title: View of Marmorpladsen withe Ruins of the Uncompleted Frederik's Church in Copenhagen


title: Madam Anna Seekamp, the Artist's Sister

country: Denmark

source: Europeana

source_id: europeana

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — Public Domain Mark 1.0; this work is free of known copyright; free to reuse.

credit_line: Europeana, via National Gallery of Denmark.


title: Landskab med mytologiske figurer

date: 18. Jahrhundert


title: Still Life with Game on a Table


title: View Across Præstø Fiord towards the manor of Nysø


title: The Carnival in Rome. Fragment


title: Portrait of Frederik Berregaard

subjects: Denmark Portraits


title: Study of a Cow


title: Ymir Suckling the Cow Audhumla


title: Gruppebillede af kunstnerens børn


title: Storgatan after the Rain


title: Det indre af Trinitatis Kirke


title: Picture from Lofoten

date: 19. Jahrhundert


title: Ships at Anchor. Winter

subjects:
Denmark
Ships & the sea


title: The Cat in the Studio


title: Strand


title: Study of a Seated Girl


title: Pont Royal in Paris. Sketch


title: Et bryggers i en bondegård


title: Køer i en skov ved aften


title: The Baptism of Christ

date: 15. Jahrhundert


title: Portrait of the Animal Painter C.D. Gebauer


title: In the Vicar's Garden, Christiansø


title: Den barmhjertige samaritan


title: A Young Girl Sewing


title: A Plaster Cast Vendor. Copenhagen Street Scene


title: Skuespilleren Frederik Schwarz


title: View of Stockholm


title: The Waterfall in the Ravine


title: The Blue Kitchen


title: Niels Fischer


title: The Creation of Eve. Composition. Opus II


title: Untitled


title: Fæstningen Kufstein i Inn-dalen i Tyrol


title: Holberg går af vejen for Jacob von Thyboe og Jean de France


title: Empress Eugenie on Horseback


title: Storm in the Skerries. "The Flying Dutchman"


title: Sketch from Parish in Norway


title: The Lim Fjord in Jutland. Study


title: The Interior of a Forest


title: The Elbe Valley near Dresden


title: Landscape at Bruflat in Valdres, Norway

subjects: Denmark Landscapes


title: Homage to Benjamin Franklin


title: Strandvejen ved Vedbæk. Vintereftermiddag


title: Portrait of a Man


title: Portræt af fru Adelgunde Elisabeth Amalia von Scholten


title: A Stout Roman Woman Being Helped onto a Donkey


title: Københavns rhed


title: Slottet Büresheim ved Eifelfloden


title: A Couching Sheep in a Stable


title: The Troll Peaks in Romsdalen: The Foot of Romsdalshorn to the Right


title: Landscape with Hunter and Dogs

date: 17. Jahrhundert


title: Winterlandscape in Gentofte with Copenhagen in the Distance


title: Mandlig model


title: Landevej med piletræer i nærheden af Bækkeskov


title: Mark med korntraver


title: A Blind Man Outside his House


title: Konfirmations-søndag. Dragør


title: I køkkenet. Tante Nanna skræller kartofler


title: The Artist's Family


title: View from the Hills above Castellamare at Naples


title: Castel dell'Ovo in Naples


title: The Most Terrible Night. View of Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen During the English Bombardement of Copenhagen at Night between 4 and 5 September 1807


title: Arcadian Landscape


title: Et schweizerlandskab med bjerget Wetterhorn


title: Historian and Prime Minister Ove Malling


title: En ung matematiker


title: Tibullus Lamenting outside the Door of his Beloved


title: The Weaver at Work in his Home


title: The Crucifixion

date: 16. Jahrhundert


title: Wooded Hills behind a Meadow with a Peat Bog


title: Open Landscape with Low Hills. Summer


title: Christian VIII Aboard his Steamship "Ægir" Watching the Manoeuvres of a Squadron near Copenhagen


title: The Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels

date: 14. Jahrhundert


title: View of the Citadel Ramparts Looking Towards Langelinie and the Naval Harbour


title: View from the Citadel Ramparts Towards the Trekroner Battery


title: Portrait of the Artist´s Father, Master Baker Peter Berendt Købke


title: Portrait of the Artist´s Mother, Cecilia Margrethe Købke, née Petersen


title: Portrait of Laura Chigi


title: Portrait of Count Jørgen Scheel


title: The Architect Carl Petersen


title: Caroline Dalgas og Jeanina Stampe på Nysø havetrappe


title: The Bridge across Tryggevælde River with a View of Køge, Zealand


title: Still Life


title: Generalpostdirektør Frederik Hauch som ung


title: Thora Hunæus, f. Garbrecht, kunstnerens hustru


title: Flat Beach by Sunset


title: Barneportræt


title: Winter Scene in a Suburb of Copenhagen


title: Cathrine von Halle, née Nathanson


title: Mendel Levin Nathanson's Elder Daughters, Bella and Hanna


title: Peder Rahr, købmand i Ribe


title: Geheimeråd Henrik Hielmstierne


title: Blomster i en trefodet vase og en skål med kirsebær


title: Evening Interior


title: Christ on the Cross between the Virgin Mary and St John


title: Half-Length Portrait of a Man


title: Landscape


title: The Christ Child Worshipped by Mary


title: Lignelsen om de betroede pund


title: Norwegian Landscape with a River and a Waterfall between Rocks


title: Blomster i en trefodet vase og en skål med jordbær


title: Nordlyset, natten fra den 16. til den 17. september 1838, set fra Hellebæks kyst


title: Kong Valdemar sætter Liden Else på prøve


title: Karl I af England tager i fængslet afsked med sine børn


title: A View towards Himmelbjerget, Jutland. Evening


title: En hyrdedreng, der driver en flok får


title: En vase med blomster


title: Portræt af en gammel sømand


title: Study of a Beech at Engelholm in Zealand


title: An Oak. View of the Garden at Wörlitz near Dessau


title: The Prophet Elijah with the Widow of Zarephath and her Son


title: Dune Landscape near Haarlem


title: Et orlogsskib efter fransk konstruktion i færd med at kappe de master, der er gået over bord i en storm


title: Road near Village


title: Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes


title: Vinteren er kommet. Landskab med skøjteløbere


title: Den gode hyrde


title: Malkepladsen ved Dyrehavegård


title: Påskemorgen. Kristi opstandelse


title: Standing Female Nude


title: The Artist's Wife Wearing a Turban


title: Cathrine Jensen, née Lorenzen, the Artist's Wife


title: Portræt af Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg


title: Professor of Divinity Andreas Christian Krog


title: En hestevogn i en grusgrav


title: Seated Female Nude


title: Salome


title: Open Air Dance


title: View Towards the Mammell Mountains (Monti Ruffi) near Olevano


title: The Iron Foundry, Burmeister and Wain


title: Larder with Circular Meat Rack


title: En trolovelse ved sygesengen


title: Pasture with Horses and Cattle


title: Et sjællandsk hestemarked


title: Summer Day


title: A Corner of the Artist´s Father's House


title: View of Dosseringen towards Nørrebro


title: Juliane Dorothea Købke, née Ratz, the Artist's Mother-in-Law


title: The Painter Christen Købke


title: A Gondola


title: French River Landscape with a Bridge


title: Peasant Watering Horses and Cattle


title: A Boat Harbour. Humlebæk, Zealand


title: Kystparti ved Korsør


title: Aftenlandskab ved floden Sarca


title: Portrait of a Young Woman as Portia Catonis


title: St. Corona


title: St Victor of Siena


title: Landscape with Three Cows and Shepherds


title: View of Frederiksværk from Tisvilde Wood, North Zealand


title: The Bucintoro Festival of Venice


title: The Coast of Jutland Seen from Mølleknap Hills in Funen. Study


title: Portrait of King Frederik IV as Prince


title: Catharina II of Russia in Life Guard Uniform on the horse "Brillante"


title: Portrait of Anna Elisabeth Battier, née Storp


title: A Running Boy. Marcus Holst von Schmidten


title: Has it Stopped Raining?


title: Landscape with Trees near Paris

subjects: Denmark Landscapes Trees


title: The Resurrection


title: Gertrud Sabine Spengler, f. Trott


title: Roman Peasants Going to Market


title: The Virgin and St. John Worshipping the Christ


title: Landskab i gråvejr


title: Portrait of a Young Man


title: Arkitekten Thorvald Bindesbøll i sin arbejdsstue


title: March Day in Le Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris


title: Portræt af konferensrådinde S.A. Casse f. Engelbreth


title: The Augustus Bridge in Dresden


title: Landskab nær Frederiksborg


title: The Greek Poet Sappho and the Girl from Mytilene


title: The Dying Messalina and her Mother


title: Two Ladies


title: The Architect Hubert Paulsen, the Artist's Son


title: Calvary


title: At the Riding School


title: Wooded Landscape. "The Nordic Forest"


title: En gammel kone på vej til kirke


title: Madonna and Child


title: The Painter Kristian Zahrtmann


title: Portrait of Count Jørgen Scheel (1721-1786)


title: Georginer i et glas


title: Prometheus Moulding Man from Clay


title: Travellers in a Third Class Compartment


title: An Avenue. Frederiksværk


title: Decorative Landscape

subjects:
Ornament & design
Denmark
Landscapes


title: A Florentine Flower Seller

subjects: Denmark Flowers


title: Daniel Rantzau bemægtiger sig Tureby Bro i Skåne under Syvårskrigen 1563-1570


title: Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve


title: A Mountaneous Landscape: Italy


title: The Virgin and Child with a Male and a Female Donor


title: Virgin and Child Adored by the Infant St John


title: A Rocky Landscape: Italy


title: The Sister's Bed


title: The Interior of St Bendt's Church at Ringsted


title: The Arch of Titus in Rome


title: View of the District near Segeberg, Germany


title: Strand ved Præstø


title: Udsigt over Vejle Fjord


title: A Bridge near Sorrento


title: Kystparti ved Marseille


title: A Young Girl in Jutland Writing her Beloved's Name on a Misty Window


title: A Beach by the Sound


title: Arkitekten Thorvald Bindesbøll i en granskov på Kullen


title: Stående rødbroget ko


title: Isola del Liri, Italy. Overcast Day


title: Skovrigt landskab


title: Taterkvinde med sit barn på heden


title: En jysk bonde læser i Bibelen


title: A Storm Brewing behind Nørre Vium Church, Jutland


title: Nanna og hendes moder


title: Jomfru i fugleham


title: Efterårsdag ved Lirifloden


title: Kystlandskab. Hornbæk


title: A Farm in Valby, near Copenhagen


title: En hønsegård. Allegori på tålsomheden


title: The Roman Dwarf Francesco Ravai, called Bajocco


title: Portræt af en herre


title: Ved Fyns Hoved


title: Kompositionsskitse til "Et Møde i Videnskabernes Selskab" i Videnskabernes Selskab


title: Portrait of a Woman (Frau Gregas?)


title: Old Peasant


title: Portræt af kgl. hofapoteker Johann Gottfried Becker


title: Portrait of a Woman


title: River Scene with the "Swan" Tavern


title: Portrait of a Man


title: At the French Windows. The Artist's Wife


title: The Ascension of the Virgin


title: After the Bath


title: Oak Trees near a Road, Evening

subjects: Denmark Trees


title: Stor blomsterbuket i en vase. I forgrunden frugter, til venstre en papegøje


title: Stor blomsterbuket i en vase. I forgrunden frugter


title: Landscape with Peasant Girls at a Stream


title: Julia and Fulvia


title: Tarquin and the Sibyl


title: Portrait of a Lady


title: Portrait of a Noble Boy in Cupid's Costume

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Denmark
Portraits


title: Forfatterinden Emma Kraft


title: The Painter J.Th. Lundbye


title: Fishermen on the Beach with their Boats and Catch


title: Landscape near Subiaco. Sunset


title: Portræt af maleren Karel van Mander III


title: Interior of a Dutch Church


title: The ill-matched lovers


title: Hounds with Wild-Fowl and Game


title: Refsnæs, Kystlandskab


title: A Wash House


title: Fire by Night in the Winter


title: Juliane Marie, Frederik V's anden dronning


title: Springtime in Hals, Jutland


title: Death of the Virgin Mary


title: Leda and the Swan


title: Conversation outside a Palace


title: Doctor Viggo Carl Stockfleth


title: Standing Female Nude


title: The Artist’s Daughter in Fancy Dress

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Denmark


title: En havremark


title: Ung pige i en have


title: Skoveng


title: Self-Portrait


title: Vej i Borrevejle Skov. Oktoberdag


title: Ritual Slave Party on a Sugar Plantation in Surinam


title: The Fight for the Corpse of Patroclus


title: Peasants outside the Church on a Christmas Morning


title: Still Life with Oranges


title: The Painter Agnes Paulsen, the Artist's Sister, at her Easel


title: Caroline Mathilde, Christian VII's Queen


title: A Mountain Scenery with a River


title: Seated Female Nude


title: The White Boat


title: A Privateer Outsailing a Pursuing Frigate


title: The Northern Drawbridge to the Citadel in Copenhagen


title: The View from the Temple of Athena on the Acropolis

subjects: Architecture Denmark


title: Interior of a Dutch Farm Cottage


title: A Charlatan Selling Blacking in the Piazza Barberini in Rome


title: The Cliffs of the Island of Møn


title: Bleaching Linen in a Clearing


title: Sommerdag ved Bisholt


title: Moder og søn. Interiør fra et fiskerhus


title: Landskab med træer på en skrænt


title: Marked i Sora


title: The Three Maries at the Tomb of Christ. Study


title: Tandlæge Alfred Bramsen


title: Fresh Breeze against a high Coast


title: St. Hansaften. Bønder, som har tændt blus på en kæmpehøj, danser omkring ilden


title: Alexander Mariboe


title: Portrait of the Nuremburg Merchant and Collector Willibald Imhoff the Elder (1519-1580)


title: Allegory on the Right of Citizenship

subjects: Mythology Denmark


title: Generalkonsul Johan Christian Pingels døtre i en have


title: Portrait of Frederik Hansen de Liliendal, Danish Consul at Bordeaux


title: St Christopher with the Child


title: Still Life. Breakfast Piece with a Silver Jug


title: Dorthealiljerne blomstrer


title: Seascape


title: Sigrun


title: Portrait of Susanne Cecilie Købke, née Købke, the Artist´s Wife


title: Portrait of Emilie Krohn, née Købke, the Artist´s Sister-in-Law


title: Portrait of the Artist´s Infant Son Peter


title: A Quail Eating an ear of Corn


title: Ribe Cathedral


title: Portrait of the Artist's Father


title: Den hellige familie


title: The Dutch Poet and Historian Pieter Cornelisz Hooft (1581-1647)


title: A Field of Waving Rye


title: Grevens Fejde


title: Jacob Nansen


title: Emma Nansen, f. Schlegel, Jacob Nansens hustru


title: Etatsråd M.L. Nathanson


title: Karton til "Barselstuen"


title: View Towards Lyngby


title: An Italian Woman in the Way to the Carnival


title: Interior of S Lorenzo fuori le mura


title: Study of a Moor


title: Portrait of a Lady


title: The Artist with his Family


title: Opstilling


title: Two Female Nudes


title: Still Life with a Book, a Glass and a Bottle


title: Lille olieskitse til et dameportræt


title: Harvest in the Rhineland


title: A Girl with Sunflowers


title: Old Woman in Bed


title: A Girl in a Red Dress


title: Collegium Politicum. From Ludvig Holberg’s The Political Tinker, Act I, Scene 2.


title: Shepherds Watering Cattle in a Forest


title: Workers on their Way Home


title: Self-Portrait


title: A Young Girl Plaiting her Hair


title: Portræt af Frederik II's datter Elisabeth


title: Dance in a Peasant's Cottage


title: The Triumph of Pulcinella


title: A Boy Selling Fruit. Naples

subjects: Denmark Fruits


title: Kunstnerens datter som lille pige


title: Monte Circeo Seen from the District of Terracina


title: Portrait of the Ballet Dancer Anne Margrethe Schall


title: Landskab med motiv fra Fuglsangssøen i Jægersborg Dyrehave


title: Et skovbryn


title: Septemberdag ved Kalvebodstrand


title: Kvindedansen i Megara


title: Portrait of Louise-Élisabeth de France, Louis XV's Daughter "Mme Infante"


title: Still Life with a Chinese Porcelain Bowl


title: Five Portraits. Study for painting in Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm


title: Winter Landscape. Over Kærby Hill.


title: Bjerglandskab ved Civitella


title: View of the Sea from a Pier


title: In the Gardens of the Villa Albani, Rome


title: Portrait of a Man


title: Pulcinella and Colombina


title: Portrait of Mrs. Pauline Hagen


title: View of the Forum Romanum and the Via Sacra. In the background the Capitol


title: The Parcae: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos Spinning the Thread of Life


title: Sun over the Sea


title: P.H. Mønster, Rural Dean in Sorø, later Bishop of Aarhus


title: A Ship of the Line at Anchor


title: Still Life with Water Jug, Towel and Jars


title: Ørsbjerg Forest at Aarup, Funen


title: Vessel

medium: Faience

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

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

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


title: Colonnette from a Reliquary Shrine

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

country: German

subjects: German Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Panel with Peonies and Rocks

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Rodman A. Heeren, 1960


title: Bag

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Countess Alexander Nikolaevitch Lamsdorff (Maria Ivanovna Beck, 1835–1866)

creator: Franz Xaver Winterhalter

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967


title: The Resurrection, from Life of the Virgin and Christ

creator: Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving with traces of color; first state of three (?) (Bartsch)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Reverse copy of Contadina, Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet (Collection of Various Foreign Figures, Devised by F. Boucher, Painter of the King and Engraved [etched] by F. Ravenet), plate 7

creator: Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Plaque depicting a pottery workshop

creator: R. W. Martin and Brothers

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2013


title: Card Number 5, Lillian Russell, 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: Portrait of J.B. Greuze

creator: Charles Jacque

date: 19th century

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Frame fragment (Dessus d'alcove)

date: second quarter 18th century

medium: Oak (?)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Pastoral with goat herd and goats, from "Sixteen Peasant Subjects"

creator: Cornelis Bloemaert

date: 17th century

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


title: Pompeiian Design for Wall and Doorway

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink, graphite, watercolor, gouache

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: American or European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American or european

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1986


title: The Head of a Young Woman

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Cigar box, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Whistling Jar

medium: Clay

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Aerophone-blow hole-vessel flute
Peruvian
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Glass Fragments

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Pot metal glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Cushion Cover for Chair Pad

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman, 1976


title: Column for display of Roman Emperor bust

date: 17th century (?)

medium: Plaster, painted in imitation of marble


title: Double Capital

date: late 15th century

medium: Marble

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Figure Studies after Rubens's "The Fall of the Rebel Angels"

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2013


title: Boss or appliqué

date: 1st millennium BCE–CE 1st century

medium: Gold

country: Iran

credit_line: Bequest of Lester Wolfe, 1983


title: Tool

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Jug

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Strip

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Vendor of Dry Goods, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 34

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)

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


title: Broad collar

medium: Black, white and blue-green faience

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


title: Headdress Box

date: 18th century(?)

medium: Lacquers, color, and gold

country: Thailand

subjects: Lacquer Thailand

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


title: Portrait of Johann Schweickhardt von Kronberg, Archbishop of Mainz

creator: Gerhard Brück

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown and black ink, brown wash, heightened with body color

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fan

medium: ivory, parchment, gouache, paint

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Millicent V. Hearst, 1962


title: Bust-length Portrait of Thomas Nast

creator: Thomas Nast

medium: Photograph

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Nast Jr., Mabel Nast Crawford and Cyril Nast, 1933


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Stazzi Palace, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Study of a Male Figure Holding a Vessel (Apollo)

creator: François Boitard

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

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1964


title: Belt Plate

date: 7th century

medium: Iron, silver inlay, brass inlay

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-iron Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Jan Asselijn, Painter (Krabbetje)

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching, drypoint, and burin (some plate tone); first of seven states


title: Descent from the Cross

creator: Master IQV

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Segawa Tomisaburo in the Role of Musume Dojoji in "Hanagatami Kazaori Eboshi"

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

date: February 1774

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: St. Louis in Glory

creator: Simon Vouet

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on beige paper; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Men on a Balcony (recto); Old Man Pointing to a Book Held by a Boy (verso)

creator: Leonaert Bramer

date: mid 17th Century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and black ink, with gray wash, over traces of black chalk; double framing lines in brown ink on lower, left and upper edges; verso: brush and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2024


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Furniture, leg elements

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Mrs. James Thomas Fields (Annie Adams)

creator: Southworth and Hawes

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937


title: Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy; costume design for Jeanne d'Arc by the Paris Opera

creator: Charles Bianchini

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor, gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Adrian Lambert, 1970


title: Tile

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Delftware (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: The Red Bridge

creator: Julian Alden Weir

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John A. Rutherfurd, 1914


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexican

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 3 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Head of a Girl Looking Up

creator: Jean-Baptiste Greuze

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Massachusetts, from the Industries of States series (N117) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Coin of Roger I, Duke of Sicily

country: Italian, Sicily

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
Italian, sicily

credit_line: Gift of C. Davies Sherborn, 1930


title: Chimney Sweeps

creator: William P. Chappel

medium: Oil on slate paper

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


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

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Two Profiles, Possibly of John Adams

creator: James Sharples

medium: Pastel on gray laid paper

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Pipe Organ

creator: Thomas Appleton

medium: Mahogany veneer, rosewood veneer, pine, gilt, ivory, ebony, maple, walnut, chestnut, metal

subjects: Aerophone-organ American

credit_line: Purchase, Margaret M. Hess Gift, in memory of her father, John D. McCarty, 1982


title: Scarab

medium: Green glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Stencil

date: 19th century

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Imadogawa

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Candlestick supported by three female demi-figures (pair with .1378)

date: ca. 1600 or later

medium: Copper alloy with a reddish to brown patina and remnants of a black lacquer patina.

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Metalwork
Italian, venice

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 20v)

creator: Peter Quentel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Sashiko Kimono

date: mid-19th century

medium: Indigo-dyed plain-weave cotton, quilted and embroidered with white cotton thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Jackson Burke Gift, 1979


title: Vase

medium: Stoneware with grey glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Rapier

creator: Clemens Wopper

medium: Steel, gold, silver, brass

country: Italian; blade, German, Solingen

subjects:
Sword
Italian; blade, german, solingen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Amulet

medium: Faience

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


title: Design for a ceiling with trompe l'oeil sky

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite, gouache, and watercolor

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Chap. III: C'est Superbe! (How Wonderful!)

creator: Victor Adam

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Flower vase

medium: White porcelain covered with a glaze and reserves with blue under the glaze (Hirado ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Ballock Knife

medium: Steel, bone, lead

country: Western European, possibly Britain

subjects:
Dagger
Western european, possibly britain
Skeletons & bones

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


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Vase (vase cannelés à bandeau) (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Rattle

date: late 19th century

medium: Basketwork, skin

country: West African

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
West african

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Water Pot

medium: Pottery covered with glaze, with added slip decoration (Sanuki ware?)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Cup

date: 18th century

medium: White porcelain decorated with iron red, gold and black (Hizen ware, Kutani type)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Jacob Prostrates Himself before Esau, after Etienne Jeaurat

creator: Michel Aubert

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Clay jar sealing impressed faintly with name of Khasekhemwy

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901


title: Architectural Capriccio, from "Vues de Rome"

creator: Jérôme Charles Bellicard

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Rockaway #3463

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: It is good that he coaxes and flatters her in front of her husband, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Yvonne Möen Cumerford, 1965


title: Bottle vase

medium: Porcelain with crimson-flushed blue glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Les Deux Turcs Coiffés d'un Turban Avec un Aigrette (Two Turks Wearing Turbans with an Egret Feather), plate 8 from "Varie Figure" (Various Figures)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; third state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese


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


title: String of Big Ball Beads

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon among Swirling Clouds

medium: Lacquer, fundame, sumie togidashi; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Hand-woven Tablecloth

medium: Linen, woven

credit_line: Gift of Pamela MacBride Colgate, 1986


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 19 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Cylinder jar

medium: Stone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Lot and His Daughters

creator: Bernardino Capitelli

medium: Etching with plate tone, printed from an octagonal plate

credit_line: Purchase, Janice and Roger Oresman Gift, 2002


title: Edgar Allan Poe, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: 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: Spear

medium: Wood

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1970


title: Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 13 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Design for Wall Elevation, Hôtel Candamo

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: King Bird of Paradise, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds


title: Mirror with Queen Mother of the West, Lord of the East, and mythical creatures

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Bronze with black patina

subjects: Mirror China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Pier glass mirror (one of a pair)

medium: Carved and gilt linden wood, glass

credit_line: Purchase, Morris Loeb Bequest, 1955


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Cnidian

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cnidian

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


title: Nancy, from "Diverses Veue et Perspectives nouvelles de Rome, Paris et des autres lieux"

creator: Israel Silvestre

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: The Entombment of Christ

creator: Fra Xanto Avelli da Rovigo

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered

credit_line: Gift of V. Everit Macy, in memory of his wife, Edith Carpenter Macy, 1927


title: Star Kazak Carpet

date: early 19th century

medium: Wool (warp, weft, and pile); symmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922


title: Terracotta relief bust of a woman

date: 2nd half of the 5th century BCE

country: East Greek

subjects:
Terracotta
East greek

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


title: Design for a Scene in Pierre de Laujon's "L'Amoureux de quinze ans, ou la Double-Fête..."

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

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

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: Design for a Festival Gondola

creator: Alessandro Mauro (Mauri)

medium: Pen and brown ink, over graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of John Steiner, 1976


title: Saint Veronica with the Vernicle

creator: Hans Burgkmair

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Plaster relief fragment with a male figure on a throne

date: 1st century CE

medium: Plaster

country: Roman

subjects: Miscellaneous-plaster Roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1931


title: Necklace

medium: Pearl

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Ribbon

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Agnes Pratt, 1932


title: Teabowl

medium: Clay covered with finely crackled glaze and decorated in colored enamels and gold (Satsuma ware)

country: Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Indiana, from the Industries of States series (N117) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Tongs

medium: Brass, iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 19r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Matchsafe

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Yung-Uh-Sho-Na (rattle)

medium: Turtle shell, buckskin, deer hooves

country: Native American (Hopi)

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
Native american (hopi)
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Seated Bearded Male Figure Looking to Upper Left

creator: Giovanni Battista Beinaschi

medium: Black and brown chalk, highlighted with white, on blue-gray paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Stoneware; glazed

credit_line: Gift of Jack A. Josephson, 1973


title: Bear Hunt, from "Hunting Scenes VI"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

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


title: Face Neck Bottle

date: 10th–16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Quimbaya

subjects: Quimbaya Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Howard Russell Hartman, 1970


title: Pair of Stirrups

date: late 16th century–early 17th century

medium: Iron alloy

country: Spanish

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
Spanish

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Yoshiwara Yo Zakura no Zu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Domine, Quo Vadis

creator: Jacopo Vignali

medium: Black chalk, highlighted with white, on brown paper; cropped to the shape of a lunette

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 1988


title: Captain, Rifle Brigade, England, 1879, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Pair of peacocks

creator: Villeroy

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Cap crown

medium: Velvet and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Toby Mug

medium: Mottled brown earthenware

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


title: Handkerchief

medium: linen

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Graham Bennett, 1950


title: Pistole (1/4 ducat) of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, 1751

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of H.R. Ickelheimer, 1909


title: Marble funerary lekythos

medium: Marble, Pentelic ?

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Pavillon de l'Horloge, Louvre

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1991


title: Bowl with petal-shaped rim

date: 9th century

medium: Stoneware with clear glaze (Xing ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


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


title: Louisville Rifles, New Orleans, Militia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Allegorical scene

creator: Master IO. F.F.

date: early 16th century

medium: Bronze, parcel-gilt

subjects:
Mythology
Medal and plaquette

credit_line: The Erich Lederer Collection, Gift of Mrs. Erich Lederer, 1986


title: Daoist Immortal, probably Laozi (老子)

date: 10th century

medium: High-leaded bronze

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942


title: "Uncle Sam" Making New Arrangements

creator: Louis Maurer

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of  A. S. Colgate, 1952


title: Beaded Wrist Ornament

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Shell beads, cord

country: Chancay

subjects:
Ornament & design
Chancay
Beads-ornament
Shells & molluscs

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


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


title: Watch

creator: de Choudens

medium: Gold, enamel, silver

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Lady May Fletcher-Moulton, 1926


title: Mask of a man with hair combed forward and a mantle

date: early 2nd century CE

medium: Plaster, paint

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1900


title: Barbara d'Este of Austria

creator: Pastorino di Giovan Michele de' Pastorini

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: Textile Fragment

date: 11th century

medium: Linen and silk; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1929


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Piece

date: late 16th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Design for Wagonette or Omnibus (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Hand colored lithograph

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Bounteous and Fertile Garden

creator: Jian Guzhai

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Pine soot and binding medium; inscribed in gilt

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Bottleneck basket

medium: Yucca root, devil’s claw, sumac shoots, quail topknot feathers, and wool yarn

country: Tubatulabal, Native American

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2021


title: Ornamental Engraving with Morris Dancers

creator: Israhel van Meckenem

medium: Engraving; second state of two

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

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


title: "Prophet Muhammad Preaching", Folio from a Maqtal-i Al-i Rasul of Lami'i Chelebi

creator: Lami'i Chelebi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Faience aryballos (perfume vase) in the form of four heads

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Faience

subjects:
Miscellaneous-faience
East greek

credit_line: The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1992


title: Landscape with view of a town (one of three)

creator: Christoph Murer

date: early 17th century

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass-stained Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Embroidered darning sampler

medium: Silk on cotton

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


title: Tankard

medium: Rock crystal, silver gilt

subjects:
Metalwork-silver in combination
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sheet with various peasants

creator: Félicien Rops

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Broccoli, 1980


title: Tile Fragment

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, 1953


title: Cover

date: 17th century

medium: Silk on linen; embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Beaded Necklace

medium: Glass, amber, glazed earthenware (faience), silver ring, copper alloy rings

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-bead Frankish


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 18th–16th century BCE

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Four coffee cups (part of a service)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Barbara S. Adler, 1971


title: Bowl

date: late 18th–early 19th century

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1930


title: Flute

date: mid-19th century

medium: Fruitwood, nickel-silver, maple

country: American or European

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

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Tiraz Textile Panel

medium: Linen

credit_line: Bequest of Carolyn Kane, 2015


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: Design for Wooden Desk

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Fish
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; central coast

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


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: Sample

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Proclamation of Peace

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

date: October 21, 1783

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: River Gorge with Waterfall

creator: Tani Bunchō

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Glass jug with trefoil rim

date: 4th–5th century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Bowl

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; underglaze painted in polychrome pigments under transparent glaze (buff ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Assumption of the Virgin

creator: Guido Reni

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Assyrian House, from the Habitations of Man series (N113) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

creator: The Giles Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Coin

date: dated 174 AH/790 CE

medium: Copper


title: Terracotta antefix with lion's head

subjects:
Terracotta
East greek

credit_line: Gift of a friend of the Museum, 1992


title: Sampler

medium: Linen and silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Lady About to Smoke a Hookah

medium: Ink on paper

country: India (Punjab Hills, Kangra)

subjects:
Painting
India (punjab hills, kangra)

credit_line: Gift of Richard Ettinghausen, 1975


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


country: Greek, Attic


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


title: John Wilkes (1727–1797), M.P. for Westminister ("Liberty Wilkes")

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Maid of Athens, from the Illustrated Songs series (N116) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Black amber with yellow amber stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Shoe

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware (Delftware)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1938


title: Mantle Fragment

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Chimú

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chimú
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


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

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut, engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Ostracon with Figure of the God Ptah and Artist's Signature

medium: Limestone, ink

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Ball gown

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Orme Wilson and R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Caroline Schermerhorn Astor Wilson, 1949


title: Bottle

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Porcelaneous clay

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of R. H. Macy & Co., 1919


title: Frieze Fragment

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron Spanish

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Hanging with dragons

medium: Silk satin brocaded with silk and metal thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Dish

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Hammered Silver Rattle Beaker

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-container
Peru; north coast

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


title: Knives, Scissors, and Razors to Grind

creator: Giovanni Vendramini

medium: Stipple engraving, printed in color

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Hahn, 1962


title: Card Number 313, Jennie Smith, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Fragment

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Spouted jar with a basket handle

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: The Dispatch-Bearer

creator: Giovanni Boldini

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Martha T. Fiske Collord, in memory of her first husband, Josiah M. Fiske, 1908


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Frontispiece: Virgil, Publii Virgilii Maronis Opera

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Miniature saucer (one of five) (part of a set)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Set of Sword Fittings (Mitokoromono)

creator: Gotō Sōjō

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kogai
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: François Tallemant

creator: Etienne Picart

date: 17th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Sample book

medium: Paper, cloth

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Herman Gerstle, 1955


title: Un soi disant Négociant... (A so-called Merchant...), from Émotions Parisiennes, published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph; third state of three (Delteil); sur blanc

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Candlestick

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over graphite

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


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Funerary Tablet of Horpaa, priest at Hermopolis and son of Djehutyhor

medium: Egyptian alabaster (travertine), paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Cravat

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


title: Sardanapal in the Bath

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

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


title: Willard Eben Mains, Pitcher, St. Paul Apostles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Covered Sauceboat

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: James Dymock

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Childhood

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching with engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet


title: Ring with Circular Bezel with Abstract Design

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: A provincial family was forced to pay a high price for an insignificant show, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Yvonne Möen Cumerford, 1965


title: Friezes after Giulio Romano, in Palazzo del Te

creator: Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella

medium: Etching


title: Square vase with birds and flowers

medium: Porcelain painted in polychrome enamels over a black ground (Jingdezhen ware, famille noire)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Sample

date: first half 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Les Deux Pantalons se Regardant (Two Men in Pantsuits Looking at Each Other), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)


title: Bone ear pick

medium: Bone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Cypriot
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Composite body; incised and pierced

credit_line: Gift of Marilyn Jenkins, in memory of her father, Dr.  Arthur M. Jenkins, 1982


title: Lion(?) wearing an atef crown

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Crossing of the Great St. Bernard and Battle of Marengo, 1800.

creator: J. P. Martigny

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of Hon. Levi P. Morton, 1885


title: William "California" Brown, Catcher, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Currants and Serving Plate, from the Miniature Novelties series (N120) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Scarab Inscribed Perfect God, Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Given Life Forever

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Grammar, from The Seven Liberal Arts, plate 1

creator: Monogrammist B

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta


title: Key

date: second half 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Terracotta woman

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Textile Design with Alternating Vertical Zig-Zaggins Strips and Pearls

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Furniture element: bull-man with Hathor-style curls

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ivory (hippopotamus)

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: Untitled

date: ca. 1st century BCE

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1984


title: Tumbler

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Specimen

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Glass mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Half-length silhouette of a young officer of the 103rd regiment

creator: John Buncombe

medium: Watercolor, gouache (bodycolor), and pen and ink

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Brush and point of brush, carbon black ink

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Water Coupe

medium: Porcelain with incised decoration under peachbloom glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Madame Douane

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

date: September 1, 1893

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Bead spreader

medium: Shell

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: A River God (recto); Sketches for the Vestibule of the Laurenziana, Florence (verso)

creator: Bartolomeo Ammanati (Ammannati)

medium: Pen and brown ink (recto); Pen and brown ink, with red chalk (verso)

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Glass Fragment

date: late 13th century

medium: Colorless glass

country: French or British

subjects:
Glass-stained
French or british

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: The Prophet Haggai, from Prophets and Sibyls

creator: Francesco Rosselli

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Practical application for a diamond hypnotist, from 'News of the Day,' published in Le Charivari, January 24, 1860

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: January 24, 1860

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

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Painting of Jurōjin

creator: Kano Tsunenobu

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: One of a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts, Bequests, and Funds from various donors, by exchange, 1961


title: 12 Year Old Mother, Malay, Batavia

creator: Unknown

credit_line: Gift of Matthew Dontzin, 1985


title: Netsuke of Old Man and Stork

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Wagon #276

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: John Stewart "Pop" Corkhill, Center Field, Brooklyn, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card

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


title: Leaf from a Book Entitled: Wakoku Hiaku-jo, One Hundred Japanese Women

creator: Hishikawa Moronobu

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

subjects: Print Japan


title: Two Roses

creator: Anne Vallayer-Coster

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

subjects: Drawing Roses

credit_line: Purchase, Renée Sacks Bequest, 2005


title: Water Bottle

medium: Silver

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: Path Through a Village

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Basin

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Beads

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Glass; drilled

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Sword Pommel

medium: Steel

country: British

subjects: British Swords-accessorie

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Inscribed Stone from Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

medium: Quartzite, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Volute-krater fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Pines

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Ellis G. Seymour, 1926


title: Goblet with cover

creator: August Böhm

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Mary A. Weissbuch, in memory of Yaro and Mary Zenishek, 1989


title: Shabti of scribe Tjay

medium: Wood

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1886


title: Female saint

date: 15th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888


title: Vertical Panel with Candelabrum Containing Pairs of Fish and Rosettes

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

subjects: Fish Print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Bronze serpentine-disc type fibula (safety pin)

date: 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Villanovan

subjects: Bronze Villanovan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Walton Butterworth, 1979


title: Reclining Female Nude

creator: Domenico Tintoretto

date: late 16th century

medium: Black and white chalk on blue paper

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Figure of a child

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: The Forge, Passage du Dragon

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping; unique impression of the second state of four (Chicago); printed in black ink on off-white wove proofing paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Stamp-cylinder seal

date: ca. 12th century BCE

medium: Marble

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: The Crucified Christ

creator: Pietro da Rimini

medium: Tempera and gold on wood

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1939


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

creator: Painter of London E 489

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Saint Mary Magdalene

date: late 15th century

medium: Limewood

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1963


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Head fragment from a statuette depicting a "Bald one of Hathor" priest

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Gift of J. Lionberger Davis, 1964


title: Title Page, from "Views of seaports" (Vues de ports de mar)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Woman in a garden, in the style of Qian Du (ca. 1764–1844)

creator: Yu Yuan

medium: Framed fan; ink and color on paper

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Fonte de Fer, album général des plaches

creator: A. Durenne

medium: Lithographs

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


title: The Island of the Beata Vergine delle Grazie

creator: Giacomo Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash


medium: Terracotta


title: Elfina, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Terracotta one-handled cup

country: Helladic, Mycenaean

subjects:
Vase
Helladic, mycenaean

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Five Dancers Drinking from Large Sake Jar

date: late 19th century

medium: Metal, silver metal, applied gold, sentoku, shibuichi, various metals; Interior: silver metal

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread, taffeta; brocaded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: View of a Small House Built into a Rock

creator: Isaak Major

medium: Engraving

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


title: Plaque with Saint Peter

medium: Silver, niello, originally partially gilded

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-silver Byzantine

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1950


title: Plate from the "Service Des Départements"

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Sid R. Bass Gift, in honor of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2002


title: Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970


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: Medallion

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Rectangular Plaque

date: middle of 6th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Nathaniel Hawthorne, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Pair of Arm Guards

medium: Steel, gold, velvet, textile, copper alloy

country: Indian, probably Sikh

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor part
Indian, probably sikh

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Earring

medium: Gold, faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Quinn, 2nd Base, Boston, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Ritual Wine Cup (Zhi)

date: late 11th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1931


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

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


title: The Allegorical Figure of France for the Tomb of General Bonchamp

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

date: 19th century

medium: graphite, pen and brown ink

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 15th–13th century BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Mitanni

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


title: Standing Four-Armed Vishnu

date: 5th century

medium: Terracotta

country: India (Uttar Pradesh)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (uttar pradesh)

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


title: Jérusalem, Enceinte du Temple, Face Est de l'angle Sud-Est

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: Okabe

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Pillow cover

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Dish

date: early 15th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on wool canvas

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


title: Woven Wall Hanging

medium: Wool, metal wrapped thread; double interlocking twill; tapestry weave, embroidered

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Medinet-Habu

creator: John Beasley Greene

credit_line: Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift, 1989


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

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Christ and the Pharisees, from Das Plenarium

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut (hand-colored)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Insolence, from The World's Racers series (N32) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Portrait of a Boy

creator: Eliza Goodridge

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2006


title: Panel with Inscription

date: probably 13th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1930


title: Ewer

medium: Brass; raised, repoussé, inlaid with silver and a black compound

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Laureate head of Napoleon I of France

creator: Pietro Pestrini

medium: Sardonyx and gold

subjects:
Lapidary work-gem
Minerals & gems

credit_line: The Milton Weil Collection, 1940


title: Elevation for a Wall Tomb

creator: Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

medium: Pen and black ink with brush and gray and blue wash over graphite underdrawing

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: The Sacrifice of Isaac

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, 1871


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 17th century

medium: Iron, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Button or Bead or Spindle Whorl

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Stone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Afternoon dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1974


title: Seal Rocks

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut; second of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Daisy Bead

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Making Leather Rope, Tomb of Rekhmire

creator: Nina de Garis Davies

medium: Paper, tempera paint, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Mortar

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Portrait of a Woman, Called Héloïse Abélard

creator: Gustave Courbet

subjects: Painting Portraits


title: Market Scene

creator: Matthäus Gundelach

date: late 16th–17th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Van Day Truex Fund and Carolyn H. Specht Gift, 2009


title: Design Amulet, Pyramidal Back with Horizontal Piercing, Device showing Two Falcons Flanking what is meant to be an Ankh Sign

medium: Serpentinite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Caleche #1087

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Rue des Grands Carmes, Vue prise de la Rue Ste. Marthe, Marseille

creator: Adolphe Terris

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1995


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese


title: Beaker

date: mid-16th century

medium: Glass

country: German

subjects: Glass-vessel German

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Circus Maximus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Nicolas Beatrizet

medium: Engraving; first state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Coin

date: dated 373 AH/983 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Snow, Moon, and Cherry Blossoms (Yoshiwara in Three Seasons)

creator: Chōbunsai Eishi

date: early 19th century

medium: Triptych of  hanging scrolls; ink, color, and gold on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan Flowers

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


title: Textile Design with Alternating Rows of Curved Hourglass Shapes Flanked by Two Pearls Framed with Garlands of Stylized Leaves with Offsetting Thorns

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Hebrew ritual lace (one of four)

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. J.P. Morgan (1868-1925), 1938


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

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


title: Saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: ca. 1720–25, decorated ca. 1725–30

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Fan

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: Silk, net, gold, horn, gilt, silver, paste jewels, imitation pearls

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Thomas Hunt, 1933


title: Toilet box

date: late 15th or early 16th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt, glass

credit_line: Bequest of Elizabeth Mongan, 2002


title: Cameo with Triumphal Procession

medium: Chalcedony

subjects:
Gems
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: [Rue de Constantine]

creator: Charles Marville

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986


title: String of Beads

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Glass, coral

country: Coptic

subjects:
Coptic
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Triumph of Temperance

date: 16th century

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Band Fragment

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Wool and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Nelly, Violet and Elie Abemayor, in memory of Michel Abemayor, 1978


title: The Hair-Ribbon

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1917


title: Franz Liszt, Pianist, Hungarian, 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: Bottle vase

creator: Christopher Dresser

medium: Glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2016


title: The Sorceress

creator: Jan van de Velde II

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Fighting a Fire

creator: William P. Chappel

medium: Oil on slate paper

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


title: Box

medium: Iron, wood core

subjects: Metalwork-iron Spanish

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Plate

creator: Abraham Drentwett IV

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Stool

medium: Zizyphus wood

credit_line: Gift of the Earl of Carnarvon, 1914


title: Snuff bottle with stopper

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Agate, crystal

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Donohue, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Hat

date: 18th century

medium: straw

country: probably British

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


title: Dewitt Clinton

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving on chine collé; third state of three

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


title: Tile

date: first half 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: The Grinnell Collection, Bequest of William Milne Grinnell, 1920


title: Door Keeper, from the Occupations of Women series (N502) for Frishmuth's Tobacco Company

creator: Frishmuth's Tobacco Company


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Painter of Vatican G.49

date: late 6th–early 5th century BCE

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


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


title: Platter

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1954


title: Ammon and Jonadab

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Pen and brown and black ink

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


title: Jason Arrives at Colchis (Enfin parvint jusqu'en Colchis Jason...), from "Jason and the Golden Fleece"

creator: René Boyvin

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: James J. "Jumbo" Davis, 3rd Base, Kansas City Cowboys, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

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


title: Coffer or chest key

date: 17th century

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Gift of Richard S. Perkins, 1975


title: Putti at play

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite and brown wash

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: White Falcon

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Armchair (bergère)

medium: Carved and painted gray fruitwood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Nails

date: 7th century

medium: Bronze and iron

credit_line: Gift of Herbert E. Winlock, 1912


title: Walking boots

medium: Wool, cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Miss R. B. Holmes, 1927


title: Replica of a Royal Barge

date: 20th century

medium: Wood

country: Thailand

subjects: Woodwork Thailand

credit_line: Gift of the City of New York, presented by Hon. Robert Wagner, 1960


title: Border Fragment

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Chimú (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chimú
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Porringer

creator: Zachariah Brigden

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: George F. "Piano Legs" Gore, Center Field, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Fragment from a Lintel or Frieze with a Foliate Square and Circle

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Album [of works] by the master Koiso Zensetsusō (complete) (Koiso Zensentsusō sensei gajō-kan) 小磯前雪窓先生画帖完

creator: Koiso Zensetsusō 小磯前雪窓

date: 19th century

medium: Accordion album; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Cup (part of a service)

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Walter T. Rosen, in memory of his mother, Mrs. Flora Tower Rosen, 1932


title: Ein new getruckt model Büchli...Page 7, recto

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Woodcut


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Return of the Prodigal Son

creator: Lombardy- The Veneto

date: mid-16th century

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

country: Italian

subjects: Drawing Italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Jousting Helmet in Late 15th Century Style

date: mid-to late 19th century, in late 15th century style

medium: Steel

subjects: Helmet German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: David with His Foot in a Noose in an Initial O

creator: Domenico Morone

medium: Tempera and gold on parchment


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Terracotta goblet

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1911


title: Matthieu Molé

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; second state of four (BN)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Corset

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: linen, cotton, whalebone

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Cyril Kennedy, 1948


title: A survey of the cities of London and Westminster and the Borough of Southwark written at first in the year 1698 (i.e. 1598)..Corrected, improved, and very much enlarged in the year 1720 by John Strype

creator: John Stow

medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: William Ridley

date: November 30, 1799

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Veil

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk, metal-wrapped thread; embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Kate Fowler Merle-Smith, 1953


title: Card Number 60, L'Alemande and Davis, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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


title: Miniature Loving-Cup

medium: Nephrite, white with light greenish tint

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Beaker

creator: Paul Solanier

medium: Gilded silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Design for Two Gothic Chairs

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Young Lady with a Rose

creator: Pieter Vanderlyn

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: American Roses

credit_line: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1962


title: The Arrival of the Wine Vat

creator: Joseph Marie Vien

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2011


title: Fragments of a Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; reddish body with white slip under glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Model of a Coach

creator: Italian School

medium: Hand painted gilt-wood, velvet, glass, and tin

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1940


title: Suttee Ghat Cawnpore

creator: John Murray

medium: Waxed paper negative

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Five Figure Studies; Two Studies of Lions (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Saint John holding chalice in left hand, book in right, eagle standing by left side

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; first state of two

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


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Piece

date: 18th century


title: Woman standing holding a mirror

creator: Giuseppe Canale

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


title: Cup (part of a coffee service)

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

date: early 19th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Bronze as of Antoninus Pius

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Four-Cornered Hat

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th–7th century CE

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Dress border

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Set of Seven Boxes

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Black lacquer with silver foil and traces of red lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Gift, 1994


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

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Mandolino

medium: Spruce, ebony, ivory, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2008


title: Lace Design

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink with wash

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961


title: New Modelbüch (Page 33r)

creator: Andreas Bretschneider

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Automne

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Print

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Illustrated Frontispiece to the Sutra of Enlightenment through the Accumulation of Merit and Virtue, the So-called Jingoji Sutra

medium: Handscroll; gold and silver on indigo-dyed 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: Bronze pilos (helmet of conical shape)

date: 5th century BCE or later

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek


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: Illustrated “Anthology of Tang-Dynasty Poems” in Five-Syllable Lines (Tōshisen ehon gogon ritsu hairitsu) 画本唐詩選五言律排律

creator: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

medium: Format: 5 volumes, fukurotoji (pouch binding); chūbon

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Ribbon Torc

date: 500 BCE–400 CE

medium: Silver

country: Celtic

subjects: Metalwork-silver Celtic

credit_line: Purchase, Director's Fund and Rust Family Foundation Gift, 2013


title: Vase fragment

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Rosace (one of five)

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1910


title: Christ before Herod, from the Passion

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Bridle Gauntlet

date: 16th century

subjects:
German
Armor parts-gauntlet

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Wooded Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows

creator: Thomas Gainsborough

date: August 1, 1797

medium: Aquatint (sugar-lift process), printed in brown ink

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Portrait of P. Tournemine

creator: Guillaume Thiemet

date: second half of 18th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Carolyn Bullard Gift, in honor of E. John Bullard and funds from various donors, 2014


title: Flounce

date: late 17th century

medium: Linen, needle lace

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, by exchange, 1988


title: Card Number 732, Ada Webb, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Officer Cossacks of the Don, Russia, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Jar

medium: White porcelain decorated with white on blue under the glaze ground

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: George A. Wood, Left Field, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: The Man of Sorrows, from "The Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware with slip decoration

country: American

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


title: Sheet with an overall dot and floral pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

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


title: Gauntlet Sword (Pata)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel

country: Indian

subjects: Sword Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Footed teapot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware with enamel decoration

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Ichikawa Monnosuke II as a Woman

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Pair of vases with covers

medium: Painted composition

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Plate

medium: Stoneware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Cup (gobelet litron) (one of nine) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Studies for Four Figures (recto); Composition Sketches for Groupings of Figures on Clouds (verso)

creator: Jacopo Palma the Younger

medium: Brush with brown and white oil paint, over black chalk (recto); black chalk and charcoal (verso)

credit_line: Purchase, Florence B. Selden Bequest, 1998


title: Bowl

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, brown slip decoration, sgraffito decoration, glazed

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 1965


title: Stela of Rehuerdjersen

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Jacket

medium: wool

country: British

credit_line: Gift of the family of Thomas Coutts, 1908


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Beaker

medium: Silver


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Hemp

country: Japan (Shiga)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan (shiga)
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1966


title: Sacrifice of Isaac

date: mid-17th century

medium: Canvas worked with silk and metal thread; Gobelin, tent, couching stitches; applied satin cartouche worked with silk and metal thread, spangles; satin, long-and-short, split, knot, and couching stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Handle of whip or fly whisk

date: ca. mid-1st millennium BCE

medium: Faience, green

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Projectile Point

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901


title: Cabinet Design with Glass Front, its Doors Adorned with Porcelain Plaques, with a Green Top

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

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


title: Skirt band

date: 17th century (?)

medium: Silk on cotton

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Head of a young man in a cap adorned with a few feathers, turned three-quarters to the left, plate 34 from "Second collection of various doodles and etching proofs" (Second recueil de divers griffonnements et preuves d'eauforte)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Sampler

medium: Wool on canvas

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


title: Teapot

creator: American Art China Company

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1984


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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