title: Hand mirror with woman in blue feathered hat, from the Novelties series (N122) issued by Gail & Ax Tobacco to promote Navy Long Cut

creator: Gail & Ax Tobacco

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


title: Design for the Garden Façade of a Palace

creator: Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni

medium: Graphite, pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray wash

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 Estate of Ogden Codman, 1951


title: Fan

date: 18th century

medium: Ivory, mother-of-pearl and glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Throw Stick

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Ganesha with his consorts Riddhi and Siddhi (Riddhi-Siddhi Ganapati)

medium: Chromolithograph with varnish on paper

country: India, Karla-Lonavala, Maharashtra

subjects:
Print
India, karla-lonavala, maharashtra

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2021


title: Kothon or pyxis

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Stone Female Figure

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone (metadiorite)

country: Mezcala

subjects: Stone-sculpture Mezcala

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


title: Granite

creator: Sol Wilson

medium: Gouache and watercolor with graphite on board

credit_line: Gift of New York City W. P. A., 1943


title: Marbled covered box

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stoneware with celadon glaze

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Purchase, Michael and Kathleen Linburn Gift, 2024


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Lucretia

creator: Philippe Bertrand

date: 1704 or earlier

medium: Marble

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, Joseph M. Cohen Gift, and Fletcher Fund, by exchange, 2003


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Ornament

medium: stone

country: Chinese

subjects:
Ornament & design
Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: A fantastic chandelier with burning candles and arabesques, some ending in fantastic horse forms, from "Neue Grotessken Buch"

creator: Christoph Jamnitzer

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Returning Boats at Komagata

creator: Isoda Koryūsai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Dish with Phoenixes

medium: Porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (Hizen ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: A Peruvian man, from a group of drawings depicting Peruvian dress

creator: Francisco (Pancho) Fierro

medium: Watercolor

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Azure Cliff with Red Maples

creator: Wu Bin

date: dated 1603

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

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Mikado of Japan, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-1) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Side Chair

medium: Mahogany

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Vase fragment

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Vase
Roman, gaul

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Man's handkerchief

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved and painted


title: Glass Fragment

date: 15th century

medium: Colorless glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Cape

medium: silk, glass, metallic

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Phillip H. Gray, 1950


title: Wineglass

date: late 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Headband

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Cotton, camelid hair

country: Wari

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Wari
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Colonel F. D. Trask, 1924


title: A Polish Groom Bathing Horses

creator: Stefano della Bella

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


title: A Romantic Scene

creator: Totoya Hokkei

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Studies for a Decorative Object (Banner or Pendentive?) Representing Allegorical Figures, One of Which Appears to Be Fortitude

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects:
Ornament & design
Mythology
Drawing

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


title: French Landscape

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

country: American

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: The Hand-Writing On the Wall, Or the Modern Belshazzar

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of  A. S. Colgate, 1952


title: Bes head disk with scene of Isis and Horus in marsh on reverse

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1942


title: The Annunciation

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Armor (Gusoku) of Daimyo Matsudaira (Inaba)

medium: Iron, lacquer, silk, straw, bronze, gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Armor for man
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Dr. George M. Lefferts, 1910


title: The trial of the killers of Tomas Hernandez Aguirre, from a broadside entitled 'El jurado de los asesinos del Sr. Tomás Hernábdez Aguirre. Defensa de los reos. La sentencia. Actitud de los criminales'

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Edging and insertion

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Glass cup

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: [Civil War Union Soldier with Rifle and Canteen, in Studio]

creator: Unknown

medium: Ambrotype

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2011


title: Hat

medium: straw

credit_line: Sadie M. Simon Memorial Fund, 1944


title: Augustine Heard & Co. Steamer "Kiangloong"

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Marie Halton, from the Actresses series (N246), Type 1, issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sporting Extra Cigarettes

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


title: Male head wearing a helmet

date: ca. 600 BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Mantle

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Lozier, 1948


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Molded plaster (backed with baked brick); carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Oval table with falling leaves

medium: Black walnut, white pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


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: String of Large Lozenge-Shaped Beads

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Armchair

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Carved walnut, velvet cover

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Incense Box

date: late 19th century

medium: Lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Pin, eyelet type

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Cypriot


title: Bust of Hevajra

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Stone

country: Cambodia

subjects: Sculpture Cambodia

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1936


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta bail-amphora (jar)

creator: Ixion Painter

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


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: [Yosemite National Park, California]

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

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


title: Chair back

creator: Louis Tessier

medium: Wool and silk (22-24 warps per inch, 9-10 per centimeter).

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Strip

date: 16th century

medium: Linen, cutwork

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Crocker (Elizabeth Masten), 1937


title: Bacchanal: Arrival at the Wine Vat

creator: Joseph Marie Vien

medium: pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

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


title: Grooms and Foreign Horses

creator: Jin Nong

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: The C. C. Wang Family Collection, Gift of C. C. Wang, 1997


title: Floris II from the series Counts and Countesses of Holland, Zeeland, and West-Frisia

creator: Pieter Soutman

medium: Engraving and etching; second state of three

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Hugo Elliot, 1941


title: Costume Bell

date: 19th century (?)

medium: metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Idiophone-struck-bell-clapper
French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Netsuke of Beaver in Lotus Pond

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Architectural Model Based on the Alhambra

creator: Rafael Contreras

medium: Plaster colored

subjects: Architecture Reproduction

credit_line: Gift of Richard M. Hunt, 1886


title: Gun Barrel

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, silver, copper, coral, turquoise

subjects:
Arms and armor
Corals & anemones

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pouch

medium: Glass, linen

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: Scarab Inscribed with the Throne Name of Thutmose II

medium: Hematite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Statuette of the Vizier Iuy

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Sofa

medium: Mahogany, ash, maple, pine

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1965


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Hammered Copper Tweezers

date: 1st–mid-16th century

medium: Copper (hammered)

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-implement
Peru; north coast

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


title: Yankee, from Types of Nationalities (N240) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Virgin

medium: Boxwood

country: South Netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Arrowhead

medium: Bone

country: Japan

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Ein new Modelbuch..., page 15 (verso)

creator: Johann Schönsperger the Younger

date: October 22, 1524

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of  Herbert N. Straus, 1929


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Spiraea aruncus (Tyrol)

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

credit_line: Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2004


title: Tray (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Mirror

date: 3rd century BCE or 14th–17th century?

