title: L'Amour couronné par les Graces (Cupid crowned by the Graces)

creator: Alexandre Chaponnier

medium: Color stipple engraving, printed in blue, red and brown

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

date: 17th century

medium: Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Mrs. Grierson

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Plateau

date: 16th century

medium: Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Needle case

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: 18th century

medium: Porcelain, gold

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Camel with saddle bags

date: late 6th–early 7th century

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

country: China

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Bequest of Theodore Rousseau, 1974


title: Two Genii with Two Dogs Fighting

creator: Nicolaes de Bruyn

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan, 1919


title: Bird Plaque Ornament

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper, gilt

country: Vicús

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Vicú
Birds

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


title: Card Number 208, Lizzie Harold, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Cann

creator: Edmond Milne

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, in memory of the families of John L. Riker and Jonathan Amory Haskell, 1940


title: Liberty cup and saucer

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Old Street in Rouen

creator: A. Paul Artigue

date: 19th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Fiore D'Ogni Virtu Per le Nobili Et Honeste Matrone, page 17 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut


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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Newes Modelbuch in Kupffer  (Page 10r)

creator: Johann Sibmacher

credit_line: Gift of Charles R. Richards, 1929


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


title: Katharina Merian

creator: Hans Brosamer

medium: Oil, gold, and white metal on linden

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Jupiter at left in the form of a shepherd accompanied by Mnemosyne, set within an elaborate cartouche, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"

creator: Giulio Bonasone

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


title: House of R. Dabney, Powhatan, Virginia (north [rear] side)

creator: Alexander Jackson Davis

medium: Ink and wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924


title: [Nancy Southworth Hawes]

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


title: Study of Seated Male Figures for Sculpture Base (from Sketchbook)

creator: John Quincy Adams Ward

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Edward R. Grove, 1985


title: The Entry into Jerusalem, from Das Plenarium

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut (hand-colored)

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1961


title: Cup with human figures

medium: Porcelain painted in underglaze blue (Jingdezhen ware), European metal mounts

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: The Vicar of Freshwater

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Portrait of Dürer

creator: Erhard Schön

date: early 16th century

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919


title: The Interior of a Woman Painter's Studio

creator: Marie Victoire Lemoine

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Thorneycroft Ryle, 1957


title: Design for a Fireplace

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: first half 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

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


title: Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

date: 2nd to mid–1st century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

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


title: Frédéric Barromée, archevêque, cardinal de Milan

creator: Grégoire Huret

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Dish with decoration of birds and flowers

medium: Lacquer with lacquer, litharge and gold painting

country: Japan (Ryūkyū Islands)

subjects:
Lacquer
Birds
Flowers
Japan (ryūkyū islands)

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2019


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; opaque white glaze; luster-painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Ironstone intaglio: Snake-headed Genius

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Basalt, ironstone (limonite)

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Miss Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Octagonal bowl

creator: Shibuemon

medium: Porcelain with underglaze cobalt and enamels

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Rafael Nunez, President of U.S. Columbia, from the Rulers, Flags, and Coats of Arms series (N126-1) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co.

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Measure

creator: Frédéric Reuchlin

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Stephen Benjamin, 1991


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Gold roundel with stamped designs

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: A Black Beetle

creator: Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne

date: late 17th century

medium: Watercolor

subjects: Drawing Beetles

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine G. Curran, 2008


title: Glass Fragment

date: 12th–15th century (?)

country: Unknown

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Bashford Dean, 1923


title: Necklace with Bird, Circle and Cylinder Beads

medium: Glass, colorless, amber, opaque white, opaque red; wound and hot-worked

subjects: Glass Birds

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1973


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

creator: Anonymous

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

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

subjects: Terracotta Roman


title: Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

creator: Pan Painter

date: ca. 470 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Hab.t de la Turquie, from the playing cards (for quartets) "Costumes des Peuples Étrangers"

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Design for a Cottage Ornée in the Tudoresque Style

creator: Humphry Repton

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Watercolor over pen and black ink

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


title: Vessel with Handle

date: 3rd–5th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects:
Moche
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1965


title: Lion (one of a pair)

creator: Johann Gottlieb Kirchner

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Wrightsman Fund, 1988


title: Christ supported by an angel standing on a cloud with light radiating behind them

creator: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: The Entombment of Christ

creator: Moderno (Galeazzo Mondella)

date: 16th century

medium: Bronze

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


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Painter of the Yale Lekythos

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Saint Roch and the Angel

creator: Master of the Biberach Holy Kinship

medium: Limewood with traces of paint

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1960


title: Arrowhead

medium: Sandstone, chert or flint

subjects: Stone Japan

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: ca. 3rd century–710

medium: Iron

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Lion pin

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze, iron

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1976


title: Socks

date: 19th century

medium: wool, metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Francis Hartman Markoe, in memory of Mariella York Markoe, 1924


title: A Cake in Danger

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Qajar Dado Tile

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Purchase, Gemma Hall Gift, in memory of Lewis R. M. Hall, 2015


title: Plate XXXVIII (38): Mercury, from "Museum Florentinum" (Statuae antiquae dorum et virorum illustrium)

creator: Carlo Gregori

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Nawab Muzaffar 'Ali Khan on Horseback

creator: Rai Kalyan Das (Chitarman II)

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, gold on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2009


title: Portrait of a Man, Full-length, Facing Left, with Arms Folded and a White Collar

creator: Auguste Edouart

medium: Cut black paper

subjects:
Cut paper
Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Relief fragment with feathers - see 26.3.353*, 31.3.1-1

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Mrs. Nathaniel Bowen (Margaret Blake)

creator: Jean Francois de la Vallee

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


title: Girl with Rabbit (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: Emanuel Leutze

medium: Graphite on off-white Bristol board

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Pair of vases

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Gift of George Haviland, 1923


