Lacquer Tray with Turnips and White Baits on a Porcelain Dish with Plum Blossoms on Broken Ice

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

date: probably 1815 (Year of the Boar)

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Study of Rocks

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite on off-white Bristol board

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1978


title: Netsuke

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Pilaster fragment

date: early 18th century

medium: Wood, painted

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Two heads

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Engraving, only state

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Sharsie, Manager, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: 1st Corps Cadets, Massachusetts, V.M., from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Lords of the Bedchamber

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Moravian Sisters

creator: Pavel Petrovich Svinin

medium: Watercolor, black chalk, and lead-white gouache on white wove paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Andrew J. "Andy" Cusick, 1st Base, Milwaukee, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


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


title: Cartouche fragment from a frame

date: 18th century

medium: Wood


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: Design for a Part of a Ceiling and a Pediment

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with green-brown, yellow, mauve, blue, green, red gray, and red-brown wash, over traces of black chalk on cream laid paper

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


title: Fragment of edging

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Couplet from a Poem by Han Hong

creator: Emperor Lizong

medium: Fan mounted as an album leaf; a) ink on silk, b) ink on paper, c) ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning

creator: Camille Pissarro

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Dillon, 1992


title: Landscape in the Blue-and-Green Manner

creator: Yanagisawa Kien

date: first half of the 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

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


title: The Cobbler

creator: Edme Bouchardon

medium: Etching with some engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Tartare de Crimée, plate 84 from "Recueil de cent estampes représentent differentes nations du Levant"

creator: Jean Baptiste Vanmour

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Entrance to the Forest of Fontainebleau

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching with drypoint; second state of four

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Fringe

date: early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Hair Pin

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Gold, natural and artificial stones

subjects: Jewelry China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Four Wheel Chaise

medium: Etching with stipple


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Twenty-sided die (icosahedron) with faces inscribed with Greek letters

date: ca. 2nd century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Serpentinite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Processional Cross

medium: Silver, gilded silver, and niello repoussé on a wood core with pearls, antique intaglios, semiprecious stones, glass, a sapphire, and a garnet (?)

country: Spanish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Spanish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sibylle Hellespontique, from "Douze Sibylles"

creator: Gilles Rousselet

medium: Engraving and etching


title: Papyrus column amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Fragments

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Coptic

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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


title: Wallpaper Panel

medium: Paper, painted by hand and mounted on linen

credit_line: Cadwalader Fund, 1914


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Censer in the form of a Kirin

medium: Porcelain decorated in enamels; (Middle-period renaissance Kutani ware)

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


title: The Beheading of St. John the Baptist

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; lampas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sketch of Two Seated Women with Young Girl Sitting at Their Feet; Verso: Sketch of a Woman

creator: Charles Baugniet

medium: Graphite

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


title: Digger Indians, Elk Creek

creator: Ralph Albert Blakelock

medium: Brown ink and black chalk on off-white and brown mottled wove paper

credit_line: George A. Hearn Fund, 1981


title: Village Street Scene with a Church

creator: Cornelis Ploos van Amstel

medium: Brush and brown wash, over a sketch in graphite

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2007


title: Shoes

medium: silk, leather, wood

credit_line: Gift of Miss Gertrude Hill, 1960


title: The Death of Lazarus, plate 1 from "The Parable of Dives and Lazarus" (La Parabole du mauvais Riche et de Lazare)

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching with engraving

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


title: The Temptation of Eve

creator: Peter van Lint

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; squared in black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2013


title: Femme Annamite, Saïgon, Cochinchine

creator: Emile Gsell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Two Stags, One Standing and One Lying, on a Grassy Knoll (with a Base)

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

date: after 1770

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

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Military epaulets

medium: Wool, metallic

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. John D. Newton, 1945


title: Relief with official and horses

medium: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Table cover with fringe

medium: Cotton, woven

credit_line: Gift of Robert Tuggle, 2008


title: Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)

creator: Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)

date: probably modeled: 1496, cast: ca. 1501

medium: Bronze, partially gilt (hair) and silvered (eyes)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

medium: Patinated plaster

subjects:
Medal and plaquette
Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Gift of Ogden Mills, by exchange, 1986


title: Damned Springtime, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Glass jug

