title: Book cover with rinceau and floral patterns

creator: Anonymous

date: 18th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

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, 1948


title: Stole

medium: linen

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Charlotte R. Stillman, 1951


title: An allegory of the rising sun, a naked man wearing a shroud and accompanied Father Time is being drawn by horses

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Seated Man

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Black chalk, heightened with white chalk

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


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: Terracotta fragments of mastoids  (drinking cups with narrow base) or kyathoi (cup-shaped ladles)

date: late 6th/early 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: Series of Cartouches, in: Targhe ed altri ornati di varie e capricciose invenzioni (Cartouches and other ornaments of various and capricious invention, page 48)

creator: Cornelis Bos

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Cottage on the Road from Lausanne to Geneva

creator: Joseph Farington

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1955


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


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


title: Venus and Cupid

creator: Joseph Limosin

date: first quarter 17th century

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Cap crown

medium: Bobbin lace, Brussels bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Bequest of Anna Thalman, 1934


title: Bronze Lime Spoon

date: 15th–mid-16th century

medium: Bronze (cast)

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-implement
Peru; north coast

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes: Lip cup (drinking cup)


title: The Judgment of Solomon

creator: Constantijn Daniel van Renesse

medium: Pen and brush and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk, with traces of corrections in white.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Seven Scenes from the Story of the Seven Sacraments, Namaan Being Cleansed in the Jordan

medium: Wool warp, wool and silk wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1907


title: Bowl rim sherd

date: ca. late 3rd millennium BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Jug

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

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


title: Double Portrait of the Artists E.F. Kloss and G. Pellicia

creator: Wilhelm Marstrand

medium: Graphite

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: Ring, One of a Pair

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Gold, rubies

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Piece (one of 116)

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Column Base

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: St. Basil's Cathedral, Red Square, Moscow

creator: Unknown

medium: Salted paper print

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


title: Stamp with uraeus and sun disk

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Ragonda

creator: Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Ice cream plate (Patelle à glace cannelé)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Mary Ann Payne Foundation Inc., 1962


title: Taunton Vale, Somersetshire

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Coach #969

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Pope, from "Dance of Death"

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

date: [1651] late 18th century printing

medium: Etching; second state of four

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


title: Plate 14: Senatorial Bridge, today called the Ponte Rotto (Broken Bridge). 1. Temple of Vesta. 2. Temple of Fortuna Virilis. 3. Part of the ancient Palatine. (Ponte Senatorio oggi detto Ponte rotto), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: The Ohio River near Wheeling, West Virginia

creator: Lefevre James Cranstone

medium: Watercolor and gouache on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, l989


title: (1) [Tag-e Bustan, Kermanshah]

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: [Two Plumbers]

creator: Washer

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2025


title: Plate with scene of offering coral

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1960


title: Dr. Welsh (Retiring Moderator of Gel' Assembly 1843)

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative


title: Panel

date: 4th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Costume Drawing for Little John

creator: Phil May

date: late 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and wash and watercolor over graphite

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Glass beaker

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Rüdesheim

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hartshorne, 1918


title: Terracotta antefix with lion's head

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek

subjects:
Terracotta
East greek

credit_line: Gift of a friend of the Museum, 1992


title: Horse Bell

date: 6th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Annie Lewis, 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: Two Children (from Sketchbook)

creator: Francis William Edmonds

date: ca. 1838 and after

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund, 1987


title: Famous Men and Women from Classical and Biblical Antiquity

creator: Barthelemy d'Eyck

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor of various hues, traces of gold paint

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Scrolled Ornament Design

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Officer, 1st Regiment, Illinois, National Guard, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Console (console d'applique)

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Carved and gilded wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Table Screen

date: 18th century

medium: Nephrite

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Small oval dish with fish and serpent

creator: Joseph Landais

medium: Glazed earthenware

subjects: Fish Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Gift of Wallis Katz, in memory of Marshall Katz, and in celebration of the Museum's 150th anniversary, 2020


title: Sleeve Button

creator: Daniel Rogers

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Jeremiah Clarke, 1959


title: Frieze fragment

creator: Polidoro da Caravaggio

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Gift of Gioia and Marcello Aldega, 1998


title: Perry's Victory

medium: Oil on glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Coffeepot

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

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


title: Fan

medium: Ivory, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Miss Julia Barton Hunt, 1922


title: Terracotta rim fragments of stemless kylikes (drinking cups)?

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Seal inscribed "There is no God but [?]; Blessings on the owner 'Amir ibn Abdallah"

date: 10th century

medium: Soapstone; incised, carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Five Groups of Acrobats

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, by exchange, 1968


title: Amphora Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta wine amphora

date: ca. 100 BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 1953


title: Stela of Amenhotep Adoring the Rising and Setting Sun

medium: Sandstone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: 'Insurance girl' (hoken musume), illustration from Bugei Kurabu (Literary Club)

creator: Tomioka Eisen

medium: Frontispiece; woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Donald Keene, in honor of Julia Meech-Pekarik, 1986


title: Buckle

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Bronze

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Banded and flawed neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Lamp

medium: Free-blown molded green glass, metal

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


title: Undersleeves

medium: cotton

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 1980


title: A manual of the art of bookbinding : containing full instructions in the different branches of forwarding, gilding, and finishing : also, the art of marbling book-edges and paper, the whole designed for the practical workman, the amateur, and the book-collector

creator: James Bartram Nicholson


title: Smaraolo cornuto - Rarsa di Boio, from "Balli di Sfessania" (Dance of Sfessania)

creator: Jacques Callot

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Harp-pillar

medium: Wood, painted red

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: 5 gold; 5 turquoise glass; 5 lapis "melon" beads; see 26.8.63a

medium: Gold, turquoise glass, lapis lazuli

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1982


title: Small Plate

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with celadon glaze (Arita ware, Kakiemon type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Drapery Study for a Cleric (lower register; study for wall paintings in the Chapel of Saint Remi, Sainte-Clotilde, Paris, 1858)

creator: Isidore Pils

date: 19th century

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

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989


title: Henry. Émile. (auteur de l'attentat de l'Hotel St-Lazare)

