title: A House on a Hillside in a Southern Landscape

creator: Adam Pynacker

date: mid-17th century

medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, PECO Foundation Gift, 2011


title: Blade and Mounting for a Dagger (Tantō)

date: blade, 19th century; mounting, 19th century

medium: Steel, wood, silver, copper-gold alloy (shakudō), copper, gold

country: Japanese

subjects: Dagger 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 Brayton Ives and W. T. Walters, 1891


title: Punch Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1939


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Jug

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Sari

date: 19th century

medium: silk

country: India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear
India

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


title: A Course of Water-Colour Painting with Twenty-Four Coloured Plates from Designs by R. P. Leitch

creator: Richard Principal Leitch

medium: Illustrations: color lithographs

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1973


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait, Germany]

creator: Carl Freund

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gift of the Shimshak Brenner Family, in memory of Robert Shimshak, 2024


title: Armchair with the cipher of James II and Mary of Modena

medium: Walnut; modern velvet

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1918


title: Florrie West, 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: Cover for 'Juan Pico de Oro', a man in a pulpit addressing a crowd before him

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Vase

medium: Glass

country: China

subjects: Glass China

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


title: Soldiers in a Good Mood (Les Soldats en Bonne Humeur)

creator: Carel Breydel

medium: Etching and engraving

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


title: Pedestal from the drawing room of the William H. Vanderbilt House

creator: Herter Brothers

medium: Egyptian alabaster, gilt brass, and reproduction red glass jewels

country: American

credit_line: Purchase, Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore Foundation Gift, 2002


title: Still Life with Roses and Fruit

creator: Henri Fantin-Latour

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects: Painting Fruits Roses

credit_line: Bequest of Alice A. Hay, 1987


title: Woman's necktie

medium: SIlk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 19th–16th century BCE

medium: Jasper breccia (red and gray mottled)

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: A Battle

creator: Antonio Fantuzzi

medium: Etching

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Melchior, after "Three Magi" series by Jacques Bellange

creator: Matthäus Merian the Elder

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


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


title: Double Spout and Bridge Bottle with Feline and Bird

date: 7th–5th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Birds Ceramics-container

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


title: Mug (one of a pair)

date: 18th century

medium: Silver

country: South American (Bolivian)

credit_line: Bequest of Martha A. Zalles, 1978


title: Cistern

date: 13th century

medium: Lead, cast

country: French

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: Gift of George and Florence Blumenthal, 1933


title: Saint Agnes, holding a palm leaf and a tethered lamb

creator: Willem Panneels

medium: Etching; second state of two (Hollstein)

subjects: Print Palms

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


title: Rings of Water II (Cercles d'Eau II)

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Bracelet with Crocodile Heads

creator: Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists

date: 17th–19th century

medium: Brass, gilt

country: Edo peoples

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Edo people

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


title: Beaded Cuff Bracelet

medium: Electrum, carnelian, lapis lazuli, turquoise

credit_line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1913


title: Floorplan and Side View of an Altar, plate H(2) from "Unterschiedliche Neu Inventierte Altäre mit darzu gehörigen Profillen u. Grundrißen"

creator: Johann Michael Leüchte

date: printed ca. 1750–56

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Plaque for a Collar or Necklace

date: 8th century?

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Panel

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Wood; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Himanthalia lorea

creator: Anna Atkins

medium: Cyanotype

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


title: Bread Plate

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Dagger (Bichuwa)

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Steel, silver

country: South Indian

subjects:
Dagger
South indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: The Death of St. Cecilia

creator: Johann Friedrich Greuter

medium: Engraving


title: Vase with Floral and Landscape Decor

medium: Porcelain painted in overglaze famille verte enamels

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Lewis G. Morris, 1968


title: A Saint (Mark?) Reading

creator: Bartolomeo Vivarini

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

credit_line: Bequest of Adele L. Lehman, in memory of Arthur Lehman, 1965


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Wall Bracket

medium: Pine, gilt gesso

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Bowl

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Male Figure (Moai Kavakava)

date: mid to late 19th century

medium: Wood, obsidian, bone

country: Rapa Nui people

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Rapa nui people
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Portrait of Colonel Ranabir Singh Thapa

creator: Bhajuman Chitrkar

medium: Opaque watercolors with gold on paper, laid down in an album page with ornamental margins and border

country: Nepal, Kathmandu

subjects:
Ornament & design
Painting
Nepal, kathmandu
Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Nancy Fessenden Gift, 2021


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Double Portrait of Pierre and Jacques Dupuy

creator: Robert Nanteuil

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2000


title: Dressing gown

medium: silk

country: Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward G. Joseph, 1946


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted

credit_line: Gift of Rafael Guastavino, 1928


title: Sappho

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke and Anonymous Gifts, 1997


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

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Button or Bead or Spindle Whorl

date: 8th–10th century

medium: Stone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Measure

creator: C. B. S., Rouen

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Robert M. Parmelee and Mrs. William L. Parker, 1916


title: Ostrakon with Medical Recipes

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Morion

medium: Steel, gold, brass

country: Italian

subjects: Helmet Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Carnelian ring stone

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

medium: Carnelian

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Plate 46: Vendor of fresh cheese

creator: Simon Guillain II

medium: Etching

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


title: Teapot

creator: Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory

date: late 18th century

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


title: Tumbler

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Le Lever

creator: Pierre Antoine Baudouin

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1954


title: Chandelier

date: early 18th century

medium: Brass

country: Netherlandish

subjects: Metalwork Netherlandish

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Square Plate with Design of Grapes and Squirrel

date: 19th century

medium: Stoneware with overglaze polychrome enamels (Hizen ware, Kutani type)

