title: U-shaped vase with handle (one of a pair)

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Bronze support in the form of a ram's head and foreleg

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

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: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Pyxis fragments

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Iran

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1951


title: Cup

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Dress

medium: Silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Edna L. Farr, 1952


title: Portable barometer

creator: Daniel Quare

medium: Ivory, gilt bronze; mercury

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Pin or Stylus

date: 5th–8th century

medium: Bone

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1937


title: Boa

medium: feathers

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1935


title: Visor for a Bascinet

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Helmet part
Italian

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


title: Miss Johnson Dressed as Jewish Lady of Constantinople, from the set Actors and Actresses, Second Series (N71) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Hat

medium: straw, silk, feathers

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick M. Godwin, 1954


title: Smallsword Hilt and Scabbard Mounts

creator: James Morisset

date: hallmarked for 1797–98

medium: Silver, enamel, paste brilliants, gold, textile

country: British, London

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sword
British, london

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Plate of a Belt Buckle

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Iron, silver, brass

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bowl

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Card Number 94, Fanny Reeves, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Fragment of terra sigillata

subjects: Vase Roman


title: Pot with Plant

medium: Nephrite, a mottling of light and dark green with black specks

country: China

subjects: Botany Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Close-Helmet for the Field

creator: Martin Schmidt

date: dated 1594, with later restorations

medium: Steel, gold, brass

country: German, possibly Augsburg

subjects:
Helmet
German, possibly augsburg

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Miss Harriet M. Dean, 1929


title: Landscape

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink on cream paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Card Number 155, Fuller, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Banknote vignette with Allegory of America

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving and etching; proof

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002


title: Veüe de Conflans

creator: Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman

date: mid-17th century

medium: Etching and drypoint

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Ogee frame

medium: Poplar and walnut

country: Italian, Rome

subjects:
Frame
Italian, rome

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Yang Guifei  and the Tang Emperor Minghuang

medium: Hanging scroll; woodblock print; ink on paper

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Bequest, 2025


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Distant Town Seen across Water and Fields

creator: Jan van Goyen

medium: Black chalk with gray wash


title: Walking dress

creator: Madeleine Laferrière

medium: silk, cotton

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

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


title: Sealing fragment

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: The Consequences of War: Mars leaving for war

creator: Jean Jacques Avril, the Elder

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Dutuit)

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


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: Dish

date: 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Netsuke

medium: Wood

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Sample

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of F. J. Schaetzel, 1919


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Card Number 233, Clara Primrose, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Hanging (Pichwai)

date: late 18th century

medium: Cotton, pigments, gold leaf; plain weave, dyed, and painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Yukikazu Iwasa, in memory of Seizaburo and Shizuko Iwasa, 2009


title: The Parable of the Father and His Two Sons in the Vineyard, from The Story of Christ

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Card Number 109, Lucette, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes


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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Charger

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mercedes Bass, 2007


title: Purse

date: late 19th century

medium: Glass, metal, linen

country: Mexican

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., Constance Morrow Morgan, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1956


title: Roundel

date: 4th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Plate 9, from "Friezes with Birds, Flowers and Meandering Wreaths and Scrolls"

creator: Theodor Bang

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Birds Flowers

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1950


title: Textile Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Silk; lampas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: The Holy Family with Angels, in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

creator: Jean Jacques Lagrenée

medium: Etching and aquatint

credit_line: Purchase, The Arthur Ross Foundation Gift and Charles Z. Offin Fund, 1999


title: Plate Depicting Birds and Animals

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

subjects: Ceramic Birds

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


title: Virtue Crowned by Honor

creator: Carlo Maratti

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1964


title: The Fifth Ichikawa Danjuro as a Kago Bearer Standing Near a Mile Post

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: St. Richard, April 3rd, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Large Dish (tagliere): Pope Leo X presenting a baton to Federigo II Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua, on his appointment as captain general of the Church in 1521.

creator: Nicola da Urbino

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Hanging with Phoenixes

date: 19th century

medium: Silk satin brocaded with silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Strip

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Turtle Pendant

date: 11th–16th century

medium: Gold (cast)

country: Veraguas

subjects: Metal-ornament Veragua

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


title: Corbel with Busts of Angels

medium: Marble (Candoglia marble and Parian marble)

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1952


title: The Sister of Duguesclin

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph on chine collé; first state of four, before the addition of lithographic wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: La Colonnade du Palais a Tzarskoé-Sélo, from "Vues pittoresques des palais & jardins impériaux aux environs de St. Petersbourg"

creator: J. Meyer

medium: Lithograph printed with light brown tone block

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008


title: Knife blade

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Iron

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: record of harvest workers

date: ca. 2037 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Julliet Arden, 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: Dickey

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: Gift of Miss Maud Schuyler Clark, 1952


title: Design for a Folding Screen

creator: Jacques de Lajoüe

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

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


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: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: John Lodge

medium: Etcing and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Kasuga Shrine Mandala (Kasuga miya mandara)

date: early 14th century

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

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Pitcher

medium: Blown blue glass with applied decoration

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Insertion

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Polymorphic deity

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Fish Print


title: Christ Appearing to His Mother

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Head jar

creator: Nasca artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

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


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Syracuse Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Table fountain

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Silver cage and ball pendant from an earring

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Phoenician

subjects:
Gold and silver
Phoenician

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Butter Pat

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

country: American

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


title: Vive la France, "French" Style in Broadway

creator: Alfred E. Baker

medium: Lithograph, hand colored

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


title: Sconce (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1970


title: Fragment of an Open Vessel

date: 13th century

medium: Composite body; underglaze painted

subjects:
Ceramic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Portrait of Sor Juana de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

creator: Domingo Ortiz

medium: Oil on canvas

country: New Spain (present-day Mexico)

subjects:
New spain (present-day mexico)
Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Trust Fund, 2021


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and cotton

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Glass bowl, possibly an inkwell

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Kannon by a Lotus Pond

creator: Hakuin Ekaku

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Gift, 2025


title: Vase fragment

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Silver Disk Ornament

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Silver (hammered)

country: Ecuador

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Ecuador

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


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Stencil

date: early 19th century

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


title: The Actor Matsumoto Koshiro 3rd in an Unidentified Role

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Cabriolet  (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Hammered Silver Tweezers

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver, gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Inlay with row of rosettes

date: ca. 200 BCE–CE 100

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Bead

date: ca. late 8th millennium BCE

medium: Chrysoprase

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Terracotta volute-krater (mixing bowl)

creator: Group of New York 17.210.240

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Jewelry Designs in Gold and Rose Gold, Plate 5 from "L'Art de la Bijouterie"

creator: Jean Francois Barousse

medium: Color lithograph

subjects: Print Roses

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


title: Gardener, from "Hortulanae"

creator: Jacques Bellange

medium: Etching

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


title: 'Polonaise' Carpet

date: first half 17th century

medium: Cotton (warp and weft), silk (weft and pile), metal wrapped thread; asymmetrically knotted pile, brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1950


title: Nécessaire

date: mid-18th century

medium: Wood, shagreen, silk, tortoiseshell with gold mounts, steel

credit_line: Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1964


title: Terracotta zoomorphic askos (vessel) with a ram's head

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Vase
Cypriot
Ships & the sea

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


title: Porte du Temple de Jupiter, à Baalbek (Héliopolis)

creator: Maxime Du Camp

date: September 1850

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: Human-headed cat

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Figure

medium: Clay slightly reddened and partly covered with a white glaze, colored enamels and gold (Kiyomizu ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Design of the catafalque for Francesco Piccolomini, from "Libro De Catafalchi, Tabernacoli, con varij designi di Porte fenestre et altri ornamenti di Architettura"

creator: Giovanni Florimi

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Beads

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Glass; drilled

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Sponge box

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Reliquary beaker with wax cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Glass (greenish), engraved

country: Late Roman

subjects:
Glass
Late roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Plate 18: a noblewoman walking towards the left with a feathered fan, another woman in background to left, from "Diversi Capricci"

creator: Stefano della Bella

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

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Hammered Silver Peanut Ornament

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Somerindyck House, from "Scenes of Old New York"

creator: Henry Farrer

medium: Etching, trial proof

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


title: Portrait of a Boy, in Profile

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; second of two states

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Julie Parsons Redmond, 1960


title: Cap

medium: wool, leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harvey Stevenson, 1946


title: Blouse

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes, 1923


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: Daniel Maclise

creator: Alfred Benjamin Wyon

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2000


title: Unidentified profile portrait, woman facing left

creator: Anonymous, German

medium: Cut black paper silhouette

subjects:
Cut paper
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Leopold Heinemann, 1948, transferred from the Library


title: Bag

medium: Camelid hair

country: Arica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Arica
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Arthur Posnansky, 1944


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Border

date: late 17th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1936


title: Robe à la française

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1959


title: In Full Sunlight

creator: James Tissot

medium: Etching and drypoint; published state

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Bead

date: 9th–12th century

medium: Glass; marvered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bottle in the shape of a feline

creator: Wari artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Wari

subjects: Wari Ceramics-container

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur M. Bullowa Bequest and Rogers Fund, 1996


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Staff Head

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper, silvered copper

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Design for a room with wood panels inset with paintings and a heavily-carved double door

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite, pen and ink, watercolor, and gold paint on wove paper; mounted on blue wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Peasant costume fragment

medium: Wool on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Scribe's Palette

medium: Wood, pigment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Head of a King, Possibly Seankhkare Mentuhotep III

medium: Limestone

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


title: A young girl with a sleeping shepherd

creator: Giuseppe Maria Crespi

medium: Etching

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


title: Cabriolet (unnumbered)

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Fragment of a limestone crown belonging to a statue of the Great Goddess

date: 2nd half of the 4th century BCE

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Frame

date: 18th century

medium: Carved boxwood

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Upper Arm Defense (Rerebrace)

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


title: Tile

creator: J. and J. G. Low Art Tile Works

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Adeline R. Brown, by exchange, 1977


title: Trial Piece with Relief of Head of Akhenaten


title: The Actors

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Hocus Pocus, or Searching for the Philsopher's Stone

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Shawl

creator: Dimitri Kolokoltzev Manufactory

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Triumph of the Church over the Synagogue

