title: Plate with Bamboo, Peonies, and Birds

medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue and copper red under a transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Birds

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Corner Tile

date: early 14th century

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

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: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1940


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1946


title: Key

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Fawn Scratching

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

date: possibly 1870s

medium: Wax, plaster, wood

credit_line: Gift of Mitchell Samuels, 1921


title: The Flight into Egypt

creator: Carlo Maratti

medium: Oil on copper

credit_line: Bequest of Errol M. Rudman, 2020


title: Border Fragment

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

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


title: Keystone from an Arch with Cross and Acanthus Leaves

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Beaker with cover

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Inscribed Pot Fragment

medium: Pottery, ink

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


title: Illustration in Jérôme Paturot, by Louis Reybaud, Paris, 1846

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni, Venice

creator: Andrew Fisher Bunner

medium: Black ink and graphite traces on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899


title: Design for a Vase

creator: J. Hulme

medium: Pen and black ink

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


title: Card Number 169, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Gold earrings with disk and boat-shaped pendant

date: ca. 300 BCE

medium: Gold

country: East Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
East greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

date: 18th century

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


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Bernard de Foix de La Valette, duc d'Eperon

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Gift of Harry A. Brooks, 1960


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (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: Strap-Crossing in the Shape of Camel's Head

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Tinned bronze

country: Northwest China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china

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


title: Coat

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Martine Weaver, 1950


title: Implements (Celt)

medium: Stone (serpentine), pigment

country: European, Italian peninsula

credit_line: Gift of Garrett C. Pier, 1908


title: Capital of Composite Order, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Léon Davent

date: mid-16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Afternoon dress

medium: [no medium available]

country: Chinese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Eldin Burton, in memory of Elizabeth Varian Keen, 1974


title: Pitcher

creator: Tucker Factory

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: The Florence I. Balasny-Barnes Collection, Gift of Florence I. Balasny-Barnes, 2008


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base) or a kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Bowl with Carved Decoration

date: late 11th–first half 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; incised, glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Visiting the Prisoners (Visiter les prisonniers)

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching; first state of two (Join-Lambert and Préaud)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Plate 2: Robert Macaire, philanthropist, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Color lithograph on wove paper; fourth state of five (Delteil)

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Glass; mold and optic blown

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: British, Ioway, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N2) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman, probably Italian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, probably italian

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


title: Large high-shouldered jar

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Fan

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: mother-of-pearl, linen, metal, bone

country: European

subjects:
European
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the executors of the estate of Clara M. Blum in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blum, 1966


title: Scarab of an Official

medium: Steatite

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


title: Card Number 35, Daisy Temple, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects: Architecture Photograph

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


title: On dit qu'on commence déja a la voir..., from La Comète de 1857, published in Le Charivari, March 7, 1857

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

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


title: Archer's Ring

date: probably late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Jade, gold

country: Ottoman

subjects:
Archery equipment-archer' ring
Ottoman

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: The Century, October

creator: Anonymous, American, 19th century

medium: Lithograph

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


title: The Scapegoat

creator: Charles Henry Mottram

medium: Various engraving techniques on chine collé

credit_line: Bequest of James David Draper, 2019


title: Jug with Handle

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Half Moon (bugle or flügelhorn) in D

creator: Erdmuthe Juliane Liebel

medium: Brass, nickel-silver

country: German

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated
German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Étui

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Pellet Bell in the Form of a Monkey

date: ca. 13th–14th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


title: See 07.228.196

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Colorado, from Flags of the States and Territories (N11) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


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


title: Skewer needle

medium: Steel, silver, horn

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Sinorix carried from the temple of Artemis trying to escape the effects of the poisoning

creator: Pietro Testa

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: The Chowk

creator: John Murray

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Box

creator: Johann Christian Sick

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family; Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts and The Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation Inc. Gifts; Rogers Fund; and Cynthia and Steven Brill, Werwaiss Family Charitable Trust, and Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gifts, 2005


title: Bowl

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip under transparent glaze running from pale greenish at center to strong yellow at rim

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Border

date: late 16th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Double Shabti of Benermerut and His Mother, Ikhem

medium: Gabroic rock, possibly serpentinite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Penelope

creator: Charles-François Marchal

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Adolph Obrig, in memory of her husband, 1917


title: Trade card for Frazer, Army Printer, Stationer and Bookbinder

creator: Anonymous, Irish, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Hunting and fishing scenes

creator: Robert Jones

medium: Linen and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1983


title: Cup rim sherd

date: ca. late 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Wedding corset

medium: silk, cotton, metal

credit_line: Gift of Berenice L. Heller, 1974


title: Ballerina, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Portrait of Sir Sidney Smith in the Temple Prison

creator: Philippe Auguste Hennequin

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk

subjects: Architecture Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, in honor of George R. Goldner, 2015


title: Handbell

medium: Metal

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper European

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Ornament in the shape of a phoenix

medium: Gold

country: Korea

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Miniature knife

creator: George Manjoy

date: late 17th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: The Joseph M. and Aimee Loeb May Collection, 1963


title: Thirion. Louis, Joseph. 31 ans, né à Autrey (Vosges). Journaliste. Anarchiste. 4/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Bowl with cover (écuelle) and tray

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Menippus, after Velázquez

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, by exchange, 1931


title: Dish

medium: Pressed glass

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


title: Stamp

date: 5th–6th century

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Atlantic watershed
Ceramics-implement

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


title: Bed Cover (Palampore)

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton; painted and resist dyed

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


title: Vase fragment

medium: Faience

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Blade for a Sword (<i>Katana</i>)

creator: Gassan Mitsu[...]

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects: Sword Japanese

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


title: Album of Japanese and Chinese Poems to Sing

creator: Konoe Nobutada

date: early 17th century

medium: Album of thirty-six leaves; each on gold, silver, or colored decorated paper

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2018


title: Gilt bronze crossbow fibula

date: 4th century CE

medium: Bronze, Gold

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Ecce Homo

medium: Bronze, light brown patina

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2012


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Cleric with Raised Arms (lower register?; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

creator: Isidore Pils

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray paper

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989


title: Qur'an Manuscript

date: late 9th–early 10th century

medium: Main support: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on parchment; Binding: leather; tooled

credit_line: Gift of Philip Hofer, 1937


title: Miniature quaich

creator: James Sympsone


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Meleager Hunting the Boar

creator: Pseudo-Melioli

date: model early 16th century (possibly cast 17th century)

medium: Copper alloy with dull brown patina; pierced at the top; remnants of solder on the reverse.

country: Italian

subjects: Plaquette Italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Pair of Ear Clips Composed of Fused Discs

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

medium: Gold

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: late 15th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; lampas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: The Dream of Paris

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Incense burner

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork Japan

credit_line: Gift of Ellen Barker, 1942


title: Vue générale de Rouen

creator: Edmond Bacot

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1995


title: Dish

creator: Bernard Palissy

date: second half 17th century or later

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: James Galway, Preakness Stables, from the Racing Colors of the World series (N22a) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Piece

date: 17th century


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Rock crystal

country: Egyptian

subjects:
Egyptian
Minerals & gems

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

country: Greek, Attic


title: Candlestick

date: 15th century

medium: Wrought iron

country: French or Northern Spain

subjects:
Metalwork
French or northern spain


title: Design for Gothic Tracery and Paneling

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Desert Scene with Antelope

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel, 1985


title: Cup

medium: Silver

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Terracotta chariot krater

medium: Terracotta

country: Helladic, Mycenaean

subjects:
Vase
Helladic, mycenaean

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


title: Two Sections of a Border

creator: Rémois Atelier

medium: Pot-metal glass and vitreous paint

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2010


title: Horrid Visions of Nappy Napp'd at Last

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: From the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Volute-krater fragment

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Drawing for a Cartouche

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Pen with brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1956


title: Terracotta fragment of a stemless cup

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Bearded Man

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of three

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


title: Sidney Douglas Farrar, 1st Base, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Sappho

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Weight

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Maiolica: Apothecary jar (albarello)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian (probably Naples)

subjects:
Ceramics-pottery
Italian (probably naples)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

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


title: Tile with papyrus plant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Edward S. Harkness Gift and by exchange, 1922, 1929, 1935


title: Armchair

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: Design for a Chair

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1961


title: The Great Exotic Stove at Kew

creator: Sir William Chambers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Plaque

creator: James Priestman

medium: Parian porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Emma and Jay Lewis, 2011


title: Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

creator: Red-Line Painter

date: late 6th century BCE

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: The Annunciation

creator: Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground


title: Tray

date: 19th century

medium: Iron; incised and inlaid with silver, incisions filled in with a black compound (probably pitch)

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


title: Cassone

date: second half 16th century

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Herr Joachim


title: War Chariot

date: mid-19th century

medium: Red ochre on paper

country: India (Rajasthan)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan)

credit_line: Gift of Subhash Kapoor, in memory of his parents, Smt Shashi Kanta and Shree Parshotam Ram Kapoor, 2008


title: Samuel Baldwin Ludlow

creator: Theodore Lund

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James A. Cole, 1978


title: Design for a Wood Desk and Shelves

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


title: Buckle

date: ca. 100 BCE–ca. 500 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Ibero-Roman

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Ibero-roman

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Margerand. Claude. 32 ans, né le 24/3/61 à Beaujeu (Rhône). Cordonnier. Anarchiste. 3/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

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


title: Panel from an Ivory Casket with the Killing of the King of Hazor (Joshua 11)

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Two Keys

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite and pen and ink


title: S. Joseph d'Arimathie (St. Joseph of Arimathea), February 22nd, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Pattens

date: late 18th century

medium: leather, wood, metal

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


title: Frame (Fronton)

medium: Wood, carved and gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Necklace with pendant

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Gold

country: Philippines

subjects: Jewelry Philippine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: Bronze lamp

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: The Opening of the Seventh Seal, from "The Apocalypse"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, 1940


title: Allegory of the Marriage of the Dauphin and Marie-Antoinette in 1770

creator: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

medium: Brush and gray wash, accents in pen and brown ink, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink; margins tinted with brush and blue-green wash

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed, gilded  open-work lace paper, colored paper,  die-cut scraps

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Bowl

medium: White porcelain, the outside dipped blue under the glaze covered with design painted in gold; the inside decorated in blue under the glaze, enamel

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Design for Two Small Tables with Tapered Columnar Legs

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: La Nuit

creator: Jean Coulon

medium: Glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2022


title: Fruit stand (soucoupe à pied) (one of four) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Fruits

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


title: Jug

medium: Glass

credit_line: Edward Holbrook Collection, Gift of Mrs. Edward Holbrook and John S. Holbrook, 1921


title: Terracotta fragmentary  neck-amphora

creator: Nikosthenes

date: 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1972


title: Bonaly Towers. Home of Lord Cockburn

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: The Last Token: A Christian Martyr

creator: Gabriel Max

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


title: Private, Baltimore, Maryland, Light Infantry, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Komabue

medium: Wood

country: Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield, 1948


title: Group of Seven Horses

creator: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Group of 11 Pendant Heads

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Dagger

date: ca. 10th–9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Jerome M. Eisenberg, 1966


title: Edmund Kean in the Character of Macbeth

creator: George Henry Harlow

medium: Black chalk, brush and wash and watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Paul Jeromack, in memory of Robert Tuggle, 2016


title: Sea Fight

creator: Willem van de Velde II

date: mid-17th–early 18th century

medium: Pen and brush and brown and gray ink; traces of a framing line in black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain with coral stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Terracotta askos (flask with a spout and handle over the top)

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Celia, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Fragment

medium: Machine made lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Scarab

medium: Light blue glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Candlestick (one of a set of eight)

creator: Andrew Fogelberg

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Trivet

date: possibly early 18th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Bequest of Henry Victor Burgy, 1901


title: Limestone coffin model

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cypriot

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


title: Spoon

date: 7th–2nd century BCE

medium: Stone

country: Chavin (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Chavin

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1993


title: Piece (one of 116)

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Guitar

creator: Christian Frederick Martin

medium: Wood, maple, spruce, abalone, ebony, metal, brass, ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1979


title: Shabti box of Ramose

medium: Wood, gesso, paint

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: Tureen with covered stand

creator: Charles Loyal

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Wedding slippers

medium: leather

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Miss Joan Sutphen, 1946


title: Bell Dangle

date: 15th–mid-16th century

medium: Bronze (cast)

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-musical instrument
Peru; north coast

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


title: Beauty and the Beast

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Watercolor

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


title: Know Justice Know Peace

creator: Amos Kennedy

medium: Letterpress

credit_line: Gift of Nappy-negroes in art, 2020


title: Fringe

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ornament

date: 18th century(?)

country: Cambodia

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Cambodia

credit_line: Gift of Frank Vincent, 1885


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd century CE (?)

medium: Chalcedony, gray

country: Sasanian


title: Unidentified Subject: Scene of Martyrdom ?

creator: Micco Spadaro (Domenico Gargiulo)

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Handkerchief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Bottle

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: The Saviour Covered in a Large Cloak

creator: Battista Franco

medium: Etching and engraving; first state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

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


title: View of the Boulevards at Paris

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Jean Horblit, in memory of Harrison D. Horblit, 1994


creator: Painter of London E 106

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Initial letter I with garlands

date: mid-16th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Seated Statue of the Steward Sehetepibreankh

medium: Limestone

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


title: [Studio Portrait: Indigenous Man Seated Holding Bow]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print with applied color

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Summer

creator: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory

date: late 18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Fragment of a Bowl

medium: Stonepaste; painted under clear glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Chest of drawers

medium: Mahogany, mahogany and birch veneers with yellow poplar, white pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: George W. McVey, Catcher, St. Joseph Clay Eaters, 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: Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau

creator: Pieter Tanjé

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: A Sheet of Heads

creator: Mauro Gandolfi

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Collar

date: second quarter 19th century

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Samuel S. Howland, 1906


title: Ānandalaharī

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, skin

country: Indian (Bengal)

subjects:
Chordophone
Indian (bengal)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Terracotta biconical spindle-whorl

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 43 (verso)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton, knitted lace

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


title: River Scene

creator: Jan Brueghel the Elder

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown, and red wash, over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Five-piece parure in original case

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Gold, garnet; wood, shagreen, silk

credit_line: Gift of Evelyn D. Trebilcock, 2021


title: Standing poodle

creator: United States Pottery Company

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Nefertum Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Gilt-leather wall hanging (part of a set)

creator: De Gecroonde Son

medium: Leather, silvered, painted and varnished

credit_line: Gift of Rosine Lambiotte Donhauser, in honor of Victor and Marie De Meulemeester, 2012


title: Robert James "Bob" Gilks, Pitcher, Cleveland, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Elephants in Combat

medium: Charcoal on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Kotah)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, kotah)

credit_line: Gift of Subhash Kapoor, in memory of his parents, Smt Shashi Kanta and Shree Parshotam Ram Kapoor, 2008


title: Page of a Pilgrim’s Visiting Album

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Album page; ink, color, and gold on paper, textile cover

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Little girl with a vessel by her feet, from "Premier Livre de Figures d'après les porcelaines de la Manufacture Royale de France, inventées en 1757, par Mr. Boucher" (First Book of Figures after porcelains from the Manufacture Royale de France, devised in 1757, by Mr. Boucher)

creator: Pierre Etienne Falconet

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: George Oyster, from The World's Racers series (N32) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Headdress

medium: [no medium available]

country: French

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose (Masque de l'homme au nez cassé)

creator: Auguste Rodin

date: model finished in 1864, cast date unknown

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Vanderpoel Clark, 1967


title: Gold Necklace with Gold Cross, Two Amethysts, and an Emerald Plasma

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold, amethyst, emerald plasma

subjects: Metalwork-gold Byzantine


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Mountainous landscape with travellers (Scene on the river Pellene Achaia)

creator: Hugh William Williams

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite, with touches of gouache (bodycolor)

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Robert Tuggle, 2008


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Head of a Buddha

date: 8th century

country: Thailand

subjects: Sculpture Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Lynne and Robert Rubin, 1985


title: Design for a Covered Vase

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Red chalk

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


title: Pendant Ornament

medium: Jade

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jade
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Fragment

medium: Embroidered net, punto à rammendo

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vase

medium: Pottery

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Koshland, 1924


title: Craftsmen, Tomb of Nebamun and Ipuky

creator: Norman de Garis Davies

medium: Tempera on Paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Sketch of a German Village

creator: Andrew Fisher Bunner

medium: Black ink and graphite traces on off-whitw laid paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Andrew Fisher Bunner, 1899


title: View of the Horse Track at Shinobazu in Ueno Park  (Ueno shinobazu keiba zu)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Menat fragment

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Cup on High Foot

medium: Pottery (Cizhou ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


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: Disk Brooch

medium: Copper alloy, gilded silver, garnet, and foil

country: Frankish

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Portici della piazza di S. Pietro di Roma. Plate 44 from the Album 'Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano'

creator: Giovanni Battista Bonacina

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: Glass mosaic carinated dish fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: [Acropolis, Athens, Greece]

creator: James Robertson

date: Early 1850s

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Welcoming Descent of the Bodhisattva Jizō

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 14th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink, color, and cut gold on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Noah's Ark

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Tsii' Edo' Ai (Apache Fiddle)

creator: Chappo Geronimo

medium: Wood, horse hairs, metal tacks

country: Native American (Apache, Chiricahua)

subjects:
Chordophone-zither-bowed
Native american (apache, chiricahua)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: A Young Man

creator: School of Rembrandt van Rijn

medium: Pen and brush in brown ink; the verso printed in brown.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fireman, from the Occupations for Women series (N166) for Old Judge and Dogs Head Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Powder flask

medium: Antler, metal

subjects:
French
Firearm accessories-flask & primer

credit_line: Purchase, The Ruddock Foundation for the Arts and Bernice and Jerome Zwanger Gifts, and funds from various donors, by exchange, 2018


title: The Green Gem Hall

creator: Jian Guzhai

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Ink

subjects:
Ink
China
Minerals & gems


title: Hunting coat

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: Gift of Jessie Leonard Hill, 1979


title: Glass pendant in the form of a lamp

date: 4th century CE


title: Flounce

medium: Needle lace

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


title: Antennae Sword

medium: Copper

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

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


title: The Fifth Ichikawa Danjuro as an Old Man with Long Gray Hair

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Glass finger ring

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

country: Greek

subjects: Glass Greek


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Velvets

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Auguste Rodin

creator: Robert MacCameron

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912


title: Gold and pearl earring (one of a pair)

date: 3rd century CE

medium: Gold, pearl

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Cruet

medium: Opaque glass with enamel decoration

country: British

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


title: Head of a Lion

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Porcelain with ivory white glaze (Ding ware)

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Songs: "I am the boy for bewitching them..."

creator: Henry Thomas Alken

medium: Soft-ground etching

credit_line: Gift of Wilbur Macey Stone, 1921


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

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


title: Strainer

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Mrs. Abraham Lansing, 1929


title: Theurerdanck's Ship Endangered by Hail and Storm, from Theuerdanck

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Edging

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Repos (autre)

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


date: mid-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: Piece

creator: Gorgerat Frères et Cie

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace


title: Wholecloth quilt

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Reginald Allen, 1986


title: Portrait of Mme. Anne-Henriette de France

creator: François Xavier Vispré

medium: Mezzotint

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Susan Schulman Printseller and Carolyn Bullard Fine Prints, 2009


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Samuel Cotes

medium: Ivory

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Millie Bruhl Fredrick, 1962


title: Cap

date: early 19th century

medium: cotton, silk

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Mary Le Boutillier, 1945


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic?


title: Silhouette of Cecil Brent

creator: A. Brent

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

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


title: Candlestick (one of a set of eight)

creator: Andrew Fogelberg

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012


title: Design for a Frame with Putti and Sirens

creator: Anonymous, Italian, second half of the 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk; selectively pricked for transfer

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


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with crackled yellow glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Fish Ornament

country: Peru; central coast (?)

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

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


title: Bowl

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

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


title: Sibylle Persique, from "Douze Sibylles"

creator: Gilles Rousselet

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration, glazed

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


title: Hunting Scene

creator: Jonas Zeuner

medium: Engraving in gold and silver foil behind glass, black lacquer; gilt-wood frame

credit_line: Purchase, Ann R. Burns Gift, in memory of Larry D. Burns, 2025


title: Ornamento nobile...Fatta da Lucretia Romana (Libro V of the Corona)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Mde. Rosi, 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: Aryballos

creator: Bulas Group

date: early 4th century BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Study of a Tree Standing in Water in the Düsseldorf Hofgarten; verso: Studies of Plants

creator: Johann Wilhelm Preyer

medium: Graphite

subjects: Botany Drawing Trees

credit_line: Purchase, C. G. Boerner Gift, 2010


title: Gig #3772

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Armchair

date: 17th century

medium: Purple sandalwood (zitan)

subjects: Furniture China

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1976


title: Teatro delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne..., page 9 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut, engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Seated court lady

date: 8th century

medium: Earthenware with tri-color (sancai) glaze

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2010


title: Bead

date: ca. late 8th millennium BCE

medium: Porphyry

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: Foxtail Millet (Panicum italicum)

medium: Opaque watercolor with graphite underdrawing

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2025


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Design for a room with two fireplaces

creator: John Dibblee Crace

medium: Watercolor, gouache (bodycolor), pen and ink

credit_line: Dodge and Fletcher Funds, 1967


title: Landscape with rushing stream and a couple on the bank, frightened by a snake

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Watercolor, pen and ink

subjects:
Drawing
Landscapes
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Woman's Robe

medium: Blue and white cotton, rice paste resist

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Vasant Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

date: early 17th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Amber)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, amber)

credit_line: Friends of Asian Art, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Saul Gift, 1999


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: mid-19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


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: Issachar, from "The Twelve Patriarchs"

creator: Maarten van Heemskerck

medium: Etching; second state

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


title: Pair of sconces

medium: Glass, gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Spoon with a falcon on the handle

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: Bi-truncated Blade Tool

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Cup with cover

creator: Gottlieb Menzel

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Limestone statuette of a temple boy

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Architecture
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Work and writing table (table en chiffonière)

creator: Bernard II van Risenburgh

medium: Oak and beech veneered with tulipwood and purplewood; gilt bronze, blue moiré silk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1984


title: Breastplate (Plastron)

medium: Iron

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-breastplate

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Head Runner or Runaways from the Leipzic Fair

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

creator: Netherlandish (Antwerp) Painters

medium: Oil on wood

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


title: Two Shield Bosses (Umbos)

medium: Iron, copper alloy, gold

country: Western European, Langobardic

subjects:
Western european, langobardic
Shields-part of

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Bequest of Stephen V. Grancsay, by exchange, 1984


title: Manuscript Leaf with Saint John Gualbert in an Initial S, from an Antiphonary

date: early 16th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

country: Italian

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

credit_line: Gift of Louis L. Lorillard, 1896, transferred from the Library


title: Saucer

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Margarette A. Jones, 1907


title: The Blocade on the "Connecticut Plan"

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of  A. S. Colgate, 1952


title: Piece

date: 14th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century


title: Monkey, 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: Decorative belt plaque

medium: Gilt bronze

country: China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Little Trellis

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Banner

medium: Silk, polychromy

country: French

subjects: Banner French

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: A Moth

creator: Nicolaas Struyk

date: early 18th–mid 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink and watercolor, over touches of graphite

subjects:
Drawing
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine G. Curran, 2008


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3967

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with crayon marks

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Vial of yellow pigment

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Cloisonné

subjects: Cloisonné Japan

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1921


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


title: Linga with Face of Shiva (Ekamukhalinga)

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Brass with copper and silver inlay

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

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Robe

date: 19th century

medium: Resist-dyed and painted (bingata) silk crepe

country: Japan (Okinawa, Ryūkyū Islands)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan (okinawa, ryūkyū islands)

credit_line: Purchase, Seymour Fund, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bach, by exchange, 1983


title: Card Number 23, Jennie McNulty, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Bit Boss

date: late 16th–17th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: North Italian

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
North italian

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Box with Design of Benkei and a Bell

creator: Shibata Zeshin

medium: Mokume-nuri, gold, silver, red, black lacquer, takamaki-e, hiramaki-e

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Travellers

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1923


title: Card Number 326, Christine Mertins, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Sketches for the Design of a Casket (recto); Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths(?) (verso)

creator: Girolamo da Carpi (Girolamo Sellari)

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of William Rieder, 1998


title: Man's Summer Court Hat with Peacock Feather

medium: Basketry, silk, glass

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
China

credit_line: Gift of Alice Boney, 1962


title: Skirt panel

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Manuscript Illumination with All Saints in an Initial V, from an Antiphonary

creator: Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura)

medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with animal contest

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Achaemenid

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


title: Vessel with mythical creatures, flowers, and birds

medium: Black lacquer painted with red, green, and yellow lacquer

subjects:
Lacquer
China
Birds
Flowers
Ships & the sea


title: The Rising Moon

creator: Samuel Palmer

medium: Etching; sixth or between sixth and seventh state of nine

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Murray and Michael Blodget, 2018


title: Careless Attention

date: February 1, 1789

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Nymph and satyr

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Plate 8: Vase or Ewer Decorated with a Satyr Figure, Behind Two Cornucopias, and Two Winged Victory Figures, from "Antique Vases" (Vasa a Polydoro Caravagino)

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of three (Bartsch)

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


title: Design for a Cartouche (recto); Design for a Cartouche (verso)

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

medium: Pen and brown ink, over leadpoint or black chalk


title: Design for a Cartouche with Acanthus Scrolls from which Female Figures Emerge

creator: Anonymous, German, 17th century

medium: Pen and brown and black ink and graphite with traces of red chalk

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Netsuke

medium: Ivory with bronze disk inlaid with silver

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Double-Sided Comb

date: 7th century

medium: Bone, iron pins

country: Frankish

subjects:
Bone
Frankish
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Flower vase

medium: Nephrite, dark translucent seaweed green

subjects:
Seaweed & algae
Jade
China
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Oriental Arms, from "Gazette des Beaux-Arts"

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Louis R. Metcalfe, 1928


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Coin Weight

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Glass; stamped

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Livre de Moresques, page 16 (verso)

creator: Francesco di Pellegrino

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Trade Card for Nosworthy & Wells, Lithographers

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Commerical lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Fisherman, from Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac, plate 37

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)


title: Roc the Brazilian, Capturing Boat's Crew, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Gold Strip

medium: Gold

country: Avar

subjects: Metalwork-gold Avar


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

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


title: Shabti of Yuya

medium: Cedar, paint, Egyptian blue

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Babylonian

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


title: Lantern clock

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1942


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr (1764–1830), Marshal of France, Minister of War 1815–1821

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Bronze, cast - single

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1898


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Peasant Family on the Tramp

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; second of three states

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Friedman, 1965


title: Porringer

creator: Samuel Ely Hamlin

medium: Pewter

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, in memory of her husband, 1941


title: View of Ranby's House

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

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


title: Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 23 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Pilgrim at the Gate (Einsiedler an der Pforte)

creator: Karl Blechen

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives, 2007


title: The Holme

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Walter Schatzki, 1955


title: Treaty of Campo Formio, 1797

creator: Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Jar

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Brooch in Form of a Bird of Prey

date: late 500s

medium: Copper alloy with silver overlay

country: Vendel

subjects: Metalwork-brass Vendel Birds

credit_line: Purchase, Leon Levy and Shelby White Gift, Rogers Fund, and funds from various donors, 1991


title: [Jervis McEntee]

creator: Austin Augustus Turner

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 23 (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

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


title: Medallion

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: L.E. Myers, Runner, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Vari disegni di merletti (page 12r)

creator: Bartolomeo Danieli

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Bit Boss with Adam and Eve

medium: Copper alloy

country: German, Bohemia or Saxony

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
German, bohemia or saxony

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Dog Cart (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Beaded Bracelet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Roundel with griffin heads

date: ca. 1st–2nd century

medium: Silver, gilding, inlays

country: Sarmatian

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Portrait of Monsieur Aublet

creator: Guillaume Voiriot

medium: Oil on canvas

country: French

subjects: Painting French Portraits

credit_line: Gift of The Bradford & Dorothea Endicott Foundation, 2007


title: Civil-Official Hyungbae (Rank Badge)

date: late 19th century

medium: Silk embroidery on silk damask

country: Korea

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Korea
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1953


title: Goddess Bagala

creator: Sasadhar Banarjee

medium: Lithograph printed in black with hand-coloring with watercolor and selectively applied glaze

country: West Bengal, Calcutta

subjects:
Print
West bengal, calcutta

credit_line: Purchase, The Kipper Family Foundation Gift, 2021


title: Coaching – Four in Hand – A Swell Turn-out

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Kosode

medium: Possibly resist-dyed with small repeating pattern (komon) in white on gray

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2000 Benefit Fund, and funds from various donors, 2001


title: Water Bottle

medium: Stoneware

country: British (American market)

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


title: Card Number 26, Sadie Martinot, 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: Upholstery panels for a side chair

medium: Silk, painted

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted

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


title: Panel

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Rank Badge

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk on silk

country: China

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Renaissance revival pendant on chain

creator: Carlo Giuliano

date: mid–late 19th century

medium: Gold, amethyst, enamel, pearl, diamond

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2015


title: Fragment of Rug

date: 18th century

medium: Foundation: cotton, warp and weft;  wool knotting

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

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


title: A Woman Standing next to a Chair

creator: Nicolaas Muys

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2005


title: Card Number 232, Maud Granger, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: L. Z. Co. Hardware]

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Galloon

medium: Metal thread

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Table

date: probably 15th century

medium: Walnut

subjects: Woodwork-furniture French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: [Peel Ross Fishing]

creator: Horatio Ross

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


title: Overshoes

medium: gutta-percha

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Anna M. McGivney, 1962


title: Dagger (Jambiya) with Sheath

medium: Steel, wood, gold, brass, coral, copper

country: Albanian

subjects:
Dagger
Albanian
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Coat

medium: silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1939


title: Virgin and Child in a Niche

creator: Geoffroy Dumoûtier

date: mid 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Two deformed heads (the figure on the left is possibly a caricature of Dante)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Bottle vase with geometric pattern

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Stoneware with glaze and incised decoration

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1950


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Ship Study (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

subjects:
American
Ships & the sea

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Pheasant on Path (obverse); Two Birds on Tree over Winding River (reverse)

date: 19th century

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

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan Birds Trees

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


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze (Arita ware, Imari type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Ensemble

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Miss Genevieve Karr Hamlin, 1942


title: Bamboo in Summer

creator: Takahashi Sōhei

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Gitter-Yelen Collection, 2005


title: Capital, Double Engaged

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Belt Ornament

date: 2nd–7th century

medium: Copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche

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


title: String of Scaraboids

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Design for a Painted Ceiling

creator: Giovanni Antonio Torricelli

medium: Drawings

credit_line: Gift of Beulah Dimmick Chase, 1947


title: Song of the Stone Drums

creator: Xianyu Shu

date: dated 1301

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Close Helmet for the Tilt

medium: Steel, gold, brass

country: German, Augsburg

subjects:
Helmet
German, augsburg

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1934


title: Arrowhead

date: 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Jerome M. Eisenberg, 1962


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Gift of Ginsburg and Levy Inc., 1956


title: Halberd Head with Naga and Blades

date: ca. second half of the 13th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1996


title: Terracotta kernos (vase for multiple offerings)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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


title: The Cloisters Apocalypse

medium: Tempera, gold, silver, and ink on parchment; later leather binding

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1968


title: After a Long Cruise

creator: John Carlin

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1949


title: Dish

date: 14th century

medium: Earthenware; luster and underglaze painted on opaque white glaze under  transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Paten

creator: Joseph Clare

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alfred Duane Pell, 1924


title: Vilaval Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Sirohi)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, sirohi)

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1985


title: Blade

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Obsidian, gray

credit_line: Purchase, The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1970


title: Venus Honored by the Nymphs

creator: Jan Muller

medium: Engraving; New Holl.'s second state of five

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


title: Purse

medium: wool, flax (?)

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Virginia S. Mayor, 1980


title: Ichnographs from the Sandstone of Connecticut River

creator: James Deane

date: published 1861

medium: Salted paper prints

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1990


title: Quivira, from the playing cards "Jeu de la Géographie"

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; third state of four

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


title: True Image of the Lord of Chalma, Christ crucified

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Limestone statue of Artemis with quiver and fawn

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Amida Nyorai

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects: Sculpture 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: Wall painting fragment from the north wall of Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale

date: ca. 50–40 BCE

medium: Fresco

country: Roman

subjects: Miscellaneous-painting Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Va de Bon Coeur; Dédié aux Milords de l'Amirauté Anglaise par un Membre de Congrès Américain

creator: Richard Purcell

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Naples

creator: John Ruskin

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Mountainous Site

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: The J.B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1951


title: Le Pêcheur sur le Pont (The Fisherman on the Bridge)

medium: Etching

credit_line: The J. B. Neumann Collection, Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, 1950


title: Wall decoration with floral and vegetal design

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Sasanian

subjects: Sasanian Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

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


title: Shabti

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund and The Guide Foundation Inc. Gift, 1966


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Ignorance Defeated

creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1944


title: Flute

medium: Wood, leather, metal

country: Native American (Apache, probably)

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

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Dress

medium: cotton, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ogden W. Ross, 1962


title: Sost. Edmond. 30 ans, né à Serqueux (Seine-Inférieure) le 15/11/64. Ciseleur. Anarchiste. 1/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Piece

medium: Cotton engraved roller-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Design for the Ceiling of a Bedchamber at Curraghmore, County Waterford, Ireland

creator: James Wyatt

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

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved; painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Shak Shak

date: late 19th century

medium: gourd, pebbles

country: Native American (Guyanese)

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
Native american (guyanese)


title: The competition at the conservatory: At the 79th audition of "Oh, what a pleasure to be a soldier!", from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, August 1, 1870

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: August 1, 1870

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: March (one of a series representing the labors of the months)

creator: Jonas Umbach

date: 1690 or slightly earlier

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Design drawing

creator: Christopher Dresser

date: ca. 1883, based on earlier design

medium: Graphite, ink, and gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1992


title: Targhe ed altri ornati di varie e capricciose invenzioni (Cartouches and other ornaments of various and capricious invention, page 31)

creator: Hans Vredeman de Vries

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: The Poll

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Vest

medium: leather, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-childrenswear

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Expedition 1920 & 1921, Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1921


title: Saddle Rug with Floral Roundels

date: 19th century

medium: Foundation: cotton;  wool knotting

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Flowers
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph V. McMullan, 1973


title: Window seat

date: mid-18th century

medium: Carved fruitwood (?), silk

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Vest

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Hat

medium: straw

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1973


title: Holy Family (Repos pendant la fuite en Égypte)

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; third state of four

credit_line: Gift of Carl J. Ulmann, 1924


title: In Remembrance of... Prince Albert

creator: Ignace-François Bonhommé

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Design for a Two-Armed Candelabra with Rocaille Ornaments and Flowers, plate 3 from an Untitled Series of Designs for Suspended Candelabra

creator: Carl Pier

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

subjects: Album Flowers


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Temple of the Muses

creator: Charles Monnet

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash over graphite underdrawing

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1955


title: Souvenir spoon with view of a town with a pier (Giuseppina) and boats

medium: Gilt and enamel

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


title: Terracotta fragments of open shapes


title: Fragment

creator: Prof. Rössner

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1933


title: Ornamental Design

creator: Jacob Roer

medium: Pen and brown ink; border in brush and brown wash

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Frontispiece to "Hero and Leander"

creator: Louis Philibert Debucourt

medium: Etching and aquatint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Card Number 170, Jennie McNulty, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Card 615, Miss Evans, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Plate

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, 1939


title: Handkerchief

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Grasshopper and Iris

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

date: late 1820s

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Copy of La Dame a la Grande Collerette et a la Coiffe Retombant en Arrière (The Lady with the Large Collar and a Headdress that Falls to the Back), from "La Noblesse" (The Nobility)

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 196262.635.602


title: Chimney Lamp

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Virgin and Child

medium: Limestone with traces of polychromy

country: French or German

subjects:
Sculpture-stone
French or german

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Whip-Poor-Will. Caprimulgus vociferus [current name: Eastern Whip-poor-will. Caprimulgus vociferus], from "The Birds of America," plate 82 [later LXXXII]

creator: John James Audubon

medium: Hand-colored etching, aquatint and engraving

subjects: Print Birds

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Michael and Elyn Stubblefield, 2024


title: Valentine

creator: Kate Greenaway

medium: White card with embossed, scalloped border; chromolithography, gold lithography

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Mrs. Schaffer, from World's Beauties, Series 2 (N27) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Prospect of ye lower part of Tangier, from the hill West of White-hall, from "Views of Tangier"

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Bracelet

date: 3rd century

medium: Gold, glass paste eyes

country: Pontic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Pontic

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ewer

date: 14th century

medium: Ceramic

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


title: Purse

date: fourth quarter 18th century

medium: silk, paper

country: probably American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of A. H. Halsted, 1933


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James A. Cole, 1978


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ewer decorated with concentric circles

medium: Gold

country: Hattian

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Medallion

medium: Embroidered net

country: Mexican

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


title: Teapot in the form of a house

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cover for "Eaux Fortes Nouvelles"

creator: François-Nicolas Chifflart

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Tweezers

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


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

creator: Göttingen Painter

date: ca. 500 BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Corset

medium: silk

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Miss Martia Leonard, 1938


title: Keyhole escutcheon

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Bronze arrowhead

date: 6th–4th century BCE or later

medium: Bronze

country: Greek or Achaemenid

subjects:
Bronze
Greek or achaemenid

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


title: Coffee cup (part of a set)

medium: Lustreware

credit_line: Gift of Sidney H. and Helen M. Witty, 1964


title: Snuffbox

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gold, mother-of-pearl

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: The Virgin Immaculate with the Christ Child in Glory (recto); Rinaldo and Armida (verso)

creator: Giuseppe Passeri (Passari)

medium: Pen and brown ink, red chalk, brush and red wash, highlighted with white (recto); pen and brown ink, over red chalk (verso)

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1975


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: Minerva armed with a shield and lance attacking three nearly prone figures

creator: Grégoire Huret

medium: Engraving

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


title: Seated Warrior Between Two Figures

creator: Giambattista Zelotti

medium: Pen and brown ink, squared in black chalk

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


title: Mary Magdalene in the desert, a cross borne by angels at the right

creator: Pietro Testa

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: The Master Printmaker:  Adolphe Albert

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Lithograph printed in black on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Clifford A. Furst, 1958


title: Covered Cup

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1927


title: Ono no Komachi: Number Two (Sono ni), from the series Stylish Parodies of the Six Poetic Immortals (Fūryū yatsushi rokkasen)

creator: Chōbunsai Eishi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Ornament or casing, engraved

subjects:
Ornament & design
Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Dish with Bird-and-Flower Design

date: early 17th century

medium: Stoneware with underglaze iron decoration (Mino ware, Shino style)

subjects: Ceramic Japan Birds Flowers

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: Plate

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1962


title: Governor Morehouse, Missouri, from "Governors, Arms, Etc." series (N133-2), issued by Duke Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Aquamanile in the Form of a Horse

date: first half 15th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: German

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: The Virgin with the Swaddled Child

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Vase

medium: Cloisonné enamel on copper

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Terracotta fragment from a kantharos: head vase

medium: Terracotta


title: Goblet or reliquary jar

date: probably 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Earring with head of ibex

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of George and Florence Blumenthal, 1935


title: [Camp of Confederate Prisoners at Belle Plain Landing, Virginia, Captured with Johnson's Division]

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Jewelled Thumb-Ring

date: 19th century

medium: Nephrite, white with very faint bluish tint

country: India

subjects: Jade India

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: David Crockett

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederic F. Durand, 1930


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


title: Bag

date: 7th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1977


title: Decoration for a Plate: Rain

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1922


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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

date: mid-6th century BCE


title: Carpet

date: 17th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Blenheim

creator: James Knight

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: The Adoration of the Shepherds

creator: Girolamo da Carpi (Girolamo Sellari)

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Gift of Maurizio and Dominique Canesso, in honor of Keith Christiansen, 2017


title: Portrait of P. Boursoufle

creator: Guillaume Thiemet

date: second half of 18th century

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Carolyn Bullard Gift, in honor of E. John Bullard and funds from various donors, 2014


title: The dream of the inventor of the pin-gun on All Saints' Day, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: November 1, 1866

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Herons in Landscape

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

medium: Watercolor on wove paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

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


title: Table

medium: Wood

subjects: Furniture China

credit_line: Purchase, Christian Humann Fund, 1967


title: Jack of Hearts, from Harlequin Cards, 2nd Series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Ein new getruckt model Büchli...Page 5, verso

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Finial in the Shape of a Tiger

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Purchase, The B.Y. Lam Foundation Gift, 1993


title: Hafted Ax

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Indonesia

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

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


title: Earrings

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: metal

country: European, Eastern

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Teapot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware with enamel decoration

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Perfume burner (one of a pair)

creator: Matthew Boulton

date: probably ca. 1770

medium: Derbyshire spar, tortoiseshell, and wood; Carrara marble base, gilded brass mounts, gilded copper liner

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Ring

medium: gold, garnets

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2010


title: Panel with the Flagellation of Christ

medium: Oak

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1950


title: Landscape

creator: Zhang Cining

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Two Sketches of Females Looking out of a Window; Seated Female; Mother Playing with Child; Seated Male and Female Looking at a Book (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: James MacAlister (Sketch)

creator: Thomas Eakins

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Small bowl

medium: Stoneware with purple-blue glaze (Jun ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, 1926


title: [Nadar with His Wife, Ernestine, in a Balloon]

creator: Nadar

date: ca. 1865, printed 1890s

medium: Gelatin silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Poseidon Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

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


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Billards

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Stela fragment depicting Pay adoring Re-Harakhty

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Hanging Lamp with a Hand Holding a Cross

date: made 500–700, restored and possibly reconfigured 1900s

medium: Copper alloy

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Byzantine

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1974


title: Silver Lime Spoon with Fish Top

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silver (cast)

country: Inca

subjects: Fish Metal-implement Inca

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


title: 10 of Horns, from The Cloisters Playing Cards

medium: Paper (four layers of pasteboard) with pen and ink, opaque paint, glazes, and applied silver and gold

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-paper
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1983


title: Spechio di pensieri delle belle et Virtudiose donne, page 4 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Oil bottle decorated with peony leaves

date: second half 12th century

medium: Stoneware with inlaid design under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of R. H. Macy and Co., 1919


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


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


title: Glass bead

medium: Glass

country: Venetian

subjects: Glass Venetian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Washington. Harewood Hospital

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Buckle

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Bronze

country: North French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
North french

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Fragment

medium: Embroidered net, punto à tela, punto à rammendo

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Looking Glass

medium: Pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Susan Mount, 1915


title: L'Odalisque

creator: Charles Alexandre Debacq

medium: Lithograph on chine collé; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019


title: Base and Foot of a Vessel

date: 4th–early 5th century

country: Coptic

subjects:
Glass-vessel
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cornish Celebration Presentation Plaquette

creator: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

medium: Bronze and silver

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Kenyon Cox, 1908


title: Terracotta juglet

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Jar handle in form of a hook

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: [Two Roofers Working Atop a Building]

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Illinois, from Flags of the States and Territories (N11) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Coast View with the Embarkation of Carlo and Ubaldo

creator: Pierre Charles Canot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of George Hellman, 1942