title: [A View in Calcutta Including the Buildings of Payne and Co., the Mountain Hotel, and Scott and Co.]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Parrot

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

rights_statement: Public Domain — released under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) via The Met Open Access.

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: Hinged Earclip with Shankha Mofif

date: ca. 13th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: St. Andrew

creator: Martin Schongauer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Buckle

date: second half 7th century

medium: Bronze

country: Byzantine, found around Naples, Italy

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Byzantine, found around naples, italy

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Distant View of Miho Beach from Ejiri

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Pocket

medium: Linen

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Hume, 1968


title: Procession of satyrs and draped figures leading two goats and cow to sacrifice, at right the figure of Pan stands on a rocky pedestal, from a series of twelve frieze-like designs showing bacchanals, sacrifices, and dances

creator: Pierre Brebiette

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Shoes

medium: leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick Street Hoppin, 1963


title: Statue of the Goddess Sakhmet

medium: Granodiorite

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1915


title: Wine Bottle

date: 19th century

medium: Clay with thin salt glaze (Bizen ware, Imbe style)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Covered Seal-Ink Box

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Porcelain with peach-bloom glaze

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Halved Variant Designs for an Altar with the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception in the Central Cartouche

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash over graphite; ruled and compass constructions in stylus-incised; partly reworked in pen and black ink

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1965


title: [Parade of New York Firefighters Traveling to Washington, D. C. for the Inauguration of President James Buchanan]

creator: Charles DeForest Fredricks

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift and funds from Various Donors, Acquisitions Benefit, 2026


title: Pedestal

date: 5th–6th century

medium: High fired pottery

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997


title: L'Europe Allarmée

creator: Romeyn de Hooghe

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


title: "The Farewell"

creator: Johannes Riepenhausen

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Graphite, red chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Van Day Truex Fund and C. G. Boerner Gift, 2008


title: The concierge the day after, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, January 1, 1867

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: January 1, 1867

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Piece

date: 17th 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: Lily Howard, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects: Photograph Lilies

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Strip

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

creator: Muhammad al-Zanjani

date: dated 531 AH/1137 CE

medium: Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and Rogers Fund, 1996


title: Cabinet Design

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

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


title: Abdul Hamid, Sultan of Turkey, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-2) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Burial of the Dead, Fredericksburg

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: The Flagellation, from "The Passion of Christ"

creator: Ludovicus Siceram

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: The Foot Hang, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Architectural Capriccio: Courtyard of a Palace

creator: Francesco Guardi

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Piccolo in D-flat

date: early 19th century

medium: Wood, silver

country: French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Minnie Hauk, from World's Beauties, Series 2 (N27) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: St Margaret holding a palm in her raised left hand, a dragon at her right

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

subjects: Print Palms

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


title: Pataikos Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Portrait of General Horace Sebastiani

creator: Horace Vernet

medium: Lithograph; first state of two

subjects: Print Portraits


title: Garden at the English Consulate, Canton

creator: John Thomson

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


title: Bowl

date: 12th–13th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Design for Landau, No. 3075

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: God of longevity

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Funerary Cone

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1949


title: Demerara, from the Races of Mankind series (T181) issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes

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


title: Terracotta statuette of Hyakinthos on a swan

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Behemoth and Leviathan

creator: William Blake

credit_line: Gift of Edward Bement 1917


title: Panel

date: 16th century

medium: Carved walnut

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Title Plate with Blackwork Design

creator: Andreas Gentzsch

medium: Engraving and blackwork

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: The Old Woman, from "The Dance of Death"

creator: Hans Holbein the Younger

date: ca. 1526, published 1538

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Hammered Silver Rattle Beaker

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-container
Peru; north coast

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


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 17r)

creator: Peter Quentel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Tobias Takes Leave of his Father

creator: Ferdinand Anton Krüger

medium: Steel engraving

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2007


title: Hydria

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Bronze dagger

medium: Bronze, copper, silver

country: Minoan

subjects: Bronze Minoan

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: The War for the Union, 1862 – A Bayonet Charge (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. VII)

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Wall Decoration with Allegorical Figure of Riches

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Gift of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1961


title: Plate 15: The Death of Abimelech, from "The Battles of the Old Testament"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

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


title: Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: docket

date: ca. 1745 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: probably French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Probably french

credit_line: Gift of Karl Lagerfeld, 2015


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Cup with Handle

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: The Outer Harbor of Brest

creator: Henri Joseph van Blarenberghe

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Vincent Astor, 1978


title: Plume

creator: North Coast artist(s)

medium: Gold

country: Inca (?)

subjects: Metal-ornament Inca

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


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 36 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Odes of the State of Bin: The Seventh Month

creator: Fei Qinghu (Fei Zhaoyang)

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Album of twenty leaves; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021


title: Fragment of a Bowl or Cup

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Jack A. Josephson, 1973


title: Textile fragment with birds and floral pattern

date: late 8th–9th century

medium: Silk twill damask

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
China
Birds
Flowers
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Hotung, Brooke Astor, and Barbara and William Karatz Gifts, 1998


title: Inlay depicting the squatting god Anhur (Onuris) facing right

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Hydria, miniature

date: 6th century BCE

subjects: Vase Greek

credit_line: Gift of Henry S. Washington, 1919


title: The Young Virgin

creator: Francisco de Zurbarán

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Small Pellet Crossbow, probably for a Woman or Child

medium: Steel, wood (probably walnut and ebony), gold

country: probably Italian

subjects:
Archery equipment-crossbow
Probably italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Bowl with cover (perfume burner)

creator: Angelo de' Rossi

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Gypsum; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Brocade Fragment with Plumed Figure