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Bill George, Pitcher, New York, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Theuerdank Walking on Swords, from [Theuerdank] Die geuerlicheiten vnd einsteils der geschichten des loblichen streytparen vnd hochberümbten helds vnd Ritters herr Tewrdannckhs

creator: Hans Burgkmair

medium: Woodcut on vellum

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Saint Luke (one of four)

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: Design for One-Quarter of a Ceiling; Elaborate Architectural Ornament in Perspective

creator: Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

medium: Pen and brown ink over traces of leadpoint

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Drawing

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


title: Two Caricature Heads of Men

creator: Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

date: after 1794

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, Alain and Marie-Christine van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2008


title: Paul Jones, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: John Wilkes, Esq.

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of two


title: Century Vase

creator: Karl L. H. Müller

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1987


title: Edward Enoch "Jersey" Bakely, Pitcher, Cleveland, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Monk Saying Grace, "Tibi Gracias" (Recto); Three Sketches of Lamp (Verso) (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Brown ink and graphite on off-white wove paper

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: first half of the 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire

creator: Thomas Sunderland

date: mid-18th–early 19th century

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Doorknocker with Prudence and Fortitude joined eternally

date: mid-16th century

medium: Bronze, iron (pin)

credit_line: Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2004


title: Scarab from Ruiu's Burial

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Hippopotamus

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Painted Bowl with Diagonal Lines

date: 4th–6th century

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Nasca

subjects: Nasca Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


title: Worthington Whittredge

creator: Emanuel Leutze

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Several Gentlemen, 1903


title: Sampan

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Shabti and Coffin of the King's Son Wahneferhotep

medium: Wood, paint, gold leaf.

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


title: Dish with Design of Maple Leaves

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

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


title: Censer

date: second half 18th century

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: The Tiburtine Sibyl

creator: Master with the Name of Jesus

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Conical cup

date: 13th century

medium: Stoneware painted with iron under celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Theodore A. "Ted" Kennedy, Pitcher, Omaha Omahogs/ Lambs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Robe à la française

medium: silk

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 2001


title: Wardrobe

date: late 16th or early 17th century

medium: Wood with inlay of mother-of-pearl, amber, glass, ivory, and other materials

subjects: Furniture China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Albert H. Wiggin, 1951


title: Jar with Four Faces

date: mid-13th–mid-15th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Casas Grandes

subjects:
Casa grande
Ceramics-container

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

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


title: Relief fragment

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Sasanian or Islamic


title: Ring, spiral with snake heads

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Marble bust of a man

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Jones, St. Louis, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Sutra Cover with Lingzhi Fungus and Diagonal Cloud Bands

medium: Silk and metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Mushrooms & fungi
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2011


title: James William "Jim" Keenan, Catcher, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Caricature of two men (one of them possibly Edward Burne-Jones)

creator: Sir Edward Burne-Jones

medium: Pen and black ink, on writing paper

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


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: Arm Pillow (one of a pair)

medium: Silk embroidery on silk satin

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1949


title: Table

creator: Herter Brothers

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Miss Frances Arnold, 1973


title: Shield (Dhàl)

medium: Steel, velvet, linen

country: Indian

subjects: Shield Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries 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: Joseph and Potiphar's wife, within an ornate frame

creator: Pietro Monaco

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Olga Sichel and Max Philippson, 1962


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Chinese Lion

date: 18th century

medium: White porcelain (Hirado ware)

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Bowl

medium: Clay

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Charles V

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

medium: Etching

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Iron, silver, gold, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Morris Dancers

creator: Daniel Hopfer

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Etching; fourth state of four

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


title: West Front and Principal Floor Plan of John Munn House, Utica, New York

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Ink and watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Plate

creator: Abraham Bloemaert

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1966


title: Textile

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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: Terracotta fragment of a skyphos (deep drinking cup)

date: early 5th century BCE


title: Cover

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton; plain weave, printed

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Plaque with incised designs

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2009


title: Card Number 16, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: A Tahitian Woman with a Flower in Her Hair

creator: Paul Gauguin

medium: Charcoal, pastel, red chalk, and wash

subjects: Drawing Flowers

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


title: Ointment Bowl with Two Monkeys in Relief

medium: Anhydrite

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


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Double bowl

creator: Inca artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Inca

subjects: Inca Ceramics-container

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


title: A Calligraphy Book (Nani wazu) 難波津

creator: Hasegawa Myōtei 長谷川妙躰

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013


title: Plate (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Various figures in procession, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

creator: Jacob of Strasbourg

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Study of a Tree

creator: Jacques de Gheyn II

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2009


title: Robe à l'anglaise

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1968


title: Lake Suwa in Shinano Province (Shinshū Suwako), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Card Number 53, Annie Pixley, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Twisted-stem spoon

date: early 18th century

medium: Silver

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


medium: Brush and black and gray wash, over graphite

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Flower-Shaped Clothing Plaque