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Mirror China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 15th century

medium: Iron, gold, copper

credit_line: Bequest of Hachiro Yamagami, 1981


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Tapestry

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Man of Sorrows Mocked by a Soldier, Frontispiece to the Great Passion

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Snuffbox

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gold

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Maude Bannister as "The Garden Fairy," from the series Fancy Dress Ball Costumes (N73) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: Sherd

date: 5th–2nd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: St. Andrew, Facing Forward, Head Turned to Left

creator: Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder

date: before 1749

medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in black, green, ochre, with border in gold ink and watercolor frame

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: Songs: "Far removed from Noise & Smoke..."

creator: Henry Thomas Alken

medium: Soft-ground etching

credit_line: Gift of Wilbur Macey Stone, 1921


title: Ceramic Whistle in the Form of a Shell

date: 5th–15th century

country: Ecuadorian

subjects:
Ecuadorian
Ceramics-musical instrument
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1983


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones


title: Cuffs

medium: linen, metal

country: probably European

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Brooklyn Museum Collection, 1915


title: Terracotta fragment of a Little Master cup (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Ifá Divination Tapper

creator: Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

medium: Ivory

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Bone/ivory-sculpture
Edo people
Skeletons & bones

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


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


title: The Triumph of Fame on Chastity, from The Triumphs of Petrarch

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Engraving; third state of four (Landau)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Netsuke

medium: Ivory inlaid

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Sampler

creator: Naomi Rebekah Stevenson

medium: Silk on wool canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Design for Upright Decorative Panels

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash with background in brush and blue wash. Cut at the bottom

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1969


title: Bodice

medium: [no medium available]

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of A. Borland, 1944


title: Compote dish

creator: Thomas Heming

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Watch

creator: William Webster

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bronze saucer-shaped lamp

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

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


title: XIIeme Vue d'Italie. Le Bas

creator: Joseph Vernet

date: 18th century

medium: intaglio

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Head of a Buddha

date: mid-6th century

medium: Limestone with traces of pigment and gilding

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2001


title: Gold Figure Pendant

date: 5th–10th century

medium: Gold

country: Quimbaya (?)

subjects: Metal-ornament Quimbaya

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


title: Mrs. Joseph Reade

creator: John Wollaston

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, by exchange, 1948


title: Section of a spoon handle

creator: P. B., Orleans

credit_line: Gift of Jacques Helft, 1939


title: Cigar box, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 5) 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: Orpheus

creator: Pierre Brebiette

medium: Etching

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


title: Black Red Game Bantams, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Ojime

medium: Ojime

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Chair Strip

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Trade Card for William Henshaw, Gunmaker

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes, 1927


title: Netsuke of Monkey Wearing a Tall Cap and Carrying a Fan

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Mantilla

date: mid-19th century

medium: silk

country: Spanish

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1974


title: Decoration for the Façade of a Church for the Funeral of Joseph I, 1711

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash, over lead underdrawing on cream laid paper; framing lines in pen and black ink and graphite or lead

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gourary, 1990


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a nude girl

date: 2nd half of the 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, laconian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Card 706, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Veüe generale en Perspective du Château Bassecourt, Anticours, Jardins, &c. de Richelieu

creator: Adam Perelle

date: 17th century

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Fan

medium: mother-of-pearl, parchment, gouache, metal

country: Italian

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: St Peter's, cornice, exterior, profile (recto) Unidentified, moulding, elevation; Unidentified structure, plan  (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Dark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Janos Scholz and Anne Bigelow Scholz, in memory of Flying Officer Walter Bigelow Rosen, RCAF, 1949


title: Terracotta rim fragment of an open shape

date: 6th–4th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Teapot (part of a service)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: The Actor Ichikawa Yaozō III Holding a Red Fan

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Madonna and Child with Saints

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Red chalk on light blue paper faded to gray-brown

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: String of Large Flat Disk Beads

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Shigaraki Tea Jar (Chatsubo)

medium: Stoneware with natural ash glaze; gold lacquer repairs (Kyoto ware, Shigaraki type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Illustrated Manuscript of Episodes from The Life of Phra Malai, a Follower of Buddha

date: text dated 1858

medium: Ink and color on paper

country: Thailand

subjects: Painting Thailand

credit_line: Gift of Mr. William C. Jackson, 1972


title: Standing and Seated Figures in a Landscape with an Obelisk

creator: Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder

medium: Pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


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

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: FAIRMONT/ WATER WORKS/ ON THE SCHUYLKILL/ EW&S/ CELTIC CHINA

creator: Enoch Wood & Sons

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

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


title: Oval design for a ceiling painted with clouds

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Oil paint on laid paper; partially varnished

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Bowl

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip with polychrome painted decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: [Marie de Morny]

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

date: before 1865

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

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


title: Saint Sebastian Bound to the Column

creator: Albrecht Dürer

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Anatomical drawing

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

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

subjects: Anatomy Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Jenny Philippsohn, in memory of Siegfried Philippsohn, 1954


title: Presented with a famous horse by Count Przolossky, with which he performs many extraordinary feats

