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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Cabriolet #3757

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor, and gouache

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Milk Pot

creator: Andrew Ellicott Warner

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1987


title: The Two Immortals of Harmony and Unity

medium: Hanging scroll; woodblock print; ink on paper with additional hand coloring

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, by exchange, 2025


title: Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep 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: Dandy, from the Occupations for Women series (N166) for Old Judge and Dogs Head Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a stemless cup

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Thalia Painter


title: [Studio Portrait: Self-Portrait Standing by a Mirror]

creator: Pierre Petit

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Drew Knowlton and William L. Schaeffer, 2017


title: Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

creator: Polion

date: ca. 420 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Rapier

medium: Bronze, steel, shagreen, enamel

country: blade, Italian, Milan; hilt, Italian, possibly Venice

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Roman Soldiers Before an Emperor

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

medium: Engraving on blue paper

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


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

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Jar

medium: Ceramic, paint

country: Hacilar

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1964


title: Beads, 16

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bronze mirror

date: late 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Allegory on Melancholy, with a woman kneeling towards the left holding a skull

creator: Henri Simon Thomassin

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects:
Mythology
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Saucer with Butterflies

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted with colored enamels and gilded (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Headless statue of Babaef as older man

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1964


title: Origin of the Gout

creator: Henry William Bunbury

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970


title: Female personification of Faith who kneels raising a chalice in her left hand, after Parmigianino

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in red

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Disk Brooch

date: 6th century

medium: Gilded silver on iron core, metal foil, inlaid garnet or paste

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish


title: An elegantly dressed woman and her page, from a group of drawings depicting Peruvian dress

creator: Francisco (Pancho) Fierro

medium: Watercolor

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Chamberstick (one of a pair)

creator: William Elliott

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Louise and David Braver, 2006


title: Coin

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Fragment of Goblet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Section of a band with felines and heads of birds

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Gold, glass paste

country: Iran

subjects: Iran Birds

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1958


title: Amulet depicting a ram-headed god

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Folio with Verses in Nasta'liq Script

creator: Mir `Imad al-Hasani

date: dated 1017 AH/1608–9 CE

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Vessel

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

medium: Ceramic

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

subjects:
Bactria-margiana archaeological complex
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Satyr, British Museum

creator: Stephen Thompson

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: Judith

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

date: 16th–early 17th century

medium: Intaglio

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Glass Fragment

medium: Colorless glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Vase (one of a pair)

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in enamels on the biscuit (famille jaune)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1964


title: Figure Pendant

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Stone

country: Mixtec

subjects: Stone-ornament Mixtec

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


title: Miser's purse

medium: Silk, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Albert Van Wyck, 1924


title: Bronze footed globular vessel with lid

date: ca. 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects:
Bronze
Roman
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Commemorating the visit of the Seventh Regiment and the Veteran Corps, N.G.S  N.Y. to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876

creator: SC. Demarest

credit_line: Bequest of Harris Brisbane Dick, 1916


title: Drawing the First Water of the New Year

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: [Group of 3 Stereograph Views of the 1901 Pan American Exposition, Buffalo, New York]

creator: James M. Davis

medium: Albumen silver prints

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


title: Console table

creator: Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo

medium: Carved, painted and gilded poplar wood; marble top

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1970


title: Dressing-table mirror

medium: Tortoiseshell, engraved brass, kingwood, amaranth, bois satiné, ebony, mirror glass

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, by exchange, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1985


title: Card Number 44, Giroux, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: The Box with the Gilded Mask

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Crayon, brush, and spatter lithograph with scraper printed in five colors on imitation japan paper; only state

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Michael J. Slattery, Left Field, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Samuel S. Howland, 1906


title: Three Ladies in a Palace Interior: Page from a Dispersed Laur Chanda (Romance of Laurak and Chanda)

country: Northern India (Mandu?)

subjects:
Painting
Northern india (mandu )

credit_line: Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 1990


title: Aesopi Fabulas

creator: Aesop

medium: Woodcuts, some hand colored

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Caddy spoon

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Flask

medium: Blown pattern-molded non-lead glass

country: European, probably

subjects:
Ornament & design
European, probably

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1914


title: Viscera figure with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)

medium: Gum (Acacia tortilis)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: The Virgin in prayer looking down, in an oval frame, after Reni

creator: Francois de Poilly

medium: Engraving

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


title: Designs for an Urn on a Pedestal and a Cachepot

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: The Last Supper, Saints John the Baptist and Andrew against a Faux Velvet Cloth of Gold

date: Possibly 19th century

medium: Wool, silk, silver and silver-gilt thread (19-20 warps per inch, 8-9 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1936


title: Chinese musician

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: "Shah Jahan Watching an Elephant Fight", Folio from a Padshahnama

creator: Bulaqi

date: probably 1639

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick, Louis V. Bell, Pfeiffer and Dodge Funds, 1989


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Sheet with overall dot and circle pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

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


title: Head of Christ or Zeus

date: 3rd or 4th century and later transformation

medium: Marble

subjects: Sculpture-stone Roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1955


title: Card Number 200, Miss Leicester, 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: Three Birds on Branch

creator: Watanabe Seitei

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Birds

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


title: Tribune

creator: George Reiter Brill

date: late 19th century

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 2002


title: Earring, trumpet-shaped

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: GOLD

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Border

date: second half 18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d'Argentan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Berle Jr., 1953


