title: Sword (Kilij) with Scabbard

medium: Steel, copper, coral, gold, turquoise

country: Turkish

subjects:
Sword
Turkish
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Mirror decorated with phoenixes and flowers

date: first half 12th century

medium: Bronze

country: Korea

subjects: Mirror Korea Flowers

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, 1922


title: Cruet stand

date: 18th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mr. R.M. Parmelee and Mrs. W.L. Parker, 1916


title: Open Landscape with Herdsman, Cows, and Sheep

creator: Thomas Gainsborough

medium: Brown chalk, washed with black ink and touched with white gouache (bodycolor)

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Seiro Niwaka Onna Geisha no Bu Tojin Shishi Sumo

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Altar crucifix

creator: Reinhold Vasters

date: second half 19th century

medium: Rock crystal, gold, silver gilt, enamel

subjects:
Minerals & gems
Natural substances-rock crystal

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


title: Stony Clove, June 26, 1870 (recto, from sketchbook)

creator: Jervis McEntee

medium: Graphite, white gouache, on blue paper

country: American

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 1982


title: Glass cinerary urn with lid

date: mid-1st–2nd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Bottle

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Glass; blown, applied decoration, tooled on the blow-pipe


title: The Milton Shield

creator: Elkington & Co.

medium: Electroformed copper, silver plated

credit_line: Gift of Deborah Szekely, 2011


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Koshikibu no Naishi (999–1025), from "Hyakunin Isshu" (One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets)

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: St. Gregory

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; second state of two (BN)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Insertion

date: 19th century

medium: Embroidered net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Miniature Dress

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Bird Amulet

medium: Lapis lazuli

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904


title: Horse figurine

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


title: Design for a Ceiling Decoration, plate 4 from "Unterschiedliche neu inventierte Deken oder Plafond"

creator: Jeremias Wachsmuth

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: King Rail, from the Game Birds series (N13) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Steatite Triangular Prism

medium: Steatite

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Miniature Tripod (Ding)

medium: Bronze, teakwood cover

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Wreath of Wildflowers, title page for "Eaux-Fortes par Daubigny"

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Etching on chine collé; ninth state of ten (Delteil)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. David J. Impastato, 1962


title: Trajan Fighting the Dacians, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Marco Dente

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Marble portrait of the co-emperor Lucius Verus

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Dress

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969


title: The Four Evangelists

creator: School of Cambiaso

date: late 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash over traces of black chalk.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Statue of Kedamun and His Family

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. S. W. Straus, 1925


title: Bird-Form Earring

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)
Birds

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: The Wounded Goetz Taken in by the Gypsies

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph; second state of two

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


title: Shoulder Band Fragment

date: 6th–8th century

medium: Wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Pricket candlestick

date: 17th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Coffee Cup and Saucer

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

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


title: M'lle Couralet, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Locket

date: between 1800 and 1999

credit_line: Gift of Lynn and Bruce Heckman


title: A bacchante holding a sword in her left arm and a branch with fruit in her right hand, set against a black background inside a rectangular frame

creator: Antonio Ricciani

subjects: Print Fruits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Hubbard, 1941


title: The Immortal Lü Dongbin Appearing over the Yueyang Pavilion

creator: Unidentified artist

date: late 13th–early 14th century

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

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Cope

medium: Silk and silver thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Palette with two birds attached at their tails

medium: Greywacke

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Composite plate: Woman and Children (a), Old Musician (b), Frying Merchant (c),  Landscape (d), Landscape (e), Praying Monk (f), and Scavenger (g)

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Drypoint

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Chlorite

country: Akkadian or Neo-Sumerian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1984


title: Ball gown

creator: La Religieuse

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Amelie Le Saux, 1948


title: Plaque

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Favrile glass

credit_line: Gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Lingering Rain over Half the Village

creator: Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō

medium: Folding fan mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Cup

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

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


title: Watch

creator: Du Bois

medium: Case of gold and enamel; jeweled movement, with cylinder escapement

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


title: Head of a Horse

creator: Anonymous, Italian, mid-16th century

date: mid-16th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2004


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 4033

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Three Brothers, Front View,  4480 Feet

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite, with squaring lines in pen and red ink

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


title: Clear Weather after a storm at Awazu

creator: Ryūryūkyo Shinsai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan


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

medium: Graphite on blue paper

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


title: Bedouin, A Sheik's Daughter, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Takashima Ohisa Using Two Mirrors to Observe Her Coiffure

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Le Christ et La Samaritaine (Christ and the Samaritan Woman)

creator: Rodolphe Bresdin

medium: Etching

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


title: Chaumelin. Odilon. 22 ans, né à Paris VIe. Publiciste. Anarchiste. 24/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Russia, from the International Cards series (N238), issued by Kinney Bros.


title: La Course, from "Hero and Leander"

creator: Louis Philibert Debucourt

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1975


title: Ogee frame

date: late 19th or early 20th century

medium: Pine

country: American, Boston (?)

subjects:
Frame
American, boston

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Card Number 598, Miss Sutherland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Spindle Whorl

medium: Bone; incised

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Inscribed Lintel from the Tomb of the Overseer of Priests and Keeper of the Sacred Cattle Mereri, Describing His Exemplary Life

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: A Seated Youth

creator: Bertel Thorvaldsen

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Graphite and pen and ink

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


title: Teapot

medium: Stoneware

country: British

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Ribbon

medium: silk, metal spangles silk, metal spangles, metal; jacket, bodice and skirt

credit_line: Purchase, 1906 (through Sir Purdon Clark)


title: Water, represented by a naiad seated at the base of a tree and resting her arm on a supine urn from which water flows, behind her a triton and other inhabitants of the sea rise from the water surface, from "The Elements"

creator: Giulio Carpioni

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Museum Accession, by exchange, 1967


