title: Piece

date: mid-19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1947


title: Vicar & Moses

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: August 8, 1784

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Plate 4 (second group) depicting the trades of Rome, here including vendors of mushrooms, strong oil, keys, candlesticks etc, from the 'Descrición de las artes que se llaman para los calles de la ciudad de Roma'

creator: Remondini

medium: Engraving with hand coloring

subjects:
Print
Mushrooms & fungi

credit_line: Purchase, Ann and Matthew Nimetz Gift, 2022


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Cast candlestick (one of a pair)

medium: Silver

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


title: Landscape with water-mill and figures fishing in boat on the left river on the right, from "Italian landscapes" (Diverse vedute designate in Fiorenza / Paysages italiens)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 6 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


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

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: David Watching Bathsheba Bathe

creator: de la Court

medium: Engraving with etching

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Pair of Thigh Defenses (Cuisses) with Knee Defenses (Poleyns)

date: 16th century

medium: Steel

country: German, Nuremberg

subjects:
German, nuremberg
Armor parts-thigh and leg defense

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Scarab Inscribed with the Name of the God Amun-Re

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

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


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 51 (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Shard:  Floral Meander

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Andrew Hale and Kate Fitz Gibbon, 1992


title: Keyhole Plate

medium: Brass

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Shield with crab and fish figures

creator: Moche artist(s)

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

subjects: Fish Metal-ornament Moche Crustaceans

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Sheet, linen mark, fine spin, irregular weave

medium: Linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Orchidées

creator: Ernest Bussière

medium: Glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2022


title: Bust of a woman bonbonnière and scent bottle

medium: Enamel on copper, glass

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


title: Standing Shepherd

creator: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

date: early 16th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Table screen with land of immortals

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Boy Seated on an Ox

date: 19th century

medium: White porcelain (Hirado ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Shawl

medium: wool

country: French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Randolph H. Nexsen, 1944


title: Lamp

date: 10th century

medium: Stone; carved


title: Tremissis

medium: Gold

country: Byzantine

subjects: Coin Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Two Ladies on a Verandah, One with Fan, the Other Threading a Needle

creator: Yashima Gakutei

date: early 19th century

medium: Diptych of woodblock prints (surimono); ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: The Lamentation Beneath the Cross, from Speculum passionis domini nostri Ihesu Christi

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1919


title: Maud Branscombe, from the Actresses and Celebrities series (N60, Type 1) promoting Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Arch of Septimius Severus, entablature, elevation; attic, base, elevation (recto) Arch of Septimius Severus, archivolt, elevation; impost, elevation; entablature, elevation; column base, elevation; column, 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: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Mark J. Millard Gift, 1968


title: Pictorial print

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Illustrated book

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: An Irish Howl

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Dancing Girl

creator: Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler

date: cast 1854

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Griffith Rowe, 1872


title: Walt Whitman

creator: John White Alexander

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Jeremiah Milbank, 1891


title: Dagger

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Steel, nephrite, silver, gold

country: Indian, Deccan, possibly Hyderabad

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, deccan, possibly hyderabad

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Le Petit Predicateur

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Etching, second state

credit_line: Purchase, Roland L. Redmond Gift, Louis V. Bell and Rogers Funds, 1972


title: Ravachol. François Claudius Kœnigstein. 33 ans, né à St-Chamond (Loire). Condamné le 27/4/92.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Princely Hawking Party

creator: Mirza 'Ali

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Armchair

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1931


title: Flower vase with stand (vase hollandais nouveau) (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Axel Paulsen, Skater, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pair of Ear Ornaments, Ruby and Crystal

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen, 2001


title: Vase with cover (probably vase à bâtons rompus)


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Cup and Cover

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

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Plate 2: a peasant woman removing her shoes in center, another peasant woman and two cows in a stream to left, a bridge to right in the background, from "Various Landscapes" (Divers Paysages)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Jelly Glass

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

country: American or British

subjects:
Ornament & design
American or british

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Portal of Saint-Ursin, Bourges

creator: Bisson Frères

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


title: Bowl

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Strip

date: late 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Amelia B. Lazarus in name of Miss Emilie Lazarus, 1895


title: Roundel with Adoration of the Kings

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: North Netherlandish

subjects:
Glass-stained
North netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1972


title: Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

creator: Kekrops Painter

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1956


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Votive Tablet with Deity

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Clay

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Commodore's Pennant, Sweden, from the Naval Flags series (N17) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea


title: James Albert "Al" Myers, Shortstop, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Headdress Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gilded copper

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Standing Stone Figure

date: 5th century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Stone

country: Bahia

subjects: Stone-sculpture Bahia

credit_line: Gift of Margaret B. Zorach, 1980


title: Design for a ceiling

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, and watercolor

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: The Archangel Gabriel

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

medium: Stipple engraving and etching

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Bella C. Landauer, 1941


title: Teabowl

creator: Kiyomizu Rokubei III

medium: Clay covered with finely crackled glaze over a design (Kiyomizu ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: John A. Sidell

creator: John Vanderlyn

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of C. V. Sidell, 1899


title: Basin fragment with the name of Apries

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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

date: 5th century BCE

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Baku (Mythical Animals) among Ruyi-Shaped Clouds

date: 18th century

medium: Lacquer, dark green, mottled ground, red, grey, gold and black hiramakie; Interior: roiro and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Oltos

date: late 6th century/early 5th century


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Rosette

date: dated 1575

medium: Brass

country: German

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
German

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Pattens

date: second quarter 19th century

medium: Leather, wood, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Herman Delman, 1954


title: Basket

medium: Ash splint, wood, paint

country: Pequot (?)