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Chimú

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chimú
Textiles-woven


title: Design for a Cartouche with an Oval Compartment

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and gray wash, over black chalk (?); framing lines in brown ink

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


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


title: [Tomb, Barrackpore]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE


title: Handkerchief

medium: silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Eva Vida, 2009


title: Border

date: early 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Group R

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Miniature tankard

creator: David Clayton

date: late 18th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Young Saint John the Baptist

creator: Mino da Fiesole (Mino di Giovanni)

medium: Marble

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: The Pedestal of the Central Portal with Figures of Two  Archdukes of Austria, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

creator: Hans Springinklee

medium: Woodcut; proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Design for Three Sets of Shelves

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China


title: Textile with Partial Wheel

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Resist-dyed plain-weave silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-dyed

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


title: Cuffs

medium: Linen

country: Belgian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James Lowe, 1961


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

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


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

date: second half of the 6th century BCE


title: Vest

medium: silk, wool, linen

country: probably British

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


title: Effie Shannon, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: How to Vault in the Saddle or a New Invented Patent Crane for the Accomodation or Rheumatic Rump'd Rectors

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 30, 1813

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: A Squall at Trouville

creator: Félix-Hilaire Buhot

medium: Etching, aquatint, and roulette; fourth of seven states

credit_line: Purchase, Anne Stern Gift, 1976


title: Singing Couples and Violin

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Netsuke of Recumbent Tiger

date: 19th century

medium: Boxwood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Trumpet

date: late 19th century

medium: Ivory, wood, rattan

country: Melanesian (New Caledonia)

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Melanesian (new caledonia)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Ceremonial ewer

medium: Silver, gilt; embossed, chased and engraved

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2013


title: Ornament in the Shape of a Stag

medium: Bronze

country: Northeast China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Northeast china

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


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace

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


title: At Sea—Signalling a Passing Steamer (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series)

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Collar

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Jane Van Vleck, 1942


title: Hum-Bug (P. T. Barnum), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

creator: Henry Louis Stephens

medium: Color lithograph with watercolor and gum

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


title: Piece

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: Reading in Bed (The Slipper)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, printed in black ink on fine laid paper; second state of two (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Lady Arranging Binsashi (Support for the Hair over the Temples) to put in Her Hair

creator: Torii Kiyomine

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Marble sarcophagus fragment: marriage scene

date: early 3rd century CE

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


creator: Makron


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: A skeleton frightening a man holding newspapers

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

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

medium: Zincograph

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: Actress wearing hat with pink and green feathers, from Stars of the Stage, Fourth Series (N132) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Birth and Baptismal Certificate

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1933


title: Mirror with Handle in the Form of a Hathor Emblem

medium: Disk: silver; handle: wood (modern) sheathed in gold (ancient)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919, 1920


title: Head of an Apostle

creator: Anthony van Dyck

medium: Black and white chalk on blue paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Janos Scholz, 1952


title: Band

medium: Drawnwork, linen

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1906


title: Seated female figure

medium: Gypsum alabaster

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Gifts of Lucy W. Drexel, Theodore M. Davis, Helen Miller Gould, Albert Gallatin, Egypt Exploration Fund and Egyptian Research Account, by exchange, 1950


title: Watch

creator: George Guignard

medium: Gold, enamel, crystal, silver, jewels

subjects:
Horology
Minerals & gems

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


title: Bush Warbler on a Plum Branch (Ume ni uguisu)

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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


title: Bannerstone, Double-Bitted Axe

medium: Shale

country: Archaic

subjects: Stone-ornament Archaic

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Hemp and wool

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: "Man's Fate or the Man Taking Refuge in a Well Inhabited by a Dragon", 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: Wine-Set for the New Year Ceremony

creator: Kubo Shunman


title: Vase with cover

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory Ltd., 1972


title: Skyphos

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1980


title: Landscape with a Battle between Two Rams

creator: Jan Miel

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Princess Brancaccio, 1893


title: Design for T-Cart, no. 3615

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Ace of Spades, from the Transparent Playing Cards series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: The Serpent of Airan

creator: Pierre Hubert Subleyras

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Snuff bottle with women and children in a garden

medium: Amber with coral stopper

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Quae Genus Committed, with a Riotous Dancing Party, to the Watch-House

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 1, 1821

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Design for Cabriolet (?) Phaeton, no. 3225a

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache


title: View on the Creek, Nagasaki, Japan

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Henderson, Pitcher, Brooklyn, 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: Cassetta frame

date: mid-16th century

medium: Pine

country: Italian, Veneto

subjects:
Frame
Italian, veneto

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Plan and Elevations of a Room

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, graphite, watercolor

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Anne of Austria with the Young Louis XIV and Monsieur before the Virgin and Child (Anne d'Autriche déposant le régence du royaume de France entre les mains de la Vierge Marie)

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving


title: Tureen with Landscape

date: late 17th century

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

subjects: Ceramic Japan Landscapes

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


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Tucker Factory

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Laurence Eyre, 1958


title: Rosettes -- see 26.8.117a

medium: Gold, gesso, carnelian, jasper, glass

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1966


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Six miniature cups (part of a set)

creator: David Clayton

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Pottery Fragment

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware, slip decoration

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Cup (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield Foundation, 1951


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Garuda Finial

date: ca. late 12th century

medium: Gilt bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Sculpture Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Amulet of Tutu