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: Mold of a Lotus Petal

medium: Pottery


title: Mandarin Beads

medium: Jadeite, delicate pea-green

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Noh Robe (Karaori) with Pattern of Bamboo and Young Pines on Bands of Red and White

date: first half 19th century

medium: Twill-weave silk with resist-dyed warps, supplementary weft patterning in silk, and gold-leaf paper strips (karaori)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, by exchange, 1979


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Young Man with a Concertina ambrotype

medium: Ambrotype

country: American

subjects:
Work on paper
American

credit_line: Purchase, Frederick M. Lehman Bequest, 2005


title: F.e d l'Isle Sandwick from playing cards "Jeu d'Or"

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Second Arabesque

creator: Edgar Degas

date: modeled before 1885, cast 1920

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Sculpture-bronze

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


title: Amphora

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Postillion Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) 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: Seal

medium: Jasper, black

country: Minoan, Crete

subjects:
Gems
Minoan, crete
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


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: Relief depicting the head of a scribe

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Goetz van Berlichingen's Horse

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Pen and iron gall ink

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Asher Ethan Miller, 2013


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Bowl


title: The Annunciation

creator: Mario Cartaro

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


title: Terracotta amphora (jar)

creator: Painter of Munich 833

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


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


title: Gaming or Chess Piece, Possibly a Pawn

date: 8th–11th century

medium: Stone

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1972


title: Ridged Umbel Mold


title: The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Peter, Saint Damasus, Saint Lawrence, and Saint Paul; the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence in the Background

creator: Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of red and black chalk, on beige paper

credit_line: Gift of John Steiner, 1977


title: Standing cup with cover with scene of stag hunt

medium: Zwischengold glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: A Lady, said to be Elizabeth Coombe

date: third quarter 17th century

medium: Satin worked with silk and metal thread; long-and-short, outline, split, and couching stitches

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Sampler

date: 18th century

medium: Drawnwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt, 1931


title: The Fall of Icarus

creator: John Doyle

date: November 29, 1834

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Saint Peter Nolasque

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; second state of two (BN)


title: Glass mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: The Delphic Sibyl

creator: Master with the Name of Jesus

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: St. Peter's, cornice and architrave, profile; key, elevation; triglyph and guttae, elevation and section (recto) blank (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Ceremonial Knife (Tumi)

date: 2nd–7th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-implement Moche

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


title: Wagon #457

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache with graphite verso

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Cows and Cowherds, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Relief print (Comte process)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Goblet

date: early 19th century


title: Apparel

medium: Silk and metal thread on velvet

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: [Six Workmen Holding Various Trade Tools: Paint Brushes, Bucket, Glass Bottle, and Hatchet]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Water view of Quartermaster’s Office at Beaufort, South Carolina

creator: Samuel A. Cooley

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Netsuke of Equestrian Figure

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


creator: Douris

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Diomedes and the Palladium

date: probably second half 15th century

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


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

date: 5th century BCE


title: Seal Ring

date: 5th–6th century

medium:
Silver shank
bezel: carved

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Boy with leaves and box

date: 19th century

medium: Horn

subjects: Horn China

credit_line: Gift of Ellen Barker, 1942


title: Mug

medium: Enamelled and gilded milk glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Plaque with the Virgin in Mourning

date: 14th century

medium: Basse taille enamel, silver

country: Catalan

subjects:
Catalan
Enamels-basse taille

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Sub Tegmine...

creator: Sir Francis Seymour Haden

medium: Etching and drypoint; trial proof b (Harrington); first state of five (Schneiderman)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Scent bottle

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Porcelain and metal


title: Bonzes de la Grande Pagode

creator: Emile Gsell

medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negatives

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


title: Studies of Field Laborers (from Sketchbook VII)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

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


title: Mantle

medium: silk, beads

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Aldace F. Walker in memory of her son, Roberts Walker, 1943


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Coin

date: dated 369 AH/979 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: (From Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Side Chair

medium: Red maple, oak

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1951


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Hot milk jug

creator: Höchst Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941


title: Coin

date: dated 375 AH/985 CE


title: Christ seen in profile facing right, making the sign of blessing with his right hand, in an oval frame, from "Christ, the Virgin, and Thirteen Apostles"

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

medium: Etching; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


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

medium: Terracotta


title: Kneehole writing table

medium: Mahogany and mahogany veneer, gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Sunbonnet

date: mid-19th century

medium: cotton, metal

country: American or European

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts from Various Donors Fund, 1992


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: Plate

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Lewis Einstein, 1962


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Portrait of a Man in Armor

date: early 17th century

medium: Oil on canvas

country: Spanish, Seville

subjects:
Miscellaneous-painting & portrait
Spanish, seville
Portraits

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


title: Charles Columbus "Count" Campau, Left Field, Detroit Wolverines, 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: Miss Loïe Fuller

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Brush and spatter lithograph printed in five colors on wove paper; only state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Viscera figure with falcon head (Qebehsenuef)

medium: Wax (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Glass pendant in the form of a jar

date: 4th–early 5th century CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Snaffle Bit

date: 8th century BCE

medium: Copper alloy (bronze)

country: Villanovan, possibly Bologna

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
Villanovan, possibly bologna

