title: Hunting Horn

medium: Ivory

country: French or German

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
French or german

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Spoon

date: 18th century

medium: Horn and silvered copper

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

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


title: Covered Sugar Bowl

creator: Chelsea Keramic Art Works

medium: Earthenware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. I. Wistar Morris III, 1982


title: Escapade at Night:

creator: Chokha

medium: Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Mewar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, mewar)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2006


title: Casket (cofanetto or scrigno)

medium: Beechwood, ebony, painted and decorated with incrustation of mother-of-pearl, ivory with gilding; miniatures: gouache on parchment; lined with later fabric

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Textile

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Greenman Stillman, 1931


title: Dress ornament

date: ca. 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Scythian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Scythian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Gourd-shaped Incense Box

medium: Iron with gold and silver

country: Japan

subjects: Metalwork Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Wiesenberger, 1968


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with crackled yellow glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Amphora

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Man and woman standing near a tree

medium: Pottery

subjects: Ceramics-pottery Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Side chair

creator: Herter Brothers

medium: Rosewood; gilding

credit_line: Purchase, William Cullen Bryant Fellows Gifts, 1994


title: Fragment of a Relief of the Buddha

date: 3rd–7th century

medium: Stucco

country: Central Asia

subjects:
Sculpture
Central asia

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Tripe Vendor, plate 11 from "Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac"

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)

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


title: Half Mask (Menpō) with Gorget

medium: Iron, lacquer, silk

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Bust Portrait of George Washington (from Sketchbook)

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite, pen, ink, and watercolor on paper

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of William Gedney Bunce, by exchange, 1979


title: Bottle, Fish

date: 1st–6th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Nasca

subjects: Fish Nasca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davis Neal, 1970


title: Lock

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, tinned (?)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Amphora

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Sherd

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Fragment

medium: Nephrite

country: Russia (Siberia)

subjects:
Jade
Russia (siberia)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: See 14.6.337

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Scales and weights

date: probably 18th century

medium: Brass, steel, oak

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Harness Ornament with Owl's Head

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Tinned bronze

country: Northwest China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Northwest china

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Flower-Shaped Plaque

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

subjects: Metalwork Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2003


title: Narrow bone box

date: ca. 13th–12th century BCE

medium: Bone

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Cypriot
Skeletons & bones


title: Tablespoon

date: early 18th century

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Hercules fight adragon in the centre, Achelous carrying off Deianeira upper left

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


date: 490 BCE


title: Shabti of Petosiris, son of Djedhor

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Design for Bookcover, Sir Roland Ashton, by Lady Long

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

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


title: Small chest

date: early 17th century

medium: Applewood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Vase fragment

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of American Exploration Society, 1907


title: City and Sunset

creator: Henry Farrer

medium: Watercolor on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of Mrs. Louise Lamson and Mrs. Alfred N. Lawrence, Bequest of Antoinette D. T. Throckmorton, in memory of Jules and Ella Turcas, and Bequest of May Blackstone Huntington, by exchange; Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Koenigsberg, Walter Knight Sturges and Vain and Harry Fish Foundation Gifts and Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1985


title: Partial design for the painted decoration of a ceiling

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: wash, watercolor, gouache, and gold paint over graphite on wove paper; mounted on blue wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Albarello

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Design for a Desk

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Brush and brown wash over graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: William Henry Worthington

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 6th–7th century CE

medium: Agate, banded

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: The Bruiser

creator: Dent

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Bead

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Stone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Clasp knife

date: 18th century

medium: Steel, bronze, mother-of-pearl, silver

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Design for Dos-a-Dos Cart or Game Cart

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Hand colored lithograph with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Firescreen

medium: Mahogany, whitewood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Queen of Norway and Sweden, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-2) 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: The Burghers of Calais

creator: Auguste Rodin

date: modeled 1884–95, cast 1985

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor, 1989


title: Brooch with Assyrian and Achaemenid Persian-inspired design

medium: Gold

country: British

credit_line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023


title: Lynch, Mets, from the Kalamazoo Bats series (N690) issued by Chas. Gross & Co. to promote Kalamazoo Bats

creator: Chas. Gross & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Buckle

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Stud

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Copper, bronze

country: Iran

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


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


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Totsuka

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


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: Chinese Children at Play

creator: Isei

medium: Framed painting; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Brush Washer

medium: Porcelain with moonlight glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

credit_line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1964


title: Dress

medium: silk, cotton

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Merle Munn, 1947


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Netsuke of Acrobat

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: The Battle of Antioch

creator: Girard Audran

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Panel

date: 16th century

medium: Carved wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: View of Mount Fuji from Koshigaya, Province of Musashi (Musashi, Koshigaya Zai), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

date: 4th month, Horse year 1858

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: John L. Sullivan, from the Celebrities and Prizefighters series (N174) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Arrowhead

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1953


title: Victoria #3750

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Francesco I d'Este is Named the Deputy of the Catholilc King and is Sent to Catalogna, from "L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]"

creator: Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis)

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Fragment

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


title: Armrest

creator: Beauvais

medium: Wool and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

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


title: Paneled Ceiling Design

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite

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


title: Panel with Grotesque Candelabrum Containing a Mask, a Couple of Tritons and Two Children

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


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

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


title: Textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Greenman Stillman, 1931


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

date: 5th century BCE

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


title: Military hat

creator: J.H. McKenney & Company

medium: synthetic, leather, wool

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Marie D. Wyckoff, 1941


title: [Trees and Waterfalls]

creator: Charles Nègre

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Trees

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Repeating watch

creator: George Achard et Fils

date: late 18th century

medium: Gold, enamel, pearls, sparks

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Copy of Tang Ming Huang Instructing the Prince

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: The vision of Ezekiel, with the dead rising and putting on their flesh, God the Father above in the sky

creator: Giovanni Battista Fontana

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


title: Chlorite pestle

medium: Chlorite

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cypriot

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


title: Shoes

medium: leather

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


title: Glass beaker

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Allegorical Figures

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Bolognese, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over faint traces of black chalk on light brown paper

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Ceremonial Axe

medium: Nephrite, light sage green touched with russet pear leaf

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Actress standing with hand on hip, from the Actresses series (N668)

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


title: Tankard

creator: Hans Nicolaus Müllner

date: late 17th century

medium: Silver, partly gilded

credit_line: Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959


title: Old St. Paul's Cathedral, London, seen from the East

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Pen and brown ink and brown and gray wash over black chalk, squared in black chalk, and incised

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2010


title: Autumn, from "The Four Seasons"

creator: Jan (Pietersz.) Saenredam

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


title: Censer

date: 16th century (?)

medium: Copper alloy

country: French (?) or South Netherlandish (?)

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
French or south netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Candlestand

medium: Maple

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Side Chair

medium: Mahogany, maple, white pine


title: Calligraphic Exercise in Spanish

creator: Anonymous

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and black and brown ink.

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Wall pedestal (one of a pair)

date: second half 17th century

medium: Poplar

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Le Bouvier pres d'une mare

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching


title: Small View of Yedo

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Print

subjects: Print Japanese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Design for a Chandelier

creator: Anonymous, German, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Gouache on black prepared paper

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


title: Nap Dreading His Doleful Doom or His Grand Entry in the Isle of Elba

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Candlestand

medium: Pine

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


title: Samples (2)

date: first half 19th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Souvenir

medium: Gold, enamel, diamonds; ivory

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Virgin and Child Enthroned between Saints Cecilia and Catherine of Alexandria

creator: Francesco Morone

medium: Tempera on parchment; Underdrawing in sepia ink


title: Fragment

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


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Design for Festival Decorations on the Bases of Piers

creator: Carlo Marchionni

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

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968


title: The Wedding of Cupid and Psyche (right panel)

creator: Battista Franco

medium: Engraving

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


title: [Child holding tambourine], from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Piece

country: Japan

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


title: Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene and divine beings

date: late 8th–6th century BCE

medium: Neutral Chalcedony (Quartz), possibly etched to produce white mottling

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1984


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

date: 19th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Gore

date: late 19th century

medium: bamboo

country: Melanesian (Aoba Island, Vanuatuan)

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

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Head from a statuette, perhaps of a dwarf

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Prince Albert Technological Exam Medal

creator: Leonard Charles Wyon

date: mid-late 19th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Earrings

medium: feathers, preserved red-legged honeycreeper, gold, metal

credit_line: Alfred Z. Solomon-Janet A. Sloane Endowment Fund, 2013


title: Egypt, from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Dish with Acteon changed into a stag by Diana

creator: Bernard Palissy

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Illustration for a Book:  Soldiers Surrendering to an Emperor, with a City in the Background

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Black chalk.   Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk

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


title: Le porteur des Halles

creator: Louis Vert

medium: Gelatin silver transparency on glass

credit_line: Purchase, Jay H. McDonald Gift and funds from various donors, 2026


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain with yellow glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Saltarello, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Preliminary drawing for a relief

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Dish

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted in black under turquoise glaze

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


title: [Simla Bazaar]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: The Hill of the Alhambra, Granada

creator: Samuel Colman

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Oswald C. Hering, in memory of her husband, 1968


title: Full Mask (Sōmen) with Gorget

medium: Iron, leather, lacquer, silk

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Ostrakon with a Letter from Strategius to Cyriacus

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic


title: Terracotta lydion (perfume jar)

date: end of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Mouse Eating Lichee Fruit

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Fruits

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


title: Jérusalem, Enceinte du Temple, Vue générale de la face Est, Pl. 3

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: Shepherds and Shepherdesses Dancing from a set of Mythological Subjects after Giulio Romano

creator: Giulio Romano

date: designed 1684–86, woven 1689–92

medium: Wool, silk, metal thread (20-26 warps per inch, 8-12 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Mythology
Textiles-tapestrie


title: Chinese Junk

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

date: 2nd month, 1862

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Ss. Sebastian, Catherine and Roch

creator: Paulus Willemsz. van Vianen

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


title: The Toilet

creator: Gabriel Huquier

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Door Handle

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Portrait of Joseph II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

creator: Savonnerie Manufactory

medium: Wool (154 knots per sq. inch, 25 per sq. cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Portraits
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted under turquoise glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Hanging

medium: Streamers-silk, metallic thread;  top guard-silk, on silk;  center guard-silk, metallic thread, on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Folio from a Manuscript of the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Perfection of Wisdom)

date: 12th century

medium: Ink and color on palm leaf

country: India (Bihar or West Bengal)

subjects:
Painting
India (bihar or west bengal)
Palms

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1985


title: Germany, from the Types of All Nations series (N24) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Pair of Turquoise-Blue Plugs

date: ca. 3rd century BCE

medium: Gilt turquoise glass

subjects: Glass China

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994


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: Cat amulet

medium: Faience


title: Incised bowl with fox motif

date: 7th–5th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-vessel

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: Bowl

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Sample

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Collar

date: 17th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: Italian

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Dish

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Strip

date: first half 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mary de G. Trenholm, 1930


title: Beadle

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; between second and third state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


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


title: Cobra Amulet

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Wedding Dress

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous gift, 1944


title: john Hyreanus, 135 B.C. / Herod Archelaus, 4 B.C., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.


title: Fragments of the Book of the Dead

date: 664–404 BCE or later

medium: Papyrus, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: The Barber's Shop

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching with wash

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


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 15th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: [Mill or Warehouse with Vertical Clapboard Siding]

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Robe à l'anglaise

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1966


title: Open Bangle

date: 300 BCE–CE 300

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: A day of black ice, the angel of the sidewalk, from "Paris in Winter"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: February 18, 1865

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Meleager and Atalanta

creator: François Chauveau

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Plate from "Grateske voer golt smeden Schrijnwerkers Ende andere des nodich hebbende"

creator: Meinert Gelijs

medium: Blackwork

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Plate 38: View of the facade of the church of St. Roch and at left the facade of the School of St. Roch, Venice, 1703, from "The buildings and views of Venice" (Le fabriche e vedute di Venezia)

creator: Luca Carlevaris

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Collar

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Shallow terracotta dish with lid

date: 6th century BCE

country: Lydian

subjects: Vase Lydian

credit_line: Gift of The American Society for the Exploration of Sardis, 1914


title: Measure

date: late 18th century

medium: Pewter

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


title: Small Division Viol

date: 18th century

medium: Wood

country: German

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-fretted German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Young Anglers, part VII from "Liber Studiorum"

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

medium: Etching and mezzotint; first state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Frieze Fragment

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone (Peperino di Viterbo from Viterbo (Italy))

country: Central Italian

subjects:
Sculpture-stone
Central italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Victoria's Visit to the Corporation of London

creator: William Wyon

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


title: Christ Walking on Water, Holding the Hand of St. Peter (Second Composition), plate 9 from "Les Tableaux de Rome, Les Eglises Jubilaires" (The Paintings of Rome, The Churches Jubilee)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Engraving; second state of three (Lieure)


title: Vase (vase à panneaux or à perles)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Moses Brought to Pharaoh's Daughter (Exodus 2:10)

creator: William Hogarth

date: February 5, 1752

medium: Engraving; fourth state of four


title: Button or Bead or Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 5r)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Cross-Shaped Tile

date: 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; inglaze painted in blue and turquoise and luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1941


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

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: A Peasant with a Shovel

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

medium: Etching; fourth state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Calligraphy: Poem

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album leaf; ink on silk

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: “Nihon Embankment at Yoshiwara,” from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei, Yoshiwara, Nihonzutsumi)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Necklace

medium: Clay, bone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Profile of a Bearded Old Man Looking Right

creator: Jakob Matthias Schmutzer

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Tea Caddy

creator: Peter Van Dyck

medium: Silver

credit_line: Sansbury-Mills Fund, 1962


title: Cherry Blossoms and Seal-box with Ink and Ruler

creator: Kubo Shunman

date: 19th century

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

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: Study for an engraving:  "Almanac pour l'an de Bissexte M.DC.XCII:  La Lotterie Chimerique d'Augsbourg où chacun met du sien sans proffit"[sic]

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

date: Late 17th century

medium: Pen, brown ink, brown wash over black chalk; the contours traced and indented for transfer by a stylus

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: From the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 1) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Bridle Gauntlet

date: 16th century

medium: Steel

subjects:
German
Armor parts-gauntlet

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Portrait of Claude de Marolles

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; second state of two (BN)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Glass Fragment

medium: Colorless glass

country: South Netherlandish (?)

subjects:
Glass-stained
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Abigail Smith Adams

creator: James Sharples

medium: Pastel on gray (now oxidized) laid paper

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Coin

date: dated 1033 AH/1623 CE

medium: Copper

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Merchant Robbed by Monkeys

creator: Pieter van der Heyden

medium: Engraving; first state of five

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Austrian Cuirassiers

creator: Johann Christoph Erhard

date: early 19th century

medium: Etching; first state

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


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Snuff Bottle with Gold Sparkles

medium: Aventurine glass

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Pietà with Angels in front of the Cross

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Book cover with overall abstract design

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Gardens of the Villa Correr, near Strà (recto); Study for The Transverberation of Saint Teresa of Jesus and a Study of Hands (verso)

creator: Francesco Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over charcoal (recto). Framing lines in pen and brown ink; charcoal (verso)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Pinhead

date: 1st century BCE–5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sealing fragment

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Jérusalem, Tombeau des Juges, Détails

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Arrowheads, needles, hooks and harpoons

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Frontispiece from Epistre Morales [...]

creator: Grégoire Huret

date: 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Henry W. Kent, transferred from the Printing Office


title: Terracotta fragment of a krater (deep bowl)

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: William Ellsworth "Bill" Blair, Pitcher, Hamilton Hams, 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: Sheet of Studies: A Horse Above, a Seated Man and a Reclining Man Below

creator: Micco Spadaro (Domenico Gargiulo)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and a little red-brown wash

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1964


title: Spindle

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Coin

date: dated 376 AH/986 CE

medium: Silver


title: Caddy

creator: Meissen Manufactory

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


title: Ring, spiral with overlapping ends

medium: Gold

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


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Animals

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Chimú

subjects: Chimú Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1976


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


title: Earring

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


title: Plate 10: Bertoldino fastening geese to his belt, from "Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno"

creator: Giuseppe Maria Crespi

medium: Etching

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


title: Accessory set

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: Linen

country: American or European

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Evelyn Metzger, 1992


title: Country Farmhouse

creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry

medium: Pencil

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Piazza San Marco, Looking toward the Basilica

creator: Giacomo Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 26r)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Sash

date: 18th century

medium: Silk


title: Amorino holding a pole

creator: Violante Vanni

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Landscape

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Monotype

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, The Derald H. Ruttenberg Foundation Gift, 2024


title: Changgo (장구 )

medium: Wood, hide, rope, metal

country: Korean

subjects: Membranophone-double-headed / waisted drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cicho Sgarra - Collo Francisco, from "Balli di Sfessania" (Dance of Sfessania)

creator: Jacques Callot

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Multi-strand Necklace

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Gold, greenstone

country: Calima (Yotoco)

subjects:
Calima (yotoco)
Beads-ornament

credit_line: Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1977


title: Side chair back and seat cover

medium: Wool, silk on hemp canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Stamp seal

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1923


title: Members of a Monastic Order Carrying the Cross for Christ to Heaven

creator: Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari

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

credit_line: Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, Bequest of Joseph F. McCrindle, 2008


title: Bowl

date: 18th century, decoration ca. 1750

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Libation cup

medium: Rhinoceros horn

subjects: Horn China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: A satyr and a ram attacking each other, the satyr weilding a club with his right hand, a shield resting against a small column at center, buildings in the background

creator: Marco Dente

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Huntsman's knife

medium: Steel, horn, silver

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration, glazed

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell M. Hastings, 1960


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment, content uncertain

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Arm with Aten cartouche

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Oval table with falling leaves

medium: Black walnut, white pine

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1951


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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: General, Infantry of the Guard, Germany, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Censer in the form of a mythical beast

date: early 17th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase, Bequests of William Rhinelander Stewart and Matilda E. Frelinghuysen, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, Purchase by subscription, and Gift of Edgar Worch, by exchange, 2018


title: Box with cover

medium: Red lacquer

country: china

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Le Portement de Croix (Jesus Carrying the Cross), from "La Petite Passion" (The Little Passion)

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Vase

medium: Brown pâte with incised decoration around the body; glaze, craquelé

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Gauntlets

medium: leather, silk, metal

country: British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Expedition 1923, Frederic B. Pratt and Frank L. Babbott Fund, 1923


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Christ Warning the Disciples of False Prophets, from Das Plenarium

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut (hand-colored)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Wild Horse Felled by a Tiger

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph on chine collé; first state of four

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Terracotta skyphos (deep drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Helen H. Mertens Gift, 1962


title: Dish with immortals playing weiqi

medium: Carved red and green lacquer

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Maffet Ledger: Drawing

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and crayon on paper

country: Southern and Northern Cheyenne

subjects:
Paper-drawing
Southern and northern cheyenne

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


title: Design for a Ceiling

creator: Felice Giani

medium: Graphite, pen and ink with brown wash

credit_line: Gift of William Rieder, 2009


title: Gold stater

medium: Gold

country: Greek, Macedon

subjects:
Coin
Greek, macedon

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Peter J. Irving, from the Sea Captains series (N127) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Bracelet, Repousse and Foliate

date: 8th–12th century

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: [Painter, Standing in Front of a Painted Window Backdrop, with Brushes, Bucket, and Paint Cans]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Thomas Forster

medium: Plumbago on vellum

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Teapot

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Gold and chalcedony earring

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Gold, chalcedony

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Plaque from a Cross with the Eagle of Saint John

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Scarab with decorative motif

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Hammam Shoes

date: late 19th century

medium: Metal, wood, synthetic

credit_line: Alfred Z. Soloman-Janet A. Sloane Endowment Fund, 2014


title: Knight on Horseback Riding Towards the Right

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Sconce

medium: Gilt gesso, wood, wire

country: American or British

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


title: Virgin and child flanked by angels

creator: Stefano Mulinari

medium: Etching with green wash

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


title: Band

medium: Silk and linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Design for a Chimneypiece

creator: Sir William Chambers

medium: Pen and ink

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


title: Fire Bucket

medium: Painted leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Porringer with cover (Écuelle)

creator: Cozzi Manufactory

credit_line: The Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 1979


title: Ardanarishvara; equestrian warrior with raised sword

creator: Unidentified

medium: Ink and wash on J. Whatman paper watermarked 1798

country: India, Madurai, Tamil Nadu

subjects:
Painting
India, madurai, tamil nadu

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021


title: Netsuke

medium: Wood

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Emma Cameron, 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: Ostrakon with Lists of the Days of the Week

medium: Limestone with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Small oval writing table (one of a pair)

creator: Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix

medium: Bois satiné, possibly purplewood, holly and stained holly on oak substrate; bottom shelf: walnut; gilt-bronze mounts; leather writing surface

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


title: Plate 5: equestrian statue of Claudius, seen from behind, a naval competition at right in the background, from 'Roman Emperors on Horseback'

creator: Adriaen Collaert

medium: Engraving, squared in graphite

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

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


title: Glass flask

date: 4th–6th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Museum accession


title: Ingrain carpet piece

medium: Wool

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Robert Tuggle, 2008


title: Ectocarpus amphibius

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: The Crucifixion, from Der beschlossen gart des rosenkranzes marie

credit_line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1919


title: Architectural Relief with 'Nilotic' Motifs

date: 6th–8th century

medium: Wood; carved and painted

subjects: Architecture Wood

credit_line: Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Fund, 1970


title: Mirror

date: second half 17th century

medium: Tortoiseshell, silver, glass

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Courtier Accompanying Raryōō (obverse); Nobleman Playing Flute (reverse)

medium: Gold and silver maki-e with gold and colored lacquer

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: [Artillery Camp, City Point, Virginia]

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

date: January 1865

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Medallion

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


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


title: Side Chair

creator: Samuel Gragg

medium: Ash or chestnut

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1980


title: Taperstick

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Louise and David Braver, 2006


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: Personification of Painting and Drawing (or a draughtsman and Pictura)

creator: Wallerant Vaillant

medium: Mezzotint

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


title: Villa Giulia, plan (composite)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, ruling and compass work, on a gathering of five sheets of paper.

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz and Anne Bigelow Scholz, in memory of Flying Officer Walter Bigelow Rosen, RCAF, 1949


title: Salver (one of a pair)

creator: Andrew Moore

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Pilate Washing His Hands, from "The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ"

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: A Reconstruction of the Temple of Fortuna

creator: Jan Goeree

date: before 1704

medium: Pen and black and brown ink, brush and brown wash, brush and gray ink, over red chalk, traces of black chalk; partly incised?

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Helen and János Scholz, 1958


title: [Unknown Sitters]

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

date: before 1865

medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negatives with applied color

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


title: Figure of a fisherman

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Petites Barques

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Mauric Le Garrec, 1922


title: Sweden, from the Types of All Nations series (N24) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Tankard

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harold L. Rapelye, 1977


title: Souvenir

medium: Gold, enamel, diamonds

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ostrakon with Biblical Text

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Fence Post Finial from the Jerathmeel Peirce House, Salem, Massachusetts

creator: Samuel McIntire

medium: Pine

credit_line: Gift of the Essex Institute, 1927


title: Woman wearing pointed cap, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Covered Cup and Saucer

medium: Porcelain: egg-shell

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: New Invented Elastic Breeches

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 1, 1784

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Fork

credit_line: Bequest of Alfred Duane Pell, 1924


title: Jug

date: 17th century

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bowl with five petaled flower

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with painted decoration and clear glaze

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, by exchange, 2006


title: Vase

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Favrile glass

credit_line: Gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: New Modelbüch (Page 36r)

creator: Andreas Bretschneider

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Ein new Modelbuch..., page 5 (verso)

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

date: October 22, 1524

credit_line: Gift of  Herbert N. Straus, 1929


title: Glass Fragment

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of Ella Brummer, in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1977


title: The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

creator: James Smillie

medium: Hand-colored steel plated etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Study for a frontispiece for "Histoire de Miss Jenny"

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

date: 18th century

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon among Clouds and Waves with Birds in Flight

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory, carved relief, incised, stained, aogai inlay; Interior: nashiji

subjects: Inrō Japan Birds

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


title: Vase with geese

creator: Artus Van Briggle

date: Design dates to 1900; 1902

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020


title: Design for Omnibus or Wagonette, no. 3907

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Floral Design

creator: Antoine Berjon

medium: Black and white chalk

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Top Knot Pigeon, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Fish hook

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Glass appliqué with Medusa

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Undersleeves

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mr. William Drown Phelps, 1943


title: Plate

creator: Bernard Palissy

date: first half 17th century or later

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: human figures and demons

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Vladimir S. Littauer Gift and Rogers Fund, 1986


title: Small Rimmed Bowl

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Loop-handled wedge shaped stamping device

date: 7th–6th millennium BCE

medium: Chlorite or steatite, black

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1985


title: Amulet

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Border

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Louis C. Whiton, 1963


title: Seated Buddha Flanked by Two Bodhisattvas

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Terracotta

country: Thailand

subjects: Sculpture Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Michael Phillips and Juliana Maio, 2001


title: Hip Ornament with Face

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Brass, iron

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Edo people

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, 1991


title: Axel Paulsen, Champion Skater of the World, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.


title: Hugues-Joseph Gamot, Engraver to the King

creator: Jean-Baptiste Nini

medium: Medallion: cast terracotta (terre de Chaumont); frame: gilt wood

credit_line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1952


title: Plate

date: second half 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Torso/Belt of the king with cartouches of the Aten

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Shabti of Nakhtmin

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: One half a Tiled Fireplace Surround

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

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


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

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


title: Fibula or pin

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Nagoya Sanzaburō and Courtesan Katsuragi

creator: Hanabusa Itchō

date: late 18th century (after 1680s?)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2025


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Handkerchief

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Classical design

creator: Giovanni da Udine (Giovanni dei Ricamatori)

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Oil on wood, chiaroscuro

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Bifacial Sickle Insert

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Herbert E. Winlock, 1926


title: Faience amulet of Taweret

medium: Clay, glazed

country: Egyptian

subjects: Miscellaneous-faience Egyptian

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


title: Seal ring and modern impression: two sphinxes flanking a tree

date: ca. 7th century BCE

medium: Silver

subjects: Iran Trees

credit_line: Gift of Laura White and Fred Randolph, 1996


title: Pitcher with cover

date: late 18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of A. Murray Young, 1920


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 22r)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Wineglass

date: first half 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Landscape with a River and a Village

creator: Charles Cornelisz. de Hooch

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, incised for transfer; framing line in pen and black ink, probably by a later hand

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2013


title: View of the Roman Forum with the Temple of Saturn in the Background

creator: Victor Jean Nicolle

medium: Pen and brown ink, watercolor

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised and glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Wheellock gun

creator: Cominazzo workshop

date: mid-17th century

medium: Steel, wood (walnut)

country: Italian, Brescia

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Page from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

creator: Wang Gai

date: first edition　printed in 1679

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Two Horses

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Francesco de'Medici (1541-87), Second Grand Duke of Tuscany

creator: Pastorino di Giovan Michele de' Pastorini

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Fireplace Lining

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: A Counselor's Opinion After He Had Retired From Practice – The Legal Consultation

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and engraving

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Chess set

creator: Max Nicholas Niemeier

medium: Pear wood

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Terracotta amphoriskos (flask) in the form of a shell

date: 4th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Hunt The Slippers

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Lion Mask

date: early 12th century

country: Central Asia

subjects:
Sculpture
Central asia

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Plate

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Papier-maché; painted and lacquered

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


title: Goblet

creator: Dr. Antonio Salviati Company

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Card Number 213, Sutherland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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


title: Glass Bowl in Millefiori Technique

date: 9th century

medium: Glass, green, opaque yellow, and opaque red mosaic; fused, slumped, ground, and polished, applied foot

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 2001


title: Design for a candlestick

creator: Adolph-Jean LaVergne

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1968


title: Israel Putnam, from the Great Generals series (N15) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Side Chair

creator: Joseph Meeks & Sons

medium: Rosewood

credit_line: Gift of Bradford A. Warner, 1969


title: Statuette

date: 18th century or earlier

medium: Painted wood

subjects: Sculpture China


title: Tile

date: 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression:  bull-man combatting lion; nude hero combatting water buffalo; inscription

medium: Albite

country: Akkadian

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


title: Jar

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; slip covered and unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Sunbonnet

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William R. Witherell, 1953


title: Dish

medium: Nephrite, light sage-green veined and specked with white and sprinkled with some black spots

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Hairpin

date: 7th century

medium: Silver, with gold head, glass paste

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fan

medium: Paper, ivory, mother-of-pearl and glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Teapot

creator: Gorham Manufacturing Company

medium: Silver and ivory

credit_line: Gift of D. Frederick Baker and the Baker/Pisano Collection, 2016


title: Ceiling Ornament, nos. CCCXXII–CCCXXVI, plate 50 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

creator: Michelangelo Pergolesi

date: February 27, 1791

medium: Etching; printed in dark brown ink

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Finial with Wild Ram

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Northeast China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northeast china

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


title: Design for ceramic tile decoration of a bathroom in "Pompeian" manner (possibly for Deepdene, Dorking, Surrey)

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

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

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: The Crayfish at Longchamps

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph; second state of two

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1958


title: Basket of eggs

medium: Wicker

credit_line: Gift of Linn Howard, 2024


title: Armchair (one of a set of four)

creator: Aubusson

medium: Carved walnut, covered in Aubusson tapestry

credit_line: Bequest of Angelika Wertheim Frink, 1970


title: Study of a Girl's Legs for the painting "Young Spartans"

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Family of Howard J. Barnet, in his memory, 1992


title: Plume

date: 6th–10th century

medium: Gold

country: Tiwanaku

subjects: Metal-ornament Tiwanaku

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


title: Buddha Maitreya (Mile) Altarpiece

date: dated 524 (5th year of Zhengguang reign)

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Plaque of The Virgin

date: 12th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel and gilded silver

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Enamels-cloisonné


title: Round dish with lobster and shells

creator: Thomas-Victor Sergent

medium: Glazed earthenware with applied decoration

subjects:
Ceramics-pottery
Crustaceans
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Wallis Katz, in memory of Marshall Katz, and in celebration of the Museum's 150th anniversary, 2020


title: Southern Landscape with a Waterfall and Goats

creator: Ferdinand Kobell

date: late 18th century

medium: Pen and brown and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on blue paper; framing line in pen and brown ink, by the artist

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2011


title: Palace Guards, Russia, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Spouted Vessel with Qur'anic Verses and the Names of the Shi'a Imams

date: 17th century

medium: Chased and worked copper alloy

subjects:
Metal
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2014


title: Plate 63: The magistrates of the city of Brussels marching in the funeral procession of Archduke Albert of Austria; from 'Pompa Funebris ... Alberti Pii'

creator: Cornelis Galle I

medium: Etching with hand coloring

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: La Translation de St. Marc (The Translation of the Relics of St. Mark), January 31st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Feast Days of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: A woman representing Temperance holding a bit facing left

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Landscape with Man on Horseback

creator: Liu Yen

medium: Miniature from album of eleven paintings; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Cushion

medium: Satin worked with silk and metal thread; satin, long-and-short, and couching stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1929


title: Length of upholstery silk

creator: Philippe de Lasalle

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers and Director's Discretionary Funds, 1978


title: The Consultation

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 1785

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Amulet: Harpokrates

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Brandès In Her Box

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Crayon, brush and spatter lithograph printed in olive green on wove paper; only state

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Design for a Book Illustration: Two Women in a Pawn Shop

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash.  Laid paper.

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Two Poems about Palace Gossip, one of the “Ōe Fragments” (Ōe-gire)

creator: Fujiwara no Sadayori

date: early 12th century

medium: Page from a bound booklet mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on mica paper with gold flecks

country: Japan

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2021


title: Glass mosaic perfume bottle

date: early 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: A Portrait (Lord Petersham)

date: January 10, 1812

medium: Hand-colored etching

subjects: Print Portraits


title: Jar with Spiral Decoration and Cross Hatching

date: Machang type (ca. 2350–2050 BCE)

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994


title: Insertion

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Bronze shield boss

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Alphonse Promayet (1822–1872)

creator: Gustave Courbet

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: The Second Bando Mitsugoro in the Role of Soga no Juro Sukenari

creator: Kinei

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Bead

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Shell

subjects:
Jewelry
Shells & molluscs


title: Philadelphia Sunday Press, July 5

creator: George Reiter Brill

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Purchase, The Lauder Foundation, Evelyn H. and Leonard A. Lauder Fund Gift, 1997


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Stitch Bird, from the Song Birds of the World series (N23) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: James Stuart

creator: Joseph Wood

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


title: Mrs. Elizabeth (Johnstone) Hall

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Border

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1936


title: St Francis of Assisi Adoring the Christ Child on the Virgin's Lap

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; second state of two (BN)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Hexafoil plate

creator: Real Fabrica de Buen Retiro

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Ewer

date: first half 17th century

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: The King's Summer Palace at Petchaburi

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Abolitionist Jug

medium: Pearlware (glazed earthenware) with transfer-printed and luster decoration

credit_line: Purchase, Brett and Sara Burns Gift, in honor of Austin B. Chinn, 2020


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Dish

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted in black, blue, and green with red and yellow slips

credit_line: Henry G. Leberthon Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wallace Chauncey, 1957


title: Cup with flowers, bats, and characters of happiness (xi)

date: late 18th–first half 19th century

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

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Lead ornament, possibly in the form of a comb

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: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Mlle. Courvalet, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Handle

date: 9th century

medium: Glass; applied

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Plaque with Doubting Thomas

medium: Walrus ivory

country: German

subjects: German Ivories-walrus

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Actress climbing tree, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph
Trees

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


title: Set of five keyhole escutcheons

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Fire Shovel

medium: Brass, iron

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Shard:  Head of Offerer

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

credit_line: Gift of Andrew Hale and Kate Fitz Gibbon, 1992


title: From the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 4) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


title: Grand Piano

creator: Bartolomeo Cristofori

medium: Cypress, boxwood, paint, leather, fir

country: Italian (Florence)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: Hans Holbein the Younger

date: ca. 1526, published 1538

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Marseille

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

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


title: Cruet stand

creator: Joseph-Pierre-Jacques Duguay

medium: Silver; glass

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Netsuke of Toad on a Sandal

date: 18th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Border

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of H. A. Elsberg, 1928


title: Ippolita Gonzaga 1535-63, wife of Antonio Caraffa

creator: Jacopo Nizolla da Trezzo

medium: Bronze

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


title: Plaque

medium: Green glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Miniature Lacrosse Stick

medium: Wood, Native -tanned skin

country: Mesquakie or Potawatomi

credit_line: Ralph T. Coe Collection, Gift of Ralph T. Coe Foundation for the Arts, 2011


title: Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 7 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Project for the Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo (Section)

creator: Giacomo Quarenghi

medium: Pen and black ink, brush with pink, gray and ocher wash, over ruled construction lines in graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1997


title: A Pair of Puppies

creator: Kawabata Gyokushō

medium: Album leaf; ink on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Card Number 175, Miss Devoe, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Coverlet

credit_line: Gift of Michael Abraham, 1976


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alan W. Carrick, 1967


title: Joseph Fraunhofer, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir album (A25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Copper alloy spearhead

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Pair of Curtains

medium: Cotton and linen, printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Funerary relief

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Purchase, 1902


title: Architectural Frieze with Merman Playing Musical Instruments

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Red sandstone

country: India (Uttar Pradesh, Mathura)

subjects:
Architecture
Sculpture
India (uttar pradesh, mathura)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1993


title: Glass bowl

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: [Untitled]

creator: Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2024


title: Landscapes in Summer and Winter

creator: Ike no Taiga

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1964


title: String of 5 knobbed beads

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

medium: glass, gold foil

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Cap fragment

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Glass mosaic bowl fragment

date: 2nd–mid-1st century BCE

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

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


title: Tuber-inspired stirrup-spout bottle

creator: Moche artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

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


title: Glass lentoid flask

date: 4th–5th century CE

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Study for "Raphael and the Fornarina"(?)

creator: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

medium: Graphite on white wove paper

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: William M. Singerly, The Philadelphia Record, from the American Editors series (N35) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: McLaughlin, Jockey, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes


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

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


title: Ring for Strap

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Brass

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting (Chinese Windmill) Palm Branches (棕櫚透鐔)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese
Palms


title: A Blood

creator: George Murgatroyd Woodward

date: December 1, 1790

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Two peasants

creator: Castelli

medium: White-enameled earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Merletto o Pizzo

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Four strips with embroidered goats

date: ca. 2nd century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Wool, cotton (braided wool with cotton embroidery)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Inanna Gifts and Rogers Fund, 2000


title: Woman's Gown (Robe á la française)

date: second half 18th century

medium: Silk; metal; linen

country: Italian or French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian or french
Textiles-velvet


title: Fragmentary bowl

date: ca. 1000 BCE

medium: Gold

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Mr. Vladimir S. Littauer Gift, 1983


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Looking Glass

medium: Pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Box inlay with a geometric pattern

medium: Ivory with black paste inlay

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901


title: Terracotta fragments of oinochoai (jugs)

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: The Fountain, No. 1: The Wounded Indian Slaking His Death Thirst

creator: Thomas Cole

medium: Graphite and white gouache on green wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Erving Wolf Foundation, in memory of Diane R. Wolf, 1977


title: Bronze statuette of a goddess

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Design for Red Curtains with Gold Fringes and a Gold and White Pediment

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


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


title: Henry II of France (b. 1519, r. 1547–59), Commemorating the Capture of Calais, 1558

creator: Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi

medium: Bronze, brown patina, cast


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Silk and linen on linen

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


title: Stirrup

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Iron

country: West Slavic

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
West slavic

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Vase with birds and flowers

date: late 17th–early 18th century

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

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Medal of General Winfield Scott

creator: Charles Cushing Wright

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: The Bridge and Castel S. Angelo (Veduta del Ponte e Castello Sant'Angelo

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Pull of Engraved Firearm Ornament

medium: Ink, paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French

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


title: Handle attachment for a bowl

date: 8th–7th century BCE

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Pot metal glass

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Panel for a dress

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Male Head in a Hood

creator: Baron Dominique Vivant Denon

medium: Pen, brown ink over black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Dish

date: 13th century

medium: Glass; enameled

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Friedman Gift, 1954


title: Bead

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Glass

country: Thailand

subjects: Glass Thailand

credit_line: Gift of André Emmerich, 1988


title: Young Woman Blowing a Popen (glass noisemaker), from the series “Ten Classes of Women’s Physiognomy” (Fujo ninsō juppen)

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Small work and jewelry cabinet

date: mid-19th century

medium: Black lacquered, gilded and painted, papier-mâché, mother-of-pearl, silk velvet, and paper linings

credit_line: Gift of George E. Dix, 1999


title: Portrait of G.-L. Leclere, Comte de Buffon

creator: Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio

medium: Brush and brown wash with graphite

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


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: Pair of Ear Ornaments

date: 3rd–first quarter of the 10th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Lime spoon with parrot and corn plant

creator: Inca artist(s)

medium: Copper alloy

country: Inca

subjects: Botany Metal-implement Inca

credit_line: Gift of Louise Reinhardt Smith, 1995


title: The Prophet Jeremiah, from Prophets and Sibyls

creator: Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: General Stuart's Return from Pennsylvania, from "Confederate War Etchings"

creator: Adalbert John Volck

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 19th–16th century BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Necklace with the head of the Egyptian god Bes

date: ca. 6th–4th century BCE

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1965


title: Edging

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Kosode Robe with Roosters and Hens

medium: Silk, metallic thread; embroidered figured crepe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Stand for ice-cream cup (plateau Bouret) (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: Lead figure of an archer

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: Caughley Factory

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


title: Cookie Miller

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: The Abduction of Deianira

creator: William Hamilton

medium: Pen and black ink over graphite, with watercolor

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2015


title: Book Cover Plaque with Christ in Majesty

medium: Gilded copper and champlevé enamel

country: French

subjects: French Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Coin

date: dated 334 AH/945 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Harmonica, from the Musical Instruments series (N82) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bracelet

date: 5th–8th century

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1937


title: Wagonette Break #3703

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Bandō Mitsugorō II as Ishii Genzō in the Play "Hana-ayame Bunroku Soga"

creator: Tōshūsai Sharaku

medium: Woodblock print; ink, color, white mica on paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Coin

date: dated 375 AH/985 CE


title: Taperstick

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Bead with granulation - see 18.2.31

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Soba cup

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Arita ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; free blown; tooled on the pontil

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


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: April

creator: Hendrik Meijer

medium: Black chalk, brown, black or gray ink and watercolor

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2005


title: Bell

date: 1st century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Italian (Ancient Roman)

subjects:
Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper
Italian (ancient roman)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Putto Holding a Cloud and Horn

creator: Crispijn de Passe the Elder

date: late 16th–mid 17th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash. Incised for transfer

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman


title: Scene in an Artist's Studio

creator: Frederic, Lord Leighton

medium: Brush and India ink wash over graphite

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1942


title: Bastet Amulet

medium: Glazed faience


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: Design for a Music Stand

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

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

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


title: Ada Webb, Champion Water Queen, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.


title: Padlock and Key

date: 18th century or later

medium: Brass

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Length

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-brocade

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Copper Leaf Ornament

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Chimú (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Chimú

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


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Horn

creator: Bakutu

date: late 19th century

medium: Ivory, snakeskin

country: Mongo (Bakutu) people

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Mongo (bakutu) people


title: Temple of Venus

creator: Meissen Manufactory

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

subjects: Architecture Ceramics-porcelain

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


title: Ensemble du nouveau Louvre

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1944


title: Pot

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Box decorated with flowers and clouds

medium: Lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, and brass wire

country: Korea

subjects: Lacquer Korea Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: [Studio Portrait: Woman Seated Beside a Table, Singapore]

creator: G. R. Lambert & Co.

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2017


title: Plate 23 from "La Tauromaquia": Mariano Ceballos, alias the Indian, kills the bull from his horse

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Escutcheon Plate

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Kiku Jidō (Chrysanthemum Boy)

creator: Tsukioka Sessai

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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