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching; reissue

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


title: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Vase

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Dressing jacket

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edwin R. Metcalf, 1969


title: Suit

medium: wool

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Collin Clements, 1947


title: Plate

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Piece

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Terracotta kylix: band-cup (drinking cup)

creator: Oakeshott Painter

date: ca. 550 BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Miss Mauri, 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: 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: Shawl

medium: Wool

country: Scottish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Claire Lorraine Wilson, 1942


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Orchard Oriole, from the Song Birds of the World series (N42) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds


title: Lappet

medium: Linen

country: Belgian

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Robert C. Foster, 1970


title: Pair of hall chairs

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Woman's Rank Badge with Wild Goose

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Galloon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Bead

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Amethyst

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Dalmatic

medium: Silk, metallic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Francis F. Randolph, J. Ogden Bulkley, and David T. Bulkley, 1944


title: Eh! bien... allons-nous continuer notre chasse..., from "Croquis de Chasse"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: October 14, 1859

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state (Delteil)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century


title: Side chair

creator: John Townsend

medium: mahogany

credit_line: Purchase, Louis and Virginia Clemente Foundation Inc. Gift, 2012


title: Rembarquement des Troupes (Embarkation of Troops), from "La Vie de Ferdinand Ier de Médicis série appelée aussi Les Batailles des Médicis" (The Life of Ferdinand I de'Medici also called The Medici Battles)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Engraving; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Bronze statuette of a lion

date: late 6th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Ornament

medium: Chenille

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimmings-passementerie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Finali

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Cup (Gobelet litron) (one of nine) (part of a a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Gold ring

date: late 5th century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Le Gentilhomme de Face, la Main Droite sur la Hanche (The Gentleman Facing the Front, his Right Hand on his Hip), from "Les Caprices" Series B, The Nancy Set

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: A Sioux Chief [Has-No-Horses]

creator: Joseph T. Keiley

medium: Platinum print

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933


title: Dish with a folded rim

medium: Pottery, hematite wash

credit_line: Gift of British School of Archaeology, 1921


title: Finial from Metal Vessel

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bronze; cast

subjects:
Metal
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Wine Glass

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

country: American or British

subjects:
Ornament & design
American or british

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Virgin and Child

date: early 16th century

medium: Stone, originally painted

country: French

subjects: Sculpture-stone French

credit_line: The Bequest of Michael Dreicer, 1921


title: Three-handled Jar

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Textile Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; lampas (kemha)

credit_line: Purchase, Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah Gift, 1978


title: In Memory of the Visit of the Turkish Sultan Abdul-Aziz to London, 1867

creator: Alfred Benjamin Wyon

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of the Corporation of the City of London, 1908


title: Virgin on a Grassy Bench

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William H. Osborn, in memory of Johnston L. Redmond, 1967


title: Wine bottle

medium: Stoneware covered with thin glaze (Bizen ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Tea caddy

creator: Lowestoft

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


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


title: Bowl

medium: Clay covered with a streaked glaze(Satsuma style)

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


title: Long-necked  vase

medium: Porcelain with ox-blood red glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Sectioned skull in profile to left with the left side of the cranium removed

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: U.S. Coast Survey...Reconnaissance of Smith's or Blunt's Island, Washington / U.S. Coast Survey...Sketch of Anacapa Island in Santa Barbara Channel

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Strainer

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Joachim's Sacrifice Refused by the Priest, from "The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ"

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut


title: Textile Fragment with Double-Headed Eagles and Facing Lions

date: 13th century

medium: Silk, gilded animal substrate around a silk core; plain and twill weave (lampas)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George Hecksher, 2011


title: Gooldar House

creator: Captain R. B. Hill

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Merry Christmas! (Frohe Weihnachten!)

creator: Moriz Jung

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: The Cabin Boy Tows the Boat

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Etching; second state of three (Delteil)

credit_line: Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Corkscrew

credit_line: Gift of Madame Lilliana Teruzzi, in memory of her mother, 1973


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Helen M. Meserve Gift, 1981


title: Example of lace stitch

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Turkey, from "Court Game of Geography"

creator: William and Henry Rock

medium: Engraving and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Jimmy Carney, Pugilist, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: [Two Plasterers in Overalls Leaning on a Rustic Fence]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Tile

date: second half 16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hatem and Frank D. Henderson, 1993


title: Pair of panels

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Oak, polished

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Dish

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

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


title: Galloon

date: 18th century

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Horn

medium: Plated base metal

credit_line: Purchase, 1885


title: Bronze handle from a cista (toiletry box)

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Scarab Inscribed with a Geometric Pattern

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Textile Fragment

date: dated 450 AH/1058–59 CE

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Sampler

medium: Embroidered linen

country: Mexican

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Netsuke of Qilin

date: late 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Pair of keyhole escutcheons

medium: Gilt bronze


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: Passio Christi, from the "Allegorical Scenes from the Life of Christ"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Table knife and fork

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, silver, wood, glass or stone

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Mirror

medium: Copper alloy, wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Mastigeus [in Greek letters]

creator: Henry William Bunbury

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2011


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: Design for a Clock: Birth of Bacchus

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite, brush and gray wash, watercolor, and gouache

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


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-tapestrie


title: Miss Chalmers, from the Actresses series (N246), Type 1, issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sporting Extra Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Fragment

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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Woman's informal robe

medium: Wool and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William A. Weaver, in memory of her beloved husband, 1974


title: Group of Two Seated Figures

medium: Rock crystal

subjects:
Hardstone
China
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Terracotta fragments of pots; glazed on the inside

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Skirt

date: 19th–early 20th century

country: Cambodia, possibly

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Cambodia, possibly
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Everfast Fund, 1973


title: One hunt follows the next and none is alike, from "News of the Day"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: September 15, 1866

