title: Copy of Geometria, from "The Liberal Arts"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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: Stamp seal (duck-shaped) with cultic scene

date: late 8th–6th century BCE

medium: Variegated pink and white Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Karnak (Thèbes), Palais - Salle Hypostyle - Colonnade Centrale - Chapiteaux

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Frontispiece, from Suite de Figures Chinoises. . .Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt (Series of Chinoiserie Figures. . .From the Chambers of Mr. d'Azaincourt), plate 1

creator: Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Hoüel

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Pitcher

medium: Blown lead glass

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Richard Bogart, 1936


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


title: Dish with a vase of flowers

medium: Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze and gilded (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain-export Flowers

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


title: Light Snow on the Mountain Pass

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Minature Hand in Vitarka Mudra

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Christ on the Mount of Olives

creator: Lucas Cranach the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Presentation of the Head of Saigo to the Prince Arisogawa

creator: Yamazaki Toshinobu

medium: One sheet of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Grace Seavey, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th–7th century CE

medium: Stone

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Augustine Heard & Co. Steam Rice Mill, Bangkok

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Textile with Blue and White Pattern

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Cotton, plain weave; block-printed, resist dyed

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and/or printed

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1930


title: Panel fragment

date: early 18th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Lid of a pyxis

date: ca. 600 BCE

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

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


title: Fiori di Ricami Nuovamente Posti in Luce, page 9 (recto)

creator: Matteo Florimi

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


title: Panel for a decorative frieze with portrait of da Vignola (from a set of six)

medium: Carved, painted, and gilded oak

subjects:
Ornament & design
Woodwork
Portraits


title: Saint Martin and Saint Hilary

medium: Linen plain weave underlaid with linen plain weave (two layers) and embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in single satin, split, and stem stitches, laid work, and couching, including or nué

country: Flemish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Flemish
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Tumbler

medium: Non-lead glass with engraved decoration

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Lamp

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Jug

date: early 19th century

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Candlestick

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1937


title: Plate

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century

medium: Plated base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Joy with Tranquility (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 21, 1800

medium: Etching, printed in brown ink

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


title: Still Life with Fruit, Glassware, and a Wanli Bowl

creator: Willem Kalf

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Fruits

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1953


title: Armor (<i>Gusoku</i>)

creator: Yukinoshita Sadaiyé

date: 17th century

medium: Iron, lacquer, silk, gilt copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Armor for man
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

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


title: Calligraphic Plaque

date: probably late 17th century

medium: Steel; forged and pierced

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1987


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Neolithic

subjects: Vase Neolithic

credit_line: Gift of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1923


title: The Metamorphosis of Syrinx

creator: Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Guy Wildenstein, 2000


title: Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Carnelian, gold

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gems
Etruscan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Tatekawa in Honjō (Honjō Tatekawa), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Coverlet

date: first half 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: The Judgment of Solomon

creator: Giuseppe Passeri (Passari)

medium: Pen and brown ink, red chalk, brush and red wash, highlighted with white

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Tile

medium: Stonepaste; glazed


title: Wooded Landscape

creator: Paulus van Liender

date: 18th century

medium: Graphite and gray wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Hill-Stone Inc., 2002


title: Netsuke

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Design for the decoration of a ceiling in strapwork and rinceaux

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: pen and ink and watercolor on wove paper, mounted on heavy wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Dromedary, from Quadrupeds series (N41) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Mammals


title: Cope

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of V. Everit Macy, 1910


title: Glass hexagonal bottle

date: 2nd half of 1st–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Miquelet Rifle

date: barrel dated A.H. 1151/1738–39 CE; lock dated A.H. 1240/1824–25 CE

medium: Steel, wood, silver, gold, copper alloy, textile

country: barrel, probably Iranian; lock and stock, Turkish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Firearms-gun

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William E. S. Griswold, Mrs. William Sloane and John Sloane, 1943


title: Taking Up the Net

creator: Thomas Eakins

medium: Watercolor on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Près des chûtes de la Passaïc

creator: Charlotte Bonaparte

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace, Point de Paris

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Faience aryballos (oil flask) in the form of a hedgehog

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Faience

country: East Greek

subjects:
Miscellaneous-faience
East greek

credit_line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1929


title: Carpet

medium: Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

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


title: Netsuke of Shoki Looking into a Well at Ōni Ojime

medium: Wood


title: Piece

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Limestone statue of a female lyre player

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Candlestick

creator: Cornelius Kierstede

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Clermont L. Barnwell, 1964


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: The Joy of the Cellar: kneeling farmer boy holding a jug next to wine barrel

creator: Adam von Bartsch

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Camp A Aug 21 1885: Onterior with Seated Figure (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite drawings on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Seated Woman

creator: Antoine Watteau

medium: Black, red and white chalk

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Magnanimous–Minster, chastising Prussian–Perfidy.–Vide–Morning Chronicle April 28th

creator: James Gillray

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: This poor King Louis XIV doesn't believe his eyes, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, August 21, 1871

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph on newsprint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Plate II, from Rules for Drawing Caricaturas

creator: Francis Grose

date: February 26, 1788

medium: Etching

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


title: Ensemble

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1972


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: "A Youth and a Noble Conversing by a Stream", Folio from a Dispersed Manuscript

date: late 16th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Richard Ettinghausen, 1975


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Copper, copper-gold alloy (shakudō)

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Le Pompe: Opera Nova, page 16 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Battista & Marchio Sessa

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with celadon glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Ed Morris, Pitcher, Pittsburgh, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Corsican Nurse Soothing the Infants of Spain

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

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


title: Tile

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

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


title: Dido Killing Herself

creator: Stefano della Bella

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


title: Anamese, Cochinchina; Solomon; Dyak Skull

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects:
Photograph
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Henry de Beringhen Premier Ecuyer du Roy et Chevalier de ses Ordres Gouverneur des Citadelles de Marseille, 1710

creator: Benoit Audran the Elder

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Fragment of a votive tile with cartouche of Ramesses IV

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: Coupé #3633

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Dish depicting a Wedding Procession

date: first quarter 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; molded, luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: Gift of Beatrice Kelekian, in memory of her husband, Charles D. Kelekian, 1983


title: Panel of Ornament with Dance of Lovers

creator: Israhel van Meckenem

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, by exchange, 1931


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Earring-loop type

medium: Gold

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


title: Architectural project for door

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over leadpoint, with ruled and compass construction

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Burns, 3rd Base, Chicago, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card


title: Facsimile of the painting at the head end of the sarcophagus of Aashyt

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

medium: Tempera on paper


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Ring

date: 3rd–7th century

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Noli me tangere

creator: Pietro Monaco

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Untitled

date: 16th century

medium: Colorless (gray) and opaque white nonlead glass. Blown, "vetro a retorti".

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Glass
Italian, venice

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


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


title: Woman and Boy Gathering Herbs by a Plum Tree

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

date: 19th century

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

subjects: Print Japan Trees

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


title: Chair

medium: Mahogany, ebony inlay

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harford Willing Hare Powel, in memory of Mrs. Lydia Bond Powel, 1986


title: Vignette on Khonsu's inner coffin lid

medium: Gessoed and painted wood

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: Terracotta fragment of a hydria (water jar)?


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Drop Front Phaeton (unnumbered)

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


title: Clean Copy Presentation Draft: One Quarter of a Design for a Ceiling of a Room (recto); Scales and Construction Lines for Another Design (verso)

creator: Leonardo Marini

medium: Pen with black and gray ink, brush and gray wash, over leadpoint or graphite, ruler and compass constructed

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Stone Necklace with Mace Heads

date: 1st–5th century

medium: Stone

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Beads-ornament

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Studies of Four Heads

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Red chalk on cream paper

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Égypte Moyenne, Le Sphinx

creator: Maxime Du Camp

date: December 1849, printed 1852

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2015


title: Dress

medium: silk, linen, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William E. Dupree, 1955


title: Calm Sea

creator: Simon de Vlieger

date: after 1640

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, copper

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Carp in gilt-bronze mount (one of a pair)

date: porcelain, early to mid-eighteenth century; mount, ca. 1750

medium: Hard-paste porcelain with gilding; gilt-bronze mount

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Panel

date: late 18th–early 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-velvet


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


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


title: Russia, 3 Rubles, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 1) 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: The Three Trees, after Rembrandt

creator: Captain William E. Baillie

medium: Etching, drypoint and roulette; fifth state of six

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Gift of Bonnie and Manuel Schonhorn, 2011


title: Design for a Stage Set Showing the Interior of a Fortress or Dungeon

creator: Pietro di Gottardo Gonzaga

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

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971


date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Animaux

creator: Gilles Demarteau

date: 18th century

medium: Crayon-manner etching printed in red ink

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


title: Two Designs for Friezes with Acanthus Scrolls, from "Frises, Feuillages ou Tritons Marins à la romaine"

creator: Jean Le Pautre

medium: Etching; first edition

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Slippers

medium: leather

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Arthur Turnbull Hill, 1932


title: [Female Nude in Studio]

creator: Franck-François-Genès Chauvassaignes

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1998


title: Insertion

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Marian Hague, 1938


title: Bag with Character for Longevity (Shou)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk and metallic thread embroidery on silk gauze

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

medium: Gold

country: Chiriquí (?), Initial Style

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Chiriquí , initial style

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


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


title: Mäda Primavesi (1903–2000)

creator: Gustav Klimt

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of André and Clara Mertens, in memory of her mother, Jenny Pulitzer Steiner, 1964


title: Figure (Shishi)

medium: Stoneware covered with thin glaze (Bizen ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Card 324, Aimi Gloryprint, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: A Rolling Stone Is Ever Bare of Moss, from Thornton's "Pastorals of Virgil"

creator: William Blake

medium: Wood engraving

subjects:
Print
Mosses & lichens

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Vest

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Finial

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Reliquary

date: First three quarters of the 1st century(?)

medium: Schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

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


title: Relief panel

medium: Gypsum alabaster

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Times, Plate 1

creator: William Hogarth

date: September 7, 1762

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Monk's Hat

medium: Lacquer with finial of silver, coral and blue glass

country: Tibet

subjects:
Lacquer
Tibet
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2007


title: The Annunciation

creator: Jacques Bellange

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three

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


title: Helmet

medium: Steel, brass, gold, textile, metallic thread

country: Indian, Mughal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
Indian, mughal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1988


title: Fragment of a marble console of a door lintel

date: 1st century CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Pillowcase

medium: Linen, filet

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1954


title: Hammered Dulcimer

date: mid-19th century

medium: Wood, metal

credit_line: GIft of The Chicago Historical Society, 1979


title: Toaster

medium: Wrought iron

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: late 6th century/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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

date: last quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Chief Joseph, from the Indian Chiefs series (N681) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Tile Fragment

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Phaeton #424

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Number 10, Sympathetic Cards, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bull Run, Mrs. Henry's House, 21 July 1861

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Boy with Two Goats

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Handscroll; on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Germany, 5 Mark, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 1) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Vives Les Debardeures [sic]!! (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Black ink and graphite off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970


title: Looking at the Comet till You Get a Crick in the Neck

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 20, 1811

medium: Hand-colored etching

subjects: Astronomy Print

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


title: Tricks Upon Travellers


title: George B. Treadway, Left Field, St. Paul Apostles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Clarence A. Freeman, Champion Checker Player, Champion Oarsman of the World, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 2) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Boot Painter


title: Rochishin Chopping Off the Head of Nio

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Annette Young, in memory of her brother, Innis Young, 1956


title: Clamp

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bronze; relief cast, gilded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Seery, Left Field, Indianapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Harness Pendant

date: 13th–early 15th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: possibly Spanish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-badge
Possibly spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th century

medium: Linen; embroidered in silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: The escape of Mary, Queen of Scots from Loch Leven Castle (frontispiece, from "Mary, Queen of Scots: Her Persecutions, Sufferings, and Trials")

creator: Joseph Swan

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: An Arhat in the Clouds

date: 16th century

medium: Framed painting; ink and color on paper

country: China (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Shoe buckles

date: late 18th century

medium: steel

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1944


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

creator: Disney Painter

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Decorative pendant with the Five Offerings

date: early 15th century

medium: Silk and metal thread embroidery on silk satin

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph E. Hotung Gift, 1989


title: Cabinet (credenza)

date: second half 16th century

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Isis and Horus

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Woman with dark hair and a bow in profile to the left

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Side chair (one of a pair)

medium: Carved and gilded beechwood, covered in wool velvet (moquette)

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 1987


title: One of Twenty-Three Sheets of Drawings of Glassware (Mirrors, Chandeliers, Goblets, etc.)

creator: Compagnia di Venezia e Murano

medium: Tissue, with pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

medium: Earthenware; white slip, sgraffito decoration, yellow glaze


title: Lawrence Grant "Larry" Twitchell, Pitcher, Cleveland, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

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


title: Monocle and Eye (blue), from Jocular Ocular series (N221) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Bust portrait of Pope Leo XI set within a cartouche decorated with allegorical figures and objects pertaining to his office

creator: Alexander Mair

medium: Engraving (reverse copy)

subjects: Mythology Print Portraits

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


title: Terracotta jug in the form of Dionysos

date: 1st century BCE

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Vase
Greek or roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1942


title: Textile Fragment

date: 12th century

medium: Linen and silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Big Chief, Ponca, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N36) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Plaque

creator: Enoch Wood

date: 18th century

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Swan candelabrum (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: swan, ca. 1745–50; gilt-bronze mount, ca. 1750

medium: Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mount

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Terracotta vessel fragment with linear motifs

country: Minoan

subjects:
Vase
Minoan
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: late 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; overglaze painted (mina'i)

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


title: Foot-Combat Helm of Sir Giles Capel (1485–1556)

medium: Steel

country: possibly British

subjects:
Helmet
Possibly british


title: Sutra cover with dragons amid clouds

medium: Complex gauze weave in silk with supplementary weft patterning

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Covered vase (one of a pair)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Parable of the Good Shepherd

creator: Philips Galle

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Julian and Hope Edison, in honor of Nadine Orenstein, 2019


title: Marriage Certificate

medium: Paper

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Coin (One and One-Half Thaler) Showing Augustus V, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg

medium: Silver

country: German

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
German

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1922


title: Cosmetic Spoon

medium: Wood


title: Getting Out One of the Large Buoys for Launching, August 2nd, 1865

creator: Robert Charles Dudley

medium: Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892


title: Bread Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Anklet, One of a Pair

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Small bowl

medium: Stoneware with blue glaze (Jun ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Lay Aristocrat's Robe (Chuba)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk, wrapped gold

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Tibet
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1982


title: Box

date: 15th century

medium: Wood, canvas, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Dagger with Zoomorphic Hilt

medium:
Hilt: copper; cast, chased, gilded, and inlaid with rubies.
Blade: steel; forged

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2011


title: Funerary Mask

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Wood, paint, gold, cloth, shell

country: Ica

subjects:
Wood-ornament
Ica
Shells & molluscs

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


title: S. Polycarpe (St. Polycarp), February 23rd, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Set of four casters

creator: Paul de Lamerie

credit_line: Gift of George D. Widener and Mrs. Eleanor Widener Dixon, 1958


title: Gold Back Plate of Belt

medium: Gold and silver

country: Langobardic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Langobardic

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Chessmen (32)

medium: Soapstone

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Guardian Protector of the East (Dongfang chiguo tianwang)

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Partially gilt arsenical bronze; lost-wax cast

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 2001


title: [Konstantin Cretius]

creator: Ernst Milster

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Sword

medium: Steel, silver, copper alloy, leather

country: Western European

subjects:
Sword
Western european

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


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Plate K: Election and Coronation of Emperor Maximilian II

creator: Anonymous, German, 17th century

medium: Etching

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


title: Bottom of Kohl Tube

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Female musician with a drum

date: 6th century

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1934


title: Vegetable Dish

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Modelbuch aller Art Nehens vn Stickens (Page 12v)

creator: Christian Egenolff

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Saint Bartholomew

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

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


title: Border

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, punto à rammendo

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: [Study in Orange]

creator: René Le Bègue

medium: Gum bichromate print

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949


title: Ewer

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; blown with applied decoration, tooled on the pontil, cold-painted

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Cap

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Textile Design with a Chevron Base Pattern and Vertical Strips of Lozenges and Pearls

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Griffithsia setacea

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories

creator: Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette

date: dated 1856

medium: Steel, brass, gold, wood (ebony), textile (baizé, wool), copper, leather

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French, pari
Firearms-pistols-percussion

credit_line: Purchase, John Stoneacre Ellis Collection, Gift of Mrs. Ellis and Augustus Van Horne Ellis, and Gift of Charles M. Schott,  by exchange, 1989


title: Plate 47: Fresh cheese vendor

creator: Simon Guillain II

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


title: Bronze arrowhead

date: 6th–4th century BCE or later

medium: Bronze

country: Greek or Achaemenid

subjects:
Bronze
Greek or achaemenid

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


title: Pair of candlesticks

creator: Andrés Goicoechea

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Limestone statuette of a male votary in Egyptianizing dress

date: early 5th century BCE (?)

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Settee

creator: Andrei Nikiforovich Voronikhin

date: made between early March and end of April 1803

medium: Light colored hardwood, carved, gilded and painted; light blue silk show cover (later)

credit_line: Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, 2007


title: A Piece Offering!! Memoirs, Life, Letters &c. of M. A. Clarke

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970


title: S. Grégoire de Naziance (St. Gregory of Naziance), May 9th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Pair of earflare frontals

creator: Maya artist(s)

medium: Jade (jadeite)

country: Maya

subjects: Stone-ornament Maya

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1989


title: Head of Sword or Dagger

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Roman

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Candi Jago Plaque of the Bodhisattva Amoghapasa

date: late 13th century, probably 1286–92

country: Indonesia (East Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (east java)

credit_line: Purchase, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation Fund, David E. Stutzman and John D. Lamb, and Anonymous Gifts, William Spielman Bequest, in memory of William and Bette-Ann Spielman, and funds from various donors, 2014


title: Palazzo Pontifici, Sala Regia, coffer panels, reflected ceiling plan (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

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


date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Le Commandant a Cheval (The Commander on Horseback), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Textile Design with Paisley Motifs and Garlands of Berry Sprays and Stylized Flowers

creator: H. Minder, fils

date: mid-19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing
Flowers
Fruits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: The Crucifixion

creator: Master IAM of Zwolle

medium: Engraving; first state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Pendant Design with a Winged Sea Monster Carrying Venus Anadyomene on a Shell and a Man with an Oar

creator: Adriaen Collaert

medium: Engraving; second state of two (New Hollstein)

subjects:
Print
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: Bowl

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Archaic-style vase with dragons

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Ostrakon

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Tobias and the Angel (large plate)

creator: Hendrick Goudt

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Evening bonnet

medium: silk, birds, feathers, jet

country: probably French

subjects:
Probably french
Birds

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Frederick H. Prince, Jr., 1967


title: Fan

date: 18th century

medium: Fans

credit_line: Gift of R. Beverley Corbin Jr., 1982


title: Sampson Asleep on the Lap of Dalilah

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


title: Sixteen beads

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Faience, glaze

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1976


title: Actress wearing shawl over head, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Borders for Rooms & Halls, Plate 8

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragonflies

creator: Mochizuki Hanzan

medium: Wood, brushed wood ground, gold, red and green hiramakie, takamakie, raden; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan Dragonflies

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


title: Design for an Overdoor Decoration (recto); Rinceaux (verso)

creator: Gregorio de' Ferrari

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk (recto); rinceaux in red chalk (verso)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1967


title: Model of Two Wrestlers

date: 11th century

medium: Porcelain with bluish-white glaze (Jingdezhen qingbai ware)

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

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


title: Inlay depicting the squatting god Re

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Terracotta neck-amphora (storage jar)

creator: New York Nessos Painter

date: second quarter of the 7th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Pin

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Orchid Pavilion or Lanting

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Orchids

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Louis XII and Anne of Brittany

date: 17th century

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: Riding boots

medium: Leather

country: American

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


title: Rod

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: The Cliffs, Foilhummerum Bay, Valentia, the Point at Which the Shore-end of the Cable was Landed on July 22nd, 1865

creator: Robert Charles Dudley

medium: Watercolor over graphite with touches of gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Blunt Pile and Shaft of a Javelin

medium: Bronze or copper alloy, wood, reed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Inlay, hieroglyph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Baben. Hyppolyte, Antoine. 49 ans, né à St Sermain (Aveyron). Serrurier. Anarchiste. 9/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Mohammed and the Monk Sergius

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving; second state

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Lucidario di Recami, page 3 (recto)

creator: Iseppo Foresto

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Electric Light Bulb Purveyor, Chardon, Ohio]

creator: Henry Carlton Wilber

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Section of a Pebble

medium: Jadeite

country: Myanmar (Burma)

subjects:
Jade
Myanmar (burma)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Saddle Rug

medium: Foundation: cotton;  wool knotting

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph V. McMullan, 1973


title: Box

medium: Tortoise shell

subjects:
Shell
China
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Landaulet #1043

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Hand colored lithograph with pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache and metallic ink.

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet


title: Design for an Altar or Monument with Angels and Other Figures

creator: Peter Candid (Pieter de Witte, Pietro Candido)

date: late 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink and brown-gray wash

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2003


title: Spencer

date: early 19th century

medium: silk, cotton

country: probably British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1985


title: Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

creator: Lo Spagna (Giovanni di Pietro)

date: early 16th century

medium: Point of the brush and brown ink, heightened with white (partly oxidized), traces of black chalk, on paper washed with light brown.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Figure Pendant

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Stone

country: Taíno

subjects: Stone-ornament Taíno

credit_line: Purchase, Mary R. Morgan, Mary O'Boyle II and Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Landmann Gifts; The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller and Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, by exchange, and Gift of Nathan Cummings, by exchange, 1982


title: Coffret

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Salanio, Salerio and Shylock (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1)

creator: John Massey Wright

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harriet McDonald, 1941


title: Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume

creator: Rosalba Carriera

medium: Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Pastel & oil sketche on paper

credit_line: Purchase, George Delacorte Fund Gift, in memory of George T. Delacorte Jr., and Gwynne Andrews, Victor Wilbour Memorial, and Marquand Funds, 2002


title: Two-handled cup

creator: R. M., London

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1958


title: The Finding of Moses

creator: Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gwynne Andrews Fund, 1939


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

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


title: Dido holding a dagger in her right hand, left arm outstreched

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Papyrus Fragments of a Letter

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus with ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Pendant

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bronze; cast

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Cylinder seal with cultic scene

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

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


title: Ring with Twisted Coil Motif

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Sampler

medium: Machine net

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


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Adoration of the Shepherds

creator: Vincenzo Caccianemici

medium: Etching and drypoint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Pilgrim Flask with Saint Menas

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Weight in the Shape of a Byzantine Empress

date: 5th century

medium: Copper alloy, filled with metal

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Bequest of Adra M. Newell, 1966


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Festival by the Sumida River

creator: Katsukawa Shunzan

date: late 18th century

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Broadside with 48 scenes relating to the life of the Carlist General of Spain, Ramon Cabrera y Griñó

creator: José Noguera

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: St. Nicolas of Myra

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored with some gilt

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Garden near Lucca

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Earring with plain loop and disc

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


title: Ornamented Roman Majuscule Alphabet

creator: Daniel Hopfer

medium: Etching; first state of two

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


title: Bookbinding (Jild-i kitab)

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Pasteboard; painted and lacquered

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


title: Teacup and saucer

creator: Höchst Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mercedes Bass, 2007


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: A Woman of the Town

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: April 1808

medium: Etching

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


title: Tomb Chapel of Raemkai: South Wall

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: S. Jean Calybite (St. John Calabyte), January 15th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Feast Days of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Carrie Tanner, from the Actresses series (N190) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Flower-Vase of Horn and a Butterfly

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects:
Print
Japan
Butterflies & moths
Flowers


title: Jar with animal masks

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Earthenware with lead green glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Buckle Loop

date: 14th century

medium: Bronze, patina

country: French, Haute-Savoie

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French, haute-savoie

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Terracotta fragment of a plate?

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise

creator: Bertrand Andrieu

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: Saddle with Stirrups

date: 16th century

medium: Wood, leather (buckskin), brass, steel

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-saddle
German

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1929


title: Frame

creator: Italian (Roman)

date: early 18th century

medium: Poplar

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Coin

date: dated 37 AH?/98 CE ?

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Gym Suit

medium: Wool, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Miriam Storrs Coe, 1934


title: Adze

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Maya (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Maya

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Radford, Right Field, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Vase fragment

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Pendant

date: 19th century

medium: Jadeite

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Façade of a Commercial Building, Venetian Gothic Style

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisa Whittelsey Fund, 1966


title: Glass cup

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Mosque Lamp

date: second half 14th century

medium: Glass; enameled

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


title: Teabowl and saucer

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harold D. Shattuck, 1962


title: Drag #1029

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Panel of Curvilinear Metal Ornament Adorned with Masks and Winged Figures

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Kettle Mat (Kamashiki)

medium: Cane

subjects: Basketry Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Snuffbox

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Hammered Gold Band with Bells

date: 1st–mid-16th century

medium: Gold (hammered)

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Side Chair

creator: George Jakob Hunzinger

date: after 1869

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Florence Weyman, 1967


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Corset

creator: Langdon, Batcheller & Company

medium: cotton, metal, bone

subjects:
American
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of E. A. Meister, 1950


title: Jean Le Camus

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Writing box

medium: Kiri wood (a kind of paulownia) with design in pottery relief

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: Poem for Hanwen

creator: Shen Zhou

date: dated 1493

medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: C.E. Hoover, Catcher, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Jug

creator: Meissen Manufactory

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


title: Teatro delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne..., page 23 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut, engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Necklace

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Three Water Carriers at the Shore

creator: Katsukawa Shunkō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan


title: Design for a Frame

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Spear

medium: Brass, hair

country: Madurese

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Madurese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of an Oni (Demon) Carrying a Temple Bell and Paper Lantern over His Shoulder (obverse); Oni Carrying Fish Head Stuck on a Pole and Holly Branch (reverse)

medium: Lacquer, kinji, gold, red, silver and black hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: silver lacquer and fundame

subjects: Fish Architecture Inrō Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Soldiers Marching in Water

creator: Charles-Henri Pille

medium: Pen and ink

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966


title: Body Ornament

medium: Bone

subjects:
Ornament & design
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Amphora

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: H.M. King of the Netherlands, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22b) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Holy Family and Saint John the Baptist playing with a lamb, an angel at right

creator: Willem Panneels

medium: Engraving; second state of two

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


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Roderick Random Discovers his Uncle Bowling in Distress (The Adventures of Roderick Random, vol. 2, p. 30)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Henri IV

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: [Artists' Excursion on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad]

creator: Unknown

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

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


title: Maebyeong decorated with lotus

date: 11th century

medium: Stoneware with iron-brown design under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, brown-black slip decoration, glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Étui

creator: Pierre Claude Mothé

medium: Wood, vernis Martin, gold

credit_line: Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1937


title: Design for a Sculptured Frame with Garlands and Statues and a Painting of Two Human Figures with Puttis inside the Frame.

creator: Carlo Borrelli (Ponticelli)

medium: Pen and black ink, brush with gray and black wash over some traces of leadpoint

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1980


title: The Three Windmills (Les Trois Moulins) after a painting in the collection of the Duc de Praslin

creator: Balthasar Anton Dunker

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Maude Hudson, from the Actresses series (N671), promoting Alfreds Pets Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: View of the Fountain of St. John in Marseille

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Tea bowl

date: 12th–late 13th century

medium: Stoneware with iron-oxide glaze (Chayang ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund


title: Children's Lantern Float, Sanno Festival

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: Woodblock print; uchiwa fan format; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Incense box

medium: Lacquer with gold decorations

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Plate One (Title Page) from Nouveavx Desseins D'Arquebvseries

creator: De Lacollombe

date: dated 1730

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Work on paper-engraving
French, pari

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2016


title: Carriage boots

medium: Silk, fur

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William F. Knief, 1966


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Printed Textile

date: 14th century

medium: Silk

country: Rhenish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Rhenish
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Hand Bell

date: 19th century (?)

medium: metal

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Creamer

medium: Pressed glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: The Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul

creator: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Design for a Frontispiece

creator: Bernard Picart

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Anne K. Jones, in memory of Edward Powis Jones, 2003


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: St. Andrew

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching with occasional drypoint accents


title: Stalk-handled stamp seal

date: ca. 17th century BCE

medium: Green stone

country: Hittite

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


title: Spindle whorl

date: 3rd–2nd millennium BCE

medium: Bone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Bertha

medium: linen

country: Belgian

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: first half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bonnet

medium: silk, horsehair, straw, wire

credit_line: Gift of Miss Margaret Merriman Tuttle, in memory of her mother, Mrs. Howard Mansfield, 1957


title: Pipe

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Teabowl

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

medium: Limestone, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: The Esquire's Intrusion, from "The Vicar of Wakefield"

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: A Dutch Fleet Under Sail at Sea in a Light Breeze

creator: Willem van de Velde I

medium: Pencil and gray wash on two sheets of paper joined 11.5 cm. from the left.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Ladies Amusement: Or, The Whole Art of Japanning Made Easy

creator: Jean Pillement

medium: Illustrations: etching and engraving, hand-colored

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Brouthers, 1st Base, Boston, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragments of column-kraters (bowls for mixing wine and water)


title: Nubie. Grand Temple d'Isis, A Philoe. Vue générale prise du nord

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

credit_line: Robert O. Dougan Collection, Gift of Warner Communications Inc., 1973


title: Side Chair

creator: Joseph Meeks & Sons

medium: Rosewood

credit_line: Gift of Bradford A. Warner, 1969


title: Henri II, roi de France

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Bottle (one of a pair)

medium: Cloisonné enamel on copper

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: "Alberti Dvreri pictoris et architecti praestantissimi De vrbibvs..."

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Illustrated book

country: Paris: Officina Christiani Wecheli, 1535

subjects: Paris: officina christiani wecheli, 1535

credit_line: Purchased with income from the Jacob S. Rogers Fund


title: Chess or Game Piece

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Door ornament

medium: Iron

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Waistcoat

medium: silk, metallic thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Initiation Card (Tsakalis): Amitabha

date: early 15th century

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

country: Tibet

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 2000


title: Bowl with Heron in Reeds

date: late 16th century

medium: Stoneware with underglaze iron brown (Mino ware, Shino type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry Collection, Bequest of Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry, 2000


title: Blades and Mountings for a Pair of Swords (<i>Daishō</i>)

creator: Yokoyama Kōzukedaijō Sukesada

date: blades, 17th century; mountings, early 19th century

medium: Steel, wood, lacquer, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), ray skin (same), silk

subjects: Sword Japanese

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


title: Portrait of Robert de Cotte

creator: Pierre Drevet

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Richard Barsam, in memory of Edgar Munhall, 2018


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Johannes Gutenberg (ca. 1393/1400–1486): Commemorative of the Erection in New York by Robert Hoe of a Statue of Gutenberg in 1889

creator: Anton Scharff

medium: Bronze, dark brown patina, struck

credit_line: Gift of Henry N. Kent, 1940


title: Textile

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Decoration over an Arch with a Landscape Scene in a Round Compartment

creator: Gaetano Galdi

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

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

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


title: Adieux de Fontainebleau

creator: Victor Adam

date: after 1814

medium: Aquatint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, 1958


title: Star-Shaped Tile

date: first half 15th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

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


title: 1st Base, from the Girl Baseball Players series (N48, Type 2) for Dixie Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial S, from an Antiphonary

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: German

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

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


title: The Laundresses

creator: Francois Voyez (Le Jeune)

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Section of the Grizzly Giant, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Harlequin and Columbine in a group

creator: Saint James's Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Plate 5: female figure on horseback and a male figure with a dog standing in a stream, pointing to a waterfall at left in the background, from 'Landscapes in the manner of Salvator Rosa' (Die Landschaften in Sal. Rosa's)

creator: Franz Joachim Beich

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes Roses

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


title: Stove tile

date: 18th century

medium: Glazed pottery

credit_line: Gift of Karl J. Freund, 1914


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Card Number 220, Miss Theo, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Ring, seated ape

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: Dagger (Qama) with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, silver, coral

country: Transcaucasian, probably Georgia

subjects:
Dagger
Transcaucasian, probably georgia
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Millard. Victor. 53 ans, né le 5/6/40 à Moyon (Oise). Cordonnier. 16/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Necklace (part of a set)

date: early 19th century

medium: Cast iron

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Standing Avalokiteshvara

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Sumatra)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (sumatra)

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


title: String of Ball Beads

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Beaker

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


title: Studies of Hounds

creator: David Teniers the Younger

date: 17th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2005


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Pheasant on Rocks beside Flowering Azalea

medium: Lacquer, roiro, nashiji, gold and coloured togidashi; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Ste. Marie-Madeleine (St. Mary Magdalen), July 22nd, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: In the Yoshiwara District

creator: Isoda Koryūsai

date: late 18th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan


title: Bottle

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: Bronze balsamarium decorated with lion-skins and herms

date: late 1st–early 2nd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Gift of John J. Medveckis, in honor of Emily Rafferty, and in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2021


title: Finger Grip

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Colima (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Colima

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Neit

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Saint Charles Borromee, cardinal et archeveque de Milan

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching, third state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Stirrup in early 14th Century Italian Style

medium: Steel

country: probably Italian

subjects:
Forgerie
Probably italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Church chandelier

date: mid-18th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of James Walter Carter, 1963


title: Flowering Cherry Trees Along the Yoshino River

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

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

subjects: Print Japan Trees


title: Two bronze chariot attachments with ducks' head finials

date: 3rd–4th century CE

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Helen H. Mertens Gift, 1973


title: Compartmented stamp seal

date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Banded agate amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

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

medium: Banded agate

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Roman

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Sid R. Bass Gift, in honor of Annette de la Renta, and Rogers Fund, 2001


title: Razor-tweezer

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Pin

date: 4th century BCE

medium: bronze

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Ralph M. Chait, 1943


title: Humbugging, or Raising the Devil

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Cushion Cover

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Dish

date: early 16th century

subjects: Metalwork-brass German

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Lappet

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: linen

country: Flemish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Robert B. Woodward, 1915


title: The Iliad of Homer Engraved From the Compositions of John Flaxman, R.A., Sculptor

creator: John Flaxman

medium: Illustrations: line engraving

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1970


title: Benares Vina

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Indian

subjects: Chordophone-lute-plucked-fretted Indian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Obi with Textile Fragments

date: second half of the 19th century

medium: Brocaded silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Michaelian, 1977


title: The Third Segawa Kikunojo as a Woman

creator: Katsukawa Shunkō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Coin

date: dated 150 AH/767 CE

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

date: 2nd half of 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Socks

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: wool, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Brooklyn Museum Collection, 1924


title: Ewer

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip with molded decoration, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Mouth of Wisconsin River

creator: Henry P. Bosse

medium: Cyanotype

credit_line: Purchase, Acquisitions Fund and Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moran Gift, in memory of Louise Chisholm Moran, 2015


title: Fifth Interlude: Vulcan (Intermedio quinto di Volcano), from "Seven Interludes for the wedding celebration of Cosimo de' Medici in Florence, 1608"

creator: Remigio Cantagallina

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Jar

medium: pottery (Nile clay)

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 71 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Sotoba; One of Seven Komachi

country: Japan

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


title: Woman in a garden

creator: Qian Huian

date: dated 1876

medium: Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on alum paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, in memory of La Ferne Hatfield Ellsworth, 1986


title: Terracotta bowl

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese


title: Woman with a Mirror

creator: Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

date: late 18th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Earring, crescent-shaped

medium: Gold


title: Knife with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Horn, steel

country: Indonesian, Sulawesi (possibly the Philippines)

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Pair of salvers on pedestal feet

creator: Paul de Lamerie

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Inlay, chevron

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1916


title: Ridiculous Folly, from the 'Disparates' (Follies / Irrationalities)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, aquatint, drypoint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim, 1936


title: Figure 26: Expression of painful attention and attention, attentive gaze.

creator: Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation Gift, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors; Harris Brisbane Dick and William E. Dodge Funds; and W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Gift, 2013


title: Broadsheet with the Virgin of Sorrows, flanked by instruments on the Passion

creator: Anonymous

medium: Photorelief and letterpress

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946


title: Pharmacy jar (albarello)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Nightgown

medium: linen

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin H. Finken, 1953


title: Jar

medium: Ceramic

country: Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Ko-omote Noh Mask

date: 18th century

medium: Cypress wood with white, black, and red pigments

subjects: Mask Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1993


title: Glass bowl fragment

date: mid-2nd–early 1st century BCE

country: Greek, Syro-Palestinian

subjects:
Glass
Greek, syro-palestinian


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

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE


title: Brisé fan

medium: Ivory, tortoiseshell, metal

country: Italian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Bequest of William H. Herriman, 1921


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (white mortar); carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Cord Knob (Kurigata)

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Maximilian Emanuel and the Bavarian Army in a Narrow Pass in theTyrol

creator: Franz Joachim Beich

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Charles Z. Offin Fund, Martha Feltenstein Gift, and Barbara and Howard Fox Gift, 2005


title: Statuette of a dog

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Alexander Entering Babylon

creator: Sébastien Leclerc I

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over red chalk.  Several corrections on separate pieces of paper, pasted onto original sheet.

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Bronze statuette of Herakles

country: Etruscan, Cività Castellana

subjects:
Bronze
Etruscan, cività castellana

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Tapestry Fragment with Figure

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Chimú

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chimú
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Ring with beryl

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Gold, beryl

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


title: The Forge, from "A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects"

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Drypoint; sixth state of six (Glasgow); printed in black ink on fine ivory laid Japan

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Edging

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Children playing

creator: Pierre Alexandre Aveline

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Bottle

date: second half 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque blue glaze under transparent colorless glaze

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


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Saint Matthew and the Angel

creator: Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Marquand Fund, 1912


title: Water Pipe Top

date: 19th century

medium: Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, inlaid with brass (bidri ware)


title: James Tissot

creator: Robert Jefferson Bingham

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Damalix. Émile, Auguste. 37 ans, né à St-Claude (Doubs). Charpentier. Anarchiste. 19/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Doric Entablature

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Michel Benisovitch, 1930


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Border

medium: Bobbin lace, Point de Paris, Point d'Esprit

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1945


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)


title: Vase

creator: Grueby Pottery

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2018


title: Pellet and Bolt Crossbow

date: dated 1573

medium: Steel, wood (cherry, mahogany), staghorn, ivory (probably elephant)

country: Northern Italian or French, probably Savoy

subjects: Northern italian or french, probably savoy

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Saint John, from Christ and the Apostles

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Jug

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze, brown patina

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: Plate 17: They do not agree (No se convienen), from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra)

medium: Etching, drypoint, burin, burnisher (proof impression)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Figure

creator: Dogon blacksmith

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood, sacrificial patina

country: Dogon peoples

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Dogon people

credit_line: Purchase, Charles B. Benenson Gift, 1978


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Tray (plateau Duplessis) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

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

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Token of John Tyler

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Scarab fragment

medium: Faience, blue glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1924


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Dinner dress

creator: A. Corbay

medium: silk

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James G. Flockhart, 1968


title: Table (poudreuse)

creator: Germain Landrin

medium: Kingwood veneer, gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1946


title: Taste (Gustus), from "The Five Senses"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving; first state of two (Landau)


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Saw U

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Thai

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted Thai

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


date: mid-5th century BCE


date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", Probable Results of The Industry of All Nations in The Year '51, Showing What is to be Exhibited, Who is To Exhibit, in Short How Its All Going to Be Done

creator: George Augustus Sala

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1963


title: Bracelet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Vignette, from "The Battle of Milvian"

creator: Bernard Picart

date: early 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Richard A. Berman, 2018


title: Panel

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Study for Clovis (middle register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

creator: Isidore Pils

medium: Black, white, and red chalk on gray paper

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989


title: A street in Seville with figures

creator: Mariano Fortuny, 1838–1874

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of M. Knoedler & co


title: Vase

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Lekythos

creator: Group of London E 614

date: late 5th century BCE

credit_line: Gift of L. P. di Cesnola, 1876


title: Relief of a Female Deity

date: 1st–3rd century

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India


title: Curtain Factory

creator: Riva Helfond

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of New York City W.P.A., 1943


title: Storage Bag

medium: Glass bead, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, 1908


title: Designs for Two Silver Serving Dishes and Trays

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

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


title: Water buffalo and reclining Chinese figure (one of a pair)

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Tortoiseshell ware (glazed earthenware)

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


title: Incense burner with its chain

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


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


title: A peasant woman herds two cows across a stream, walking towards the left, plate 2 from "Diversi capricci"

creator: Stefano della Bella

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 15th–14th century BCE

medium: Faience

country: Mitanni

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Mirror with Split-Leaf Palmette Design Inlaid with Gold

date: early 16th century

medium: Iron, inlaid with gold; ivory

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1972


title: Mace head

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Copper, bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Fragment of a jar

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Unglazed gray ware with impressed decoration

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Menke, 1982


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Study for a Book Illustration

creator: Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

medium: Red chalk with graphite underdrawing

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1979


title: Bag

date: 18th century

medium: silk, straw

country: British

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


title: Boy’s Kimono with Streamline Train

date: ca. mid-1930s

medium: Plain-weave wool muslin with printing

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2014


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3015a

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Man with Black Hair

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Stucco; painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Napoleon III (1808–1873), Emperor of the French

medium: Biscuit porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Card Number 25, Geraldine Ulmer, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Peasant Couple Dancing

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Ida Kammerer, in memory of her husband, Frederic Kammerer, M.D., 1933


title: Plate depicting Giovanni Orsino, from a series of twelve showing knights and their attendants dressed for a tournament (plate 8)

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

creator: Ginshōtei Tōmei

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Border

medium: Embroidered net

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1910


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


title: Coronation of the Virgin

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ruth Blumka, in honor of Ashton Hawkins, 1985


title: Half-Length Figure of a Woman with Outstretched Arms

creator: François-Claudius Compte-Calix

medium: Charcoal

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


title: Mortar

creator: Alberghetti Foundry

date: 1551–80, (model), (possibly cast in France, first half of the 19th century)

medium: Copper alloy with a high content of tin, some lead, and no trace of zinc; the usual trace elements of iron, nickel, silver, and antimony are present, confirming that this is an alloy of fire-refined copper, certainly dating before about 1880; dark brown patina.

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Metalwork
Italian, venice

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton on wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Dish (one of a pair)

medium: Painted enamel

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Monocle and Eye (brown), from Jocular Ocular series (N221) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

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