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: Dish with Fish Design

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Earthenware with cream white glaze and iron-brown underglaze decoration

country: Thailand (Si Satchanalai)

subjects:
Fish
Ceramic
Thailand (si satchanalai)

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: Purchase, Gifts of friends of Jim Thompson, in his memory, 1989


title: Frances Kemble, from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 2) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Broad Collar piece (?)

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Terracotta askos (flask with a spout and handle over the top)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Comb

date: 19th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: probably German

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ridgely Hunt, in memory of William Cruger Pell, 1906


title: An Old Man's Darling, from the Magic Changing Cards series (N223) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Embroidered Mantle Fragment

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Accessory set

date: mid-19th century

medium: medium not available

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Professor Talbot Hamlin, 1954


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Collar

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Samuel S. Howland, 1906


title: The Animal Creation

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Arashi Sangoro as a Ronin Samurai Standing on the Bank

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Pillow in the shape of an infant boy

medium: Jade (jadeite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Panel

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: String of cylindrical beads

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941


title: Broadside with 48 scenes depicting the people of the world

creator: José María Marés

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Copy in reverse of an old woman with a rosary and a boy counting coins; plate 10 from 'Icones ad vivum expressae' after Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

creator: Niccolò Cavalli

medium: Etching

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


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


title: The Portico of the National Gallery, London

creator: James Tissot

medium: Etching and drypoint; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Leo Wallerstein, 1942


title: Stockings

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: Linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mary Walker Phillips, 1977


title: A Parson Joining the Hands of Two People

creator: Richard Livesay

date: October 1788

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Roman Campagna, Nov. 12, 1868 (verso, from sketchbook)

creator: Jervis McEntee

medium: Graphite, white gouache, on blue paper

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1982


title: Riding habit

creator: A. F. Müller

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, 1940


title: Gold earring with disc and pendant

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Gold

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Calcite (alabaster)

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot


title: Juglet

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Terracotta fragment of a psykter (vase for cooling wine)?


title: Design for panels framing a mirror decorated with scrolls and clusters of fish and vegetables

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

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

subjects: Fish Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Faience amulet pendant, a menat

medium: Faience

country: Egyptian

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Egyptian


title: Rapier

medium: Steel, iron wire, wood

country: hilt, Dutch or Flemish; blade, German

subjects:
Sword
Hilt, dutch or flemish; blade, german

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Pin, eyelet type

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Cypriot


title: Portrait of actress with braided hair, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Tea Tray

creator: John McMullin

medium: silver

credit_line: Purchase, Sansbury-Mills Fund and Frank P. Stetz Gift, 2009


title: Gallica in Vestitu Varietas, from Fashions of Different Nations

creator: Pieter de Jode I

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Gift of Isaiah and Lola B. Gellman, 2009


title: Stone Earflare

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 96 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Plate

creator: Francis Piggott

date: second half 18th century

medium: Pewter

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


title: Condiment Dish

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Livery

date: early 19th century

country: Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Lieutenant, Light Artillery, United States Army, 1812, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: South East Corner of Tangier

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; third state of three

credit_line: Bequest of Julie Parsons Redmond, 1960


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Medal:  Bust of Marco Sicco

creator: Antonio Abondio

date: model ca. 1560 (probably cast 17th century)

medium: Bronze (copper alloy with dark brown patina over warm brown patina.)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: William Theodore "Billy" Crowell, Pitcher, Cleveland, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Design for Wagon, no. 721

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Armor plate

date: ca. late 8th–late 7th century BCE

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Jean-Pierre Camus, Bishop of Belley

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; first state of two (BN)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Male Deity

date: 8th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Michael and Georgia de Havenon, 1987


title: Terracotta squat lekythos (oil jar)

date: late 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Atlantic City, New Jersey, from the Surf Beauties series (N232), issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: Sheep

date: second half 18th–mid-19th century

credit_line: Gift of David Vicario, Katrina Cary, and Linn Cary Mehta, in memory of M.F. Vicario and Katherine L.F.C. Cary, 2015


title: An Old House, or The Musician's House, Bourges

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching with drypoint; fifth state of five

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Plate


title: Box

medium: Oak, pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Medal Commemorating George Washington's Resignation of the Presidency

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Wait, 1907


title: Alpheus and Arethusa

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

date: 17th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: A Foreshortened View of a Ceiling Corner Decorated with Statues, Putti and Garlands

creator: Luigi Garzi

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

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Molding

date: 16th century

medium: Carved walnut

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Spearhead (明/清   矛頭)

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Steel, gold

country: Chinese

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Chinese

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2001


title: Card 759, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Altar Cloth

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: Egg Cup

medium: Lacy pressed blue glass

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


title: Spring

creator: Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: St. Jerome in his Study

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving; first state

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Document Box with a Scene from the “Butterflies” Chapter of The Tale of Genji

date: 20th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, cut-out gold foil on nashiji and gold ground

subjects:
Lacquer
Japan
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, from the Collection of the late Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin DeWitt Riegel, 1981


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: Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, gros point lace, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Aeneas and Anchises

creator: Leonaert Bramer

medium: Brush and gray wash, heightened with white bodycolor; framing lines in brush and gray wash with white bodycolor