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Turkish Emperor Selim II


title: Cup

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1966


title: Mathurin Régnier

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Watercolor and gouache over traces of graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Penannular Earring

medium: Shell

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: Belt Buckle Loop

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Iron, silver and brass inlay

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Preliminary drawing for a relief

medium: Limestone


title: Bronze, Tiberius Claudius Nero Drusus, 50 A.D., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1917


title: Figures in Procession

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash on blue paper; framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Plate 4: a deer hunt, two horsemen galloping towards the rightbehind three dogs and a deer, a group of trees to left, from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures)

creator: Stefano della Bella

date: after 1642

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Marie Jansen, from World's Beauties, Series 1 (N26) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: The Arsenal; two soldiers conversing with two women on the right as a group of soldiers look on from the left; set design from 'Il Fuoco Eterno'

creator: Mathäus Küsel

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Ichikawa Yaozo III in the Role of Sukeroku from the Play "Yukari no Edo-sakura", also known as "Sukeroku"

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: A Man Seated on a Throne

creator: Follower of Piero della Francesca

date: second half 15th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized), over traces of black chalk.

country: Italian

subjects: Drawing Italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Composition Sketch for an Adoration of the Magi [?] and A Bishop Blessing [Marriage at Bolsena?] (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

country: American

credit_line: Rogers fund, 1953


title: The Baptism

creator: Pierre Charles Trémolières

medium: Etching, state ii/ii

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2012


title: Square

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial S, from a Choir Book

date: 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Wie Till die Schneider duch Saüe straft (How Till Eugenspiegel Punished the Tailors)

creator: Johann Heinrich Lips

medium: Outline engraving and etching

credit_line: Gift of Jenny Philippsohn, in memory of Siegfried Philippsohn, 1955


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta lantern

date: ca. 2nd century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Egyptian

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, egyptian

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Sketches of Classical or Biblical Figures

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Bracelet with Snake-Head Endings and Arabic Inscription, One of a Pair

medium: Silver; cast and chased

subjects:
Jewelry
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1964


title: Lion Cub

medium: Quartzite

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


title: Stamp seal (conoid) with monsters

date: second half of 8th– 6th century BCE or later

medium: Lapis lazuli

country: Assyro-Babylonian or Achaemenid

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


title: William Frederick "Pop" Schriver, Catcher, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sleeping puppy

medium: Molded porcelain form with incised details (Hirado ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Designs for Ornamental Military Trophies (recto and verso)

creator: Enea Vico

medium: Pen and brown ink (recto and verso)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Dish

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1962


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes(drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Poems on painting plum blossoms and bamboo

creator: Zhao Mengjian

date: dated 1260

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy China Flowers

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


title: Fragment

medium: Nephrite

country: Russia (Siberia)

subjects:
Jade
Russia (siberia)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Crucifixion, after Michelangelo

creator: Nicolas Beatrizet

date: mid-16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Trees by an entrance to a park

creator: Theodosius Forrest

medium: Graphite, brush and green and ochre wash or watercolor

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: Design for the Decoration of a Cornice

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and ink and gray wash

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


title: Bronze double axe

medium: Bronze

country: Minoan

subjects: Bronze Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Sword with figures on handle

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Iron

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1961


title: Plate

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: Landscape

creator: Li Jiafu

medium: Album leaf; ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Jane DeBevoise and the Calello Family, 2024


title: Nautilus shell cup with cover

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

medium: Silver on base metal, nautilus shell

subjects:
Metalwork-electrotype
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Nightwatchman

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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: Scarab of Ramesses II

medium: Quartz

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Cuneiform tablet: private letter concerning consignment of textiles

date: ca. 20th–19th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Old assyrian trading colony

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, 1966


title: Bead with granulation - see 18.2.31

medium: Gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Vis-à-vis/Brett #3085

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Plain Ring

date: 7th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Rhedarium for the Sale of All Sorts of Carriages by Geoffrey GIgg, or, A New Book of Horses and Carriages: Title page

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Andiron (feu or chenet) (one of a pair)

creator: François Rémond

medium: Gilded bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Hiratsuka; Nawate Do

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Skein of Camelid Hair

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Peruvian

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: From Piazza. Catskill Mountain House (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1998


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Parallel Bar, Handspring, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) 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: Offering list stela

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: [Fencer]

creator: Georges Demeny

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2010


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

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Creamer

creator: Samuel Kirk and Son

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Dress

medium: silk, metal thread

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Fédération de la Soierie, 1950


title: Head of official from a scene

medium: Yellow quartzite, pigment

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Triumph of the World, from The Cycle of the Vicissitudes of Human Affairs, plate 1

creator: Cornelis Cort

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

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


title: Ice cream cup (tasse à glace) (one of thirty-one) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Head of a pin: horned demon holding inverted lions

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Stronghold, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Bellpull

date: mid-19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Papyri Fragments of a Letter

medium: Papyrus and ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Plate 48: Vineyard raker

creator: Simon Guillain II

medium: Etching

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


title: Medal of the Marquis de Lafayette

creator: Pierre Simon Benj. Duvivier

medium: Probably brass

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Creamer

medium: Blown satin red with white opaque glass

country: British, probably

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Germanicus (15 B.C.–19 A.D.) (?)