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


title: Part of a carving from an overmantel (five parts)

creator: Grinling Gibbons

medium: Carved and gilded oak

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Pipe Tamper with rattling elements

medium: Wood

country: Native American (Northern Plains)

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
Native american (northern plains)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes: Band or lip cups (drinking cups)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic


title: Sheet with overall dot and line pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Dagger (Khanjar)

medium: Steel, jade or agate, gold

country: Indian, Mughal or Deccan

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, mughal or deccan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Village Scene with Woman Standing Beside a Seated Man (copy)

creator: Thomas Wijck

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1986


title: Landscape with Windmill

creator: Anthonie Erkelens

medium: Pen and brown ink and watercolor

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2003


title: Flute

date: 200 BCE–100 CE

medium: clay

country: Colima

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-recorder
Colima

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Fong Chow, 2013


title: [Study of Legs]

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Dr. Welsh

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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


title: Irwin, Shortstop, Philadelphia, from the Kalamazoo Bats series (N690) issued by Chas. Gross & Co. to promote Kalamazoo Bats

creator: Chas. Gross & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sheet with two borders with Italian landscapes

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

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


title: Judgment of Paris

creator: Simon Francis Ravenet, the elder

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


date: early 5th century BCE


title: Lamentation

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Carl Joseph Ulmann, 1924


title: Christ Healing a Possessed Man

creator: Aureliano Milani

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over traces of black chalk, on light brown paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Angel: Saint Michael

creator: Francesco Celebrano

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Scarab Finger Ring Inscribed for Nakht

medium: Glazed steatite, silver

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Painted Bowl

date: 2nd–6th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Michoacán

subjects: Michoacán Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Baker, 1961


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Storage Jar (Albarello)

date: 16th century or later

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Tropical Scenery, View Near Chipigana

creator: John Moran

subjects: Photograph Landscapes

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


title: Piece

creator: George Downs

medium: Silk

credit_line: Purchase, Everfast Fabrics Inc. Gift, 1971


title: Card 642, Pauline Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 7) for Dixie Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Figure of the Dead Christ with Mourning Angel (The Lamentation)

creator: Pedro  Duque Cornejo

medium: Black chalk. On off-white paper

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Jaffe, 1956


title: Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil Worshippers; and an Inquiry into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians

medium: Paper, board, cloth

country: British

credit_line: Henrietta and Christopher McCall Collection, Purchase, Henrie Jo Barth Bequest, and Museum Acquisitions and Josephine Lois Berger-Nadler Endowment Funds, 2023


title: Plate 7: Allegory of Justice with griffin of Manlius Toquatus, from "Barberinae aulae fornix"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Page of Calligraphy from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

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


title: Plate

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Catharine Van Vliet De Witt Sterry, 1908


title: Armor plate

date: ca. late 8th–late 7th century BCE

medium: Iron

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Sleigh with Rumble Seat #3806a

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Emperor Lucius Verus A.D. 161-169

creator: Giovanni del Cavino

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of The Mark and Lottie Salton Trust, 2021


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


title: Anthology of Persian Poetry

creator: Amir Shahi of Sabzavar

date: 16th century

medium:
Main support: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Binding: Lacquer

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Glass square bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Terracotta composite vase

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, gold, brass, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1946


title: Jar

creator: Teotihuacan artist(s)

medium: Ceramic

country: Teotihuacan

subjects: Teotihuacan Ceramics-container

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Revenge on Constable Lampiños; page 86 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Brush, brown ink washes, touches of gray ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Mercury and Turtle

creator: Albert E. Harnisch

medium: Marble

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George K. Livermore, 1982


title: Earring

medium: Silver and jade

country: Tibet

subjects: Jewelry Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Anne Archbold, 1954


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Count Robert de Montesquiou, No. 2

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph with scraping, drawn on thin transparent transfer paper; only state (Chicago); printed in black ink on grayish ivory China paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Scabbard slide

date: 3rd–1st century BC

medium: Jade (nephrite)

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Pull Toy of a Cart and Driver

date: ca. 15th century

country: Indonesia (East Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (east java)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987


title: Sheet 2 of figures for Chinese shadow puppets

creator: Juan Llorens

medium: Woodcut (?wood engraving matrix)

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Sealing

medium: Clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Moonlight on the Yodo River (Yodogawa), from the series Snow, Moon, and Flowers (Setsugekka)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

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


title: War Hat (Jingasa)

date: probably 18th century

medium: Iron

subjects: Helmet Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, 1907


title: Warrior

date: late 6th–7th century

medium: Glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2019


title: Seal Impression, Bishop

date: 14th century

medium: Brown wax

country: Netherlandish

subjects: Miscellaneous-wax Netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of H.P. Kraus, 1981


title: Stamp-cylinder seal with cultic scene

date: ca. 8th century BCE

medium: Banded red and beige Siltstone

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1985


title: [Wharves at Bermuda Hundred Landing, James River, Virginia]

creator: Andrew Joseph Russell

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Netsuke of a Hunter Trying to Catch a Fox Beneath a Straw Hat

creator: Shūōsai

date: early 19th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Alvin H. Schechter, 1985


title: Hat

medium: Straw, silk, cotton

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


title: Valance

medium: Cotton and linen twill embroidered with crewel wool

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Copper Peapod Ornament

date: 12th–15th century

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Chimú (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Chimú

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


title: Allegorical Figures on Mount Parnassus: Study for the etching Triumph of Painting

creator: Pietro Testa

medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk.  The sketch of Pegasus in black chalk only.  Framing lines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund,1980


title: Fall Games – The Apple Bee (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. III)

creator: Winslow Homer

date: November 26, 1859

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Three Peonies

creator: Anne Vallayer-Coster

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

credit_line: Purchase, Renée Sacks Bequest, 2005


title: Taweret Figurine

medium: Rock crystal

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Scarab

medium: Amethyst


title: Profile portrait of a woman

creator: Joseph Jean Bernard

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, touches of blue wash, over black chalk