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


title: Ground Plan of the Catafalque for Anna Cristina, Wife of Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: Stamp seal (scaraboid with pointed top) with plant

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Veined and flawed red and yellow Carnelian (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

subjects: Botany Assyro-babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Cup-Hilted Rapier

date: mid-17th century

medium: Steel, copper wire

country: hilt, Spanish; blade, German, Solingen

subjects:
Sword
Hilt, spanish; blade, german, solingen

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: A Muslim Preparing for Prayer

creator: Jean-Léon Gérôme

medium: Black chalk on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Brooke Russell Astor, 2007


title: Mrs. J.B. Potter, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

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


title: Mordant

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Bronze

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Beaker

creator: Cupisnique artist(s)

medium: Kaolinite, dickite

country: Cupisnique or Chavín

subjects:
Stone-container
Cupisnique or chavín

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1993


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Carrie Behr, Corsair Co., from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Petticoat

date: fourth quarter 18th century

medium: Silk, cotton

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Louise G. Zabriskie, 1931


title: Miser's purse

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: silk, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, 1966


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Manicure

creator: Mortimer Borne

medium: Drypoint

credit_line: Gift of the Work Projects Administration, New York, 1943


title: Standing soldier with his jacket on one shoulder

creator: Victor Adam

date: mid–19th century

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3287

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Cap

medium: cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Clifton Goff, 1935


title: Tatar Woman

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

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


title: Dancers in Ukrainian Dress

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Charcoal and pastel, on tracing paper, mounted on cardboard

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Scarab seal

date: 2nd–1st millennium BCE

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1987


title: Covered Bowl

medium: Earthenware

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


title: Pendant

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: La Maraude (Pilfering), plate 4 from "Les Misères et les Mal-Heures de la Guerre" (The Miseries and Misfortunes of War)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first or second state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Scenes from the Story of Joseph

date: mid-16th century

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Water jar

date: late 19th century

medium: Jadeite

country: China

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: quittance, Egibi archive

date: ca. 497 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Cup (tasse Jasmin)

creator: Jean-Baptiste Isabey

credit_line: Joint Bequest of Harriet K. and Grace Wilkes, 1922


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese

creator: Giovanni V. Melon

medium: Bronze, cast

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: Standing Saint John the Baptist with The Lamb

creator: Girolamo Macchietti

medium: Red chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on ochre washed paper

credit_line: Gift of Eric Turquin, 2008


title: Cross sections of the Chapel at Chateau d'Anet

creator: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Bottle

date: probably 10th century

medium: Earthenware; incised and stamped decoration on white engobe under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 1969


title: Johann Forster

creator: Lucas Cranach the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Der Fehlerteufel ("Devil of Mistakes")

creator: Gustav Bartsch

medium: Pen and black ink over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2007


title: The French Blacksmith

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Standing tambourine player

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Oracle bone fragment

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
China
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Mars, from "The Gods Who Preside Over the Planets"

creator: Master I.B.

medium: Etching

subjects: Astronomy Print


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: Ceramic Fragment

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Gold Belt-Hole Guard

medium: Gold

country: Avar

subjects: Metalwork-gold Avar

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Carpet Fragment

date: 8th century

medium: Wool, cotton, or linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Phocion J. Tano, 1951


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Stag lying to right

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state


title: [Macrae, Ross, and Warner Families Outdoors]

creator: Horatio Ross

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Graphite

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


title: Evening dress

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. M. Dow Brine, 1924


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Four sealings

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Focolare

date: second half of 6th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Band

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Study of a Seated Youth for the Age of Gold

creator: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Plum blossoms

creator: Jin Nong

date: dated 1757

medium: Album of twelve leaves; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China Flowers

credit_line: Edward Elliott Family Collection, Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1986


title: D'Auby. Henri. 48 (ou 49) ans, né à Montmédy (Meuse). Menuisier. Anarchiste. 28/2/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Two bowing courtiers behind Nefertiti

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel, 1985


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941


title: Doubting Thomas, from The Passion of Christ, plate 28

creator: Grégoire Huret

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Fan

date: 18th century

medium: Paper, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Base Fragment

medium: Stone

country: French

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Marie Antoine (Wöss)

creator: Franz Antoine

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1948


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Diadem

date: 5th–10th century

medium: Gold

country: Middle Magdalena River

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Middle magdalena river

credit_line: Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1996


title: Design for Panel: Allegory of Europe, from "The Four Continents"

creator: Giacomo Barri

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Inlay

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Dish

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silver

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-silver Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1953


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Two Horses beneath Leafless Weeping Willow Tree

medium: Lacquer, fundame, sumie togidashi; Interior: red lacquer and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan Trees

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


title: Nakahara in Sagami Province (Sōshū Nakahara), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, brocaded (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Statuette of a woman