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Dagger (Katar)

date: 17th century

medium: Steel

country: Indian, Thanjavur; blade, European

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, thanjavur; blade, european

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: The Wild Man or the Masquerade of Orson and Valentine

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

medium: Woodcut


title: The Adoration of the Magi

creator: Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

medium: Tempera and gold on wood

credit_line: Gift of Irma N. Straus, 1958


title: Staff finial with seated woman

creator: "Master of the Frontal Concentric Circles"

medium: Ivory, metal, wood, lead

country: Yombe-Kongo peoples

subjects:
Ivorie
Yombe-kongo people

credit_line: Gift of Marian Malcolm, in loving memory of her husband, Daniel Malcolm, 2022


title: Button

medium: metal

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: The Rio dei Mendicanti

creator: Giacomo Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Bulldog

date: 18th century

medium: Salt-glazed stoneware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1945


title: Seated woman (on purple silk), from the Girl Art Subjects series (N193) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial lithograph printed on silk


title: Madarin at Home

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Sleeve Band

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: John Alexander "Bid" McPhee, 2nd Base, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Design for the Right Side of a Door with Pediment and Fluted Pilasters

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Point of brush and gray ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite and ruled construction

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


title: [Actress reading book while leaning on chair], from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Fêtes Venitiennes

creator: Robert Hancock

medium: Enamel on copper

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


title: An Old Maid's Delight

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Tray of Tubular beads

medium: Faience

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers

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


title: Pouch

medium: glass, linen

country: Mexican

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


title: Hanging Key Cabinet

creator: Kimbel and Cabus

medium: Oak

credit_line: Sansbury-Mills Fund, 1981


title: Death of Goetz von Berlichingen

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Wood engraving; proof before letters

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, from "Le Monde Illustré"

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: October 16, 1875

medium: Wood engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2013


title: Andiron

medium: Brass

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1984


title: Le Colère mêlée de crainte, from "Caractères des passions, gravés sur les desseins de l'illustre Monsieur le Brun"

creator: Sébastien Le Clerc, le Jeune

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3803

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Muff, white kerchief and mask

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

date: 20th century

medium: Reproduction

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923


title: Shell Gathering at Shibaura

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects:
Print
Japan
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Window

medium: Gypsum, stained glass

credit_line: Gift of William R. Ware, 1893


title: Fragment

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: last quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Strip

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: The Nativity (reverse copy)

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving


title: Candlestick

date: 16th century

credit_line: Gift of W .L. Hildburgh, 1932


title: Panel

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Cartouche with a Mask

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and green-gray wash, over black chalk, on cream laid paper

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


title: [Actress wearing ornate cap], from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) 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: Bead

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Stone


creator: Painter of Bologna 417

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Event handkerchief

creator: Asher Brown Durand

date: early 19th century

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1944


title: Picture of a Procession of Foreigners at Yokohama

creator: Utagawa Yoshikazu

date: 2nd month, 1861

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Ceiling Design for Madame Hope's Bedroom

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Watercolor, gouache, gilt

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Three Worthy Christians: Charlemagne, King Arthur, and Geoffrey of Bouillon

creator: Daniel Hopfer

medium: Etching; second state of two

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


title: Tabernacle frame

medium: Carved, gilt and painted poplar

country: Italian, Marches

subjects:
Frame
Italian, marche

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: [Unidentified Man]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Gift of Dan Moyer and Oliver Lott, 2019


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Pendant depicting Horus

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Lead

credit_line: Gift of James Douglas, 1890


title: Vase

medium: Cloisonné enamel on copper

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Cabasset

date: 16th century; embossed decoration, probably 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, brass, leather

country: French or Italian

subjects:
Forgerie
French or italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: A pair of young men dancing for a crowd of older people

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

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

medium: Zincograph

credit_line: Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960


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: Poem by Fujiwara no Michinobu Ason, 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

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


title: Higlers Cart, from The Rhedarium, or, A New Book of Horses and Carriages

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching and stipple

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


title: Watch

creator: Michael Ranna

date: 19th century

medium: Metal, enameled; ivory, gold wires, pearls

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Dido on the Funeral Pyre

creator: Giuseppe Diamantini

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


title: [Studio Portrait: Actor in Costume Wearing Long Beard, Japan]

medium: Albumen silver print

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph
Portraits

credit_line: The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2017


title: Bronze votive statuette of a standing human

date: 8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Gift of the H. L. Bache Foundation, 1969


title: Card Number 374, May Parks, 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: Head of the Buddha

creator: Thai

date: late 18th–19th century

medium: Copper alloy, some with traces of leaf gilding.

country: Thai

subjects: Metalwork Thai


title: Gold and banded agate ring

date: late 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Gold, banded agate

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Gems
Roman, cypriot
Minerals & gems

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


title: Processional Cross

date: 6th century, with modern restoration

medium: Silver, mounted on wood

country: Syrian

subjects: Metalwork-silver Syrian

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1950


title: Clasp knife

date: 18th century

medium: Steel, damaescened with gold

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1891


title: Candlestick

medium: Porcelain

country: American

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1984


title: Looking Glass

medium: Mahogany veneer, gilt gesso, pine

credit_line: Sansbury-Mills Fund, 1952


title: Tailpiece, or The Bathos

creator: William Hogarth

medium: Etching and engraving; only state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Quatrain on spring’s radiance

creator: Empress Yang Meizi

date: early 13th century

medium: Round fan mounted as an album leaf; ink on silk

country: China

subjects: Calligraphy China

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


country: Greek, Attic


title: Lantern in Shape of a Pagoda

medium: Pottery with moulded design covered with glaze (Takatori ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Pleasures of Occupation

creator: Cornelis Bloemaert

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Pantheon, partial plan; details (recto) Pantheon, rectangular niche, perspective; vault, detail (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