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 3rd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: A Happy New Year, from the New Years 1890 series (N227) issued by Kinney Bros.


title: La Parure des Dames, Plate 7

creator: Mondhare et Jean

medium: Hand colored engraving

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


title: Design for interior

creator: Charles de Brocktorff

medium: Watercolor

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


title: Saucers (12) (part of a tea and coffee service)

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Jean Rolston Peacock, 1969


title: Shabti of Djedhor

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist

creator: Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut, with dark brown line block and medium brown and mustard yellow tone blocks

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Willard Eben Mains, Pitcher, St. Paul Apostles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

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


title: The Temple of Dendur, showing the Pylon

creator: Frederick Arthur Bridgman

medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

subjects: Architecture American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 2000


title: Saxony, from Flags of All Nations, Series 2 (N10) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Baluster

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Buckle

date: late 14th century

medium: Bronze gilt

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Collar

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1941


title: Vase with dragon amid clouds

date: mid-18th century

medium: Porcelain with carved decoration under celadon glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh J. Grant, 1974


title: Quarter of a Ceiling with Grotesque Decorations

creator: Guiseppe Mannocchi

medium: Pen and black ink with light-brown wash

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2014


title: A Parisienne Outside the Moulin de la Galette

creator: Henri Somm

medium: Watercolor, graphite, pen and ink

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Lee Anz Lehman, 2007


title: Suggestion by Whistler for his Portrait

creator: James McNeill Whistler

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Commercial relief process

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1985


title: Pouch

medium: Glass, silk, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Margaret S. Bedell, 1930


title: Border

date: second half 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Bowl of a Helmet (<i>Suji Kabuto</i>)

date: early 15th century

medium: Iron, lacquer, copper, gold

country: Japanese

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Vase

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

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


title: Le Couronnement D'Épines (The Crowning with Thorns), from "La Grande Passion" (The Large Passion)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of four (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: February, from "Twelve Months"

creator: Jan van de Velde II

medium: Etching; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Galloon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Oil Lamp

medium: Sheffield silver plate

credit_line: Gift of the Members of the Committee of the Bertha King Benkard Memorial Fund, 1946


title: Design for Furniture

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash.  Framing lines in pen and black ink.

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Ring with scarab

medium: Carnelian, gold

subjects:
Gems
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Angel

medium: Limestone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: Zachary Taylor

creator: Southworth and Hawes

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of I. N. Phelps Stokes, Edward S. Hawes, Alice Mary Hawes, and Marion Augusta Hawes, 1937


title: Pearl, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) 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: M.Albert; Mlle Rust; Blanche Montaubry

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Engraved From the Compositions of John Flaxman, Sculptor, Rome

creator: John Flaxman

medium: Illustrations: line engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harvey Smith, 1977


title: Tablet with cartouches of Aten, Akhenaten and Nefertiti

medium: yellow quartzite

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

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


title: Plaque with Horse Carriage

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2004


title: [Golestan, Le Salon et Fete de l'equinode, Teheran, Iran (le Pavillion du Trone)]

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Photographs

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


title: William II, German Emperor (r. 1888–1918) and family

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Saint John the Baptist

creator: Juan de Ancheta

medium: Wood, polychromed and gilded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: Nathaniel P. "Nat" Hudson, Pitcher, St. Louis Browns, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Order of Civil Merit, Saxony, from the World's Decorations series (N30) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

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


title: Manufacturer's Catalogue of Silver Plated Ware

creator: Matthew Boulton

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954


title: Libbretto nouellamete composto per maestro Domenico da Sera...lauorare di ogni sorte di punti, page 8 (recto)

creator: Domenico da Sera

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Angel

date: second half 18th century

medium: Wood, polychromed and gilt

country: probably Ecuadoran, Quito

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Tommy Warren, from the Celebrities and Prizefighters series (N174) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Wall Bracket

medium: Gilt gesso, paint, wood

country: American or British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern


title: Covered Punch Bowl

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

medium: Blown glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Limestone head of Apollo

date: 1st century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Mosaic glass bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

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


title: Collar

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of  Miss May B. Howe, 1939


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven


title: Galloon

date: 18th century

medium: Metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: The Crucifixion

creator: Agostino Carracci

medium: Engraving

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


title: Cylinder seal with cultic scene

date: 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Blue Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

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


title: Bird Plaque Ornament

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Vicús

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Vicú
Birds

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


title: Sake Bottle (Tokkuri) with Auspicious Patterns

date: 17th century

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
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: Poem on Lanzhou

creator: Xing Tong

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

country: China

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Landscape

creator: Fang Shishu

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

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


title: Portrait of a Young Woman as a Vestal Virgin

creator: François Hubert Drouais

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William M. Haupt, from the collection of Mrs. James B. Haggin, 1965


title: Terracotta fragment of a squat lekythos (oil flask)

date: third quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Rockaway #3842a

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Coin

date: ca. 7th–8th century CE

medium: Copper

country: Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Sebastian Andorfer (1469–1537)

creator: Hans Maler

medium: Oil on Swiss stone pine

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


title: Furniture plaque carved in relief with stylized tree

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

subjects: Assyrian Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Caddy spoon

creator: Joseph Taylor

medium: Silver

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


title: Piece

date: late 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Statue, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 4) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Jane Curtiss Breed, 1946, through James McVickar Breed


title: Section G: Martyrs Holding Palm Branches, from "The Triumph of Christ"

creator: Andrea Andreani

medium: Lithograph copy of a woodcut

subjects: Print Palms

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Textile Fragment

date: 16th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Passementerie

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Bottle

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Glass; blown, tooled on the pontil