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Bed curtain border

medium: Linen, silk, metallic

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


title: Sauce Dish

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Plate 36, from "World in Miniature"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined open shape

date: 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric

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


title: Tara, the Buddhist Savior

medium: Gilt copper alloy with color and semiprecious stone inlay

country: Nepal, Kathmandu Valley

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal, kathmandu valley

credit_line: Louis V. Bell Fund, 1966


title: Embroidered coverlet

creator: Ruth Culver Coleman

medium: Linen and wool, embroidered

credit_line: Sansbury-Mills Fund, 1961


title: Terracotta oil lamp

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

country: Greek or Roman

subjects:
Terracotta
Greek or roman

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


title: R.D. Sears, Champion American Lawn Tennis Player, from World's Champions, Second Series (N43) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Square Box Wagon #467 & #716 (verso)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Graphite, pen and black in, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Comb

medium: brass

country: Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn and Mrs. Alice Lewisohn Crowley, 1946


title: Stamp seal: lion and horned animal

date: ca. late 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Hematite

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


title: Metalwork mould

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Bowl

date: 12th century

medium: Earthenware; glazed

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929


title: Miscellany of 17th-century Ornament Print Series: Examples of Antique Chimneypieces, Cabinets, Gueridons, Tables and Mirrors, in addition to Italian Church Facades, by illustrious architects, or a sequel to S. Bosboom

creator: Jan Barend Elwe

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects:
Ornament & design
Book

credit_line: Gift of Morrison Heckscher, 2014


title: Nine Spades (black), from the Playing Cards series (N84) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Veilleuse with clock

medium: Painted glass and mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Bequest of Zita Spiss, 1991


title: Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a field lease

date: ca. 7th–4th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian or Achaemenid

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Amphoriskos

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Standing cup with cover

creator: G. E. Kunckel

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Calligraphy

creator: Wang Wenzhi

date: dated 1801

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Woven Panel

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Cotton

country: Peru; central coast (?)

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Imperial Robe

date: late 18th–early 19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. James W. Gerard, 1956


title: Two Variants for a Cartouche with Palm Leave Decoration

creator: Giovanni Battista Foggini

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk

subjects: Drawing Palms

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


title: Dagger (Pesh-kabz)

date: 19th century

medium: Steel, gold, ivory (walrus)

country: Iranian

subjects: Dagger Iranian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Ostrakon

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Terracotta sherd from a vessel with horizontal bands and cross-hatched diamond pattern

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Vase
Greek, laconian
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1924


title: Set of four three-light sconces (bras de lumière)

creator: Etienne-Jean Forestier

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1979


title: Saucer

creator: Saint-Cloud factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Gold Earring with Pearls and Sapphires

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Gold, sapphire, pearls

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-gold Byzantine

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: John L. Tucker

creator: Southworth and Hawes

medium: Daguerreotype

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


title: Mask

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Copper, shell (?) inlay, pigment

country: Moche

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Moche
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1967


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Val Andre, from the Fancy Bathers series (N187) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

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


title: Ancient Concerts – A Rehearsal

creator: John Doyle

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2014


title: Palazzo Nerone

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and pale red wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: La Sultane

creator: J. F. G. Colson

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Durga and Kali Approach the Gathered Armies of Chanda and Munda: Scene from the Devi Mahatmya

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Himachal Pradesh, Guler)

subjects:
Painting
India (himachal pradesh, guler)

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 1997


title: Preparatory Drawing for a Print Series on the History of Germany (Die Geschichte des deutschen Volkes in fünfzehn Bildern)

creator: Carl Heinrich Hermann

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014


title: Sheet Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Coptic
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Bottle

creator: Lorenz Speckner

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware; pewter mounts

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


title: Ceramium rubrum

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Design for an Interior, possibly a Theater

creator: V. S. Léon

medium: Graphite, watercolor, gouache

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


title: Vest

medium: silk, cotton

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Louis A. Phillips, 1953


title: Necklace with Repoussé Lotus Terminals

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Ball bead necklace

date: ca. 1981–1802 B.C. probably

medium: Garnet, carnelian, agate

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


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Orphrey Band

date: 15th century

medium: Silk, linen and metal thread

country: German

subjects:
Costume & fashion
German
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Baluster

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Model of a House

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1907


title: Glass mosaic ribbed bowl fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Head of a woman

creator: Pietro Testa

medium: Etching printed in brown ink

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


title: [Principal Gate of MESHED]

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Limestone head of a beardless male with a plain headdress

date: first half of the 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Mortimer Martin "Mart" McQuaid, Right Field, Denver, 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: Arlie Latham, 3rd Base, St. Louis Browns, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Profile Warrior Face

medium: Silvered copper

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Towel border

medium: Silk, metallic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Jar

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Miss Mary Sinclair Burkham, 1917


title: Bowl with Eight-Pointed Star

date: late 8th–9th century

medium: Earthenware; polychrome slip decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Covered Sugar Bowl

creator: Henry Will

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Roger Gerry, 1985


title: Chancelier Michel IV Le Tellier

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving; second state of three (Petitjean & Wickert)

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Gold and lapis-lazuli boat-shaped earring

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Gold, Lapis lazuli

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Aquamanile in the Form of a Soldier on Horseback

date: early 15th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: Fragment of a terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

creator: Prometheus Painter

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Miss Matilda W. Bruce, 1907


title: Decorated jar fragment

medium: Pottery and ink, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Tapestry Sash

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Chancay

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Chancay
Textiles-woven


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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

date: early 5th century BCE

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


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk, silver-gilt strips

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Clock ornament

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Decanter

medium: Glass

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Standing Buddha Shakyamuni

date: 9th century

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Gift of Samuel Eilenberg, 1987


title: Sealing

medium: Clay

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


title: Panel

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Gold earring with head of a goat

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Greek

subjects:
Gold and silver
Greek

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


title: Flask

date: 1st–2nd century

medium: Earthenware with green glaze

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

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


title: A Reformational Allegory

creator: Dirck Pietersz. Crabeth

medium: Pen and two shades of brown ink, over black chalk; framing line in pen and brown ink, by a later hand

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein, Charles and Jessie Price, and Carolyn H. Specht Gifts; Frits and Rita Markus, Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Logan, and Mary Oenslager Funds, 2012


title: Panel

date: second half 8th century

medium: Wood (fig); mosaic with bone and four different types of wood

subjects:
Wood
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1937


title: Hairpin

medium: Silver inlaid with glass

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Vase with floral scrolls

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

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Vase with scholar objects

date: early 18th century

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

credit_line: Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929


title: Miniature tankard

date: 18th and 19th century

medium: Silver, gilt

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


title: Stone Beads

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stone, probably jet; painted and incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Foreigners Enjoying Children's Kabuki at the Gankirō Tea House

creator: Utagawa Yoshikazu

date: 1st month, 1861

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Pair of tassels

date: 17th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: William Boerum

creator: Henry Colton Shumway

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: The Resurrection of Lazarus

creator: Jan Lievens

medium: Etching; laid down on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Harrison D. Horblit, 1986


title: San Pietro di Castello

creator: Giacomo Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Wedding dress

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk, pearl

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Miss Agnes Miles Carpenter, 1941


title: The Arch in the Entryway of the Right Portal (Die Porten des Adels); and the Outer Right Column of the Central Portal, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut and letterpress

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Two Children Embrace

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Maya (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Maya

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: String of Short Cylindrical Beads

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Fan

medium: Ivory, carved and painted

subjects: Fans China

credit_line: Gift of Chester Holcomb, 1889


title: Crane, New York, from the series Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph, cabinet card

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


title: Slippers

medium: silk, leather

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Philip K. Rhinelander, 1946


title: Nautilus shell cup with cover

creator: Elkington & Co.

date: 19th century, after 17th century original

medium: Silver on base metal; nautilus shell

subjects:
Metalwork-electrotype
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Towel

date: early 19th century

medium: Linen, metal thread and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Male Figure (Aripa)

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Wood, paint

country: Inyai-Ewa people

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Inyai-ewa people

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1967


title: Weight

date: 3rd–1st millennium BCE

medium: Magnetite

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


title: Chief Gall, Hunkpapa Sioux, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N36) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Bead in the Form of a Bunch of Grapes


title: Farmyard

creator: Charles Michel Ange Challe

date: mid-18th century

medium: Black and white chalk, gray wash, over a black chalk counterproof

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: Bottoms-up cup or stirrup cup (Sturzbecher)

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

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


title: Archibald McCall

creator: John Hesselius

medium: Watercolor, gold leaf, and lead white on ivory

credit_line: Dale T. Johnson Fund, 2001


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Nsodie (memorial head)

creator: Akan artist

date: 17th–mid-18th century

medium: Terracotta

country: Akan peoples

subjects:
Akan people
Ceramics-sculpture


title: Square Bottle

date: 18th century

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue and white (Arita ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Terracotta rhyton (vase for libations or drinking)

creator: Patera-Ganymede Workshop

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Fork with carved handle in the form of Diana

date: late 18th century

medium: Steel, ivory

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton and wool on linen

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


title: Box with Design of Pine, Bamboo, and Plum

medium: Sprinkled gold on lacquer (maki-e)

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1910


title: Le Faucon, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine.  A Paris, de l'imprimerie de  P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

creator: Jean-Baptiste Tilliard

medium: Etching; first state of three (Cohen)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: "Bahram Gur in the Yellow Palace on Sunday", Folio 213 from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja

creator: Nizami

date: dated 931 AH/1524–25 CE

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

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Profil du Portail; Entrée Du Cloitre, Arles, Eglise Metropolitaine de Saint-Trophime

creator: Charles Nègre

medium: Salted paper prints from paper negatives

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)


title: Costume Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Central coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Central coast

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


title: Bodhisattva

medium: Fresco

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Otto Burchard, 1929


title: Actress resting face on hands, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Ceremonial dagger-ax?

date: ca. 500 BCE

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Sheet with two borders with drapery and floral designs

creator: Anonymous

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects: Print Flowers

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


title: Side Chair

creator: Duncan Phyfe

medium: Rosewood, ash, and tulip poplar

credit_line: Purchase, The Edgar J. Kaufmann Foundation Gift, 1968


title: Medallion with Enthroned Figure and Attendants

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Earthenware; carved

credit_line: Gift of N. M. Heeramaneck, 1930


title: Vase

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass China

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


title: Girl in a Straw Bonnet

creator: Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse

medium: Terracotta with wood base

credit_line: Wrightsman Fund, 1987


title: Woodblock

medium: Wood, metal

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1980


title: Shabti of Djedkhonsuefankh

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Irma B. Wilkinson, in memory of Charles K. Wilkinson, 1987


title: Portrait of Rambaldo, graf von Collalto

creator: Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk, brush and gray ink; tacked down on white board; incised

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 13 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Two Handled Jar and Lid with the Head of Bes

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Barbute

medium: Steel

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Helmet
Italian, milan

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: View of hillside with ruins (an aqueduct?) and mountain crag beyond, in the foreground a man kneels on the grass beside a standing man and a dog

creator: Karel Dujardin

medium: Etching

subjects:
Print
Grasses & sedges

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Chariot Yoke Ornament in the Shape of a Doe

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: North China

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork
North china

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Federal House with Lyre-design Fence

creator: Anonymous, American, 19th century

medium: Ink wash over graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Cup and saucer

date: last quarter 18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Thèbes, Vue prise du Pylône du Ramasséum

creator: Emile Béchard

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, 2015


title: cover

medium: silk; metal.