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Armchair

medium: Maple, ash

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: A Visit to the Uncle

date: December 20, 1794

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 24 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Spoon

creator: E. Whitehouse

medium: Pewter

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


title: Woman and child seated, wrapped in a veil

creator: Baron Dominique Vivant Denon

date: 18th–early 19th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Coin with Sign of Cancer

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Earthenware; incised decoration under green glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Hidden Door covered with a Mirror in the Trianon Palace, plate V from "Portes a Placard et Lambris"

creator: Jean Le Pautre

date: 17th century

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Philadelphia, from the City Flags series (N6) 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: Cap

medium: Cotton

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


title: Sample

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Samuel Bernard (1651–1739)

creator: Guillaume Coustou the Elder

medium: Marble

credit_line: Purchase, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation Inc. Gift and Charles Ulrick and Josephine Bay Foundation Inc. Gift, 1966


title: Pierrot

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Judith

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Plate 19: Men from the Fortress Surrender and Pledge Their Lives to Civilis, 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: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Bag

medium: Silk on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1930


title: Claret Glass

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Key

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Tea Caddy

creator: Simeon Soumaine

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Nancy Dunn Revocable Trust Gift, 2015


title: Bentside Spinet

creator: Thomas Hitchcock

medium: Wood, various materials

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Miniature vase

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain with crackled glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Poet strolling by a marshy bank

creator: Liang Kai

date: early 13th century

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

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Teabowl

creator: Raku Tannyu

medium: Clay partly covered with a shiny black glaze

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Flanged Ax

medium: Bronze

country: Irish

credit_line: Gift of H. C. Levis, 1923


title: Enigmes Joyeuses pour les Bons Esprits, Plate 4

creator: Jan van Haelbeeck

medium: Copper engraving

credit_line: Mary Oenslager Fund, 2016


title: Hercules slaying the Hydra

medium: Wood

credit_line: Bequest of Fannie F. Einstein, in memory of Emanuel Einstein, 1917


title: The Engraver's Instruments

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

medium: Etching

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


title: Vase (part of a garniture)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Gift of Winfield Foundation, 1951


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

creator: Ambrosios Painter


title: A bacchante seen in profile facing left, with outstretched left arm holding her drapery, set against a black background inside a rectangular frame

creator: Antonio Ricciani

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Hubbard, 1941


title: Josie A. Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Broadsheet celebrating one of the founders of the Mexican Revolution, Francisco Madero, shown in a suit and top hat pointing to the phrases 'Que Si' and 'Que No'

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Two Horses

creator: Francesco Allegrini

medium: Pen and brown ink; framing lines in pen and brown ink on mount

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Lion Bracelet of Sithathoryunet

medium: Gold, amethyst

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and Henry Walters Gift, 1916


title: Tile

date: first quarter 17th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Fragment

date: 12th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

country: Japan

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


title: Cravat

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the estate of Sarah B. Russell, 1956


title: Back Heel, L.P.R., Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith, from the Boxing Positions and Boxers series (N266) issued by P. Lorillard Company to promote Red Cross Long Cut Tobacco

creator: P. Lorillard Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Carpet

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Drawers

medium: cotton

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Millia Davenport, 1962


title: Plate 7 from 'The collection of the most notable things seen by John Wilkins, erudite English bishop, on his famous trip from the Earth to the Moon... (Raccolta delle cose più notabili Vedute da Giovanni Wilkins erudito Vescove Inglese nel suo famoso viaggio dalla Terra alla Luna...): 'Pumpkins used as dwellings to secure against wild beasts' (Zucche che servono d'abitazioni per garantirsi dalle fiere)

creator: Filippo Morghen

date: after 1783

medium: Etching and aquatint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)

creator: Painter of London E 317

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Bowl

medium: Blown pattern-molded lead glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: Card Number 5, cut-out from banner advertising the Opera Gloves series (G29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Christ Crowned with Thorns (copy)

creator: H. Johnston

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Vessel with footed base

creator: Tellem artist

date: 14th century

country: Tellem peoples

subjects:
Tellem people
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Lester Wunderman, 1977


title: Decorative Roundel

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Marble (Carrera marble from Carrera (Italy))

country: Italian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Sculpture-architectural
Italian


title: (From Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Electro–Physiologie, Figure 64

creator: Adrien Tournachon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation Gift, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors, 2012


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on felt


title: The Happy Family

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Jean Mauzé, 1974


title: Une maîtresse de maison du marais..., from Les Comédiens de Société, published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Still Life with Lobster and Fruit

creator: Abraham van Beyeren

date: probably early 1650s

medium: Oil on wood

subjects: Painting Crustaceans Fruits

credit_line: Gift of Edith Neuman de Végvár, in honor of her husband, Charles Neuman de Végvár, 1971


title: Covered box

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Stoneware with marblized body and brown glaze (jiaotai ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Amphoriskos

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Trionfo Di Virtu. Libro Novo..., page 13 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Offerings of Cain and Abel

creator: Leonardus Quesi

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk on cardboard

credit_line: Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Abergele, Tan-yr-ogo Cave

creator: Francis Bedford

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


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of silver disbursements, Egibi archive

date: ca. 6th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1879


title: Handle of a Cosmetic Spoon in the Form of a Leopard

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Standing Ganesha

date: second half 7th century

medium: Stone

country: Cambodia

subjects: Sculpture Cambodia

credit_line: Rogers, Louis V. Bell and Fletcher Funds, 1982


title: Hat

creator: Caulier

medium: (a) silk; (b, c) paper

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, NAMSB Foundation Inc. Gift, 1994