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Linen and silk; tapestry woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


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


title: Summer robe (hito-e) with cranes and pines

medium: Plain-weave silk with paste-resist dyeing

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2023


title: "No Flower that Blows is Like this Rose"

creator: James Gillray

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Flowers Roses

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Food offering, conical loaf of bread

medium: Cereal

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


title: Column Base

date: 20th century

medium: Cement

country: European or American (?)

subjects:
European or american
Reproductions-sculpture

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Tartary, from the Types of All Nations series (N24) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Miniature shovel (part of a set)

creator: George Manjoy

medium: Silver

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


title: Étui

creator: Robert Sayer

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Portrait of Confucius

creator: Kano Tan'yū

medium: Hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Portraits

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


title: [Studio Portrait: Man Carrying Cello or Large Stringed Instrument, Venice]

creator: Carlo Ponti

medium: Albumen silver print with applied color

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Drew Knowlton and William L. Schaeffer, in honor of Delaney H. and W. Bruce Lundberg, 2017


title: Sugar tongs

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Frederick Bradbury, 1925


title: Mustard pot or milk pot

creator: Jean-Baptiste-François Chéret

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Plan of Niche in a Columbarium with a Section, Elevation and Top View of a Funerary Urn

creator: Pietro Paolo Coccetti (Cocchetti)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over traces of ruling in graphite

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Unidentified, cornice, projection; architrave, projection (recto) Unidentified, ceiling, plan (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

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


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Two Pendants, Fertility Symbol

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: Lead figure of a goddess with spear and aegis, possibly Athena

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: "The Soldier's Tear"–Old Song

creator: Charles Samuel Keene

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, touches of white gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Headscarf

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: silk, metal

country: Russian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Greenman Stillman, 1931


title: Hora De Brien, from National Dances (N225, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Kite Time, "Great Scott! But she's a pullin!!" from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Snuffbox

creator: Mennecy

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, silver

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Fringe

date: early 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Two Ladies Walking on the Water

creator: Yashima Gakutei

date: 19th century

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: Cylinder seal

medium: Hematite

country: Syrian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Church of St. John the Baptist at the Béguinage, Brussels

creator: William Frome Smallwood

medium: Graphite

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


title: Japanese Drawing

date: early 19th century

medium: On paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of John Achelis, 1907


title: Vase with mushrooms

creator: Royal Copenhagen

medium: Glazed porcelain

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Mushrooms & fungi

credit_line: Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2022


title: Head of a Bearded Man

creator: Hans Hoffmann

medium: Pen and orange-brown ink, brush and brown and black washes, heightened with white

credit_line: Purchase, David T. Schiff Gift, Van Day Truex and Mary Oenslager Funds, and The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1999


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Workshop of Charles Fromery

medium: Enamel on copper partly gilt; silver

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of George Blumenthal, by exchange; Gift of J.Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1993


title: Design for T-Cart, no. 3266

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and blac k ink, watercolor and gouache with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Wheellock Mechanism for a Pistol

medium: Bronze, steel, gold

subjects:
Firearm part
French

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Russell B. Aitken, by exchange, 2005


title: "Asvatthama Fires the Narayana Weapon (Cosmic Fire) at the Pandavas", Folio from a Razmnama

creator: 'Abd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad Bairam Khan Khan-i Khanan

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Animal Locomotion.  An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements.  Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885.  Volume IX, Horses

creator: Eadweard Muybridge

medium: Photogravures

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Tears and Smiles

creator: Célestin Nanteuil

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Lodovico Ariosto 1474-1533, poet

creator: Pastorino di Giovan Michele de' Pastorini

medium: Bronze

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


title: Bracelet

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Edo people

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1983


title: Shabti of Wahibrenethebsed

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Plate 13: Arch of Settimius Severus 1. Temple of Concord. 2. Ascent to the Capitoline Hill (Arco di Settimio Severo. 1. Tempio della Concordia. 2. Salita di Campidoglio.), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: The Critic

creator: Julio Ruelas

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


title: Head of a Young Man

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Block from an Arch with Running Rosette Medallions

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Sandstone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: The Hammock

creator: James Tissot

medium: Etching and drypoint on laid paper; only state

credit_line: Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds, 1982


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Jug

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: The Banquet for the Return of the Prodigal Son

creator: Abraham Bosse

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


title: Kabuki Actor Segawa Kikunojō III

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: The contest between Apollo and Marysas

creator: Niccolò Vicentino

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in brown

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


title: Mrs. Manigault Heyward (Susan Hayne Simmons)

creator: Robert Fulton

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: White porcelain with green jadeite stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: An Emperor with Two Ladies

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th century CE

medium: Chalcedony, brown

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Border

date: 18th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: [Group of 8 Early Stereograph Views of British Monuments, Memorials, and Tombs]

creator: Lennie

medium: Albumen silver prints

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


country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Incense burner

medium: Bronze

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Tapestry-Woven Fragment

date: 8th century

medium: Wool; slit-tapestry weave with eccentric wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase, Mariana Herrmann Fund, The Page and Otto Marx Jr. Foundation and Rogers Fund, 2001


title: Dalmatic

date: 15th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-costumes-secular

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Adoration of the Shepherds

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and ink touched with gouache

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Mallard Ducks and Snow-covered Reeds

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print

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


title: Trees

creator: Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

medium: Pen, sepia ink and wash with white gouache heightening on blue paper

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Plaque

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron, tinned

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Dr. W. L. Hildburgh, 1937


title: Platter

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hazard and Marion H. McVitty, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Lauriston H. Hazard, 1960


title: Lagoon Capriccio with a Tower

creator: Francesco Guardi

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: The Large Rock at the River

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Etching, drypoint, and mezzotint; fourth state of five

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Tile

date: late 12th–13th century, probably with early 20th century additions

medium: Stonepaste; modeled, overglaze-painted, and gilded, opaque white glaze

credit_line: Purchase, J. Lionberger Davis Gift, 1967


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Jewelry set

medium: pearls

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Grace B. Ramus, 1986


title: Shawl (Chaddar)

medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lyon Slater, 1954


title: Plato's symposium: Socrates and his companions seated around a table discussing ideal love interruputed by Acibiades at left

creator: Pietro Testa

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: A Sailor's Will

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: In Memory of Dr. Leon Gosselin (1815–1887), President of the Academy of Sciences

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Silver, struck

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: The Bath House

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Snaphaunce Hunting Rifle

creator: Jonas Schertiger the Younger

date: dated 1722

medium: Steel, wood (walnut), brass, horn

country: Swedish, Stockholm

subjects:
Firearm
Swedish, stockholm

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of Prince Albrecht Radziwill and Charles M. Schott Jr., by exchange, and Rogers Fund, 1997


title: Earring-hook type with sphere ends

medium: Gold

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


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

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: [Actress in profile], from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Swallow-tailed Hawk, from the Birds of America series (N37) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Fireman's jacket

medium: Quilted dye-patterned plain-weave cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Timothy La Farge, by exchange, Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, by exchange, 1983


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with peach bloom glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Seal

medium: Nephrite?

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of Robert Goelet, 1963


title: Figure of a Striding Man with a Long Kilt

medium: Wood

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Lintel with Angels Supporting the Lamb of God

medium: Limestone

country: Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1965


title: Too Many for a Jew

date: September 20, 1785

medium: Etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink


title: [Waterfall, Constantine]

creator: John Beasley Greene

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, Anonymous Foundation Gift, W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift, and Marian and James H. Cohen Gift, in memory of their son, Michael Harrison Cohen, 2004


title: Poems for Dong Qichang

creator: Chen Jiru

medium: Album of eight double leaves; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Méthode de nomenclature chimique ; on y a joint un nouveau systême de caractères chimiques, adaptés à cette nomenclature

creator: Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau

credit_line: Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 2013


title: Landscape with a Fallen Tree

creator: Hubert Robert

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2016


title: [Two seated actresses], from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: George Washington, from Leaders series (N222) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Covered Vase

medium: Nephrite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Rowel Spur

medium: Iron

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Petticoat

date: early 1890s

medium: cotton, silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edgar L. Rossin, 1953


title: Spaniel and Pheasant

creator: Sir Edwin Henry Landseer

medium: Mixed method engraving on chine collé

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Card Number 542, Mrs. James Brown Potter, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Abacus

medium: Pink marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Design for One Half of a Ceiling with Medaillons with Figure Sketches Inside (recto); Design for an Interior Wall Elevation (verso)

creator: Leonardo Marini

medium: Black chalk or graphite with ruled and compass construction

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Morrell, 1st Base and Manager, Boston, 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: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Terracotta oil lamp

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Illustration for a Book:  Soldiers Offering the Decapitated Head of a Man and Keys to a General

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Black chalk reworked with traces of red chalk.   Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk

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


title: The Prince Imperial

creator: Paul-Victor Lebas

medium: Carnelian onyx

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: Two designs for decorative borders in strapwork and rinceaux

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: pen and ink, wash and watercolor on tracing paper; mounted on wove paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Allegory of Europe, from "The Four Continents"

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

date: 16th century (?)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, squared in black chalk

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Lime Container in the Shape of a "Mioko" Drum

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java, Lumajang, Pasiran)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java, lumajang, pasiran)

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


title: Awl

medium: Bone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Penannular Brooch

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Scandinavian or Baltic

subjects:
Metalwork-bronze
Scandinavian or baltic

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Ernest Harms, 1953


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Orangeware Bowl with Lines

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Paracas (?)

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Fragment of an Ewer

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and molded, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Tapestry

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Theodora de Gilbert, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


title: Stone, St. Louis, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Rudolf II of Hapsburg 1552-1612, Emperor 1576-1612

creator: Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen

medium: Silver, old fire-gilding, pearl

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


title: Embriaco Rejecting the Spoils, from: Forme Picturarum Archetypae

creator: Lorenzo Lorenzi

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Édouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Graphite and black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Ishizara with “Horse-Eye” Pattern

date: early 19th century

medium: Stoneware with iron brown under transparent glaze (Seto ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

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


title: Head of a Woman

creator: Louis Marin Bonnet

medium: Chalk manner in black and white on blue paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Candelabra with putti on goats at center

creator: Lambrecht Hopfer

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: From Scylla to Charybdis, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, March 20, 1869

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1954


title: Vase (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1952


title: The so-called Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli. Interior with two figures in the opening of an arch above. (Veduta interna della Villa di Mecenate)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. David Keppel, 1960


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Landscape

creator: Franz von Hauslab the Younger

medium: Pencil and two sheets of wove paper pasted together. Squared.

subjects: Drawing Landscapes


title: Saint Jacques Le Mineur

creator: Edmé Jeaurat

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


title: Bottle

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Glass

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


title: Limestone funerary stele of a boy

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Curtain

medium: Silk velvet embroidered with metallic threads

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Louise Ransom, 1984


title: One of Two Fragments of an Offering Inscription

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: Earflare

date: 7th–10th century

medium: Silver, cotton

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Wari

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


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Glass inlay fragment

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

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Snuffbox with portraits of Henry VIII and and Jane Seymour with presentation inscription

creator: I. A. (unidentified)

medium: Red and yellow gold;  enamel

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Vue du lac d'Oo ou Seculejo, Bagnère de Luchon

creator: Joseph Vigier

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Modern copy of a panel for a decorative frieze with portrait of Carracci (from an original set of six)

medium: Carved, painted, and gilded oak

subjects:
Ornament & design
Woodwork
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Sallet in the Franco-Burgundian Style

date: late 15th century

medium: Steel

country: possibly Italian

subjects:
Helmet
Possibly italian

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


title: Set of Five Medium Dishes (Chūzara) with Plum-Blossom Patterns

creator: Ogata Kenzan

date: 18th century

medium: Stoneware with white slip under and polychrome enamels over transparent glaze (Kyoto, Kenzan ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger, 2024


title: Woven Tapestry

date: 20th century

medium: Gold and multicolor lacquered thread, synthetic fiber

credit_line: Gift of Kiriyo Kuchina, 1993


title: Glass square bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE


title: Charlotte Wolter, 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: Pillage et Incendie d'un Village (Looting and Burning of a Village), plate 4 from "Les Petites Misères de la Guerre" (The Little Miseries of War)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Studies of Heads and Hands

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Black and red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Piece

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


title: Cann

creator: George Baker

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Water Carafe

medium: Blown non-lead glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Three Dancers Preparing for Class

date: after 1878

medium: Pastel on buff-colored wove paper

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


title: Design for Wagon, no. 905c

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Procuress

creator: Georges Lallemand

medium: Black chalk on buff paper.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Warrior Figure

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper, shell

country: Moche

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Allegorical Figure of Painting

creator: Charles Antoine Coypel

date: early 18th century

medium: Black, white, and touches of red chalk on blue paper; squared in black chalk

subjects: Mythology Drawing

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


title: Dove (one of a pair)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Boar Spear

date: 16th century

medium: Steel, wood, gold, metallic thread

country: German

subjects:
Shafted weapon
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Fragment

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Fan

date: first half 19th century

medium: Gouache on paper and parchment; ivory, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Beatrix Farrand, 1942


title: "I was hungered and ye gave me meat; —naked and ye clothed, me." Matthew XXV: 35–36 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Francis William Edmonds

date: ca. 1838 and after

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund, 1987


title: Vase

creator: Crown Derby

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan, Etrusco-Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Etruscan, etrusco-corinthian

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


title: Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist, copy in reverse after Cantarini

creator: Simone Cantarini

date: ca.1639 or after

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh

date: ca. 5th century CE

medium: Silver, mercury gilding

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1994


title: Funerary Cone

medium: pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Bowl (one of a pair)

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Porcelain with overglaze enamels

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1964


title: Medal designed in Honor of M. Jules-Eugène Lenepveu

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Bronze, cast

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: Handle of a mirror

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Bronze
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Akashi Ridayu Hidemoto

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Arnold Weinstein Gift, 2001


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

medium: Silver, gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Bust of a woman looking downwards towards left with elaborately decorated hair

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Paule Gobillard, Jeannie Gobillard, Julie Manet, and Geneviève Mallarmé

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 2000


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Gemma pretiosa della virtuose donne, page 11 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Guillaume d'Estouteville

creator: Cristoforo di Geremia

date: after 1461

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


title: Plate 49, from the Fans of the Period series (N7) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Girdle Clasp

date: 19th century

medium: Silver, glass, pearl, and gold thread

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


title: Trade Card for Osborne, Engraver and Printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo

creator: Anthony van Dyck

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: [Victorian House]

creator: James Wallace Black

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 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: Mademoiselle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs, Paris

medium: Lithograph; only state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Ring Composed of 13 Beads

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: E.A. Trickett, Oarsman, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Howe Sound, Above Vancouver (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Entry of the Prince of Saxony with his Wife into Dresden on September 2, 1719, after their Marriage in Vienna

creator: Adolf van der Laan, Dutch, 1684–1755

medium: Etching, printed in red-brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Emperor Charles V

creator: Barthel Beham

medium: Engraving; third of four states

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

date: 18th century

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938


title: Dagger (Pesh-kabz) with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, rock crystal, silver, enamel, velvet, wood

country: Indian, Mughal

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, mughal
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Music-Making Angels Seated on Clouds

creator: Andrea Commodi

medium: Pen and brown ink, on beige paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Tile

date: probably 19th century

medium: Delftware (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Throw Stick

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Esemplario di lavori, page 2 (recto)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1529

medium: Woodcut (pages inlaid, modern vellum binding)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Pipe and Pipe Case with Tobacco Pouch

creator: Shibata Zeshin

date: early 19th century

medium: Pipe: iron, gold, and silver on wood; case: gold, silver hiramaki‑e on black lacquer; pouch: dyed cotton (sarasa) with metal fitting; netsuke: carved staghorn

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Burying the Dead

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching with engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Rice Server Inscribed in Arabic with Good Wishes

date: 12th century

medium: Brass; cast, chased

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Number 7, Dissolving Card, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Two Alternative Designs for a Mirror Stand

creator: Giovanni Battista Natali III

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and gray wash, over traces of graphite or black chalk

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


title: My friend, you are tall enough; but now you must try to put on some weight!, from "News of the Day"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 15th century

medium: Pot metal glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Square dish

creator: Ansbach Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Ring

medium: Gold

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


title: Chessmen (32) and box-board

medium: Mother-of-pearl, wood, tortoiseshell

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1953


title: A Fruit Piece

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

date: before June 1845

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Photograph Fruits

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


title: Gold roundel of bulbous form

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


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: Colt Dragoon Percussion Revolver, Third Model, serial no. 12403

creator: Samuel Colt

medium: Steel, brass, silver, wood (walnut)

country: American, Hartford, Connecticut

subjects:
American, hartford, connecticut
Firearms-pistols-revolver

credit_line: Gift of John E. Parsons, 1956


title: Cladostephus verticillatus

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


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


title: Platter

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: Design for a Ceiling Decoration with Neptune and Allegories of the Four Continents

creator: Pietro Dandini

medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Dress

creator: Catherine Donovan

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. Frederick H. Prince, Jr., 1967


title: Sealing from a Jar with the Name of a king Amenhotep

medium: Mud, pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Fragment of a limestone funerary stele with a seated sphinx

date: middle of the 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Scarab

medium: Glazed Steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Teatro delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne..., page 30 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut, engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Weeping Woman Kneeling, Seen from Behind

creator: Jacob Backer

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white, on blue paper

credit_line: Roger's Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta fragment of an lekythos (oil flask)?

date: late 6th century BCE


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Border

date: mid-17th century

medium: Needle lace, gros point lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Wine Glass

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Tea jar

medium: Clay, thick brown glaze with splashes on neck and shoulder (Seto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Woman sitting with her head turned downwards to her right and eyes closed

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving; second copy

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Dinner dress

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk, linen

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Ferris J. Meigs, 1961


title: Gold pendant disk

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Gold

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


title: From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Photolithograph

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


title: Terracotta relief probably from a funnel vase

date: late 3rd–early 2nd century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Canosan

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian, canosan


title: Écuelle stand

creator: Moulin Manufactory

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Wine taster

creator: B.N. Gravillon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Cosimo I de' Medici (1519–1574)

creator: Bronzino

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Armrest

creator: Beauvais

medium: Wool and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1935


title: Bactrian camel

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Saint Christopher crossing the river with Christ in the form of a putto on his shoulders and a hermit in the foreground

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; only state

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Wine cooler with A Pageant Battle with Elephants

creator: Fontana family

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Galloon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: German, Peasant in Holiday Attire, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Cup

creator: Charles Cartlidge and Company

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris III, 1988


title: Felbrigg Hall, Southwest View (Gloria Deo in Excelsis), Seat of the Honorable William Windham (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: William Windham

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

date: late 9th–early 10th century

medium: Ink and gold on parchment

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art, Younghee Kim-Wait, and Kathryn Briger Gifts, 2023


title: Plate 8: Emperor Maximilian II granting a crown to the coat of arms of Amsterdam, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

creator: Pieter Nolpe

medium: Etching

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


title: The Mirroring of Antiquity Hall

creator: Jian Guzhai

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Pine soot and binding medium; inscribed in gilt

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Earthenware; incised in black slip under turquoise glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Allegorical Figure of Purity with a Unicorn

creator: Marcantonio Franceschini

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on brown-washed paper

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Pyramus and Thisbe

creator: Cornelis Schut

date: early 17th–mid 17th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2010


title: Melencolia I

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

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


title: Design for a Pier-glass with Arched Head and Palmette Terminations

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash and watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Robe à l'anglaise

medium: cotton

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1974


title: Terracotta rim fragment with incised lines and punctations

medium: Terracotta

country: Cretan

subjects: Vase Cretan

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1911


title: Insertion

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Terracotta fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)

date: second half of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 5th century BCE/early 4th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Ornate goblet

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state


title: Villa Giulia, section

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: 16th–mid 16th century

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, over traces of black chalk, ruling and compass work, on three glued sheets of paper

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


title: The Tooth-Puller

creator: Peeter van der Borcht

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


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: Indigo Vats

creator: Captain R. B. Hill

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Table

medium: Oak

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Dragon-boat festival performance

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 18th to early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread tapestry (kesi)

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Alice E. Getty, 1949


title: The Bodhisattva Padmapani Lokeshvara

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Copper alloy with gilding and semiprecious stones

country: Nepal, Kathmandu Valley

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal, kathmandu valley

credit_line: Purchase, Bequests of Mary Clarke Thompson, Fanny Shapiro, Susan Dwight Bliss, Isaac D. Fletcher, William Gedney Beatty, John L. Cadwalader and Kate Read Blacque, Gifts of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, Ida H. Ogilvie, Samuel T. Peters and H. R. Bishop, F. C. Bishop and O. M. Bishop, Rogers, Seymour and Fletcher Funds, and other gifts, funds and bequests from various donors, by exchange, 1982


title: St. Thomas

creator: Martin Schongauer

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Embalmer's Tool

medium: Wood

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


title: Fibula, fragment

medium: Bronze

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Limestone

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


title: Coat

creator: Frederick Loeser & Company

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Arthur Clement, 1947


title: Madonna and Child

date: late 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Altar Ring

creator: Lower Niger Valley caster

medium: Copper alloy

country: Yoruba peoples, Ife group

subjects:
Egyptian blue-implement
Yoruba peoples, ife group

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1976


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: One of those novice hunters for whom nothing is sacred, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Astragal frame

date: early to mid-17th century

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Veneto

subjects:
Frame
Italian, veneto

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fan

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Gold, silver, ivory and paper

credit_line: From the Collection of Ella Wolcott Clark Rogers, Gift of Ella Mabel Clark, 1948


title: Ribbon

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James Sullivan, 1927


title: The Crucifixion, from "The Large Passion"

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Pair of Flintlock Pistols

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Steel, wood, coral, silver, gold

country: Algerian

subjects:
Algerian
Corals & anemones
Firearms-pistols-flintlock

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Man of Sorrows

creator: Niccolò di Tommaso

medium: Fresco transferred to canvas

country: Italian

subjects: Italian Paintings-canva

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Bell

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Tiles and ornaments from the palace of Ramesses II

medium: Faience

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


title: Man Carrying a Butchered Pig, plate 21 from "Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac"

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)

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


title: Toddy warmer

creator: Walter Brind

medium: Silver, wood

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Set of Ten Bowls (Hachi) with Egrets

medium: Porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Arita type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Lead ring

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: The Virgin with Child on the Crescent

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Pitcher

creator: George E. Ohr

medium: Earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Joan and Jack Alter, 1986


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Stone Mason at Work

creator: Louis Philippe Joseph, duc de Chartres

medium: Etching

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


title: Anne of Austria, Queen Mother of France (1601–66) and her son Louis XIV (1638–1715)

creator: Jean Varin

medium: Bronze, brown patina

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: Carrara, from the City Flags series (N6) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Linen and wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


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

creator: Polydektes Painter

date: ca. 440 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Venus Disarming Cupid

date: mid-17th century

medium: Pearwood

credit_line: Bequest of Charles C. Paterson, 1983


title: Stud

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Gold, copper/bronze

country: Iran

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: late 11th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Jack A. Josephson, 1973


title: Copper alloy dagger blade

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Trionfo Di Virtu. Libro Novo..., page 3 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Stole

date: second half of 17th century

medium: Needle lace, gros point lace, silk lining

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1910


title: Nesting pigeon

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Flight Into Egypt

creator: Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Square with a Hunting Scene

date: 4th–6th century

medium: Linen, wool

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Byzantine
Textiles-woven

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


title: Pouch

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. A. V. Marckwald, 1951


title: Card Number 118, Deitz, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph