title: Convivio delle Belle Donne, page 5 (verso)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1532

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Panel

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Wood; carved

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: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Terracotta figurine of a seated goddess

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Finial in the Form of a Peacock

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of Ruth and Leopold Blumka, 1971


title: Mlle. Baretta, Paris, from the Star of the World series (N672), issued by A. Hershey & Bros. to promote Star of the World Tobacco

creator: A. Hershey & Bros.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Standing Man with a Putto

creator: Jacques Bellange

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Brooke Russell Astor, 2007


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

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Title plate, from "Roman Ruins"

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching (copy)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Marquise of Frivolty, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: [Façade, Views, and Entrance Loggia of the Renaissance Court]

creator: Philip Henry Delamotte

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Bronze specillum (probe)

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Figure

date: 150 BCE–100 CE

medium: Ivory (walrus)

country: Old Bering Sea

subjects:
Bone/ivory-sculpture
Old bering sea
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Pot

date: ca. 900 BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1961


title: Mrs. Lydia Yeamans Titus, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Juglet

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Galloon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Frontispiece to "The Jacobite's Journal"

creator: Richard Livesay

date: November 27, 1781

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Close Helmet

date: 17th century

medium: Steel

country: Italian, Pisa

subjects:
Helmet
Italian, pisa

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Terracotta aryballos (oil flask)

date: ca. 510 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Bertha

date: late 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Philip S. Van Rensselaer, in memory of Mrs. Mary Tallmadge Van Rensselaer, 1909


title: William Langenheim

creator: W. & F. Langenheim

medium: Daguerreotype

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


title: The Broadway Tabernacle, New York, in Anniversary Week

creator: Snyder, Black & Sturn

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Gold rosette attachments

date: ca. 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Contes et nouvelles en vers: A Femme avare galant Escroc, from "Les Contes de la Fontaine"

creator: Jacques Aliamet

medium: Etching; first state of three (Cohen)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Snuff Bottle

date: 19th century

medium: Stone with European stopper

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Vase (vaso)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Deruta

subjects:
Italian, deruta
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Preceptor and Pupil

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Border tile

date: early 17th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Card Number 165, Miss Millivard, 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

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


title: Tropical Scenery, Darien Harbor, Chipigana

creator: John Moran

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Landscapes

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


title: Evening dress

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1935


title: Venus and Cupid

creator: Frederic, Lord Leighton

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1942


title: Gruel, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Relief print (Comte process)


title: Evening dress

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Willis McDonald, 1925


title: Some Designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. William Kent

creator: John Vardy

medium: Illustrations: engraving

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Plate 39: Robert Macaire business agent, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1953


title: Vase of Flowers

creator: Chen Hongshou

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Morse, 1972


title: Ceramic Whistle

date: 3rd–1st century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Paracas

subjects:
Paraca
Ceramics-musical instrument

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: Mary Magdalen carried to Heaven

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

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1983


title: Marble

medium: Diorite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Esquimaux Husky, from the Dogs of the World series for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 16 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Spoon and fork combination

date: probably 1624

medium: Silver

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


title: Red Snapper, from Fish from American Waters series (N39) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Fish Print


title: Terracotta rim 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: Portrait of a Woman

creator: Master of the Castello Nativity

date: probably 1450s

medium: Tempera and gold on canvas, transferred from wood

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Bowl (one of a pair)

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Porcelain with carved decoration under bluish glaze (Qingbai ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991


title: Quatrain on Late Spring

creator: Emperor Lizong

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

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Tazza

creator: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

medium: Earthenware with transfer-printed decoration

credit_line: Purchase, The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation Gift, in memory of George Munroe, 2015


title: Sample

date: first half 19th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: One Round from a Poetry Contest

creator: Fujiwara no Teika (Sadaie)

date: late 12th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Gift of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger, 2024


title: Mary Magdalene

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2012


title: Amulet of winged scarab with falcon head

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Annunciation

creator: Lucas van Leyden

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 194


title: Portrait of a young woman

creator: Giuseppe Canale

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Self-Portrait, from "The Iconography"

creator: Anthony van Dyck

medium: Etching; first state of seven

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Eusunai

date: late 19th century

medium: Coconut shell, wood, rattan

country: Bornean

subjects:
Chordophone
Bornean
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Palais de Tuileries (côté de la place du Carrousel)

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: "The Fox and the Battling Rams Observed by the Ascetic", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1981


title: Finial with Wild Ram

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Northeast China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northeast china

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


title: Partisan

medium: Steel, wood, textile

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
Italian

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


title: The Holy Family with Saints and Two Musical Angels

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: The George Khuner Collection, Gift of Mrs. George Khuner, 1975


title: Bottle

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

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


title: Landscape

creator: Adolphe Balfourier

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ladle (one of a pair)

creator: Isacq Samuel Busard

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1992


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Design for a ceiling with garland bearing putti

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite, gouache, and watercolor

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Animal Locomotion.  An Electro-Photographic Investigation... of Animal Movements.  Commenced 1872 - Completed 1885.  Volume VI, Woman (Semi-Nude and Transparent Drapery) Children

creator: Eadweard Muybridge

medium: Photogravures


title: Upwards of Five Hundred Photographic Portraits of the Most Celebrated Personages of the Age

creator: Ashford Brothers & Co.