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Cupid Seated on a Cloud and Holding a Palm (?)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Emilian, mid-16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Palms

credit_line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887


title: Bottle

date: 18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite

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


title: Rope Jar Sling

medium: Reed rope

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


title: Brown-Eared Bulbul (Hiyodori) on a Branch of Plum

creator: Kano Shōei

date: mid- to late 16th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Fishbein-Bender Collection, Gift of T. Richard Fishbein and Estelle P. Bender, 2013


title: Miniature mountains representing the mythical realm Penglai

medium: Emerald

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Adam kneels in grief beside the body of Abel, while Cain flees in the background

creator: Frédéric Horthemels

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960


title: Marble stele (grave marker) of a youth and a little girl

date: ca. 530 BCE

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911; Rogers Fund, 1921; and Anonymous Gift, 1951


title: Plate 44: Men with heraldic flags and horses from Carinthia and Styria marching in the funeral procession of Archduke Albert of Austria; from 'Pompa Funebris ... Alberti Pii'

creator: Cornelis Galle I

medium: Etching with hand coloring


title: Bowl

date: 19th–mid-19th century

medium: Pottery covered with crackled glaze and decorated over the glaze in enamels and gold (Satsuma ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Mold for a Scarab

medium: Pottery


title: Madonna in Glory with Two Saints

creator: Anonymous, Italian, late 16th century

date: late 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; highlighted with white (mostly oxidized)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman


title: Belt Plaque with Three Ibex

date: 2nd–1st century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Northwest China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Earrings

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: metal

country: European, Eastern


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 4 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Cuneiform tablet: genre uncertain

medium: Clay

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: The Bridge of the Gal (Gard)

creator: Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Sealing


title: Pendant with ram's head

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Edo people

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


title: Name Stone of Hatshepsut

medium: Quartzite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Siphoning Tube

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Christ as the Man of Sorrows with the Instruments of the Passion.

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

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


title: Zweite Zukunft from Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk  III)

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching and aquatint; eighth state of eight

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of A. G. Raskin, 1963


title: Pricket Candlestick

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: Italian (?)

subjects: Metalwork-iron Italian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1938


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sari

date: 19th century

medium: silk, metal thread

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear
India

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1958


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Fringe

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Earring (One of a Pair)

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Gold

country: Korea

subjects: Jewelry Korea

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943


title: Buddhist Ascetic

creator: Chantilly

medium: Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Andiron

medium: Brass, steel

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1948


title: Free Trade and Protection

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of  A. S. Colgate, 1952


title: Neptune and Amphitrite

creator: Pierre Brebiette

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Collar

medium: Linen

country: Belgian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Helen A. Hanks, 1956


title: King Edward I (1239–1307) and Queen Eleanor (1241–1290)

creator: Charles Rossi, R.A.

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, by exchange, Gift of Frank Partridge, by exchange, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, by exchange, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood, by exchange, Bequests of Helen R. Goulding and Ogden Livingston Mills, by exchange, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Don G. Mitchell, by exchange, Bequests of Mary Strong Shattuck and Maria P. James, by exchange, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, by exchange, and funds from various donors, by exchange, 2017


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Card 645, Louise Paullin, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Relief with chariots

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Society, through the generosity of Mrs. Fahnestock Campbell, 1927


title: Krater

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Augustine Heard & Co. Hong Kong

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Vase fragment

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Ground Plan for a Catafalque for Leopold, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1729)

creator: Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

medium: Pen, brown ink and brown and gray washes

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, by exchange, 1972


title: Upright Baskets of Flowers

creator: Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer

date: before 1690

medium: Engraving

subjects: Book Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Angelica and Medoro; they stand next to a stream as Medoro carves their names into a tree, a putto is seated at left with a torch and another putto walks towards them with a goat

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The rest on the flight into Egypt

creator: Francesco Brizio

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Stone, white

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1985


title: Landscape Painting of Figure in Woodland Setting

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album leaf; color on silk

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carlo Foa, 1946


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

country: Greek, Attic


title: The Circumcision

creator: Giovanni Bellini

medium: Oil on wood


title: A blot-lake with boat, surrounded by trees

creator: Alexander Cozens

medium: Graphite, brush and black ink

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Gloves

date: 17th century

medium: leather

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1940


title: Medallion

creator: James Tassie

date: 18th century

medium: Glass paste

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Painted Plaster

date: 12th century

medium: Plaster; painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Two heads of women

creator: Pierre Parrocel

medium: Black chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Hanging Candlestick

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Figure of a Rakan

creator: Dr. Bunkio Masaki

medium: Paste covered with glaze

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Undersleeves

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. James McF. Baker, 1948


title: Fragment

date: early 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Hannibal Before the Senate in Carthage

creator: Etienne Pierre Adrien Gois

medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash, heightened with white; verso: point of brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Jacob Bean, 1971


title: Tureen with cover

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Pantaloons

medium: linen

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1970


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print


title: Pelisse

date: early 1820s

medium: silk

country: European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lillie Neustadt, in memory of Mrs. Hilda Neuhaus, mother of the donor, 1952


title: Frame for oil and vinegar

date: early 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: Schön Neues Modelbuch (Page 11 recto)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: A Girl Singing Ballads By a Paper Lanthorn

creator: James Watson

medium: Mezzotint; second state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Stud

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Copper, bronze

country: Iran

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


title: Glass strigil (scraper)

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Plate 10: Elephant, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; third state of three (De Vesme)