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Sardonyx and gold

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1939


title: Grotesque Panel

creator: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: Jeannot Lapin

creator: Félix Bracquemond

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


title: Dancing couples surround four standing women in a barrel-vaulted hall, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

creator: Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin

medium: Etching with engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Seated Figures in a Niche, Tomb of Tjay

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Design for a Worktable with Two Suspended Containers (Verso: Sketch for desk)

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Jug, one handle

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Relief with hieroglyphic label "Lord of Cats' Town"

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Glass pendant in the form of crescent horns

country: Egyptian

subjects: Glass Egyptian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Papyrus Fragments of a Letter from Joseph to Epiphanius

medium: Papyrus with ink

country: Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: My friend, you have taken the wrong bus, get out quickly!, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Charivari, January 31, 1866

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: January 31, 1866

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

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Fishing Boat at Sea

creator: Anton Melbye

medium: Charcoal, black chalk, and red chalk

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2017


title: Fire in London

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 1, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Courtyard of a palace with a man standing at center surrounded by attendants; above, a vision of a woman in a similar scene; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

creator: Mathäus Küsel

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Stone

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Sandal for a Child

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Hemp

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-costumes-secular

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Doctor Botherum, The Montebank


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Rank Badge with Paradise Fly-Catcher

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Celery Vase

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Jug

creator: Christopher Dresser

medium: Glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2016


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Floral print

creator: Hartmann et Fils

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Flowers
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Length of double-sided cut velvet and plush silk

date: late 16th century–early 17th century

medium: Silk; cut velvet, plush

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Jar with Ivory Lid

medium: Clay covered with a white glaze

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Fragment

date: late 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace


title: The Game of Chinese Chess

creator: John Ingram

medium: Etching and engraving


title: Vew Near New Harbor, Singapore

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Knife

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Composed Armor for a Youth

creator: Raymond Bartel

date: ca. 1560 and later

medium: Steel, leather, textile

country: Italian, German, French, and American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor for man
Italian, german, french, and american

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: The Legendary Empress Jingū

creator: Kōsai Hokushin 蛟斎北岑

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

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2014


title: Fishes Swimming

creator: Seki Shūkō

medium: Album leaf; ink and color silk

subjects: Fish Painting Japan

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


title: Tassel-slide

medium: Nephrite

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Piece

creator: Marco Ciccani

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Perfume vase (one of a pair)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, burnished gold ground

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Signet ring

medium: Green jasper plaque on silver ring

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


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: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, 1953


title: Imaginery ancient temple designed in the style of those built in honor of the Goddess Vesta... (Tempio antico inventato e disegnato alla maniera di quelli che si fabbricavano in onore della Dea Vesta...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Shabti of Isetemkheb (D), wife of Painedjem II

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: The Queen, from "The Dance of Death"

creator: Hans Holbein the Younger

date: ca. 1526, published 1538

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Bell, Church

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Courtesan Dressed in an Elaborate Gown Embroidered with Emblems of Good Luck

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Fragment of Indian chintz

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and dyed

credit_line: Gift of Titi Halle, 2010


title: Slippers

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Time, Apollo and the Seasons

creator: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

medium: Etching; seventh state of seven (Mannocci)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: The Statue, or the Adoration of the Wise Men of the West

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Girandole

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1968


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

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three (Bocher)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950


title: Embroidery sample for a man’s suit

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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


title: Scenes from "Le Solitaire"

creator: Marius Rollet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Sample

credit_line: Gift of F.J. Schaetzel, 1919


title: Landscapes

creator: Pan Simu

medium: Album of eight leaves; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

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


title: Intérieur d'un Malade (Interior of a Sick Person)

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

credit_line: The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1952


title: The Sacrifice of Isaac

creator: Willem van Mieris

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

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Jean Bonna and Charles and Jessie Price Gifts, 2001


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

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Sealing fragment

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Hooded Warbler. Sylvia mitrata [current name: Hooded Warbler. Wilsonia citrina], from "The Birds of America," plate CX

creator: John James Audubon

medium: Hand-colored etching, aquatint and engraving

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Michael and Elyn Stubblefield, 2024


title: Table knife

date: late 17th century

medium: Steel, bronze

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Bangle

medium: Shell (marine)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Hat

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Paul Stephansen, 1946


title: Mace head

date: ca. 9th century BCE

country: Iran

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


title: Bowl

date: 1st century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

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


title: (From Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Plan of the Vatican Teatro, in which the Vatican Tournament was held, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Stencil

date: 19th century

medium: Paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1950


title: Pendant with Striated Multicolored Bead

date: Last quarter of the 10th–last quarter of the 15th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Imitation of the Laocoön-group, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, April 6, 1868

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Barbarie, 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: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Chair

creator: Herter Brothers

medium: Maple, rosewood, various wood veneers, ebonized veneer, ash (secondary wood), gilding, modern upholstery

credit_line: Gift of James Graham and Sons, 1965


title: Ceremonial axe

creator: Taíno artist(s)

medium: Greenstone

country: Taíno

subjects: Stone-implement Taíno

credit_line: Gift of Vincent and Margaret Fay, 1982


title: Jar with Cover

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Drag # 3261

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Wineglass

date: mid-18th century

medium: Glass

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


title: Medora, reclining on a rock overlooking the shore

creator: Marie Philippe Coupin de la Couperie

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Dress

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Houghton Trott, 1977


title: Ensemble

date: late 19th century

medium: (a, b) wool, silk, metal; (c, d) leather, silk, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-menswear

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Expedition 1920, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1920


title: Tassel

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Calligraphic Exercise in Italian (Cursive Script)

creator: Anonymous

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and black and brown ink.