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

subjects: Metalwork Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Ring with Horns

date: 300 BCE–CE 400

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Epa (carved panel for a storehouse)

creator: Māori artist

date: Mid-18th century or earlier

medium: Wood

country: Māori

subjects: Wood Māori

credit_line: Purchase, 2019 Benefit Fund, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, Philippe de Montebello and 2020 Benefit Funds, Andrea Bollt Bequest, in memory of Robert Bollt Sr. and Robert Bollt Jr., Mariana and Ray Herrmann and Gordon Sze MD Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2022


title: Padlock in the Shape of a Galloping Horse

date: 18th century or later

medium: Brass

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Tale of the Fox (Kitsune no sōshi)

creator: Unidentified painter and calligrapher

medium: Handscroll: ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2020


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 24r)

creator: Hans Hoffman

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Shoes

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Leather

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Clarence R. Hyde, 1928


title: Italy, 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: Blade

date: early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Copper

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, by exchange, 1957


title: Design for a Cornice

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite, black chalk, heightened with white

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Jar

medium: Faience, blue glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


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

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


title: Jar with Lid

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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: [Ishapoor]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Karnak (Thèbes), Enciente du Palais Vue du Point H

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Ornamental Panel

creator: Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Arm Defense

date: 15th century

medium: Steel, leather

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Bequest of Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Bowl

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1923


title: Glass Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Pot metal glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

creator: Ludovico Carracci

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: George Gordon Meade, from the Great Generals series (N15) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Edging

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: L'Espagnole

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Ceramic Face Mask

date: 2nd–7th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-sculpture

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


title: Deucalion and Pyrrha, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep I

medium: Steatite, glazed

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Twin Vases

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Silhouette of Graf Leopold Kinigl

creator: Wilhelm Ackermann

medium: Cut paper pasted on etched frames

credit_line: Mary Martin Fund, 1969


title: Ornamented Pin (tupu)

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Silver

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-ornament Chimú

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1974, 1977


title: Doe (one of a pair)

creator: Ralph Wood the Younger

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

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


title: Invalides

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1944


title: Dress

medium: silk, piña

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Vase

creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Saucer

date: 19th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Dish with Abraham and Melchizedek

creator: Hans of Landshut

medium: Free-blown glass with paint and metallic foils

country: South German

subjects:
Glass-miscellany
South german

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2008


title: Empress's Twelve-Symbol Robe

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick Pope, 1951


title: The Grand Canal above the Rialto (recto); A Priest Celebrating Mass and Saint Vincent Ferrer Preaching (verso)

creator: Francesco Guardi

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Porte de la Mosque, Sultan Hassan. Partie Inférieure

creator: Wilhelm Hammerschmidt

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


title: Miniature box

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


title: Band

date: 12th century

medium: Linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Gaming or Chess Piece, Possibly a Pawn

date: 8th–11th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Card Number 68, Emma Abbott, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Commemorating One of the Many Educational Foundations of Erasmus Smith (1611–1691)

creator: William Stephen Mossop

date: early 19th century

medium: Tin (?)

credit_line: Gift of Edmond Johnson Ltd., 1908


title: Glass Fragment

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass

country: Coptic

subjects: Glass-vessel Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

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

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


title: The rest on the Flight into Egypt

creator: Andrea Scacciati

medium: Etching and aquatint imitating a chiaroscuro woodcut printed in green

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


title: Wooden disc (part of a horn drinking cup)

date: ca. 7th–9th century CE

medium: Wood

country: Alanic

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline Simcox, 1999


title: Hammered Silver Cone Ornament

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Crayfish Vessel

date: 200 BCE–300 CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Colima

subjects:
Colima
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Joanne P. Pearson, in memory of Andrall E. Pearson, 2007


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

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


title: Card Number 103, Lizzie Hight, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: Actors [Out of Costume] Like Mount Fuji [Without Snow] in Summer (Yakusha natsu no Fuji), by Ichiba Tsūshō 絵本役者夏富士

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Foundation Gift, 2013


title: Secret Influence Directing The New P-l-t [Parliament]

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Plateau

date: 16th and 19th century

medium: Silver gilt, enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Scarab

medium: Green glazed steatite

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Game Piece with Samson Slaying the Philistines with the Jawbone of an Ass

medium: Elephant ivory, red stain

country: German

subjects: German Ivories-elephant


title: Tapestry Fragment with Plumed Figure

date: 9th–13th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Lambayeque (sicán)
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Design for Festival Architecture for an Entry into Paris for the King of Sweden, Fredrerick I of Hesse

creator: Guillaume Thomas Raphaël Taraval

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Florance Waterbury Bequest, 1970


title: Sash

date: last quarter 18th century

medium: silk, linen

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Miss Marie A. Main, 1899


title: Reclining Male Nude, as Wind God on Clouds

creator: Jakob Matthias Schmutzer

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Two Young Women Wrapped in Yukata After a Bath

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Billon Quattrino of Paul III (?)

medium: Copper alloy (billon)

subjects: Coin Italian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Trade Card for Danby, Printer and Engraver