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Robe

date: late 16th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Rogers Fund


title: Design for the Decoration of Firearms

creator: Nicolas Noël Boutet

medium: Pencil, ink, gray wash on paper

country: French, Versailles

subjects:
Work on paper-drawing
French, versaille

credit_line: Purchase, Clay P. Bedford Gift, 2004


title: Face Mask

date: 2nd–7th century

medium: Copper (hammered), cinnabar

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Fan

medium: Wood, silk, jet, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Amelia Beard Hollenback, 1966


title: "Summer, from a Series of the Four Seasons", Folio from the Davis Album

creator: 'Ali Quli Jabbadar

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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


title: Actress wearing feathered headpiece, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Shield (<i>Sipar</i>)

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, gold, velvet, iron

country: Persian

subjects: Shield Persian

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


title: Thames Police (Wapping Wharf)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on medium weight ivory laid paper; fifth state of five (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: First View of Marseille

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving; second state of three


title: Donkey carrying a flag on its back

creator: Francesco Casanova

date: possibly 18th century


title: Chariot axle cap and linchpin

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Crow on a Tree

creator: Kano Naonobu

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Trees

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


title: Pendants, nail head, from earrings

medium: Silver

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Victor Hugo (full face)

creator: Auguste Rodin

medium: Drypoint on laid paper; second state of nine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper, gold, copper-silver alloy (shibuichi)

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Study of a Head of a Man

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of the artist, 1892


title: Cana. Eugène, Pierre. 47 ans, né à Paris XIe. Monteur en bronze. Anarchiste. 2/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Clutch

medium: glass, linen, silk

country: Mexican

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Dwight W. Morrow, Jr., Constance Morrow Morgan, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1956


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Shawl

medium: Wool

credit_line: Gift of Mary Sinclair Burkham, 1917


title: Day, from the series The Times of the Day

creator: Philipp Otto Runge

medium: Engraving, second state of two

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


title: Ear Ornament with Makara Motif

date: Last quarter of the 10th–last quarter of the 15th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Panel

date: dated 1296

medium: Wood; carved, inlaid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Pull of Engraved Firearm Ornament

medium: Ink, paper

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Work on paper-print
French

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


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Penannular Earring

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Candelabrum (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1973


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Gift of James DeLancey Verplanck and John Bayard Rodgers Verplanck,  1939


title: Wine can

creator: Abraham Hiller

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Apis bull

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: [Three Children and a Dog Playing in the Creek, July 4, 1883]

creator: Thomas Eakins

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Daniel P. and Nancy C. Paduano, 1985


title: Jacket

date: late 19th century

medium: wool, glass beads, metal pailettes

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-menswear

credit_line: Purchase, 1906


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread, perhaps ramie


title: Book cover

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Veach Noble, 2002


title: Sèriè à la Ristori

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1947


title: Kalamkari

medium: Cotton

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Woman

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Naples

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Toe Cap for a Foot Defense (Sabaton)

medium: Steel, gold

country: German, Augsburg

subjects:
Armor part
German, augsburg

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1942


title: Landscape with a river, arched bridge and distant mountains, near Rome (Smaller Italian Sketchbook, leaf 39 recto)

creator: Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

medium: Graphite

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Lappet (one of a pair)

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Lee Ward, 1923


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 41v)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Plate

creator: Daniel Dry , active ca. 1820-80

medium: Earthenware; Redware

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1933


title: Dish

medium: Stonepaste; painted and glazed

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


title: Handkerchief

medium: silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Eva Vida, 2009


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Painter of Vatican G.31

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Joseph explains his dream to his brothers and father in an interior setting; the sun, moon, and stars above a landscape in the portal beyond, from "The Story of Joseph"

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Spear Thrower

date: 100 BCE–800 CE

medium: Gold, metal

country: Peru (?)

subjects: Metal-implement Peru

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


title: Adoration of the Shepherds

date: late 15th century

medium: Basse-taille and painted enamel on silver; gilt-silver frame mounted with silver and partly enameled gold, and set with emeralds and pearls

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Tonkari (トンコリ)

medium: Wood

country: Japanese (Ainu)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Ring

medium: Silver, stone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Card Number 139, Emma Carson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-6) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Broadsheet relating to the racket caused by the skeletons (catrines and drunkards), a corrido (ballad) in the bottom section

creator: Anonymous

medium: Photorelief and letterpress on blue paper

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


title: Perseus with the Head of Medusa

creator: Antonio Canova

medium: Marble

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1967


title: Kohl pot

medium: Brown ware pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Terracotta fragment from a kantharos: head vase?

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Vase fragment

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman


title: Inrō with the Noh Play Ebira (Quiver)

date: first half 19th century

medium:
Three cases; lacquered wood with gold, silver, color takamaki-e, hiramaki-e on red ground
Netsuke: fossilized wood
Ojime: carved red lacquer bead

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: A Bush of Hydrangea in Flower

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

subjects: Photograph Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012


title: Bowl

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Earthenware, glaze

country: Byzantine

subjects: Ceramic Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Dikran G. Kelekian, 1912


title: Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Maya (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Maya

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Salt

creator: Thomas Shields

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Alice Lingard, from World's Beauties, Series 2 (N27) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Seizure of States of Church

creator: Bertrand Andrieu

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

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


title: Tapestry Bag with Fringes

date: 8th–9th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Principal Doorway of the Carthusian Monastery, Burgos

creator: Charles Clifford

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2005


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

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


title: Dr. Livingstone

creator: John Jabez Edwin Mayall

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Bookmark

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Ernest Erickson, 1974


title: Trees and Houses Near the Jas de Bouffan

creator: Paul Cézanne

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Trees

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Asymmetric Pediform Hafted Ax with Eye

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Vietnam or Northern Thailand

subjects:
Metalwork
Vietnam or northern thailand

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


title: Madame Félix Gallois

creator: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

medium: Graphite with touches of gold in oil to highlight jewelry, on buff wove paper.