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Mangaaka Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi)

creator: Yombe-Kongo artist and nganga (ritual specialist)

medium: Wood, iron, resin, ceramic, plant fiber, textile, pigment

country: Kongo peoples

subjects:
Botany
Costume & fashion
Wood-sculpture
Kongo people

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Drs. Daniel and Marian Malcolm, Laura G. and James J. Ross, Jeffrey B. Soref, The Robert T. Wall Family, Dr. and Mrs. Sidney G. Clyman, and Steven Kossak Gifts, 2008


title: Death of the Rich Man (La Mort du mauvais riche)

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching

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


title: Luke, from The Four Evangelists

creator: Pieter Feddes van Harlingen

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 2014


title: Map of part of the Murray-Hill Estate, Situated in the 12th Ward of the City of New York, to be sold by James Bleecker & Sons on Thursday 11th June 1835, at 12 o'clock, at the Merchant's Exchange

creator: Prosper Desobry

medium: Lithograph

subjects:
Maps & charts
Print

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


title: Kris with Sheath

medium: Wood, bone,silver, horn

country: Indonesian, Sumbawa

subjects:
Krisse
Indonesian, sumbawa
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Elizabeth Freeman Duran

creator: John Wesley Jarvis

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of May Blackstone Huntington, by exchange, 1985


title: Two elegantly dressed skeletons walking, from a broadside entitled, 'El Gran Panteon Amoroso,' published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Etching on zinc

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Figure

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Cupboard

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Oak

country: Netherlandish

subjects: Woodwork-furniture Netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) with centaur battling a warrior

creator: Painter of London B 31

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1939


title: Neptune and Melanthe, from "The Loves of the Gods" (Amorosi diletti degli dei)

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Appliqué Figure

medium: Gilded copper with glass beads

subjects: Metalwork-copper French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Tiger Claw Pendant

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Jérusalem, Tour de David

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: The Female Gambler's Prayer!!

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: August 1, 1801

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Ladle

medium: Wood

country: Austral Islanders

subjects:
Wood-implement
Austral islander

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


title: The Thieves on the Roof Awaken the Merchant", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

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


title: Wall Tile with Rekhyt Birds

medium: Faience

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


title: Cup

date: 10th century

medium: Glass; cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Albert van der Helle

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

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

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: probably American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Probably american

credit_line: Gift of Art Worker's Club, 1945


title: Sultan wearing a fur and a turban, from 'Several heads in the Persian style' (Plusieurs têtes coiffées à la persienne)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of two

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


title: Chandelier

date: mid-15th century

medium: Brass, Dinanderie

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Metalwork-brass
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Cabinet frontal with panels from two Embriachi caskets

creator: Baldassare degli Embriachi

medium: Bone and Certosina (inlays of stained woods, bone and horn) with traces of gilding

country: Italian

subjects:
Italian
Ivories-bone
Skeletons & bones


title: Polemical Duel between Lady Quotidienne and Sir Journal de Paris

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph, second state of two

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


title: Hercules and Achelous (in the form of a bull)

creator: Master of the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Sid R. Bass, Mrs. Oscar de la Renta and Mrs. Walter Annenberg Gifts, in honor of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2003


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

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


title: Head

date: ca. 14th–13th century BCE

medium: Faience, glaze, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Ring

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Glass mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Dish with Split-Leaf Palmette Design

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1966


title: Mug

medium: Pressed glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Bath Scraper

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; unglazed, molded in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Study of a Tiger

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

medium: Lithograph; third state of three

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968


title: The Adoration of the Magi, after Filippino Lippi

creator: Cristofano di Michele Martini (Il Robetta)

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. B.S. Oppenheimer, in memory of Dr. B.S. Oppenheimer, 1964


title: An old woman holding a mousetrap while a young girl holds a string attached to its tail

creator: Niccolò Cavalli

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1947


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bacchanal

creator: Pierre Brebiette

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Denarius of Cordianus III, 238 A.D., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) 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: [Dead Roe Buck]

creator: Horatio Ross

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Silver pendant ring with agate scaraboid

date: 6th–5th century B.C

medium: Silver, agate

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gems
Cypriot
Minerals & gems

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


title: Vest

medium: silk

country: probably Italian

credit_line: Gift of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1940


title: Murat Halstead, The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, from the American Editors series (N1) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter


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, 1938


title: Pin

date: 14th–15th century

country: Chimú (?)

subjects: Metal-ornament Chimú

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Roman


title: Saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902


title: Fisherman's Lodge At Mount Xisai

creator: Li Jie

medium: Handscroll; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-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: Heaven Bestowed Rare Jades

creator: Jian Guzhai

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Ink

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

date: 19th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)


title: Design for a Decorated Ceiling with Statues and Stucco

creator: Vittorio Maria Bigari

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and light brown ink, brush and gray wash, over leadpoint

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


title: Project for a Headquarters of a War Ministry

creator: Wagner

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1997


title: Seal Impression, City Gates

medium: Brown wax

country: Netherlandish or South Lowlands (?)

subjects:
Miscellaneous-wax
Netherlandish or south lowland

credit_line: Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1981


title: Evening shoes

medium: silk, leather, metallic

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller, 1976


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Balance Weight with a Cross and an Architectural Setting

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Copper alloy, silver inlay

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Architecture
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Dr. R. M. Riefstahl, 1927


title: Joseph Explaining His Dreams to Jacob, from "The Story of Joseph"

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1949


title: Portrait of the photographer Lochard

creator: Marcellin Desboutin

medium: Drypoint; first state of two

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Eric G. Carlson, in honor of Colta Ives, 2002


title: Roller Stamp

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Atlantic watershed
Ceramics-implement

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


title: Jug

creator: George Benton and Levi Stewart

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Beaker

date: late 8th–9th century

medium: Glass; free blown

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Beggar's Bowl (Kashkul)

medium: Steel; pierced, gold damascened

credit_line: Gift of Jonathan Lipkin, 2018


title: Man Leading a Camel

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Pen and brown ink, traces of brush and brown wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955


title: Letter to Kashiwai

creator: Kobori Enshū

date: early 17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

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


title: The Virgin with the Blessing Child in a Landscape

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

creator: Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Mediterranean with Mount Agde

creator: Gustave Le Gray

medium: Albumen silver print from two glass negatives

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1996


title: Frontlet of gold leaf

medium: Gold

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


title: Plate 32: Dutch and Germans Atttack the Roman Camp and Capture Cerialis' Boat, from "The War of the Romans Against the Batavians" (Romanorvm et Batavorvm societas)

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching, first state of two, issue 1 (Bartsch)

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


title: Oval Case Decorated  with Schweifwerk in Two Variants, Surrounded by Smaller Motifs, Flowers and Two Birds Below

creator: Jacques Hurtu

medium: Blackwork and engraving

subjects: Print Birds Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Stand

medium: Faience decorated in rich, blue enamel (Kyoto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Flagon

date: early 18th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Landscape with a Figure Herding Cattle to Water

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching, soft-ground etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink

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


title: Bracelet

creator: George W. Shiebler & Co.

medium: silver

credit_line: Gift of Martha J. Fleischman, 2009


title: Schizonema ramosissimium

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Tile with the names of Ramesses III

medium: Faience, white inlaid with blue, red, and green pastes

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Design for a Commode and Console (Plate 10), in Collection de Meubles et Objets de Goût, vol. 1

creator: Pierre de La Mésangère

medium: Engraving, hand-colored

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Seery, Left Field, 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 fragment of a bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Figure Studies:  Two Standing and Two Seated Men

creator: Micco Spadaro (Domenico Gargiulo)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Purgatory Cliff

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Watercolor and gouache on light tan wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Glass striped mosaic bowl fragment

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Sampler

medium: Linen on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Valley of San Juan del Oro (Harvesting Cinchona Bark)

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Etching on chine collé; first state of two

credit_line: Gift of Madeleine Fidell-Beaufort in memory of Sanford A. Fidell, 2023


title: Plate 63: Postman

creator: Simon Guillain II

medium: Etching


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Ornament with mask motif

date: 8th century

medium: Earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: "Rustam Shoots Isfandiyar in the Eye", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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


title: Carpet

date: 17th century

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph V. McMullan, 1973


title: The Round of the Sabbath or Witches' Sabbath

creator: Louis Boulanger

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1964


title: Varij Disegni de Camini de Gabineti [sic]

creator: Giorgio Fossati

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2019


title: Figure of Guanyin

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in famille verte enamels on the biscuit

credit_line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1964


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


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, 1938


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Saint Peter being released from prison by the angel

creator: Girolamo Pedrignani

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


title: Lake George

creator: John Frederick Kensett

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pilate Washing His Hands, from "The Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

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


title: Marat

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

date: mid-19th century after a model of 1830

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Reinis, 2011


title: Bowl rim sherd with incised decoration

date: ca. late 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Fire Shovel

medium: Brass, iron (?)

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Hair accessory

medium: metal

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard E. Cox, 1978


title: Face Amulet

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: The marching gypsies: the rear guard (Les bohémiens en marche: l'arrière-garde), also called The Departure (Le départ), from "The Gypsies" (Les Bohémiens)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Round dish

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William C. Breed, 1964


title: Teabowl and Accessories

medium: Clay, transparent glaze and thick overglaze in spots; accessories consist of black lacquer tea jar, small cylindrical wooden holder with bamboo tea whisk and jointed bamboo spoon; brocade covers for bowl and tea jar; these form a set for a traveler (Karatsu ware)

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


title: Design for a Fireplace (?) with Bundles and Garlands of Flowers Decorated with Musical Instruments

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949


title: Charles-Emmanuel, Duc de Savoie

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; state four of five [?] (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: [Portrait of a Youth]

creator: Unknown

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Orphrey

medium: Silk, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of George Arents in memory of Annie Walter Arents, 1949


title: Trade card for George Odell, Printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Moon flask with fish vase holding orchid spray

creator: Minton(s)

medium: Bone china

subjects:
Fish
Ceramics-porcelain
Orchids
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: The Wombat, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Relief print (Comte process)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Buddha Seated under the Bodhi Tree

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Terracotta with traces of red lacquer(?)

country: Thailand (Buriram province, probably Prakhon Chai)

subjects: Sculpture Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts of friends of Jim Thompson, in his memory, 1991


title: Fragment of a Block

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Sandstone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Ancient Walls, 1904 (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Ewer with stopper (part of a service)

medium: Glass, gold

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Chambers Hughes, 1963


title: Terracotta collar-necked jar

medium: Terracotta

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

credit_line: Gift of the Greek Government, 1927


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk / Tapestry

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Figure Stirrup Spout Jar

date: 2nd–5th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Necklace

date: probably 19th century

medium: cotton, metal, amber, turquoise, carnelian

country: Moroccan

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: 4 of Collars, from The Cloisters Playing Cards