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Ojime

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Commode

creator: Martin Criaerd

medium: Oak veneered with ebonized and lacquered wood; gilt bronze; Rance marble

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bronze tripod

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1960


title: Standing Figure (Shoki) with Two Demons (Oni)

date: late 19th century

medium: Ivory inlaid with mother-of-pearl

subjects: Sculpture Japan

credit_line: Gift of Ms. Leona Sobel, 1977


title: Mug

creator: King Glass Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Ring Fragment Decorated with a Floral Design

medium: Faience, dark blue

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Dish (coppa)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Gubbio

subjects:
Italian, gubbio
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Angels Bearing the Body of Saint Catherine to Mount Sinai

creator: Luigi Saulini

date: mid-19th century

medium: Sardonyx

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: Charles I, King of Wurtemberg, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-1) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Hand of a Buddha

medium: Fragment of a wooden sculpture

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


title: Belt Buckle with Recumbent Stags

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Gilded bronze

country: North China

subjects:
Metalwork
North china

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th–7th century CE

medium: Stone

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Design for a Cabinet with Inset Fabric Panels, and Two Female Classical Statues on Marble Pedestals

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: The Great Statue of Amida Buddha at Kamakura, Known as the Daibutsu, from the Priest's Garden

creator: John La Farge

medium: Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of the family of Maria L. Hoyt, 1966


title: Hannah Mahady

creator: Jeremiah Meyer

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


title: [Seated Model, Partially Draped]

creator: Nadar

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

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


title: Perseus and Medusa, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Perfume vessel in shape of a monkey

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Beaker

date: mid-16th century

medium: Glass

country: German

subjects: Glass-vessel German

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration of spirals and dots, green glaze


title: Spain

creator: Herzl Emanuel

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of W.P.A., Washington D.C., 1943


title: Nail Head

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Outré Compliments

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left

creator: Leonardo da Vinci

medium: Pen and brown ink, over soft black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Terracotta

country: Thailand

subjects: Sculpture Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Michael Phillips and Juliana Maio, 2001


title: Wedding dress

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American or european

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


title: St. Bartholomew, from "Christ, the Twelve Apostles and St. Paul"

creator: Lambert Suavius

medium: Engraving; second state of three

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


title: Bowl

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 1968


title: Bowl

date: late 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip covered, glazed

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


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Sheet with overall pattern of hexagonal shapes

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Saint Remigius Replenishing the Barrel of Wine; (interior) Saint Remigius and the Burning Wheat

creator: Swiss Painter

medium: Oil, gold, and white metal on wood

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: Scarf

medium: Linen, silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Askonas, 1965


title: Priest's Robe (Shichijō)

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Bifacial Tool

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Albert Rothbart, 1933


title: Fragment of shallow strainer

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Pilgrim flask

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

medium: Ceramic

country: Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Finial

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


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

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Medea Restoring Aeson's Youth (Aesoni decerptio iuventam restituit Medea), plate 64 from "The Metamorphoses of Ovid" (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum)

creator: Antonio Tempesta

date: Published after 1606

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of S. Paul Jones, 1935


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941


title: Lamp

date: ca. 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Bifacial knife with handle

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Cap

medium: Linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; A. Augustus Healy Fund, 1926


title: Dress

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John W. Mackay, 1967


title: Mlle. Montbazon, Paris, 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: Shoulder bag

medium: Wool cloth, cotton cloth, wool yarn, glass beads, and silk ribbon

country: Seminole, Native American

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2019


title: Shoe Buckle

medium: Silver plate on brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry Lyman, 1938


title: Relief fragment from tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Dhumavati

medium: Lithograph with black ink and hand coloring on paper

country: India, Calcutta

subjects:
Print
India, calcutta

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2020


title: Cup

date: 4th–6th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Small metabauxite axe

date: 5th–4th millennium BCE

medium: Stone

country: Cretan

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cretan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Gallery of Fashion, vol. VI: April 1 1799 - March 1 1800

creator: Nicolaus Heideloff

medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving (hand colored)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Book

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Tankard

creator: Adrian Bancker

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Chap. XVI: La simpiternelle serait ma bisaïeule (This woman could be my great-grandmother)

creator: Victor Adam

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Pot metal glass

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Mold with Unfired Frit Still Present

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


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: Vase with Landscape Vignette

medium: Glass; blown and painted

subjects: Glass Landscapes

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


title: Netsuke

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Mail Shirt

creator: Bechler

date: 15th century

medium: Steel, brass

subjects: Mail German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Sash Fragment

date: 14th–early 16th century

medium: Cotton

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: The Slaughter of the Priests of Samaria

creator: Claes Jansz. Visscher

date: published 1643/1646

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Fern and Lewis Lowenfels, 2022


title: Cap trimming

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Soup plate (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: The Actor Arashi Koroku IV in the Final Farewell Performance of His Career (Shōgai onagori kyōgen) as the Female Bandit Hotei Oichi

creator: Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2020


title: Scene 28: The Blessed Abbot having retired to the Château de Montaigu, soldiers of the league arrive to capture him as he leaves. A piece of wood falls from on high and scatters the soldiers and wounds the Holy Abbot, whom they leave for dead; he is miraculously cured and escapes

creator: Matthieu Elias

medium: Red chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over graphite

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1992


title: Pont-au-change, Paris

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching and drypoint on laid paper; fifth state of twelve

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Stand

medium: Carnelian

subjects: Stone Japan

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Armchair seat

creator: Beauvais

medium: Wool and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

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


title: Plate 79: Ceres Ordering Erysichthon's Punishment (Ceres ad Famem Mypham in Erisichtonis paenam amandat), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

medium: Etching

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


title: Milk pot with cover

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

credit_line: Joint Bequest of Harriet K. and Grace Wilkes, 1922


title: Helmet

medium: Steel

country: Indian

subjects: Helmet Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Plate

creator: Vienna

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


title: The Virgin appearing to San Filippo Neri

creator: Teodoro Viero

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Kisō Mountains in Snow

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

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

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


title: Crozier

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Wax, wood

country: Italian

subjects: Sculpture Italian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Devotional Statuette of the Virgin and Child

medium: Oak, modern paint

subjects: Sculpture-wood French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Vest

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Collection of 146 plates of Costume

creator: Jean Berain

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


title: Saint Bernardino Preaching from a Pulpit

creator: Francesco di Giorgio Martini

medium: Tempera on parchment

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Seated Maitreya

date: ca. 8th–9th century

medium: Bronze

country: Burma

subjects: Sculpture Burma

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Rosen, 1998


title: S. Etienne, abbé de Citeaux (St. Stephen, Abbot of Citeaux), April 17th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Cap

creator: Horace Dean Walker

medium: Cotton, silk

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Jane Buck Hellawell, 1992


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed, open-work lace paper, colored paper,  ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Card Number 169, Fannie Milton, 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: S. Eusèbe, évêque de Samosate (St. Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata), June 21st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Cucorongna - Pernoualla, from "Balli di Sfessania" (Dance of Sfessania)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Large Dish with Peony Bouquet and Cherry Blossom Rafts

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome enamels, gold (Arita ware, Imari type)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

creator: John Faber, the Elder

medium: Pen and ink on vellum

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2009


title: Textile Fragment

date: mid-16th century

medium:
Silk and metal wrapped yarns; compound weave
Satin and twill interconnected

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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


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


title: Bronze mirror

country: Praenestine

subjects: Bronze Praenestine

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Wineglass

medium: Glass

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


title: Pendant in the Form of a Cross

date: probably late 16th century

medium: Enameled gold

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Sword

date: 9th century

medium: Iron, wood, gilded bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: High-Ranking Samurai Girl with Four Attendants, from the series A Brocade of Eastern Manners (Fūzoku Azuma no nishiki)

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: English Study

medium: Ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1966


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: [Sculptures of Minerva Protecting a Warrior, Una and the Lion, Children with a Pony and a Hound, and Child Play]

creator: Philip Henry Delamotte

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Il Fuoco Trionfante...della Traslatione della Miracolo...La Madona Del Fuoco...li xx di Ottobre MDCXXXVI

creator: Floriano dal Buono

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943


title: Russian Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.


title: Wartime Triumphs, from "The Triumphal Procession of Emperor Maximilian" (Triumph Des Kaisers Maximilian I)

creator: Hans Burgkmair

date: printed 1883–84

medium: Woodcut; restrike

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Table screen with land of immortals

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Storage jar

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Maffet Ledger: Indian on horseback, dismounted soldier

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and crayon on paper

country: Southern and Northern Cheyenne

subjects:
Paper-drawing
Southern and northern cheyenne

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968


title: Cup

date: 18th century

medium: Lacquer, bamboo exterior

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Pilgrim bottle

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Knife (Bade-bade) with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Ivory, wood, silver, steel

country: Sumatran

subjects: Knive Sumatran

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Underskirt

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edna G. Dushnes, 1942


title: Bronze handles of a hydria (water jar)

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1938


title: Bronze elliptical leaf, perhaps a waist ornament

date: 5th century BCE

country: Etruscan, Vulci

subjects:
Ornament & design
Bronze
Etruscan, vulci

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Panpipes

creator: Bostwick & Burgess Manufacturing Company

medium: wood

subjects:
Aerophone-blow hole-panpipe
American

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1977


title: Card Number 227, Elain Caungfor, 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: Shoe Buckle

medium: Silver plate on copper

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Textile Design with a Paisley Motif Decorated with Branches with Small Stylized Flowers and Leaves Framed by Two Vertical Stripes

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing
Flowers

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: A Sibyl Holding a Scroll (Study for the Cimmerian Sibyl)

creator: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

medium: Pen and dark brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Skyphos fragment

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Gift of Dietrich von Bothmer, 1981


title: Panel Comprising Two Loom Widths

date: 17th century

medium: Silk, cotton, metal wrapped thread; cut and voided velvet, brocaded

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


title: The Rape of Ganymede by Jupiter in the guise of an eagle carrying him into the heavens, his dog barking below

creator: Nicolas Beatrizet

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


title: Band

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Imperial Court Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry-George J. McNeary, 1966


title: Button

medium: metal

country: British

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Bonbonnière in the form of a parrot's head

medium: Enamel on copper

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


title: Satirical Prints of Suzhou Customs

medium: Woodblock print; ink on paper

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, by exchange, 2025


title: Ostrakon with Troparion (?)

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


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

creator: Bhadrabahu

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


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

date: 510 BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Turk Mounting His Horse

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Aquatint; probably first state of two

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Arthur Ross Foundation Gift, 1990


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3215

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Bonnet

date: early 1880s

medium: silk, beads, wire

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Howard and Mrs. Avery Robinson, 1953


title: Pauline Hall Dressed in Old Saxon Costume, from the set Actors and Actresses, First Series (N70) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Arrowhead

date: ca. 7th century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Khalil Rabenou, 1951


title: Number 16, Cabalistic Cards, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: Design for Brougham (unnumbered)

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


title: Lithophane

creator: Koenigliche Porzellan Manufaktur

medium: Porcelain and wood

country: German

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Cecil J. North, 1962


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3699

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


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

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


title: Christ Preaching

creator: Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on brownish paper

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Alexander Rider (?)

creator: Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin

medium: Conté crayon, charcoal (?), and white-chalk heightening on off-white laid paper coated with gouache

country: American

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Coverlet

medium: Wool and cotton, Biederwand weave, woven on a hand loom with a Jacquard attachment


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta


title: Acorn, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 4) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Bronze statuette of a draped maiden

date: ca. 6th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Ceiling Design with the Presentation in the Temple

creator: Gregorio de' Ferrari

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Papyrus Fragment

medium: Papyrus with ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic


title: Plate

creator: Miguel Soliva

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Jacques Seligmann, 1906


title: The Adoration of the Trinity

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving

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


title: Morning dress

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1975


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: N. de Vries

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: View from Staten Island

medium: oil on canvas

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


title: Scaraboid seal

date: ca. 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Jasper, dark green

country: Achaemenid

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


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Margaret Crane Hurlbut, 1933


title: Glass Globe

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of New York Clearing House, 1963


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


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


title: Shield bearer

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Candlestick

medium: Sheffield silver plate

credit_line: Bequest of Fannie Randolph Gaunt, 1948


title: Cosmetic Box (Mayudzukuri-bako) with Pine, Bamboo, and Cherry Blossoms from a Wedding Set

date: early 19th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, cut-out gold and silver foil application on nashiji (“pear-skin”) ground

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2018


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Bowl

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, slip decoration in green luster

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1965


title: Gimp

date: 18th–19th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Jerkin

medium: silk, cotton, linen, metal

credit_line: Isabel Shults Fund, 2018


title: Virgin Mary with Christ in a Manger

date: 18th century

medium: Gouache on paper

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Conté crayon and white-chalk heightening on heavy, toned (formerly blue) wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A Stewart Walker, 1954


title: Jug

medium: Pottery, red ware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Amulet case

date: ca. mid-1st millennium CE

medium: Copper, bitumen, green patina

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Goodfellow, Catcher, Detroit Wolverines, 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: La Sainte Famille (The Holy Family)

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Etching

credit_line: The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1950


title: Day 322, Survey U, Sectors 15 and 16

creator: United States Geological Survey

medium: Instant diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid)

credit_line: Purchase, Nancy and Edwin Marks Gift, 1992


title: Fragment of a terracotta relief of a woman and child

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian, tarentine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Piece

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: The Nativity

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

medium: Engraving

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


title: Venus and the Rose

creator: Master I. C. (probably Jean Court or Jean de Court)

date: probably late 16th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt; silver gilt; glass

subjects: Enamel Roses

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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Calphurnius, from "The Roman Heroes"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

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


title: Silver Statuette of St. James the Greater, from the "Wittenberg Reliquaries"

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Chair (one of a pair)

creator: Beauvais

medium: Mahogany, tapestry

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. S.E. Minton, 1899


title: Rug

medium: Foundation: bast fiber warp, cotton weft;  wool knotting

country: China, Turkestan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China, turkestan
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Bernard Reis, 1969


title: Plaque from a Reliquary

creator: Master of the Virgin Mary's Reliquary Casket

date: early 13th century

medium: Champlevé enamel, cloisonné enamel, and gilded copper

subjects: Enamel German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1969


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Ah, my dear sir, you have made my evening a very pleasant one..., from "Dramatic Sketches"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Marble inscribed statue base

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: The Toilette of Venus

creator: Etienne-Maurice Falconet

date: last quarter 18th century

medium: Case: gilded bronze and marble; Dial: gilded bronze and white enamel; Movement: brass and steel

credit_line: Gift of Edith C. Blum, (et al.) Executors, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blum, 1966


title: Ewer

creator: Samuel Margas Jr.

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Openwork Brooch

date: second half 6th century

medium: Gilded silver and garnets

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Still Life with Peaches and Grapes

creator: Auguste Renoir

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: The Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1956


title: The Massacre of the Innocents

creator: Giuseppe Maria Crespi

medium: Red chalk, over traces of black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Glass oinochoe (perfume jug)

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean


title: Limehouse

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Lithotint with scraping and incising, on a prepared half-tint ground, printed in black ink on cream Japanese paper mounted on white plate paper; second state of three (Chicago)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Adoration of the Magi

date: late 16th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Badge of Edward II or John the Baptist

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Tin/lead alloy

country: British

subjects:
Metalwork-tin/lead alloy
British

credit_line: Gift of William and Toni Conte, 2002


title: Box with Medallion Top

medium: Tortoiseshell, copper

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Shepherd

date: second half 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta head and wooden limbs; body of wire wrapped in tow; cotton and silk garments; leather belt with metal buckle; leather shoes

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


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: A Small Bridge over a Stream

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Sheet of Nine Antique Coins

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph; fourth state of five

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: China, from the Races of Mankind series (T181) issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sample

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sheet with abstract and stripe 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: [10 Stereographic Views in the Arctic from the Hayes Expedition]

creator: Thomas C. Roche

medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

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


title: Galloon

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Mortuary, Paris (La Morgue)

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching and drypoint, third state of seven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Fred S. Walter, 1982


title: Universal Architecture: Book I, Six Original Designs of Arbours; Book II, Six Original Designs for Grottoes

creator: Thomas Wright

medium: Illustrations: etching

subjects: Architecture Book

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


title: Marble statuette head of a bearded man

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Walter L. Palmer, 1912


title: Inlay, chevron

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1916


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Zebulun, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

creator: Maarten van Heemskerck

medium: Etching; second state

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


title: Henry "Heinie" Kappel, Left Field, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Cavalier (one of a pair)

creator: Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Fan scraper

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Linen mark (Type XXI)

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Bowl with Painted Trophy Head Designs

date: 1st–6th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

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


title: Miniature Tall Clock

creator: Thomas Claggett

medium: Mahogany, white pine, spruce

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1918


title: Tiger Claw Jewel

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Jasper, agate, jadeite and steatite for 12.37.26–.32, .71

subjects: Jewelry Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Portrait of Mlle Quivoron

creator: Marie Bracquemond

medium: Etching, drypoint

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Pitcher

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Border

date: late 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Lady Alan Johnstone, 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: Folding fan

medium: Silk, ivory, spangles

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Tray

date: late 17th century or later

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Medal

date: late 19th century

medium: Green ribbon with white center stripe

subjects: Medal Japan

credit_line: Gift of Edward D. Adams and Jacob H. Schiff, 1906


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


title: Mirror with deities and mythical creatures

date: late 2nd century

medium: Bronze with black patina

country: China

subjects: Mirror China


title: George Johnston

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Chamber candlestick or taperstick

creator: John Figg

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Louise and David Braver, 2006


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Limestone statue of an enthroned youth

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Collar

date: 6th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Costa Rica or Panama

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Costa rica or panama

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


title: Ragini Des Variri:  Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Madhya Pradesh, Malwa)

subjects:
Painting
India (madhya pradesh, malwa)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Weiner, 1974


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Hairpin

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Portrait medal of George the Bearded (duke of Saxony) (obverse); coat of arms (reverse)

creator: Peter Flötner

subjects: Medal Portraits

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Section of a Ballroom: Three Doorways between Sets of Two Columns

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1970


title: Box in Shape of Butterfly with Design of Wild Pinks on Side

medium: Lacquer with gold, silver, and mother-of-pearl

subjects:
Lacquer
Japan
Butterflies & moths

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


title: Dieppe, France, from the Surf Beauties series (N232), issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Hairpin

medium: metal, glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred Poor, 1958


title: One Hundred Boys

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Woodblock print; multicolor print on paper with additional hand-painting

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Gift of Christer von der Burg, 2025


title: Lekythos

creator: Capodimonte Group

date: late 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Plano-convex brick

medium: Clay, mud

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1962


title: Gathering Seaweed

creator: Utagawa Yoshiiku

date: 7th month, 1863

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Seaweed & algae
Print
Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Card Number 47, Miss De Sortes, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Mirror

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Blind with covered box

date: 18th–19th century

medium:
a: Bamboo, silk, cotton, paint
bc: Lacquered wood

subjects: Bamboo China

credit_line: Gift of Edna Bahr, 1962


title: Caricature of a Polish Count

creator: Pier Leone Ghezzi

medium: Pen and brown ink


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: Top hat

medium: Silk, fur

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009


title: Weight

medium: Bitumen compound

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Limestone statuette of a male votary with Cypriot shorts and an Egyptian crown

date: first half of the 6th century B.C

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

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


title: Terracotta stand

date: ca. 520 BCE

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Schimmel, 1980


title: Limestone handle of a patera or a fire shovel ending in a ram’s head

date: 5th century BCE ?

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot


title: Stela of Four Women

medium: Limestone, paint


title: Ornament Plaque with Fish Motif

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Chimú

subjects:
Fish
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Chimú

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


title: Pair of Leg Defenses (Greaves)

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Steel, iron, silver, gold, tin, leather

country: Turkish, Istanbul (?)

subjects:
Turkish, istanbul
Armor parts-thigh and leg defense

credit_line: Left: Rogers Fund, 1990; right: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Circular Flower Buds on Stems with Two Leaves and Decorated by Pearls Framed with Garlands of Branches

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing
Flowers

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Glass Fragment

date: 15th century

medium: Colorless glass

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Christ's Fall Carrying the Cross, one of the "Seven Falls of Christ"

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Scaramouche and Columbine

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard paste-porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Two Table Designs

creator: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Arrowhead

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Jerome M. Eisenberg, 1962


title: Virgin and Christ Child

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of three

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Libel Hunters on the Lookout, or Daily Examiners of the Liberty Press

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Drapery Study

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Florentine, second half of the 16th century

date: 17th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Inscribed marble base

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Marble, red and white

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Roman, cypriot


title: Bust of Las Cases

creator: Baron Dominique Vivant Denon

date: 18th–early 19th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Cattle at a watering hole in a valley

creator: John Henry Mole

medium: Watercolor over graphite with gouache (bodycolor) and reductive techniques

credit_line: Gift of Robert Tuggle, 2006


title: Eight Beggars

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state


title: Two Monks Looking up at a Dragon in a Tower

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Tuscan, early 15th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on vellum

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Door Mount

date: possibly 11th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron French

credit_line: Gift of the New-York Historical Society, 1950


title: Design for a Cartouche, plate 1 from "Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild"

creator: Johann Georg Pintz

date: printed ca. 1750–56

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Admiral, Russia, from the Naval Flags series (N17) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

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


title: Aeneas and Siblyl

creator: Corrado Giaquinto

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

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Coverlet

date: first half 18th century

medium: Silk, metal thread, metal spangles

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Titi Halle, 2007


title: Shabti box of Khabekhnet

medium: Wood, gesso, paint

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: Le Cocu battu et content, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

creator: Jean-Louis Delignon

date: published in 1795

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Miniature Vase

medium: Soft paste porcelain with tinted ivory stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Section of the Grizzly Giant with Galen Clark, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1972


title: Textile Design with Alternating  Hexagons and Starlike Shapes with Pearls in the Center Framed by a Network of Garlands of Branches

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite

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


title: Pendant

date: 6th–8th century

medium: Bronze

country: Visigothic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Visigothic

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Scene from a Drama

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan


title: Skylarks and Primroses,” from the Series An Array of Birds (Tori awase), from Spring Rain Surimono Album (Harusame surimono-jō, vol. 3)

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan Birds

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


title: The Bishop and His Clarke, or, A Peep into Paradise

date: February 26, 1809

medium: Etching

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


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 29 (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

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


title: Pygmalion

creator: Joachim von Sandrart

medium: Brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white.

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift and Sotheby's Inc. Gift, 1996


title: Toole, Pitcher, Brooklyn, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Jerkin

medium: Leather, silk, linen, cotton

country: Western European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Western european

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


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

date: 6th/5th centuries 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: Cup

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Plan and Elevation of the Capuchin Tabernacle of Luneville

creator: Adrian La Touvenot

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


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


title: Pedestal jar with handle and lid

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Stoneware

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 4th century BCE


title: Game of lottery for children

creator: Antonio Bosch

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Design for Hanging Shelves

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor and gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Wall tiles from the funerary apartments of king Djoser

medium: faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1948


title: Emperor Ninus

creator: Maerten de Vos

date: mid-16th–early 17th century

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2005


title: View of the Wilderness at Kew

creator: William Marlow

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Caleche #1054

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Fragments of a terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Amasis Painter

date: ca. 540 BCE

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1985


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: Design for Two Cups

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, watercolor. Framing lines in pen and blue ink and brush and blue wash. Design pasted onto cream mounting paper.

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


title: Plate (one of a pair)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

creator: Edward S. Dodge

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Funerary Cone of the House Mistress Taiy

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


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

creator: Praxias Group

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Slaverers

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching, hand-colored

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


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sign bracket

date: 17th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1958


title: A horseman with sword in hand galloping towards the right, other horsemen galloping towards the left in the background, from "Various cavalry exercises" (Diverses exercices de cavalerie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Incense Box

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 14 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Cap

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009


title: Mold

date: late 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised


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: Textile Fragment

date: 10th century

medium: Linen; embroidered in silk and metal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)?

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


title: Waistcoat

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: wool

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Cup from a torch-holder

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: A man climbs a ladder while a woman throws water on him from above

creator: Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1953


title: Knife with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, silver, wood

country: Indian, Sikkim or Bhutanese

subjects:
Knive
Indian, sikkim or bhutanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Child's Robe

medium: Banana fiber (basho), cotton

country: Japan (Ryūkyū Islands)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan (ryūkyū islands)
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Seymour Fund and funds from various donors, 1981


title: Glass Drinking Horn

medium: Glass

country: Langobardic (?)

subjects: Glass-vessel Langobardic


title: Scene from A Long Tale for an Autumn Night (Aki no yo no nagamonogatari)

date: early 15th century

medium: Section of a handscroll, remounted as a hanging scroll; ink, color, and gold on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Funds from various donors, Gift of Margaret and Raymond J. Horowitz, by exchange, and Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, by exchange, 2019


title: Cape

medium: wool, silk, metallic

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John C. Cattus, 1952


title: Kettle and lamp stand

creator: Esaias Busch III

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Design for an Ewer

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

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


title: Globular Jar

date: late 4th–early 5th century

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-vessel Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ishizara Plate with Design of Flowering Tree

date: early 19th century

medium: Stoneware (Seto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan Trees

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ladle

medium: Stoneware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1946


title: Horse bit cheekpiece in form of a striding horse

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


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

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


title: Bag for Game with Iron Mounts

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron, velvet & silk

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Sweetmeat glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: The Crucifixion

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving; second state of two

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


title: Slippers

creator: Meier

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward A. Morrison, 1944


title: Saint Sebastian in a Landscape

creator: Italian, Ferrara

date: late 15th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: William Smallwood

creator: James Peale

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragments of a psykter (vase for cooling wine)

date: late 6th century BCE/early 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: The Death of Sadi Carnot