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Jacob Gaudaur, Oarsman, from World's Champions, Series 1 (N28) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: The Chameleon declares that he is happy and proud to be, as always, of the same opinion as everyone, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Red Bird, from the Birds of America series (N4) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects: Print Birds


title: Masterpiece key

date: second half 17th century

medium: Iron, steel

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Woman's necktie

credit_line: Gift, Edward M. C. Tower, 1925


title: Gold earring in the form of a dove

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Vase

creator: Emile Gallé

medium: Glazed earthenware

credit_line: Purchase, Bequests of John L. Cadwalader and Theodore M. Davis, by exchange, 1999


title: Piece

medium: Embroidered net, buratto

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Plate

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


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


title: Goblet

creator: Dominik Bimann

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Eugen Grabscheid, 1982


title: Sutra Cover

date: 17th century or earlier

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Two Standing Male Figures

creator: Jacopo Zucchi

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk underdrawing; on beige paper

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1965


title: Virtue: Athena

creator: Abraham Bosse

medium: Etching

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a stamnos (jar)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: See Them Fly

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Two nude children playing with a leaf, from "New Book of Children"

creator: Pierre Alexandre Aveline

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Shoes

date: 16th century

medium: leather

country: British

credit_line: Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from Various Donors, 1929


title: Coffin of the Chantress of Amun Ansenmes

medium: Wood, paste, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Otto von Wittelsbach Liberates the Army from a Mountain Pass near Verona

creator: Peter Candid (Pieter de Witte, Pietro Candido)

medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash, over black chalk

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2005


title: Candlestick

creator: Johann Ludwig II Biller

date: 19th century, after 1730–40 original

medium: Gold (?) on base metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Camel and Rider

date: mid-to-late 6th century

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Ornamental Panel

creator: Master I.F.

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Clock-watch

medium: Metal, rock crystal, silver, gilt metal

subjects:
Horology
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Gloves

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Martine Weaver, 1950


title: Embuutu

creator: Ganda

medium: Wood, hide

country: Uganda

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Woman's Head, from "L'Estampe Moderne"

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Photolithograph

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1928


title: Doorway

date: 12th century

medium: Limestone, oolitic

subjects: Installation French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1935


title: Rocambole threatening to start a process without end, covering the Oriental question. Since he never finishes anything, chances are that the process also will never be finished, from "News of the Day"

date: January 23, 1867

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Soup plate

date: early 19th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Mask

medium: Iron

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Cowroid Seal Amulet Inscribed with a Decorative Pattern

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Apparel made into a cushion

medium: silk; metal;

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Vase with cover

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


title: Male Figure

date: 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Colima

subjects: Colima Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Carol R. Meyer, 1991


title: Landscape with Ruins

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on light tan paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Giardineto novo di punti tagliati et gropposi per exercitio & ornamento delle donne (Venice 1554), page 6 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: “Bluish-Green Fish Scales”

creator: Kano Tan'yū

date: mid-17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Fish Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Owl Head, from the Lighthouses series (N119) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


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

creator: Bhadrabahu

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Crown with discs, uraeus coils and frontlet

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: William G. "Bill" Gleason, Shortstop, Louisville Colonels, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Reclining dog

date: 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Linn Howard, 2024


title: Mold for a Lily Bead

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Textile fragment

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Wool, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sasanian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1969


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: Terracotta fragments of lekanides (covered dishes)?

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Partial View of a Building [Templum Isaiae Prophetae], from "Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles"

creator: Lambert Suavius

medium: Etching

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


title: Portrait of Dr. J.E. Pohl

creator: Franz Kadlik

medium: Lithograph

subjects: Print Portraits


title: Galloon

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Taweret amulet

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Mosaic glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Plate 29: Bacchus Changing his Kidnappers into Monsters (Tyrrheni nautae in Dlephinos), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

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


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3277a

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Amethyst Discoid

medium: Amethyst

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Swallowtail Hafted Ax with Diamond Pattern

date: ca. 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java, Lumajang, Pasiran)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
Indonesia (java, lumajang, pasiran)

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


title: Border

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Variations in Violet and Grey—Market Place, Dieppe

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Gouache and watercolor on off-white wove paper, mounted on academy board

credit_line: Gift of Douglass Campbell, Richard Strachan, and Stephen M. Strachan, in memory of Mrs. Douglass Campbell and Mrs. William Lyman Campbell, 2000


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

creator: Knapp & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Fish Print


title: Captain James Cook

creator: Wedgwood and Bentley

date: late 18th century

medium: Jasperware

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1942


title: Coach #3981

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


title: Heart Scarab

medium: Slate

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Preface to the Tripitaka

date: 20th century

medium: Ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Rubbing China

credit_line: Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1977


title: Plate 37 from "The Disasters of War" (Los Desastres de La Guerra): This is worse (Esto es peor)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

date: 1810 (first published 1863)

medium: Etching, lavis, drypoint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Grafton H. Pyne, 1951


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: 2nd to mid–1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

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


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Plaque depicting Bernard Palissy

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels; gilt-bronze, polychrome enamel, biscuit-porcelain frame

credit_line: Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2007


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Allegory of Asia, from "The Four Continents"

creator: Abraham Bosse

date: mid to late 17th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

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


title: The Holy Family

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Bequest of Alexandrine Sinsheimer, 1958


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Silver, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


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

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: Bodhisattva  Avalokiteshvara

date: second half of the 7th century

medium: Sandstone

country: Southern Thailand

subjects:
Sculpture
Southern thailand

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Ex Coll.: Columbia University, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1987


title: Shirt

medium: linen

country: Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Geoffrey Azoy, 1942


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 17 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Plate 11, from Little Egypt Actresses series (T2), issued by Monopole Tobacco Works to promote Khedive Egyptian Cigarettes

creator: Monopole Tobacco Works

medium: Photolithograph

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


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed


title: Plate 8, Outlines of Figures, Landscapes and Cattle...for the Use of Learners