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


title: Ensemble

medium: (a, b) silk, cotton, metal; (c) silk

country: Scottish

credit_line: Gift of Madeleine Sinco Verne, 1964


title: Poster for The Yellow Book, Volume IV

creator: Aubrey Vincent Beardsley

date: January 1895

medium: Lithograph and relief process

credit_line: Gift of Martin Birnbaum, 1957


title: Plate 2: Calidarium at the Baths of Diocletian, from "The Ruins of Rome"

creator: Bartholomeus Breenbergh

medium: Etching


title: Cap

medium: Linen

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


title: Stole (one of a set of five vestments)

medium: Silk, metal thread, cotton

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


title: Card Number 199, Cora Winslaw, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Conical seal

date: ca. 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Chalcedony

country: Achaemenid

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


title: Suite des Vases Tirée du Cabinet de Monsieur Du Tillot Marquis de Felino

creator: Ennemond Alexandre Petitot

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes: Lip cup (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Punch bowl

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Suit

medium: silk, linen

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1976


title: Foot of a Vessel

date: 4th–early 5th century

medium: Glass

country: Coptic

subjects:
Glass-vessel
Coptic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Card Number 170, Carrie Andrews, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

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


title: Cyrus Field Congressional Medal

creator: William Barber

medium: Gold

credit_line: Gift of Cyrus W. Field, 1892


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Fortifications, Manassas, Occupied by 13th Mass.

creator: Mathew B. Brady

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Sugar box with cover (part of a service)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

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


title: Broadside with 48 scenes relating to the comedy 'El Tanto por Ciento'

creator: José María Marés

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: Three Muses seated below a flying putto who grasps a lyre with both hands, a cruciform composition, from a series of eight compositions after Francesco Primaticcio's designs for the ceiling of the Gallery of Ulysses (destroyed 1738-39) at Fontainebleau

creator: Giorgio Ghisi

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Copse of Trees on a Riverbank (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Hewes Hinckley

medium: Graphite on buff paper

subjects: American Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Sheila and Richard J. Schwartz Fund and Gifts in memory of  Stephen D. Rubin, 1992


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite, blue glazed

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: A Courtesan

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

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


title: Porringer

creator: Johann Christoph Hünning I

date: early 18th century

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Buckle

medium: Bronze

country: Visigothic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Visigothic

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Terracotta fragment of a bell-krater (deep bowl)

date: third quarter of the 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Paestan

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, paestan


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1986


title: Grande Galerie carpet no. 38 (Fame and Fortitude)

creator: Savonnerie Manufactory

date: Delivered between 1668 and 1677

medium: Wool, knotted and cut pile (symmetrical knot, 90 knots per square inch)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Plates and Nails

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Sheldon Lewis Breitbart, 1983


title: Border

date: late 18th century

medium: Linen, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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: Portrait of Two Girls

creator: Sara Peters Grozelier

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Gloria Manney, 2006


title: Bonnet

medium: Silk

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


title: Pair of tassels

date: 17th century

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan, 1921


title: Bead

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

medium: Carnelian

country: Parthian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Grid (from Sketchbook)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Graphite on buff wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Margaret C. Buell, Helen L. King, and Sybil A. Walk, 1970


title: Textile Fragment

date: dated 282 AH/895 CE

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, embroidered

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Seal Stamp

medium: Chalcedony (carnelian)

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


title: Head of a man with serious expression

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Design for Landau, No. 3476

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Dress

medium: cotton

country: British

subjects:
Costume & fashion
British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1970


title: Trimming

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Laces

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Mug

creator: Francis Bassett, I

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1939


title: Bookbinding

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Leather; tooled and gilded

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1975


title: Design for a Grate and Surrounding Mantel

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, graphite and watercolor

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


title: Amusement at the Court

creator: Johann Georg Platzer

medium: Oil on copper

credit_line: Purchase, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2025


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


title: Hammered Silver Rattle Beaker

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-container
Peru; north coast

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


title: William I. "Billy" Serad, Pitcher, Toronto Canucks, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Apostles Looking at Christ and the Virgin in a Glory of Angels (bottom left plate)

creator: Léon Davent

medium: Etching

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


title: Lamp

creator: Atterbury and Company

medium: Frosted colorless and opaque blue glass, brass

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Rudd, in memory of Plumah Naylor Yocum, 1979


title: Man holding a cane and a hat

creator: Victor Adam

date: mid–19th century

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Stephen K. and Janie Woo Scher, 2012


title: Orphrey (one of a pair)

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1914


title: Teapot (part of a service)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding

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


title: Game Piece in the Form of an Enthroned King

medium: Probably fine pumice stone

country: North German

subjects:
Sculpture-miniature
North german

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1978


title: Fan

date: late 19th century

medium: plastic, feathers

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Erna Kastan, 1978


title: Corset

medium: silk, bone, metal

country: French

subjects:
French
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Pratt Institute, 1934


title: Caleche #855

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Dagger (Pesh-kabz) with Sheath

medium: Steel, silver, rock crystal, velvet, wood, gold

country: Indian

subjects:
Dagger
Indian
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Terracotta modiolus (drinking cup)

date: ca. 5–40 CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Netsuke

medium: Red lacquer

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Stela of the sistrum-player Wedjashu, daughter of the royal scribe Hor and the lady of the house Ankhes

