title: Jeune femme drapée, marchant de gauche à droit, portant un vase de métal (Young draped woman, walking from left to right, carrying a metal vase in the style of red-figure vase painting), most likely from Recueil de Différentes Compositions Frises et Ornements dessinées et gravées à la manière du lavis par La Grenée le Juene Se trouve chez l'Auteur, au Louvre et chez Basan, rue et Hôtel Serpente A Paris, in an album containing Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

creator: Jean Jacques Lagrenée

medium: Etching and aquatint, printed in red and black ink

credit_line: Purchase, The Arthur Ross Foundation Gift and Charles Z. Offin Fund, 1999


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 5th/early 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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 Dietrich von Bothmer, Distinguished Research Curator, Greek and Roman Art, 2011


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba) with Lily Motif (百合図鐔)

date: mid-19th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver, copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>)

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese
Lilies

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


title: Garment Plaque with Animal Motif

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Northwest China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china

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


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

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Tiles with Checkered Pattern

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects:
Ornament & design
Spanish
Ceramics-tile

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Seal amulet in the form of a recumbent bovid

medium: Marble, white

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1987


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Plate 28: Psyche, wanting to appear more beautiful opens the box, as Cupid arrives in the upper right, and at left his arrow pierces Psyche, who has fallen to the ground, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

creator: Master of the Die

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Twelve Designs for Circular Mirror

creator: Yi Yuanji

medium: Set of twelve album leaves; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

creator: Hu Zhengyan

date: first edition printed in 1633

medium: Individual leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Landscape (A Grove of Trees Standing Near a River)

creator: Théodore Rousseau

medium: Graphite on beige wove paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Gift of Steven M. Kossak, 1994


title: Melchior, from "Three Magi"

creator: Jacques Bellange

medium: Etching

credit_line: Anne and Carl Stern Fund, 1958


title: Gold earring with head of an animal

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Cooking pot

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Feline

creator: Nopiloa artist(s)

medium: Pyroxene andesite

country: Central Veracruz

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Central veracruz

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1963


title: Ancestral Pair

date: 14th–15th century(?)

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of silver expenditures, Ebabbar archive

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Alabaster dish

date: 4th century BCE ?

medium: Alabaster

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot


title: Terracotta rattle (?) in the form of an owl

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Walking ensemble

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Jessie Leonard Hill, Charles R. Leonard Jr., and Laura Leonard Ault, 1978


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Eretria Painter

date: ca. 420 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Balamuth, 1971


title: Stencil

date: 19th Century

medium: Paper

country: Japan

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Nose Ornament

country: Zenú

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Zenú

credit_line: Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 2002


title: Fierce as staring Ajax from this seat...

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

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


title: Pitcher

date: after 1885

medium: Blown satin blue glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Limestone head of a beardless male votary with a wreath of rosettes

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Bronze psykter with lid (vase for cooling wine)

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Cupid Presenting Psyche to the Gods

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Pectoral of Huynefer

medium: Glazed steatite, glass, faience, paste

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


title: Broth bowl with cover (écuelle)

creator: Gabriel Tillet

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Close Helmet

creator: Domenico dei Barini, called Negroli

medium: Steel

country: Milan

subjects:
Suit-helmet
Milan
Armor
Arms and armor

source: Art Institute of Chicago

source_id: aic

rights_statement: Public Domain — CC0 via the Art Institute of Chicago Open Access programme.

credit_line: George F. Harding Collection


title: Jar with Basketweave Pattern

creator: China

date: Three Kingdoms period (A.D. 220–265), 2nd century A.D.

medium: Stoneware with thin ash glaze and underglaze impressed decoration

subjects:
Ornament & design
Stoneware
China
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel

credit_line: Bequest of Russell Tyson


title: Foliate Dish with Lotus Flower

date: late Southern Song (1127–1279)/early Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), late 13th century

medium: Longquan ware; celadon-glazed stoneware with underglaze carved and mold-impressed decoration

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Flowers
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Seated Figure

date: Song dynasty (960–1279)

medium: Cizhou ware; slip-coated stoneware with iron brown, green, yellow, and red glazes

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Asian art


title: Dish with Bird and Duck by Lotus Pond

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue and overglaze polychrome (red and green) enamels

subjects:
Porcelain
China
Birds
Asian art
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Josina Hamels

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving on silk

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Silk
Netherland
Ink
Silk (fiber)
Engraving
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds


title: Jacques de la Faille

medium: Engraving on silk, laid down on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Silk
Netherland
Ink
Engraving
Print
Print and drawing
Silk (fiber)


title: The Mocking, Flagellation, and Crucifixion of Christ (The Great Calvary)

creator: Jacob Matham (Dutch, 1571–1631)

subjects:
Engraving
Netherland
Print
Print and drawing
Silk


title: Maurits, Prince of Orange-Nassau

creator: Willem Jacobsz Delff (Dutch, 1580–1638)


title: Two Goats with Large Horns, from Various Animals

creator: Nicolaes Berchem

date: 17th century

medium: Etching on paper

country: Holland

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer


title: A Shepherdess Speaking to Her Dog

creator: Karel Dujardin

medium: Etching on cream laid paper


title: Goats, from Various Animals

medium: Etching in black ink on ivory laid paper


title: Octagonal Library Table

creator: Attributed to Richard Hicks Bridgens

medium: Ebony, boxwood, kingwood, mahogany, satinwood, pine, cedar, chestnut, tulipwood, and various stained and shaded woods, with ivory, pearl-shell, copper and brass inlay; the carcass of the top and of the drawer linings is mahogany; the carcass of the base pedestal is pine; replacement leather

country: London

subjects:
Table
London
Shells & molluscs
Furniture
Ebony
Tulipwood
Satinwood
Pine
Copper
Chestnut
Cedar (wood)
Boxwood
Brass (alloy)
Wood (plant material)
Mahogany
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of The Antiquarian Society from the Capital Campaign Fund


title: Kneeling Monk

creator: Burma (Myanmar)

date: 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze

country: Myanmar

subjects:
Bronze
Myanmar
Southeast asian
Metal
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bud Berman


title: Cushion Cover

creator: Bursa, Republic of Türkiye

medium: Silk, cotton, “silver” metal strips wrapped around a silk core, warp-float faced satin weave with “silver” supplementary metal-wrapped silk brocading wefts, supplementary binding wefts, and supplementary warps forming cut and voided velvet

country: Turkey

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Satin weaving
Silk (textile)
Turkish
Weaving - velvet
Cut and voided
Cotton (textile)
Metal-strip-wrapped silk
Silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Velvet
Ottoman

credit_line: Gift of Burton Y. Berry


title: Fragment

date: about 1550

medium: Silk, “gold” metal-wrapped silk threads, warp float-faced satin foundation weave with a supplementary twill weave and supplementary brocading wefts bound in a twill order

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Çatma cover

medium: Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with brocading wefts, cut voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Weaving - velvet
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Cushion Cover

medium: velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Weaving - velvet
Ottoman


title: Cushion Cover

medium: Velvet


title: Panel

medium: Silk; “gold” and “silver” metal-wrapped silk, satin weave with “gold” and “silver” supplementary metal-wrapped silk brocading wefts, supplementary binding wefts, and supplementary warps forming cut and voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Turkish
Velvet
Weaving - velvet
Silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Gold-metal-wrapped silk
Cut and voided
Ottoman


title: Cushion Cover

medium: textile


title: Panel

medium: Silk, cotton, and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and cut voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Silk (textile)
Satin weaving
Turkish
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Cotton (textile)
Weaving - velvet
Silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Ottoman


title: Cushion Cover

medium: Silk, gilt-and-silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and cotton, satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts, and two-color cut voided velvet


title: Cushion cover

medium: Silk, velvet


title: Panel

medium: Silk, cotton, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, satin weave with brocading wefts; cut voided velvet


title: Fragment (Cushion Cover)

date: 18th century


title: Panel

medium: Silk, cotton, metal-wrapped silk threads, warp-float faced satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts, supplementary binding wefts, and supplementary warps forming voided and cut velvet


title: Panel

medium: Silk and cotton, satin weave with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, discontinuous supplementary facing wefts and two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet


title: Cushion Cover

medium: Silk and cotton, satin weave with supplementary facing wefts, supplementary binding wefts, and two-color cut voided velvet; edged with woven fringe


title: Cushion Cover


title: Cover

creator: Republic of Türkiye

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered in coral and stem stitches; laid work and couching

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Corals & anemones
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Ottoman


title: Cover

medium: Field covered with alternate vertical rows of floral palmettes, principal unit a large three petal tulip supported by two small tulips and two serrated leaves; secondary unit suggests a carnation; edging of palmettes

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Turkish
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Cover

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Towel

medium: Towel in drawn work


title: Cover (possibly Turban Cover)

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in fishbone, overcast, and running stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Cover

creator: Republic of Türkiye or Greece

date: 18th‒19th century


title: Sash or Towel

medium: Possibly linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in long and short, stem, fishbone, and satin stitches; applied gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk edging at warp ends; silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk buttonhole variation edging along weft edge

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Costume
Ottoman


title: Cover (possibly Turban Cover)

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in fishbone, double running, and twined double running stitches; lined with cotton, plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Embroidered


title: Towel

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Ottoman


title: Towel

date: 17th‒early 18th century


title: Fragment


title: Towel or Napkin (?)


title: Sash

medium: With ends embroidered in colored silks

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Costume
Ottoman


title: Sash or Scarf Fragment (?)

medium: Embroidered.


title: Fragment (Towel)

medium: Embroidered all-over pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Ottoman


title: Cover

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in running stitches (twill darning); lined with cotton, plain weave


title: Cover

date: 17th‒18th century

medium: Linen; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Weaving - coverlet
Ottoman


title: Cover

medium: embroidered linen. Three bands ogival motif and flowers, palmette border

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Fragment

medium: linen(?), plain weave; embroidered with silk in regular surface darning and surface darning on the diagonal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Cover (Possibly for a Tray)

medium: embroidered in repeated tulips.


title: Cover

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in running stitches, pattern darning; main warp fringe

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Cover

medium: Tray cloth embroidered over all in a repeated rose spray pattern in red, green, white, blue, rose and brown.

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Roses
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Ottoman


title: Tray Cloth or Cover


title: Sash

medium: Sash, rose spray designs at ends.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Roses
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Ottoman


title: Cover

medium: Square embroidered with crescent shape leaf enclosing smaller leaf, floral sprays and tache de timur design.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Ottoman


title: Cover

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss in running and split stitches


title: Fragment (Cover or Turban Cover)

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in darning, double running, twined double running, and stem stitches


title: Cover

date: Ottoman Dynasty (1299–1923), 17th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in running  (twill darning) and stem stitches


title: Cover or Hanging


title: Fragment (Cushion Cover)


title: Cover

medium: Square, linen, embroidered in a repeated ogival device imitating weaving with a palmette border


title: Cover

medium: Band, linen, with strips of natural silk at the sides. Cloth embroidered in all-over design of rose spray.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Roses
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Embroidered stylized tree and floral design

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Trees
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Sash

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in double running, fishbone, and overcast stitches


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Towel, embroidered in design of flowers and leaves


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Sash (?)

medium: Towel, embroidered in trees and flower design.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Trees
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Costume
Ottoman


title: Cover

medium: textile


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Towel, embroidered in flower and leaf design


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Embroidered


title: Towel or Napkin


title: Sash

medium: Sash, with ends embroidered in floral design in silks and gilt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Costume
Ottoman


title: Towel or Napkin (Altered)


title: Cover (?)

medium: Towel, embroidered in design of boats, towers and bridges


title: Cover

medium: Square, with floral embroidery repeated


title: Towel or Napkin (Altered)


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Embroidered in silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Turban Cover

medium: Turban cover, with all-over embroidery of flowers in silks, gold and silver


title: Scarf or Cover

medium: Kerchief, embroidered in rose spray pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Roses
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Costume
Ottoman


title: Cover (possibly for a Turban)

medium: Turban cover with all-over embroidery of flowers in silks, gold and silver.


title: Towel or Napkin


title: Towel/Napkin

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt metal strip and gilt metal strips in darning, fishbone, overcast, padded overcast, running, twined double runningl Russian overcast, satin and padded satin stitches


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Towel, embroidered with flower motifs.


title: Towel or Napkin


title: Towel or Napkin (Altered ?)


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Towel, embroidered with design of floral sprays.


title: Towel or Napkin


title: Fragment (Towel or Napkin Ends)

medium: Towel ends, embroidered with design of floral sprays.


title: Towel or Napkin


title: Towel or Napkin


title: Towel or Napkin


title: Towel or Sash


title: Towel or Napkin


title: Towel/Napkin

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and gilt and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped-silk in darning, fishbone, double running, and turned double running stitches; main warp knotted fringe


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: embroidery


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Towel, embroidered with six daggers with inscriptions, black and gold.


title: Towel or Napkin (Altered)


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Linen; silk embroidery


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Towel, embroidered with floral and fruit scroll motif.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Fruits
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: embroidered


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Embroidered


title: Towel or Napkin

medium: Towel, embroidered with design of floral motifs.


title: Towel or Napkin (Altered)


title: Towel or Napkin


title: Towel, Napkin or Sash

medium: Emboroidered


title: Towel


title: Sash

medium: Embroidered with basket design; colors and gold

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Costume
Ottoman


title: Towel

medium: Embroidered with floral designs


title: Towel


title: Towel

medium: Linen and cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk, linen and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in darning, fishbone, hem, overcast, double running, twined double running and satin stitches; main warp fringe


title: Towel


title: Towel

medium: Cotton, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; embroidered with silk and metal-strip-wrapped silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Floral arrangement
Diamond shape
Flower
Linen (material)
Embroidering
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman
Metal-strip-wrapped silk
Silk (textile)


title: Towel


title: Towel

medium: Eembroidered


title: Towel


title: Sash

creator: Republic of Türkiye or Eastern Europe

medium: embroidered in openwork pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Costume
Ottoman


title: Cushion Cover

medium: Linen, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and silk yarns in laid work and couching


title: Cover

medium: embroidered ends in a rose spray pattern, edged with a wide band of gold thread

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Roses
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Towel

medium: Silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning weft; embroidered with silk, gilt-metal-strips and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped-silk in checkered chain, darning, double running, herring bone, Russian overcast, satin and stem stitches; plied main warp fringe terminating in knotted tassel

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Skeletons & bones
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Towel

medium: Embroidered with floral and grape design


title: Cover

medium: Embroidered with rose spray pattern

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Roses
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Ottoman


title: Head Scarf

medium: Embroidered with floral border

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Towel


title: Towel

medium: Embroidered floral border designs


title: Towel

medium: Embroidered floral borders


title: Towel

medium: Embroidered in dagger motif


title: Towel

medium: embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Ottoman


title: Towel

medium: Embroidered in design of kiosk and cypress


title: Fragment (Towel End)

medium: Embroidered in design of floral sprays

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Ottoman


title: Cover

medium: silk, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in stem, double running, and satin stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Cover or Handkerchief

medium: Embroidered


title: Towel


title: Cover or Handkerchief

medium: Embroidered in floral, kiosk and cypress design


title: Cover or Handkerchief

medium: Silk and metal-strips; drawnwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Towel

medium: Silk and metal strips, embroidered


title: Panel

medium: Silk, satin weave with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk discontinuous supplementary facing wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Weaving - velvet
Weaving
Silk (fiber)
Ottoman


title: Cover or Handkerchief

medium: Embroidered in design of trees and tents

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Trees
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Towel

medium: Embroidered in floral motifs


title: Towel

medium: Embroidered borders at each end. Floral patterns

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Cover

medium: Border design of tents, trees and flowers

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Trees
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Sash

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk, gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Costume
Dress (garment)
Silk (fiber)
Clothing
Ottoman


title: Towel


title: Towel or Napkin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Turkish
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Ottoman


title: Towel or Napkin


title: True View of a Yokohama Mercantile House (Yokohama shokan shinzu)

creator: Utagawa Sadahide

medium: Color woodblock print; oban diptych (part of a triptych)

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: An American Mercantile Building in Yokohama (Yokohama ijin shokan no zu)

medium: Color woodblock print; oban triptych


title: Irises: beauty arranging hair, from an untitled series of beauties and flowers

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni I 初代 歌川 豊国

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Frederick W. Gookin Collection


title: Oteiroku, from the series "Fashionable Women as the One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Water Margin (Fuzoku onna Suikoden, ippyakuhachinin no uchi)"

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono

credit_line: Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus


title: America (Amerika)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige III


title: A Picture of Prosperity: America (Amerika shin no zu)

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige II (Shigenobu)


title: Saishin, from the series "Fashionable Women as the One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the Water Margin (Fuzoku onna Suikoden, ippyakuhachinin no uchi)"


title: Wu Song (Seikaken no san Busho), from the series "One Hundred and Eight Heroes of the [Popular] Water Margin ([Tsuzoku] Suikoden goketsu hyakuhachinin no hitori)"


title: Picture of Men and Women from Many Countries (Bankoku danjo jinbutsu zue)

creator: Ochiai Yoshiiku


title: Foreign Words (Ikoku kotoba)


title: Picture of a Banquet of People of Five Nations at the Gankiro Teahouse (Gokakoku gankiro ni oite sakamori no zu)

medium: Color woodblock prints; oban triptych


title: Picture of a Sumo Wrestling Match in Yokohama (Yokohama sumo no zu)

creator: Shigetoshi


title: The Actor Ichikawa Komazo II as the monk Shunkan in the play "Shunkan Shima Monogatari," performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the ninth month, 1791