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Mark Twain - Samuel L. Clemens, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Glass head pendant

date: mid-4th to 3rd century BCE

country: Carthaginian

subjects: Glass Carthaginian

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Libbretto nouellamete composto per maestro Domenico da Sera...lauorare di ogni sorte di punti, page 5 (verso)

creator: Domenico da Sera

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Pelisse

medium: cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Katharine Starr MacDowell, 1940


title: Centerpiece

medium: Gilt bronze, glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. F. Carrington Weems, 1955


title: Key

date: 17th century

medium: Iron

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


title: Dressing table

medium: Satinwood, mahogany, rosewood veneer, painted decoration, silver and silver plate mounts

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Half-bottle cooler (seau à demi-bouteille) (one of two) (part of a service)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Mummy of Nesiamun

medium: Mummified human body, linen, mummification material

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Illustrated Single Work

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on parchment

credit_line: Gift of Nelly, Violet and Elie Abemayor, in memory of Michel Abemayor, 1978


title: Title Page from Book of Vases

creator: Jacques de La Joue the Younger

date: 18th century

medium: Etching

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


title: Goblet

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Fibula

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Greenwich Park

medium: Etching and drypoint; third state of three (Glasgow); dark brown ink on cream laid paper

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1917


title: Black Horse Tethered in a Stable

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: The Distin Family newspaper illustration

medium: Newspaper

subjects:
Work on paper
American

credit_line: Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Bequest, 2005


title: Pavement tiles

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Alfred Sully

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: [John Henry Mole]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Textile Fragments

date: 5th–7th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of David del Gaizo, 2008


title: Mountains and Pavilions

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1979


title: Yellow chalcedony ring stone

date: 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Chalcedony, yellow

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Snuff Bottle

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: White and green jadeite with coral stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Drawing of Two Medieval Swords

creator: Mariano Fortuny Marsal

date: 19th century

medium: Paper, ink, graphite

subjects:
Work on paper-drawing
Spanish

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


title: Jewelry Elements for a Broad Collar

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Hubbard and Egypt Exploration Society, 1931


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Design for Panel Decoration

creator: J. Hulme

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash

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


title: Arrowhead (<i>Yanone</i>)

creator: Kane Yoshi(?)

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Edging

date: 16th century


title: Cottage beside a Canal with a View of Ouderkerk

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint

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


title: Studies of Heads

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Roundel with Central Asian-style "Candelabra Tree"

date: 7th–9th century

medium: Silk; samite

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven
Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: [Group of 3 Sterograph Views of Aviation, including the Wright Brothers]

creator: Keystone View Company

medium: Albumen silver prints

credit_line: Gift of Weston J. Naef, in memory of Kathleen W. Naef and Weston J. Naef Sr., 1982


title: Ring Fragment

medium: Faience, Blue, green

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: The Death of Saint Hilary (recto); Sketch of an Arm (verso)

creator: Jan van Scorel

date: early–mid 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink and gray wash; at left, a framing line in pen and brown ink (recto); red chalk (verso)

credit_line: Purchase, Lindsay McCrum Gift, 2001


title: Mr. John Campbell, Precenter in Cannongate Church

creator: John Kay

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Lovers and clown

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Carved Figure

medium: Ivory

subjects: Ivorie China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Mrs. Shanker

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Design of Flowers

creator: Ogata Kōrin

medium: Woodblock print (leaf from an album); ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan Flowers


title: Covered box with hollyhock flowers

date: 15th century

medium: Carved red lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Card 412, Maud Granger, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Dixie Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Provided that the switchman lets nothing derail, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: January 22, 1870

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Box for Inkstone and Writing Implements (Suzuribako)

medium: Wood, lacquer sprinkled with gold, black lacquer, and shell inlay

subjects:
Lacquer
Japan
Shells & molluscs


title: Convivio delle Belle Donne, page 12 (verso)

creator: Nicolò Zoppino

date: August 1532

medium: Woodcut


title: Card 614, Miss True, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of Syllabary B

date: ca. late 1st millennium BCE

medium: Clay

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Hobnail Finger Bowl

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

date: after 1886

medium: Pressed colorless and cranberry glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Returning Home

creator: Shitao (Zhu Ruoji)

medium: Album of twelve leaves; ink and color on paper

credit_line: From the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Family, Gift of Wen and Constance Fong, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Dillon, 1976


title: Indian Muntjac, from the Animals of the World series (T180), issued by Abdul Cigarettes

creator: Abdul Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Water Pipe Base

date: second half 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted and slip-painted

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1972


title: Book cover with floral and dot pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

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


title: Medal of Martin Van Buren

creator: Moritz Fürst

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Coin Weight

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Old Towers on a River Bank

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching; third state of four

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1959


title: The Holy Family

creator: Battista Angolo del Moro

medium: Etching

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Textile Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Terracotta statuette of a woman

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Brummer, 1959


title: Panel (part of a set)

creator: Nicolas Castille

medium: Carved oak

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Actress standing with hand on hip, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Arrowhead (<i>Yanone</i>)

date: dated 1645

medium: Steel

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


title: Wineglass

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


title: Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons

creator: Martin Schongauer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: King Returning from Ride in Sedan Chair

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: “All human affairs are like the old man of the borderland and his horse”

creator: Myōdō Sōsen

date: after 1808

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


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: Fan

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

country: possibly Chinese

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Helen Baldwin in memory of her mother, Mary G. Baldwin, 1965


title: The Discovery of the Catilinarian Conspiracy

creator: Jean François Janinet

medium: Etching and roulette

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


title: Horn

date: late 19th century

medium: animal horn

country: African

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
African

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Design for Landau, No. 3174

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Piece

date: 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Unidentified Corinthian capital, elevation, section, and ceiling plan (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Dark brown ink, black chalk, and incised lines