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: 15 Oval Scenes From the Life of Christ and a Scene of a Saint Adoring the Holy Cross

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th or 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk; framing lines

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Illustration design for "The Economy of Human Life"

creator: Frank Howard

medium: Watercolor

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


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

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


title: Morita Kanya VIII as Kawachi Kanja, Disguised as Genkaibo

creator: Tōshūsai Sharaku

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: Short Sword (Duan Jian)

date: ca. 4th–1st century BCE

medium: Steel, bronze, gold

country: Eastern Central Asian

subjects:
Sword
Eastern central asian

credit_line: Purchase, Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Funds from various donors, by exchange, 1998


title: Necklace

date: late 19th century

medium: metal, stones

country: Turkmen

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Horse bit with cheekpieces in form of a horse

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Cora Timken Burnett Collection of Persian Miniatures and Other Persian Art Objects, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Stela of the temple servant of Amun Irtihareru adoring Re-Harakhty and Atum

medium: Wood, gesso, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration, glazed

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wendell M. Hastings, 1960


title: Ax Blade (Celt)

medium: Copper

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

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


title: Study for Geometry in "The Sorbonne"

creator: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

medium: Fabricated black crayon; squared in blue crayon

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1935


title: Terracotta statuette of Silenos (?) drinking

date: 3rd century BCE (?)

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Glass bracelet with impressed decoration

date: late 4th–5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Cover

date: 18th century

medium: Glass, gilt

credit_line: Gift of Zita Spiss, in memory of her father, Julius Triger, 1990


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Sheet with dot and floral pattern

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

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


title: William Van Winkle "Jimmy" Wolf, Right Field, Louisville Colonels, 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: Four upholstery panels for a settee

creator: Beauvais

medium: Wool and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1935


title: Pair of dishes

creator: T. and J. Creswick

medium: Sheffield plate

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Tricolor Bowl

date: 14th century

medium: Terracotta with yellow-brown and green glaze over slip, decorated in sgraffito

country: Byzantine

subjects: Ceramic Byzantine

credit_line: Purchase, V. Everit Macy Gift, 1933


title: Lappet

medium: Bobbin lace, Point de Paris

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


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

creator: Shōami Denbei

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Iron, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Design for the Engraving "Réjouissances du Peuple . . . à Reims le 27 aout 1765"

creator: Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1967


title: Road Wagon #706

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Netsuke of an Arhat

medium: Wood

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Title and plate 1 depicting the cries (trades) of Rome, here including vendors of goldfish, Milanese swords, hats etc, from the 'Descrición de las artes que se llaman para los calles de la ciudad de Roma'

creator: Remondini

medium: Engraving with hand coloring

credit_line: Purchase, Ann and Matthew Nimetz Gift, 2022


title: Dagger (Chilanum)

medium: Steel, gold

country: South Indian

subjects:
Dagger
South indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Seated Figure with Vessel

creator: Colima artist(s)

date: 200 BCE–300 CE

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Colima

subjects:
Colima
Ceramics-sculpture
Ships & the sea

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Roman


title: Pinhead

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fire screen

medium: Carved walnut, wool and silk tapestry panel

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Cuneiform tablet case impressed with cylinder seal in Anatolian style

date: ca. 20th–19th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Peter Oliver Gift, 1977


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Game Piece

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Fragment of Porcelaneous Ware

medium: Porcelaneous ware with clear glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Fragment of lace

medium: Textiles-Laces


title: Scarab seal: lion and snake

medium: Steatite, white

credit_line: Gift of Harris D. and H. Dunscombe Colt, 1934


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: Engineer Corps, Spain, 1853, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes


title: Amulet

medium: Gold

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


title: James Thomas "Deacon" McGuire, Catcher, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Shawl

date: last quarter 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Lesley Frost Ballantine, in memory of Joseph W. Ballantine, 1975


title: Bell

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Metalwork Thailand

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


title: The Middle Section of the Entryway to the Central Portal, the Columns Decorated by Sirens and Sleeping Soldiers Behind, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Rose Rene, from the Actresses series (N246), Type 2, issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sporting Extra Cigarettes

subjects: Photograph Roses


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, wood, horn, lacquer, gold

country: Bornean, scabbard Javanese

subjects:
Krisse
Bornean, scabbard javanese


title: "Opening of the Mouth"  vessel of Perneb

medium: Dark stone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1914


title: Four drawings showing the manufacture of saws

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite, white chalk, pen and ink, on gray paper

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


title: Stone Figure

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Stone-sculpture Mezcala

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


title: Marriage A-la-Mode, plate IV (reverse copy)

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: On a Rustic Bridge, Carrying a Zither

creator: Urakami (Uragami) Gyokudō 浦上玉堂

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: A Scene from the Story of Tobit

creator: Henri Lehmann

medium: Oil paint on paper, mounted on cardboard

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1986


title: Portrait of Zhu Xi

creator: Tani Bunchō

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Portraits

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2023


title: Sketchbook of White Mountains and Hudson River Subjects

creator: David Johnson

medium: Drawings in graphite on off-white wove paper, bound in cloth- and leather-covered boards

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Martha J. Fleischman and Barbara G. Fleischman, 1999


title: Glass and gold inlay

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Chinese musicians

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: An American on Horseback and a Chinese with a Furled Umbrella

creator: Utagawa Yoshiiku

date: 12th month, 1860

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Brush holder

medium: Nephrite, white with light greenish tint

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Terracotta fragment of a volute-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: Dish