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


date: second quarter of the 4th century BCE


title: Meiping vase

date: 20th century

medium: Porcelain painted with coral red glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects:
Ceramic
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Vase

creator: George E. Ohr

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2017


title: A Man Running

creator: Jacques Callot

date: early 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1941


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Black steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: The Garden of Love (right block)

creator: Christoffel Jegher

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Seal Stone

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Lapis lazuli

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Cushi Brings to David News of the Death of Absalom, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

creator: William Small

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1926


title: Eight vases, the largest one in center with sculptures of a nymph and a faun, plate 4 from "Collection of Various Vases" (Raccolta di Vasi Diversi)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: First Day of Autumn (Risshu)

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Canaletto-style frame (pair with 1975.1.2207)

date: mid-18th century

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Veneto

subjects:
Frame
Italian, veneto


title: Two Women Seated in a Parlor

creator: Okumura Masanobu

medium: Monochrome woodblock print; ink on paper

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


title: Aedes Barberinae

creator: Girolamo Teti

medium: Printed book with engraved illustrations.

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Scarab amulet of Nesenaset


title: Bolero, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) 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: Scissors

medium: Bronze

country: Korea

subjects: Metalwork Korea


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: Two-headed cow figure

date: 3rd–1st millennium BCE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1951


title: Banjo Clock

creator: Aaron Willard Jr.

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

credit_line: Bequest of William B. Whitney, 1937


title: Bugle in C

creator: Thomas Key

medium: Silver-gilt

country: British

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated
British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1975


title: Covered vase

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950


title: Figured flask

creator: Kensington Glass Works

medium: Blown-molded glass

credit_line: Bequest of Constance R. Brown, 1939


title: Small Grotesque Head Looking to the Left Within a Circle

creator: Gaetano Piccini

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1960


title: The Visitation, from "The Life of the Virgin" (copy)

creator: Albrecht Dürer

date: early 16th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Fragment

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, 1917


title: Kohl jar, monkey

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Ichikawa Danjuro V

creator: Katsukawa Shunkō

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Bucranium

medium: Horn, bone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Tambourine, from the Novelties series (N122) issued by Gail & Ax Tobacco to promote Navy Long Cut

creator: Gail & Ax Tobacco


title: Dish

creator: Belvedere Manufactory

medium: Earthenware; tin-glazed

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2022


title: Palestrina and Her Daughters

creator: Henri-Charles-Antoine Baron

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


title: Portrait of a Lady

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Pair of Ear Flares

date: 11th–13th century

medium: Gold

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Lambayeque (sicán)

credit_line: Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991


title: Bottle

medium: Glass; pewter

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Portrait of René Herault

creator: Pierre Dupin

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

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


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

date: first half of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Tureen with cover

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Four silver spoons

date: mid-1st century BCE

medium: Silver

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Tea casket (part of a set)

medium: White enamel on copper painted in polychrome enamels

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Drawing of Female Statue

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1963


title: Bronze mirror handle (?) with Aphrodite

date: ca. 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


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

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 7th century BCE or later

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Three gilded terracotta appliqués

medium: Terracotta, gold

country: Greek, South Italian, Tarentine

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, south italian, tarentine

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Sharrer, 1991


title: Christ Crowned with Thorns

creator: Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

medium: Oil, possibly over tempera, on wood

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


title: Watch

creator: Leger

date: late 18th century

medium: Gold, painted enamel, pearls, garnets

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Gold Appliqué in the Form of a Cross

country: Langobardic

subjects: Metalwork-gold Langobardic

credit_line: Purchase, 1895


title: Diagonally twined carrying basket

medium: Willow shoot foundation, sedge root warp, redbud shoot weft, coiled-on oak rim rod and split wild grape vine rim wrap

country: Pomo, Native American

subjects:
Pomo, native american
Grasses & sedges

credit_line: Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2016


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Six Seat Phaeton #4036

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Proof guinea of George III

creator: Richard Yeo

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2001


title: The Parable of the [Ten] Virgins (The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ)

creator: Sir John Everett Millais

medium: Wood engraving; proof

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Theseus and Ariadne, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Card Number 210, Fanny Davenport, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Linked rings

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Colombia

subjects: Metal-ornament Colombia

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1891


title: Upper part of a figure of Isis nursing Horus

date: 4th to 3rd Century BCE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Horse and rider

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Plate 9: The bridge and market of the Rialto, Venice, from "Views of Venice" (Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus)

creator: Michele Marieschi

medium: Etching; second state of four (Succi)


title: Saint John the Evangelist holding a goblet with a snake emerging from it, from "Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles"

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

subjects:
Print
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Fragment of a terracotta calyx-krater (mixing bowl)

creator: Black Fury Painter

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Interior View of Fort Sumpter

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970


title: The Queen of Flowers

creator: Master of the Playing Cards

medium: Engraving printed from two plates

subjects: Print Flowers

credit_line: Janet Lee Kadesky Ruttenberg Fund, in honor of Colta Ives, and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 2006


title: Dish with cover (part of a dining service)

creator: Martin-Guillaume Biennais

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Audrey B. Love, in memory of her husband, C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1974