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Water coupe

date: probably 18th century

medium: "Soft-paste" porcelain painted in underglaze blue.

country: Chinese

subjects: Ceramic Chinese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: M'lle Marriott, 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: La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 52 (recto)

creator: Matthias Mignerak

medium: Woodcut


title: The Chinese in New York – Scene in a Baxter Street Club-House (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: mid-18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean or Italian

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean or italian


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: George Troup and William Gibson

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Plate 2: two figures sitting on a tree trunk on the bank of a stream in foreground, an aqueduct and tower in the background, from 'Landscapes in the manner of Gaspar Dughet'

creator: Franz Joachim Beich

medium: Etching; second state of two

subjects: Print Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Juglet

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Portrait of Madame Hector de Callias (Nina de Villart)

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Drypoint

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Samples (6)

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: French Judith, from Pierre Le Moyne's "La Gallerie des femmes fortes"

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching and engraving with watercolor and gold paint, painted by hand; first state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Elevation and Ground Plan for a Papal Throne

creator: Antonio Basoli

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

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1976


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Galloon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Plate

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Cavalier (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Brownish-black ink on blue laid paper

country: American

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


title: Landscape with a Figure Herding Cattle, and a Shepherd Resting

medium: Etching, soft-ground etching and aquatint

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Latona and Her Children, Apollo and Diana

creator: William Henry Rinehart

medium: Marble

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1905


title: Crinoline

medium: metal, cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1986


title: Lady Harriet Acland, Crossing the Hudson River to the American Lines, Presenting Her Safe Conduct

creator: Robert Pollard

date: November 15, 1784

medium: Aquatint and etching on chine collé

credit_line: Gertrude and Thomas Jefferson Mumford Collection, Gift of Dorothy Quick Mayer, 1942


title: Vishnu on Adisesha

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia or Southern Thailand

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia or southern thailand

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1974


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Design for Fringed Curtains

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Figures from Annibale Carracci's "The Deposition"

creator: Alexandre Chaponnier

medium: Engraving and stipple

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Water dropper in the shape of a house

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2012


title: Fiore D'Ogni Virtu Per le Nobili Et Honeste Matrone, page 6 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Powell MacRae

creator: Henry Colton Shumway

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Jacqueline L. Hammond, 1963


title: Flounce

medium: Applied

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. R.T. Auchmuty, 1917


title: Soup Plate

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Creation I from the portfolio "New European Graphics, Portfolio III: German Artists"  [Schöpfungsgeschichte I from the portfolio Neue Europäische Graphik III: Deutsche Künstler]

creator: Franz Marc

date: 1914  (posthumously printed in 1921 and published in 1922)

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Fragment of a Spatula

date: 13th–11th century BCE

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
China
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Head of a woman

date: early 16th century

medium: Tempera on wood

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1923


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Portugal, from the National Flags series (N195) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin)

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur M. Sackler Gift, 1974


title: Medal commemorating the birth of the King of Rome (1811–1832)

creator: Bertrand Andrieu

medium: Bronze, struck, reddish brown patina

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Rose-Combed Dorking Cock, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Roses


title: Head of Shiva

date: ca. 10th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Central Vietnam

subjects:
Sculpture
Central vietnam

credit_line: Purchase, Carol Collins Malone Gift, in honor of Bradley Isham Collins, 2014


title: Moonlit Landscape

creator: Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Rosemarie and Leighton Longhi, 2020


title: Le Martinet near Montpellier

creator: Camille Corot

medium: Pen and black ink, graphite on light blue laid paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Cope

date: 15th century

medium: Velvet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Wounded Crane with an Arrow in its Breast Before Setting Sun

creator: Max Klinger

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Pen and ink on buff stock

credit_line: Gift of Robert L. Isaacson, 1979


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Tools of Various Trades (Carpenter, Farmer, Merchant)

medium: Lacquer, red-brown ground, nashiji, gold, red and silver hiramakie, raden; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Vis-a-Vis/ Caleche #3630a

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Userhat and Wife Visit Abydos, Tomb of Userhat

creator: Norman de Garis Davies

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: A young sailor and an old man sitting by the sea

creator: Stefano della Bella

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Callithea Sapphira, from "The Butterflies and Moths of America", Part 1

creator: Louis Prang & Co.

medium: Color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick, 1948


title: Trade Card for C. Ingrey, Lithographic Printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: The Holy Family with John the Baptist in a landscape

creator: Bernardino Passeri

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Ellen Peckham Gift, 2015


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


title: Medal of Captain Thomas Macdonough

creator: Moritz Fürst

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi), silver, 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: Lot and His Daughters, from "Scenes from the Old Testament"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

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


title: Yellow Muscat, from the Fruits series (N12) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Fruits

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


title: The Annunciation

creator: Anonymous

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: L'Art du brodeur

creator: Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin


title: The Sacrifice of Manoah

creator: Aert Schouman

medium: Watercolor, with pen and brown ink, over a sketch in black chalk; two sets of framing lines in brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2024


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: Terracotta rim fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fox Head Ornament

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper, shell

country: Moche

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Untitled

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1985


title: Towel End

medium: Linen, silk, and metal wrapped thread; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Two Cranes beneath a Flowering Cherry (obverse); Pheasant beside a Peony (reverse)

medium: Metal, silver and shibuichi metal, gold, sentoku, applied metals; Interior: silver metal


title: Textile fragment

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Warp-faced compound plain weave silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Arthur Leeper, 2000


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Nap and His Partner Joe

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 29, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Kneeling Female  Figure

date: 2nd–4th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Nayarit (Chinesco)

subjects:
Nayarit (chinesco)
Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Barbara and Justin Kerr, 1995, 1996


title: Helmet in the <i>Zenshōzan</i> Style with Case

medium: Helmet: steel, lacquer, copper alloy, gold, leather, textile; case: wood, lacquer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, by exchange, 2017


title: Mold for an Amulet of Bes with a Tambourine

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Cauliculi frame

date: early 18th century(?)