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation Gift, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors, 2011


title: Hammered Silver Fluted Tube

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Ornament in the shape of a griffin head

medium: Gold

country: Sarmatian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Sarmatian

credit_line: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1951


title: [Young Man with Curled Hair]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Roma Mother with Children

creator: Cornelis Visscher

medium: Black chalk with brush and dark gray wash

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and Clement C. Moore Gifts, 2016


title: Stem cup

date: late 7th–early 8th century

medium: Gilt bronze with chased and punched designs

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Dorothy Graham Bennett, 1998


title: Apothecary jar (albarello)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Urbino

subjects:
Italian, urbino
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Boater

medium: straw, silk

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1976


title: Bottle

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: The Chariot of Aurora

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Lore Heinemann, in memory of her husband, Dr. Rudolf J. Heinemann, 1996


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: St Francis Receives the Stigmata

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Fragment

medium: Silk, metal thread


title: Ichikawa Yaozo III with a Lady

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Karnak (Thèbes), Palais - Salle Hypostyle - Fenêtre et Chapiteaux des Galeries Latérales

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Architectural canopy

medium: Pot-metal and colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: Austrian

subjects: Architecture Glass-stained Austrian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1986


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

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: Sleeve Band

date: 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Lyre Clock

creator: John Sawin

medium:
Mahogany, gilt gesso, eglomise tablet, tulip poplar, white
 pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Sewing Box

medium: Wood, lacquer, mother-of-pearl, ivory, velvet

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Bancroft and Ruth Farish Reynolds, 1968


title: A panel of ornament with a woman holding a vase in centre

creator: Master of the Die

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


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


title: Dalmatic

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Sleeping Venus Cuddling a Child

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 1, 1799

medium: Etching and stipple, hand-colored

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


title: Theodore Bauer, Wrestler, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Shahsevan Double Saddle Bag

medium: Wool and cotton; sumak technique

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Inger G. and William B. Ginsberg, 2018


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Sugar bowl with cover, part of Breakfast Service (déjeuner)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. D.N. Heineman, 1956


title: Part of the Entrance of the Polish Legation (Q.X.Y.)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching, state i


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Chinese horseman

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943


title: Crab, Baked Rice-Ball and Seed of Persimmon

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

subjects: Print Japan Crustaceans


title: Bronze man seated on a ball

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Edith Perry Chapman Fund, 1947


title: Cap. Cardoni - Maramao, from "Balli di Sfessania" (Dance of Sfessania)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: "Rustam Fights the Dragon (Rustam's Third Course)", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Richard S. Perkins, and funds from various donors, 2003


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; painted (?)


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Covered Box

medium: Porcelain with peachbloom glaze and green mottling

country: China


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: A Rose

creator: Thomas Anshutz

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: American Roses

credit_line: Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 1993


title: Bowl fragment

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Pair of sconces

medium: Enamel on brass

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Albert de Ligne, Count of Arenberg, Prince of Brabançon (1600–1674)

creator: Anthony van Dyck

medium: Watercolor and oil

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: Endymion

creator: Donato Creti

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Gold pendant with garnet and three gold tassels

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Gold, garnet

country: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek, south italian, tarentine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Eunuchus, from "The Comedie of Terence", 19th century reprint

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Dogs, wolves and goats versus cats, foxes, hares chessmen (32)

creator: E. G. Zimmerman Company, Hanau

medium: Metal

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Esemplario di lavori, page 9 (recto)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1529

medium: Woodcut (pages inlaid, modern vellum binding)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Wineglass (part of a service)

medium: Glass, gold

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Chambers Hughes, 1963


title: Pair of tassels

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, 1921


title: Christopher Grant Perry

creator: Richard Morrell Staigg

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1992


title: Old Man With a Long Beard

creator: Captain William E. Baillie

medium: Etching; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of Bonnie and Manuel Schonhorn, 2012


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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Custard Cup

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Shoe buckles

date: late 18th century

medium: steel

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lee Simonson, 1944


title: Order Book of Kosode Patterns (Chūmon no hiinagata/Hiinagata chūmon chō)

creator: Imura Katsukichi

medium: Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Betty and Paul Nomura, in memory of Nomura Shōjirō, 2018


title: Pietà, Christ stretched out on a table in a landscape, the Virgin standing behind arms open

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Manuscript Leaf with the Opening of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians, from a Bible

medium: Tempera and gold on parchment

country: French

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
French

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Wixom, 1998


title: Caving In, or a Rebel "Deeply Humiliated"

creator: Benjamin Henry Day Jr.

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of  A. S. Colgate, 1952


title: Heart Scarab, Owner's Name Erased

medium: Green stone

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


title: Corset

medium: cotton, bone

subjects:
American
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Richard Herz, 1967


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Tall vase with four roundels

creator: R. W. Martin and Brothers

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2013


title: Design for a Study Ceiling

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: The Circumcision

creator: Leonaert Bramer

medium: Point of brush and gray wash, watercolor, over slight indications in black chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, Karen B. Cohen Fund, Van Day Truex Fund, Gifts in memory of Jacob Bean, Stephen A. Geiger Gift, and funds from various donors, 1994


title: Truffier and Moreno, in Les Femmes Savantes

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Crayon, brush and spatter lithograph with scraper printed in black on wove paper; only state

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Trade Card for J. Radford, Engraver

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Spitoon

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Wall tiles

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Seal

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Edward B. Bruce, 1924


title: Sleeve

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Wendell Bush, 1908


title: Mirror

medium: Cast bronze

subjects: Mirror China

credit_line: Bequest of Ann Eden Woodward (Mrs. William Woodward Jr.), 1975


title: Stupa

date: 11th–12th century

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eisenberg, 1982


title: Design for a Dining-room Ceiling at Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire

creator: James Wyatt

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, over graphite

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


title: Snuff bottle with cap

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Enamel on copper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1951


title: Snuffbox with portrait of Christian VII (1749-1808)

creator: Georg Christian Seiptius

medium: Gold, enamel

subjects:
Metalwork-gold and platinum
Portraits

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


title: Alabaster mortar

medium: Gypsum alabaster

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Clove Boiler

medium: White porcelain with relief pattern and blue under the glaze decoration, which gives the appearance of blue enamel (Hirado ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: My Wife!