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Mark J. Millard Gift, 1968


title: Dish with centaur and centauress battling

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered

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


title: Puppies in the Snow

creator: Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪

medium: Set of four sliding panels mounted as a pair of two-panel screens; ink and color on paper

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Card 298, Annie Pixley, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: The Bull and Mouth

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 24, 1808

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund and Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by Exchange, 1970


title: Seated Female Goddess

date: 15th century

medium: Terracotta with traces of paint

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1987


title: Fragment of a votive bracelet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1909


title: Dish (one of a pair)

date: mid-17th century

medium: Silver, partly gilded

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


title: The Angel Staying the Arm of Abraham

creator: Battista Franco

date: after 1552

medium: Etching and engraving; second state

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


title: Carpet Fragment

date: 8th century

medium: Wool, cotton, or linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Phocion J. Tano, 1951


title: Teaspoon

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Gift of Frederick Bradbury, 1925


title: Cover

date: mid-19th century or later

medium: Wool, silk; embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs Henry Ivison Parsons, 1925


title: The Fable of the Miller, His Son and the Donkey  No. 9

creator: Elihu Vedder

medium: Graphite on paper

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


title: Miniature wine taster or mustard dish

creator: C S

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Vase with chi dragons

date: mid-18th century

medium: Porcelain with relief decoration under turqoise glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Sugar canister (part of a set)

medium: White enamel on copper painted in polychrome enamels

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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: Rapier

date: late 16th century

medium: Steel, wire, gold

subjects: Sword Spanish

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Border

date: 16th century

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Study of St. John (recto); Study of a Warrior (verso)

creator: Eugenio Cajés

medium: Red chalk with brush and red wash (recto and verso)

credit_line: Purchase, Susan H. Seidel Gift, 2001


title: Sencha Teapot (Kyūsu) with Chinese Children Engaged in Literati Activities

creator: Ogata Shuhei

date: early 19th century

medium: Stoneware with polychrome overglazes (Kyoto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Desk-on-frame

medium: Sweet gum, possibly mahogany veneer, yellow poplar

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Tureen and stand

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Study of Heads for Study for "Castor and Pollux Freeing Helen"

creator: Joseph-Ferdinand Lancrenon

medium: Black crayon, stumping, and white chalk on buff laid paper

credit_line: Purchase, Renée Sacks Bequest, 2005


title: The Naval Battle of Meloria

creator: Giovanni David

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

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1988


title: Scarab with Lion-headed Goddess Protecting Maatkare

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Vase

date: 19th century

medium: Painted enamel

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Angelo Maria Querini Created Cardinal by Benedict XIII

creator: Francesco Zugno

medium: Graphite, drawing in form of tondo

credit_line: Gift of J. F. McCrindle, in honor of Jacob Bean, 1991


title: Stamp seal (conoid) with cultic scene

date: late 8th–6th century BCE

medium: Blue Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Limestone votive capital

date: ca. 4th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Fragment

medium: Mosaic glass (millefiori)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Hanging with Instruments of the Passion

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1982


title: Sidney Douglas Farrar, 1st Base, Philadelphia, 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: The "Adam and Eve," Old Chelsea

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching; third state of three (Glasgow); printed in black ink on buff laid Japan

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


title: Souvenir spoon

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver-gilt and enamel

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


title: Pair of silver attachments in the form of seashells

date: late 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Howard J. Barnet and gifts from various donors, 1994


title: Table knife and fork

date: 17th century

medium: Steel

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: 2nd–mid-1st century BCE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Greek


title: La mère de la chanteuse, from Croquis Dramatiques, published in Le Charivari, december 27, 1856

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: November 27, 1856

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

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


title: Monstrous male figure

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

medium: Chlorite, calcite, gold, iron

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Purchase, 2009 Benefit Fund, Friends of Inanna Gifts, and Mr. and Mrs. Horiuchi Gift, 2010


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Glass Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Glass; mold and optic blown

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: McGunnigle, Manager, Brooklyn Bridegrooms, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Fragment of velvet

date: early 16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Bacchanalian Scene

creator: Amico Aspertini

medium: Black chalk, highlighted with white, on brown-washed paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Pitcher

medium: Lustreware

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


title: Dish

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Vase (one of a pair)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Ceiling design

creator: John Gregory Crace

medium: Graphite, brush and wash and watercolor

credit_line: Dodge and Fletcher Funds, 1967


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


title: Alexander Bennett "Ben" Sanders, Pitcher, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: relief (?) chest with pleats and Aten cartouches

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Design for the Decoration of a Palace Interior

creator: Giovanni Paolo Panini

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Mansion of Thomas Hope, Flemish Picture Gallery

creator: H. Ansted

medium: Graphite, pen and ink and watercolor

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


title: Scarab Inscribed With the Prenomen of Ramesses II and depicting the king in his chariot trampling an enemy

medium: Steatite, blue glaze

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Presentation in the Temple

date: 14th century

medium: Silk on canvas

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Architecture
Italian
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1960


title: Sample

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of F.J. Schaetzel, 1919


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Vase

creator: Charles Volkmar

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2018


title: Chopines

medium: silk, metal

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Actor as a Samurai Youth

creator: Torii Kiyotada

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Design for a Garden Capriccio

creator: Gilles-Marie Oppenord

medium: Pen and black ink, with graphite underdrawing; framing lines in pen and black ink

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


title: Demon-crushing Bow

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: The Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple

creator: Sebald Beham

date: early to mid-16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray and some pink wash, red chalk

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Caroline Rosati

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Salted paper print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Babylonian