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Rectangular table

date: early 20th century

medium: Walnut, carved.

country: Italian or American (United States)

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
Italian or american (united states)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Prima parte de' fiori, page 11 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista Ciotti

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Louise Paullin, 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: Wall bracket

medium: Carved and gilded wood


title: Tremissis of Emperor Maurice Tiberius (r. 582–602)

medium: Gold

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1947


title: Palace Ware bowl

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Rectangular prism (?) seal engraved on six faces

medium: Black steatite

country: Hittite

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1949


title: Dress

date: early 19th century

medium: silk

country: Philippines (Maranaw)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Philippine (maranaw)
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts from Various Donors, 1992


title: River landscape after a painting in the cabinet of Mr. Le Brun

creator: Carl Wilhelm Weisbrod

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: A man and woman dancing the Zamacueca, from a group of drawings depicting Peruvian dress

creator: Francisco (Pancho) Fierro

medium: Watercolor

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Border fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Drawnwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Honey bowl

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Stone inscribed with the cartouche of Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (Tapis)

medium: Cotton, silk

country: Lampung

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Lampung
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Trade Card for W. Sears, Wood Engraver

creator: Matthew Urlwin Sears

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Souvenir spoon with view of Convent Mererau

medium: Gilt and enamel

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


title: Cup stand

medium: Maki-e

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mary B. Henderson, 1975


title: Teaspoon

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Frederick Bradbury, 1925


title: Louis III et Carloman donnent aux eveques du Royaume l'assurance de leur Fidelite en 882

creator: Nicolas Lejeune

medium: Pen and black ink, gouache

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


title: Bottom of a Vessel with Foot

date: 4th–early 5th century

subjects:
Glass-vessel
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Strip

date: 17th century

medium: Macrame

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Man Confronting a Hyena, Tomb of Amenemhab

creator: Nina de Garis Davies

date: 1920; original ca. 1479–1396 BCE

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


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: Road to Ruin!

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Sense of Smell (copy), from "Five Senses"

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967


title: Decorated Folio

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina, in loving memory of her husband, Professor Maan Z. Madina, 2019


title: Seated Statue of King Senwosret I

medium: Greywacke

credit_line: Gift of Jules S. Bache, 1925


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Panel

date: early 18th century

medium: Linen on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Seated Buddha

date: ca. 9th century

medium: Gilt bronze

country: Sri Lanka

subjects:
Sculpture
Sri lanka

credit_line: Gift of Iuliana and Mark Phillips, 1991


title: Plate

creator: Stone, Coquerel et LeGros

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: King of Siam, from World's Sovereigns series (N34) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pope Alexander VII (Fabio Chigi), (b. 1599, Pope 1655–67)

creator: Gasparo Morone

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: Riding habit

creator: Everall Brothers

medium: wool

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Maud Schuyler Clark, 1952


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Samuel Collins

medium: Ivory

subjects: Miniature Portraits

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


title: Despair

creator: Zéphirin Belliard

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Seated Ecclesiastic

creator: Stefano della Bella

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


title: Reticule

medium: metal, silk

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Catharine Oglesby, 1959


title: Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

creator: Nizami

medium: Leather; tooled and gilded; ink on paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Spanish Translation of Saint Augustine's "City of God"

creator: Cano de Aranda

medium: Tempera and gold on parchment, tooled leather binding

country: Spanish

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Spanish

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Coverlet

medium: Cotton and wool warp and weft, woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James J. Rorimer, 1989


title: A slave holds a camel by the bridle, from 'Several heads in the Persian style' (Plusieurs têtes coiffées à la persienne)

medium: Etching; second state of two


title: Upper Half of a Deity or King

date: 5th century

country: Afghanistan

subjects: Sculpture Afghanistan

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


title: Water Jar

medium: Porcelain with peach-bloom glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Skirt panel

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Smallsword

medium: Steel, gold, wood, textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sword
French

credit_line: Gift of Jean Jacques Reubell, in memory of his mother, Julia C. Coster, and of his wife, Adeline E. Post, both of New York City, 1926


title: [Baltimore & Ohio Railroad]

creator: Enoch Wood & Sons

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)


title: Hammered Silver Petal Ornament

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

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

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


title: Covent Garden Theatre

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Torso of the Belvedere

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Metalpoint on white paper

credit_line: Gift of the artist, 1892


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

medium: Gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938


title: Jessie Beals, 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: Beads, 19

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Broadsheet relating to carnival and the sale of high quality Pulque