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Plate

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Blown amber glass with applied threaded decoration

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Eight Conical Gaming Pieces

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1901


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain decorated in blue under the glaze (Arita ware, Imari type)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Study of an Urn; Study for the Frieze Decoration around the Urn

creator: Edward Pierce (Pearce) II

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and blue-gray wash, over black chalk; stencilled gold border

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2011


title: Sword Pommel

medium: Jade

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Food Box with Striped Decoration and Chinese Figures

date: 17th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki‑e, lead, and mother‑of‑pearl inlay on black ground

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Jeanne Gonzales Painting in the Garden

creator: Henri Charles Guérard

medium: Color drypoint, roulette and aquatint on wove paper; seventh state of seven

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2018


title: Terracotta cup

country: Greek

subjects: Vase Greek

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


title: Pelerine

date: second quarter 19th century

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, The German Fur Federation Gift, 1981


title: Chiyoda Castle (Album of Men)

creator: Yōshū (Hashimoto) Chikanobu

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

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Walton Butterworth, 1979


title: Saint Roch at left distributing alms to a group of people gathered around him, after Annibale Caracci

creator: Francesco Brizio

medium: Etching

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


title: Pick

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: St. Jerome

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Louise Rice, in memory of Eugene F. Rice Jr., 2023


title: Tab'l Shamee

date: late 19th century

medium: Metal, skin

country: Egyptian

subjects: Membranophone-single-headed / kettle drum

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Statuette of Eros

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted under colorless glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

creator: Dolon Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Lucanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, lucanian

credit_line: Gift of Joseph V. Noble, 1958


title: Sarape

medium: wool

country: Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Van S. Merle-Smith, 1941


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Joined pair of cherubs

date: second half 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Sheet with faded floral pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Nlô byeri (reliquary guardian head)

creator: Betsi-Fang artist

medium: Wood, copper alloy, palm oil

country: Betsi-Fang peoples

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Betsi-fang people
Palms

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


title: Emperor of Brazil, from World's Sovereigns series (N34) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

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


title: Mug

creator: Henry Will

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, in memory of her husband, 1940


title: The Nôtre-Dame Pump, Paris, from "Etchings of Paris"

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching on chine collé; eighth state of ten

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Teapot (part of a service)

creator: Digby Scott

medium: Silver; ivory

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in remembrance of Eric N. Shrubsole, 2023


title: The Last Supper, from "The Small Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Terracotta trefoil oinochoe (jug)

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Trionfo Di Virtu. Libro Novo..., page 16 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Lead ornament

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

credit_line: Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1924


title: Chasuble and maniple

date: second quarter 18th century

medium: Silk, metal

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: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: China or Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China or japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Dancer Onstage

creator: Edgar Degas

medium: Gouache over graphite underdrawing on thin wove commercially coated yellow paper, laid down on board

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


title: Tool

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of The British School of Archaeology, 1926


title: "Here's my Maud S.," from the Terrors of America set (N136) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Waka poems from the Collection of Poems of a Thousand Years, Continued

creator: Kojima Sōshin

medium: Handscroll; ink on decorated silk with color and gold

country: Japan

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2018


title: Chessmen (30) and box

creator: Byron W. Stanton

medium: Wood

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent

creator: baron François Gérard

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 2012


title: Bottle with fox head

creator: Moche artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Band

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk and metal wrapped thread

credit_line: Gift of Alan L. Wolfe, 1961


title: Collar composed of the Letters “S” and “M”

date: 15th century

medium: Silver, partially gilded

subjects: Metalwork-silver British

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Florene Schoenborn, by exchange, 2024


title: Birds and Flowers

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Katherine S. Dreier, 1952


title: Amulet of a squatting royal female child with the name Nefertari Merimut on the underside

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Gift of Martha K. Diefenbach, 1969


title: Terracotta fragment of a stemless 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: [Performer in Bugaku-style Costume]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print with applied color

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

credit_line: Mrs. Jackson Burke Gift, 1983


title: Relief fragment possibly from the tomb of Mereri

medium: Stone

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1898


title: Miss Emilione, from the Actresses series (N190) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial lithograph

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


title: Fuwa Banzaemon

creator: Utagawa Toyokuni II

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Marble sarcophagus fragment: head of a Gaul

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1926


title: Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Silver Crab Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: North Coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
North coast
Crustaceans

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


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: Creamer

creator: Moore and Ferguson

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Owl Amulet

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Fan, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 5) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Glass bowl

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Moon flask with white and gold crane

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Bone china "ivory porcelain" with gilding

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017


title: The Scold, with News of Olivia

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Souvenir

creator: C. B.

medium: Gold; ivory

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Louksor (Thèbes), Vue Générale des Ruines

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print  from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Hans P. Kraus Jr. and Mariana Cooke, 1997


title: Candlestand

medium: Wood

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


creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 47 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Spoon

creator: I. G., London

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Scarab of Ramesses II

medium: Glazed steatite

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


title: Diana holding fruit in her left hand standing within a niche

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Fruits

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


title: The Sacrifice of Elijah

creator: Luca Giordano

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: [The "Mine," Petersburg, Virginia]

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Ring

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Sts. Peter and Paul Seated in a Landscape

creator: Lucas van Leyden

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Taíno (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Taíno

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Fragment

date: 13th century

medium: Stained Glass

country: Crusader

subjects: Glass-stained Crusader

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


title: Terracotta vase in the form of a siren

country: East Greek, Rhodian

subjects:
Vase
East greek, rhodian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Beads

date: second half 15th century

medium: Gold, cloisonné enamel, pearls; filigree

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Engageantes

medium: cotton

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, The German Fur Federation Gift, 1981


title: Plaque with figure of Atlas

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Terracotta rhyton (vase for libations or drinking)

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Self-Portrait

creator: Adam von Bartsch

medium: Etching and engraving; sixth state of six (Rieger)

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation and Barbara and Howard Fox Gifts, 2017


title: The Shepherd and the Lamb

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, Rogers Fund, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and Gift of Henry Walters, by exchange, 1970


title: Design for Wagon, no. 994d

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Covered Box

medium: Painted enamel

country: China

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889


title: Candlestick

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


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: Netsuke of Demon with His Head in a Box

date: 18th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Les jambes croisées

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Study of a Garden Sculpture: Leda?

creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Gift of Robert Lehman, 1941


title: Part of a dress border

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Letter Addressed to Itō Kakō

creator: Ike no Taiga

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

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


title: Glass mosaic inlay

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Egyptian, Roman

subjects:
Glass
Egyptian, roman


title: Copper Openwork Mace Head

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-implement Vicú

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


title: Tracery Arcade from the Great South Window of Canterbury Cathedral

creator: Master Mason Stephen Lote

medium: Caen stone

credit_line: Purchase, The Cloisters Collection, Jane N. Holt Gift, Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, by exchange, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald R. Atkins Gift, and funds from various donors, 2019


title: Giuseppe Cesare, called Cavaliere d'Arpino, a bust-length portrait in a twelve-sided frame

creator: Ottavio Leoni (Il Padovano)

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Gobular bottle with dragon

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain with incised decoration under brownish purple glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Design for a Stage Set:  Stairway and Arcades Leading to a Salone

creator: Giovanni Battista Natali III

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and gray wash, over graphite or black chalk

credit_line: Purchase, Ian Woodner Family Foundation Gift, 1974


title: A Young Girl holding a Cat

creator: Louis Marin Bonnet

medium: Crayon-manner engraving printed in sanguine ink; second state of two

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1955


title: Flageolet in C?

date: 17th century

medium: ivory

country: German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Drachm of Alexander the Great

medium: Silver

subjects: Coin Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Svirel

date: late 19th century

medium: Cane

country: Russian

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


title: Bead

date: 7th–6th millennium BCE

medium: Chalcedony

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985


title: "Watch him kick it," from the Terrors of America set (N136) 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: Egypte, from "Jeu de la Géographie"

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching, state iii

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


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

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1914


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3467

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Tai Fish and Lobster; Specialities of Yanagiya in Odawara-cho

creator: Totoya Hokkei

date: 19th century

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

country: Japan

subjects: Fish Print Japan Crustaceans


title: Scenes from the Story of Abraham

date: mid-17th century

medium: Linen worked with silk thread; tent and couching stitches

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Young Woman Surrounded by Briars, Lightning and Roses (Chapter Heading, "Le Morte d'Arthur," J. M. Dent 1893–94, Part III, book vi, chapter xvii, p. 215 and Part VII, book x, chapter xxii, p. 500)

creator: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

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

subjects: Drawing Roses

credit_line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1919


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Limestone statue fragment of a right hand holding a phiale (libation bowl)

date: late 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Port of Rome, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Spring Ablutions at the Orchid Pavilion

creator: Wang Wenzhi

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting China Orchids

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Ball gown

medium: silk, cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William S. Jordan, 1977


title: Stained Glass Design with Flowering Vase

creator: E. E. Q.

medium: Watercolor and pen and ink

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Bed curtain

medium: Linen

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


title: Death of Saint Joseph

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Emilian (Parmese), 17th century

medium: Red chalk, pen and brown ink, highlighted with white and blue-green gouache on light brown paper; squared in black chalk

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1964


title: Dark prison with a courtyard for the punishment of criminals... (Carcere oscura con Antenna pel suplizio dè malfatori...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Smoker at the Window

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

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


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Stucco

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Plaster

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Dragon among Spiraling Clouds

medium: Lacquer, fundame, sumie togidashi; Interior: gyobu nashiji & fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Bracelet, One of a Pair

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Gold and silver

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Flying Squirrel, from Quadrupeds series (N41) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Mammals

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


title: Military collar

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous gift, 1944


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Objects for Tea Ceremony

medium: Lacquer, roiro, gold and brown hiramakie, wood, raden, various inlay; Interior: roiro and fundame


title: Design for a Commode

creator: A. Damon et Cie.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor, gouache

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


title: Key

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Iron

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


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

medium: Albumen photograph


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Armor of Giovanni Battista Bourbon del Monte (1541–1614)

medium: Steel, gold, textile, leather

country: Italian, possibly Brescia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor for man-1/2 armor
Italian, possibly brescia

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Box

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Nuit Blanche

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Brush and spatter lithograph with scraper printed in black on mounted wove paper; only state

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Wedding slippers

medium: silk, leather

credit_line: Gift of The Misses Mary L. and Katherine Gardner, 1958


title: Hair Ornament, One of a Pair

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Gold; cast, fabricated, engraved, with a copper alloy inner sleeve, decorated with twisted wire and granulation

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Krishna Spying on Radha

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Punjab Hills, Mandi)

subjects:
Painting
India (punjab hills, mandi)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin N. Haas, 1977


title: Coach # 874

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Watercolor and gouache and pen and black , gum arabic, metallic ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes(drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Spice box

creator: Johann Engelbrecht

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, in memory of Stephen M. Kellen, 2005


title: Sealing

date: 4th millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Tsambouna

medium: Cane, wood, horn, sheepskin

country: Greek

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-bagpipe
Greek

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Nesting Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Plate

date: probably late 17th century

medium: Colorless (slightly gray), opaque red-brown, and opaque white (slightly gray) nonlead glass. Blown, "vetro a retorti".