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


title: Blade

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Design for an Interior Wall Elevation

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush with black, gray, pink, and yellow wash, over ruled and compass constructions in pen and gray ink; framing outlines in pen and brown ink; scale, below the design, in pen and black ink, brush and gray and pink wash

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dalva Sr., 1965


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace, point d’Alençon

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Vase

medium: Cloisonné enamel on copper

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: Les Échappemens à repos comparés aux echappemens à recul; et Examen des dernières observations de Monsieur de La Lande

creator: Jean Jodin

medium: Paper, leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2001


title: The Ancient Tree Court

creator: Jian Guzhai

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Black ink

subjects: Ink China Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk

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


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


title: Young Woman Poling Herself in a Boat among Pond Lilies

creator: Isoda Koryūsai

subjects: Print Japan Lilies

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


title: Argyle

medium: Sheffield plate, wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Carving knife and fork

date: mid-19th century

medium: Steel, silver-gilt

credit_line: Gift of Rev. Alfred Duane Pell, 1903


title: Architectural Model

date: 1st–8th century

country: Mezcala

subjects: Architecture Stone-sculpture Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Topographia Variarum Regionum Pars Prima

creator: Hans Bol

date: 17th century

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Halberd

medium: Steel, wood (ash), brass, iron

country: Austrian

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Austrian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Bowl, Mina'i ("enameled") ware

date: early 13th century

medium: Mina'i ware.  Fritware, stain - and overglaze painted, and gilded.

country: Iranian

subjects: Iranian Ceramics-pottery

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Page from Ein new kunstlich Modelbuch...(Page 35r)

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Capital (Study Collection)

date: 2nd–3rd century

country: Pakistan

subjects: Sculpture Pakistan

credit_line: Gift of Alfred V. de Forest, Lockwood de Forest and Judith de Forest Soule, 1933


title: Flo Williams, 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: Cassetta frame

date: mid-18th century

medium: Poplar

country: Southern Italy

subjects:
Frame
Southern italy


title: Plate with a narrative scene of the Consort Yang

date: late 18th century

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Angel of the Divine Presence Bringing Eve to Adam (The Creation of Eve: "And She Shall be Called Woman) (recto); Sketch for the same (verso)

creator: William Blake

medium: Watercolor, pen and black ink, over graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Souvenir spoon with view of the Paseo del Maleron and finial in form of a postage stamp

date: late 19th century

medium: Gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1902


title: Manuscript Leaf with Saint John the Evangelist and Saint John the Baptist in an Initial M, from an Antiphonary

creator: Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius

date: second half 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
Italian

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


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1946


title: Please Remember The More Than 20,000 Black People Who Have Died From COVID-19

creator: Amos Kennedy

medium: Letterpress

credit_line: Gift of Nappy-negroes in art, 2020


title: Nude Warrior

date: late 16th century (?)

medium: Bronze on marble base

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1924


title: Panel with the Chinese Character for Longevity (Shou)

date: 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, 1984


title: Designs for a Ewer and a Candlestick

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Graphite, pen and ink, brush and wash

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Sword

date: possibly late 17–18th century

medium: Steel, iron, silver

country: South Indian, possibly Deccan

subjects:
Sword
South indian, possibly deccan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Wedding cravat

creator: Keys & Lockwood

medium: Silk

country: American

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: The education of the Virgin, with Saint Anne and the Virgin Mary reading with two putti overhead and Saint Joachim behind them at right

creator: Schelte Adams à Bolswert

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of five

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


title: Model for the so-called "Female Saint of Starnberg"

creator: Ignaz Günther

medium: Linden wood with pencil marks

credit_line: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Fund, 2008


title: Relief Fragment with Lotus Design

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Coptic

subjects: Coptic Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Porcelain "soft-paste"

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Gogenkin

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, silk

country: Japanese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Bowl

medium: Lacy pressed glass

country: American or British

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


title: Ispahan

creator: William Morris

date: designed ca. 1888

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Flounce

medium: Machine net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Glass two-handled bottle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Gold ring

date: early 4th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Arrowhead (<i>Yanone</i>)

date: dated 1645

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: A mule carrying a woman and a peasant walking with a mule to left, a fisherman to right casting his line towards the right, a bridge in the center background, from "Various Landscapes" (Divers Paysages)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Gold ring

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems


title: [John Burnet]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Figure of an Asiatic captive

medium: Ivory, red and pink pigment, white ground

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


title: The Departure

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Prince Genji and Three Young Women

creator: Chōbunsai Eishi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Peasant Paying his Bill

creator: Adriaen van Ostade


title: Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller

creator: Okumura Masanobu

date: first half 18th century

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

credit_line: Bequest of Katherine S. Dreier, 1952


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: The Crowning with Thorns

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Pen and brown ink, on paper washed pink

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund and Florence B. Selden Bequest, 2001


title: Snuffbox

creator: Meissen Manufactory

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

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1955


title: Figure Studies, Including Scenes of Interrogation

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash over touches of black chalk on pale blue-gray laid paper

credit_line: Purchase, Renée Sacks Bequest, 2005


title: [Child Sitting on Chair Draped with Floral Print Fabric]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype with applied color

subjects: Photograph Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Partisan

medium: Steel, wood

country: French

subjects:
Shafted weapon
French


title: Deux Personnages Assis (Two Seated Figures), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Jacques Callot

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1940


title: Ten Cavaliers Including Five Forming a V

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


title: Gimp

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer


title: Krishna as the Lord of the World (Shri Shri Jagannatha)

medium: Chromolithographic on paper

country: India, Kolkata, West Bengal

subjects:
Print
India, kolkata, west bengal

credit_line: Purchase, Peter Louis and Chandru Ramchandani Gift, 2018


title: Cuff

medium: Embroidered net

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Palm Cup

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Glass

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-vessel Frankish Palms

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Waltham Abbey, Essex

creator: Peter De Wint

medium: Graphite and watercolor

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: John P. "Monk" Cline, Right Field, Sioux City Corn Huskers, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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