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Smallsword carried by the Gardes du Corps

creator: Guilmin

medium: Steel, silver, wood, textile

country: French, Versailles

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sword
French, versaille


title: The Infant Moses before Pharaoh, after Giovanni Battista Ruggieri

creator: Jean Robert Ango

medium: Black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Eugene Victor Thaw, 1961


title: Boots

medium: wool, leather

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. C. Elliott Sanford, 1945


title: Glass eye bead

date: ca. 4th century BCE

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th–7th century CE

medium: Agate, banded

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1987


title: Pinhead

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Staggering-Bobs, a Tale for Scotchmen, or Munchausen Driving his Calves to Market

creator: James Gillray

date: December 1, 1796

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Gift of Jill Spalding, 2022


title: Harness or bridle fittings

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Figure of a male beer-maker

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Relief Showing a Person in a Skin Garment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Barber; Black Tiger Captured in Singapore; Buffalo Ploughing; China Barber; Buffalo

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Elbow Defense (Couter)

country: Italian

subjects:
Italian
Armor parts-elbow plate

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


title: Double Saddle Bag (Heybe)

medium: Wool (warp and weft); copper coated with brass metal strip wrapped around cotton core (weft); slit tapestry (kilim), weft-faced plain weave, diagonal ridge sumak outline, closure in oblique plaiting, and plaited warp fringe (front); weft-faced plain weave (back)

credit_line: Gift of Inger G. and William B. Ginsberg, 2015


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

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


title: Undersleeves

medium: cotton

country: British

credit_line: Catharine Breyer Van Bomel Foundation Fund, 1986


title: Terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian, Teano

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian, teano

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Entrance of Christ into Jerusalem

creator: Ercole Setti

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Knife (Bade-bade) with Sheath

medium: Wood, horn, steel

country: Indonesian, Sulawesi

subjects:
Knive
Indonesian, sulawesi

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Suruga Street

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Card Number 352, Jennie Calef, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Songs of Shakespeare

creator: Harriette Charlotte Hoskyns Abrahall

medium: Illustrations: color lithographs (chromolithographs) with gold

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


title: From the Catskills Looking South (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1998


title: Comb

medium: metal, stones, pearls

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Comtesse Robert de Veyrac, 1976


title: Scarab seal ring with Hyksos-period an-ra inscription

medium: Steatite, cream colored, bronze (?)

credit_line: Gift of Wellcome Trust, 1956


title: Side chair (Sgabello, pair with 1975.1.1990)

date: late 16th century (partly)

medium: Walnut, carved.

country: Italian, Rome or Florence

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
Italian, rome or florence

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Pyx

date: late 15th century

medium: Silver and gilded silver

country: Spanish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1954


title: Mater Dolorosa (Mourning Virgin)

date: 18th century

medium: Wood with pigments, gilding, ivory and silver

country: China

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art and Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard Gifts, in honor of Brooke Astor's one-hundredth birthday, 2002


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Netsuke of Crab on a Shell

medium: Wood

subjects:
Netsuke
Japan
Crustaceans
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Pierre-François-Mathis de Beaulieu

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Tea Things

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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

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


title: Finger ring

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Balloon bracket clock

medium: Satinwood veneer inlaid with marquetry woods, gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1959


title: Woman with a Veil

creator: Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Barbara and Howard Fox Gift, 2013


title: Candle Stick

date: 14th century

medium: Brass; engraved and inlaid with silver


title: Thimble

creator: Carl Wilhelm Trozelius

medium: Gold, coral (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Ina Sigrid Lindman, 1964


title: Dolman

medium: wool, silk, glass

credit_line: Gift of Miss Miriam W. Donnelly, 1955


title: Portrait of Sir Edward John Poynter, from "The Portfolio"

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Towel End

medium: Linen, silk, metal wrapped thread; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Paddle Doll

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Hooded Merganser, from the Game Birds series (N13) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: The Night Mare

creator: Laurede

medium: Stipple engraving, printed in brown ink

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


title: Holy Men Travelling to the Buddhist Heaven

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Handscroll; ink on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Stole

date: mid-17th century

medium: Silk, metal thread and bast

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Richard J. Cross, William R. Cross Jr. and Dr. Thomas N. Cross, in memory of their mother, Mrs. William Redmond Cross, 1981


title: Cabriolet/Victoria #3558

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: White Chapel Cart # 3202


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

date: first quarter of the 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Vase fragment

country: Neolithic, Hagiorgetika

subjects:
Vase
Neolithic, hagiorgetika

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: Beachwear

date: late 1860s–early 1870s

medium: cotton

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Inc. Gift, 2009


title: Diana

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Kaval

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Bulgarian

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

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: John Carlin

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Earring with head of bull

medium: Gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Design for a Frieze Decorated With a Palmette and Tendrils (recto); Two Designs for a Rosette (verso)

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk

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


title: Model of the Mastaba Tomb of Perneb

medium: Wood, plaster, paint

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1913


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Portrait of a Lady

creator: James Peale


title: Snuffbox

creator: Jean Marie Tiron (called Tiron de Nanteuil)

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ostrakon

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Psyche ("La Nymphe Falconet")

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

date: porcelain after 1761, gilt bronze ca. 1775

medium: Soft-paste biscuit porcelain, gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1973


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Manuscript Storage Cabinet

medium: Lacquer on wood and gold on black ground

country: Thailand

subjects: Furniture Thailand

credit_line: Bequest of Florance Waterbury, in memory of her father, John I. Waterbury, 1968


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Ceremonial axe

medium: Nephrite, wood, fiber, flying fox fur

country: New Caledonia

subjects:
Jade
New caledonia

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Irises panel

creator: Candace Wheeler

medium: Silk embroidered with silk and metallic-wrapped cotton threads, metal sequins, and cut-glass beads

credit_line: Gift of the family of Mrs. Candace Wheeler, 1928


title: Design for the Epitaph of the 't Seraets-Van Etten family

creator: Abraham van Diepenbeeck

medium: Pen and brown ink, black chalk, red chalk, gray wash and heightened in white [oxidized]

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2014


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Lieutenant Commander Richard Wainwright, U.S. Navy, from the "Generals" series (T63), issued by LeRoy Little Cigars

creator: LeRoy Little Cigars

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Grotto scene with Vulcan, from "The marriage of the gods" (Le nozze degli Dei)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: The Royal Procession of Queen Elizabeth

creator: George Vertue

medium: Engraving

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


title: Dalmatic

date: first half 17th century

medium: Silk; metal; bast fiber

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Spanish
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Ornament with Maya glyph

creator: Maya and Atlantic Watershed artists

date: 200–600 CE, reworked after 600 CE

medium: Jadeite

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Ornament & design
Stone-ornament
Atlantic watershed

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


title: Cover

date: early 19th century

medium: Linen, silk, metal wrapped thread; plain weave, embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Table screen with immortals

medium: Pewter, brass

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2023


title: Piece from a Kosode with Peonies and Stream

medium: Resist-dyed plain-weave silk crepe, embroidered with silk and metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed and embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennan Ford, 2008


title: Figurative Group

creator: Elihu Vedder

medium: Graphite on light brown wove paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1973


title: Manuscript Cutting Showing a Scene from Hebrew Scripture, Perhaps the Life of King David (?)

medium: Parchment, tempera, ink, metal leaf

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1923


title: From the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Parnassus

creator: Louis, Duke of Burgundy

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


title: Chair Strip

medium: Silk and metallic thread tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Jug

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Gorge d'Astos, prise en revenant du lac d'Oo, Luchon

creator: Joseph Vigier

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Metal thread, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Vase

creator: Hugh C. Robertson

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2018


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Bowl

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Portrait of Octave Feuillet

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Drypoint

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Tomb of Porsenna

creator: Sir Francis Seymour Haden

medium: Etching; touched trial proof a (Harrington); only state (Schneiderman)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Ostracon

medium: Pottery, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Ankh, djed, was on neb basket

medium: Faience, gilding

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Settee

creator: Lambert Hitchcock

medium: Wood

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Russell Sage Gift, 1970


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Ichijosai Hironaga (Hirotoshi)

date: mid-18th–early 19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Wholecloth stenciled coverlet

medium: Painted cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Kerchief

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alice Baker Furst, 1942


title: Doorway

date: late 15th century

subjects: Installation French

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1911


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Strip

date: 19th century

medium: Machine made lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Steatite scaraboid seal set in a gold swivel ring

date: ca. late 6th–early 5th century BCE

medium: Steatite, gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Sugar bowl

creator: Marc-Etienne Janety

medium: Platinum, blue glass

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. A.L. Garbat, Manya Garbat Starr and Julian A. Garbat, by exchange, and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1974


title: Figure of a kneeling attendant

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

country: China

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1936


title: General Andrew Jackson

creator: Asher Brown Durand

date: June 1828

medium: Engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederic F. Durand, 1930


title: Vase fragment

date: mid-2nd century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Vase
Roman, gaul

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ground Plan for a Catafalque for a Duke of Wolfenbüttel-Brunswich, probably Anton Ulrich (d. 1714)

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

medium: Pen, brown ink and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972


title: Prise de la Ville de Bone (Capture of the City of Bonne), from "La Vie de Ferdinand Ier de Médicis série appelée aussi Les Batailles des Médicis" (The Life of Ferdinand I de'Medici also called The Medici Battles)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Engraving; first state of two (Lieure)

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: The Bench

creator: Dent

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Acorn-top spoon

date: second half 16th century

medium: Wood, silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel P. Avery, 1897


title: Buckle

medium: Silvered copper alloy, glass paste

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish


title: Esau Meeting Jacob, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

creator: George Frederic Watts

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1926


title: A Collection of Sketches

creator: Sesshosai

medium: Set of three woodblock printed books; ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Pitcher

creator: Dorflinger Glass Works

medium: Cut blown glass

credit_line: Gift of Katheryn Hait Dorflinger Manchee, 1974


title: Morion

date: late 16th century

medium: Steel, leather, brass

country: German

subjects: Helmet German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Button

medium: enamel, rhinestones

country: French

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Pinhead

date: 1st century BCE–5th century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


creator: Makron

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Study for Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Cushing Fosburgh, 1978


title: Louis XIV-style frame

medium: Pine

country: Flemish

subjects: Frame Flemish

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Vase

medium: Pottery; glazed

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


title: Bag

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: Portraits of Emperors of Successive Dynasties

creator: Unidentified artist

date: early 20th century (?)

medium: Album of twenty leaves; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1947


title: The World, Cage of Fools

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Oval salver (one of a pair)

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Adoration of the Child

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Natane Flower

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Self-Portrait with Cows

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching with drypoint; eighth state of eight

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of James David Draper, 2000


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Crabs Near the Water's Edge

creator: Yashima Gakutei

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

subjects: Print Japan Crustaceans

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Young man

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Empress Eugenie (1826–1920)

creator: Marie-Pauline Laurent

medium: Painted enamel on copper; gesso and gilt-wood frame

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2004


title: Ostracon

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Arm and hand of Athena, fragment

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Kirri Cottage for Julia Jackson Davis

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Armchair (fauteuil)

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Carved and gilded beechwood, wool Aubusson tapestry covers

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Potter's stamp

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Mother and Child

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Pair-case watch

creator: Daniel Quare

medium: Silver


title: Spanagel. Alfred, Vincent. 17 ans, né le 27/5/77 à Paris. Serrurier. Anarchiste. 7/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Statuette, Osiris

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890


title: Rosary

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold, pearls

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Prospect of the inner part of Tangier

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Julie Parsons Redmond, 1960


title: Pendant: Lotus Sepal

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Rev. Christopher Edwards Gadsden

creator: Charles Fraser

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1928


title: Lamp

date: 19th century

medium: Free-blown glass, tin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Lettuce Seller

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

medium: Etching with some engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Arrowhead

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, cypriot

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Molded Cornice Fragment

date: 10th century

medium: Plaster; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Stud

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Gold, copper/bronze

country: Iran

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


title: Sarah Ursula Rose

creator: Benjamin West

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: American Roses

credit_line: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1964


title: Fall of Phaeton

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Brush and brown wash over black chalk on light tan paper.  Oval format.  Oval framing outline in brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Man and Child (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: William Page

medium: Watercolor, white gouache, and gum arabic on heavy weight brown wove paper

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Sugar bowl

creator: Karl L. H. Müller

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Design for a Tomb or Wall Monument

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over traces of graphite and ruled underdrawing

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


title: Ornament

date: 1st millennium CE (?)

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Burton Y. Berry, 1961


title: Terracotta fragments of bell-kraters (bowls for mixing wine and water)?

date: second half of the 5th century BCE


title: The Holy Family with the Infant John the Baptist

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

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


title: Pendant

date: before 16th century

medium: Obsidian

country: Mexican

subjects: Glass-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Multi-strand Necklace

date: 6th–10th century

medium: Shell beads, cotton

country: Wari (?)

subjects:
Wari
Beads-ornament
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Purchase, Judith S. Randal Foundation Gift, 1987


title: Actress holding studio curtain, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Relief block from the tomb of Sebeknakht

medium: Limestone, paint


title: Three Textile Fragments

medium: Silk and metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Bequest of Carolyn Kane, 2015


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: late 18th century

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Fragment

date: first half 18th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Weight of 5 Kedets

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. G. W. Neville and Miss Cardwell, 1906


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Autumn (one of a pair)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Moore, 1951


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Ambrosios Painter

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Trionfo Di Virtu. Libro Novo..., page 24 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Card Number 320, Laura Burt, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Game Board

date: 15th century

medium: Bone, wood, horn, stain and gilding over wood core with metal mounts

country: Italian

subjects:
Bone
Italian
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Book with Needlework Cover with Figures of Justice and Prudence

date: 17th century

medium: silk; metal; linen; animal glue (?); paper;

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Krishna Kisses Radha: Page from the Boston Rasikapriya (Lover's Breviary)

medium: Ink, gold and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Amber?)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, amber )

credit_line: Gift of Steven Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1991


title: The Bodhisattva Manjushri as a Ferocious Destroyer of Ignorance

medium: Gilt-copper alloy with color and gold paint

country: Nepal, Kathmandu Valley

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal, kathmandu valley

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick, Dodge and Fletcher Funds, and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1982


title: Example of lace stitch

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

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


title: Plate (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Footstool

medium: Cherry

country: American

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


title: Trade Card Illustration Advertising Bookbinding

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Scarab

medium: Blue steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Initial letter T on patterned background

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Woodcut, criblé ground

credit_line: Gift of Henry W. Kent, 1941


title: Design for a Mantle Clock

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Pennsylvania Light Artillery, Keystone Battery

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title:
“The Pyramids of Egypt” Egefutekoku senkei kodai), from the series Newly Published Dutch Perspective Prints
(Shinpan Oranda uki-e)

creator: Utagawa Kuninaga

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Andrew Cohan Gift, in memory of Linda Cohan and Alfred and Mildred Podnek, 2025


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


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: Order of Merit, Prussia, from the World's Decorations series (N30) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Stamp seal (two-tiered bell with loop handle) with monster

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Copper/bronze alloy

country: Urartian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1980


title: Vase with witch ball

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Blown glass

credit_line: Purchase, The Edgar J. Kaufmann Foundation Gift, 1969


title: Caricatures of Lord Melcombe and Lord Winchelsea

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

date: December 22, 1781

medium: Etching; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Coffee cup (part of a service)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, in memory of Francis P. Garvan, 1954


title: Pieces (6)

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Vessel

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Alabaster

country: Coptic

subjects:
Lapidary work-alabaster
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Terracotta fragments of amphorae (jars)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Earflare

date: 1st century BCE–7th century CE

medium: Gold, silver

country: Lambayeque (?)

subjects: Metal-ornament Lambayeque

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


title: Swan (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: The Slang Match

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Pen and ink on tracing paper, redrawn in graphite on verso

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and PECO Foundation Gift, 2018


title: Glass jar

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Egyptian Woman

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Earflare

medium: Jade

subjects: Stone-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Gallipot

medium: Porcelain with blue-grey crackled glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: list of workmen, Ebabbar archive

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Fibula, serpentine type

date: 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux: Saint Bernard mediates a dispute between Bishop Stephan von Bar and Duke Matthew von Lothringen in Metz (one of two)

date: after 1535

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Mortimer, 1959


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Bugaku Hat (obverseI; Shō Flute and Cymbals (reverse)

date: 19th century

medium: Sprinkled gold lacquer with inlaid mother-of-pearl, pottery, and pewter; Interior: nashiji and fundame; Ojime: marble; Netsuke: wood with lacquer decoration of books

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


creator: Makron

country: Greek, Attic


title: Ornament

medium: Gold

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
China

credit_line: Gift of James F. Ballard, 1926


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Armchair (bergère) (one of a pair)

creator: Louis I Cresson

medium: Carved and gilded beechwood

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1971


title: Cup (tasse Jasmin), part of Breakfast Service (déjeuner)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. D.N. Heineman, 1956


title: Strip

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace, cutwork, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Miser's purse

date: late 19th century

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Miss Helen Brown, 1950


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: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Ritual bell, note jiazhong

medium: Gilt copper alloy

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Pond and a Village, plate 15 from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: The Fool Who Sells Wisdom

creator: Carle (Antoine Charles Horace) Vernet

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967


title: The Thompson Children

creator: John Carlin

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup and Maria DeWitt Jesup Funds, 1979


title: Spoon probe

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Glass oinochoe

date: mid-4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek

subjects: Glass Greek

credit_line: Gift of Renée E. and Robert A. Belfer, 2012


title: Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (one of a set of 12 scenes from The Life of Christ)

creator: Jan Rombouts

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry Goldman, 1944


title: Pair of candlestands

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ernest G. Vietor, 1962


title: Cup

medium: Calcite

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Joseph, from The Twelve Sons of Jacob

creator: Jacques de Gheyn II

medium: Engraving

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


title: Whiskey Taster

medium: Lacy pressed yellow glass

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


title: Stamp Seal in the Shape of Wedjat-Eye

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Jordy. Baptiste. 61 ans, né le 8/72/32 à Labardes (Aude). Cordonnier. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Farms in a Village, from "Regiunculae et Villae Aliquot Ducatus Brabantiae"


title: Column Base

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Dress border

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Crocker (Elizabeth Masten), 1937


title: [Leaf]

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Joseph M. Cohen Gift, 2005


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Tell el-Yahudiya type juglet

medium: Pottery

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


title: Crayfish

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: White porcelain in openwork design, red glass stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Netsuke of Hand and Forearm of a Demon with Small Demon on the Side

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Four Sailing Ships on Choppy Seas

creator: Robert Willemsz de Baudous

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Arlene and Dr. Arthur H. Elkind, 2022


title: Head of a Bearded King

date: ca. 14th century

medium: White marble, traces of red paint and gilding

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Earthenware; slip-covered, glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Platter

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Darabuka

medium: Metal

country: Turkish

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / goblet drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Halberd

medium: Steel, wood

country: German

subjects:
Shafted weapon
German

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Study of a Man

creator: Thomas Hovenden

medium: Graphite and white gouache on blue wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Cabriolet #3794

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: "Baby Mine", from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Fragment with Scattered Pattern

date: 6th–8th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Saucers (12) (part of a service)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, in memory of Francis P. Garvan, 1954


title: Design for 4 Seat Sleigh, no. 3809

medium: Watercolor and ink


title: Design for a Mirrored Cabinet and Two Chairs

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro, 1971


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China or Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China or japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Plaque with Saint John the Baptist

medium: Elephant ivory, traces of paint & gilding

subjects: French Ivories-elephant

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


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese


title: Winged Scarab amulet

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: An Election Entertainment, Plate I: Four Prints of an Election

creator: William Hogarth

date: February 1755

medium: Etching and engraving; state six of eight

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: The Martyrdom of Saint Cristina di Bolsena with God the Father above

creator: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

medium: Engraving

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


title: Netsuke

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: A Summerland

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; lettered proof, first state of five

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Wine Glass

medium: Pressed glass, diamond thumbprint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Two of Clubs, A Pair of Blackguards, from Harlequin Cards, 2nd Series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Coin

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; purplish slip, white decoration on black underglaze painting

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Covered Salt

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Alexander Henry Durdin

creator: Benjamin Trott

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2006


title: Glass Fragment

medium: Colorless glass

country: French or British

subjects:
Glass-stained
French or british

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Figured flask

creator: Bakewell, Page & Bakewells

medium: Free-blown molded glass

credit_line: Bequest of Constance R. Brown, 1939


title: Luohan

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Purchase, Seymour Fund and Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1984


title: Sleigh with Rumble Seat #3480

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Portable compass dial

creator: Johann Klocksperger

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Brass, silver-plated

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stephen D. Tucker, 1903


title: Plate

medium: Pressed purple marble glass


title: The Censor, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Pair of ewers

medium: Gilt bronze, glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926