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Purchase, Dr. and Mrs. Edmundo Lassalle Gift, 1968


title: Mrs. Ethel Cushing

creator: Howard Cushing

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Lazarus Fund, 1917


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Armchair (part of a set)

date: first quarter 18th century

medium: Carved beech with crimson damask

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Private, Orphan Cadets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

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


title: Double Spouted Vessel with Snake

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, post-fired paint

country: Paracas

subjects:
Paraca
Ceramics-container
Reptiles & amphibians
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Collar

date: 20th century

medium: Cutwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Lane and Lewis / Lane and Redding

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Sealing with stamp seal impression: confronted sphinxes

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, in memory of George D. Pratt, 1937


title: Design for a Ewer

creator: Erasmus Hornick

medium: Etching

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Walter E. Stait, 2013


title: Silver Crab Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: North Coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
North coast
Crustaceans

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


title: Saltcellar

medium: Lacy pressed opaque blue glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: A Cherry-Viewing Excursion by a Noble Lady and Attendants

creator: Chōbunsai Eishi

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Gold Signet Ring of Michael Zorianos

medium: Gold

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-gold Byzantine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: The Lantern in Winter, Water in Summer

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

medium: Etching with some engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Woman's Kimono

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Courtland Palmer, 1950


title: Fragment of a Sleeve

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Returning Sails at Nōgei [American couple riding over the Nōgei Bridge]

creator: Utagawa Yoshitora

date: 1st month, 1861

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Standing Lakshmi (Goddess of Fortune)

date: 13th century

medium: Copper alloy, inlaid with semiprecious stones

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

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


title: The Reward of Cruelty (The Four Stages of Cruelty)

creator: William Hogarth

date: February 1, 1751

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Easington, The Seat of Nathaniel Stevens, plate 218 from "The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire"

creator: Johannes Kip

medium: Hand-colored etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Manuscript Leaf with Initial V, from an Antiphonary

date: second quarter 15th century

medium: Tempera, ink, and metal leaf on parchment

country: German

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
German

credit_line: Gift of Miss Alice M. Dike, in memory of her father, Henry A. Dike, 1928


title: Daisies and Two Makimono

creator: Kitao Shigemasa

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

country: Japan

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


title: Neapolitan, from National Dances (N225, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Cake basket

creator: Paul de Lamerie

credit_line: Bequest of Alfred Duane Pell, 1924


title: Fork with winged putto handle

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1962


title: Guanzi (管子 )

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Chinese

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
Chinese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Sugar bowl (part of a set)

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Grave stele with Hoplite Battle Scene

date: ca. 390 BCE

medium: Marble, Pentelic

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1940


title: Dagger (Katar)

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Steel

country: Indian; blade, European

subjects:
Dagger
Indian; blade, european

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Fragment

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: The Entombment, from "The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ"

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Actor Scattering Peas; A Ceremony of Exorcism for the New Year

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

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


title: Designs for Top and Four Sides of a Snuffbox with Scenes depicting the Ascent of a Hot Air Balloon

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Gouache

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1965


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Necklace with pendants

medium: Blue faience, beryl, carnelian, hematite

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


title: Christmas, or Folding the Last Sheep

creator: Samuel Palmer

medium: Etching; second state of five

credit_line: Gift of G. L. Winthrop, 1917


title: Mask

date: 2nd–7th century

medium: Copper

country: Moche

subjects: Metal-ornament Moche

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


title: Watch with wandering hour dial

creator: Thomas Tompion

date: 19th or 20th century, in the style of 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silver, gilt metal

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a 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: Napoleon, King of Italy, Wearing Iron Crown of Monza

creator: Luigi Manfredini

medium: Bronze, struck

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1977


title: Bottle with floral scrolls

date: late 18th century

medium: Porcelain with celadon glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers


title: Raising the Wind

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand colored etching

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


title: Bronze statuette of a youth

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: The Virgin at the right with the Christ Child and St John the Baptist at left, a pyramid structure in the background

creator: Anonymous, 18th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Tray

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of William B. Osgood Field, 1902


title: Decorative Element

medium: Wood; carved

subjects:
Ornament & design
Wood

credit_line: Gift of Richard Ettinghausen, in appreciation of the work of Marie Lukens Swietochowski, Marilyn Jenkins, Manuel Keene and Carolyn Kane in installing the new Islamic Galleries, 1975


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Buzz Aldrin on the Moon with the American Flag

creator: Neil Armstrong

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon, 2016


title: Actress wearing embroidered costume and cap, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Scarab "Two Ladies, Wadjetrenput"

medium: Egyptian blue

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Cloak Pin

medium: Enamel on copper, brass

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Harness or bridle fittings

date: ca. 9th century BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Drawers

date: early 19th century

medium: linen

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Houghton Trott, 1954


title: Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 62 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Amasis Painter

credit_line: Purchase, Walter C. Baker Gift, 1956


title: Oh, you are.... (guilty) and what do you want me to do about it?, from 'At the court of justice,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire, March 3, 1866

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

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


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware, slip decoration

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Card Number 119, Pauline Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Covered bowl with Thai mythical figures

medium: orcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Bencharong ware for Thai market)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Harpoon head

medium: Bone

subjects:
Bone
Japan
Skeletons & bones

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix: Band or lip cup (drinking cup)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Cabriolet Sleigh (no number)