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: Plate

medium: Glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Bacchant, Satyr, and Fauness, from the Scherzi

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund; Dodge and Pfeiffer Funds; Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Gift of Bertina Suida Manning and Robert L. Manning, 1976


title: Robe à la française

medium:
(a) silk, metallic thread
(b) silk, cotton
(c) silk
(d,e) metallic thread

country: European

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Trust Gift, 1981


title: Terracotta pyxis (box)

date: mid-6th century BCE

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Blackwork Design for Goldsmithwork with Satyr and Monkey

creator: Mathais Beitler

medium: Engraving and blackwork

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: Initial letter D with putto

creator: Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Die-counter or draught piece

medium: Stone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Cesnola inscription
Cypriot

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


title: William Walter "Wally" Andrews, 1st Base, Omaha Omahogs/Lambs, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Jason and the Dragon

creator: Salvator Rosa

medium: Etching and drypoint

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Ichikawa Ebizo (the Fourth Ichikawa Danjuro) as a Samurai

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

creator: Annibale Carracci

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: early 18th century

medium: Iron, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, bronze, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: St. Bonifacius and St. Homobonus, Patron Saints of Tailors

creator: Pieter de Jode II

medium: Engraving

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


title: Slab

medium: Jadeite

country: Myanmar (Burma)

subjects:
Jade
Myanmar (burma)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Funerary Cone

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Bracelet with lion mask terminals

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Gold roundel with stamped designs

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


title: An interior at Hatton, Warwickshire

creator: Granddaughters of Dr. Samuel Parr

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1991


title: Jar

date: possibly 2nd–4th century

medium: Transparent blue glass. Blown (the body probably blown in a mold), the rim finished at the furnace.

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Rice-Drying Frame

creator: Shibata Zeshin

medium: Album leaf; lacquer on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: The Prophet Amos, from Prophets and Sibyls

creator: Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving; first state of two (TIB)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Paul

creator: Micco Spadaro (Domenico Gargiulo)

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: In the middle of the river: Come on, Balochet, give it a push!... You mustn't forget that some forty Parisians are watching us from the bridge up there!, from 'The bathers,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire, July 30, 1864

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

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


title: Le Seur, Professeur de Mathématiques á la Sapience, a Rome

creator: Charles Nicolas Cochin II

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: [The Wilderness Battlefield]

creator: G. O. Brown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Sword with Scabbard

medium: Steel, brass, enamel, wood

country: Chinese

subjects: Sword Chinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Necklace

medium: metal

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Mask with Curly Hair, a Long Mustache and a Loosely Twisted Beard, from "Divers Masques"

creator: François Chauveau

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1945


title: The Adoration of the Shepherds

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

medium: Red chalk; framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Fringe

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Scene from Noh Dance

creator: Kosetsu

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

credit_line: Gift of T. Ito, Chicago, Ill, 1919


title: Card 290, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 4) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Washington's Reception by the Ladies on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N.J., April 1789, on His Way to New York to be Inaugurated First President of the United States

creator: Nathaniel Currier

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Emily C. Chadbourne, 1952


title: Benjamin Franklin

creator: Henry Kirke Brown

medium: Bronze

country: American

credit_line: Morris K. Jesup Fund, 2004


title: Panel from a Cover for an Icon of the Virgin

medium: Cloisonné enamel, gold, copper

country: Byzantine

subjects: Byzantine Enamels-cloisonné

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Palm Cup

medium: Glass


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined shape

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Harp Guitar

creator: Emilius N. Scherr

date: after 1831

medium: Wood, ivory, metal

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cuirass of a Haramaki

date: late 15th–16th century; probably relaced in the 18th century

medium: Iron, leather, lacquer, silk lace, gilt copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Armor part
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


title: Walking ensemble

medium: silk

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of David L. Andrews, 1976


title: The Deity Vajrabhairava, Tantric Form of the Bodhisattva Manjushri

date: early 15th century

medium: Silk embroidery with metal thread and horsehair on silk satin

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1993


title: A Short History: General E. Kirby Smith, 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


title: The Painter Louis Joseph Maurice (1730–1820)

creator: Peter Adolf Hall

medium: Ivory

credit_line: The Moses Lazarus Collection, Gift of Josephine and Sarah Lazarus, in memory of their father, 1888–95


title: Card Number 552, Fanny Rice, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: Kosode with a Paragon of Filial Piety

date: 19th century

medium: Resist-dyed, painted, and embroidered silk crepe

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Phillip H. Rubin, 2006


title: Ngombo

medium: Wood, fiber, skin

country: Tsogo People

subjects:
Chordophone-harp
Tsogo people

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Philip J. Hess Gift, 1981


title: Fragment

date: 17th–18th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Design for a Carta Gloria

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Roman, 18th century

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

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


title: Embroidered Medallion

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Silk and metal thread embroidery on a foundation of linen plain weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Byzantine
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Benjamin Moore, 1936


title: Knee with garment, pleats

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Asymmetric Pediform Hafted Ax

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Vietnam (North)

subjects:
Metalwork
Vietnam (north)

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


title: Doric capital with measurements

creator: Monogrammist G.A. with the Caltrop

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Court Carriage

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Stele with Pure Land Imagery

date: dated 758

medium: Limestone

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Palatina-style frame

medium: Poplar

country: Italian, Emilia (?)

subjects:
Frame
Italian, emilia

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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: Stockings

medium: cotton

credit_line: Gift of Bernard Hanson, 1978


title: Flat Bangle

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand