title: Button

medium: metal, pearls, sapphires

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Souvenir spoon with view of a government building

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver, parcel-gilt and enamel

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 Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1901


title: Headless unshrouded ithyphallic deity statuette

medium: Serpentinite

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2011


title: Merry Company on a Terrace

creator: Jan Steen

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1958


title: The Crucifixion

creator: Housebook Master

medium: Tempera on parchment

country: German, possibly Mainz and/or Cologne

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German, possibly mainz and/or cologne

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Ojime

date: 19th century

medium: Metal with design of wisteria

country: Japan

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Rank badge with tiger

medium: Silk and metal thread embroidery on silk satin

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: The Crucifixion, from "The Large Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Shawl

date: second quarter 19th century

medium: Wool; woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Olivia Sage, 1916


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bead

date: 7th–6th millennium BCE

medium: Serpentine

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Earring, crescent-shaped

medium: Gold

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


title: Wullie Mohamed, A Dahzungi Hagari, Afghanistan, from the Savage and Semi-Barbarous Chiefs and Rulers series (N189) 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: Waistcoat

date: early 19th century

medium: wool, silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Effie Mason Stephens, 1924


title: Goblet

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

credit_line: Gift of Margaretta M. Salinger, 1980


title: Jar

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent turquoise glaze

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


title: Fan

medium: paper, ivory

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Loretta Hines Howard, 1980


title: Model Tile for food offerings

medium: Blue faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Head of a lion

medium: Gypsum plaster

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and Annette de la Renta Gifts, 2012


title: Bowl

date: 18th century

medium: Clay with a crackled glaze

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Teabowl

creator: Cornelis Pronk

medium: Hard-paste porcelain


title: Tār (تار )

medium: Bone, wood, brass, parchment, various materials

country: Iranian (Persian)

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-plucked-fretted
Iranian (persian)
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Star-Shaped Tile

date: 13th–14th century

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

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


title: Design for the Decoration of Firearms

creator: Nicolas Noël Boutet

medium: Pencil, ink, gray wash on paper

country: French, Versailles

subjects:
Work on paper-drawing
French, versaille

credit_line: Purchase, Clay P. Bedford Gift, 2004


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Design for Landau, No. 3282

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Textile Fragment

date: 12th century

medium: Linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Christ Presented to the People

creator: Georg Vischer

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink and brown wash with white heightening; squared in red chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Carl Selden Trust, 1999


title: Fragment

medium: Applied

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Apothecary jar (albarello)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, probably Faenza

subjects:
Italian, probably faenza
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Child's rank badge

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Textile swatch (one of 12)

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Purchase, 1985, Funds From Various Donors


title: 'If he is guilty, let him die quickly' (Si es delinquente qe. muera presto)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

date: ca. 1815 (published 1859)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Pair of toilet-water bottles (part of a toilet service)

medium: Silver gilt and glass

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1963


title: Silver strigil (scraper)

date: early 3rd century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Possibly South Italian or Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Possibly south italian or etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: One of the “One Million Pagodas” (Hyakumanto) and Invocation

medium: Japanese cypress (hinoki), Cleyera ochnacea (sakaki), and ink on paper

subjects: Sculpture Japan

credit_line: Gift of Benjamin Strong, 1930


title: Ornamental Design

creator: Jean Pillement

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Part of a pair of fixtures

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Document Box with Design of Chinese Children at Play

creator: Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō)

medium: Colored lacquer, gold and silver foil, mother-of-pearl, ivory, tortoiseshell, and ceramic on black lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba) Depicting Bamboo Vase for Ikebana and Plum Branch

medium: Iron

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

medium: Stonepaste; white slip; blue and black underglaze; transparent, colorless glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Maxine Elliott, from the Actresses series (T1), distributed by the American Tobacco Co. to promote Turkish Trophies Cigarettes

creator: Frederick Moladore Spiegle

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Card Number 96, Violet Cameron, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Glass jar

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Design for Five Vases

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and gray and brown ink, watercolor, and black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1961


title: Decimation (John Beaver, Roman Military Punishments, 1725)

creator: William Hogarth

date: after 1725

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Allegory of Government: Wisdom Defeating Discord

creator: Jacob de Wit

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Mythology Painting


title: The Confession of the Courtesan Takao (Takao zange no dan)

creator: Eishōsai Chōki

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: George W. Childs, Philadelphia Public Ledger, from the American Editors series (N1) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Insertion

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Miscellaneous Studies

creator: Chen Hongshou

date: one leaf dated 1619

medium: Album of twelve paintings; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wan-go H. C. Weng, 2005


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Knickknack peddler

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk

credit_line: Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1973


title: Plate 26  from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'One can't look' (No se puede mirar)

medium: Etching, burnished lavis, drypoint, burin

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: The Actor Nakamura Tomijuro as a Woman Wearing a Red Cape

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Chocolate pot

creator: Nathaniel Lock

medium: Silver, wood

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Design for Landau, No. 3930

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Fragments

medium: Silk weave; silks, satins, et.

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Maria P. James, 1911


title: String of 18 Eyed Beads

date: 1st millennium BCE–1st millennium CE

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Tubular Bowdrill for Carving Jade

date: 20th century

medium: Wood, metal

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, 1981


title: Allegorical Figure Representing Asia

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

medium: Fresco, transferred to canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943


title: Wooded landscape

creator: Raphael Sadeler II

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Terracotta hydria (water jar)

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

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


title: Chamois, from the Quadrupeds series (N21) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Mammals

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


title: Lâvta (lute)

medium: wood, metal, tortoise-shell, glass

country: Turkish

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-plucked-fretted
Turkish
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Purchase, Amati Gifts, 2015


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: early 19th century

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

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


title: Length

medium: Silk, metal strips

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Mary L. Dayton, 1940


title: Piece

date: 15th century

medium: Textiles-Velvets

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; mold blown

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


title: Card Number 6, Lilly Post, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Thorvaldsen Group


title: Clock

creator: David Roentgen

medium: Oak, pine, and mahogany, veneered with mahogany; brass, gilt bronze and enamel

credit_line: Gift of The Ruth Stanton Family Foundation, in honor of Wolfram Koeppe, 2002


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

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Pen and brush and brown ink

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Ashley E. Dunn, 2024


title: Head of an Osiride Statue of Hatshepsut Originally in the Temple Sanctuary SE Corner

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: The Attarouthi Treasure - Censer

medium: Silver and gilded silver with copper liner

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-steel Byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Henry J. and Drue E. Heinz Foundation, Norbert Schimmel, and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 1986


title: Piece

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Textile Design with an Interlacing Pattern of Circles with Pearls over a Stippled Background

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Sleeping Venus and Love

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching and stipple

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


title: Bottle

medium: Clay covered with a thin salt glaze and a dappled overglaze (Bizen ware, Imbe style)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893


title: Four Studies after Giambologna's "Venus Leaving the Bath"

creator: Hans Bock the Younger

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

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2012


title: Flounce

date: early 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Miss Frances Morris, 1924


title: 東海道五十三次　鞠子

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Villetard. Jules, Pierre. 42 ans, né à Ligny-le-Chastel (Yonne). Terrassier. Anarchiste. 5/3/94

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Drawer Pull

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Harvey Smith, 1983


title: Painted Bowl

date: 1st–6th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

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


title: Copper Tumi

date: before 15th century

medium: Copper (hammered)

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-implement Peruvian

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


title: Design for 6 seat Rockaway, no. 3191a

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: No. 4: Soldiers Recruiting

creator: Heinrich Joseph Schütz

date: August 1, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint


title: Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter

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

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1929


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Teapot

creator: Wedgwood-Whieldon partnership

medium: Earthenware

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Fingerless leather gloves

date: ca. 7th–9th century CE

medium: Leather

country: Alanic

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Simcox, 1999


title: Earring with plain loop and disc

medium: Gold

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


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Vase (one of a pair)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Bone china

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Fragment

medium: Nephrite

country: Russia (Siberia)

subjects:
Jade
Russia (siberia)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Head-back, including ear

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Bracelet

date: 5th century BC–AD 1st century (?)

medium: Copper alloy

country: Celtic

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Celtic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Knife (part of a set)

creator: F.E. Gerike

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Jane Sibersky, 1978


title: Design for a Standing Frame

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Diamond-shaped Cartouche

creator: Hans Vredeman de Vries

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Six Stages of Mending a Face, Dedicated with respect to the Right Hon-ble. Lady Archer

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Piece from a Kosode with Pine Boughs and Cherry Blossoms

medium: Resist-dyed and painted float-patterned plain-weave silk (saya)

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Flowers
Textiles-dyed

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennan Ford, 2008


title: Glass cameo fragment

date: late 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Bifacial Knife

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 2nd–early 3rd century CE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Roman


title: Weight in the Form of a Feline

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Bronze inlaid with gold and silver

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1992


title: Plate (one of two)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: La Défilé a Pied (The Parade on Foot), from Le Combat a la Barrière in the Palace at Nancy by Henri Humbert, printed by Sebastien Phillipe

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1941


title: Title page for "The Child Nino" (Il Nino Figlio), a stage with the curtain drawn, the coat of arms of the duke of Modena at top center, spectators below

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Venus in her Chariot from a set of Mythological Subjects after Raphael

creator: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

date: designed 1686, woven 1689–92

medium: Wool, silk, silver thread (23-26 warps per inch, 10-11 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Mythology
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Insertion

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


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


title: Folding screen with figures in a landscape

date: 19th century

medium: Carved talc mounted on silk

subjects: Screen China Landscapes

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Design for a Roman Procession

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash

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


title: Watch

creator: Firm of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils

medium: Case of gold and enamel, with radiating design of foliage

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


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Le Pari Gagné (The Winning Bet), from "Le Monument du Costume"

creator: Camligue

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of five (Bocher)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Blackwork Designs with Flowers, Plate 6 from a Series of Blackwork Ornaments combined with Figures, Birds, Animals and Flowers

creator: Meinert Gelijs

date: after 1622

medium: Blackwork and engraving

subjects: Album Birds Flowers

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


title: Hobnail Celery vase

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Umbel Pendant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Dwight, Lawn Tennis, from the Goodwin Champion series for Old Judge and Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool; plain weave, brocaded (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Fragment of a Two-Colored Luster-Painted Bowl

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

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


title: Terracotta head of a youth

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Terracotta Etruscan


title: Donna Vaillard, from World's Beauties, Series 1 (N26) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Beaker (Stangenglas)

medium: Enameled glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean or italian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Coat

medium: [no medium available]

country: Hungarian

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Selvaggia Sassetti (born 1470)

creator: Davide Ghirlandaio (David Bigordi)

medium: Tempera on wood

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


title: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Peru; central coast (?)

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

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


title: Fragment of block with beveled corner

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


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

date: second quarter 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Angel hanging from a hook

date: second half 18th century

medium: Wood, glass, paper maché, polychromed and gilded

country: probably Ecuadoran, Quito

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Les Invisibles (The Invisible Ones)

creator: William Brocas

medium: Hand-colored etching with roulette

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: [Two Young Women at Window]

creator: Andrei Osipovich Karelin

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Game Piece

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Spindle Whorl or Button

date: 5th–8th century

medium: Bone; incised

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1937


title: Tobias Leaving the Table, from "The Story of Tobias"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving; first state of two (Landau)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Scarlet Finch, 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: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Bronze statuette of a dog

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1962


title: Figure and Drapery studies (recto); Three Studies of a Male Torso for the "Coronation of Marcantonio Pasqualini" (verso)

creator: Andrea Sacchi

medium: Red and white chalk (recto); red chalk (verso)

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2003


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Epitaph for Zhe Chan Master Fawan

date: 20th century

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Rubbing China

credit_line: Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1977


title: Bracelet

creator: A. J. Hedges & Co.

medium: Gold, diamond, and Montana sapphires

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Jacobsen Foundation Gift, 2005


title: Card Number 187, Miss Ricci, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Victoria and Albert Arriving in France for a State Visit (recto); Welcome Arch (verso)

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a plate?

date: 7th century BCE or later

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Shovel

date: 18th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1947


title: Disk from a Reel

date: ca. 800 BCE

medium: Gold

country: Irish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Irish

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Panel

date: late 16th or early 17th century

medium: Silk; metal; cotton

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Limestone statuette of a boy holding a duck

date: late 4th century–3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Whale Oil Lamp

medium: Pressed and free-blown lead glass

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Michael Heidelberger, in memory of Nina T. Heidelberger, 1982


title: Descent from the Cross by Torchlight

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint; first of four states

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg, 1917


title: The Little Bridge (Le Petit Pont)

creator: Jacob van Ruisdael

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Chase, New York, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Saint Joseph

medium: Wood, polychromed and gilded

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Louis XV

creator: Jean-Baptiste Nini

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

credit_line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1949


title: Disk Brooch

medium: Copper alloy, iron core, glass paste or stone, evidence of gold foil

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic


title: The Bridal Veil, from the Transparencies series (N137) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

date: late 1880s

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

date: probably 18th century

medium: Possibly peach stone, copper, gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Crocker (Elizabeth Masten), 1937


title: Le Lavement des Pieds (The Washing of the Feet), from "La Petite Passion" (The Little Passion)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Fragment

date: early 16th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Shrine box, lizard

date: 305 BCE–364 CE

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Bridge and Spout Bottle

date: 7th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Looking Glass

creator: Isaac Platt

medium: Glass, gesso

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leo D. Bretter, 1979


title: Slipper Chair

creator: John Henry Belter

medium: Rosewood, ash

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Ross Burch and Miss Jean McLean Morron, 1951


title: [Richmond, Virginia, after the Evacuation]

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Boy with snare drum

creator: Ralph Wood the Younger

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1942


title: Cast Copper Crescent Ornament with Figures

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peruvian

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


title: Scenes from the life of Mary Queen of Scots

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of George Mangini, 2009


title: Trade card for C.W. Dix, Printer and Engraver

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

date: 19th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: String of Ball Beads

medium: Red carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: U. S. Ship North Carolina, 102 Guns

creator: Nathaniel Currier

medium: Lithograph; uncolored proof

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

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


title: Baboon with a wedjat eye

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: early to mid-1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


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

creator: Marlay Painter

date: mid-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: Ensemble

medium: silk, cotton, glass

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Theodora Hay, 1952


title: Glass head pendant

date: 5th century BCE

country: Phoenician or Carthaginian

subjects:
Glass
Phoenician or carthaginian

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Plate

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Mordant

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Bronze, patina

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Jurōjin

creator: Yosa Buson

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2024


title: Christ Child Carrying the Cross

creator: Anonymous, German, Upper Rhine, 15th century

medium: Woodcut, hand-colored, with traces of gilt

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Patrick Byrne

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Fan

medium: Paper, pearl matrix

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Ornaments for Manzhu Hat

date: 18th century

medium: Metal, feathers, jade, seed pearls, coral, topaz, glass

country: China

subjects:
Jewelry
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1935


title: Repeating Flintlock Pistol

creator: Michele Lorenzoni

medium: Steel, wood, silver

country: Italian, Florence

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


title: Piece

date: 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bacchanalian Scene with Nymphs and Putti

creator: Gerard de Lairesse

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash.

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1975


title: Souvenir spoon with view of the Castle Belvedere

date: late 19th century

medium: Gilt and enamel

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


title: Figure 54: Voluntary lowering of the lower jaw

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: Carpet

date: 16th century

medium: Wool; symmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift from the Collection of Hillary Black Dumas and Dr. D. Gilbert Dumas, 2009


title: Covered Box

date: 14th–ca. mid-16th century

medium: Earthenware with cream white glaze and iron-brown underglaze decoration

country: Thailand (Si Satchanalai)

subjects:
Ceramic
Thailand (si satchanalai)

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of friends of Jim Thompson, in his memory, 1989


title: Pectoral Disk

date: 8th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Panama or Colombia

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Panama or colombia

credit_line: Gift of Mica Ertegün, 2008


title: Diana and Satyr

creator: Filippo Cavori

medium: Pen and Ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Souvenir

creator: Jacques Joseph de Gault

medium: Gold, mother-of-pearl, enamel; ivory

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Spring

creator: David Vinckboons

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittlesey Fund and Dr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Elkind Gift, 2018


title: Sheet of Jewelry or Decorative Designs

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over graphite underdrawing

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Emblem of Folly

creator: Unknown

date: 18th Century

medium: Oil on canvas

country: Peru (Cuzco)

credit_line: Gift of Clifford Ming Teh Li, in honor of James Kung Wei Li and Julie Chu Lu Li, 2018


title: Le Porte Balle assis

creator: Jean Morin

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: Armchair

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Coquette, from the "Girls and Men in Costume" series (T65), issued with Golden Eagle Cigars by I. Lewis & Co.

creator: I. Lewis & Co., Newark, New Jersey

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Four Wheel Dog Cart #136

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Helmet (<i>Hoshi Kabuto</i>)

date: 14th century

medium: Iron, lacquer, leather, silk, copper-gold alloy (<i>shakudō</i>)

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


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: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Snuffbox

creator: Claude de Villers

medium: Gold, mother-of-pearl, ivory, enamel


title: Jar with Cover

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze (Hirado ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Halberd

date: early 16th century

medium: Steel, wood (oak)

country: German

subjects:
Shafted weapon
German

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


title: Title Page, from Grotisch fur alle Kunstler

creator: Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving

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


title: Saddle Pommel

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2003


title: Cover or Chalice Veil (?)

date: 16th or 17th century

medium: Silk; linen; metal

country: Italian or Spanish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian or spanish
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: S L. Law & Co. Hatters and Furnishers]

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: The Broncho Buster

creator: Frederic Remington

date: 1895, revised 1909, cast by November 1910

medium: Bronze

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939


title: Harpoon, from the Arms of All Nations series (N3) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: The Grand Piazza, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching, engraving, sulphur tint or open bite, burnishing; first state of six (Robison)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Plate 34: Auriga, the charioteer, falls from the chariot at center, with three horses at left

creator: Bartolomeo Crivellari

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924


title: The Artist Kitao Masanobu Relaxing at a Party

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Left-hand of a triptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)?

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Mynah Bird on Plum Branch

creator: Saien Hōsai (Xiyua Fangqi)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Birds

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: Greeting Card

creator: Joseph Jakob Martin Eder

medium: Silk thread, pen, black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 2018


title: Peasant Pushing A Wheelbarrow

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Etching printed in brown/black ink  on chine collé; first state of four

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Pratt, 1957


title: Warwick Castle

creator: Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Cérémonie de l'inauguration de la colonne de juillet, 1840

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Etching; third state of six (Delteil)

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


title: Pin

date: early 1st millennium BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1949


title: View of the David Hosack Estate at Hyde Park, New York, from Western Bank of the Hudson River (from Hosack Album)

creator: Thomas Kelah Wharton

medium: Black ink (or watercolor) applied with pen and brush on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Louis Marx Gift, 1994


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Newes Modelbuch in Kupffer  (Page 27r)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Charles R. Richards, 1929


title: Fragment

date: late 18th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Van Santvoord Merle-Smith, 1933


title: Baptismal veil

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread, cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: The main staircase of the monastery of El Escorial, from "Views of El Escorial"

creator: Manuel Alegre


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: The Army of the Potomac

creator: John Badger Bachelder

medium: Lithograph with tint stone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Half Armor

date: ca. 1600; cheekplates of helmet and part of left gauntlet thumb, probably 19th century

medium: Steel, brass

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor for man-1/2 armor
Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Mosaic pavement fragment

medium: Tile, mortar

country: Roman

subjects: Miscellaneous-mosaic Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Ring, One of a Pair

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Gold, rubies

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Embroidered darning sampler

medium: Silk on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Qenamun and His Wife, Tomb of Qenamun

creator: Charles K. Wilkinson

medium: Tempera on paper


title: Bottle

date: 19th century

medium: Pottery decorated with blue under the glaze (Kyoto ware)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893


title: Design for a door

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and white heightening

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: William Nelson Gardiner

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Cord

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Coat

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. B. H. Rindeman, 1946


title: Gridiron

date: 18th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frank D. Millet, 1912


title: Penitent Saint Mary Magdalene in a Landscape

medium: Silk, metal thread and pearls on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Landscapes
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Stovey, Left Field, Philadelphia Athletics, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Laird of Portmoak

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Siege Helmet

date: late 17th century

medium: Steel, leather, textile

country: probably French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
Probably french

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Urn in the form of a hut

medium: Bronze

country: Modern after Villanovan

subjects:
Bronze
Modern after villanovan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Horses of Auvergne

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph; first state of four

credit_line: Gift of Louise Bechtel, 1958


title: Sherd

date: ca. 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean or italian

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Liturgical Towel

medium: Linen, silk & metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Saint Matthias, from "Piccoli Santi" (Small Saints)

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

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


title: Portrait of Marie Antoinette

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Color stipple engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1956


title: Pair of Rowel Spurs

creator: Manuel Casco

date: dated 1738

country: Mexican

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Mexican

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Incised and Pyroengraved Bowl with Monkeys

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, metallic specs

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Necklace with 16 beads

date: 3rd century CE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


title: Robe (Kosode) with Mandarin Orange Tree and Auspicious Characters

date: second half of the 18th century

medium: Dyed and embroidered silk crepe with couched gold-wrapped threads

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan
Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Parnassus Foundation/Jane and Raphael Bernstein Gift, 2002


title: Handle and escutcheon with latch

creator: Anonymous

medium: Iron, brass and copper

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2010


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: Seal

medium: Ivory

country: China

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of A. W. Bahr, 1958


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton on cotton

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


title: An Aristocratic Family Visiting Paupers

creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

date: mid-18th–18th century

medium: Pen and gray ink

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2008


title: Bail Handle

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Bowl with Variation of 'Baba Nakkas' Design

medium: Stonepaste; painted in light and dark blue under transparent glaze


title: Birth of Bonoparte

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: February 8, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Side Elevation of a Triumphal Arch

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing Roses

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


title: Caricatured Haitian, 50 Centimes, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 2) 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: Case (Inrō) with Design of Basket of Persimmons (obverse); Monkey Eating Persimmon (reverse)

creator: Mori Sosen

medium: Lacquer, gold and silver hirame, gold, red and coloured hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: red lacquer, fundame and decoration; the interior risers decorated in gold and silver togidashi with various brocade pattern, key-fret, waves, etc.

subjects:
Ornament & design
Inrō
Japan

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


title: Armlet

medium: Nephrite

country: France

subjects: Jade France

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Grave Monument, Pillar Topped with a Vase, No. 911

creator: Alexander Maxwell

medium: Pen and ink and wash on onion skin paper

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


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

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Two couples dancing, illustration for 'La Paloma Azul'

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

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

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Mary, Queen of Scots

date: mid-19th century

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: The Centaur Nessus Abducting Deianira

creator: Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown and gray wash, over graphite

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2013


title: Netsuke of Lotus

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Bead

date: probably 9th–12th century

medium: Bone

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: A Katydid, a Fly, a Bee, and a Fulgoroid

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

date: 17th century (?)

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash, gouache, and watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine G. Curran, 2008


title: Design for wallpaper featuring oak leaves, acorns, and intertwined twigs

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: gouache on wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Ladle

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


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


title: Helmet

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Copper, gold, silver

country: Korean

subjects: Helmet Korean

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Christian IX, King of Denmark, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-2) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Sketch of a statue: Bacchante by Bartolini

creator: John Gibson

medium: Graphite, with inscriptions in pen and brown ink on tracing paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John De Witt Peltz, 1977


title: Parlor from the William C. Williams House

creator: Theophilus Nash

medium: Mahogany and marble

credit_line: Gift of Joe Kindig Jr., 1968


title: John Barnard

creator: John Michael Rysbrack

medium: Marble

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, The Moses Lazarus Collection, Gift of Sarah and Josephine Lazarus, Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, and Bequests of Mary Clark Thompson and Barbara S. Adler, by exchange, 1976


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Nikon Painter

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Pomerance, 1953


title: Five boys and a satyr

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, first state of two

credit_line: Gift of Dr. David T. and Anne Wikler Mininberg, in honor of Julius S. Wikler, 2005


title: Panel

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace, Milanese lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Bead ornaments in the form of female head

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Electrum

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Purchase, 1898


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

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


title: Cloth Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Cotton

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peru; central coast
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: L'Echevelé

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Christ Sitting on the Cold Stone

creator: Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix

date: before ca. 1586

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Flounce

date: second half 19th century

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Mug

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth Hazard and Marion H. McVitty, in memory of their mother, Mrs. Lauriston H. Hazard, 1960


title: Jug

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Haniwa Base of a Figure

date: 3rd–6th century

medium: Pottery

subjects: Sculpture Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Design for a Chandelier

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Doorframe with Three Ganas (Nature Deities) Dancing and Playing Instruments

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Sandstone

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1964


title: Shackled to His Treasure (Preso á su tesoro)

creator: Leonardo Alenza y Nieto

medium: Pen and dark brown ink with brush and brown-gray wash; composition outlined with pen and dark brown ink on all sides

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1939


title: Marcus Aurelius Surrounded by Horsemen, Soldiers, and Prisoners

creator: Eugène Delacroix

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Mark H. Rosenberg, 2024


title: Boots

medium: leather, beads

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Kendra Ferguson, 1999


title: Helmet in the Shape of an Eggplant

creator: Saotome Ietada

medium: Iron, lacquer, copper, gold, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), silk

country: Japanese

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Textile Fragment

date: 12th century

medium: Linen and silk; tapestry woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: [A Group of Six Costumed Women Posed in Interior with Top Hatted Gentlemen]

creator: Unknown

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1989


title: Fragment

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Costume Bell

date: 19th century (?)

medium: metal

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper
French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Studies of a young goat

creator: John Macallan Swan

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Pastel

credit_line: Gift of Robert Tuggle, 2008


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone, varnish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Hurdy-Gurdy

medium: Wood, metal

country: German?

subjects:
Chordophone-bowed keyboard
German


title: Mitts

medium: silk, metal

country: Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Cup

medium: Bronze

country: Korea

subjects: Metalwork Korea


title: Drapery Tieback

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Jane Erdmann Whitney, 1986


title: Hunters in an Outlook on a Mountain

creator: August Leopold Venus

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown ink, brush and blue watercolor

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2004


title: Glass head pendant

medium: Glass

country: Phoenician or Carthaginian

subjects:
Glass
Phoenician or carthaginian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Standing Female Clay Figure

medium: Earthenware with cord-marked and incised decoration

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Fragment

medium: Embroidered net

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


title: Portrait of Isabella d'Este

creator: Lucas Vorsterman I

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Hollstein)

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Masquerading

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Folding Shrine with Virgin and Child

date: 14th century

medium: Elephant ivory with traces of polychromy and metal mounts

subjects: French Ivories-elephant


title: Canoe Model with Dolls

medium:
Canoe: Birchbark, wood, quill
Dolls: Silk, cotton, wool, glass, resin

country: Micmac

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


title: "Strongly Profiled" Brooch

date: 1st–2nd century

country: Roman

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Zita Spiss, 1991


title: Armlet

medium: silk, steel

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Fringe

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Biface

medium: Flint

country: Acheulean

subjects: Tool Acheulean

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger and Friends of Arms and Armor Gifts, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, and funds from various donors, 2018


title: Border

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1936


title: Snaffle Bit

medium: Iron alloy, tin

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
German

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Gold Double Frog Ornament

date: 11th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Veraguas

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Veragua
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of John Wise, 1957


title: Awl

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Steven D. Robinson, 1982


title: Oval Watch Plate with Diana and Endymion (?) embracing, from a Series of Six Designs for Watch Cases

creator: Antoine Jacquard

medium: Blackwork and engraving

credit_line: Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2022


title: Emma Thiersby, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Vase

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; free blown with applied decoration

credit_line: Gift of Samuel L. M. Barlow, 1883


title: Relief fragment

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Set of Five Everyday Vessels (Kurawanka Bowls)

date: early 19th century

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

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


title: Marble statuette of a male figure with shaggy hair

date: 1st or 2nd century CE

medium: Marble, Pentelic ?

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Gift of Francis Neilson, 1942


title: Pendant in the shape of a dragon

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Purchase, Sir Joseph Hotung Gift, 2008


title: Bronze scalpel

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

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


title: Scarab

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Fragment from a tomb door

medium: Wood, paint


title: Bamboo and poem

creator: Zhu Lu

date: early 17th century

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

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Blackware Bowl

date: 12th–8th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Olmec

subjects: Olmec Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Albert J. Grant and Monique Grant Joint Revocable Trust, 2014


title: Cuneiform tablet: promissory note for barley, Esagilaya archive

date: ca. 568 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Sea-Gulls Playing on the Water

creator: Kubo Shunman

date: 19th century

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


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


title: Bracelet

medium: Shell

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


creator: Tarquinia Painter

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Linen mark, Wah, 20.3.203ttt

medium: Linen

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


title: Pair of Stirrups from a Horse Armor Made for a Member of the Collalto Family

medium: Iron alloy

country: Italian, probably Milan

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
Italian, probably milan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1921


title: Putti at play

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite and brown wash

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Copy of Roma travellers outside an inn [formerly known as La Halte des Bohémiens: Les Diseuses de Bonne Aventure (The Gypsy Stopover: The Fortune Tellers), from "Le Bohémiens, série appelée aussi Les Égyptiens, La Marche des Bohémiens, La Vie Errante des Bohémiens, Les Marches Égyptiennes" (The Gypsies, series also called The Egyptians, The Gypsy Troops, The Wandering Lives of Gypsies, The Egyptian Troops)]

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Leather Coat (Kawabaori) with Pattern of Large Shrimp

medium: Leather, silk

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan
Crustaceans

credit_line: Gift of John B. Elliott through the Mercer Trust, 1999


title: Souvenir spoon with view of Bilbao harbor and tower bridge and finial in form of a postage stamp

date: late 19th century

medium: Gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1902


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Jupiter; statue of the nude god seated on an eagle, holding a double trident, plate 2 from "Statues of Roman Gods"

creator: Philips Galle

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Plaque fragment: kneeling lion-headed figure

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ivory (hippopotamus), gold foil

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

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


title: Design for Three Low Chairs and Two Pedestal Tables

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Pull of Engraved Firearm Ornament

medium: Ink, paper

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French

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


title: Candlestick

creator: Jehan Aert van Tricht

medium: Brass

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Metalwork-brass
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Fire-offering ladle

medium: Iron damascened with gold and silver

country: Eastern Tibet, Derge, for China

subjects:
Metalwork
Eastern tibet, derge, for china

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 1993


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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


title: Genealogy with Portraits

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China Portraits

credit_line: Gift of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1954


title: Heroic Landscape with Watering Place, Riders, and Obelisk

creator: John Baptist Jackson

medium: Woodcut

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Card Number 539, Miss Blake, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Courtesan with Branch of Plum Blossoms

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Dorothy Tapper Goldman, 2013


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt, cloth fragments

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Songs: "Throwing off dull melancholy..."

creator: Henry Thomas Alken

medium: Soft-ground etching

credit_line: Gift of Wilbur Macey Stone, 1921


title: Cup

medium: Copper lined with silver

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: Figure of a King

medium: Oak with paint and gilding

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1952


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Terracotta lantern

date: ca. 2nd century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman, Egyptian

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, egyptian

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Round Plaque

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Hematite

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


title: Pharmacy Jar

country: Italian

subjects: Ceramic Italian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Card 697, Nellie Abbott, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Bronze sestertius of Hadrian

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Akasaka Station

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


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

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: last quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Flintlock Pistol

creator: William Green

medium: Steel, wood (walnut), brass, bronze, iron (?)

country: British and Scottish

subjects:
British and scottish
Firearms-pistols-flintlock

credit_line: Gift of Charles M. Schott Jr., 1917


title: A Young Man Pursuing His Beloved into the Woods

creator: David Vinckboons

medium: Pen and brown ink, bluish gray and brown washes.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: St. Matthew, from "Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Coin

date: dated 364 AH/974–75 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Statuette of a horseman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)


title: Annunciation with Beato Bernardo Tolomei di Siena

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Pen with brown and black inks, brush and brown wash, over graphite; outlines selectively pricked and incised with a stylus; verso has been blackened with black chalk.

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Wright, 1949


title: Cover From a Japanese Illustrated Book

creator: Okumura Masanobu

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1945


title: Glass bracelet

date: ca. 2nd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Architectural Support with a Jester

medium: Oak

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1974


title: The Colonial and Indian Reception at the Guildhall, 1886

creator: Elkington & Co.

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of the Corporation of the City of London, 1908


title: Erasmus of Rotterdam

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


title: Gathering Water Chestnuts

date: 18th century or later, spurious date of 1706

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

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Gloves

medium: Leather, silk, metallic

country: British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Expedition 1921, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1921


title: Earrings with Foliate Decoration

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


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

medium: Terracotta


title: Seashore, Morning

creator: William Hart

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of the sons of William Paton, 1909


title: A man stands at center, flanked by rows of buildings; above Jupiter atop an eagle and Juno accompanied by a peacock, converse among the clouds; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

creator: Mathäus Küsel

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Dr. James Appleton of Salem, Massachusetts

creator: William Bache

medium: Hollow cut paper

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


title: Plaque with Scenes from the Story of Joshua

medium: Elephant ivory, traces of polychromy, gilding; bone (border strips)

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Byzantine
Ivories-elephant
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: A New Cock Wanted, or Work for the Plumber

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Miniature Buddhist Deity

date: 12th century

medium: Mud stone

country: Bangladesh or India (Bengal)

subjects:
Sculpture
Bangladesh or india (bengal)

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


title: God with musical angels and cherubim

creator: Violante Vanni

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


title: Portrait of a Young Woman

creator: Peter Adolf Hall

medium: Ivory

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


title: Young Man Hunting a Wild Boar, from "Three Prints on Hunting and Fishing"

creator: Léon Davent

medium: Etching

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


title: Censer

date: second half 18th century

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Gaspar de Gusman, Count of Olivarez

creator: Paulus Pontius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Terracotta oil lamp

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: A Lane through the Trees

creator: Camille Corot

subjects: Painting Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Helmet with Feather Crest (清   羽飾頭盔)

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Steel, gold, silk, feathers (eagle, kingfisher), paper, turquoise, coral, pearls, fur (marten), silk, copper alloy, silver

country: Chinese

subjects:
Armor for man
Chinese
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Goblet

date: late 16th century

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


title: Bowl

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Female Figure

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood

country: Inyai-Ewa people

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Inyai-ewa people

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1965


title: Panel from a Tent Lining

date: 17th century

medium: Cotton; plain weave, mordant painted and dyed, resist dyed

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1929


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


title: Vase

creator: Joseph-Théodore Deck

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Hubert des Forges and Oscar E. Moore, 2016


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted and incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Key

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, De Souhami Collection, Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Gaming Piece or Stone Object

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Stone (?); carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Glass pendant  in the shape of a Black African's head

date: late 2nd–1st century BCE

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean


title: Tile

date: 1650–80 or later

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Dish

date: 18th century

medium: StonStoneware with flambé glaze (Shiwan ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China


title: Sylvanus, from "The Rural Gods"

creator: Cornelis Cort

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Sake Ewer (Hisage) with Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields

date: early 17th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e and e-nashiji (“pear-skin picture”) on black ground

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, by exchange, 1980


title: Cuffs

date: mid-19th century

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Esther Mathews, 1940


title: Ring

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Headdress

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert Blum, 1953


title: The Israelites in Egypt–Water Carriers, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

creator: Sir Edward John Poynter

medium: Wood engraving on India paper, mounted on thin card

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1926


title: Dish

medium: Porcelain decorated with enamels (Koto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: The Calumny of Apelles

creator: John Vanderlyn

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of the family of General George H. Sharpe, 1924


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: The Ruin of Liebenstein Castle near Bornhofen am Rhein, Seen from the North-West

creator: Christian Georg Schütz the Younger

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray ink; framing line in pen and black ink. Laid down

credit_line: Van Day Truex and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2012


title: [Scene of City Hall, New York City]

creator: Joseph Stubbs

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

credit_line: Gift of Mildred R. Mottahedeh, 1982


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Caring for the Dead, illustration from Speculum Passionis, 1507

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

medium: Woodcut with letterpress text verso

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Inside Back Cover (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper.

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta cup with appliqués

country: Greek, Pergamene

subjects:
Vase
Greek, pergamene

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Right Half of a Strapwork Cartouche

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and ink

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1955


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: The Harsen Homestead, Corner of 10th Avenue and 70th Street, from "Scenes of Old New York"

creator: Henry Farrer

medium: Etching

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


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Anklet with Spheres on Top

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Vietnam

subjects: Jewelry Vietnam

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


title: Christ on the Cross flanked by the Virgin and Saint John

creator: Dürer-School

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut with tone block in green

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Plate

medium: Brass; engraved and pierced

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


title: Bottom of a Vessel with Foot

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass

country: Coptic

subjects:
Glass-vessel
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Undersleeves

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Cotton, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, 1966


title: Design for a Lavish Headdress with Feathers on a Helmet (frontal view)

creator: Baccio del Bianco

medium: Blue gouache or watercolor heightend with white

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


title: Étui

medium: Copper, enamel

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890


title: Interior scene

medium: Wool, silk (15-16 warps per inch, 6-7 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie


title: Traveling table (table de voyage or table pliante)

medium: Carved walnut; gilt-bronze mounts; steel hinges; linings of felt and leather

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Ornamented Spatula

date: 2nd–7th century

medium: Teeth, copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Bone/ivory-implement
Moche
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Nathan Cummings, by exchange, 1980


title: Sakamoto Otasuku

creator: Mizuno Toshikata

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Watch

creator: Firm of Alliez, Bachelard et Terond Fils

medium: Gold, enamel

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


title: Interior of a barn with an unloading haywagon

creator: Jean Louis de Marne (called Demarnette)

medium: Etching and drypoint

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


title: Reverse ogee frame

creator: Southern Italy

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Poplar

country: Southern Italian

subjects:
Frame
Southern italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Spoon caddy

creator: T. W., London

medium: Silver

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


title: Wine Bottle

medium: Clay covered with a glaze of Bizen type and overglaze drippings of Satsuma-type glaze (Takatori ware)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Colman, 1893


title: Plate 4, from "Livre Nouveau de Prinsipes D'Ornemens, tres facil. Pour apprendre a Dessigner"

creator: Nicolas Guérard

medium: Engraving

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


title: Teabowl

medium: Clay;  glaze with waving lines and pattern in white Mishimi (Tsushima ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

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


title: Curb Bit

medium: Iron alloy

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Jug

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Panel fragment

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Iran

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1951


title: Sketches of Telescopes on a Ship's Deck (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium:
Graphite on wove paper with gilt edges, bound in a leather
 cover

subjects:
American
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: A bacchante holding a pitcher in her right hand and carrying in her left hand an oval dish containing three figs, set against a black background inside a rectangular frame

creator: Aloysio Cunego

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Hubbard, 1941


title: 98. Mosquée Nabédémiane, à Alexandrie

creator: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 2017


title: Design for a Desk

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite and watercolor on tracing paper

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


title: Terracotta saucer-shaped lamp

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Actress in profile wearing hat with blossoms, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects: Photograph Flowers

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


title: Terracotta fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Hudibras Triumphant (Plate 4: Illustrations to Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Four Figure Studies (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Conquest of Dalmatia, 1806

creator: Bertrand Andrieu

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: Pair of crystal bottles with cover and stopper (part of a set)

medium: Silver, crystal; silver; silver, cork

subjects:
Metalwork-silver in combination
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 1968


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vue prise du quartier Franc, au Kaire

creator: Maxime Du Camp

date: January 18, 1850

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Glaive of the Bodyguard of the Tiepolo Family

medium: Steel, gold, wood, textile

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1912


title: Cover

date: early 19th century

medium: Linen, silk, metal wrapped thread; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Tankard

creator: H. W., London

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Annie Summerville, Corsair Co., from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; molded and incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Sketch of Mountains (from Sketchbook)

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Guy Jackson Hecker, Pitcher, Louisville Colonels, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: The Spirit of Akugenta Yoshihira Strikes Nanba Jirō during Kiyomori’s Visit to Nunobiki Waterfall

creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

medium: Triptych of woodblock-printed books (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Rhyton with female head

date: ca. 3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic, glazed

country: Parthian or Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Teresa Sackler and Family, and 2000 Benefit Fund, 2001


title: Towel border

medium: Linen, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Composition with the Medici Vase, from Recueil de Compositions par Lagrenée Le Jeune (Collection of Compositions by Lagrenée the Younger)

creator: Jean Jacques Lagrenée

medium: Etching and aquatint

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


title: Upholstery from a settee

date: 19th century

credit_line: Bequest of Elizabeth Love Godwin, 1975


title: Ionic Base, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Jar

date: 12th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Two alternative designs for the painted decoration of a panel (one with the intertwined initials CL)

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, and gold paint  on paper; mounted on wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Piece

medium: Silk;  backed with cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Delia Tyrwhitt, 1965


title: Hair Dressing Tool (Kogai)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kogai
Japanese

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


title: Bottle

medium: Non-lead glass with enamel decoration, pewter

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1914


title: Russia, from the National Flags series (N195) 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: Juno, Ceres, and Psyche in the clouds conversing, Juno seated with a peacock at her feet, Ceres wearing a garland of wheat and Psyche partially naked and holding a cloth

creator: Marco Dente

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Plinth

medium: Wood, carved and painted

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Youth Gazing Upwards in Profile

creator: Francesco Montelatici ("Cecco Bravo")

medium: Red and black chalk

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 1994


title: Pair of lappets

date: first half 18th century

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A.A. Berle Jr., 1953


title: Tiger

creator: Meisō

date: early 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1986


title: Portrait of Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching and engraving; seventh state of eight (Bocher)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Piece (one of 13)

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Arcus Vespasiani, from "Views of Ancient Roman Temples and Arches"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Textile with Horned Animals in a Pearl Roundel

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Weft-faced compound silk twill

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1996


title: U.S. Monitor "Mahopac" on the Appomattox River

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Snuffbox with portrait of a child holding a dog

creator: David Lhonorey

medium: Gold, enamel

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace, Point de Paris, silk

credit_line: Gift of Georgiana Schuyler, 1900


title: Priest's Robe (Shichijō)

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Allegory of Abundance

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

date: 17th century

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

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Kendi

date: 8th–early 9th 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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Eboshi (a court hat)

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Songs of Experience: Title-page

creator: William Blake

medium: Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold

subjects:
Print
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Abacus

medium: Pink marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Decorative Design

creator: Anonymous, Spanish, 17th century

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing


title: Perugia

creator: Elihu Vedder

medium: Graphite on translucent off-white wove paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1973


title: Saucer

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Bone china

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Pinhead

date: 1st century BCE–5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Egyptian God

creator: Clodion (Claude Michel)

date: probably 1780s

medium: Painted terracotta

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Design for an Polygonal Tabernacle, with Obelisks and a Pediment Surmounted by Three Figures Supporting a Tempietto-like Structure

creator: Galeazzo Alessi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over preliminary constructions in black chalk or graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Corset cover

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Marion B. Grant, 1931


title: William Fenner, Rector of Rochford (from The Works of W. Fenner B. of Divinity," London, 1657)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state

credit_line: Gift of Carl J. Ulmann, 1924


title: Lime Pot in the Shape of Cat

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Glazed pottery with incised decoration

country: Thailand (Buriram Province)

subjects:
Ceramic
Thailand (buriram province)

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2007


title: Les Fleurs Animées, Title Page

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Hand-colored wood engraving

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


title: Small Stove and Two Tall Objects

creator: Anonymous, Chinese, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and gouache

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


title: Study of Rocks

creator: John William Casilear

medium: Graphite on off-white Bristol board

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1978


title: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Michael and Jane Wilson, and Harry Kahn Gifts, 1997


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Brush holder with tribute scene

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Opera cloak

creator: Maison Pingat

medium: silk, fur, feathers, metal

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard Crosby Brokaw, 1960


title: Bust-Length Study of a Man Wearing a Hat in Three-Quarter View (a Frankish Nobleman)

creator: Lorenzo Tiepolo

medium: Red and white chalk, some black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Katrin Bellinger, 2008


title: Covered Wine Pot

medium: Painted enamel

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Carving knife

medium: Steel, tortoiseshell, wood, brass

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense)

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Iron, leather, copper alloy, shellac

country: Tibetan or Mongolian

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-shaffron
Tibetan or mongolian

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, by exchange, 2014