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Pastoral Scene: Shepherds and Their Flock

creator: Michel Corneille the Younger

medium: Brush, brown, red-brown, blue, green, and white paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Rama Releases the Demon Spies Shuka and Sarana: Folio from the Siege of Lanka series

creator: Manaku

medium: Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper

country: India, Guler, Himachal Pradesh

subjects:
Painting
India, guler, himachal pradesh

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: The Tax Collectors (Les Traitants)

creator: Jean Honoré Fragonard

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Dish in the shape of a leaf

date: late 7th–early 8th century

medium: Silver with parcel gilding

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur M. Sackler Gift, 1974


title: Ring with Twisted Coil Motif

date: Second half of the 8th–second half of the 10th 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: One of a Pair of Boxes in the Shape of Ducks

date: 18th century

medium: Wood with mother-of-pearl, ivory, and glass

subjects:
Shell
China
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. Nina Houser Peebles, 1956


title: Recto: On Timber, the Species of Trees (Vitruvius, Book 2, Chapter 9, no. 4); Verso: On Timber, the Battle of Larignium (Vitruvius, Book 2, Chapter 9, no. 15)..

creator: Sangallo family

medium: Pen and dark brown ink

subjects: Drawing Trees

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, by exchange, 2008


title: Dorothy Morton, 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: Embroidered sampler

creator: Jane Rogers

medium: Embroidered silk on wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of Barbara Schiff Sinauer, 1984


date: late 6th/early 5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Seraphine

medium: Wood and various materials

country: American

subjects:
Aerophone-free reed-harmonium
American

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Specimen

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Card Number 314, M. Baimer, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes


title: Collapsed on the Bed, from "Elles"

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Lithograph printed in two colors on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: [Yosemite National Park, California]

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Mace

medium: Iron

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Chinese

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Napoleon Dance in Holland

creator: Charles Williams

date: January 1, 1814

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Shabti coffin of Wahneferhotep

medium: Wood, paint, gold leaf.

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


title: A Vitellius, from "Twelve Caesars on Horseback"

creator: Abraham de Bruyn

medium: Engraving

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


title: Album of designs for embroidery: bodices, gauntlets, caps, bags, page 67 (recto)

creator: Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century

medium: pen and ink; some with wash

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


title: Helmet

medium: Steel

country: Caucasian

subjects: Helmet Caucasian


title: Ecce Homo / Man of Sorrows

creator: Hans Schäufelein

medium: Woodcut; Dershau restrike, 1922

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: A Swallow in the Rain

creator: Okada Baison

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Design for an Architectural Frieze

creator: Anonymous, Italian, mid-16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, page 36 (recto)

creator: Cesare Vecellio

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Shard with Figural and Animal Decoration

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan

credit_line: Gift of Joseph G. Gerena, 1992


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Ghirlanda: Di sei vaghi fiori scielti da piu famosi Giardini d'Italia, page 6 (recto)

creator: Pietro Paulo Tozzi

date: October 1, 1604

medium: Etching and drawing


title: Mlle. Bever, 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: Clearing Weather at Awazu

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Square (one of four)

medium: Needle lace

credit_line: Henrietta Seligman Lace Collection, Bequest of Mrs. Jesse Seligman, 1910


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Antiphon Painter


title: Fragment with Figures

date: 7th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Example of lace stitch

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Textiles-Methods and Materials

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Kerchief (Pañuelo)

date: first half 19th century

medium: Pineapple fiber

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1923


title: Custard Cup

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Incense Burner

medium: Cloisonné enamel on copper

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of J. C. Bishop, F. C. Bishop, O. M. Bishop and H. R. Bishop, 1904


title: Galloon

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Relief of quail chick, preliminary sketch opposite side

medium: Limestone

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


title: Upper Part of a Statue

medium: Quartzite

credit_line: Purchase, Frederick P. Huntley Bequest, 1959


title: Standing female figurine

date: early 5th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: On the Sands

creator: Anders Zorn

medium: Etching; second state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Menat fragment, Apries

medium: Glazed limestone

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Fragment


title: Matchlock Gun

date: 16th century

medium: Steel, wood (walnut, red beech), latten, bone, mother-of-pearl, brass

country: German

subjects:
German
Firearms-guns-matchlock
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, by exchange, 1928


title: John Bull's Turnpike Gate

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: [Elderly Woman in Black Cape and Bonnet with Mourning Crape]

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: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: The Bassoon with a French Horn Accompaniment


title: Dish with Dragon and Phoenix

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under and colored enamels over transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Gilbert de Choiseul-Praslin, eveque de Comminges

creator: Jean Morin

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Adelaide Neilson in Colors of Union Yacht Club, from the Yacht Colors of the World series (N140) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: Medal and Button

date: late 19th century

medium: White triangular ribbon with yellow side stripe

subjects: Medal Japan

credit_line: Gift of Edward D. Adams and Jacob H. Schiff, 1906


title: [Joseph John Jenkins]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