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pair of Book Covers with Scenes from the Devimahatmya

date: 17th century

medium: Distemper on wood

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Painting
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

credit_line: Gift of Nancy Wiener Hamill, 2004


title: Mummy Board of Iineferty

medium: Wood, gesso, paint, varnish

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: Two Women before a General

creator: Anonymous, German, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2003


title: Sophia

creator: Henry Moses

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: The Pic-Nic Orchestra

creator: James Gillray

medium: Hand-colored etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Ensemble

medium: cotton, wool

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Miss Flora L. Hendley, 1940


title: Earflare Frontal

creator: Moche artist

medium: Gold

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Landscape with a man driving a satyr away from a nymph bound to a tree

creator: Louis Cossin

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Roundel with head of a "hero" surrounded by caprids

date: ca. 14th–13th century BCE

medium: Bitumen, gold and silver foil

country: Elamite

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


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

date: third quarter of the sixth century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Hansom Cab (unnumbered)

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Miseries of Bathing

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Card Players in a Drawing Room

creator: Pierre Louis Dumesnil the Younger

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Tumbler

creator: Bakewell, Page & Bakewell

medium: Blown, cut, and engraved glass; clay cameo

credit_line: Purchase, Cylia Gindi Siedenburg Gift and Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2001


title: Lachesis, One of the Three Destinies, Life, from the Goddesses of the Greeks and Romans series (N188) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Jelly mold

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Carleton Macy, 1934


title: The Apse of Notre-Dame, Paris

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching with engraving and drypoint on laid paper; fourth state of nine

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Noah Building the Ark, from "Dalziels' Bible Gallery"

creator: George Frederic Watts

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

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1926


title: Ring

medium: Silver

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Chest

medium: Wood; inlaid with mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Combination Dagger and Wheellock Pistol

medium: Steel, wood

country: German, possibly Saxony

subjects:
Combination weapon
German, possibly saxony

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic


title: Set of six bolt plates

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Crucifix

medium: Brass

country: Kongo peoples

subjects:
Metal-sculpture
Kongo people

credit_line: Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1989


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Water Goblet

creator: Christian Dorflinger

medium: Blown lead glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. D. Chester Noyes, 1969


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 37 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut


title: Boy in green shirt, brown pants, red sash

date: second half 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Mixed media

credit_line: Gift of David Vicario, Katrina Cary, and Linn Cary Mehta, in memory of M.F. Vicario and Katherine L.F.C. Cary, 2015


title: Hunters with attendant

creator: Höchst Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt bronze

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lewis Balamuth, 1971


title: Tumbler

creator: Bakewell, Pears and Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Ram's Head

medium: Pottery with green glaze

country: China

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1969


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Lillian Russell, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph


title: Bird

creator: Hakusanjin Hokui

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Birds

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


title: Plate 61: View of the customs house (Dogana da Mar) at the confluence of the Grand Canal and Giudecca Canal, Venice, 1703, from "The buildings and views of Venice" (Le fabriche e vedute di Venezia)

creator: Luca Carlevaris

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Vase

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; blown, painted, tooled

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


title: Ring Inscribed with the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Scarab Inscribed for the Female Horus Wosretkau (Hatshepsut)

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Portion of a dress border

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Cymbals

medium: metal, leather

country: African

subjects: Idiophone-concussion African

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Bronze kyathos (ladle)

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Square Piano

creator: Ignace-Joseph Senft

date: Late 18th Century

medium: Oak, ebony, bone, various materials.

subjects:
Chordophone-zither-struck-piano
German
Skeletons & bones


title: Piece

date: 15th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Karnak (Thèbes), Enciente du Palais - Détails de Sculptures au Point O

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Sculptor's trial piece

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890


title: Band Fragment with Tufts

date: 9th–13th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Lambayeque (Sicán)

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


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

creator: Isidore Pils

medium: Red and white chalk, traces of black chalk, on gray paper.  Scattered stains.

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1989


title: Card Number 56, Miss Wendle, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Glass mosaic inlay

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Egyptian, Ptolemaic or Roman

subjects:
Glass
Egyptian, ptolemaic or roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Earring, crescent-shaped

medium: Gold

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


title: Staff Weapon

medium: Steel, textile (velvet), gold

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Flounce

date: late 17th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. William H. Herriman, 1910


title: Maison antique a Nymmes, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving, shadows added with brush

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Vestment

medium: Silk, metal

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: Standing cup

creator: I. I., London

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1927


title: Cherubs in a Tree

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache

subjects: Drawing Trees

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


title: The Annunciation

creator: South German (Bavarian?) Painter

medium: Oil and gold on linden

credit_line: Gift of Julie and Lawrence Salander, in honor of Keith Christiansen, 2005


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

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Limestone Block with a Rosette in a Square

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Limestone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

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


title: Plate

medium: Pottery; design painted in iron glaze over white slip (Seto ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mary B. Henderson, 1975


title: Silver spiral

date: 9th–4th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


title: Six Noh Performances in Scenes from Daily Life

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Carol and John Lyden, 2001


title: Milk jug with cover (part of a service)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Design for 2 seat Phaeton, no. 3564

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Kris with Sheath

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Kajou pelet, brass, tortoise shell

country: Balinese

subjects:
Krisse
Balinese
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Textile

date: 19th century

medium: cotton

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Lee Carter Morse and Matthew Flesh Morse, 1950


title: Candlestick from a Set Five-Piece Altar Set (Wugong)

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Copper and Shell Janus Mace Head

medium: Copper (cast), shell

country: Vicús (?)

subjects:
Metal-implement
Vicú
Shells & molluscs


title: Eagle with Serpent

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

date: modeled between 1824 and 1826, cast before 1875

medium: Bronze (sand cast)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Spats

creator: B. Altman & Co.

medium: Wool

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Bequest of Matilda Alice Shaw, 1948


title: Fire Bowl

creator: Eiraku Hozen

medium: Clay covered with a transparent crackled and rich purple glaze (Kyoto ware)

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Cockle Shell Ornament

medium: Gilded copper

country: Moche

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


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, 1953


title: Time is Money / A Drop Too Much, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Statuette depicting a worshipping baboon

medium: Meta-siltstone

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


title: Dress

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Robert B. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1921


title: [Four Elephants with Western Travellers and Attendants, Jaipur, India]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Matthew Dontzin, 1985


title: The Trimmed Groves

creator: Anthonie Waterloo

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; sixth state of six

credit_line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005


title: Beaded Armlet

medium: Gold, carnelian, lapis lazuli, blue and green glass, faience on bronze or copper wire

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1980


title: Ink Tablet

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Ink

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: The Crucifixion

creator: Pedro Orrente

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price and Fern and George Wachter Gifts, 2014


title: Work table

creator: Martin Carlin

medium: Oak and sycamore veneered with ebony, Japanese and European lacquer; gilt-bronze mounts; drawer lined with green silk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976


title: Dress

creator: White Howard & Co.

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James G. Flockhart, 1968


title: Wolf-Shaped Belt Buckle

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: North China

subjects:
Metalwork
North china

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


title: The Buddhist Goddess Dakini

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

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


title: Tile

date: 16th century

medium: Earthenware, glazed

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Ceramics-tile

credit_line: Gift of W. L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Large Dish

medium: White porcelain decorated with blue under the glaze; comb pattern around the high foot (Nabeshima ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Teatro delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne..., page 11 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut, engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Man in a Black Haori (Coat) and Two Women Approaching a Temple

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Architecture Print Japan

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


title: Cup

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Bodkin

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. A.L. Garbat, by exchange, 1981


title: Netsuke of Noh Mask; Demon (?)

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: One of the Twelve Celestial Guardians

date: 14th century

medium: Hanging scroll (from a set of twelve); hand-colored print on paper

subjects: Astronomy Painting Japan

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


title: Costume Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

country: Peru; central coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Metal-ornament
Peru; central coast

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


title: Seal

medium: Steatite

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Dutch Merchant Ships at Anchor or under Easy Sail in a Moderate Breeze

creator: Willem van de Velde I

medium: Pencil, brush and grayish brown wash

subjects:
Drawing
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Ribbons (4)

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Key Ring with Lovers

date: late 15th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: German

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Terracotta fragments of amphorae (jars)

date: 6th century/early 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Fragment of lace

medium: Textiles-Laces

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Ewer (one of a pair)

creator: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Odiot

date: early 19th century

medium: Gilt bronze


title: Mr. Vanderbilt's house and collection

creator: Edward Strahan (Earl Shinn)


title: The Virgin in a Blue Robe Decorated with Images of Wheat, with the Arms of the Bishop of Liège below (from a series with The Virgin Mary and Five Standing Saints)

medium: Pot-metal glass, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1937


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Allegory of America, from New Inventions of Modern Times (Nova Reperta), plate 1 of 19

creator: Theodoor Galle

medium: Engraving

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1934


title: Obsidian revetment slab fragment

date: 1st century CE

medium: Obsidian

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Adoration of the Magi

creator: Anonymous, German, 15th century

date: 15th century

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


title: Evening dress

medium: silk

country: European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
European

credit_line: Gift of Aline Bernstein, 1937


title: Marble statue of Diogenes

medium: Marble

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Busts of Two Women Wearing Fantastical Head-dresses

creator: René Boyvin

medium: Engraving; second state of two

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


title: Copy of Emperor Charles V

creator: Lucas Cranach the Younger

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Poem on reclusion

creator: Zhou Lianggong

date: dated 1662

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

country: China

subjects: Calligraphy China

credit_line: Gift of Julia and John Curtis, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2020


title: Panel

date: early 17th century

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Charles F. Iklé, 1964


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: A Nun and a Friar, from "Das Bossenbüchlein"

creator: Mathais Beitler


title: Glass ring stone

date: ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Glass, brown

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Cassetta Frame

creator: Italian

date: mid-16th century

medium: Pine

country: Italian, Veneto

subjects:
Frame
Italian, veneto

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Collection de Vases

creator: Pierre Elisabeth de Fontanieu

medium: Etching

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


title: Coat

medium: wool

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Trust Gift, 1992


title: Title Page: Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 21, 1800

medium: Etching, printed in brown ink, hand-colored

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


title: Maizaka Station

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Essempio di recammi, page 16 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Antonio Tagliente

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Cast of a Bird Head

date: mid-20th century

medium: Plaster

country: Lapita people

subjects:
Plaster-reproduction
Lapita people
Birds

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1980


title: Miniature fireback (part of a set)

creator: David Clayton

medium: Silver

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


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Card Number 114, Sinclair, 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: George Washington in Japanese Costume

creator: Miyagawa Kozan

medium: Porcelain

country: Japanese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Venus in Vulcan's Forge

creator: Léon Davent

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Female head with elaborate hairstyle

medium: Gypsum alabaster

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


title: Diamond-Shaped Pendant

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Incised horse frontlet carved into the shape of a flowering, volute palmette tree

date: ca. 9th–8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

subjects: Assyrian Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Transmitting the Spirit, Revealing the Form of Things: Hokusai Sketchbooks, volume 7 (Denshin kaishu: Hokusai manga, nanahen)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Lion and Serpent no. 3 (sketch)

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

date: modeled in 1832, cast in 1845s

medium: Bronze (sand cast)

credit_line: Gift of Miss G. Louise Robinson, 1940


title: Bucolic scene in winter with pack donkey (one of a pair)

date: late 17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The Expulsion of the Jesuits

creator: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching, first state

credit_line: Purchase, A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund; and Phyllis Dearborn Massar Gift, 2002


title: Gold earring with rosette disk

date: 3rd century CE

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Card Number 110, Pauline Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


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


title: Seated Bishop Holding a Book

creator: Jacopo Palma the Younger

medium: Black chalk(?), highlighted with white chalk on blue paper faded to light brown

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: An Old Man with a Dog

creator: Giacomo Ceruti

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Fabrizio Moretti, in honor of Keith Christiansen, and in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Bronze juror's identification ticket