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei

medium: Color woodblock print; from a multisheet hosoban composition


title: Actor Ichikawa Komazô III as Nyosan no Miya (The Third Princess), Ukare Zatô (A Blind Street Performer), and Sakata no Kaidô-maru in “Expanded Summer Festival” (“Zôho natsu matsuri”)

creator: Katsukawa Shun’ei

date: About 1791

medium: Color woodblock print; hosoban


title: Actor Asao Tamejûrô I as Drunken Gotôbei Doing a Sambasô Dance in “Yoshitsune’s Koshigoe Petition” (“Yoshitsune Koshigoe jô”)

date: About 1790


title: Actor Ichikawa Danjûrô V as Sukeroku in “The Seven Guises of Soga” (“Nanakusa Yosooi Soga”)

creator: Katsukawa Shunkô

medium:
Color woodblock print; hosoban (center sheet of
a triptych)


title: Actor Asao Tamejûrô I as Drunken Gotôbei in “Yoshitsune’s Koshigoe Petition” (“Yoshitsune Koshigoe jô”)


title: Stirrup Spout Vessel with Relief Depicting a Mythic Hunting Scene

creator: Chimú

medium: Ceramic

country: Peruvian North Coast

subjects:
Earthenware
Peruvian north coast
Ships & the sea
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings


title: Blackware Narrow Neck Jar with Shoulder Impressed with Birds

medium: Ceramic and pigment

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Birds
Blackware (black basaltes)
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Earthenware
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Vessel in the Form of a Gourd

subjects:
Earthenware
Peruvian north coast
Ships & the sea
Plant-derived motif
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Modeling (forming)
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Art of the america
Ande
Burnishing (polishing)
Arts of the america
Andean
Latin american


title: Handle Spout Vessel Depicting Seated Figure Drinking from Cup

creator: Possibly Chimú

subjects:
Earthenware
Peruvian north coast
Ships & the sea
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
South american
Latin american


title: Blackware Stirrup Spout Vessel with a Relief Depicting Warriors with Raised Arms


title: Fragment of a Blackware Vessel with a Relief Depicting a Warrior

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Blackware (black basaltes)
Ships & the sea
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Earthenware
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Reduced-scale Vessel

creator: Inca

country: Peru

subjects:
Earthenware
Peru
Ships & the sea
Ritual object
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Modeling (forming)
Inorganic material
Paint
Coating (material)
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Inca
Art of the america
Ande
Painting (image making)
Arts of the america
Andean
Latin american


title: Single-Handled Pedestal Jar with Geometric Motifs and Appliques on Shoulders

creator: Lambayeque

subjects:
Earthenware
Peruvian north coast
Vessel
Ceramic
Lambayeque
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Latin american


title: Blackware Jar with Single Spout

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Blackware (black basaltes)
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Earthenware
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Curving Vessel with Molded Head Spout

creator: Chimú-Inca

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Blackware (black basaltes)
Ships & the sea
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Inca
Earthenware
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Blackware Plate

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Blackware (black basaltes)
Decorative arts
Ceramic
Chimú
American decorative arts
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Earthenware
Vessel
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Blackware Cup with Abstract Faces Carved in Panels

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Blackware (black basaltes)
Vessel
Ceramic
Tiahuanaco
Inorganic material
Middle horizon
Pre-columbian
America
Lambayeque
Late intermediate period
Earthenware
Art of the america
Pigment
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Blackware Incense Burner with Relief Depicting Felines


title: Vessel with Relief Depicting Birds and Fish

subjects:
Fish
Peruvian north coast
Birds
Blackware (black basaltes)
Ships & the sea
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Inca
Earthenware
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Double-Chambered Vessel with Serrated Stirrup Spout in Form of Human Head


title: Stirrup Spout Vessel in the Form of Two Drums

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Blackware (black basaltes)
Ships & the sea
Vessel
Ceramic
Inca
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Earthenware
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Brownware Jar with Monkey in Relief on Flared Neck


title: Single Spout Strap Vessel with Attached Molded Figures

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Blackware (black basaltes)
Ships & the sea
Vessel
Ceramic
Lambayeque
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Earthenware
Art of the america
Pigment
Arts of the america
Latin american


title: Blackware Jar in the Form of a Figure with Bound Arms and Legs


title: Single Spout Vessel with Molded Abstract Figure

subjects:
Earthenware
Peruvian north coast
Ships & the sea
Vessel
Ceramic
Lambayeque
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Art of the america
Pigment
Arts of the america
Latin american


title: Jar in the Form of a Figure Holding a Drum and Carrying a Child

creator: Possibly Chimú-Inca

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Blackware (black basaltes)
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Inorganic material
Earthenware
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
South american
Latin american


title: Jar in the Form of a Jaguar Head

creator: Tiwanaku-Wari

country: Southern Peru

subjects:
Earthenware
Southern peru
Vessel
Ceramic
Tiahuanaco
Inorganic material
Middle horizon
Pre-columbian
America
Lambayeque
Late intermediate period
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Single Spout Bottle in the form of a Animal with Lined Skin

creator: Possibly Lambayeque

subjects:
Earthenware
Peruvian north coast
Vessel
Ceramic
Tiahuanaco
Inorganic material
Middle horizon
Pre-columbian
America
Lambayeque
Late intermediate period
Pigment
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Blackware Jar in the Form of an Animal, Possibly a Llama


title: Single Spout Blackware Vessel in the Form of a Crayfish


title: Double Spout and Bridge Vessel Depicting Incised and Painted Abstract Feline Face

creator: Paracas

subjects:
Earthenware
Peru
Ships & the sea
Vessel
Ceramic
Paraca
Inorganic material
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
South american
Latin american


title: Bowl with Incised and Painted Zigzag Motif

subjects:
Bowl
Peru
Vessel
Ceramic
Paraca
Earthenware
Inorganic material
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
South american
Latin american


title: Negative-Painted Spotted Vessel with Bird-Head Spout

subjects:
Earthenware
Peru
Birds
Ships & the sea
Pattern
Vessel
Ceramic
Paraca
Modeling (forming)
Inorganic material
Art of the america
America
Ande
Painting (image making)
Arts of the america
Andean
Latin american


title: Bowl with Fish Motif

medium: Ceramic with negative resist painting

country: Ocucaje

subjects:
Fish
Bowl
Ocucaje
Pattern
Vessel
Ceramic
Paraca
Modeling (forming)
Earthenware
Inorganic material
Early horizon
Pre-columbian
America
Art of the america
Ande
Painting (image making)
Arts of the america
Andean
Latin american


title: Strap-Handled Vessel in the Form of a Bird with Abstract Pattern on Body

medium: Ceramic with resinous postfire painting

country: Ica Valley

subjects:
Ornament & design
Earthenware
Ica valley
Birds
Ships & the sea
Vessel
Ceramic
Paraca
Inorganic material
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
South american
Latin american


title: Bottle with Incised Feline Tooth Motif Around Neck

subjects:
Earthenware
Peru
Vessel
Ceramic
Paraca
Inorganic material
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
South american
Latin american


title: Double Spout and Bridge Bottel Painted with Cream and Orange Slips


title: Blackware Jar in the Form of a Bird

subjects:
Peruvian north coast
Birds
Blackware (black basaltes)
Vessel
Ceramic
Chimú
Inorganic material
Late intermediate period
Pre-columbian
America
Earthenware
Art of the america
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
Latin american


title: Double-Spouted Orangeware Bottle

country: Cerro Blanco

subjects:
Earthenware
Cerro blanco
Vessel
Ceramic
Paraca
Modeling (forming)
Inorganic material
Early horizon
Pre-columbian
America
Art of the america
Ande
Arts of the america
Andean
Latin american


title: Corn Popper with Incised Geometric Motif

subjects:
Earthenware
Peru
Vessel
Terracotta
Paraca
Inorganic material
Art of the america
Ceramic
Arts of the america
Andean
Ande
South american
Latin american


title: The Supper after the Masked Ball

creator: Thomas Couture (French, 1815-1879)

medium: Woodcut with painted and stenciled additions on tan wove paper, laid down on fabric, and stretched on a wooden stretcher

country: France

subjects:
Woodcut
France
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Zita Cogan, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke, Marjorie Glaser, Inez Heginbotham, Frank Hubachek, Prints and Drawings, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Prussian, and John Winterbotham Memorial Funds; Helen Davis Bailey, Robert M. Chase, Stanley Field, Everett D. Graff, The Hannan Fund, Henry Huxley, William McCallin McKee Memorial, Prints and Drawings, Joseph T. Ryerson, Elizabeth Gott Templeton, and John H. Wrenn Memorial Endowments; through prior acquisitions of Paula Gerard, Katherine Kuh, and Ellen N. LaMotte


title: Cow Relieving Itself

creator: Nicolaes Berchem

medium: Etching on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Etching
Holland
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections


title: Terracotta hydria (water jar)

creator: Leagros Group

date: ca. 510 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1956


title: Life of Henry M. Stanley, from the Histories of Poor Boys and Famous People series of booklets (N79) 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: Galloon

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Vase fragment

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Trade Card for Nathaniell Ponder, Bookseller

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Terracotta fragments of a stemless cup (drinking cup)

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


title: Pair of piano candlesticks

creator: N. Smith and Co.

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Frances and Edward Munves, 1964


title: Snuffbox

date: mid-18th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt; copper-gilt mounts

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890


title: Plate 7: two horses ascending the bank of a river at right, following a procession of horses and one horseman to the left, from "Diversi Capricci"

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; third state of four (De Vesme)

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Design for the Parish Church of Merkershausen

creator: Balthasar Neumann

medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash, watercolor, over graphite or black chalk

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


title: Cylinder seal with the name of Amenemhat II

medium: Steatite

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


title: Inrō with Scattered Chrysanthemums

date: first half of the 19th century

medium: Four cases; lacquered wood with gold, silver hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, red lacquer, muranashiji on black lacquer ground; Netsuke: ivory and metal, kagamibuta type; crossing boat; Ojime: metal bead

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Twelve Heads

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Barbara E. Fox, from the Collection of Howard A. Fox, MD, and Barbara E. Fox, 2022


title: R. & Co.

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Saint Peter as Pope

creator: Savonnerie Manufactory

medium: Wool (169-95 knots per sq. inch, 25-30 per sq. cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Adolphe Pierre Riffaut

date: second half 19th century

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Invitation to a Benefit Dinner from Hubert von Herkomer to Thomas Agnew

creator: Sir Hubert von Herkomer

medium: Lithograph with lettering in pen and ink

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1964


title: Roundel with Susanna Led to Judgement

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: North Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
North netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1932


title: Perron. Jules. 31 ans, né le 9/8/62 à Saint-Denis (Seine). Journalier. Anarchiste. 75/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

medium: Terracotta


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Denticulated Tool

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of C. T. Currelly, 1906


title: Bronze handles of a volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Two terracotta fragments of a large jar with reticulated pattern enclosing conventional flowers

subjects:
Ornament & design
Vase
Minoan
Flowers

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1911


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Cosmetic jar

creator: F. P., London

medium: Silver, glass

credit_line: Gift of Madame Lilliana Teruzzi, in memory of her mother, 1973


title: Armorer, United States Navy, 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

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


title: Sherd with incised decoration

date: ca. late 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Snake bracelet

date: 1st century CE

medium: Gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


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


title: Floral Tent Panel

medium: Silk, gold; cut velvet, painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Helen W. D. Mileham, by exchange, Wendy Findlay Gift, and funds from various donors, 1981


title: Agate scarab

medium: Agate

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gems
Etruscan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Bronze mirror

date: 3rd century BCE

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Netsuke of Animal Face Mask

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Jimmy Carroll, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: View of Pompeii

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and black and gray ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis L. Noble, 1935


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Serpent King (Nagaraja)

creator: Vietnam

date: Champa Period, 9th/10th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Vietnam

subjects:
Sandstone
Vietnam
Southeast asian
Stone
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: Russell Tyson Fund


title: The Five Deaths

medium: Etching and engraving in black ink on cream laid paper

country: Italy

subjects:
Italy
Etching
Paper
Print
Printing process

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund


title: Panel

creator: Possibly Egypt or Republic of Türkiye

date: about 1880

medium: Cotton, plain weave; cut and drawnwork embroidered with silk floss and gold gilt strip wound around a cotton fiber core in darning and hem stitches and darned wheels; and embroidered in back, cross, and satin stitches

country: Egypt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Egypt
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Frances Rooz


title: Cenotaph Cover Fragment (Ravza-ı Mutahhara Cover)

creator: Republic of Türkiye

date: 17th‒19th century

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary patterning wefts tied by secondary binding warps in 3/1 twill interlacings

country: Turkey

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Weaving
Islamic
Silk (fiber)
Islamic (culture or style)

credit_line: Gift of Logan-Patten-Ryerson Collection


title: Turban Panel

medium: Embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Robert Allerton


title: Sash

creator: Iran or Republic of Türkiye

medium: Silk embroidery worked nearly solidly in chain stitch and drawn stitch. Fine white cotton cloth. Borders around all sides of circular spiral medallions and panels filled by bute, tulips, and floral sprays.

country: Iran

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Iran
Flowers
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson


title: Border

creator: Eastern Mediterranean or Republic of Türkiye

medium: Silk, needle lace; embroidered in back, four-sided open work, running, and satin stitches; French knots; mounted to cotton fiber paper

country: Mediterranean Region

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Mediterranean region
Paper (fiber product)
Lace - needle
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Cover or HandKerchief

creator: Istanbul, Republic of Türkiye

medium: borders embroidered with colored silk floss in flower and tree forms.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Flowers
Trees
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of the Needlework and Textile Guild


title: Cover

medium: Linen embroidered with multicolor silk.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Sash

medium: embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Bloom.


title: Towel

medium: Embroidered in silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Miss Avrina Pugh


title: Towel

medium: Cotton, plain weave, embroidered at both ends with elaborate border design of bright colored silks and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Avrina Pugh


title: Cover

medium: Embroidered cover

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. C. Phillip Miller


title: Panel

creator: Bursa, Republic of Türkiye

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Weaving - velvet
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by Burton Y. Berry in memory of Margaret O. Gentles


title: Fragment

medium: Silk; lampas technique

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Fund


title: Fragment

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Weaving


title: Sampler (çeşit)

creator: Ümmü Gülsün (active 18th/19th century)

date: 18th‒19th century

medium: Cotton or linen, with silk embroidery and crochet lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Needlework (visual works)
Sampler

credit_line: Gift of Burton Y. Berry


title: Fragment

medium: Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with weft-float faced 1:3 'Z' twill interlacings of secondary binding warps, self-patterning complementary ground wefts, and supplementary brocading wefts; two fragments pieced


title: Towel

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered


title: Cope

medium: Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with supplementary brocading wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Liturgical
Weaving - velvet
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Near Eastern Textile Fund


title: Fragment

creator: Italy or Republic of Türkiye

medium: Silk, warp-float faced 4:1 satin weave with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, discontinuous supplementary facing wefts and supplementary pile warps forming cut voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Italy
Weaving - velvet
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Martin A. Ryerson through the Antiquarian Society


title: Bath Towel

date: 18th or 19th century

medium: Linen, twill weave with bands of plain weave with main warp loop pile; pulled thread work embroidered with silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk in double and Russian overcast filling stitches; embroidered in double running and satin stitches; main warp fringe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Fell in honor of Christa C. Mayer Thurman's 25th Anniversary at the Art Institute of Chicago


title: Landscape with Sheep, from The Small Landscapes

creator: Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert (Dutch, active in Flanders, c. 1586–1659)

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

country: Flanders

subjects:
Engraving
Flander
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections


title: Landscape with the Great Ruins, from The Small Landscapes

credit_line: Print Sales Miscellaneous Fund


title: Landscape with Philemon and Baucis, from Large Landscapes

medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper

country: Netherlands

subjects:
Engraving
Netherland
Landscapes
Paper (fiber product)
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Gift of Anne-Marie Logan


title: The Power of Woman [3 Esdras 4:18-19, 22-23, 29-32], from The Four Strongest Powers

creator: Philips Galle (Flemish, 1537–1612)

subjects:
Engraving
Flander
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds


title: The Power of the King [3 Esdras 4:3-8], from The Four Strongest Powers


title: The Power of Wine [3 Esdras 3:19-23], from The Four Strongest Powers


title: Jesus Wrapped in the Robe of Fools, plate 12 from The Passion of Christ

creator: Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella (French, 1636-1697)

medium: Etching, with engraving, in black on gray laid paper

subjects:
Print
France
Ink
Paper
Print and drawing
Laid paper
Etching

credit_line: The Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston Endowment Fund


title: The Power of Truth [3 Esdras 4:36, 38], from The Four Strongest Powers


title: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois, Detail Drawings

creator: D.H. Burnham & Company

medium: Ink, colored inks, and pencil on linen

country: United States

subjects:
Architecture
United state
Architectural drawing

credit_line: Purchased with funds provided by the Frank E. and Seba B. Payne Foundation


title: Fragment (Border)

creator: Greece, Cyclades, or Dodecanese Islands

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in running (pattern darning), satin, and stem stitches

country: Greece

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Greece
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: Towel

creator: Greece or Republic of Türkiye

date: 18th century

medium: Linen and silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in double running, flat twined double running, and satin stitches; plied warp fringe with knotted silk tassels

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Greece
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: Towel

medium: Silk, plain weave embroidered with stem stitch, two-sided plaited Spanish stitch

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lee Winfield Alberts


title: Scarf/Sash

creator: Republic of Türkiye or Russia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Weaving
Costume

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Chauncey B. Borland


title: Fragment

medium: Square, embroidered on linen in polychrome silks

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Embroidery
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred W. Stern


title: Cover

date: 19th Century

medium: Cover, red, wool, hand woven and embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Herman Justi


title: Fragment (Dress Fabric)

medium: Brocaded plain compound cloth

credit_line: Gift of Carolyn M. Wicker


title: Panel

date: 16th century

medium: Silk; brocaded in elaborate interlacing forms filled with octagonal shapes

credit_line: Edward E. Ayer Endowment Fund in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson


title: Cushion Cover

medium: Velvet, cut voided

credit_line: Gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne


title: Panel

date: 17th century

medium: Scutari velvet brocade

credit_line: Gift of Emma B. Hodge


title: Fragment

medium: Velvet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emilie Wild, Chicago


title: Cover

medium: Embroidered with polychrome silk, gold, and silver in chain stitch on plain rose silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Roses
Needlework (visual works)
Weaving
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Alice Getty


title: Panel

medium: textile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Weaving - velvet


title: Panel

medium: Silk and gilt-metal strip, warp-float faced broken warp chevron twill weave with supplementary facing wefts and two-color supplementary pile warps forming cut and uncut voided velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Weaving - velvet
Silk (fiber)


title: Cover

medium: Cover, flate gold embroidery on red silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Tiffany Blake


title: Towel

medium: embroidery

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Etta Doane Marden


title: Two Borders Joined

medium: Linen, plain weave; pulled thread work embroidered with linen, silk, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in hem and overcast stitches; cut and drawn work embroidered in darning and hem stitches; selvages present at top and bottom

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Turkey
Linen (material)
Embroidering
Silk (textile)
Gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk
Plain weaving
Drawnwork
Needlework (visual works)


title: Portrait of Auguste Raffet

creator: Auguste Bry

medium: Lithograph in black on ivory China paper, laid down on white wove paper

country: France

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Portraits
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Albert Roullier Memorial Collection


title: Schoolboys Fighting

medium: Lithograph in black on off-white wove paper

subjects:
Lithograph
France
Paper (fiber product)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection


title: Le Parc du Chateau (Valance)

creator: Designed by Jean Baptiste Huet (French, 1745–1811)

medium: Cotton, plain weave; copperplate printed

country: Jouy-en-Josas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Jouy-en-josa
Copperplate printing
Weaving - printed
Furnishing textile

credit_line: Textile Purchase Fund


title: Bolster Cover

creator: Greece, Epirus Province, Ioannina

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk yarns in closed herringbone and stem stitches

credit_line: Gift of Burton Y. Berry


title: Bedcover

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in chain, running (pattern darning) and satin stitches; couching; three loom widths joined


title: Bedcover

date: 17th/18th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk in chain, Roumanian, adn stem stitches; Bokhara couching; three panels pieces


title: Buddha Head

creator: Afghanistan or Pakistan

date: 3rd-5th century

medium: Stucco

country: Gandhara

subjects:
Stuccowork
Gandhara
Gandharan
Kushan
Indian (south asian)
South asian
Asian
Sculpture
Asian art

credit_line: James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection


title: Spoon inthe Form of a Lotus Leaf

creator: China

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644), late 16th/early 17th century

medium: Jade

country: China

subjects:
Jade
China
Asian art

credit_line: Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection


title: Buddha Head

medium: Stucco with traces of pigment


title: Musical Chime

date: Qing dynasty, inscribed and dated 26th year of Qianlong period (1761)

medium: Jade with gilt decoration

subjects:
Jade
China
Chinese (culture or style)
Asian art
Ritual object


title: John James Audubon discovering his drawings eaten by a rat

creator: Artist unknown

medium: Color woodblock print; oban

country: Japan

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print


title: Foreign Reflecting-reality Mirror (Ijin shashin kagami no zu)

date: early 1860s

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Plaque with Openwork Phoenix

date: Five Dynasties period (907–960) / Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), 10th/14th century


title: Vase with Dragons

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects:
Jade
China
Nephrite
Asian art


title: Musical Chime

date: Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th century


title: Dagger-axe

date: Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 B.C.)

subjects:
Jade
China
Asian art
Ritual object


title: Battle of Amazons

creator: Unknown artist

medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, on tan laid paper, laid down on brown wove paper

subjects:
Ink or chalk wash
Italy
Paper (fiber product)
Ink
Coating (material)
Wash
Laid paper
Drawing (visual works)
Print and drawing

credit_line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection


title: Teabowl

date: Jin dynasty (1115–1234), 12th century

medium: Northern blackware, Cizhou type; stoneware with black glaze and overglaze russet flecks

subjects:
Drinking vessel
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection


title: Oil bottle with Scrollwork

creator: Korea

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), 12th/13th century

medium: Stoneware with underglaze inlaid decoration of black and white clays

country: South Korea

subjects:
Vessel
South korea
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Korean (culture or style)

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg Art Properties LLC


title: Lobed Bowl with Lotus Scrolls

date: Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)

medium: Qingbai ware; porcelain with underglaze carved decoration

subjects:
Bowl
China
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Vessel


title: Pair of Hairpin Finials with Flower Heads

date: Song dynasty (960–1279)

medium: Ding ware, porcelain with underglaze molded decoration

subjects:
China
Flowers
Decorative arts


title: Ovoid Jar with Looped Bows

date: Five Dynasties period (907–960) or Song dynasty (960–1279), c. 10th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze applied decoration

subjects: China Vessel


title: “Basketweave” Bowl

date: Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), 11th/12th century

subjects:
Bowl
China
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
Vessel


title: “Basketweave” Bowl

date: Northern Song (960–1127) or Liao dynasty (907–1124), c. 11th century

medium: Ding-type ware; porcelain with underglaze molded decoration


title: Covered Globular Jar

medium: Ding-type ware; glazed porcelain

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel


title: Lobed Dish with Sylized Peony Scrolls and Key-Fret Border

date: Jin dynasty (1115–1234)

medium: Ding ware; porcelain with underglaze molded decoration and copper rim

subjects:
China
Decorative arts


title: Lobed Dish with Stylized Peony Scrolls and Key-Fret Border


title: Globular Ewer

date: Five Dynasties period (907–960) or Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), c. 10th/11th century

subjects:
Ewer (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Ceramic


title: Lobed Melon-Shaped Ewer

medium: Qingbai ware; porcelain with underglaze molded decoration


title: Petal-Lobed Dish

date: Northern Song dynasty (960–1127)

medium: Qingbai ware; glazed porcelain

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Lobed Cosmetic Box with Peonies

date: Southern Song (1127–1279) or Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), 13th/14th century


title: Dish with Lobed Cavetto and Peony Scroll

date: Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279), gilding added later

medium: Qingbai-type ware; porcelain with overglaze gilding


title: Globular Loop-Handled Jar with Diamond Pattern

medium: Ding-type ware; porcelain with underglaze carved decoration

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel


title: Scalloped Dish with Stylized Floral Sprays and Sickle-Leaf Scrolls

date: Northern Song (960–1127) or Jin dynasty (1115–1234), 12th/13th century

medium: Yaozhou ware; glazed stoneware with underglaze molded decoration

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Flowers
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Dish with Inverted Petal-Lobed Rim

medium: Yaozhou ware; glazed stoneware

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Vessel


medium: Yaozhou ware; glazed stoneware with underglaze molded scrolls


title: Dish with Petal-Lobed Rim, Stylized Peony, and Sickle-Leaf Scrolls

medium: Yaozhou ware; stoneware with underglaze molded decoration


title: Tripod Incense Burner (Censer)

medium: Longquan ware; glazed stoneware with molded decoration

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel


title: Double Melon-Shaped Box

date: Five dynasties (907–960)

medium: Yue ware; stoneware with underglaze carved and molded decoration

subjects:
Vessel
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)


title: Cylindrical Tripod Censer (Incense Burner) with Cloud-Scroll Feet

medium: Longquan ware; glazed stoneware with underglaze molded decoration


title: Teabowl

date: Song dynasty (960–1279), 12th/13th century

medium: Jian ware; stoneware with dark brown glazes and "hare's fur" markings

subjects:
Drinking vessel
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Bowl with Winding Strokes

date: Southern Song (1127–1279) or Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), 12th/14th century

medium: Jizhou ware; light grey stoneware with dark brown glaze and painting in overglaze buff

subjects:
Bowl
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Small Wide-Mouthed Jar

date: Northern Song (960–1127) or Jin dynasty (1115–1234), c. 12th century

medium: Northern blackware, Cizhou type; stoneware with russet-streaked dark brown glaze


title: Triple Covered Box with Branches of Floral Heads

medium: Celadon-glazed stoneware with molded and applied decoration

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Flowers
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel


title: Scalloped-Rimmed Dish


title: Small Globular Jar with Rolled Lip and Stylized Leaves

medium: Cizhou ware; stoneware with carved-slip decoration


title: Miniature Buddhist Water Sprinkler (Kundika) with Lotus-leaf Spout

date: late Song (960–1279) or Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), c. 13th century

medium: Glazed stoneware


title: Ring-Handled Cup

medium: Cizhou-type ware; white-glazed stoneware with iron spots


title: Cup and Stand

medium: Cizhou type ware; glazed stoneware with iron-brown spots on saucer, abstract floret in bowl


title: Tea Bowl with "Oil Spot" Markings

medium: Northern blackware, Cizhou type; grey stoneware with dark brown glaze and overglaze iron oxide

subjects:
Drinking vessel
China
Ships & the sea
Basalt ware
Chinese (culture or style)
Stoneware
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Deep Bowl

medium: Green Yazhou ware; glazed stoneware

subjects:
Bowl
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Vessel


title: Compressed Spherical Bowl ("Alms Bowl")

medium: Marbled earthenware with clear glaze

subjects:
Vessel
China
Ships & the sea
Earthenware
Chinese (culture or style)
Bowl


title: Bowl

subjects:
Bowl
China
Earthenware
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Vessel


title: Conical Bowl

date: Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), 11th century

medium: Northern russet ware, Cizhou type; grey stoneware with russet glaze


title: Cup and Cupstand

date: Song (960–1279) or Jin dynasty (1115–1234), c. 12th century

medium: Northern blackware, Cizhou type; glazed stoneware with dark bronze glaze (saucer); white slip under transparent glaze (cup)


title: Bowl with Zigzag Strokes


title: Handled Ewer with Vertical Ribs

date: Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) or Jin dynasty (1115–1234), 12th/13th century

medium: Northern blackware, Cizhou type; light grey stoneware with white trailed slip under dark brown glaze

subjects:
Ewer (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Ceramic


title: Teabowl

date: Jin dynasty (1115–1234), 12th century

medium: Northern blackware, Cizhou type; stoneware with dark brown glaze and overglaze russet flecks


title: Teardrop-Shaped Incense Burner (Cintanmani)

date: Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279)

medium: Jizhou-type ware; stoneware with olive-brown glaze and openwork decoration


title: Bowl with Striated Petals

date: Song (960–1279) or Jin dynasty (1115–1234), c. 12th/13th century

medium: Northern blackware, Cizhou type; stoneware with traces of overglaze silver or powdered gold decoration

subjects:
Bowl
China
Basalt ware
Chinese (culture or style)
Stoneware
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Covered Jar with Floral Motif

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), 12th century

medium: Stoneware with celadon glaze

country: South Asia

subjects:
Vessel
South asia
Flowers
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Korean (culture or style)


title: Bowl with Calligraphic Strokes

date: Southern Song (1127–1279) or Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), c. 12th/14th century

medium: Jizhou ware; light grey stoneware with dark brown glaze and painting in overglaze buff


title: Oil Bottle with Floral Motifs

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), early 11th century

medium: Stoneware with celadon glaze and iron-brown underglaze

subjects:
Vessel
South korea
Flowers
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Korean (culture or style)


title: Lobed Jar

subjects:
Vessel
South korea
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Korean (culture or style)


title: Lid with Lion-Dog, probably for Incense Burner

date: Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), c. 12th century

medium: Yaozhou ware; stoneware with underglaze molded decoration


title: Tripod Vessel with Squared Handles, Wheel Patterns at Neck

medium: Stoneware with molded/applied relief and iron brown glaze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Vessel
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic


title: Small Bottle Vase

date: Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), first half of the 14th century

medium: Qingbai ware; glazed porcelain in iron spots

subjects:
Vase
China
Porcelain
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Ceramic


title: Square Jar with Archaistic "Trigrams" and Floral Scrolls

date: Yuan (1271–1368) or Ming dynasty (1368–1644), c. 14th/16th century

medium: Longquan-type ware; stoneware with underglaze molded decoration


title: Small Double-Gourd Bottle

date: Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)

medium: Stoneware with iron brown-black glaze


title: Square Dish with Symbols of Longevity and Immortality

medium: Longquan ware; stoneware with underglaze molded decoration

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Lobed Jar in Form of Balambing (Philippine Island Star Fruit)

date: Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), first half of 14th century

medium: Qingbai ware; glazed porcelain with iron spots

subjects: Ceramic China Fruits Porcelain Vessel


title: Scalloped-Rim Dish with Confronted Phoenixes and Floral Stamen

date: Yuan dynasty (1279–1368)

medium: Longquan ware; stoneware with underglaze molded decoration and applied decoration in biscuit reserve

subjects:
Dish (vessel)
China
Flowers
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel


title: Covered Cosmetic Box with Floret Scrolls

date: Song (960–1279) or Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), c. 12th/13th century

medium: Jizhou-type ware; stoneware with olive-brown glaze and underglaze molded decoration

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel


title: Lobed Cup and Stand with Floral Motifs

date: Goryeo dynasty (918–1392), 12th /13th century

country: North Korea

subjects:
Drinking vessel
North korea
Flowers
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Korean (culture or style)
Vessel


title: Lobed Cup

medium: Stoneware with underglaze molded decoration

subjects:
Drinking vessel
South korea
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Melon-Shaped Ewer (Wine Pot) with Flower-Head/ Foliate Lid

date: Southern Song (1127–1279) or Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), c. 13th century

subjects:
Ewer (vessel)
China
Flowers
Ships & the sea
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel
Ceramic


title: Shallow Lobed Bowl

date: Northern Song (960–1127) or Jin dynasty (1115–1234), c. 12th century

medium: Northern blackware, Cizhou type; stoneware with russet-streaked dark brown glaze


title: Persimmon Bowl

date: Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), 11th/12th century

medium: Russet Yaozhou ware; light grey stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze

subjects:
Bowl
China
Stoneware
Chinese (culture or style)
Dish (vessel)
Ceramic
Vessel


title: Teardrop-shaped Perfume Container with Birds, Foliage, and Flowers

date: Song dynasty (960–1279)

medium: Yellow gold with with hammered, repoussé, and chased decoration

subjects: Jewelry China Birds Flowers Costume


title: Pair of Phoenixes

date: Ming dynasty (1368–1644)

medium: Gold; hammered, openwork, and chased decoration

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
China


title: Covered Box with Floral Blooms, Tendrils, and Billowy Clouds

date: Tang dynasty (618–907), 8th century

medium: Silver with chased and ring-punched decoration

subjects:
China
Flowers
Decorative arts


title: Ring-Handled Cup

date: Tang dynasty (618–906)

medium: Marbled earthenware with clear glaze

subjects:
Drinking vessel
China
Ships & the sea
Earthenware
Chinese (culture or style)
Vessel


title: Globular Jar

date: Northern Song (960–1127) or Jin dynasty (1115–1234), 12th century

medium: Northern Blackware, Cizhou type; glazed stoneware

subjects: Ceramic China Stoneware Vessel


title: Buddha Head

date: 3rd-5th century

medium: Stucco with polychromy

subjects:
Stuccowork
Gandhara
South asian
Sculpture
Asian art
Gandharan

credit_line: Gift of Marilynn B. Alsdorf


title: Ravine Near Biskra

creator: Victor Pierre Huguet (French, 1835-1902)

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects:
Painting
France
Landscape
Sky
Sun
Animal
Rock
Mountain
Men
Water
River
Horse
Oil paint (paint)
Oil painting
Nineteenth century
French
Oil on canva
Oil painting (visual works)
Paint
Canva
Painting (image making)
Painting technique
European painting

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection


title: Panel (Half of a Bed Curtain)

creator: Greece, Dodecanese Islands, Patmos

date: 17th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in chain, double running, running (pattern darning), satin, and stem stitches; two loom widths joined

country: Patmos

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Patmo
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: Pillow Cover

creator: Greece, possibly Crete

medium: Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk in running stitches (pattern darning)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Greece
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: Sigismund Bathori, Prince of Transylvania

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Engraving on ivory laid paper

subjects:
Engraving
Flander
Paper
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds


title: Franciscus de Padoanis Foroliviensis (Francesco da Forlì)


title: Spring, from The Four Seasons

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II (Flemish, c. 1570–1629)

subjects:
Print
Flander
Paper
Print and drawing
Engraving
Ink
Laid paper


title: Rest on the Flight into Egypt


title: Winter, from The Four Seasons


title: Autumn, from The Four Seasons


title: Summer, from The Four Seasons


title: Scene Eight: A Forest with a Wooden Bridge, from Eight Scenes from Bohemia


title: Scene One: Watermill on an Island in a River with Men Fishing, from Eight Scenes from Bohemia


title: Adoration of the Magi


title: Panel (For a Bed Curtain)

creator: Greece, Patmos

date: 17th/18th century

medium: Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in chain, double running, running (pattern darning), satin, and stem stitches; two loom widths joined on panel "a"

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Greece
Linen (material)
Plain weaving
Needlework (visual works)
Embroidering
Silk (fiber)


title: Settee

creator: Attributed to Joseph Walter, active c. 1768-1793

medium: Mahogany and painted leather

country: England

subjects:
Seating
England
Furniture
Mahogany
Wood (plant material)
European decorative arts

credit_line: Gift of Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx


title: Firedog: Venus

creator: France

date: Mid 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze, iron supports

subjects:
Fireplace equipment
France
Bronze
Loui xv
European
European decorative arts
Metalwork

credit_line: W. G. Field Fund


title: Firedog: Vulcan

credit_line: Wentworth Greene Field Fund


title: Bed Valance

creator: Greece, Northern Sporades Islands, Skíros

date: 18th century

medium: Upper portion: cotton, plain weave; center band: silk, plain weave; lower portion: linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk in back, double running, running (pattern darning), satin, split, and stem stitches

country: Skíros

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textile
Skíro
Needlework (visual works)
Silk (fiber)


title: The Large Village Fair

creator: Sebald Beham

medium: Woodcut from four blocks on ivory laid paper

country: Germany

subjects:
Woodcut
Germany
Paper (fiber product)
Woodcut (process)
Print
Print and drawing

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer Collection Fund


title: Geisha looking up at a cuckoo, from the series "Five Annual Festivals for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushika gosekku)"

creator: Katsushika Taito II

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus


title: Woman on the bridge watching the moon


title: Plants, Shuttlecock (Hanetsuki), and Clock (Wadokei) for Rokurokusai's Birthday and Longevity

creator: Keisai Eisen

date: early 19th century

medium: Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; shikishiban; surimono

subjects:
Botany
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: A Standing Screen Depicting Narihira’s Journey to the East

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川 歌麿

medium: Color woodblock print; nagaban, surimono


title: The Lesser Water Dragon Year of the Tenpo Era

creator: Totoya Hokkei


title: Fan Kuai (Hankai), from the series "Three Broken Gates (Haitatsu sanban)"

creator: Yashima Gakutei

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: Lin Hejing (Rin Nasei) with Crane

date: 19th century


title: Woman with Shamisen and Cat


title: Japanese poetry, from the series "Three Classical Arts for the Sugawara Circle (Sugawara sanseki)"

date: early 1820s


title: Two Women Reading


title: The Tale of Sagoromo, from the series "Ten Courtly Tales for the Honcho Circle (Honchoren monogatari juban)"


title: Five Tiger Generals of the Tales of the Water Margin (Suikoden goko shogun)"

medium: Color woodblock prints; shikishiban pentaptych, surimono


title: Qin Ming (Shinmei)

medium: Color woodblock prints with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban pentaptych


title: A Poet in the New Year

date: late 1820s

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono


title: Glass mosaic carinated bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Jar with grapevine decoration

date: mid-18th century

medium: Porcelain with underglaze copper-red design

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

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: Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer

creator: Peter Paul Rubens

medium: Oil on copper

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Two Women Looking in Mirrors

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Bead

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Agate; cut and drilled

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Derbyshire Red Cap, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: New York from Hobuck

creator: Alexander Robertson

medium: Pen and iron-gall ink on off-white laid paper

country: American

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


title: Pet Polly, from the Household Pets series (N194) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Braid of Hair and Linen

medium: Hair (probably human), linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Fragment of Dish

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted under turquoise glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Flounce

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Glass double cosmetic flask (kohl tube)

date: 4th–5th century CE


title: Rufus Morse Newhall

creator: Mrs. Moses B. Russell (Clarissa Peters)

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of  Alvin and Davida Deutsch, in honor of Kathy Luhrs, 1984


title: Design for Panel Decoration

creator: J. Hulme

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: Tile with Buddha and a pagoda

medium: Clay

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Mathias Komor, 1951


title: The Seizure of the States of the Church

creator: Bertrand Andrieu

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: Scarab with Double Lotus Design

medium: Blue glazed steatite

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


title: Study for the Muse Thalia

creator: Paul Baudry

medium: Black chalk, stumping, on gray paper

credit_line: Karen B. Cohen Fund, 1993


title: Ce est ung tractat de la noble art de leguille ascavoir ouvraiges de spaigne... page 2 (verso)

creator: Willem Vosterman

date: after 1527

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Chalcedony (?)

credit_line: Gift of The Right Reverend Paul Moore Jr., 1985


title: La Rétameuse

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on buff (darkened) chine on off-white wove (chine collé); second state of two (Glasgow)

credit_line: Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library


title: Dish with Design of Court Lady by the Gate of a Shinto Shrine

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

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Candlestick (one of a pair)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Ile de Fîleh (Philæ), Deuxième Pylône - Partie Orientale Vue de la Plateforme Inférieure du Premier Pylône, du Point G

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Crescent-shaped earrings with balls and granulation

date: 2nd century CE

medium: gold

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Covered Urn

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

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


title: Veiled woman

creator: Giovanni Battista Lombardi

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Robert L. Isaacson, 1984


title: Shabti coffin, clay

medium: Clay (unfired), paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Cuirass

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wood, lacquer, leather

country: Yi or Nuosu people (Lolo)

subjects:
Yi or nuosu people (lolo)
Armor parts-cuirasse

credit_line: Gift of the Very Rev. Father L. Robert, 1920, through Ralph Weymouth


title: Standing cup with cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Flageolet in E

medium: Cocus wood

country: possibly French

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-flageolet
Possibly french

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Caricature of a Grandee

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on light tan paper

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Study of two figures, one lunging at the other

creator: Félicien Rops

medium: graphite

credit_line: Gift of Dana Broccoli, 1978


title: Barrel Organ

creator: Ignaz Bruder

medium: Wood, various materials

country: German

subjects: Aerophone-automatic German


title: Bracelet

creator: Middle Niger artist

date: 14th century (?)

medium: Copper alloy

country: Middle Niger civilization

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Middle niger civilization

credit_line: Gift of Drs. John and Nicole Dintenfass, 1998


title: Marc Bochart

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 2nd half of 1st century CE

subjects: Terracotta Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Table

creator: Léon Marcotte

medium: Walnut, amboina pine, maple, poplar, ash, cherry, hornbeam

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1934


title: Femme de métier (étude de jeune fille appuyée sur une chaise)

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Drypoint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Shouldered jar with two lugs

medium: Limestone breccia

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: Initiation Card (Tsakalis): Mahakala

date: early 15th century

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

country: Tibet

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 2000


title: Painted fan with a design of feathers and three medallions

creator: Charles Edward Conder

medium: Watercolor on silk with white gouache heightening

credit_line: Bequest of James David Draper, from the Robert Isaacson Collection, 2019


title: Scarab Finger Ring of an Official

medium: Green jasper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: The Five Tiger Generals of the Tales of the Water Margin (Suikoden Goko Shogun)

creator: Yashima Gakutei

medium: Color woodblock prints with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban pentaptych

country: Japan

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art

credit_line: Gift of Helen C. Gunsaulus


title: No. 2: Guan Yu (Sono ni: Kan'u), from the series "Three Heroes of Shu (Shoku sanketsu)"

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono


title: No. 1: Liu Bei (Sono ichi: Ryubi), from the series "Three Heroes of Shu (Shoku sanketsu)"


title: No. 3: Zhang Fei (Sono san: Chohi), from the series "Three Heroes of Shu (Shoku sanketsu)"


title: A Woman Pulling the Cord of a Wheeled Book Case, from the series "A Set of Seven for the Katsushika Club"

medium: Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono shikishiban


title: A Woman with a Poem Card, from the series "A Set of Seven for the Katsushika Club"


title: Ono no Komachi, from the series "Framed Pictures of Women for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushikaren gakumen fujin awase)"


title: A Woman Holding a Letter Box, from the series "A Set of Seven for the Katsushika Club"

medium: Color woodblock print with metallic pigments, surimono shikishiban


title: Woman About to Write a Poem


title: Lady Tomoe (Tomoe jo), from the series "Framed Pictures of Women for the Katsushika Circle (Katsushikaren gakumen fujin awase)"


title: Two Court Ladies Admiring Cherry Blossoms

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono, vertical shikishiban diptych

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Flowers
Print
Asian art


title: Kyoto: Courtesan of the Shimabara, from an untitled series of the three capitals

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Print
Asian art


title: Mt. Fuji and Pine Tree

medium: Color woodblock print in six-fold manner

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Trees
Print
Asian art


title: Ebisu (Shobishin), from the series "A Parody of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Mitate shichifukujin)"


title: Osaka: Courtesan of the Shinmachi, from an untitled series of the three capitals


title: Two Chinese Women Examining Thread and a Spider’s Web in a Box, from the series "Diptych for the Drum Group"

medium: Color woodblock prints with metallic pigment; surimono shikishiban diptych

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Spiders & arachnids
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Dancing Courtesan and a Man (possibly poet Hisakataya), Two, from the pentaptych series of "Furuichi Dance Performance (Furuichi odori)" for the Hisakataya Poetry Club

date: mid 1820s

medium: Color woodblock print with metallic pigments; surimono

subjects:
Print
Japan
Asian art


title: Dancing Courtesans, One, from the pentaptych series of "Furuichi Dance Performance (Furuichi odori)" for the Hisakataya Poetry Club


title: Dancing Courtesans, Four, from the pentaptych series of "Furuichi Dance Performance (Furuichi odori)" for the Hisakataya Poetry Club


title: Dancing Courtesans, Three, from the pentaptych series of "Furuichi Dance Performance (Furuichi odori)" for the Hisakataya Poetry Club


title: Dancing Courtesans, Five, from the pentaptych series of "Furuichi Dance Performance (Furuichi odori)" for the Hisakataya Poetry Club


title: Kamata, from the series "A Record of a Journey to Enoshima, a Set of Sixteen (Enoshima kiko, jurokuban tsuzuki)"

creator: Totoya Hokkei


title: Hamagawa, from the series "A Record of a Journey to Enoshima (Enoshima kiko)"


title: Women Watching Children Flying Kites

medium: Color woodblock print; surimono


title: Fujisawa, from the series "A Record of a Journey to Enoshima (Enoshima kiko)"


title: Carp Swiming Upstream

medium: Color woodblock print


title: Women and Men by the Bento Shop


title: Ferry boat crossing the Sumida River, from the album "Friends of the Three Capitals (Santo no tomoe)"

medium: Color woodblock print; double-page illustration from album


title: The Palace of Longevity

medium: Color woodblock print; otanzaku, surimono


title: Raiko (Minamoto no Yorimitsu) and the demon kite

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban surimono


title: Ushiwakamaru (Minamoto no Yoshitsune) defeats Benkei in a game of sugoroku


title: Sarutahiko, No. 2 (Sono ni) from the series "The Boulder Door of Spring (Haru no iwato)"


title: Ama no Uzume, No. 3 (Sono san) from the series "The Boulder Door of Spring (Haru no iwato)"


title: The drummer, No. 1 (Sono ichi) from the series "The Boulder Door of Spring (Haru no iwato)"


title: Beauty in a Boat during a Rainstorm


title: Willow Island (Yanagishima), from the series "A Series of Willows (Yanagi bantsuzuki)"


title: Willow Shop (Yanagiya), from the series "A Series of Willows (Yanagi bantsuzuki)"


title: Minamoto no Yoshitsune (Ushiwaka Maru) Playing a Flute


title: The Sumida River (Sumidagawa), from the series "View of Mount Fuji from Edo (Edo no Fuji)"


title: Children Playing Tug of War


title: Nobleman and court lady boating at night near a snow-covered shore


title: Children Playing


title: Two Men at a Shrine, Horse and Rider


title: Tea House and Fishing Farm by the Grand View of Kanto


title: Woman Staring at Ducks, or The Righteous Body (Shin), from the series "Three Works of Three Aesthetics (San tai san ban shoku)"

date: about 1830


title: Women Reading a Stele Inscription, from the series the "Twelve Shrines at Yotsuya (Yotsuya juni so)"

date: early 19th century


title: Courtesan carrying a decorated tray

date: early to mid–1820s


title: Courtesan and Pekingese Dog at New Year


title: Bronze (Do), Woman Grooming Pekingese Dog, from the series "The Five Metals (Gokin no uchi)"


title: Woman Playing with Pekingese Dog, or The Elegance and Freedom of Script (So), from the series "Three Works of Three Aesthetics (San tai san ban shoku)"


title: The shell-matching game, from the series Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)

date: Early 1830s

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Shells & molluscs
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Promise (Seiyaku no ukei), from the series "Eighteen Illustrations of the Ladder of Ancient Words (Kogentei juhachiban tsuzuki)"


title: Nobleman playing flute, from the series "Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa)"

date: early 1830s


title: Woman reading poems in a study room

creator: Katsushika Hokuga


title: Daikoku, from the series of "Seven Gods of Luck (Shichi fuku jin no uchi)"


title: Bridge post and crescent moon


title: Yamauba in the Ashigawa Mountains Accompanied by Flying Nightingale (Uguisu) Men, the second piece from the diptych of "Spring Mountains (Haru no yama-mata)"

medium: Color woodblock print; left piece of the diptych


title: Benzaiten appearing to Taira no Kiyomori


title: Courtesan watching foreign ship from balcony

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Ships & the sea
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Seated woman holding brush and poem card


title: The Salt Dragon


title: Seated Guanyu Reading the Book of Chunqiu by Zuo Qiuming


title: Two dolls and a brocade bag, from the series "Clothing, Food, and Shelter (Ishokuju no uchi)"


title: Benzaiten with monkey and rat


title: Yashima, a Warrior Play, from the series "Noh Songs of Gardens (Hanazono yokyoku bantsuzuki)"

date: about 1826


title: Xiangru (Jp: Shojo), from the series "Meng Qiu (Jp: Mogyu)"


title: The Old Couple from Takasago in Sunrise


title: Wang Xiang (Jp: O Sho), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijushiko)"


title: Asahina Saburo throwing beans


title: Madam Tang (Jp: To Fujin), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijushiko)"


title: Yu Qianlou (Jp: Yu Kinro), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijushiko)"


title: Earth: Lin Chong (Do, Rinchu), from the series "The Five Elements of The Water Margin (Suiko gogyo)"


title: Zeng Shen (Jp: So Shin), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijushiko)"


title: Water: Zhang Shun (Mizu, Chojun), from the series "The Five Elements of The Water Margin (Suiko gogyo)"


title: Wood: Lu Zhishen (Moku, Rochishin), from the series "The Five Elements of The Water Margin (Suiko gogyo)"


title: Fire: Song Jiangming (Ka, Sokomei), from the Series "Shuihuzhuan Heroes for the Five Elements (Suiko gogyo)"


title: Metal: Li Kui (Kin, Riki), from the series "The Five Elements of The Water Margin (Suiko gogyo)"


title: It is good to cut one's fingernails (Tsume tori yoshi), from the series "A Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki)"


title: Yokihi (Yang Guifei) Playing Koto, from the Series "Noh Songs of Gardens (Hanazono yokyoku bantsuzuki)"


title: It is good to do the first archery (Yumi hajime yoshi), from the series "A Series for the Hanazono Group (Hanazono bantsuzuki)"


title: Yu the Great battling a dragon

date: late 1820s


title: Narihira at the Nunobiki Waterfall, from the Episode 87 of Tales of Ise


title: Ryuo, the King of Dragon


title: Sea turtles and Urashima Taro


title: Woman Cooking Beans in the Store


title: Sunrise on New Year's Day at Kanazawa


title: Two dancing karako, from the series "Happiness and Long Life for the Mimasu Group (Mimasu fukurokuju)"

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of shikishiban diptych, surimono


title: Amanohashidate: Koshikibu no Naishi, No. 2 from "Three Famous Scenes (Sankei no uchi: Sono ni)"

medium: Color woodblock print; center sheet of shikishiban triptych (right: 1954.745, left: 1954.589), surimono


title: Miyajima: Takafusa, No. 3 from "Three Famous Scenes (Sankei no uchi: Sono san)"

medium: Color woodblock print; left sheet of shikishiban triptych (right: 1954.745, center: 1954.590), surimono


title: Four Courtesans Playing Music with Samisen

creator: Teisai Hokuba


title: Calligraphy Party of a Family


title: Courtesan Playing Music with Cups and Bowls


title: Two crabs by a spray of camellia

creator: Katsushika Taito II

date: late 1820s–early 1830s

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Crustaceans
Japanese (culture or style)
Print
Asian art


title: Three Travellers under a Pine Tree

creator: Hishikawa Sori

date: about 1790s


title: Two women gathering herbs


title: The Monkey Sambaso Dancer and his Trainers in front of a Beauty Screen

date: about 1824


title: A woman from Ohara on horseback


title: Potted adonis with writing implements

creator: Hishikawa Sori III


title: Two Women Playing Shuttlecock

creator: Katsushika Taito II (Hokusen）

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban diptych; surimono


title: A Branch of White Peach Blossom, an Inro case, and a Hotchiku Flute

creator: Hishikawa Sori 菱川宗理


title: Women Reading Book and Babysitting

creator: Senga


title: Tale of the Heike and a Lute Next to a Standing Screen

creator: Keisai Eisen

date: early 1820s


title: A Gourd Flask, a Cup, a Writing Box, and a Book for Rokurokusai

date: 19th century


title: Sample Books of Brocade Designs


title: A Couple Visiting the Wedded Rocks (Meoto Iwa) by Futamigaura


title: Harvesting the Flower by the Water, or Inaose, from the series "The Story of Three Birds (Sanchoden)"

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Birds
Flowers
Print
Asian art


title: Woman and Child Playing with a Dog


title: Daikoku with an Abacus and a Woman with a Rat Running up Her Arm


title: Arranged Flowers for New Year


title: Feeding the Myriad Bird (Momochidori), from the series "The Story of Three Birds (Sanchoden)"

subjects:
Woodblock print
Japan
Birds
Print
Asian art


title: Fleeing from the Samurai


title: Ono no Komachi with her Assistant, Washing a Book of Poetry


title: Warriors Fighting in the Snow

creator: Utagawa Kunisada I (Toyokuni III)


title: The actors Onoe Kikugoro III, Onoe Matsutake III, and Iwai Kumesaburo II

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban diptych


title: Second Illustration of Calligraphy and Painting Party on the Upper Floor of the Manpachiro Restaurant (Manpachiro jo shoga kaiseki no zu, onajiku sono ni)

medium: Color woodblock print; chuban, surimono


title: Guan Yu, Liu Bei, and Zhang Fei

medium: Color woodblock print; shikishiban, surimono


title: Ichikawa Danjūrō VII as Watanabe no Tsuna and Segawa Kikunojō V as the Female Demon, in “Modori Bridge” (Modoribashi)

creator: Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786-1864)

subjects:
Print
Japan
Block printing
Paper (fiber product)
Japanese (culture or style)
Asian art


title: The actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Kan Shojo (Sugawara Michizane) and Segawa Kikunojo V as Umeomaru in the play "Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami," performed at the Kawarazaki Theater in the ninth month, 1832

medium: Color woodblock print; vertical shikishiban diptych, surimono


title: The actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Soga Goro and Bando Mitsugoro III as Kobayashi no Asahina


title: The actors Ichikawa Danjuro VII as Mongaku and Matsumoto Koshiro V as Fudo Myoo


title: A Couple in the Bedroom

creator: Utagawa Kuniyasu