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 16, 1815

medium: Etching

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


title: Phaeton (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with metallic ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Turtle Bowl

date: 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Stone

country: Colima

subjects: Stone-container Colima

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Reynold C. Kerr, 1983


title: Woven carpet

medium: Woven wool

credit_line: Gift of Frederic R. King, 1952


title: Seal

medium: Jade

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1913


title: Tapestry Fragment

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Peru; south coast

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: William G. East, English Oarsman, 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


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Farm Scene with Cottages (from Cropsey Album)

creator: Jasper Francis Cropsey

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Anita Blatt Gift, 1970


title: Chief Quartermaster Office, Camp Nelson, Kentucky

creator: G. W. Foster

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019


title: Dagger (Jambiya) with Sheath

medium: Wood, bone, steel

country: Bornean

subjects:
Dagger
Bornean
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Comedy

creator: Pierre Charles Trémolières

medium: Oil on canvas

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


title: Design for a book binding for "Aurora Leigh" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

creator: Bertram Goodhue

medium: Graphite and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1924


title: David Chooses Three Days of Pestilence (II Samuel 24:10-17)

creator: Valentin Lefebvre

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white.  Contours indented for transfer. Lined.

credit_line: Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. Gift, 1983


title: Candelabra grotesque and studies of kneeling figures (recto); two sphinxes (verso)

creator: Andrés de Melgar

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


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

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving; third state of five

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Square Piano

creator: John Broadwood & Sons

medium: Mahogany veneer, boxwood, iron, brass, ivory, ebony, and various materials

country: British

subjects: Chordophone-zither-struck-piano British

credit_line: Gift of Henry and Virginia Pleasants, 1982


title: Bonnet

medium: straw, horsehair

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Standing Buddha

medium: Bronze

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of Muneichi Nitta, 2003


title: Coronation Procession of Charles II Through (from John Ogilby's "The Entertainment of...Charles II," London, 1662)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: Platter

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Crib of the Infant Jesus

date: 15th century

medium: Wood, polychromy, lead, gilded silver, painted parchment, silk embroidery with seed pearls, gold thread, translucent enamels

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Tablet and plaque
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Ruth Blumka, in memory of Leopold Blumka, 1974


title: Billiards

creator: Henry William Bunbury

date: November 15, 1780

medium: Hand-colored stipple engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Friedman, 1965


title: Bracelet

medium: Stone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Portrait Relief of Émile Zola

creator: Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier

subjects:
Medal and plaquette
Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1989


title: Ewer

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; mold blown and applied decoration, tooled on the pontil

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Weight

date: 305 BCE–364 CE

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. G. W. Neville and Miss Cardwell, 1906


title: Sake Vessel (Heishi) with Butterflies

medium: Wood with black and red lacquer; gold leaf application

subjects:
Lacquer
Japan
Butterflies & moths
Ships & the sea

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


title: Marble statue of an old fisherman

date: 1st or 2nd century CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Plate

date: 16th century

medium: Gilded silver and translucent enamel

country: Portuguese

subjects: Metalwork-silver Portuguese

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai Sketchbooks (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, jūgohen) 伝神開手 北斎漫画 十五編: vol. 15

creator: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Seven Hammered Gold Strips

medium: Gold

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-ornament Peruvian

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


title: Thiebaut. Eugène. 35 (ou 36) ans, né à Château-Salin (Menthe & Moselle). Couvreur. Anarchiste. 3/3/94

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: The York Dilly or The Triumph of Innocence

date: February 26, 1809

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Apollodoros

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: The Miracle of Shravasti

date: 7th–9th century

country: Thailand

subjects: Sculpture Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Michael Phillips and Juliana Maio, 2001


title: Jug with portraits of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558) and Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous (1503–1554), elector of Saxony

creator: Paul Preuning

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware, some tin-glaze

subjects: Ceramics-pottery Portraits

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1954


title: Pitcher

creator: Redwood Glass Company

medium: Blown glass with applied decoration

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Bowl

medium: White porcelain decorated with green enamel and iron red

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Church Tower with Inscription in Spanish to Avery. Verso: 3/4 View Portrait of Man

creator: Martín Rico y Ortega

medium: Pen and ink. Verso: graphite

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Emma Avery Welcher and Amy Ogden Welcher, 1965


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


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 8 (recto)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing


title: Design for Three Vases

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, and black chalk

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1961


title: Marble funerary altar

date: ca. 14–68 CE

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Hair Ornament

medium: Gilt silver

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: turquoise

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


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: Broadside with 16 scenes showing gymnastic exercises

creator: José María Marés

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Gold spiral

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Cosmetic container

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

medium: Faience, glaze

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted in luster and blue on opaque white glaze under transparent colorless glaze