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Plasma ring stone

medium: Plasma

credit_line: Gift of John Taylor Johnston, 1881


title: Mr. Ben: Read, A Member of Hogarth's Club at the Bedford Arms Tavern, Drawn by him about the Year 1757

creator: Richard Livesay

date: November 27, 1781

medium: Etching and aquatint, printed in brown ink


title: The Ransom for Galcerán de Pinós put on Board Ship at Salou near Tarragona

date: late 16th or early 17th century

medium: Wool, silk, metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ships & the sea
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Charles Zadok, 1947


title: Seated Male Figure

date: 2nd–4th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Nayarit (Chinesco)

subjects:
Nayarit (chinesco)
Ceramics-sculpture

credit_line: Gift of Albert J. Grant and Monique Grant Joint Revocable Trust, 2014


title: Fragment of an Animal Relief

medium: Marble (Lunense marble from Carrara)

country: Italian

subjects: Sculpture-stone Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Poke bonnet

medium: straw, silk

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles D. Dickey, Mrs. Louis Curtis Jr., and Mr. S. Sloan Colt, 1957


title: Shanghai River

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Armorer's Hammer

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Iron, wood

country: German or French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Family Group Kneeling Before a Street Shrine

creator: Ventura Salimbeni

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 470 BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Double-Sided Comb

date: 7th century

medium: Bone, iron pins

country: Frankish

subjects:
Bone
Frankish
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Interior of the church of San Lorenzo in Florence, five pillars, each with a large figure of death on a pedestal, ten hooded figures with staffs in foreground, two altars in the background, cartouches containing female figures above, from "Ceremonies for the Funeral of Emperor Ferdinand II" (Funérailles de l'empereur Ferdinand II)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: David with the Head of Goliath

creator: Robert van Audenaerde

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Pelerine

medium: [no medium available]

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edmund L. Baylies, 1926


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

country: Greek, Attic


title: The Early Ploughman, or The Morning Spread Upon the Mountains

creator: Samuel Palmer

date: before 1861

medium: Etching; fifth state of nine

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Case, Cup

date: 15th century

medium: Cuir bouilli (tooled leather)

country: Italian or French

subjects:
Leatherwork
Italian or french

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Textile Sample Book

medium: Woven wool and silk fabrics on paper

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-sample book

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Benjamin E. Marks, 1967


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Go Nymphs, who lay down their arms, Love is resting!

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Tile

date: probably 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Textile Sample Book

date: first half 19th century

medium: Silk, cotton


title: Band

date: 18th century

medium: Textiles-Embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, 1973


title: Pan

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

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Sofa

medium: Carved and gilded walnut; upholstered in modern red/beige damask

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Augustus K. Mills, in memory of Ernest Iselin, 1968


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Folio from a Khavarannama (The Book of the East) of ibn Husam al-Din

creator: Maulana Muhammad Ibn Husam ad Din

medium: Opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Pretiosa Gemma delle virtuose donne, page 11 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Bodhisattva Guanyin in the Form of the Buddha Mother

creator: Chen Hongshou

date: dated 1620

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 1992


title: To Commemorate the Opening of the New London Bridge, by King William IV and Queen Adelaide, August 1, 1831

creator: Benjamin Wyon

medium: Bronze, struck

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


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Quilt, Flying Geese pattern

creator: Mary Spingler Fonderden Van Beuren

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George A. Mohlman, 1990


title: Stem of pedestal vase

date: ca. 3100 BCE

medium: Ceramic, paint

country: Iran

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1963


title: Ile de Fîleh (Philæ), Vue Génèrale Prise du Point I, Sur La Plateforme du Pylône

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Snuffbox

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gold

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: [Emperor Maximilian I in His Coffin]

creator: François Aubert

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Coin

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Executioner's Kris with Sheath

medium: Steel, wood, horn, gold

country: Malayan

subjects: Krisse Malayan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Philip II, King of Spain (1527–1598)

creator: Jacopo Nizolla da Trezzo

date: third quarter 16th century

medium: Gold

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


title: Palais-de-Justice et Conciergerie

creator: Edouard Baldus

credit_line: Rogers Fund, transferred from the Library


title: Bust of an Old Man with Flowing Beard: the Head Inclined Three-Quarters Right

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; New Holl.'s first state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Julie Parsons Redmond, 1960


title: Sheet with red abstract pattern

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Alexander

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: April 1814

medium: Hand-colored etching, letterpress

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Soldiers Marching

creator: Heinrich Joseph Schütz

medium: Etching and aquatint


title: View of the Rhine with Pfalzgrafenstein Castle and Kaub Seen from the South-East

creator: Johann Adam Klein

medium: Graphite, pen and gray ink

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: "The Rogue's Father Emerges from the Tree", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

date: second quarter 16th century

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

subjects: Codice Trees

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Novi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula [Map of New Netherlands, New England, and part of Virginia]

creator: Nicolas Visscher I

medium: Etching and engraving with hand-coloring and gold; second state

subjects:
Maps & charts
Print

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Coin

date: 8th–13th century


title: Design for a Decorated Wall with Grottesque over Blue Background

creator: Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and orange-gold, black wash with white gouache over traces of leadpoint on blue prepared paper

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Plate

date: first half 18th century

medium: Glass; mold blown and cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: New Künstlichs Modelbuch (Page 45 recto)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Jar sherd

date: ca. 9th–10th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Screen (Tsuitate) with Wave Decoration and Inscriptions

medium: Lacquer, brown lacquer, brown hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: roiro and fundame

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Rock Inscription dedicated to Amun-Re

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Le Mendiant Obèse aux Yeux Baissés (The Obese Beggar with Lowered Eyes), from "Les Gueux suite appelée aussi Les Mendiants, Les Baroni, ou Les Barons" (The Beggars, also called the Barons)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942


title: Card Number 55, Miss Vaughan, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Brooch with Assyrian human-headed winged bull

medium: Gold

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


title: The Ship "Macon"

creator: Nivelet

medium: Watercolor, gouache, gold paint, graphite, pen and black ink, and gum arabic on off-white Bristol board

subjects:
American
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1966


title: Papier-mâché side chair

medium: Wood, papier-mâché, black lacquer, painted and gilded, mother-of-pearl, caned seat.