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Card Number 364, Jennie Walpole, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Design for a Monumental Altar, plate F from "Unterschiedliche Neu Inventierte Altäre mit darzu gehörigen Profillen u. Grundrißen"

creator: Johann Michael Leüchte

date: printed ca. 1750–56

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Model of a Bell-Shaped Lamp Stand

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Earthenware with green lead glaze

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994


title: Design for a coffered ceiling with alternative decorative patterns

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor, and gouache on wove paper; inlaid in wove paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Souvenirs Covered with Wrapping Cloth

creator: Unidentified artist

date: probably 1816

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Set of Two Boxes with Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Gold lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

subjects: Lacquer Japan


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

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Time, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: View of New York from Williamsburg

creator: Nicolino Calyo

medium: Watercolor, gouache on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Marne L-S Hornblower, Dr. John J. Weber, Virginia L-S Cowles, and Diane L-S Hewat, 1985


title: Toad

date: possibly 16th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Double-faced water spirit crest

creator: Ijebu-Yoruba artist

date: early 20th century

medium: Wood, pigment, accumulated surface material

country: Yoruba peoples, Ijebu group

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Yoruba peoples, ijebu group

credit_line: Fletcher and Rogers Funds, 1976


title: The Drawing Lesson

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Charcoal over chalk

credit_line: Anonymous gift, 1968


title: Door from a cupboard

date: late 17th century (?)

medium: Poplar

country: Italian

subjects: Woodwork-furniture Italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of barley disbursement, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian (?)

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Cuff

date: 19th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Administration Fund, 1921


title: Head of a Male

date: 2nd century

medium: Terracotta

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1984


title: Vase

creator: Haviland & Co.

medium: Stoneware, clay, gilt

credit_line: Gift of George Haviland, 1923


title: Peasant Girl

creator: Alfred Cornelius Howland

medium: Graphite and white chalk on gray wove paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Jar

medium: Porcelain

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Vues de France et d'Italie (binder's title)

creator: Israel Silvestre

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Cambyses punishing the unjust judge Sisamnes

creator: Rombout Eynhoudts

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


title: Cup with cover

creator: Hans I Warnberger

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Design for T-Cart, no. 3063

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Blade

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Scarab Inscribed With the Name Aakheperenre (Thutmose II)

medium: Glazed steatite

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 14r)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Carpenter's Chalk-Line

medium: Lacquered wood

country: Japan

subjects: Woodwork Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Reliquary

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century

medium: Schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin N. Haas, 1987


title: Two Mythical Creatures (Tengu) Carrying a Parcel

date: second half 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Directions to Footmen

date: November 10, 1807

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Tubular Bead

medium: Jadeite

country: Mexico

subjects: Jade Mexico

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Bowl

date: late 16th or early 17th century, mounts 19th century

medium: Jasper, silver gilt


title: Alcove ornament

medium: Faience decorated in enamels and glaze (Awata ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

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


title: Sheet with stripe and grid pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Bull's head protome

date: 1st millennium BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Burton Y. Berry, 1961


title: Jar

date: 12th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1938


title: Dish with Stylized Flowers

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel

subjects: Cloisonné China Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: To Commemorate the Pazzi Conspiracy, 1478

creator: Bertoldo di Giovanni

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Statuette of a harp (lyre) player, male

date: 3rd quarter of the 6th century BCE

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Key

date: 1st–7th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Roman

subjects: Metalwork-bronze Roman

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


title: Arch of Gallienus, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Letter with textile samples

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Archives

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-archive

credit_line: Funds From Various Donors, 1985


title: Covered Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: French

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


title: The Chapel of the Enfants-Trouvés in Paris: Groupe des bergers près d'un puits

creator: Etienne Fessard

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Piece

medium: Cotton, roller-printed

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mayer Livingston, 1967


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Bead

date: probably 9th–12th century

medium: Rock crystal or glass

subjects:
Jewelry
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Opening of the Railway Line Between Algiers and Constantine, November 3, 1886

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Bronze, struck, silvered

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1893


title: Temple colonnade and courtyard with figures

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; second state of three

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Palanquin Ring with Demon Battling a Horse

date: ca. early 13th century

country: Thailand (or Cambodia?)

subjects:
Sculpture
Thailand (or cambodia )

credit_line: Purchase, Beningson Family Gift, in honor of Martin Lerner, 1994


title: Column Base

date: late 12th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: The Aoyagi in Ryogoku

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Mortar

date: 19th century

medium: Copper alloy with warm brown patina.

country: Italian or German

subjects:
Metalwork
Italian or german

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Ruins of the Château of Becoiseau, near Mortcerf (seine-et-Marne)

creator: Johann Georg Wille

medium: Brown chalk and brush and-brown wash. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard J. Sachs and Mr. Peter G. Sachs, in memory of Miss Edith L. Sachs, 1978


title: Drawnwork Show Towel

medium: Linen

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Terracotta stirrup jar

date: 13th Century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Terracotta Mycenaean

credit_line: Gift of André and William Spears, 2024


title: Necklace

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Mustard pot

creator: Pierre-François Coste

medium: Silver; glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer, 1923


title: Fragment of a Tunic

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Syout, Caravansérail en Ruines

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Panorama, vue prise du Pont-Neuf

creator: Edouard Baldus

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Marie Stuarte, agée de 38 ans

creator: Jacques Etienne Pannier

medium: Etching and engraving on chine collé

credit_line: Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941


title: Luohan

creator: Guanxiu

date: 15th century?

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Viaduc de la Voulte

date: 1861 or after

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Chinoiserie with a woman playing a gong, from Suite de Figures Chinoises. . .Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. d'Azaincourt (Series of Chinoiserie Figures. . .From the Chambers of Mr. d'Azaincourt)

creator: Jean Pierre Louis Laurent Hoüel

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Crystal Flask

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Rock crystal; carved and drilled

subjects:
Stone
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Kabuki Actor Nakamura Tomijūrō

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

date: 1777, 10th month

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Foundation Deposit Plaque

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Tray Stand

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

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Portrait of Prince Nasir al-Din Mirza

creator: Aqa Buzurg Shirazi

medium: Watercolor on paper

subjects: Codice Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Stephen and Thomas Ettinghausen, in memory of Dr. Richard Ettinghausen and Dr. Elisabeth S. Ettinghausen, 2017


title: Tapestry Picture

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Mlle. Zampa, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Obah

date: late 19th century

medium: wood, gourd

country: Sierra Leonean

subjects:
Chordophone-harp
Sierra leonean

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Terracotta statuette of a seated female figure

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Gift of Archaeological Institute of America, 1953


title: Buckle

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Bronze

country: European

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
European

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


title: Plate (part of a set)

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Jean Mauzé, 1977


title: Coin

date: late 11th–early 13th century

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Design for a Cartouche with a Variant

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over graphite ruled construction

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: The Fearful Donkey

creator: Joseph Vernet

medium: Engraving


title: Bird-Head Cup

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Veracruz

subjects: Veracruz Birds Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1961


title: Plaque, thin gold leaf

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Design for a Crystal Jar with a Silver-Plated Base and Cover

creator: Elkington & Co.

medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor)

subjects:
Drawing
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Piece

date: second half 17th century

medium: Silk and metal-wrapped thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


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

country: Greek, Attic


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: The arrival of the skeletons of the penitentiary (Posada); two skeleton angels in lower corners of verso (Manilla)

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on green paper

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Vase

date: probably 18th–19th century

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

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


title: Fluted Bottle with Stopper

date: early 19th century

medium: Opaque swirled green glass

country: China

subjects: Glass China


title: Joachim and the Angel, from "The Life of the Virgin"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Beads

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Carnelian

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


title: Sphacelaria filicina

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Lady in a bamboo grove

creator: Qiu Ying

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Ornamental plaque

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jade
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Ring

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1966


title: Scarab

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Potpourri vase (one of a pair)

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Bearded Nude Male Figure Running Toward the Right

creator: Stefano da Verona (Stefano di Giovanni d'Arbosio di Francia)

date: mid-15th century

medium: Pen and brown ink.

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sampler

date: 19th century

medium: Silk on cotton

country: Mexican

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


title: Serving spoon

creator: Nicolas Collier

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Donald Atkinson, Mrs. Leslie W. Devereux and Reginald T. Townsend, in memory of their mother, Eugenie Gilbert Townsend, 1933


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

date: early 5th century BCE


title: Quart decanter

medium: Pressed glass, diamond thumbprint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Esemplario di Lauori..., page 12 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

date: August 1, 1532


title: Valentine - Hand assembled with scrap

creator: Anonymous, American, 19th century

medium: Heavy card stock, chromolithography, die-cut scraps, brown silk ribbon

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Upright (Giraffe) Piano

creator: Johann Jacob Könnicke

medium: Wood, various materials

country: Austrian

credit_line: Gift of Murtogh Guinness, 1979


title: Gardener (one of a pair)

creator: Fulda Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1955


title: Convivio delle Belle Donne, page 14 (recto)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1532

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton; painted

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederic B. Pratt, 1927


title: Coin

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Plate 10: a soldier charging a cannon in center, other soldiers with picks standing at left and right, from "Troops, cannons, and attacks on towns" (Dessins de quelques conduites de troupes, canons, et ataques de villes)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: The Cameleopard, or a new hobby

creator: William Heath ('Paul Pry')

medium: Graphite

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


title: Tassel

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Christ Presented to the People

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Drypoint on Japanese paper; second state of eight

credit_line: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941


title: Vase

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Favrile glass

credit_line: Gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: Otani Hiroji as Kurofune Chiemon

creator: Torii Kiyomitsu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan


title: Terracotta fragment of a pelike (jar)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: late 15th century

medium: Colorless glass

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Cup with cover

creator: Chantilly

medium: Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Bead

date: probably 9th–12th century

medium: Bone

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones


title: Brisé Fan, with Figures and Pavilions in a Landscape

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Fans Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Thomas Hunt, 1933


title: Vendor of Chicken Heads and Livers, plate 5 from "Di Bologna l'Arti per via D'An.ibal' Ca.rac"

creator: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli

medium: Etching; first state of three (Bertarelli)

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


title: A Select Vestry

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Funerary Equipment, Tomb of Userhat

creator: Norman de Garis Davies

date: 1911; original ca. 1299–1290 BCE

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Antique-Style Ornament Frieze Design: Rinceaux with Grotesque Figures and Animals

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: early 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over traces of leadpoint underdrawing

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing


title: Syrup Jug

creator: United States Pottery Company

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Clarinet

creator: Valentine Metzler

medium: Boxwood, ivory

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Gaiters

medium: silk, leather

country: Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Percussion Longrifle

creator: John Settel

medium: Wood (maple, ash), steel, iron, brass, silver

country: American, Franklin Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr. Gift, 2018


title: Card Number 242, Miss Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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