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Bologna

subjects:
Frame
Italian, bologna

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Wall decoration with floral and vegetal design

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Sasanian

subjects: Sasanian Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Armorial shield

date: 16th century

medium: Stone

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta group of women seated around a well head

date: 2nd half of 4th century BCE

country: Greek, Tarentine

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, tarentine

credit_line: Gift of Mary Jaharis, in honor of Thomas P. Campbell, 2012


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

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


title: Snuffbox

creator: Louis Ray

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Phaeton #839

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Medal

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Marsh Bowl

medium: Faience, paint

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


title: Papyrus burnisher of the Scribe, Merymaat

medium: Ebony

credit_line: Gift of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1900


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Cup with floral spray

date: ca. 12th century

medium: Porcelain with incised decoration under ivory-white glaze (Ding ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger G. Gerry, 1980


title: Bowl with Inscription

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; painted in black with splashes of green on opaque white (tin) glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Spear Thrower End Piece: Phallus

medium: Copper

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Card Number 758, Miss Mulvey, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Divan (Collected Works) of Mir 'Ali Shir Nava'i

creator: Mir 'Ali Shir Nava'i

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper; leather binding

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: The Cowherd

creator: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

medium: Etching;  third state of six (Mannocci)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th century

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1929


title: Side chair (one of four) (part of a set)

medium: Carved, painted and gilded limewood; squab pillow in silk velvet (not original)

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


title: Zhou Dunyi Admiring Lotuses

creator: Lu Peng

date: dated 1896

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Jane DeBevoise and the Calello Family, 2024


title: Dressing Table

medium: Walnut, white pine, burl walnut veneers, mahogany; brass

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


title: Staff Major, Italy, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: La Gloria et l'Honore di Ponti Tagliati, E Ponti in Aere, page 16 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Design for Coupé, no. 690

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor


title: Recumbent Cow, plate 2 from "Different Animals"

creator: Adriaen van de Velde

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Box with cover (one of a pair) (part of a toilet service)

creator: William Fowle

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1963


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Pharmacy Jar (albarello)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Deruta

subjects:
Italian, deruta
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Covered Jar

creator: Justus Brouwer

medium: Earthenware

country: Dutch

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs

medium: Green glazed steatite

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


title: Bracelet

date: 14th–16th century or later

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Candlestick (candeliere)

creator: workshop of Guido Durantino

country: Italian, Urbino

subjects:
Italian, urbino
Ceramics-pottery


title: Courtesans in an Iris Garden

creator: Katsukawa Shunchō

date: late 18th century

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Two pieces

date: 18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Bust of a Woman

creator: Nicolas Cordier

date: Probably 18th century

medium: Marble of different colors

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Trionfo Di Virtu. Libro Novo..., page 29 (recto)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Standing Male Nude

creator: Franz August Myldorfer

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2006


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

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: Boar Avatar of Vishnu

medium: Bronze

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, by exchange, 1948


title: Madonna and Child Between St Comas and St Damian

creator: Cornelis Cort

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Flowers of Spring and Autumn

creator: Ogata Kōrin

date: shortly after 1701

medium: Pair of panels; ink and color on cryptomeria wood

subjects: Painting Japan Flowers

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


title: Sanogawa Ichimatsu in the Role of Otsuru

creator: Torii Kiyohiro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper


title: Cedar Trees near Atlantic City

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on light green wove paper

country: American

subjects: American Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Butter Pat

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Chace, 1969


title: Goblet

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Linen, wool

country: Coptic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Illustration of Cavalry, Infantry and Soldiers Retreating (Kiheitai, hoheitai, daichōren no zu)

creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

date: 8th month, 1867

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Pottery Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware, glazed (faience)

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: In the Oise Valley

creator: Paul Cézanne

medium: Graphite, gouache, and watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Cushing Fosburgh, 1978


title: Parasol

creator: Fortis

medium: silk, tortoiseshell, metal, wood

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Sidney W. Davidson, 1957


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Cap

medium: silk

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Stela of Intef and his wife, Dedetamun

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Horizontal Panel with a Siren with Foliage for Legs and Two Children

creator: Allaert Claesz.