country: British (?)

subjects: Woodwork-furniture British

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Poem by Gon-chūnagon Masafusa (Ōe no Masafusa), from the series One Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carll Tucker, 1962


title: Textile Fragment

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Cotton, other fibers; plain weave, printed, and painted

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

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1931


title: Weight

date: 9th–11th century

medium: Bronze; cast

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: L'art japonais

creator: Louis Gonse

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


title: Two Women on Matsuchi Hill Edo

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Chalice veil

medium: Silk, metallic thread

credit_line: Gift of Catherine M. Randazzo Guirreri and John J. Randazzo, in memory of the Saverio Randazzo Family, 1984


title: Dressing table

creator: Seddon, Sons and Shackleton

medium: Mahogany, glass, ivory


title: Greek Girls Bathing

creator: Elihu Vedder

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1958


title: Border

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshiper with an animal offering before a seated deity

medium: Apatite

country: Elamite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Emblem of Lucrezia Gonzaga

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

date: before 1566

medium: Engraving

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1998


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe: chous (jug)

date: last quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: U.S. Monitor "Casco" on James River, taken from a lookout tower on bank.

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Lucretia Salviati Orsini (Ursina)

creator: Pastorino de Pastorini

medium: Bronze

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


title: Earring with hook and eye

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


title: A group of elegantly dressed people playing the harp and a guitar

creator: Bartolomeo Crivellari

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


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


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

date: early 5th century BCE


title: Evening Snow at Uchikawa

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

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


title: Square Dish

date: 19th century

medium: Painted enamel

subjects: Enamel China

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923


title: Design for Extension Top Park Phaeton, no. 3487

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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: Tile Panel with Wavy-vine Design

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Stonepaste; polychrome painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Card Number 501, Isabella Short, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Suggestion for the Decoration of Top Right Side of Portal, plate 1 from "Allerneueste Façon von Auszierungen zu Portalen"

creator: Jeremias Wachsmuth

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Stela of Tetu and Nefertjentet

medium: Limestone, red, yellow and black paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Watch

creator: Lacroix

medium: Gold, enamel, silver

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


title: The Eritrean Sibyl; from the series of Prophets and Sibyls in the Sistine Chapel

medium: Engraving; second state of five (BLL)

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1984


title: Sheet with overall pattern of ovals with red designs

creator: Anonymous

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Horizontal Panel with a Bird Perched at Center

creator: J. Boissevain

subjects: Print Birds


title: Valentine - Mechanical - elaborate nosegay,  fan souvenir

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Heavy die-cut card stock, gilt chromolithography, die-cut chromolithographed scraps, sewing thread

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Study for Ex-voto Picture

creator: Ludovico Lana

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash with faint lavender

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Cooper

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

medium: Etching with some engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Black crystal with coral stopper

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Corals & anemones
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921


title: Earring, boat-shaped

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Virgin Fainting at the Cross

date: early 16th century

medium: Oak

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Sculpture-wood
South netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916


title: The Seasons

creator: Benedictus Antonio van Assen

medium: Stipple engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Window cornice

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick Wildman, 1964


title: Set of six swags

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


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

date: late 5th century BCE/early 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: En Italie, from "Nos Troupiers"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Central Park in Winter

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


title: Sacred Thread Clasp

date: 8th–early 10th century

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Buckle

date: dated 1650

medium: Steel

country: German

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
German

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Brocade

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-brocade

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Siphon nozzle

medium: Bronze

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


title: Spanish Landscape

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Oil on wood

country: American

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Piece

medium: Silk

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


title: Young Woman from Bône

creator: Olivier Bro de Comères

medium: Watercolor and pen and ink over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Harvey Salzman Gift and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2025


title: Two Designs for a Flower Pedestal

creator: Guglielmo della Porta

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and purple wash

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, Karen Cohen Fund, Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation Inc. Gift, in memory of Jeffrey P. Klein, Van Day Truex, Mr. and Mrs. Francis D. Logan, and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2013


title: Rishi coffin

medium: Sycomore wood, stucco, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Bag

date: early 17th century

medium: Metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1929


title: Sake Ewer (Chōshi) with Phoenixes and Auspicious Patterns

creator: Eiraku Hozen

date: first half of the19th century

medium: Porcelain painted with red and gold (kinrande) over a transparent glaze (Kyoto ware, Eiraku type)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Ornamento nobile...Fatta da Lucretia Romana (Libro V of the Corona), page 3 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Tea gown

creator: Liberty & Co.

medium: silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Designated Purchase Fund, 1986


title: Detail from a cap

date: early 19th century

medium: Muslin and silk thread; bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Saint André

creator: Louis Jacob

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Hood

medium: Wool, cotton, glass

country: James Bay Cree

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 15th–13th century BCE

medium: Steatite

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


title: Madonna and Child with Worshipper

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink over black chalk on cream paper; framing outline in brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Glass hexagonal jug

date: 6th–early 7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Fragments of a terracotta kylix

date: mid 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Gift of the Honorable Iris Cornelia Love, 2011


title: Apostle spoon

date: probably 1632

medium: Silver

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Glass base fragment of a cylindrical bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Bronze statuette of a man

date: 3rd quarter of the 5th century BCE or later

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Smelter's Crucible

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Kohl jar with lid

medium: Serpentinite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Bird Spatula

date: 11th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Popayan

subjects: Metal-ornament Popayan Birds

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


title: Lamp

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Ojime

date: 19th century

medium: Ojime

subjects: Ojime Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; slip painted and glazed

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


title: Shield with owl figure

creator: Moche artist(s)

medium: Gilded copper, silvered copper, shell, beads, fibers

country: Moche

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Moche
Shells & molluscs

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


title: Teapot

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silver; ebony

credit_line: Gift of James Hazen Hyde, 1956


title: Plate

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Armrest

creator: Beauvais

medium: Wool and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

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


title: Decorative paneling from the Palace of Westminster

creator: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

medium: Oak

subjects:
Ornament & design
Architecture
Woodwork-architectural

credit_line: Purchase, The James Parker Charitable Foundation and Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, and funds from various donors, 2015


title: Vase

creator: Boston & Sandwich Glass Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Beads ?

medium: Garnet, beryl ?