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1948


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Three Designs for Decorated Cups and Two Designs for a Candlestick

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

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


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: Pitcher

creator: D. &  J. Henderson Flint Stoneware Manufactory

medium: Stoneware; slip-cast

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2021


title: Dress

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Scarab Incised with Hieroglyphs and Scrolls

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Purse

date: first quarter 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Mrs. James Brown Potter, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Painted Bowl

date: 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1976


title: Wise, Shortstop, Boston, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar?); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Shoe buckles

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: metal, rhinestones, glass

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., 1967


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Wineglass

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

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


title: Piece


title: Cabinet (Fassadenschrank)

date: early 17th century

medium: Pine, oak, walnut; Hungarian ash, birch, various fruitwoods, walnut, palisander, other woods, partly stained (marquetry veneer); wrought iron,

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1905


title: Headstone from a Sarcophagus

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Limestone

country: North China

subjects:
Sculpture
North china

credit_line: Purchase, Seymour Fund and The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 1994


title: Glass mosaic bowl fragment

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

subjects: Glass Roman

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


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Tripod jar

date: 8th century

medium: Earthenware with colored glaze (sancai ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


creator: Makron


title: Gioanni, from Scelta d'Alcuni Miracoli e Grazie della Santissima Nunziata di Firenze (Selection of Some Miracles and Graces that Occurred in the Church of the Annunziata in Florence)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Pottery Flute

medium: Clay

country: Mexican

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Gold roundel with stamped designs

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

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


title: Earring

date: 7th century or earlier

medium: Gold plated

subjects: Jewelry Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Three-legged chair

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Ash with oak seat

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Watch

creator: J. Samson

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: 18 Styles of Seal Script

date: 20th century

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Rubbing China

credit_line: Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1977


title: Scudello

date: 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Cohen, 1976


title: Gold pendant in the form of a bull's head


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Panel with the Crown of Thorns

date: early 16th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1950


title: Table fork

date: 18th century

medium: Steel, horn, silver

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Fille de Shanghai

creator: Raimund von Stillfried

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Rings

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Burnisher (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Ornament in the shape of a ram's head

date: ca. 6th–4th century BCE

country: Achaemenid

subjects:
Ornament & design
Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Vladimir S. Littauer Gift, 1977


title: Engraved Plaque

date: early 9th–14th century

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Metalwork
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Sard intaglio portrait of a woman

creator: Solon

date: late 1st century BCE

medium: Brownish Sard

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems
Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Charles Butt Gift, 1997


title: Wedding headdress

medium: silk, metal, plaster, wax

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1976


title: Siberia in Asia, from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: quittance (?), Esagilaya archive

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Cora Strong, 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: Document Sealing with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Onoe Matsusuke as a Man Standing at Night at Yoshiwara

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

date: probably 1770

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Silk and cotton on linen

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Young Man Lu's Dream (obverse); Cherry Tree and Irises Beside Water (reverse)

medium: Lacquer, roiro, nashiji, gold silver and coloured hiramakie, foil; Interior: gyobu nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan Trees

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


title: Dress

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Russell Hunter, 1959


title: Scene of Military Life: A General Giving Orders

creator: Charles Parrocel

medium: Red chalk, over traces of graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Souvenir

medium: Gold, enamel, diamonds, ivory

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: D'Orsay #4108

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Spider Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Silvered copper

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche
Spiders & arachnids

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


title: Glass ribbed bowl

date: mid-1st century CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: The Black Cat, for Edgar Allan Poe's “Selected Tales of Mystery"

creator: John Byam Liston Shaw

medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Murray and Michael Blodget, 2018


title: The Lover Heard

creator: Louis Marin Bonnet

medium: Stipple and wash manner, printed in orange-red, blue, yellow, and black inks

credit_line: Bequest of Ella Morris de Peyster, 1957


title: Illustrated Book of Floral Arrangements in the Mishō Style

creator: Mishōsai Kōho

date: possibly 1931

medium: Monochrome woodblock printed book

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1960


title: Relief of the Betrayal and Arrest of Jesus

medium: Limestone with traces of polychromy and gilding

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher Collection, Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917


title: Illustration from Dürer's "Vier Bucher von Menslicher Proportion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of James Clark McGuire, 1930


title: Plan and Elevation of an Entrance

creator: Giovanni Battista Galliani

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Folding Fan with Scene of a Musical Concert, flanked by a Fisherman and Birds

date: mid-18th century

medium: Paper, wood, ivory, and tortoiseshell

subjects: Fans Birds

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bag

date: 14th–early 16th century

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Plate 62  from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'The beds of death' (Las camas de la muerte)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, lavis, drypoint, burin, burnisher

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Return to the Port

creator: Eugène Isabey

medium: Lithograph; third state of three

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Amulet Case, One of a Pair

medium: Silver, coral, turquoise, glass

subjects:
Jewelry
Corals & anemones

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


title: The Industrious 'Prentice Alderman of London, The Idle One Brought Before Him and Impeached by his Accomplices (Industry and Idleness, plate 10)

creator: William Hogarth

date: September 30, 1747

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Making Ceramics

creator: Eiraku Hozen

date: first half of the19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 51 (verso)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo


title: Dish

date: 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome and slip painted under transparent glaze