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Earth (one of four)

medium: Stucco and marble

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Drawing of Female Statue with Sword and Scale

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Tumbler

medium: Glass

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


title: [Soldier with Rifle and Bugle]

creator: Unknown

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Ingersoll Aitken, 1951


title: Vase with flowers

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over a yellow sgraffito ground of vegetal scrolls (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

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


title: Buckle

medium: Iron, copper alloy

country: Frankish

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Phaeton #504

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Hand colored lithograph, probably from Le Guide du Carrossier ; Verso: graphite

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: A man leans toward a woman standing in a doorway at right, at left a seated woman raises both hands, a canopied bed beyond, from a series of five illustrations after Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint-Quentin for 'The mad day, or the marriage of Figaro' (La Folle journée, ou le mariage de Figaro) by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

creator: Jacques Philippe Joseph de Saint Quentin

medium: Etching with engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Copy of a Portrait of Zhao Mengfu

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Portraits

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


title: Solidus

medium: Gold

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Botany Print


title: Hebrew ritual lace (one of four)

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk, needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George Nichols, from the collection of her mother, Mrs. J.P. Morgan (1868-1925), 1938


title: Relief from the tomb of Bakenrenef, wall from small room with texts and niches

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Pair of pomade pots (part of a toilet service)

creator: Thomas Jenkins

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1963


title: Manchu Woman's Informal Robe

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1947


title: Tombs of the Dead

creator: Quentin Pierre Chedel

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Embroidered Border Fragment

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Imperial Court Robe

date: first half 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

credit_line: Gift of Hattie Belle Johnston, 1963


title: Circular Box

medium: Lacquer decorated with gold

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

creator: Hans Krumpper

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price and PECO Foundation Gifts, 2011


title: Theatrical vest for a female Buddhist priest

medium: Silk thread embroidery on silk satin

credit_line: Gift of Alan Priest, 1962


title: Panel

medium: Deerskin

subjects: Leatherwork Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Coin

date: dated 365 AH/975 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Conical Gaming Piece from Neferkhawet's Tomb

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Heart Scarab

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


title: Watercolor of musician playing bo

medium: Watercolor on paper

subjects:
Work on paper
Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Lawrence Creshkoff, 1990


title: The Waterwheel at Onden (Onden no suisha), from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Riding habit

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: Gift of Lucy Virginia Gordon Ralston, 1978


title: Woman Taking Her Tea

creator: Pierre Filloeul

medium: Engraving

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


title: Mug

creator: V. B.

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: A Short History of General Braxton Bragg, from the Histories of Generals series of booklets (N78) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Fan

medium: Paper, paint, gilt, ivory, gold, silver, metal, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor

creator: Fitz Henry Lane (formerly Fitz Hugh Lane)

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers and Fletcher Funds, Erving and Joyce Wolf Fund, Raymond J. Horowitz Gift, Bequest of Richard De Wolfe Brixey, by exchange, and John Osgood and Elizabeth Amis Cameron Blanchard Memorial Fund, 1978


title: Glass cylindrical bottle with painted decoration

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Egyptian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, egyptian

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


title: Medallion of the Marquis de Lafayette

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Torso

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Plaster

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Funerary Cone

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Bowl with cover

creator: Dihl et Guérhard

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: A seated horse to right, seen from behind and turned to the left, three other horses in middleground, a tree in center, plate 8 from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; fourth state of five (De Vesme)

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Wall bracket

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Su Shi (Dongpo) in a Bamboo Hat and Clogs

creator: Zuigan Ryūsei

date: before 1460

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Jug

creator: Sewell and Co.

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Mandeville Johnston, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. S. Johnston, 1914


title: Brigandine Plate

medium: Iron alloy, textile

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor part
Italian

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Bequest of Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Plate 6 from "Los Caprichos":  Nobody knows himself (Nadie se conoce)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint

credit_line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918


title: Spice box with grater

creator: François Duran

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Sheet with overall black and gold floral pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

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


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; tinted, incised, and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Mud jar sealing

medium: Clay, mud

credit_line: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912


title: Circular appliqué

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Scythian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Bowl with cover and tray

creator: Saint-Cloud factory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes, 1924


title: Lacquer Samples

date: 19th century

medium: Lacquer

country: Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Vase: Qingbai Shufu-type ware (pair with 1975.1.1670)

creator: Chinese

date: 14th century

medium: Porcelain with bluish-toned glaze.

subjects: Ceramic Chinese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Boyle, Pitcher, Indianapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: S-Shaped Brooch

date: mid-6th century

medium: Gilded silver and garnets

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Enigmes Joyeuses pour les Bons Esprits, Plate 6

creator: Jan van Haelbeeck

medium: Copper engraving

credit_line: Mary Oenslager Fund, 2016


title: [Button]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2005


title: Sample

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread


title: Cylinder Seal of King Sekhemre Sewadjtawy Sebekhotep

medium: Glazed steatite

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


title: Evening dress

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk, linen

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Princess Viggo in accordance with the wishes of the Misses Hewitt, 1931


title: Lifesaving Medal to Joseph Francis

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Isaac P. Francis (through the Chamber of Commerce), 1894


title: Sewing Table

creator: James X. Smith

medium: Cherry, butternut, pine, basswood, sycamore, maple

country: American, Shaker

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1966


title: Dish

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Mandeville Johnston, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. S. Johnston, 1914


title: Hare and Dandelion?

creator: Kubo Shunman

date: probably 1820

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

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


title: Ayant eu la facheuse idée d'aller...au bord de l'eau, from Croquis d'Été, published in Le Charivari, September 3, 1856

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 3, 1856

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

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


title: Disk Brooch

medium: Copper alloy, gold,  glass paste cabochon, garnet, iron pin

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Frankish


title: Henry W. Grady, The Atlanta Constitution, from the American Editors series (N1) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Old Woman with a Book

creator: Imperial Russian Tapestry Manufactory, Saint Petersburg

date: late 18th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Mass Bell

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Metal

country: Belgium

subjects: Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper Belgium

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Candlestick

creator: Samuel Siervent

medium: Silver

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alice Richards Sorbo and Guy Richards, 1941


title: Fragment of Scarf or Cover

date: 15th century

medium: Linen, embroidered in silk and metal wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1945


title: Key

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, gilt

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: A Lamentable Case of a Jury-Man