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Serpentine Lentoid

medium: Serpentine

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Strip

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: The Third Princess (Onna San no Miya)

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Carnelian, brown

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1983


title: Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion

date: late 13th century–early 14th century

medium: Copper alloy

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
German

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


title: Mask of a Lion

medium: Pewter

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Wooden Spindle

date: 10th–16th century (?)

medium: Wood, camelid hair

country: Peruvian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Peruvian
Textiles-implement

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Beaker

creator: Anton Simm

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Yorkshire Hieroglyphics, Plate 3

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Berard. Adolphe. 52 ans, né le 26/9/41 à Paris Ve. Ébéniste. Anarchiste. 16/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: [Italian Villa in Autumn]

creator: Hugo Henneberg

medium: Gum bichromate print

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933


title: Fitting

date: mid-7th–9th century

medium: Gold

country: Northwest China/Eastern Central Asia

subjects:
Metalwork
Northwest china/eastern central asia

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2003


title: Galloon

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Fragment of a Pot Neck

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Corset

medium: wool

country: Spanish

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1973


title: Chinoiserie Ornaments, plate from "The Ladies Amusement"; or, "Whole art of japanning made easy"

creator: Jean Pillement

medium: Etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Shard

date: 15th century

medium: Pottery

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of John and Betty Menke, 1978


title: A Record of Tiger Hill in Suzhou

date: 18th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink on paper with additional hand coloring

country: China, Suzhou

subjects:
Print
China, suzhou

credit_line: Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund for Asian Art, 2025


title: Page 9v, from "Eyn New Kunstlichboich"

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Tripartite vase

date: ca. 1000 BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Dinner dress

creator: Mme. Grapanche

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Randall Creel, 1963


title: Ribbon


title: Tureen

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and wash

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


title: Thangka with Buddha Seated on Lotus Pedestal

medium: Distemper on cloth

country: Tibet

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. W. Murray Crane Gift Fund, 1971


title: Lotta in the Costume of a Japanese Lady, from the set Actors and Actresses, First Series (N70) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Jacket

medium: wool, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: John Everett Millais, Esq., A.R.A., from "Illustrated News of the World"

creator: Daniel John Pound

medium: Engraving after a photograph, on chine collé

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Shipyard (Mill Scene?) in Connecticut (from Sketchbook)

creator: Henry Ward Ranger

medium: Graphite, ink, on paper

credit_line: Gift of Frederick K. Detwiller, 1930


title: Glass Fragment

date: 14th century

medium: Colorless glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Vase

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Tobacco Pouch and Pipe Case

medium: Leather, metal, ivory

subjects:
Smoking equipment
Japan

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


title: The Holy Family with Saint John

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Pen and brown ink, brown wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Piece

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: John M. Palmer of Illinois, from the Presidential Possibilities series (N124) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: Madonna and Child

creator: Master of the Pellegrini Chapel

medium: Terracotta, polychromed and gilded

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Border Fragment, Whale

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-sculpture

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


title: [Photo Collage: Man with Broom and Dustpan]

creator: Juan Pedro Chabalgoity

medium: Albumen silver print, lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Drew Knowlton and William L. Schaeffer, 2017


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: The Grinnell Collection, Bequest of William Milne Grinnell, 1920


title: Ko-Tze

medium: Gourd, wood

country: Chinese

subjects:
Aerophone-whistle flute-whistle
Chinese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Amphiteathrum Castrense, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Bit Boss

date: 16th century

medium: Copper alloy, iron

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
European

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Saint Luke, from "The Four Evangelists"

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

credit_line: Gift of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1949


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace


title: Band

date: 5th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

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: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Linen and wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Watch

creator: William Dunant

medium: Silver

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


title: Silver drachm

date: ca. 121–91 BCE

country: Parthian

credit_line: Bequest of Joseph H. Durkee, 1898


title: Idyll: a naked youth seated outdoors on a plinth playing a double flute, a goat on the ground before him

creator: Mariano Fortuny, 1838–1874

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Junius S. Morgan


title: [View from Himalayas]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Wilmot, Left Field, Chicago, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Female Figure

date: 12th–14th century

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Chancay

subjects: Chancay Ceramics-sculpture


title: Dagger (Katar)

medium: Steel

country: South Indian

subjects:
Dagger
South indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Music Has Charms to Soothe the Savage Breast

creator: T. Smith

date: November 20, 1786

medium: Hand-colored etching, stipple and aquatint

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


title: Soba cup

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue (Hizen ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Hexagonal dish (part of a set)

creator: Paulus Roth

date: second half 17th century

medium: Gilded silver

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


title: Figurine of Wepwawet

medium: Cupreous metal, gold wire

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Figured woven silk textile fragment with birds

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Silk, weft-faced compound twill (Samit) weave

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Byzantine
Birds
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Josef and Marsy Mittleman Gift and Rogers Fund, 2000


title: Rest During the Flight into Egypt

creator: Philipp Veit

medium: Pencil overworked with gray feathering, on light brown wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2004


title: Page 9r, from "Eyn New Kunstlichboich"

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Page from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy

creator: Hu Zhengyan

date: first edition printed in 1633

medium: Leaf from a printed book; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Letter with textile samples

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Textiles-Archives

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-archive

credit_line: Funds From Various Donors, 1985


title: Chalice

date: mid-17th century

medium: Silver gilt, enamel

country: Mexican

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


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Miniature seal in the form of Cupid disguised as a barrister

creator: Derby Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Garbat, 1961


title: Chylocladia ovalis

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Phaeton #491

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Roman ruins with the horse tamers (Dioscuri) on the Quirinal Hill, plate 36 from "Discorsi Sopra L’Antichita di Roma"

creator: Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: The Silver Lake, from the series, Views in Central Park, New York, Part 2

creator: Louis Prang & Co.

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick, 1947


title: Tumbler

creator: Hobbs, Brockunier and Company

medium: Blown glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: King Songten Gampo as the incarnate Avalokiteshvara

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Painting on silk

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Zimmerman Family Collection, Gift of the Zimmerman Family, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019


title: Piece

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Set of Six Side Dishes (Mukōzuke) for Tea Gathering Meal (Cha-kaiseki)

date: early 17th century

medium: Stoneware with white slip and iron brown under transparent glaze and copper-green glaze (Mino ware, Oribe Yashichida type)

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


title: Grand Piano

creator: John Broadwood

medium: Mahogany, oak, curly maple, ivory, ebony, brass and various materials

country: British

subjects: Chordophone-zither-struck-piano British

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome C. Neuhoff, 1957


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid 5th century BCE


title: Valance, blue-resist textile

medium: Cotton, painted and block-printed resist, dyed

country: Indian textile for American market

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Indian textile for american market

credit_line: Gift of Miss Margaret C. Goldsmith, 1923


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: S. Maxence et S. Léandre (St. Maxentius and St. Leander), December 12th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Plate with Saint Matthew

creator: Workshop of Ludovico and Angelo Picchi

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Gift of V. Everit Macy, in memory of his wife, Edith Carpenter Macy, 1927


title: Abraham Francen, Apothecary

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching, engraving, and drypoint, shading with mezzotint rocker; tenth of twelve states

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


title: Tile

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Ramie

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1966


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

date: first half 19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Stained Glass Panel with Saint Roch, the van Merle Family Arms and a Donor

date: 16th century

medium: Pot metal, white glass, vitreous paint, silver stain

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: Gift of Duveen Brothers, 1912


title: Knife (Pichangatti) with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, silver, gold, wood (possibly ash)

country: Indian, Kodagu (Coorg)

subjects:
Knive
Indian, kodagu (coorg)

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Twelve peasants in a rustic interior with a man looking through a window at upper right

creator: Jacques Dassonville

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


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

date: 16th–19th century

medium: Iron, gold,

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Adrian H. Joline, 1914


title: Sacrifice Offered before a Statue of Jupiter

creator: Louis de Boullogne the Elder

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and black ink, heightened with white gouache over black chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Bronze double-ax

medium: Bronze

country: Minoan

subjects: Bronze Minoan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1940


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Landscapes after old masters

creator: Pan Gongshou

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

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Gift, 2024


title: Rapier

creator: Johannes Moum

date: hilt, ca. 1630–40; blade, 17th century

medium: Steel, wood

country: hilt, probably British; blade, German, Solingen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Stela of Aafenmut

medium: Wood, gesso, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Ichikawa Danzo IV in the Role of a Samurai

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Trimming

medium: silk, metal

country: French

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1980


title: Album with Prints recording the Festivities and Decorations organized in Florence for the 1589 Wedding of Archduke Ferdinand de' Medici and Christine of Lorraine

creator: Bernardo Buontalenti (Bernardo delle Girandole)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Military scene with a cross at right

creator: August Beck

credit_line: Gift of Walter H. Smith, 1935


title: Cat on base inscribed for Bastet and an offerer

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Portrait of Wilhem van Heythuijsen, after Frans Hals

creator: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Chaps. 4, 5 of Legends of the Dog Warriors (Hakkenden) 八犬伝；版下絵

creator: Utagawa Yoshimune 歌川 芳宗

medium: Three books (in hanshita-e form); ink and light colors on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

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


title: À la Barre

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

date: September 1, 1893

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


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: Skirmish

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Pen and bistre

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... page 46 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Parody of the Legend of Kyoyu and Sofu

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Spoon

creator: Nicolas Collier

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Bequest of Annie C. Kane, 1926


title: Clasp

creator: Joseph Richardson Sr.

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Arthur J. Sussel, 1948


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Potpourri bowl with cover (one of a pair)

date: porcelain late 17th century, mounts ca. 1745–50

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilt-bronze mounts

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


title: Skyphos

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Tecomate (bowl)

creator: Central Highlands artist(s)

medium: Ceramic

country: Olmec

subjects: Olmec Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1989


title: Square Napoleon, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, November 28, 1870

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: November 28, 1870

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Glass perfume bottle

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Glass
Roman, cypriot

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


title: Quilt

medium: Cotton with wool crewel embroidery

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Adele Pharo Azar, in memory of her late husband, Jemile Wehby Azar, by exchange, 1987


title: Mantle

creator: House of Worth

medium: wool, silk

credit_line: Gift of Kai Prior, 1978


title: Field Ensign (<i>Sashimono</i>)

medium: Wood, lacquer, copper, gold, whale bone (baleen)

subjects:
Japanese
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Etsuko O. Morris and John H. Morris Jr., 2018


title: Covered cup with floral patterns

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels and with openwork decoration (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Pochette

medium: Wood, ebony, metal

country: Probably European

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Gambanda (wife of the chief) mask

creator: Pende artist

medium: Wood, plant fiber, pigment

country: Pende peoples

subjects:
Botany
Wood-sculpture
Pende people

credit_line: Gift of James J. Ross, 2011


title: Table Design

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

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


title: Oinochoe

creator: Athena Painter

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of the Misses Emily and Mary Cross, 1939


title: Piece

date: 19th century (?)

medium: Metal thread, bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Spanish Midday, Aranjuez

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Agony in the Garden

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint, some plate tone; first of three states

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: Boston Harbor

creator: Pierre Ozanne

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Stamp seal and modern impression: winged bull

date: ca. 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Agate, banded (?)

country: Achaemenid

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


title: Button

medium: glass

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Leger. Joseph. 16 ans, né à Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). Jardinier. Fabrication d'engins explosifs. 4/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Embroidered sampler

creator: Elizabeth Coons

medium: Silk and linen on linen, embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Mabel Herbert Harper


title: Cuban Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


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


title: Beads

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Agate and quartz

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1940


title: Petri Gyllii De Bosporo thracio libri III ; Petri Gyllii De topographia Constantinopoleos

creator: Pierre Gilles


title: Panther Seizing a Stag

creator: Antoine-Louis Barye

date: modeled before 1850, cast between 1857 and 1875

medium: Bronze (sand cast)

credit_line: Gift of M.A.S. de Reinis, 1981


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

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


title: Piece

date: 15th century

medium: Silk and hemp

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Frontispiece, from Nouveau Livre d'Academies Peintes a Rome par les Eleves de l'Académie Royale de Peinture et Sculpture (New Book of the Academy Painted in Rome by the Pupils of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture)

creator: François Boucher

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Stone Bowl with Inlays

date: 1st century BCE–7th century CE

medium: Stone, mother-of-pearl, turquoise

country: Moche

subjects: Stone-container Moche

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


title: "Zulaykha with her Handmaidens After her Second Dream of Yusuf", Folio from a Yusuf and Zulaykha

date: 16th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander Smith Cochran, 1913


title: Terracotta oinochoe with trefoil mouth

date: late 6th–early 5th century B.C

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Tray (one of a set)

creator: Doccia Porcelain Manufactory

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

date: ca. 400 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Partly Worked Piece of Jadeite

medium: Jadeite

country: New Zealand

subjects:
Jade
New zealand

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Firescreen

medium: Rosewood

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, by exchange, 1999


title: Shawl

creator: Emile-Frédéric Hébert

medium: Wool and silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Louis S. Jurist, 1938


title: Carnelian Lentoid

medium: Carnelian

subjects:
Gems
Minoan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1929


title: Sugar box (part of a service)

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Marsyas

creator: Christophe Veyrier

date: second half 17th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Jacket

date: 19th century

medium: Wool, silk; embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

credit_line: Gift of the Estate of Mr and Mrs. F. J. Shepard, 1942


title: The Beggar's Opera, Act III

creator: William Blake

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Tudor Style Rural Train Station and Railroad Crossing

creator: John Connell Ogle

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 17th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1919


title: Pendant, lentoid

medium: Gold

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


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

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


title: Cylinder jar

medium: Stone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Pocket

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: Linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Alvah E. Reed, 1966


title: Panel

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Cuneiform tablet: account of dates as imittu-rent, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 617 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Calligraphy

creator: Tang Yin

medium: Album leaf; ink on gold-flecked paper

country: China

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


title: The skeleton of the people’s editor (Antonio Vanegas Arroyo)

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress (letterpress on both sides of sheet)

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Box Cover

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Chemisette

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Willis McDonald, 1925


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

creator: Euaion Painter

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Stamp seal (conoid) with animals

date: second half of 8th–6th century BCE

medium: Banded and flawed neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian


title: Miniature pilgrim bottle

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with three-color glaze (Sancai ware)

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Tetradrachm of Mithridates, 300 B.C., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Vessel fragment

medium: Silver


title: Mary Magdalene Relief

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Black Marble

country: Franco-Netherlandish

subjects: Sculpture-stone Franco-netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1936


title: Strasbourg

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, only state

credit_line: Gift of Carl J. Ulmann, 1924


title: Trumpeter Cossack, Russia, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Souvenir

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Gold, lacquer, ivory

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Bell

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Spear Jr., 1978


title: Akrura Informs Nanda and Yashoda: Page From a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana (Ancient Stories of Lord Vishnu)

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Mewar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, mewar)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eisenberg, 1983


title: Lower Half of Kohl Tube

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Banner

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Turkish

subjects: Banner Turkish


title: Plate 15 from "La Tauromaquia": The famous Martincho places the banderillas playing the bull with the movement of his body

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, burin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Priest's Stole

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Gentlemen in workhouse clothes: If the rich are disguising themselves as poor, one might get the idea that the poor might transform themselves into the rich, from 'News of the day'

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph; second state of two, proof (Delteil)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Ewer (one of a pair)

creator: Peter Archambo I

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Bartholomeus van der Helst

creator: Abraham Blooteling

medium: Mezzotint; second state

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1991


title: Ewer

date: probably 18th–19th century

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

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


title: Seven-Panel Buddhist Monk’s Vestment (Shichijō kesa) with Crane Patterns on Hexagonal Diaper Pattern (Mokkō) Background

date: early 17th century

medium: Twill-weave silk with supplementary weft patterning (karaori)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume


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: Cassetta frame

date: mid-16th century

medium: Pine

country: Italian, Veneto

subjects:
Frame
Italian, veneto

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C., April 14th, 1865

creator: Currier & Ives

medium: Hand-colored lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962


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

creator: Euergides Painter

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Cupid with key

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Textile Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; brocaded

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of William Reinhold Valentiner, 1909


title: The Fifth Month, from the series Twelve Months in the Southern Pleasure District (Minami jūni kō)

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Left sheet of a diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Piece

date: late 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Glass hexagonal jug

date: 6th–early 7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman, Syrian

subjects:
Glass
Roman, syrian

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


title: Cobbler

creator: Suzuki Shin'ichi

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Sheep in a Landscape

creator: Eugène-Joseph Verboeckhoven

medium: Black and white chalk on tracing paper

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Julian Clarence Levi, 1966


title: Key with List of Performers to: The Indian Emperor, or, The Conquest of Mexico, Act 4, scene 4

creator: William Hogarth

date: February 1, 1791

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


title: Pillow with boy on hobbyhorse

creator: Zhang family workshop

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stoneware painted with brown and black pigment over white slip under clear glaze (Cizhou ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1960