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

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-paper
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1983


title: Scarab Inscribed for the God's Wife Hatshepsut, Living

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


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

date: 6th century BCE

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


title: Caricatured figure / Bright's Disease, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Ladle

creator: William Hollingshead

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: The Flagellation of Christ

medium: Gold, silver, partly enameled gold, gilt-silver frame

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Design for a Jardiniere

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache

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


title: Major John Biddle

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of General John Biddle, 1924


title: Libation Cup

medium: Porcelain painted in polychrome enamels

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1964


title: Smoker's tongs

date: 18th century

medium: Iron

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


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


title: La Madeleine

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1944


title: Costume Design for "Orlando"

creator: Charles Bianchini

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor, over graphite underdrawing

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Robert R. Banks, 1969


title: Woman's Informal Jacket with Antiquities in Medallions

medium: Embroidered gauze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Theodore Y. Hobby, 1963


title: Standing cup

creator: Jean-Valentin Morel

medium: Rock crystal, silver gilt, enamel, pearls

subjects:
Metalwork-silverplate
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1997


title: Greek Lovers

creator: Asher Brown Durand

medium: Engraving

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


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: The Castle of Cards

creator: Nicolas Bernard Lépicié

medium: Etching and engraving

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Rudolph T. Lux

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Purchase, Alan E. Salz Gift, 1984


title: Galloon

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Vase

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Terracotta rim fragment with boss

date: ca. 4000 BCE

country: Greek Neolithic

subjects:
Vase
Greek neolithic

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: Halberd Blade with Tubular Socket

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of Douglas Dillon, 2001


title: Capitol of Delaware in Dover, from the General Government and State Capitol Buildings series (N14) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Woman in a garden

creator: Ren Xiong

date: mid-19th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Rosary bead

date: early 16th century

medium: Ivory

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


title: Flagon

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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

creator: Nikosthenes Painter

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Toilet box containing four smaller boxes

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, Mazarin blue ground with gold decoration


title: Storming the Camp at Mount Gadan

creator: Jacques Philippe Le Bas

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; mold blown, tooled on the pontil

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


title: Bratina with cover

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 1642 original

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Terracotta pyxis (box with lid)

date: ca 750 BCE

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Abraham, 1967


title: Earring, delta-shaped with beads

medium: Gold, silver

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


title: A Garden Party, from the Jokes series (N87) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Fame (one of a pair)

creator: Pierre Jean David d'Angers

medium: Terracotta

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Card Number 45, Emma Abbott, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Upper part of a lion's head

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Wood

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Pouch

date: third quarter 19th century

medium: Glass, linen, cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Ferdinand Coudert, 1962


title: Seated limestone kourotrophos

date: late 6th or early 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Toe fragment

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


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: A Man in Tyrolean Costume, Seated, Smoking a Pipe

creator: Théodore Valerio

medium: Graphite, heightened with touches of watercolor, and white on beige, textured, wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 1996


title: Dress

date: late 19th century

medium: cotton, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

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


title: Xiao

date: 18th or 19th centuries

medium: Jade

country: Chinese

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1987


title: Terracotta rim fragment of an open shape

date: 6th–4th centuries BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


title: Fibula

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


title: Sutra Cover

date: 17th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Drawing after a Lithograph of a Recumbent Lion.

creator: Antonio Canova

medium: Brush and black and gray wash, graphite and black chalk

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


title: Plate II, from "History of Porcelain"

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics

creator: Rudolph Ackermann, London

medium: Illustrations: etching, engraving, aquatint, woodcut, hand-coloring, fabric samples

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942


title: St. John the Evangelist

creator: Capodimonte Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1971


title: Purse

medium: silk, metal

country: European

credit_line: Purchase, Judith and Gerson Leiber Fund, 1986


title: Papyrus Fragment of a Letter

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus with ink

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: A Downpour on the Boulevard des Italiens

creator: Edmond Morin

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Tetiaroa - Un lagon des Paumotu

creator: Charles Spitz

medium: Albumen print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: 36 Medallions

date: second half 15th century

medium: Silver gilt and basse-taille enamel on silver

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Shabti of Siptah

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Piece (one of 116)

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ruinae Coliseum, from "Roman Ruins"

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: I had come to London to see a royal, but I only saw the back of another person's head, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Yvonne Möen Cumerford, 1965


title: Polishing wheel for carving jade

date: 20th century

medium: Dried gourd peel

subjects: Gourd China

credit_line: Gift of Joan Hartman-Goldsmith, 1981


title: Pharmacy Jar

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Magnolia and Mynahs

creator: Wang Li

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

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


title: Minnie Palmer in the Modern Costume of a Swiss Peasant, from the set Actors and Actresses, First Series (N70) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Ce est ung tractat de la noble art de leguille ascavoir ouvraiges de spaigne... page 3 (verso)

creator: Willem Vosterman

date: after 1527

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Mary M. Greenwood, in memory of Eliza Rudd Greenwood, 1953


title: Rectangular tray with flowering plums and magpies

date: 14th century

medium: Black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Sauceboat

medium: Porcelain

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alan W. Carrick, 1967


title: Nymph

creator: Polly

medium: Plaster

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: Prick Spur

date: 13th century

medium: Iron alloy

country: German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
German

credit_line: Gift of Christian A. Zabriskie, 1936


title: Tobacco box

date: 18th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Bi-conical glass bead

date: ca. 4th century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Possibly Carthaginian

subjects:
Glass
Possibly carthaginian


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: early–mid-1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Hexagonal dish (part of a set)

creator: Paulus Roth

date: second half 17th century

medium: Gilded silver

credit_line: Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education, New York, in memory of Nicolas M. Salgo, 2010


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Syrup Jug

medium: Parian porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Charles W. Green, 1947


title: Basket


medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Terracotta hydria (water jar)

creator: Orpheus Painter

date: ca. 430 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


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: Earring

medium: Gold

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1933


title: A Bivouac

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Seated, Bearded Man Holding a Banderole

creator: Paolo Farinati

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1986


title: Earring with hook and eye

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


title: Glass jar

date: 3rd–4th century CE

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Norman Jacobson, 1983


title: Saucer

date: first half of the 19th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze famille rose enamels, rose pink glaze on reverse

subjects: Ceramic China Roses

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Card Number 561, Kiralfys Black Crook, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Box

creator: Shibata Zeshin

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: Dhumavati

creator: Sasadhar Banarjee

medium: Lithograph with black ink, watercolor, and glaze on paper

country: India, Kolkata, West Bengal

subjects:
Print
India, kolkata, west bengal

credit_line: Purchase, The Kipper Family Foundation Gift, 2021


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-velvet


title: Gaming purse

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk, metallic, leather

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: Trionfo Di Virtu. Libro Novo..., page 21 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Corbel with Two Men with Legs in the Mouth of Two Beasts

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1935


title: Hautbois de Poitou

medium: Wood

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: On the New York and New Haven Railroad, from the Snapshots from "Puck" series (N128) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Footed bowl

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Silver

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: In Memory and Honor of William Pitt, the Younger

creator: Webb

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Wait, 1907


title: George Washington and William Lee (George Washington)

creator: John Trumbull

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Shaft Section

medium: Stone

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: “Umezawa Manor in Sagami Province,” from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei, Sōshū Umezawa zai)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Relief preserving part of a scene with King Mentuhotep and Queen Neferu

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: first half of the fifth century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Rapids and Fall of a River

creator: Hashimoto Gahō

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Charles Stewart Smith Collection, Gift of Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith, Charles Stewart Smith Jr., and Howard Caswell Smith, in memory of Charles Stewart Smith, 1914


title: The Laotian Goddess Ki Mao Sao and Worshippers

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Primrose: Flirtation, from the series Floral Beauties and Language of Flowers (N75) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: American Tobacco Company

subjects: Print Flowers

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


title: The Nativity

creator: Antoniazzo Romano (Antonio di Benedetto Aquilio)

medium: Tempera on wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Peace and Plenty or Good News for John Bull!!!

creator: George Cruikshank

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Wineglass

medium: Glass

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


title: "You Are Really Picturesque, My Love" (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. V)

creator: Winslow Homer

date: June 1868

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo with Drawn Sword

creator: Katsukawa Shunkō

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Bacchanal

creator: Louis Félix de La Rue

date: mid-18th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1957


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Landscape in Moonlight

creator: Kano Tan'yū

date: after 1662

medium: One of a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

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: Actor Matsumoto Koshiro II as Uiro-uri (Peddler of Sweet Cakes Called Uiro)

creator: Ippitsusai Bunchō

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


title: Jack of Hearts, from the Playing Cards series (N84) to promote Turkish Cross-Cut Cigarettes for W. Duke, Sons and Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Sherd

date: ca. 6th–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Glass miniature one-handled jug

date: 1st–5th century CE

country: Roman or later

subjects:
Glass
Roman or later

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881


title: Wintry Landscape with Trees

creator: Urakami Shunkin (ASA)

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes Trees

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


title: Basket, divided to hold three bottles

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Basketry

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

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


title: Ring Weight

date: 7th–9th century


title: Parasol

medium: [no medium available]

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. R. E. Rose, 1942


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Pnyx and Acroplis

creator: George Wilson Bridges

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Minoan

subjects: Vase Minoan

credit_line: Gift of the American Exploration Society, 1907


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: People of the Five Nations

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

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

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Senwosret (?), Oil jar

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Scene from the Chushihgura (Vendetta of the 47 Loyal Retailers)

creator: Torii Kiyomine

medium: Triptych of monochrome woodblock prints; ink on paper

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


date: 3rd quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Sea Monster

date: 1st–6th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Judith Riklis, 1983


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Pouring vessel with handle

medium: Red lacquer and exposed wood (Negoro ware)

subjects:
Lacquer
Japan
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2020


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

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


title: Silver handle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Silver

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Crochet Work

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Prescribed by the New York City to the Mexican Volunteers

creator: Charles Cushing Wright

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wait, 1907


title: Sites of the Eastern Capital at a Glance (Tōto shōkei ichiran), facsimile version by the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

creator: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

date: 20th century.

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

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: Bull

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1924


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Portrait of Qianlong Emperor As a Young Man

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


title: Crescent-Shaped Ax Head (Chandrasa)

date: ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Indonesia

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

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


title: Itabana Station

creator: Keisai Eisen

date: late 1830s

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Landscape with Birds

date: 16th century?

subjects: Painting China Birds Landscapes

credit_line: From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Leaf from a Manuscript of Valerius Maximus

creator: Workshop of Pierre Remiet

medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
French

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1930


title: Dove on the Wing with Olive Branch

creator: George Gammon Adams

medium: Wax on slate

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, 1976


title: New Parisian butcher's shop, from 'Sketches of the day,' published in Le Charivari, April 22, 1865

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1954


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Textile

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven


title: Heart Scarab of Pakasha

medium: Mottled green stone

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Maximilian Armet

medium: Steel, leather, copper alloy

country: German, probably Augsburg

subjects:
Helmet
German, probably augsburg

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Adze blade

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: James Edward "Tip" O'Neill, Left Field, St. Louis Browns, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Vase with entwined dragon

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels, and relief decoration with dark blue glaze and gilt (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Enthroned Virgin and Child

medium: Limewood with original paint and gilding

country: Mosan or Lower-Rhenish

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
Mosan or lower-rhenish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 2002


title: Design for a Clock with Neptune

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite, watercolor, gouache, and gold gilt

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


title: Bag

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1929


title: Panel

date: late 15th century

medium: Red pine, gilding and polychromy

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co. Inc., in memory of Joseph Breck, 1934


title: The Pharisee and the Publican (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

creator: Sir John Everett Millais

medium: Wood engraving; proof

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Sealing fragment

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Wild Turkey, from the Game Birds series (N40) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds


title: Enigmes Joyeuses pour les Bons Esprits

creator: Jan van Haelbeeck

medium: Copper engravings

credit_line: Mary Oenslager Fund, 2016


title: Two Designs for Tables with Shelves and Dividers

medium: Graphite and watercolor on wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Ogden Codman, 1951


title: Token of Ulysses S. Grant

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Visit of a Clergyman to Bastide, Sausion, and Collard

creator: Sébastien Coeuré

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Terracotta cup

date: ca. 100 CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

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


title: Sheepshead, from the Fish from American Waters series (N8) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects: Fish Print


title: Battling Marine Deities

creator: The Saracchi, Milan

medium: Rock crystal

subjects:
Minerals & gems
Natural substances-rock crystal

credit_line: The F.O. Matthiessen Collection, Gift of Mrs. Emma Matthiessen, in memory of her husband, 1904


title: Vesta Victoria, 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: Belt

date: late 19th century

medium: wool, metal

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


title: Card Number 219, Sutherland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: The Croquet Players

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Conté crayon, on tan wove paper

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Statuette of a bird (dove)

subjects: Terracotta Birds


title: String of carnelian, beryl and steatite drop beads

medium: Carnelian, beryl, steatite

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


title: Bowl with a bull

medium: Pottery, black and red paint

credit_line: Gift of N. de Garis Davies, 1913


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: The Doubting Thomas, from "The Small Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919


title: Teacup and Saucer

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

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


title: Glass mosaic face bead

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Egyptian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, egyptian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Fish hook

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Vase with cover (vase de coté de Paris) (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Portrait of Rikyū (?)

creator: Shibata Zeshin

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan Portraits

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


title: A young girl, seen from behind, lifting a rabbit into the air for a dog above to grasp, another dog at her feet, from "Ornaments or Grotesques" (Ornamenti o Grottesche)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Glass beaker signed by Jason

date: mid–1st century CE

country: Roman, Syro-Palestinian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syro-palestinian

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


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


title: A Sacrifice

creator: Giovanni Francesco Venturini

date: 17th century

medium: Etching and engraving


title: Watch

creator: Karl Schmidt

medium: Gilt metal, silver

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Andrew Bernard "Barney" Gilligan, Catcher, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Foolish Knowledge and Foolish Love Trying to Restrain the World, from The Unrestrained World, plate 2

creator: Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

medium: Etching and Engraving; first state of two (New Hollstein)

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Pansy with hidden silhouettes

creator: Anonymous

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Dress border

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Crucifixion

creator: Pietro Lorenzetti

medium: Tempera and gold leaf on wood

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift and Gwynne Andrews Fund, 2002


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Head from a statuette, perhaps of  a dwarf

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Netsuke of Owl and Two Owlets

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: [Soldier Aiming Rifle]

creator: Unknown

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert Ingersoll Aitken, 1951


title: Duke, 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: Ring

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Mantel

date: probably late 15th century

medium: Marble

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Gift of James W. Barney, 1946


title: Épinette des Vosges

creator: Amant Constant (Amé) Lambert

medium: Wood, metal

subjects: Chordophone-zither-plucked French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Priest's Robe (Shichijō)

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Shell Ornaments

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

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


title: The First Race Course, Horse-Dealer's Street

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: What a joy to be a voter!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, May 5, 1870

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1954


title: Portrait of Anna Hallerin

subjects: Sculpture-miniature Portraits

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Vase with flowers

date: 19th century

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

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

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


title: Tankard

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Cradleboard

medium: Wood, rawhide, pigment

country: Mohawk

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


title: Hugh Duffy, Shortstop, Chicago, 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: Arion

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three (Bocher)

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


title: Page of Calligraphy from an Anthology of Poetry by Sa`di and Hafiz

creator: Sa'di

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

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Figure of a Standing Man with a Long Kilt

medium: Wood, paint

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Deer—Sketch from Nature

creator: Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Darwin S. Morse, 1963


title: Saint Philip

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

country: Austrian

subjects: Glass-stained Austrian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1965


title: Apollo standing a beside a woman representing an allegory of painting, from "The Loves of the Gods"

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Glass krater (mixing bowl)

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek

subjects: Glass Greek


title: Rebecca at the Well

medium: Silk and wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Door Plate

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Equestrian figure of a hussar officer

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Half Figure of a Woman

creator: Thomas Blanchet

medium: Red chalk heightened with white

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Lower end of a pilaster

medium: Oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Funerary Cone of Pa-ba-sa