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Incense box

medium: Faience; the whole surface pitted and the decoration in low relief, colored enamels (Kyoto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Boy with mandolin

creator: Saint James's Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: William Shakespeare

creator: George Vertue

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: W.A. Rowe, Champion Bicycle Rider, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.


title: Old Man with a Divided Fur Cap

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching with some drypoint; first state of two

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Phaeton #151

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Piece

date: 18th 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: [Market Porter]

creator: Renjō Shimooka

medium: Albumen silver print with applied color

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


title: Spit Fires

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: [October 25, 1810], reprint

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Large Grotesque Head Being Strangled by its Own Hair

creator: Gaetano Piccini

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz, 1960


title: Barbe

medium: [no medium available]

country: Belgian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Adolphe Boissevain, 1945


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: Japan

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


title: Witches' Sabbath

creator: Salvator Rosa

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Interior of the Hammam at the Red Fort, Delhi, Furnished According to English Taste

medium: Opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 1994


title: Persian, from World's Smokers series (N33) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Obol

date: ca. 1st century CE

medium: Silver

country: Parthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Plate 9: Tantalus (Tantalo), from "Los Caprichos"

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: String of Leaf Beads

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Wooded Landscape with a House beside a River

creator: Lucas van Uden

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

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation Gift and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2001


title: Alpine Landscape with a Deep Valley, from "The Large Landscapes"

creator: Johannes van Doetecum I

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 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: Card Number 147, Alice Harrison, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Amphora

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Derby

medium: Wool, silk

country: British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Ethel Paxton, 1950


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Composite body; glazed

credit_line: Gift of Marilyn Jenkins, in memory of her father, Dr.  Arthur M. Jenkins, 1982


title: Robe à la française

medium: silk, metal thread

country: French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Ensemble

medium: cotton, hemp, silver, glass, shell

country: Burma (Loimi Akha)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear
Burma (loimi akha)
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Millia Davenport and Zipporah Fleisher Fund, 2003


title: Dish with Cranes

date: late 17th century

medium: Porcelain with celadon and iron glazes and underglaze blue decoration (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type)

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


title: Lamp

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1937


title: Funerary Stele with Cross Medallion below Eagle at Center in Architectural Frame

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Limestone

subjects: Architecture Sculpture

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Chinese acrobats

creator: Carl von Scheidt

medium: Glass, enameled and gilt

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Eugen Grabscheid, 1982


title: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Plate 12 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de la Guerra): 'This is what you were born for' (Para eso habeis nacido)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, drypoint, burin (working proof)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Coupé #618

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Rabāba

date: late 19th century

medium: Coconut shell, wood, hide, ebony, pearl, iron, horsehair

country: Egyptian

subjects:
Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted
Egyptian
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Miss Alice Getty, 1946


title: Album of illustrated cotton production and poems composed by the Qianlong Emperor

date: late 18th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of sheep deliveries for offerings, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 549 BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Glass polygonal bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman


title: "Figure for Use at Drinking Parties", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

creator: Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari

date: dated 715 AH/1315 CE

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Plaque

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Wall Clock

creator: Simon Willard

medium: Mahogany, white pine

credit_line: Bequest of William B. Whitney, 1937


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

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: An apostle holding a closed book and looking to the left, in an oval frame, from "Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles"

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

medium: Etching; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Glass mosaic perfume bottle

date: early to mid-1st century CE

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: The Hurdy-Gurdy Player

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

medium: Etching with some engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Bowl

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze, colored enamels (Arita ware)

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: The Rich Man Playing Violin on a Jaw Bone

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Glass flask

date: 4th century CE

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


title: Offering table

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Bullet forceps

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Steel

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Card Number 3, Alma Stewart Stanley, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Glass flask

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


title: Terracotta jug

country: Cypriot


title: Pestle

date: before 18th century

medium: Stone

country: Columbia River

subjects:
Stone-implement
Columbia river

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Campbell, 1971


title: Frog pendant

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Chiriqui

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Chiriqui
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1891


title: [210 Stereographs]

creator: W. & F. Langenheim

medium: Albumen silver prints with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Tile Fragment

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Cup

date: 18th century

medium: White porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels (Arita ware)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Galloon

medium: Silk and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Venus and Cupid

creator: René Boyvin

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Portrait of Jonathan Swift

creator: Nathaniel Bermingham

medium: White cut paper, with pen and ink additions, mounted on black silk, framed

subjects:
Cut paper
Portraits

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


title: Model Ear of Ramessumerysutekh

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Men collecting dung dropping from the hindquarters of a mule, with a rider sitting backward on the mule and holding its tail aside, surrounded by onlookers spread around a stepped platform, from "Secular Emblems" (Emblemata Saecularia)

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Legend of Ganymede

creator: Guglielmo della Porta

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1926


title: Rank Badge with Bear

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread, and feather-thread supplementary weft-patterned silk satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1943


title: Pottery Whistle

medium: Pottery

country: Costa Rican

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Costa rican

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cup

medium: Copper or bronze

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


title: Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 31 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Barou do Circal. Macao

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Sugar bowl with cover

creator: Simon Pantin I

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; stamped

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Portrait of Paulus Lautensack the Elder

creator: Hanns Lautensack

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Missionary Houses, Foochow

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005


title: Shabti

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Fan

medium: Paper, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Laurent Oppenheim Jr., in memory of Laurent and Amy Oppenheim, 1964


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Tractato in Defensione

creator: Domenico Benevieni

medium: Books

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Yoshida,  from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō Road

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: The Smoker and the Drinker

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching; second state

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Gula V. Hirschland, 1948


title: Limestone head of beardless male votary

date: 2nd century BCE (?)

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Seven Gods of Good Fortune and Chinese Children

creator: Kano Chikanobu

medium: Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gilt on paper; Reverse side: ink, color, and gold on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Figure of a child

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Jean-Baptiste van Steenberghen

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; fourth state of five (Petitjean & Wickert)

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


title: Mechti Kuli Beg, Persian Ambassador to Prague

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Engraving


title: Waistcoat

medium: silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: [John Leech]

creator: Camille Silvy

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Mitsui Shop at Surugachō in Edo (Edo Surugachō Mitsui mise ryaku zu), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai


title: Panel

date: 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

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


title: A Green Woodpecker and a Sparrow in a Tree

creator: Aert Schouman

date: mid-17th–late 17th century

medium: Watercolor and body-color, over traces of graphite; framing lines in graphite

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2024


title: Psyche ("La Nymphe Falconet")

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Figure: soft-paste biscuit porcelain; base: glazed porcelain, enameled and gilt

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1945


title: Lewis Scot, Capture of Campeche, from the Pirates of the Spanish Main series (N19) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Necklace

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Silver and blue beads

credit_line: Purchase, Hess Foundation Gift, 1972


title: Bead

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: A Short History of General H. W. Halleck, from the Histories of Generals series (N114) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Smoking and Chewing Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Mirror

date: third quarter 17th century

medium: Silk on satin

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Details of the Coffered and Beamed Ceiling in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

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

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


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: Italian Painter

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits


title: Bono..., bono!... Francé!!!..., from "Au Camp de Saint-Maur"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Chevron Beads

date: 18th century or later

country: African, made in Europe

subjects:
Glass-ornament
African, made in europe

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: [Palace of the Shah]

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Charles K. and Irma B. Wilkinson, 1977


title: Landscape in Green and Blue

creator: Tanomura Chokunyū

medium: Diptych of hanging scrolls: ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Surcoat (Jinbaori)

medium:
Body: China, for the European market, late 16th–17th century; silk velvet, cut and voided
Lining: China, late 16th–17th century; silk damask
Lapels: Japan, probably 18th century; lampas, silk and gilt-paper strips

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Friends of Asian Art, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Saul Gift, 1998


title: Terracotta 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: Sketch of Breaking Waves (from Sketchbook VII)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

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


title: Amphora

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Towel border

medium: Silk, metallic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Sack of a City

creator: Polidoro da Caravaggio

medium: Pen and brown ink, brushed and washed with brown and gray, over charcoal

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Twenty-three drawings for "Le Voyage en bateau"

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Pen and ink and graphite on tracing paper

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and PECO Foundation Gift, 2018


title: Tray

date: mid-19th century

medium: Lacquer with black ground, hiramakie design in gold and silver

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Glass miniature jar

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

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


title: Teabowl

date: late 17th century

medium: Clay covered with a straw-ash glaze (Takatori ware?)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Fan

creator: Edouard Moreau

medium: Ivory, paint, silk ribbon

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Seashell, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Le Péché Partagé, plate 1 from "The Decameron"

creator: Léopold Flameng

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Studies for a Rest on the Flight into Egypt

creator: Rutilio Manetti

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk (the faint sketch of Saint Joseph and the donkey at left background is entirely in red chalk)

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Steatite bowl

medium: Steatite

country: Minoan

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Minoan

credit_line: The Cesnola Collection, by exchange, 1914


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


title: Saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Piece, blue-resist textile

medium: Cotton, painted and block-printed resist, dyed

country: Indian textile for American market

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Indian textile for american market

credit_line: Gift of Norman M. Isham, 1933


title: Medal cabinet

creator: George Bullock

medium: Mahogany, oak, pine, holly; marquetry and veneer of figured oak and holly; ebony and ebonized wood; ivory; silk velvet

credit_line: Purchase, Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ignazio Peluso, Ada Peluso and Romano I. Peluso Gift, 2014


title: Bowl

date: 18th century

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Flute

date: late 19th century

medium: Bamboo

country: Malagasy

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

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Two Birds

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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

subjects: Print Japan Birds

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


title: Ilfracombe, Capstone Parade

creator: Francis Bedford

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1972


title: Order Dell' Annunciata, Italy, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Insertion

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Muskallonge, from the series Fishers and Fish (N74) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: Knapp & Company

subjects: Fish Print


title: Water Jar

date: about 1880

medium: Ceramic

country: Acoma Pueblo

subjects:
Acoma pueblo
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Reverse Copy of Le Paysan Portant sa Pelle sur L'Épaule (The Peasant Carrying his Shovel over his Shoulder), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Anonymous

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Illustration of a Steam Locomotive Running on the Takanawa Railroad in Tokyo (Tōkyō takanawa tetsudō jōkisha sōkō no zu)

creator: Utagawa Kuniteru

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Plaque, two cartouches with names of Amenemhat II

medium: Faience, blue-green glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Baluster-shaped vase (part of an assembled garniture)

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Jane Hardesty Poole, 2019


title: Landscape, from a series of six landscapes titled "Observationib.Astronom.Regiae.Paris.Scient. Acad...1736"

creator: Quentin Pierre Chedel

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Hat

date: 7th–10th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Grisaille Panel

medium: White glass, pot-metal glass, and vitreous paint

country: French

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1969


title: Luster Bowl with a Seated Figure and “Baraka” (Blessing) Written Under the Base

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1988


title: Scarab with the name Wahibre, either Psamtik I or Apries

medium: onyx or hematite

credit_line: Gift of Joan B. Robbins, 2012


title: The Tocsin of Liberty–Rung by the State House Bell, (Independence Hall) Philadelphia, July 4th, 1776, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof." LEV. XXV.10

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Souvenir spoon with view of a monument to Dante

medium: Gilt and enamel

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


title: Upper Falls of Solomon's Creek (after an Engraving in The Port Folio Magazine, December 1809)

creator: Pavel Petrovich Svinin

medium: Watercolor and gouache on white laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


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

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Foundation peg

medium: Bronze

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Imperial Court Robe

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Willis Wood, 1957


title: Armchair (part of a set of nine)

creator: Aubusson

date: mid-18th century

medium: Carved and painted walnut; Aubusson tapestry upholstery

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Glass eye bead

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Clapper

medium: Ivory

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


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: Evening vest

medium: silk, cotton, wool, leather, glass

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Thomas O. Callender, 1948


title: Jean-Baptiste Colbert

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; fourth state of four (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Vase in the shape of archaic wine container (gu)

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Globular necked jar of desert clay

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Portrait of Ichimura Takenojō and Sanjō Kantarō

creator: Okumura Toshinobu

medium: Tan-e (hand-colored print); ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Portraits

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bronze spit

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: View showing the remains of a large enclosure of columns..., from Différentes vues de quelques Restes de trois grands Edifices qui subsistent encore dans le milieu de l'ancienne Ville de Pesto autrement Posidonia qui est située dans la Lucanie (Different views of some of the remains of three great edifces that still exist at teh center of the ancient city of Pesto, or Posidonia [Paestum], which is siutated in Lucania)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carroll G. Ross, 1945


title: Candlestick

medium: Brass

credit_line: Bequest of Adeline R. Brown, 1947


title: Tomb Surmounted by the Madonna and Child in an Oval Wreath

creator: Angiolo Falconetto

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Design for a Panel or Wallpaper (?) with an Ornamental Frame with Scrolls and a Shell Decorated with Garlands and Bundles of Flowers and Fruits and a Monogrammed Oval Frame

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing
Flowers
Fruits
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Lacquer, leather

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Footed Cup with handle: Scheuer

medium: Free-blown glass with applied decoration

country: German

subjects: Glass-vessel German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2013


title: Head of a Sleeping Child (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: James Whitehorne

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Neapolitan peasant

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Naples

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Textile Fragments

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silk; samite

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Michael and Jacqueline Franses, 1993


title: Disk Brooch

date: second half 2nd century

medium: Champlevé enamel, copper alloy

subjects: Roman Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Chamber candlestick

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Card 6, from the Girl Baseball Players series (N48, Type 2) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Portrait of a Man

date: early 17th century

medium: Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


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: Design for a Wall Fountain

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Lombard, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over leadpoint or graphite; framing lines in leadpoint or graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume flask) with band of lozenges

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syro-Palestinian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syro-palestinian


title: Portrait of a man

creator: Thomas Frye

medium: Black and white chalk on beige paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Richard and Trude Krautheimer, 1979


title: Plate 11: A Polish bust in profile, turned to the right, another Polish head seen from behind in the background, from "The Book for Learning to Draw" (Livre pour apprendre à dessiner)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Lion

medium: Nephrite, white with light greenish tint

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Saint Christopher

creator: Severo Calzetta da Ravenna

date: early 16th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: The Naughty Children

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

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


title: Palais-de-Justice et Conciergerie

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1944


title: Phaeton #171

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Enrag'd Monster, from "Fifteen Etchings Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds"

creator: John Hamilton Mortimer

date: December 8, 1778

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Wedding dress

medium: (a, b) silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin S. Steese, 1938


title: Headdress

date: 19th century

medium: silk, metal, mother-of-pearl, pearl

country: Russian

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


title: Actress from the Old Judge series (N167) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

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


title: Copy of John Frederic the Magnanimous, in Electoral Robes

creator: Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

medium: Woodcut; first state of two (Hollstein)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: The marriage of Alexander and Roxana; Alexander surrounded by putti, offering a crown to Roxana who is seated at right

creator: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Blade for a Model Axe from a Foundation Deposit

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Teapot

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1940


title: Cup, miniature

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk, metal thread and wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Uninscribed Cartouche-Shaped Plaque

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Insert from a Coptic Garment

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Linen, wool; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1971


title: Card Number 26, Lillian Grubb, 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


title: Linen mark, Wah

medium: Linen

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


title: Portrait of Doctor Gachet or Man with a Pipe

creator: Vincent van Gogh

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Fletcher Fund, William R. Drexler Sr. and Violet Drexler Bequest, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and The Derald H. Ruttenberg Foundation, in honor of Nadine M. Orenstein and Charles and Jessie Price Gifts, 2021


title: Monsieur, I am bound to advise you that they are in the process of verifying Monsieur and that this seems to be taking a curious turn, from "News of the day"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Tubular Stone Bead

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Costa Rica (?)

subjects:
Costa rica
Beads-ornament

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli with Lion

creator: Anonymous, 16th century

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1983


title: Incised bowl with fox motif

date: 7th–5th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: S. Jean Chrysostome (St. John Chrisostome), January 27th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Feast Days of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)


title: Disk Brooch

date: 7th century or later

medium: Gold, wire, glass paste cabochons

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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


title: Button

medium: porcelain

country: European

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Skyphos fragment

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Two Seated Italian Women with a Baby in a Cradle

creator: Kristian Zahrtmann

medium: Charcoal; framing lines in charcoal (or graphite?), by the artist

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


title: Virgin and Child with the Monkey (reverse copy)

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1927


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Charles Le Bastier

medium: Silver, partly gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Panel

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Mary, Queen of Scots

creator: Ebenezer Stalker

date: early 19th century

medium: Stipple and etching

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Plate Seven from Plusieurs Models des plus nouuelles manieres qui sont en usage en l'Art de Arquebuzerie

creator: C. Jacquinet

country: French, Paris

subjects:
Work on paper-engraving
French, pari

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2016


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Design for Vis-à-vis/ Charabanc, no. 837

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Chair seat and back

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silk and wool on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1954


title: Afternoon jacket

creator: Augustine Martin & Company

medium: silk, jet, beads

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lillian E. Glenn Peirce and Mabel Glenn Cooper, 1929


title: Quae Genus Gives a Grand Party

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: February 1, 1822

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Flat Ornament

date: 7th century (?)

medium: Copper alloy, "tinned" surface

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Buenos Aires, from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Striding Man

medium: Wood

credit_line: Purchase, Frederick P. Huntley Bequest, 1959


title: Terracotta bowl fragment

date: 2nd century AD

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman


title: Schön Neues Modelbuch (Page 37 recto)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Kubera (Dhanada)

date: 6th century

medium: Red sandstone

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Jacob M. Kaplan, 1967


title: Looking Glass

medium: Mahogany, gilt gesso, wire

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Paperweight

medium: Glass

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1930


title: Why Born Enslaved!

creator: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

date: modeled 1868, cast 1872

credit_line: Gift of James S. Deely, in memory of Patricia Johnson Deely, 1997


title: Openwork  Belt Fitting with Serpent Design

medium: Copper alloy

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish


title: A dead stag (anonymous copy)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

date: after 1647

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


title: Queen Victoria

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Francis T. S. Darley, 1914


title: Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Front of a Building seen sideways through an arcade of four arches on its left front, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Ornament

medium: Gold

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
China


title: Sword (Shamshir)

date: 19th century

medium: Steel, leather

country: Persian

subjects: Sword Persian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Jug

date: ca. mid-3rd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Saucer

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Gaillard Thomas, 1932


title: Canopic Jar, Qebehsenuef

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Chest of drawers

creator: John Townsend

medium: Mahogany, tulip poplar, pine, chestnut


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


date: first half of the 5th century BCE


title: Terracotta hydria (water jar)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Quarto Valentine

creator: Joseph Mansell

medium: Watercolor, pen and brown ink on openwork cameo-embossed paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1984


title: Carpet Fragment

medium: Wool (warp, weft and pile); single-warp (Spanish) knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1957


title: Violoncello

date: 18th century

medium: Wood, strings

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Adrian H. Joline, 1914


title: Dish with a Horseman and Trained Cheetah

date: 20th century; or 12th–13th century, with alterations first half 20th century

medium: Earthenware; slipped and carved under transparent colorless-brown glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Portrait of a Man

creator: David Loggan

medium: Plumbago on vellum

subjects: Miniature Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Séboûah, Temple, Colosse et Sphinx de la Partie Gauche de l'Avenue

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Architecture Photograph

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005


title: Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Amenemhab

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1913


title: Charles P. Blatt, Champion Cannonball Catcher, from the Champions of Games and Sports series (N184, Type 1) issued by W.S. Kimball & Co.

creator: W.S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Djébel Selséleh (Silsilis), Steles Architecturales Taillées Dans les Carriéres

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Glass pendant in the form of a demonic mask

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Phoenician

subjects: Glass Phoenician

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Footed dish with lotus

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware, Bencharong type for Thailand)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Mount for Spear Shaft

medium: Gilded silver inlaid with niello

country: Late Roman

subjects:
Metalwork-silver
Late roman


title: Tai-Laity Montain, North River, Canton

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Robert Rosenkranz Gift, 2005


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Jonah Cast on Shore by the Fish, from "The Story of Jonah"

creator: Maerten de Vos

medium: Engraving

subjects: Fish Print

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


title: Side Chair

medium: Walnut, yellow pine

credit_line: Bequest of Cecile L. Mayer, 1962


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: Mountain Torrent

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor, graphite, and wax crayon on white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Ring with Purple Stone Surrounded by Foliate Designs

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

medium: Gold with purple stone

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Teacup (one of 8) (part of a service)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Morning after the Snow at Koishikawa in Edo (Koishikawa yuki no ashita),  from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Caparisoned Elephant (obverse); Characters in Panel (reverse)

creator: Fangshi Mopu

medium: Lacquer, roiro, black, gold, red hiramakie, takamakie, ceramic inlay; Interior: roiro and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Sailing Vessels and Sloop

creator: Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; state VI

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: America

creator: Hiram Powers

date: 1850–54; carved after 1854

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William A. M. Burden Jr., 1966


title: Sheet with overall pattern of dots and ovals

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Fury personified as an emaciated man astride a monster, holding a skull in his raised left hand

creator: Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

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