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Chlorite mortar or plate

medium: Chlorite

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Tea caddy

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James M. Kellogg, in memory of her husband, 2023


title: Flower-Shaped Clothing Plaque

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: China (Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Central Asia)

subjects: Metalwork Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Willow Bough

creator: William Morris

medium: Block-printed in distemper colors

credit_line: Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1923


title: A Man Lighting His Pipe from that of A Young Woman who Sits Beside Him

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan


title: Les dernieres

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Saint Mary Magdalene in ecstasy, supported by two angels

creator: Pieter de Bailliu

medium: Engraving; first state of two

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


title: Wallpaper

creator: Arthur and Robert Wallpapers

medium: Paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Female fruit seller (one of a pair)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Fruits

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Fragment of a Dish of Polychrome Mosaic Glass

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Eleven-Headed Kannon on Mount Fudaraku

date: 13th century

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

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: Terracotta statuette of an old nurse holding a child

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, boeotian


title: Oil Lamp

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: [Doorway to Tomb?]

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Fan

medium: ivory, mineral, paper, gouache, paint

country: European

subjects:
European
Minerals & gems

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


title: Forearm Defense (Vambrace)

medium: Steel

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Bequest of Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Covered Figural Dish

creator: Atterbury and Company

medium: Pressed amethyst and opaque turquoise glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Glass cup

date: 3rd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: General George B. McClellan

creator: John Quincy Adams Ward

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Donna Hassler, 2015


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, silver, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Dum Dum House—Built by Lord Clive

creator: Captain R. B. Hill


title: Bottle

medium: Clay covered with a mottled glaze and an overglaze (Takatori ware, Satsuma type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Moccasins

medium: Tanned leather, dye,  cotton cloth, silk ribbon, and glass and metal beads

country: Muscogee/ Creek, Native American

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Valerie-Charles Diker Fund, 2017


title: Ecce Homo, from "The Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

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


title: Gloves

date: early 18th century

medium: Leather, metallic

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Museum Expedition 1923, Purchased with funds given by Frederic B. Pratt and Frank L. Babbott


title: Bead (?)

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bone

country: Iran

subjects:
Iran
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1961


title: Sculpture Fragment

medium: Stone

subjects:
Lapidary work
Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Disk

medium: Gilt bronze, silver gilt

subjects: Metalwork Japan

credit_line: Gift of Edna Bahr, 1962


title: (From Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

medium: Photolithograph

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


title: Textile

medium: Silk, linen and metal thread

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
German
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Insertion

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Orphrey

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Cap

date: early 19th century

medium: silk, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Brooklyn Museum Collection, 1923


title: Kanaya

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Chessmen (32)

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Chancellor Leonhard von Eck (1480–1550)

creator: Barthel Beham

medium: Oil on spruce

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1912


title: Comforts of Bath, Plate 2

date: January 6, 1798

medium: Etching

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


title: Shoe Buckle

medium: Silver, paste

country: American or British

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": The Wrecked Longboat

creator: John Singleton Copley

medium: Pen and brown ink and black chalk on off-white laid paper

credit_line: Purchase, Louisa Eldridge McBurney Gift, 1960


title: S. Quirin et Ste. Balbine (St. Quirinus and St. Balbina), March 31st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: John Alexander Logan, from the Great Generals series (N15) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Netsuke of Two Deer

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: [Man Holding Glasses in Front of Painted Outdoor Backdrop]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Heart Amulet of Isetweret

medium: Faience

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Sword, Shoes and a Scroll, Representing the Chinese Warrior Chōryō

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

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

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Grandfather's Portrait, from "Illustrated London News"

creator: William Luson Thomas

date: January 4, 1862

medium: Wood engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015


title: Officer of Cavalry, Italy, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

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


title: Fragment

medium: Wool and linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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: The Hymn of the Daughters of Israel and David (copy)

creator: Jan (Pietersz.) Saenredam

medium: Prints

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


title: Plate 22: Basket vendor

creator: Simon Guillain II

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Poppies

medium: Case: powdered gold (maki-e) and gold and colored lacquer on black lacquer with pewter and ceramic inlays; floral decoration on risers in incised gold; Fastener (ojime): stained wood carved in the shape of a peach; Toggle (netsuke): black lacquer with design of pussy-willow branches in pewter and ceramic inlays and metal wire

subjects: Inrō Japan Flowers


title: A House in Smyrna

creator: Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

medium: Soft-ground etching with roulette on wove paper

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1961


title: Seal with hole

medium: Steatite

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Flower-Shaped Plaque

date: mid-7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: Northwest China/Eastern Central Asia

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china/eastern central asia
Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: "I'm de boss of de gang, you'se kin bet," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: Portrait of a Man in a Cap

creator: Bartolommeo Nazari (Nazzari)

medium: Black chalk, stumped, highlighted with white, on faded gray-green paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


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


title: Relief showing part of a sunshade

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese


title: Zanguleh (zangula)

medium: Metal, wood

country: Iranian (Persian)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Second View of the Baths of Diocletian, from set of Roman Ruins

creator: Hieronymus Cock

medium: Etching with plate tone

credit_line: Gift of Leo Steinberg, 2009


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Mlle. Mante, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Seated Kubera

date: 11th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Gift of Daniel Slott, 1980


title: A Prevailing Mood of Harmony

medium: Hanging scroll; woodblock print; ink on paper with additional hand coloring