country: Italian (Venice)

subjects:
Glass
Italian (venice)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Actor Nakamura Nakazo as a Daimyo

creator: Katsukawa Shunkō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: The Francis Lathrop Collection, Purchase, Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1911


title: Chevron

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Nova Alphati Effictio Historiis Ad Singulas Litteras Correspondentibus

creator: Theodor de Bry

medium: Engravings

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Shoes

medium: Silk

country: possibly British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Herman Delman, 1954


title: Louis XIII and Richelieu

creator: Jean Varin

date: 17th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Gwynne M. Andrews, 1931


title: Sarcophagus

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Violin

creator: Chukchee People

medium: Pinewood

country: Russian (Siberia)


title: Standing cup

medium: Zwischengold glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (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: Allegory of America, from "The Four Continents"

creator: Johann Justin Preissler

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Plate

creator: A. Stevenson, Cobridge

date: 19th century

medium: Pottery

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


title: Loon

date: 10th–16th century

medium: Ivory (walrus)

country: Inuit

subjects:
Bone/ivory-sculpture
Inuit
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Arthur A. Houghton Jr., 1969


title: Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Volume 1

creator: Alexander Gardner

medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

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


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

creator: Gail & Ax Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Queen Victoria's Visit to the Corporation of London

creator: William Wyon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2002


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)

creator: Niobid Painter

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1899


title: Vase with Dancing Putti

creator: René Boyvin

date: 17th century (late)

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Fragment of a Bowl with Inscription

date: late 9th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip with black slip decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: (From Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Persian Travelogue: A Diary of a Journey through the region of Fars

medium: Black ink on paper; blue velvet binding with a flap, tight back case binding sewn onto two cotton/hemp cords (laced in), with marbled paper doublures

country: Qajar

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Ancient Near Eastern Art and The Ishtar Society Gifts, 2019


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold (nunome-zōgan), copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: Length

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Various Donors, 1991


title: Ver - Spring

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; fourth state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Partisan

medium: Steel, wood

country: possibly French

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Possibly french

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Helmet

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron, gold, velvet

country: Chinese

subjects: Helmet Chinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Seal-shaped inscribed amulet

date: ca. 16th–12th century BC

medium: Stone

country: Kassite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: The Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns

creator: Hans Burgkmair

medium: Woodcut; first state of two (Hollstein)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Mask

creator: Myōchin Muneakira

date: dated 1715

medium: Iron, lacquer

country: Japanese

subjects:
Japanese
Armor parts-mask

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Fragmentary alabaster stemmed bowl

medium: Gypsum (alabaster)

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: A skeleton wearing a cape speaking to a frightened man with a cane and backpack, illustration for 'El Doctor Improvisado (The Impromptu Doctor)' edited by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

date: ca. 1894 (a later impression)

medium: Type-metal engraving

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


title: The Battle-Array of Carberry-hill near Edinburgh with the Surrender of Mary Queen of Scots to the Confederate Lords of Scotland, and the Escape of Earl Bothwell

creator: George Vertue

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Christ among the Doctors

creator: Battista Franco

medium: Etching and engraving (first state)

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


title: Costume of Hogs Norton, How a Man May Shoot His Own Wig, and The Maid of Mim

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


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

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Royal Barge at its Mooring

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel, 1985


title: Boy with a Fawn

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1969


title: St. Andrew

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Anne & Carl Stern Gift, 1960


title: Reed Pipe

medium: red cedar, cord

country: Kwakiiutlor or Heiltsuk (Bella Bella), Native American

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cup with Cover

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

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith 1893


title: Lamp

date: 9th century

medium: Glass; free blown

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Skyphos

creator: Manchester Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Foliated Scrolls Inhabited by Birds and Monkeys

medium: Ivory

country: India (Orissa)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (orissa)
Birds

credit_line: Gift of Jean and Peter Marks, in memory of Anthony Gardner, 1992


title: Libellus Valde Doctus Elegans, et Utilis, Multa et Varia Scribendarum (Elegant and Useful Book on the Learned Art of Writing)

creator: Urban Wyss

medium: Plates: woodcuts

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Daishōgun (Great General)

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Wood with traces of color

subjects: Sculpture Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Jasper intaglio: Cock-headed anguipede

date: ca. 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Jasper, red, gold

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Vest

medium: [no medium available]

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. E. V. Anderson, 1943


title: Frontispiece with stepped fountain; a stone wall with water spout pouring water into a rectilinear basin, from which a second spout pours water into a smaller rectilinear basin, flanked by tree branches

creator: Karel Dujardin

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Fired clay jar sealing with ostrich hieroglyphs

medium: Clay (fired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Card Number 74, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: General Joubert, from the "Generals" series (T64), issued by D.H. McAlpin & Co. Tobacco Company

creator: D.H. McAlpin & Co. Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

date: 18th century

medium: Gold

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938


title: Medici vase with a scene of the château at Saint-Cloud (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels, gold, gilt bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers and 2011 Benefit Funds, and Gift of Dr. Mortimer D. Sackler, Theresa Sackler and Family, 2011


title: Sutra Cover with Phoenixes and Auspicious Fungus (Lingzhi)

medium: Silk gauze with supplementary weft patterning

country: China

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Circular Box with a Hunting Scene

date: 16th century or earlier

medium: Elephant ivory

country: Italian (?)

subjects: Italian Ivories-elephant

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Sauce Dish

creator: Richards and Hartley Flint Glass Co.

medium: Pressed yellow glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bowl

date: 12th–9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Tlatilco

subjects: Tlatilco Ceramics-container

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1974


title: Temple of Portonus, capital, elevations and plan (recto) Unidentified, capital, elevation (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