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Plate

creator: The "Greek A" Factory

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Catharine Van Vliet De Witt Sterry, 1908


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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Photographic Study

creator: Clementina Hawarden

date: Early 1860s

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Giovanni Baglione, a bust-length portrait in a twelve-sided frame

creator: Ottavio Leoni (Il Padovano)

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Decanter with stopper

creator: Baccarat

medium: Glass, wheel cut

country: American

credit_line: Gift of The Museum of the City of New York, 2008


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

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


title: New Modelbüch (Page 17v)

creator: Andreas Bretschneider

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Bowl

date: ca. 150 BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Buckle

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Bronze

country: Spanish

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Terracotta covered bowl

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Man at Arms

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Etching on chine collé; first state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Ballad of the Snail (Corrido del Caracol)

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: [Lacock Abbey]

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Miniature Mask for a Canopic bundle

medium: Cartonnage, paint

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


title: The Incredulity of Thomas, from Das Plenarium

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut (hand-colored)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Bonnet

medium: silk

credit_line: Purchase, Chauncey Stillman Gift, 1982


title: Writing Box with Design of Plum Blossoms and Moon

medium: Reddish-brown lacquer with gold hiramaki-e, lead, and mother-of-pearl inlay

subjects: Lacquer Japan Flowers

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


title: Sadie Martinot, 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: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Tetrapod Jar

date: 200 BCE–1 CE

country: Maya

subjects: Maya Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1982


title: House for R. Dabney, Powhatan, Virginia (front elevation)

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Ink and wash

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Chamber candlestick (one of a pair)

creator: Robert Garrard II

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Louise and David Braver, 2006


title: Undersleeves

medium: Linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James McF. Baker, 1948


title: Seal

medium: Rock Crystal

country: Minoan, Crete

subjects:
Gems
Minoan, crete
Minerals & gems


title: Teapot and tray

creator: Bowles Nash

medium: Silver, wood

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 3rd–mid-4th century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print


title: Openwork rattle bell

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Storage jar

medium: Serpentinite

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Card Number 166, Lily Dupree, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

subjects: Photograph Lilies


title: Margaretha van Clootwijk (born about 1580/81, died 1662)

creator: Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


title: Vase

creator: Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Lloyd and Barbara Macklowe, 1991


title: Textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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: Silver Statuette of St. John the Baptist from the Wittenberg Reliquaries

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1940


title: Portrait of Marc Liotard-Sarasin

creator: Jean Etienne Liotard

medium: Red and black chalk.

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and David T. Schiff Gift, 1995


title: [Classical Head in Profile]

creator: Hippolyte Bayard

date: probably 1839

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gift of Hans P. Kraus Jr., in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Card Number 81, Miss Sutherland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Censer

date: 16th century (?)

medium: Copper alloy

country: South Netherlandish (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-brass
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: The Laughing Audience

creator: William Hogarth

date: December 1733

medium: Etching; fourth state four

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Christ at the Mount of Olives

creator: Master of the Passion

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


title: Inlay, chevron

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1916


title: Commodore Edward Preble (1761–1807) and his Bombardment of Tripoli, August 3, 1804

creator: Johann Mathias Reich

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Purchase, 1907


title: Pastorale 1

creator: Jean-Baptiste Le Prince

medium: Etching and aquatint; first state

credit_line: Bequest of Joan G. Smith, 2024


title: Bowl

medium: Stonepaste; painted and glazed

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


title: Away with the ballast!, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Kings Place, or a View of M [Fox's] Best Friends

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Gotō Renjō (Mitsutomo)

date: 17th century

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Indian Sweat House, Mendocino County, California

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

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: Inkwell

medium: Transparent dark green glass. Blown, pattern molded.

country: Northern European (probably German)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Glass
Northern european (probably german)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool canvas


title: Pantaloon

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Red stoneware, partially polished

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Cœnotaphiorum (2)

creator: Hans Vredeman de Vries

medium: Etching; first state of four

credit_line: Purchase, Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 2011


title: Glass double head-shaped flask

date: 3rd century CE

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Pedestal

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Yellow marble

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: King Bird (Robert P. King and Alexander Baird), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

creator: Henry Louis Stephens

medium: Color lithograph with watercolor and gum

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1964


title: Epileptics Walking to the Left from Pilgrimage of the Epileptics to the Church at Molenbeeck

creator: Hendrick Hondius I

medium: Engraving; first state of two

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


title: Soldier leaning on his sword

creator: Victor Adam

date: mid–19th century

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2012


title: Axe Head

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper (cast), bronze (?)

country: Ecuador

subjects: Metal-implement Ecuador

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


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 77r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: A man with weapons and a pipe in his mouth flanked by two skeletons, illustration for 'El Derribahombres'

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: ca. 1880–1910 (a later impression)

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Female Moderator


title: The Flagellation, from "The Passion of Christ"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

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


title: Covered Vase

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. R. Moore, in memory of Nana Louise Moore, 1930


title: Cylinder vase

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901


title: Design for a Chimney Piece in a "Jacobethan" style, for the Drawingroom at Grendon Hall, Warwickshire

creator: Joseph Potter

medium: Pen and ink over graphite

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


title: Bird

date: ca. 1580, with later renovation

medium: Rock crystal, with gilded silver and rubies

subjects:
Birds
Minerals & gems
Natural substances-rock crystal


title: Hacha head

creator: Classic Veracruz artist(s)

medium: Andesite

country: Veracruz

subjects: Stone-sculpture Veracruz

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


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


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: Odes of the State of Bin: The Seventh Month

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 13th century

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John M. Crawford Jr. Collection, Gift of The Dillon Fund, 1982


title: S. Macaire, évêque (St. Macarius, Bishop), March 10th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Sutra Cover with Peaches and the Characters for Longevity (Shou)

date: 16th century

medium: Silk double cloth

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Dinner dress

medium: silk

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Charlotte Church Collins, in memory of my mother, Alice Slocum Church, 1976


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Plate

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Woven Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Peru; central coast (?)

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Netsuke: probably Illustrating Legend of Urashima Taro.

creator: Tokoku

medium: Wood, ivory, jade

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Pot with handle

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: William H. "Yank" Robinson, Shortstop, St. Louis Browns, 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: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Fragment

medium: Linen, cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Glass Fragment

medium: Pot metal glass

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Vase (one of a pair)

creator: Anthoni Pennis

date: second half 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Frontispiece to Clubbe's Physiognomy (or the Weighing House)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual  (Japanese reprint)  芥子園畫傳

creator: Wang Gai 王槩

medium: Set of five woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013


title: Ceremonial Knife (Tumi)

date: 2nd–7th century

medium: Copper (cast), silver (?)

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-implement Moche

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


title: Two eagles, one devouring a lamb, from 'Eagles'  (Les aigles)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Rod of Opaque Blue Glass

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Saint Jerome with a lion

creator: Francesco Orlandini

medium: Walnut and other woods

credit_line: Gift of the children of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, 1942


title: The Well at the World's End

creator: William Morris

medium: Illustrations: woodcuts; one of eight vellum bound copies

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Coin

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Amulet in the form of a couchant lion

medium: Shell

credit_line: Gift of Walter Hauser, 1958


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Strip

date: early 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: San Francisco Pier

creator: David Paul Chun

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of New York City W.P.A., 1943


title: Cow

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware


title: [Amphitheater, Nîmes]

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Glass Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Colorless glass

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Stone Pendant

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Sir Joshua Reynolds

creator: John Keyse Sherwin

medium: Etching and engraving on chine collé

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: The Torii Gate of Gion Shrine

date: early 17th century

medium: Sliding doors (fusama) remounted as a two-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of A. I. Sherr, 1960


title: Le tambour

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Terracotta fragment of an olpe (jug)

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Caricatured Indian, 2 Annas, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 2) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Luis, Cardinal de Portocarrero, Spanish Statesman

creator: Giovanni Martino Hamerani

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of George Blumenthal, by exchange, 1987


title: Colonel, 10th Regiment, Massachusetts, V.M., from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Chess table

medium: Jade, jasperite, brass, steel

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 58 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Relief fragment

date: ca. 6th–7th century CE

medium: Stucco

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: A Frieze Portraying a  Music Party

creator: Niccolò dell' Abate

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


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: Amulet, falcon pendant

medium: Gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Plate 6: Two studies of children, from "Collection of various doodles and etching proofs" (Recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes


title: Footed jar with lug handles

medium: Sandstone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


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: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Jar with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Vase fragment

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Vase
Roman, gaul

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ornamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 3 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Profile of actress wearing unstructured hat, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Charles d'Albert d'Ailly, duc de Chaulnes

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engravingl; first state of two (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Trade Card

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: A Peasant in a High Cap, Standing Leaning on a Stick

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; second state of two

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


title: Saint George

creator: Russian Painter

medium: Tempera on wood

credit_line: Gift of Humanities Fund Inc., 1972


title: Le Bon Genre: Observations sur les modes et les usages de Paris

creator: La Messangère

medium: plates: color engravings

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Lekythos

creator: Haimon Painter

date: ca. 480 BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Whip Handle in the Shape of a Horse

medium: Ivory, garnet, paint

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Stanhope Phaeton #175

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Border

date: 16th century

medium: Embroidered net, punto à rammendo

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


title: Panel

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1930


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Petticoat

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of A. Hyatt Mayor, 1951


title: Looking everywhere for their king, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, October 4, 1867

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: October 4, 1867

medium: Lithograph and pen and brown ink on newsprint; third state of three, proof (Delteil)

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


title: Sheet with overall geometric pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Lid

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Faience, glaze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: The Oiran Segawa of Matsubaya (the House of Pine)

creator: Chōbunsai Eishi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: A giant heaving a boulder at center, other giants to left and right struggling and recoiling against impending boulders, nude figures climbing rocks and struggling in the background, from "Giove che fulmina li giganti", after the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sala dei Giganti designed by Giulio Romano for the Palazzo del Te, Mantua

creator: Pietro Santi Bartoli

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Tenor valve trombone

creator: Adolphe (Antoine Joseph) Sax

medium: Brass, white metal, cork

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2014


title: Wall Cupboard

medium: Walnut

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


title: Johnny Murphy, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Terracotta jug with relief ornament

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Ornament & design
Vase
Cypriot

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


title: Juglet

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Satyr Family (Pan and his Family), from the Scherzi

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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


title: Fan Surface with a Dragon, Clouds, and Waves

medium: Tapestry-woven (kesi) silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947


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

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Water vessel in the shape of a gourd

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects:
Jade
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Tableau of Indian Faces

creator: John Lewis Krimmel

medium: Watercolor, black chalk, gum arabic, and gouache on white laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Sword with Scabbard

medium: Steel, gold, wood, velvet

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Sword
Italian, venice

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: chest (?) fragment from a statue

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Plan for Window Bay

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Ste. Marthe, vierge (St. Martha, Virgin), July 29th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silk; double weave (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Hexagonal vase

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Porcelain

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Side Chair

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. D. Chester Noyes, 1968


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Fragment of a votive bracelet

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: Pair of candlesticks

creator: Paul de Lamerie

medium: Silver

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1945


title: Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)

creator: Anton Raphael Mengs

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Design for a Round or Oval Table with a Green Top and Black and Gold Sides and Legs

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

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


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 2 (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

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


title: The Arrest of Christ

creator: Francesco Allegrini

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Portrait of Charles Leland

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1922


title: S.J. Flickinger, The Columbus Daily Ohio State Journal, from the American Editors series (N1) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Glass dish

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Card Number 500, Carrie Rumbold, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Model of a Pile Dwelling

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Southwest China (Dian culture)

subjects:
Metalwork
Southwest china (dian culture)

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 2002


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Ewer

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; mold blown

credit_line: Gift of Rodman Wanamaker, 1919


title: Earring

date: 6th–7th centuries

medium: Silver, garnet or glass paste

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Portrait of Luca Giordano, wearing round spectacles and looking to the left

creator: Giovanni Battista Catenaro

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Box (part of a set)

medium: Agate with silver mounts, black onyx

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Fatman, in the name of her late husband, 1931


title: Plate 4: Head of a Woman in Profile, from 'Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs' (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)

creator: Stefano della Bella

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


title: Bust of man

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Plate 29: Cupid begging Jupiter to have mercy on Psyche with Mercury at left, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Skirt

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Embroidery; Peking and satin stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Ida Conquess in Richard Carvel, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies Cigarettes

creator: Frederick Moladore Spiegle


title: Glass Fragments

date: 4th–early 5th century

country: Coptic

subjects: Glass-vessel Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Child's Dress

date: 660–880 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

medium: Plain weave in red wool (dyed with madder); applied borders with pattern weft in blue and red wool and undyed linen

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: The Agony in the Garden, from "The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ"

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Peach-shaped wine pot or teapot

creator: Chinese

date: ca. late 17th century

medium: Porcelain with relief decoration under polychrome glazes.

country: Chinese

subjects: Ceramic Chinese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Parasol

medium: silk, wood, metal

country: probably British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Evelyn Eaves and Emma Eaves Alyea in memory of their mother, Elizabeth Predmore Eaves, 1940


title: Spider

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Moche
Spiders & arachnids

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


title: Collar

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Agnes de Mille, 1977


title: Portrait of Jean-Philotée Achillini: seated man playing guitar on hill near tree, landscape with small town in background

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; only state

subjects: Print Landscapes Portraits Trees

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Squirrel Bottle

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Purchase, Dr. and Mrs. Burton P. Fabricand Gift, 1991


title: Glass jar

date: 4th–6th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Standing Male and Female Figures

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wood, beads

country: Tabwa peoples

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Tabwa people

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


title: Agony in the Garden

creator: Caspar Strauss

medium: Pen and black ink and gray wash (squared in red chalk)

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2005


title: Woman and Warrior

date: early 17th century

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Chamber candlestick or taperstick

creator: John & Thomas Settle

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Louise and David Braver, 2006


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Upright Serpent in D

medium: Brass, paint

country: Italian

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Italian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; painted in blue on opaque white (tin) glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Qur'an Manuscript with Lacquer Binding

date: early 19th century

medium:
Manuscript: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Binding: pasteboard; painted and lacquered

credit_line: Gift of Shamina Talyarkhan, 2006


title: Lid of basket

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Basketry

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Funerary Cone of the Overseer of Beekeepers Imiamun

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Boats Returning to Gyotoku

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Heel in sandal, of Akhenaten or Nefertiti prostrate?

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Bartholomew Fair

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: February 1, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Head of Buddha

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Stone

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1929


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Segard. Philogone. 44 ans (35 ans inscrit sur la photo), né à Salond (Somme). Journaliste. Anarchiste.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Honjo Komme (Ogura-an)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Fort Lee Landing, in: The New York Drawing Book, Containing a Series of Original Designs and Sketches of American Scenery, No. 2

creator: Frances Flora Bond Palmer

medium: Lithograph; black and white inks on on tan paper

subjects: Book Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1954


title: Tongs

creator: Robert Swan

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 13th–14th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Rochet. Théophile. 24 ans, né à Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) le 7/6/69. Cordonnier. Anarchiste. 18/3/94.


title: The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manua} 芥子園畫傳

creator: Wang Gai 王槩

medium: Set of two woodblock printed books; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013


title: At the Bank of the Stream in Rossillon (Ain)

creator: Adolphe Appian

medium: Etching; first of five states

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: [Thoughtograph, or Psychic Photograph]

creator: Charles Lacey

medium: Albumen and gelatin silver prints

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


title: Robe à la française

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1961


title: Marie Chester, from World's Beauties, Series 2 (N27) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Mlle. Nisean, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Set of four panels

date: 18th century

medium: Oak (?)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Bossard. Célestin. 33 ans, né le 5/3/61 à Gonbretière (Vendée). Cordonnier. Anarchiste. 2/7/94


title: Portrait of Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four (Bocher)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and The Elisha Whittelsey Funds, 1961


title: Callot figures; a dwarf man with a spear at left walking towards the right, another dwarf man with a pegleg firing a musket at right, from "Six grotesques" (Six pièces de figures grotesques)

creator: Agostino Mitelli II

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Hammered Silver Ornament with Repoussé Disks

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver, gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Panel

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1930


title: Vase

date: 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Gabled Roofs (Gabled Roofs, Vitré)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on medium weight ivory laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1984


title: Shield

medium: Wood, cane

country: Nias

subjects: Shield Nias

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Helmeted Head wtih Bird's Head Crest

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Frame

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Parcel-gilded and enameled silver, pastes (artificial diamonds) backed by pink metal foil

credit_line: Gift of Nanette B. Kalekian, in honor of Margaret Nolan, 1995


title: Trousers

medium: flax

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn and Alice L. Crowley Bequests, 1982


title: Woman's necktie

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift, Edward M. C. Tower, 1925


title: Cup

date: ca. 1000 BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


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

date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Chinese-Style Flower Basket (Karamono hanakago)

creator: Wada Waichisai I

medium: Timber bamboo, rattan, and lacquer

subjects: Bamboo Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Diane Abbey, 2019


title: Sa Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


creator: Makron


title: Vue de la partie de la Maladetta et des montagnes du haut du port de Vénasque

creator: Joseph Vigier

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Glass with coral stopper

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


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

date: mid-6th century BCE


title: Four Episodes in the Story of Hercules

medium: Wool warp;  wool and silk wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, in memory of her husband, 1935


title: Punch bowl

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Dish with Eros on a Swan

date: ca. 1st century BCE

medium: Schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

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


title: Terracotta fragments of oinochoai (jugs) or olpai (jugs)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Buckle

date: 2nd–4th century

medium: Bronze, gilt

country: Spanish

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Necklace pendants and beads

date: ca. 17th–16th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Count Vauvineaux, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22b) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pile Game Hen, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Portrait of a Woman before a Window

creator: William Henry Brown

medium: Cut paper against a lithographic background

subjects:
Cut paper
Portraits

credit_line: Mary Martin Fund, 1984


title: Chinese Sage

creator: Kano Motonobu

date: probably 17th century

medium: Color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Man Grappling with Winged Horse, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: published ca. 1599–1622

medium: Engraving; third state

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


title: Scenes from the Lives of Jacob and Joseph: Joseph introduces his brethren to the Pharaoh

date: 17th century

medium: Verre églomisé

credit_line: Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888


title: Frances Clalin Clayton

creator: Samuel Masury

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 2022


title: Wall hanging fragment

creator: Daniel Marot the Elder

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Leather, embossed, "gilded", and polychromed

credit_line: Gift of Lady Fitch, 1934


title: Finial with a Cockerel

date: first half of the 10th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Gift of John and Evelyn Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1982


title: Decafoil salver

creator: David Willaume I

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1970


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Polysiphonia subulifera

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Mat

date: 18th century

medium: Knitted lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Chessmen (32)

date: early 19th century

medium: Conifer wood, painted

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Poem by Sangi no Takamura (Ono no Takamura), from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Two friezes; at top, an eagle and the head of a lion, at bottom, a lion head and two grotesque heads of men, plate 7 from "Friezes, foliage, and grotesques" (Frises, feuillages et grotesques)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Netsuke of Peasant Girl Bringing Lunch; on reverse, a Scarecrow

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Jar with four lugs

medium: Earthenware

country: Northeast China (Hongshan culture)

subjects:
Ceramic
Northeast china (hongshan culture)

credit_line: Gift of Gisèle Croës, 2003


title: Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903


title: Pin

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Border

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Dakkeh (Pselcis), Vue Générale du Temple

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Alexander the Great Offering His Concubine Campaspe to the Painter Apelles

creator: Gaetano Gandolfi

medium: Black chalk (stumped), highlighted with white, on brownish paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Fibula

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1923


title: Nature morte: chaudron, cruche, et légumes, sur une table à trétaux

creator: Henri Victor Regnault

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Women Parading in an Imitation of the Cortege of a Daimyo

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I

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

country: Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Bowl with Saucer Cover

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware, (Bencharong ware for Thai market))

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Venus Marina

creator: Girolamo Campagna

date: late 16th century?

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Covered Goblet with Three Feet

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Christ and the Pilgrims of Emmaus

creator: (Johann Heinrich) Ferdinand Olivier

medium: Graphite, partly wiped

credit_line: Gift of Bruce and Angelika Livie, 2003


title: Close-Helmet for the Tournament

date: late 16th century

medium: Steel, leather, textile

country: German, probably Augsburg

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
German, probably augsburg

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Prince Henry and Falstaff at the Boar's Head Tavern, Eastcheap (Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I, Act 2, Scene 4)

creator: Charles Heath

medium: Engraving and etching on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Philip Stimson, 1949


title: Plate 37: Triumphal ship with fireworks display to the right; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

creator: Jacob Neeffs

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Village on a River

creator: Jan van Goyen

medium: Black chalk and gray wash.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Presentation of the Virgin Mary

creator: Anonymous


title: Coping Slabs

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Wool; woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Bracelet

date: 1st–3rd century CE

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Platter

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1970


date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Man Leaning against a Horse

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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


title: Sketch of a Blacksmith

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph; second state of two (Chicago); printed in black ink on cream laid Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Card 830, Emma Carson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Ecce Homo, with Pontius Pilate behind him at left, the Virgin fainting at lower left, and a soldier at right

creator: George Thomas Doo

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Bobbin

medium: Wood

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Miss Julia Chester Wells, 1910


title: Anthropomorphic Lime Spatula

date: ca. 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: Collins, Left Field, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Cap

medium: [no medium available]

country: Irish

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William I. Frishmuth, 1908


title: Broadsheet relating to freaks of nature, at right a creature that is half human and half pig with a single horn

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Landscape with a View in a Valley

creator: Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

medium: Graphite

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2010


title: Review of Troops at the Aoyama Training Grounds

creator: Utagawa Kunimasa V (Baidō Kokunimasa)

date: February 1889

medium: One sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Vase

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Favrile glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Side chair (voyeuse)

creator: Sulpice Brizard

medium: Carved and gilded beechwood

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Robertson, 1969


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Card 5, John H. Clark, from the Prizefighters series (N269) issued by P. Lorillard Company to promote Mechanics Delight Long Cut Tobacco

creator: P. Lorillard Company


title: Snuffbox

medium: Carnelian, gold, diamonds

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


title: Gold and amethyst earring

date: 1st century CE

medium: Gold, amethyst

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Actress (one of a pair)

creator: Saint-Cloud factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels, gold

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


title: Country Houses, couple and cornfield in the foreground, from the series The Small Landscapes (Praediorum Villarum)

creator: The Master of the Small Landscapes

medium: Etching; first state of three

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Figure of a man holding a child

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Earthenware with lead green glaze

country: China

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of C. M. McGrath, 1924


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: Arabesque Devant

creator: Edgar Degas

date: modeled probably ca. 1883–88, cast 1920

subjects:
Ornament & design
Sculpture-bronze

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Orphrey

date: 15th century

medium: Silk, metal thread, linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Design for a Pedestal (recto); Design for the Plan of a Monument (verso)

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk; vertical ruling lines (recto); black chalk (verso)

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


title: Stamford Lincolnshire

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Perennial Pea

creator: Jan Jansz. van der Vinne

date: mid-18th–early 19th century

medium: Pencil and watercolor

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Frits Markus, 2005


title: Heart amulets

medium: Agate, glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Tray

creator: Charles Louis Boehme

medium: Silver, mahogany

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Plate LXXV (75): Male Athlete, from "Museum Florentinum" (Statuae antiquae dorum et virorum illustrium)

creator: Carlo Gregori

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Batavia

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Matthew Dontzin, 1985


title: Scene Inspired by the Scrolls of Frolicking Animals and Humans

creator: Tomioka Tessai

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on satin

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Terry Welch and Steve Shanaman, 2020


title: Uçetek Entari

date: 19th century

medium: Metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of Jessie Franklin Turner, 1942


title: Knocker

medium: Iron

credit_line: Bequest of Henry Victor Burgy, 1901


title: Cabasset

medium: Steel, gold, silver

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Helmet
Italian, milan

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Joaillerie: Album of Jewelry Designs, Page 1

creator: Anonymous, French

date: 1770 or after

medium: Brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Stem of lotiform goblet with palm fronds in relief

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1985


title: Bini oru (water spirit) crest

creator: Eastern or Kalabari Ijo artist

medium: Wood, cartridge shells, rattan, iron, paint

country: Ijo peoples

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Ijo people
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1967


title: Ornamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 17 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Taweret (?) Amulet

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


title: Chasuble

date: ca. 1720, partially cut, patched and reshaped in the 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Chester Dale, 1964


title: Mortar

date: 11th–13th century

medium: Bronze (?); cast, engraved, and lacquered

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Sidney A. Charlat, in memory of his sister, Bertie Grossman, 1982


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Stamp cylinder seal

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

medium: Limonite

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1988


title: Panel from Minbar

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with carved ivory

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


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


title: Chasuble with Orphreys

date: 16th century

medium: Satin; silk; metal; linen

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


date: 1st half of the 5th century BCE


title: Case (Inrō) with Lion and Peonies

date: 17th century

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Un Candidat, plate 48 from "Caricaturana"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on newsprint

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Upper right chest of queen in pleated garment and elaborate broad collar, with cartouches of the Aten

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Jar with flat base

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: The Woman Looking Towards the Boat

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Plate

creator: Tournai

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Cup

creator: La Courtille

date: late 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Stole

date: mid-19th century

medium: Cotton, silk

country: British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lady Allan Johnston, 1932


title: Antique bust of a woman

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Illustration from Beschlossen Gart des Rosenkranz Mariae

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut; hand-colored

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Les Champs Elysées or L'Escamoteur

creator: Favre, Petitpierre et Cie

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1928


title: Frankie Kemble, from the Actresses series (N246), Type 2, issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sporting Extra Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Figure of a Standing Beauty

medium: Porcelain with polychrome enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Kakiemon 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: Flower vase with stand (vase hollandais nouveau) (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: A Shepherd Addressing a Seated Male Nude

creator: Alessandro Magnasco

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, over black chalk, on blue paper

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2006


title: The Infant Saint John the Baptist with the Infant Christ in the Wilderness (recto); Fragment of Architectural Design with Engaged Corinthian Columns (verso)

creator: Pedro  Duque Cornejo

medium: Pen and light brown ink, selectively reinforced with dark brown ink, over black chalk underdrawing. Border lines in the same brown ink (recto). Fragment of architectural design with engaged Corinthian columns. Pen and light brown ink over ruling in black chalk (verso). On off-white paper

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3919

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Escutcheon of lock

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Cover

medium: Silk, cotton; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1905


title: Spoon

creator: Paul Revere, III

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: [Tomb]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


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


title: Panel

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Salt

medium: Lacy pressed green glass

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


title: Card 25, Vanessa J. Album, from the Butterflies series (N183) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths


title: Double Scarab

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Figure group symbolic of Astronomy

medium: Oak and beech, carved and painted

subjects: Astronomy Woodwork

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Insertion

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: San Francisco

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Cock, Hen, and Chickens

creator: Utagawa Toyoharu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: The Francis Lathrop Collection, Purchase, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Trade Card for Sir Robert Peake, printer and publsiher

creator: Anonymous, British, 17th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: [? Gres]

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


title: Conversion of St. Paul

creator: Laurent de La Hyre

medium: Etching

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


title: Potrait of Marquis Auguste-Louis Rossel de Cercy (1736-1804) with his daughter

creator: Pierre Philippe Choffard

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Design for Tandem Cart, no. 886a

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Annie Oakley, Champion Lady Rifle Shot of the World, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.

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


title: Chattanooga Valley from Lookout Mountain

creator: George N. Barnard

credit_line: Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Portrait of G.B. Piranesi in imitation of an antique bust, from "Opere varie di Architettura, prospetive, grotteschi, antichità; inventate, ed incise da Giambattista Piranesi Architetto Veneziano" (Various Works of Architecture, perspectives, grotesques, and antiquities, designed and etched by Giambattista Piranesi, Venetian Architect)

creator: Francesco Polanzani

subjects: Architecture Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Statuette of Harpokrates

date: 305 BCE–364 CE

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Descent from the Cross by Torchlight

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint; first of four states

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1920


title: Reclining Nude with Outstretched Left Arm

creator: Gustav Klimt

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Horse and Landscape (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

subjects: American Landscapes

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


title: Design for a Triumphal Cart (?)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Ink and wash

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


title: Bracelet

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Helmet

date: probably mid- to late 17th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver, textile

country: Chinese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
Chinese

credit_line: Purchase, Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, by exchange, 1997


title: Pull of Engraved Firearm Ornament

medium: Ink, paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French

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


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Balamuth, 1971


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Horn

date: late 19th century

medium: Horn

country: African

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
African

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Sketch of a Putto Holding an Open Book

creator: William Pitts

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

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


title: A Distinguished Teetotalist, Soliloquising a-la Cardinal Wolsey–upon the mutability of human affairs

creator: John Doyle

date: November 18, 1839

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014


title: Numidie, from "Jeu de la Géographie"

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching, state iii

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


title: Miss Rats, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Yangqin  (揚琴)

date: 19th century

medium: Wood


title: Samples (5)

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Vue du Pont des Saints-Pères, from "L'Art"

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching; fourth state of four

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969


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

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Obelisk

creator: Lambertus van Eenhoorn

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Band

medium: Silk on cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Apollo Belvedere, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Andiron with the Figure of Jupiter

creator: Niccolò Roccatagliata

date: 17th century or later

medium: Bronze, dark brown wax or lacquer patina.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Porphyra laciniata, var: umbilicus on "Chondrus crispus"

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Griffin's Head Finial

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Tinned bronze

country: Northwest China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


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: Bonbonnière in the form of a bird (snipe)

medium: Enamel on copper

subjects: Birds Enamels-painted

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


title: Miniature teapot (part of a service)

creator: Caughley Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Garbat, 1961


title: Christ Carrying the Cross

creator: Jan Gossart (called Mabuse)

medium: Oil on oak

credit_line: Gift of Honorable J. William Middendorf II, and Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg and The Annenberg Foundation Gift, Director's Fund, Gift of George A. Hearn, by exchange, and Marquand and The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Funds, 2016