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Purchase, C.C. Wang Family Fund Gift, 2025


title: Plate 1: various fragments of ancient monuments, from "Roman landscapes and ruins" (Paysages et ruines de Rome)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Handscreen (one of a pair)

date: mid-19th century

medium: Papier-mâché, black painted and gilded, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, gilt wooden handle

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Juno and the peacock

creator: Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa)

date: late 16th century

credit_line: The Erich Lederer Collection, Gift of Mrs. Erich Lederer, 1986


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment of floral plaque

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905


title: Madonna and Child with Angels

creator: Gentile da Fabriano (Gentile di Niccolò di Giovanni di Massio)

medium: Tempera on wood, traces of gold ground

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


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


creator: Eucharides Painter


title: Portrait of Dengyō Daishi (Saichō)

creator: Unidentified

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

subjects: Painting Japan Portraits

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2020


title: Pot

date: 6th millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1962


title: Bottle vase with floral scrolls

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze cobalt blue (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk;  on paper laid on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-embroidered


title: Crochet Work

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Hawk Attacking Crane beside  Rocks and Plants

medium: Lacquer, roiro, nashiji, gold, silver and brown hiramakie, raden inlay; Interior: roiro, fundame & chinkinbori decoration

subjects: Botany Inrō Japan

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


title: Table Valance with Theme of the "Hundred Antiques"

medium: Silk embroidery on simple gauze silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: The Cloisters Playing Cards

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

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-paper
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1983


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Dish (coppa)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, probably Urbino and Gubbio

subjects:
Italian, probably urbino and gubbio
Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Samson and the Lion, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

creator: Frederic, Lord Leighton

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1926


title: How to Lose Your Way

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Saint Anthony of Padua holding a lily and a scroll, with an infant at lower left

creator: Francesco Curti

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Lilies

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1986


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Fragment of Ornamental Drawing after the Antique; Half-harpy with Acanthus Rinceaux

creator: Andrés de Melgar

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with gray wash, over metalpoint

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: "Rama Receives Sugriva and Jambavat, the Monkey and Bear Kings", Folio from a Ramayana

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2002


title: Painting

creator: Bi Chang

medium: Album with ten leaves (eight paintings and two title leaves); ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Bequest of Katherine S. Dreier, 1952


title: Page from a Dispersed Kalpa Sutra (Jain Book of Rituals)

date: 15th century

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Cabinet

creator: Ogawa Haritsu (Ritsuō)

medium: Lacquered wood

subjects: Furniture Japan


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Shell fragment

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Shell

country: Assyrian

subjects:
Assyrian
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Evening cloak

creator: Maison Pingat

medium: silk, metal

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. John Roebling, 1970


title: Debates on Palmistry

creator: Joseph Haynes

date: February 1, 1782

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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

date: second half of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) Depicting Dragon and Paulownia Leaves With Tendrils (龍と桐唐草図鐔)

medium: Iron, copper, gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Landscapes by I Fukyū (Yi Fujiu) and Ike no Taiga (I Fukyū Ike Taiga sansui gafu)

creator: Kan Tenjū

medium: Set of two woodblock-printed books; ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan
Landscapes

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Bee Flying beside Flowering Poppies

medium: Lacquer, roiro, gold hiramakie, takamakie, ceramic, stained raden, pewter inlay; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan


title: A Black Curassow

creator: Johannes Bronckhorst

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Watercolor and gouache over traces of black chalk

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2005


title: Lineage Portrait of an Abbot

medium: Distemper on cloth

country: Central Tibet

subjects:
Painting
Central tibet
Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Philanthropic Fund Gift, 1991


title: Plums

creator: John William Hill

medium: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on off-white Bristol board

country: American

credit_line: Gift of J. Henry Hill, 1882


title: Cornetto in A

date: 17th century

medium: Wood, leather

country: German

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated
German

credit_line: Gift of The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1953


title: Pilgrim's Visiting Album

medium: One from a set of four albums; calligraphy on gilt paper and paper, paintings in ink, color, and gold on paper, mounted on paper, covers of silk embroidery with colored and metallic thread

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mary L. Cassilly, 1894


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Limestone plinth with the feet of a male statuette

date: mid- or 2nd half of  6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot


title: Administrative Seal

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Seal

date: probably 10th century

medium: Gray stone

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Minnie Palmer, from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 2) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Handle in the form of a youth

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Cypriot


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

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Mug

medium: Glass with engraved decoration

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Plate 13: Allegory on the Discord in France, from Caspar Barlaeus, "Medicea Hospes"

creator: Pieter Nolpe

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Tapestry

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Couple

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


title: Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, incised and splashed with polychrome glazes under transparent glaze (sgraffito ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris: Tent and Overturned Wagon

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite, heightened with white

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


title: The Young Family

creator: Lorenz Frølich

medium: Pen and dark brown and reddish brown ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1966


title: Console table

date: late 17th century

medium: Carved and gilded oak, marble top

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Bowl

date: 7th–10th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Nopiloa

subjects: Nopiloa Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1979


title: Broadside with 48 scenes of the life of the Virgin

creator: José Noguera

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978