title: Stela of Amenhotep II Offering to Amun

medium: Limestone, pigment

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. S. W. Straus, 1925


title: Famille Rose Japonaise

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Roses

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Cupid

date: probably 18th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Blade for a Spear (<i>Jūmonji-yari</i>) with Sheath

creator: Munemichi

date: dated August 1727

medium: Steel, wood, lacquer, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Etsuko O. Morris and John H. Morris Jr., 2018


title: Poor old fellow. You are like me... it annoys you that you cannot speak up as you would like to, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 5, 1870

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Cow in a Barn

creator: Camille Corot

medium: Oil on paper, laid down on canvas

credit_line: The Whitney Collection, Gift of Wheelock Whitney III, and Purchase, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. McVeigh, by exchange, 2003


title: Actress leaning toward camera, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Mirror with Cover, Bowl and Brush for Rouge

creator: Yukeisha

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Oval cup with chi dragons amid clouds

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Cup (from a set of eight)

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Pieces

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1925


title: Macbeth

creator: Thomas Goff Lupton

medium: Mezzotint; proof before letters

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


title: Teapot with ruins

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Constance D. Stieglitz, in memory of her husband, Marcel H. Stieglitz, 1964


title: Pyx

medium: Champlevé enamel and gilded copper

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

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


title: Marie Jaensen, from the Actresses series (N67) promoting Virginia Brights Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Photolithograph


title: Mythological Subject

creator: Gerard de Lairesse

medium: Black and red chalk; framing lines in pen and black ink

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1955


title: Gold Strap End (Unfinished)

medium: Gold

country: Avar

subjects: Metalwork-forgerie Avar

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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


title: Prick Spur

date: 12th century

medium: Copper alloy, gold

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Pricket Candlestick

date: 13th century

medium: Copper with traces of gilding

country: Northern European or British

subjects:
Metalwork-copper
Northern european or british

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, Gift of Dr. Louis R. Slattery, 1982


title: Censer with a Lioness Hunting a Boar

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Bronze

country: Coptic

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Plate 33: Robert Macaire journalist, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

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

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953


title: Tinsel and metal thread

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Fragment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Riverbank with Mountains (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Set of three liqueur cups

creator: Jean-François Roumier

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Fragment of Dish

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome underglaze painted under colorless glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Souvenir spoon with view of townscape and arms of Florence

date: late 19th century

medium: Gilt and enamel

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


title: Papyri Fragments of a Letter

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Top fragment of a kudurru with a mushhushshu dragon and divine symbols

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1985


title: The Death of Socrates

creator: Jacques Louis David

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1931


title: Jar with painted eagle

medium: Ceramic, paint

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 3, Belt Model, Serial no. 156, with Case and Accessories

creator: Samuel Colt

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

country: American, Paterson, New Jersey

subjects:
American, paterson, new jersey
Firearms-pistols-revolver

credit_line: Gift of John E. Parsons, 1959


title: Bamboo vase with flowering cherry blossoms

medium: Bone china "ivory porcelain" with gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Flowers
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: William Shakespeare

creator: Martin Droeshout the Younger

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Teakettle

creator: John C. Moore

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. F. R. Lefferts, 1969


title: Scene from the Iliad

creator: Michael Martin Drölling

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache over graphite underdrawing

credit_line: Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009


title: Allegory of Asia, from the Four Continents

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Red chalk

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


title: The White House, Washington, D.C., from the Transparencies series (N137) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

date: late 1880s

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an open vase?

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Plaque, Louis XII

medium: Copper alloy

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
French

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Rest from Labour on Sunny Days

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching with stipple and aquatint

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


title: Two Male Heads

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Conté crayon and wash. Laid paper.

credit_line: Bequest of Grégoire Tarnopol, 1979, and Gift of Alexander Tarnopol, 1980


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Jockey

date: April 1808

medium: Etching


title: Mandolin

creator: Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

medium: Spruce, maple, mahogany, ivoroid, mother-of-pearl, nickel silver

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2013


title: Relief fragment from the tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Wasp Earring with Yellow Stone

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: St. Agnes

creator: Martin Schongauer

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


title: Card Number 122, Nannie Palmer, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Carpet Fragment

date: probably late 14th century

medium: Wool (warp, weft and pile); single-warp (Spanish) knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Landscape with a Large Building

creator: Franz von Hauslab the Younger

medium: Graphite, squared

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Salad Plate

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Dish on a low foot (Tazza)

date: early 18th century

medium: Coarse ware, enameled

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


title: Reliefs from the Chapel of the Overseer of the Troops Sehetepibre

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Column Shaft

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Covered box with floral pattern

date: 19th century

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Scene of hunters, bird catchers, and fishermen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Utsu Hill at Okabe

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a Genucilia plate

date: mid-4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan, Genucilia

subjects:
Vase
Etruscan, genucilia

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


title: Putto holding a ceramic jug and exposing his genitals

creator: Master Artemio

date: late 15th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Keith and Mary Christiansen in memory of John Brealey, 2024


title: China Case, from Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Spearhead

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Flight of Bonaparte from Hell-Bay

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Bottle

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Glass; cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Netsuke of Lion and Cubs

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Plate (assiette à palmes) (one of four) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976


title: Scarab

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Four carnival musicians

creator: Zurich Pottery and Porcelain Factory

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Angry Dog

creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white on brownish paper

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Cover

date: 16th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1906


title: Fan

creator: Palamède de Visconty

date: mid-19th century

medium: Paper, paint, ivory, gold, silver, glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Emblematic of the Utility of the Savings Bank of Paris

creator: Jules-Clément Chaplain

date: late 19th century

medium: Bronze, silvered

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: Spherical jar with four rows of painted decoration

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Helmet

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, silver, brass, gold

country: Bhutanese

subjects: Helmet Bhutanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Fan

medium: Paper, paint, pearl, gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Figure

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Bronze; cast and engraved

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


title: Project for a "Maison de plaisance pour un grand seigneur", Elevation and Section

creator: Jean Nicolas Sobre

medium:
Elevation: pen and black ink with watercolor
Section: Pen and black ink with watercolor

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008


title: Border with cutwork and bobbin lace

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Linen cutwork and embroidery edged with bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Henrietta Seligman Lace Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Jesse Seligman, 1910


title: Guard

date: September 1, 1798


title: Dish with Pommel Scroll Design

date: 14th century

medium: Carved black and red lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: The Three Cottages on the Hill

creator: Allart van Everdingen

date: 17th century

medium: Engraving; fifth state of five

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


title: Sealing with cylinder seal impression

medium: Clay

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Moon flask with lily or floral motif (one of a pair)

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china decorated with pâte-sur-pâte, enamel, and gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Flowers
Lilies
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Plate 20: a priest giving food to the poor, from "Customs and Pastimes of the Spanish People"

creator: Francisco Lameyer y Berenguer

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs Henry J. Bernheim, 1958


title: Pilgrim bottle

date: late 6th–7th century

medium: Stoneware with white glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Stephen Danforth Hassam

creator: John S. Porter

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Cast of a Dish

date: mid-20th century

medium: Plaster

country: Lapita people

subjects:
Plaster-reproduction
Lapita people

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1980


title: Architectural model

creator: Mezcala artist(s)

date: 200 BCE–500 CE

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, graphite, black chalk

subjects: Architecture Album

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment

date: ca. 7th–4th century BCE

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Patrick J. Murphy, Catcher, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: View of Mount Vesuvius as it was in 1757

creator: Charles François Grenier de Lacroix

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Bustle

medium: cotton, whalebone

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Clyde R. Keith, 1953


title: Satyrs and Nymphs; verso: partial counterproof of Heintz's "Studies for the Flight into Egypt" in The Courtauld Gallery, London

creator: Joseph Heintz the Elder

medium: Brush and black ink, red chalk, gray and sanguine washes, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk and graphite underdrawing, incised, on off-white paper prepared with yellow wash, laid down to another sheet of laid paper; verso of secondary support: partial offset of a drawing in black and red chalk

credit_line: Purchase, 2006 Benefit Fund, 2007


title: Portrait of Charles Hayem

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Drypoint; first state of three

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Eric G. Carlson, in honor of Colta Ives, 2009


title: U.S. Gunboat "Commodore Perry" on Pamunkey River

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Armchair (one of a pair) (part of a set)

creator: Johann Michael Bauer

medium: Carved, painted and gilded limewood; squab pillow in silk velvet (not original)

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


title: William Shakespeare

creator: Charles William Sherborn

medium: Engraving; seventh state of nine

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Versailles

creator: Auguste Renoir

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Teapot

date: 19th century

medium: Stoneware with relief decoration (Yixing ware)

country: China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. H. Kirkpatrick, 1958


title: Jan Malderus, Bishop of Antwerp

creator: Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

date: late 18th century

medium: Wool, metal thread (20-25 warps per inch, 8-10 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Seated Female Nude

creator: Domenico Tintoretto

date: early 17th century

medium: Black and white chalk on blue paper


title: Plate

creator: Edme-Pierre Balzac

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Jar

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Netsuke

medium: Wood

country: Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Plum Blossoms, Cut Paper and a Knife in Sheath

creator: Uematsu Tōshū

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Set of six wall sconces

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Morris Loeb Bequest, 1957


title: Figure of a Chinese man

creator: Saint-Cloud factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Scarf

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Art Worker's Club, 1945


title: Nine Taweret Amulets

medium: Electrum, plaster

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1913


title: Fortune

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Bronze, with remnants of a brownish lacquer

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


title: Three leather panels

date: possibly first half 17th century

medium: Leather mounted on canvas and wooden frames

credit_line: Gift of Eleanor Marquand Delanoy, Mary Marquand Hochschild and Sarnia Marquand, in memory of their father, Professor Allan Marquand, 1973


title: Lead ornament, possibly imitating jewelry

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Seated woman

medium: Sandy fossiliferous limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

creator: Joseph Siffred Duplessis

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Dressing jacket

medium: wool, silk

country: probably American

credit_line: The Jacqueline Loewe Fowler Costume Collection, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 1982


title: Herman C. Long, Catcher, Kansas City Cowboys, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Jar

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1911


title: Bowl with phoenixes

date: mid-16th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze yellow enamel (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Altar or Tomb Vase

date: 18th century

medium: Brass

country: German

subjects: Metalwork German

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Table leg

medium: Wood, gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi

creator: Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi

date: dated 741 AH/1340–41 CE

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Card Number 389, Pauline Markham, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Marble head of a herm

date: 1st or 2nd century CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

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


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Women)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Seal

medium: Faience

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: Striding Thoth

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Songs of Shakespeare, Illustrated by the Etching Club

creator: William Shakespeare

medium: Illustrations: etching

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


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

creator: Ambrosios Painter


title: Piece

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Victoria #3831b

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Plaque with Moses, Aaron, and the Brazen Serpent

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

subjects: German Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Tea caddy

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Jean Mauzé, 1977


title: Figure in Roman Dress (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus) and Study of Two Helmets (recto); Sketches and Latin Inscription (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, white gouache, over black chalk, squared in black chalk and brown ink (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Design for a Clock

creator: Jean François Forty

medium: Pen and black and gray ink with brush and gray wash and graphite

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


title: Bracelet

date: probably 14th–15th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Design drawing

creator: Christopher Dresser

date: ca. 1883, based on earlier design

medium: Graphite, ink, and gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1992


title: Ring

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Celtic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Celtic

credit_line: Gift of Josef and Brigitte Hatzenbuehler, 2009


title: Basin

creator: Johann Conrad Lotter

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, in memory of Stephen M. Kellen, 2005


title: Penton Hook

creator: Sir Francis Seymour Haden

medium: Etching and drypoint; first (final) state (Harrington); fifth state of six (Schneiderman)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Watch

creator: Pieter Klock

medium: Case: painted enamel on gold


title: Double Column

date: 13th–14th century

country: French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Churchgoers

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Eleanor Goodspeed Abbott, 1990


title: Cup

creator: Höchst Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Edith Liddell Seated Beside a Vase of Foxgloves

creator: Lewis Carroll

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Four classical figures (pagan sacrifice)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


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

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Mewar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, mewar)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Corset

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Purchase, NAMSB Foundation Inc. Gift, 2011


title: Christ Carrying the Cross, from "The Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1968


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, decoration in brown-black and glaze tinged with yellow

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Samples (5)

medium: Silk

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Promenade dress

credit_line: Gift of Chauncey Stillman, 1960


title: Fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, graphite, black chalk

subjects: Architecture Album

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


title: Autumn

creator: Battista Angolo del Moro

medium: Etching

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


title: Page from Eyn Newe kunstlich moetdelboech alle kunst (Page 7v)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Zinn, Catcher, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: [Photogenic Drawing from Leaf]

creator: Sebastiano Tassinari

medium: Salted paper prints

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Young woman weeping and covering her face with her hands, accompanied by men; folio 17 (recto) from the Madrid Album "B"

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Brush and point of brush, carbon black washes, black chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: View of the Coast of Sorrento Near Vico

creator: Carl Wilhelm Goetzloff

medium: Graphite, heightened with white; framing lines in pen and ink

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2006


title: Buildwas Abbey

creator: Alfred Capel Cure

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, in memory of Christopher Hemphill, 1987


title: Sword and Scabbard

date: ca. 60 BCE

medium: Iron blade, copper alloy hilt and scabbard

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Celtic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1999


title: Madonna and child appearing before a kneeling saint, after Bernardino Poccetti

creator: Andrea Scacciati

medium: Etching with sulphur tone printed in brown


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Buddha of Medicine (Bhasyajaguru)

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Bronze

country: Korea

subjects: Sculpture Korea

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Commode (part of a set)

creator: Christopher Fuhrlogh

medium: Marquetry of various woods, bronze and gilt-bronze mounts

credit_line: From the Marion E. and Leonard A. Cohn Collection, Bequest of Marion E. Cohn, 1966


title: Mrs. Greenhow and Daughter, Imprisoned in the Old Capitol, Washington

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. A. Hyatt Mayor, 1981


title: Virgin and Child

medium: Elephant ivory

country: European (Medieval style)

subjects:
European (medieval style)
Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of Alfred and Victoria Harris, 1976


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Alice Bradford Woolsey, 1970


title: Vertical Panels with Cherry Spray

creator: Jacques Germain Soufflot

date: designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

medium: Wool, silk (22-24 warps per inch, 9–10 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Fringe

date: 17th century

medium: Metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: View of the exterior of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, from Vedute di Roma (Roman Views)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching; first state of seven (Hind)

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


title: Water bottle

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Bowl

medium: Ceramic, paint

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Gifts of Lucy W. Drexel, Theodore M. Davis, Helen Miller Gould, Albert Gallatin, Egypt Exploration Fund and Egyptian Research Account, by exchange, 1950


title: Halberd

medium: Steel, wood (ash)

country: Italian

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Montbars, Fight with Spanish Men-of-War, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sheet of Two Sketches of Rothenburg, Germany

creator: Andrew Fisher Bunner

medium: Black ink on light buff laid paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899


title: Mulberry Leaves with Ivy

medium: Paper and silk

country: Japan

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, 1953


title: Gli oscuri et dificili passi dell'opera ionica di Vitruvio. Di latino volgare et alla chiara inteligentia tradotti

creator: Giovanni Battista Bertano

medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations and engraved frontispiece

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Christ and the Disciples on the Way to Emmaus

creator: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: [Union Private, Eleventh New York Infantry (First Fire Zouaves)]

creator: Unknown

date: May–June 1861

medium: Ambrotype with applied color

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


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Gold aureus of Vespasian

medium: Gold

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Gift of Joseph H. Durkee, 1899


title: Fragments

medium: Silk

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Partisan Carried by the Bodyguard of Louis XIV (1638–1715, reigned from 1643)

creator: Jean Berain

medium: Steel, gold, wood, textile

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
French, pari


title: Galatea escaping Polyphemus; he is seated on a rock holding a staff and pipes and looking towards Galatea at right riding a shell pulled by two dolphins, Cupid flying above

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

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Print
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Design for a Stage Set: Classical Arcaded Gallery with Triumphal Arch Motif

creator: Paolo Landriani

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

credit_line: Gift of Peter Josten, 1970


title: Pair of candlesticks

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation Inc., 1969


title: Bowl

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Allegorical portrait of Felipe el Bueno (Philip the Good Duke of Burgundy) founder of the Order of the Golden Fleece

creator: Manuel Salvador Carmona

subjects: Mythology Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: James Albert, Pedestrian-Go As You Please, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekanis lid (covered dish)

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Hanging

date: early 16th century

medium: Embroidered net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Fork

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, steel

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Queen Dido

creator: Giovanni del Cavino

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1926


title: The Louis XV Room

creator: Jean-François Roumier

date: ca. 1720–25, with later additions

medium: Carved, painted and gilded oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Ribbon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Card Number 11, Daisy Murdoch, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Drowning of Britomartis from Scenes from the Story of Diana

creator: Jean Cousin the Elder

medium: Wool, silk (16-18 warps per inch, 7-8 per cm.)

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


title: Pasquino

creator: Anonymous

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Portrait of woman, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits


title: Terracotta fragments of a bowl

date: 6th–4th centuries BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


title: Caleche # 628

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Bust of a priestly figure

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Netsuke of Wood Carver

medium: Wood and ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: New Dreams of Happiness (from the series A Love)

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching and engraving; third edition; state eight of ten

credit_line: Gift of Dr. F. H. Hirschland, 1952


title: Model harpoon

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901


title: Pastoral Scene: Nomads with Sheep and Cattle

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

medium: Brush, brown, red-brown, blue, and white paint, on brownish paper


title: Dado Panel

date: 10th century

medium: Stucco; carved, with some cast plaster elements

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Crowned and Jeweled Buddha

date: ca. 9th century

medium: Copper with silver inlay

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1983


title: Carchesius

creator: Hans Kels the Younger

medium: Boxwood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Flounce

date: second quarter 18th century

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Kinglet, from the Song Birds of the World series (N42) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds


title: Textile Panel

date: first half 17th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Cross

medium: Gold and enamel worked in cloisonné

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Enamels-cloisonné

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1998


title: Landscape with round tower

creator: Emile-Florentin Daumont

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Battle in a Burning City

creator: Audran

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Zanzibar (Turk), from the Natives in Costume series (N16), Teofani Issue, for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


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

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Mlle Simon; Mlle Troisvalets

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian?

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian


title: Pianoforte Guittar (Keyed cittern/English Guittar)

creator: Christian Claus

medium: Various woods, bone, ivory, brass

country: British

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-plucked-fretted
British
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helen C. Lanier, 1982


title: Chess Piece, King

medium: Ivory; carved

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Lamentation for Christ

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut; first of two states

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1920


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Case (Inrō) in the Shape of an Ink Stick with Design of Hotei (Putai) (obverse); Musical Instruments (reverse)

creator: Shibata Zeshin

date: 19th century

medium: Roiro ('waxen') lacquer with black hiramakie sprinkled and polished lacquer and takamakie sprinkled and polished lacquer relief; Interior: roiro; Netsuke: nut carved with Chinese sages and attendants; Ojime: carved peach stone with landscape and figures

subjects: Inrō Japan Landscapes

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


title: Cherub and shell

creator: Sculptor close to Donatello

date: possibly 1470s

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Sculpture-bronze
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1958


title: Bronze helmet of Corinthian type

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Earthenware; carved and glazed

credit_line: Gift of Ralph D. Minasian, 2001


title: Stamp

date: 14th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Mexica (aztec)
Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Jar

medium: Free-blown molded green glass

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, 1944


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Panel Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Satin and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1909


title: Empress's Twelve-Symbol Robe

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Willis Wood, 1956


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Axehead

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: A skeleton selling hot liquid in basins, from a broadside entitled 'Una Calavera Chusca'

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

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

medium: Zincograph

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Wendell T. Bush, 1910


title: The Birth of Essau and Jacob

medium: Silver, partly gilded

credit_line: Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1965


title: Sherd

medium: Stoneware; Guan ware

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Judge Edgar Bromberger, 1942


title: Box

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Papier maché, painted and varnished

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

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


title: Horse and rider

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with colored glaze (Sancai ware)

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Rosina O. Bateson, 1965


title: Snuffbox

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Niche Surrounded by a Decorative Frame Dedicated to the Theme of Music

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Lombard, 16th century

medium: Pen and gold-brown ink, brush and silver wash, heightened with white, on blue paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: Posset pot with cover

medium: Delftware (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1937


title: Bird Plaque Ornament

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Vicús

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Vicú
Birds

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


title: Small marble herm of the Hermes by Alkamenes

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Bronze greave (shin guard)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Carnelian scarab

date: ca. 450 BCE

medium: Carnelian

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gems
Etruscan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1942


title: Panel

medium: Walnut, carved

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Design for a Crest with Drapery (the Upper Part of a Canopy or Window Treatment)

creator: Giovanni Battista Natali III

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

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


title: Terracotta fragment 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: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco (white mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Good Morning To You

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 1, 1799

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Torch-holder

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Capitol of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, from the General Government and State Capitol Buildings series (N14) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Mary Anderson in Colors of New Brunswick Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N140) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Henning, Handyside Ritchie, & D.O. Hill, R.S.A.

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Carinated lentoid seal

medium: Chlorite, black

credit_line: Bequest of Lester Wolfe, 1983


title: Rinaldo rescued from Armida

creator: Benjamin West

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2016


title: Netsuke of Masked Figure

date: 18th century

medium: Wood

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Unidentified subject: Standing Figure Placing a Scapular (?) on a Kneeling Figure

creator: Astolfo Petrazzi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1980


title: Saltcellar

medium: Lacy pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Family of John Q. Aymar

creator: George W. Twibill Jr.

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of A. Grima Johnson, 2008


title: Strasbourg, from "German Views"

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Terracotta fragments of a stamnos (jar)


title: Petticoat

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles E. Strang, 1958


title: Carnelian ring stone

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Carnelian

country: Italic

subjects:
Gems
Italic
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial S, from an Antiphonary

date: 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: Italian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

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


title: Edinburgh. Greyfriars' Churchyard


title: Dish

date: 17th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: Two-handled jar

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1974


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 5th century BCE

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Rev. James Scott


title: Shepherds Dreaming of the Flight into Egypt

creator: Jean-Baptiste Deshays

medium: Oil paint over black chalk on paper, mounted on canvas. Varnished.

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1983


title: Close Helmet

date: probably early 19th century in the 16th century style

medium: Steel

country: possibly German or French

subjects:
Helmet
Possibly german or french

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Busk

medium: metal

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1930


medium: Terracotta


title: Head of a Ptolemaic Queen, Possibly Berenike II

medium: Green and yellow faience

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Guan Yu, Chinese God of War

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1959


title: Noli Me Tangere, from "The Passion of Christ"

creator: Johann Sadeler I

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carolyn R. Vietor, 1964


title: Settee

medium: Frame: walnut; cover: wool tent stitch on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Christ and the woman of Samaria at the well, from the series of 112 prints of the sacred history, after the painting by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

creator: Pietro Monaco

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Vase

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Woman Seated, Seen from Back

creator: Paul Gavarni [Chevalier]

medium: Black chalk on paper

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


title: Plaque with Christ Blessing

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sash

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: [Jules-Émile Saintin?]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Milk Pot

creator: Ball, Tompkins and Black

medium: Silver and ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mali, 1944


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albums

credit_line: Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970


title: Bead pendant, with lotus flowers

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot
Flowers

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


title: Amphora

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Mystical Bird (Karyōbinga)

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

subjects: Print Japan Birds


title: Writing Tablet with Crucifixion and the Adoration of the Magi

date: mid-14th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: East French or Rhenish

subjects:
East french or rhenish
Ivories-horn

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime Levy Hermanos, 1979


title: Box with a Lacquer Comb

creator: Uematsu Tōshū

subjects: Print Japan


title: Insertion

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


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: Candlestick

medium: Earthenware, lusterware

country: British

credit_line: Gift of the Members of the Committee of the Bertha King Benkard Memorial Fund, 1946


title: Fob

date: early 19th century

medium: metal

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1924


title: Fragment

date: late 18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

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


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Cœnotaphiorum (12)

creator: Hans Vredeman de Vries

medium: Etching; first state of four

credit_line: Purchase, Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 2011


title: From the Girls and Children series (N64) promoting Virginia Brights Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Fishermen's cottages at Hastings

creator: William Henry Hunt

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: Ecce Homo

medium: Etching, only state

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: The Circumcision

medium: Pot metal glass and vitreous paint

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Jane Hayward, by exchange, and The Cloisters Collection, 2003


title: Fragment of Dish

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted under colorless glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Plaque with Christ with Adam and Eve in Limbo

date: 14th century

medium: Basse taille enamel, silver

country: Catalan

subjects:
Catalan
Enamels-basse taille

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Afternoon dress

date: late 1860s

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mary Pierrepont Beckwith, 1969


title: Cardinal Jules Mazarin

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Otto F. Langmann, 1972


title: Pendant disk

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Summer Robe for Lady

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Collar

medium: [no medium available]


title: Fragments of wedjat eye amulets

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Candlestick (one of a set of eight)

creator: John Romer

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


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: Plate 137: Canens Searching for Pics (Uxor Pici nomine Canens in auram mutatur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

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


title: Blade

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Jerome M. Eisenberg, 1965


title: Side Chair

creator: Duncan Phyfe

medium: Mahogany, ash, cherry

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1931


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Sample

medium: Silk on silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Letter to Chen Jiru (1558-1635)

creator: Dong Qichang

medium: Album leaf; ink on ruled paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Rowel Spur (Left)

date: first half 18th century

medium: Iron alloy

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Logic (one of a pair)

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Baluster

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Fragment


title: Sketch of Boats on a Shore (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Standing Buddha

date: 8th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Kate Forsyth, from the Actresses series (N668)


title: Shoes

creator: Hellstern and Sons

medium: Silk, metallic thread, leather

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1973


title: Pottery Whistle

medium: Clay

country: Costa Rican

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Costa rican

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Overseer Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Card Number 86, Mrs. Cleveland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Flower-Shaped Plaque

date: mid-7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: Northwest China/Eastern Central Asia

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china/eastern central asia
Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Shell pendant or bead

medium: Shell

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1916


title: Design for a Rosette Relief

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite, black chalk, heightened with white, on gray paper; framing lines in black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Private, Cavalry, United States Army, 1799, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Saint Philip

creator: Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli)

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese for export

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Samuel Verplanck, 1942


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Chinese-Style Landscape with a Building (obverse); Waterfall with Cloud Bands (reverse)

medium: Lacquer, fundame, gold, silver and black hiramakie, takamakie, kirigane; Interior: nashiji and fundame

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: John Thomas Pickett, Shortstop, Kansas City Cowboys, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


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


title: Design for a Clock: Summer and Autumn

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, watercolor, and gouache

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


title: View of Vietri with Young Country Women Dancing for Shepherds in the Foreground

creator: Joseph Anton Koch

medium: Dark gray ink, watercolor, gouache, black chalk, black ink

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, Van Day Truex and Harry G. Sperling Funds, David T. Schiff, and Mark Fisch and Rachel Davidson Gifts and funds from various donors, 2010


title: William H. "Dad" Clarke, Pitcher, Omaha Omahogs/ Lambs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Polishing Stone (pulidor)

medium: Stone

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Bronze bull's head

date: early 7th entury BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Possibly Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Possibly cypriot

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Horses

creator: Francesco Allegrini

medium: Pen and brown ink.  Framing lines in pen and brown ink on mount

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Kitchen Scene

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Linen mark, Wah

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1940


title: Genevieve Lytton in Colors of St. Augustine Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N140) 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: The Crucifixion

date: 16th century

medium: Verre églomisé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Reliquary in the Shape of a Sarcophagus

medium: Marble

country: Byzantine

subjects: Sculpture-stone Byzantine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Panel

date: late 19th century

medium: Silk, ribbons, metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth M. Riley, 1990


title: Saskia with Pearls in Her Hair

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Friedman, 1965


title: Dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: One of a Pair of Temple Pendants, with Two Birds Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Leaf and Rosette Motifs (back)

medium: Cloisonné enamel, gold

country: Kyivan Rus’

subjects:
Architecture
Kyivan rus’
Birds
Enamels-cloisonné
Trees


title: Elements

medium: Gold

credit_line: The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1980


title: Band

medium: Silk and metal thread, embroidered net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1947


title: Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)

medium: Gilded bronze

subjects: Architecture Metalwork Japan Flowers

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Key

date: 13th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Torso

creator: Auguste Rodin

date: modeled ca. 1877–78, cast 1979

medium: Bronze, marble base

credit_line: Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 1984


title: Sake Cup with Scenes from the Noh Plays Pine in the Winds, Yōrō Falls, and The Tengu of Mount Kurama

creator: Shomosai

date: first half 19th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki-e and takamaki-e and cutout gold- and silver-foil application

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: D.O. Hill and W.B. Johnstone

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Lacquer Comb with Maple Leaves

date: mid-19th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold, silver hiramaki-e, red lacquer on black ground

credit_line: Bequest of Hope Skillman Schary, 1981


title: Pendant in the form of a fish

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Gold, enamel, pearls, emeralds

subjects:
Fish
Metalwork-gold and platinum

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


title: Pin with Head Top

date: 1st–mid-8th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: A Farmer Entrusting the Plow to His Son

creator: Jean-Baptiste Greuze

medium: Brush and gray wash, over graphite; squared in graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink. Verso of mount: figure in brush and gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Van Truex Day Fund, 1983


title: Plate

date: late 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Nail

date: 15th–16th century

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Glass two-handled bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Ornamental Roundel

medium: Pot-metal glass, colorless glass, and vitreous paint

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Glass-stained
French

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1935


title: Pitcher

medium: Free-blown amber and opaque white glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Armor for a Member of the Barberini Family

date: armor, ca. 1623–30; spurs, early 17th century

medium: Steel, gold, silver, brass, textile, leather

country: armor, Italian, Milan; spurs, French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor for man-3/4 armor
Armor, italian, milan; spurs, french

credit_line: 26.210a–m: George F. Baker Fund, 1926; 14.25.1731a, b: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Hans von Zürch Goltshmidt

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state

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


title: Collar

medium: Linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Sarah B. Russell, 1956


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Elmer Ellsworth "Sy" Sutcliffe, Catcher, Cleveland, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The River Elbe in Moonlight

creator: Johan Christian Dahl

medium: Brush and gray wash, heightened with white bodycolour, over graphite and black chalk

credit_line: Mary Oenslager Fund, 2003


title: Gold earring with head of a goat

date: 4th‒3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Silhouette Image of Kabuki Actor

creator: Utagawa Yoshiiku

date: 19th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

country: American

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


title: Portrait of Guillaumin with a Hanging Man

creator: Paul Cézanne

medium: Etching and drypoint; second state of two (restrike)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Ralph Weiler, 1960


title: Bracket

creator: Ott and Brewer

medium: colored parian porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Jay and Emma Lewis, 2013


title: Visit to a Shrine at the Hour of the Ox (Ushi no toki mairi)

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Blackwork Design with Five Motifs

creator: Georg Arnoldt

medium: Engraving and blackwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


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

date: second quarter of the sixth century BCE


title: Vase

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stoneware with crackled celadon glaze (Guan ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Mentenich. François, Joseph. 22 ans, né le 3/10/71 à Paris XIIe. Ébéniste. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Bodice

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. E. Pruyer, 1960


title: Horus amulet

medium: Faience, blue

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Harness Ornament (Uzu)

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Iron, gold, bronze

country: Japanese

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers fund, 1917


title: Jug with cover

date: dated 1619

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware, pewter

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1951


title: Shawl

date: early 1870s

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Florence Mayer, 1939


title: Fragment

medium: Drawnwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Design for Drop Center Vis-à-Vis (French?)

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Scorn

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 21, 1800

medium: Hand-colored etching, printed in brown ink

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


title: Piece

creator: Léon Marcotte

medium: Woven silk, damask, woven

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Forest Landscape

creator: Lodewijk de Vadder

date: early 17th–mid 17th century

medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2012


title: Suspenders

medium: leather, wool

credit_line: Gift of Miss Lucy Erdwurm, 1951


title: Textile Ornament

date: 1st century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Gold (hammered)

country: Salinar (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Salinar

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


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace


title: The Quacksalver (copy)

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of James N. Rosenberg, 1964


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Stole

medium: silk

country: Dutch

credit_line: Gift of Charlotte Wilkinson, 1974


title: The March of Silenus

creator: Christoffel Jegher

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Capucine, from "Les Fleurs Animées"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engravings and lithographs, hand-colored

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


title: Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: F. Gebhard, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22a) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Ointment Jar

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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: Profile Face

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper


title: Beads

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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: Chalice veil

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James Byrne, 1925


title: Fille de Sootchow (Suzhou Girl)

creator: Raimund von Stillfried

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Dish

date: late 15th century

medium: Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Ring

medium: Silver, gold, garnet

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


title: Handkerchief

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Ocean Life

creator: James M. Sommerville

medium: Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and gum arabic on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Erving Wolf, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1977


title: Jug, handled

medium: Pottery, redware

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


title: Miniature Bottle

date: 11th–late 15th century

medium: Silver, gilt

country: Chimú or Chancay

subjects:
Metal-container
Chimú or chancay

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


title: Padlock with key

date: probably 19th century

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Singers at the Window

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Earring of simple form

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


title: Limestone statue of a beardless male votary with a wreath of leaves

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Border

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, punto à rammendo,silk


title: Terracotta stemmed bowl

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Asia Minor, Tarsus

subjects:
Vase
Roman, asia minor, tarsus

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


title: Shark Reliquary

creator: Solomon Islands artist

medium: Wood, shell, pigment

country: Solomon Islands

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Solomon island
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Milly and Arne Glimcher, in honor of Thomas Campbell, 2017


title: Hammered Copper Pin (tupu)

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Spool-Shaped Game Pieces from Neferkhawet's Tomb

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Pear, from the Fruits series (N12) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Fruits

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


title: Child standing in boxing stance, from the "Negro Subjects" series (N692) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Bird-Shaped Brooch

medium: Gilded silver, garnet and foil

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish Birds

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Edith, Ina and Alice Liddell on a Sofa

creator: Lewis Carroll

date: Summer 1858

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Hammered Silver Pin (tupu)

medium: Silver, gilt (?)


title: Inscribed marble plaque

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Animal Disk

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-ornament Peruvian

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


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Toe Caps for a Pair of Foot Defenses (Sabatons)

medium: Steel, gold

country: German, Augsburg

subjects:
Armor part
German, augsburg

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Pantheon Rome, from a Series of Prints depicting (reconstructed) Buildings from Roman Antiquity

creator: Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

medium: Engraving [moved slightly during printing]

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bag

medium: Linen, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Marie Louise Spader and Clarence W. Spader in memory of their parents, Marie Louise and Clinton Spader, 1949


title: Dish

date: 19th century

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Study of two figures: one seated, the other standing (recto). Study of a head looking upwards (verso)

creator: George Romney

medium: Graphite with traces of pen and brown ink at upper right

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


title: Diagonal barometer and thermometer

creator: John Patrick

medium: Wood, walnut veneer; mercury (removed)

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Looking Glass

medium: Gilt gesso, wood, wire

credit_line: Gift of Fenton L. B. Brown, 1969


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, silver, gold, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: Lime Spatula in the Shape of a Pipe

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java, Lumajang, Pasiran)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java, lumajang, pasiran)

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


title: Cup (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Procession of figures

creator: Carlo Urbino

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Dish

medium: Porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels (Nabeshima ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Venice

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Embroidered Sampler

creator: S. M.

medium: Wool on cotton, embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Saltcellar (one of a pair)

medium: Silver, gilt lining

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Tartar Officer with Blonde Lady

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Eight album leaves; color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of A. W. Bahr, 1947


title: Textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Japan


title: Scene on the Grand Canal, Venice

creator: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon

medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) over graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

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


title: Hanging

medium: Wool; design in wool applique outlined in silk, broken scrolls in silver thread couched in brickwork pattern; lining of brown satin.

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: "Fox and Raven" after Aesop fable

creator: Johann Jakob Lauer

medium: Silver

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Length

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1966


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


title: Dish

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1923


title: Fragmentary stone axe

date: 5th–3rd millennium BCE

medium: Stone

country: Greek Neolithic

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone
Greek neolithic

credit_line: Gift of Garrett Chatfield Pier, 1910


title: Watch

creator: Firm of Girard and Bornand

date: mid-19th century

medium: Gold, silver, jewels

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Agate, banded

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: [Thomas Faed]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic


title: Cat

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Inscribed marble plaque

date: 1st century CE

medium: Marble

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


title: Side Chair

medium: Mahogany, ash, tulip poplar, oak

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Screven Lorillard, 1952


title: Knife

medium: Nephrite

country: North America (Alaska, Kotzebue Sound)

subjects:
Jade
North america (alaska, kotzebue sound)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Ostracon with Seated Child

medium: Limestone, ink

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: The Angel Gabriel

creator: Masseo Civitali

medium: Painted and partially gilt terracotta

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Ceres

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Terracotta fragment of a pyxis (box)?

date: late 6th century BCE

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


title: [Arab Girls Carrying Water]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John L. Swayze, 1981


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

date: early 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Essempio di recammi, page 10 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Antonio Tagliente

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: The Duchess is singing a nocturne with the Duke..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: British Fleet off Salamis (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Plate 139: The Apulian Shepherd Changed into an Olive Tree (Apulus pastor in oleastrum transit), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Trees

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


title: Grande Galerie carpet no. 73 (Landscapes)

creator: Savonnerie Manufactory

date: Delivered December 23, 1680

medium: Wool, knotted and cut pile (symmetrical knot, 90 knots per square inch)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Landscapes
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976


title: The Relation of the Individual to the State: Socrates and His Friends Discuss "The Republic," as in Plato's Account; Color Study for Mural, Supreme Court Room, Saint Paul, Minnesota State Capitol, Saint Paul

creator: John La Farge

medium: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on light tan wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Seated Old Man Holding a Pipe

creator: Anton Crussens

date: mid-17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, black chalk. Inscribed in a double roundel drawn in pen and brown ink.

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Silhouette of an unknown man

creator: Moses Chapman

medium: Hollow cut paper with pen and ink additions

credit_line: The Glenn Tilley Morse Collection, Bequest of Glenn Tilley Morse, 1950


title: Caswell

creator: John Dillwyn Llewelyn

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Dove

medium: Nephrite, dark and light gray speckled and veined with black

subjects: Jade China


title: Set of Five Everyday Vessels (Kurawanka Bowls)

date: early 19th century

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

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: Stairway and balcony, study for "Interior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art when in 14th Street"

creator: Frank Waller

medium: Graphite and chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Le Fileuse (Le Pauve Famille), from "Galerie du Palais Royal"

creator: Antoine Jean Weber

medium: Lithograph on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2026


title: Jérusalem, Piscine de Siloe, Détails

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative


title: Length of doubled-sided velvet and plush silk

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Silk; cut, voided striped velvet and plush

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Funerary Cone of a Woman Named Seniseneb

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Kettle-Lid Rest (Futaoki)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Metalwork Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Woman at a Well

creator: Camille Pissarro

medium: Etching and aquatint on laid paper; second state of three

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1993


title: Dagger (Katar)

medium: Steel, copper

country: Indian

subjects: Dagger Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: The Sailor and Banker, or the Firm in Danger

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: October 28, 1799

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


title: Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306)

creator: Samuel Colt

medium: Steel, copper alloy, gold, wood (walnut)

country: American, Hartford, Connecticut

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

credit_line: Gift of The Robert M. Lee Foundation, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2018


title: Panel of Saint John the Baptist with Scenes from His Life

creator: Domingo Ram

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Paintings-panel

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: A Silver Urn, inscribed "MDCCXXIX...John Sudbury...Johanni Bateman"

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an alabastron (perfume vase)?

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Order of Saint Hubert, Bavaria, from the World's Decorations series (N44) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Designs for borders and corners, acanthus

creator: Robert William Hume

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Jessie F. Hume, 1930


title: David with the head of Goliath

creator: Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

date: mid-16th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Stag (one of a pair)

creator: Ralph Wood the Younger

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1944


title: Wedding ensemble

medium:
(a–c) silk/wool
(d, e) silk, linen, leather

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


title: Samson Rending the Lion

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Platter

medium: Stoneware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Picrolite figure

medium: Picrolite

country: Cypriot

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cypriot

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1951


title: Maximilian I Hearing Mass

creator: Hans Weiditz the Younger

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1920


title: Broadside with images of 36 birds

creator: Juan Llorens

medium: Wood engraving

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Ojime

date: 19th century

medium: Ojime

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Dish

date: 15th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Hebrew ritual lace (one of four)

medium: Silk, needle lace

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


title: Design for a Wall Elevation with Garlands and a Landcape Scene

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over ruled graphite construction

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Bracelet

date: 305 BCE–364 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


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

date: mid 5th century BCE

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


title: Wall painting from Room F of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

date: ca. 50–40 BCE

medium: Fresco

country: Roman

subjects: Miscellaneous-painting Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk, linen and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Two fragments

medium: Silk on silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

medium: Iron, gold, silver

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

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


title: F. d' Armenie from playing cards "Jeu d'Or"

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Rank Badge with Manchurian Crane

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Vase

creator: Haviland & Co.

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alice Stern, 1993


title: Plan and elevation for Blackwell's Island, Pauper's Lunatic Asylum, New York

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Apothecary vase (vaso da farmacia)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Castelli

subjects:
Italian, castelli
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Poem Composed after Editing Jingan's Literary Works

creator: Unidentified artist

date: dated 1576

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Strip

medium: Linen, cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Wine glass cooler (seau à verre)

creator: Vincennes Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Mosaic glass ribbed bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: La Pentecôte (The Pentecost), scene 6 from Images des Fêtes Mobiles (Images of Moveable Feasts from the Christian Calendar), part of "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; fourth state of five (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: probably 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; molded, slipped and polychrome glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Dagger (Katar)

date: early 17th century

medium: Steel

country: Indian, Thanjavur; straight blade, European

subjects: Indian, thanjavur; straight blade, european

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Wall clock-barometer (baromètre et thermomètre en cartel)

creator: Lange de Bourbon

medium: Gilt-bronze, tortoiseshell, steel, oak

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: President Caamono of Ecuador, 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: May Waldron, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Horace Havemeyer, 1956


title: S. Andoche et S. Tyrse, martyrs (St. Andochius and Thyrsus, Martyrs), September 24th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Panel of printed camlet

medium: Wool, warp-faced plain weave, printed

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Titi Halle, 2010


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Elizabeth

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of four

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


title: The Proposal

creator: William Bouguereau

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Elliot L. Kamen, in memory of her father, Bernard R. Armour, 1960


title: "Buzurgmihr Masters the Game of Chess", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1934


title: Alcedo, Martin-pescheur (The Kingfisher), from "Livre d'Oyseaux" (Book of Birds)

creator: Albert Flamen

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Thomas and Lore Firman Gift, 2011


title: Hoop earrings with disk and with conical pendant of balls and granules

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924