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of David and Constance Yates, in memory of Victoria Blumka Nasatir Goldberg, 1992


title: Scales

creator: John Edwards

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Wunsch Foundation Inc., 1993


title: Knife

medium: Nephrite

country: France

subjects: Jade France

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Horse Accomplishments, Sketch 12: A Vaulter !!

date: August 1, 1799

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, glass seed pearls,  metallic thread;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mme. Lilliana Teruzzi, 1973


title: Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for barley and wheat, Esagilaya archive

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Figure pendant

creator: Greater Chiriquí artist

medium: Gold

country: Diquís

subjects: Metal-ornament Diquí

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1966, 1977


title: Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on an opaque white glaze with polychrome panels

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Collar

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Anson, Captain, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

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


title: Catherine, Princess of Portugal

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

date: [1661] later reproduction

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Earspoon

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Portrait of a boy

creator: Anonymous

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Scarab Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Gabbro mace head

medium: Gabbro

country: Cypriot

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cypriot

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


title: Stamp seal (maltese cross base with bird-shaped handle) with geometric design

date: ca. 14th–10th century BCE

country: Iranian

subjects: Iranian Birds

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1964


title: Entombment

creator: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: The Presentation in the Temple

creator: Byzantine Painter

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

subjects: Architecture Painting

credit_line: Bequest of Lillie P. Bliss, 1931


title: Lamp-Lighter

creator: Joseph Wagner

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


title: Undersleeves

medium: Cotton

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Charles M. Bull, 1924


title: Body Ornament

medium: Bone

subjects:
Ornament & design
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Erotic Print

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1952


title: Orpheus

creator: Cristoforo Stati (Cristofano da Bracciano)

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Sword (Kilij) with Scabbard

date: 19th century

medium: Steel, wood, turquoise, coral, emerald, gold

country: Turkish

subjects:
Sword
Turkish
Corals & anemones

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


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Woman at a Well

creator: Charles Jacque

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


title: Sheet with overall pattern of pink flowers with blue centers

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: The Hundred Birds

creator: Dai Wan

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Birds

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


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 3 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Coin

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: T-Cart Phaeton #1057

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and  India ink and metallic ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Floral plaque

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Fan box

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry Burden, 1922


title: Reliquary or triple cross

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver-gilt plates on wood

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Tea cup (part of a miniature service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Oscar Wilde

creator: Napoleon Sarony

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005


title: Inrō with Cranes and Pines

creator: Koma Kyūhaku V

medium:
Gold togidashi lacquer ground with gold and silver takamaki-e and hiramaki-e, and black and red lacquer
Netsuke: hat and mask; lacquer on wood
Ojime: jade bead

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Hotei (布袋図鐔)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: The Raising of Lazarus

creator: Jan Muller

medium: Engraving; New Holl.'s second state of three

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


title: The Climb, from "Hunting Scenes"

creator: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Artist Drawing in an Italianate Landscape

creator: Jan van Ossenbeeck

date: 17th century

medium: Graphite, pen and brown ink, brown washes

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2001


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: Charles Frederick "Silver" King, Pitcher, St. Louis Browns, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)


title: Large Brooch

medium: Copper alloy

country: European Bronze Age

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
European bronze age

credit_line: Gift of Josef and Brigitte Hatzenbuehler, 2007


title: [William W. Briley's Fine Art Studio, Flushing, Michigan]

creator: William W. Briley

credit_line: Gift of the Shimshak Brenner Family, in memory of Robert Shimshak, 2024


title: Unidentified, Ionic capitals, two front and side elevations (recto) Doric impost, elevation of entablature (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Bracelet

date: 6th–8th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: The Casks and Planks at the Back of the River

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; third state of three

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


title: Wineglass

medium: Glass, silver coin


title: Study of Three Men, Bust Length

creator: Mihály Munkácsy

medium: Graphite

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


title: Dish

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Inrō with Carp Hanging Scroll and Characters

creator: Kōami Chōkō

date: second half of the 18th century

medium:
Three cases; lacquered wood with gold and silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, gold foil cut-outs, and mother-of-pearl inlay on black ground
Netsuke: kagamibuta with Shōjō design
Ojime: agate bead

country: Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Side chair

medium: Gilded gesso on walnut

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Side chair

creator: Herter Brothers

medium: Rosewood, brass, mother-of-pearl, and reproduction upholstery

credit_line: Gift of Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore, 2014


title: Rachel Fanny Antonina Le Despencer

creator: John Bacon the Younger

medium: Marble

credit_line: Purchase, Margaret A. Darrin Gift, 1989


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Venus and the Lute Player

creator: Titian

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1936


title: Sherman and His Generals

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970


title: Cardinal Mazarin (1602–61)

medium: Bronze, cast

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


title: Gold bracelet with a carnelian stone

date: 3rd century CE

medium: Gold and carnelian

country: Roman

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Gift of Christos G. Bastis, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 1995


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Portrait of Jean Racine

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

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

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Jupiter with a thunderbolt

creator: Joseph de Levis

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1924


title: Bes with child on finial

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment, content uncertain

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: White Herons

creator: Maruyama Ōkyo 円山応挙

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Edinburgh Monument

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Give Points and Left Parry

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 1, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Coiled Serpent

date: 15th–early 16th century

medium: Stone, pigment

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Mexica (aztec)

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900