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Norman de Garis Davies, 1930


title: Kneeling Monk

creator: Denijs Calvaert

date: mid-16th–early 17th century

medium: Black and white chalk on blue paper

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, Frits and Rita Markus Fund, Harry G. Sperling Fund, and Susan H. Seidel Gift, 2007


title: Masqueraders

creator: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Brush washer in the shape of a peach

medium: Overlay glass

country: China

subjects: Glass China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2017


title: Crouching Tiger Figure

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1928


title: Eye inlay from coffin

date: 664–525 BCE or later

medium: Faience, black glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Toby Jug

medium: Parian porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Charles W. Green, 1947


title: Ängste (Fears) from Ein Handschuh (A Glove). Cyclus von zehn Compositionen radirt. Rad. Opus VI, Plate VII. First edition

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching, drypoint and aquatint on chine collé; first edition

credit_line: Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2009


title: Bowl

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Belt fitting

date: mid-7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: Northwest China/Eastern Central Asia

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china/eastern central asia

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Folding Fan with Scene of Figures in a Landscape

date: mid-18th century

medium: Paper, ivory, and mother-of-pearl

subjects: Fans Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Pretiosa Gemma delle virtuose donne, title page (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Design for a Bracket and Rod for Drapery

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash and watercolor

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


title: Japan, from Flags of All Nations, Series 1 (N9) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Chair

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Spheroconical Vessel

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; incised and unglazed

subjects:
Ceramic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Disk Brooch

date: first half 7th century

medium: Gold, filigree green and blue glass

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Covered Ways inside the Rebel Fort Mahone, Called by the Soldiers "Fort Damnation," Petersburgh, Virginia

creator: Thomas C. Roche

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Esemplario di lavori, page 14 (verso)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1529

medium: Woodcut (pages inlaid, modern vellum binding)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Card Number 229, Edith Kingdon, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Two Dancers

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Charcoal and white chalk on green commercially coated wove paper

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


title: Rocky Mountain Sheep, from the Wild Animals of the World series (N25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Border of woven silk

creator: Philippe de Lasalle

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1950


title: [Self-Portrait in Eastern Costume]

creator: Charles Nègre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph
Portraits

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift, 2005


title: The Triumph of Marcus Aurelius

creator: Nicolas Beatrizet

medium: Engraving; first state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Altar bell with Portuguese heads

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-musical instrument
Edo people

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, 1991


title: Necklace

date: 13th–16th century

country: Colombia

subjects: Colombia Beads-ornament

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1891


title: Benjamin Franklin

creator: François Denis Née

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Punch Glass

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Blown glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Aryballos (perfume jar) in the shape of a hedgehog

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: Relief block depicting plucking and roasting fowl and herds crossing water

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Mask (Sōmen) with Gorget

medium: Iron, lacquer, textile

country: Japanese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: The Madonna and Child in the Courtyard

creator: Martin Schongauer

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg


title: Tartar Officer with Blond Lady

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Bow-fronted cabinet

medium: Painted and varnished pine, ivory knobs on drawers

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


title: Schnapps glass (one of twelve)

medium: Glass, enamel

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Mary, Queen of Scots, and her secretary, Chatelard (frontispiece, from "The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine," volume 5)

creator: Thomas Doney

medium: Mezzotint

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1958


title: The Round Dance, or Rays of Sunlight

creator: Anne-François-Louis Janmot

medium: Black chalk, graphite, charcoal, wax crayon, brush and wash

credit_line: Purchase, 1998


title: Cupid and dolphin

medium: Languedoc marble and lead

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1961


title: Helmet of the Montefortino Type

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE; cheekpieces, modern

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Helmet Etruscan

credit_line: Gift of Malcolm Wiener, 2015


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Card Number 143, Sutherland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sealing wax case (étui)

medium: Gold and enamel

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Mammals


title: Piece

date: late 18th century (?)

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Actress wearing tall feathered hat, from the Actresses series (N668)


title: Initial letter S

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 15th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Harness or bridle fitting

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

country: Scythian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: "Belmead", James River, Virginia: Entrance façade and west-east section (recto); North-south section and upper floorplan (verso)

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Watercolor and ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Portions of a Ceremonial Armor

medium: Steel, copper alloy, gold, leather, textile

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor for man-1/2 armor
French

credit_line: armor: Gift of Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1950; mail sleeves: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Bequest of Bashford Dean, 1928


title: Memoir prepared at the request of the Committee of the Common Canal of the City of New York and Presented to the Mayor of the City at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals

creator: Cadwallader David Colden

medium: Illustrations: lithographs

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Night (The Four Times of Day)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Engraving; second state of two

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Étui

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Cap

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Miss Jean A. Lemberg, 1943


title: Old Peasant Couple

date: probably 19th century in imitation of 18th century mode

medium: Ivory, carved wood pedestal

credit_line: Gift of Alfred and Victoria Harris, 1976


title: Panel Illustrating Feminine Virtue: The Art of Cooking

creator: Lin Yuncai

date: 17th century

medium: Soapstone, satin, papier-maché

subjects: Soapstone China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1933


title: Schön newes Modelbuch (Page 86r)

creator: Sigismundus Latomus


title: Glass pendant in the form of a jug

date: 4th–early 5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Exhibition Sleigh #4200

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Photograph mounted on board

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

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


title: The Haybarn with Movable Roof

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Sketching No. 1

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint on cream chine collé; third state of six (Glasgow)

credit_line: Bequest of Julia H. Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1960


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Embroidered coverlet

creator: Mary Breed

medium: Wool embroidery on linen/cotton

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Pulidor (polishing stone) (?)

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Peruvian (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Peruvian

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Dress

creator: Mme. Martin Decalf

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Jane Curtiss Breed, 1946, through James McVickar Breed


title: Wave

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Silk and wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909