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


title: Gold swivel ring with carnelian scarab

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Carnelian, gold

subjects:
Gems
Etruscan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Eagle pendant

creator: Veraguas artist

medium: Gold

country: Veraguas

subjects: Metalwork-aluminum Veragua

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


title: Yokkaichi, Sanchokawa

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Greywacke plate

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Greywacke

country: Roman

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Roman

credit_line: Gift of Ariel Herrmann, 2014


title: Menatse (Box drum)

medium: wood (red cedar?), iron nails, polychrome

country: Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Musqueam, Native American

subjects:
Idiophone-struck-vessel
Ships & the sea

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Cornu. Eugène. 25 ans, né à Paris XXe le 27/3/94. Cordonnier. Anarchiste. 2/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: Fragments of Splashed Ceramic

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; painted on opaque white glaze (some fragments only)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Autumn

creator: Gilles Rousselet

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: 18th century

medium: Iron, brass, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1946


title: Ostrakon with the Fragments of Two Letter to Apa Cyriacus

medium: Pottery fragment with ink inscription

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Female musician

date: late 7th century

medium: Earthenware with pigment

country: China

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China


title: Wood Warbler, from the Birds of America series (N37) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: One of a pair of parakeets

date: mid-18th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel on copper alloy with gilding

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: Piece

medium: Textiles-Woven

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


title: Chute

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Fish Figurine

date: 20th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Fish Metalwork Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Plate 5: Psyche carried on a litter to a mountain, from "The Fable of Psyche"

creator: Master of the Die

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Candlestick

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Vase

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Rose Coghlan, from World's Beauties, Series 1 (N26) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

subjects: Print Roses


title: Kerchief (Pañuelo)

medium: Pineapple fiber

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Mary Sloan Hess, wife of Col. L.T. Hess, 1937


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


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


title: Card Number 335, Annie Colley, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Joseph Dugan

creator: Joseph Wood

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Gift of Herbert L. Pratt, 1944


title: Jug

country: Italic-Native, South Italian (Daunian)

subjects:
Vase
Italic-native, south italian (daunian)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Watch with revolving portraits

creator: Denis Miroglio (or Miroli)

medium: Silver, niello, enamel

subjects: Horology Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of George White Thorne, 1883


title: Emperor's Coat

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1946


title: Ribbon

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Chintz Appliqué Quilt

medium: Cotton, printed and appliquéd

credit_line: Gift of Karen B. Cohen, in honor of Rochelle C. Rosenberg, 2022


title: Four Designs for Pillars

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 18th century

medium: Pen and ink and wash

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


title: A Cavalry Fight

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; second state of two

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


title: Portrait of Pier Candido (after a medal by Pisanello)

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2026


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Shaft

medium: Marble

country: Catalan

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Cushion cover

medium: Silk, metal thread and metal lace

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


title: Spearhead

date: late 2nd–early 1st millennium BCE

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1961


title: Frog pendant

creator: Central Region artist(s)

medium: Jadeite

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Stone-ornament
Atlantic watershed
Reptiles & amphibians

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


title: Plate and Nail

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Piece

medium: Silk and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


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

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

date: early 20th century

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Small Drum

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia(?)

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

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


title: Mountains of Naphtali (?) (from Sketchbook)

creator: Mary Newbold Sargent

medium: Graphite on paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


title: Hooked Rug

medium: Wool

credit_line: The Sylmaris Collection, Gift of George Coe Graves, 1930


title: Vue de la Vallée de Luchon prise de la tour de Castelvieilh

creator: Joseph Vigier

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Agate scarab

date: ca. 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Agate

country: Greek

subjects:
Gems
Greek
Minerals & gems

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


title: Dish with long-tailed birds and flowers

date: second half of the 14th century

medium: Carved black lacquer

subjects: Lacquer China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Sampler

medium: Cotton on cotton


title: Model Hoe

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Stirrups (<i>Abumi</i>)

creator: Ujiyoshi

medium: Iron, silver

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-stirrup
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of Estate of James Hazen Hyde, by exchange, 1997


title: Jar with human figures and crane

date: late 15th century

medium: Stoneware painted in overglaze polychrome enamels (Cizhou ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Samuel T. Peters, 1926


title: Armchair

medium: Ash

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: May Hanley, Corsair Co., from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 6) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Beaker

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Glass; cut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Card Number 158, Gracie Wilson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Panel

medium: Wool, silk and metal thread on flannel

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Scarab Finger Ring

medium: Amethyst, copper

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Von der Kunnst Perspectiva

creator: Jean Pelerin

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

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


title: The Long Room, Custom House

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Limestone saucer lamp

date: 5th century BCE ?

medium: Limestone

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cypriot


title: Teapot

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: The Entrance of Charlemagne into Pavia

creator: Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld

medium: Black chalk, graphite, brown watercolor washes, red chalk, red chalk washes.  Squared for transfer in graphite with numerical indications of vertical divisions at the lower edge

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, 2003


title: Tankard

creator: Dietrich Mayer

medium: Gilded silver, reverse-painted glass (verre églomisé)

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Miss Kitty Dressing

creator: Thomas Watson

medium: Mezzotint

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Arashi Ryuzo as a Tall Woman Standing on the Engawa

creator: Katsukawa Shunkō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Terracotta stemless kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Uncertain


title: Double-headed bird gold weight

creator: Akan artist

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Brass

country: Akan peoples

subjects:
Metal-implement
Akan people
Birds

credit_line: Gift of Ernst Anspach, 1994


title: Lid  for a Kettle

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Gloves

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Fremaux de Beixedon, 1950


title: Fragment of a Qur'an

date: dated 1265 AH/1860 CE

medium: Ink, watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, 2017


title: Candlestick

date: 19th century, after 16th century original

credit_line: Purchase, 1873


title: Even if the World is Full of Devils

creator: Otto Greiner

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Alexander B. V. Johnson and Roberta J. M. Olson, 1990


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

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


title: Women's Acoma Cape or Dress

medium: Handspun undyed and indigo-dyed Churro fleece and cochineal-dyed raveled bayeta

country: Acoma, Native American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Acoma, native american

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2023


title: Frontispiece, with Statue of Minerva, from "Vedute di Roma"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Fan

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Paper, ivory

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Goblet

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of James Jackson Jarves, 1881


title: Woman Drying Her Arm

creator: Edgar Degas

date: late 1880s–early 1890s

medium: Pastel and charcoal on light pink wove paper, discolored at the edges

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


title: A Sailor Smoking with His Arms Crossed, from "Matelots"

creator: Joseph François Foulquier

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Arrowhead

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1953


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Bottle

date: 18th century

medium: Glass, pewter

credit_line: Gift of John Stemme, 1910


title: Rest on the Flight into Egypt

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Beads

medium: Faience

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


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ring with garnet

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Gold, carbuncle

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Fragment

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Writing Box with Design of a Cherry Tree and Waterfall

medium: Gold and silver maki-e on black lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Pagoda base with four Buddhas

medium: Limestone with traces of pigment

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Henry and Ruth Trubner, in memory of Gertrude Trubner and Edgar Worch, and Purchase, The Astor Foundation Gift, 1988


title: Eight Designs for Decorated Cups and Two Designs for Plate Rims

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

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


title: Sari-length textile

date: 19th–early 20th century

medium: Muslin with in-weave design

country: Bangladesh, Dacca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Bangladesh, dacca

credit_line: Gift of Yukikazu and Kimiko Iwasa, in memory of Seizaburo and Shizuko Iwasa, 2019


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Vase with marine life

creator: Thomas J. Wheatley

medium: Earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020


title: Four Captive Demons

medium: Watercolor and gold on silk

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1968


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Capital

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl

medium: Earthenware; white slip, yellowish-black and brown-black decoration under glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Kimono with Design of Lilies, Chinese Bellflowers, and Pinks

date: second quarter of the 20th century

medium: Figured crepe silk with woven diagonal fret pattern; hand-painted with gold accents, embroidered crest

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

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in memory of Terry Satsuki Milhaupt, 2013


title: Sullivan, Left Field, Indianapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Top for standard

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1932


title: Dress border

date: early 19th century

medium: Metal thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Card Number 393, Maude Stafford, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-5) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Design for a Painted Ceiling

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 19th century

medium: Watercolor

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


title: Edward Hugh "Ned" Hanlon, Center Field, Detroit Wolverines, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Terracotta brazier

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: William Smith "Billy" O'Brien, 1st Base, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Door knocker

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: An old man delousing a boy accompanied by three figures, a cat in the foreground; page 40 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Brush, brown wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Terracotta fragment of a pot


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Knife, Figures

date: 16th–18th century

country: Quechua (?)

subjects: Metal-implement Quechua

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1882


title: Portrait of Christian IV, King of Denmark

creator: Jan Muller

medium: Engraving; third state of three

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Cymbal

country: Hattian

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955


title: Saucer (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: Snuff bottle with figure in a garden

medium: Amethyst

country: China

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Portrait of a Gentleman

medium: Watercolor on ivory

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


title: Wild Rose (Rosa Lucida), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes

subjects: Print Flowers Roses


title: Sewing steps

creator: United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (“Shakers”)

medium: Pine

country: American, Shaker

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1981


title: Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar)

creator: Berlin Painter

date: ca. 500 BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Relief fragment from a Shrine of Queen Henhenet - see 07.230.1d

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1906, 1907


title: Foal (Le Poulain) [also called "The Colt"]

creator: Georges Seurat

medium: Conté crayon on laid paper

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Border

date: 17th century

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1947


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Buckholdt & Son Hardware, Charleroi, Pennsylvania]

creator: E. E. Highgate

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

credit_line: Gift of the Shimshak Brenner Family, in memory of Robert Shimshak, 2024


title: Fountain with Statue of Venus

creator: Marie Amélie Chataigner

medium: Etching


title: Sleeve (?)

medium: Wool on linen

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware

country: Dutch

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Adam and Eve at Work, from The Story of Adam and Eve

creator: Heinrich Aldegrever

medium: Engraving

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


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite, gray glazed

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Chessmen (32)

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Plateau

creator: Benjamin Halsted

medium: Silver and glass

credit_line: Gift of The Estate of Esther and Samuel Schwartz, Paterson, N.J., 2007


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: Amphoriskos

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Dobla of Alfonso of Aragon (r. 1465–68), also known as Alfonso I of Naples (r. 1442–58)

medium: Gold

country: Spanish and Italian

subjects:
Coin
Spanish and italian

credit_line: Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1967


title: Vase

date: late 18th century

medium: Pottery covered with a mottled glaze, flecked with blue (Satsuma ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Boutonnière

medium: silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Cyril Andrade, 1924


title: Chest

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Ear Clip

date: Second half of the 8th–second half of the 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: Canada, from the Natives in Costume series (N16), Teofani Issue, for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Village Festival

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of James David Draper, 2001


title: Maneuvers by Three Categories of French and English Soldiers (Furansu Igirisu sanhei ōchōren no zu)

creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi

date: 8th month, 1867

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Copy of Le Martyre de St. Sébastien (The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian)

creator: Anonymous

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: A View near Tivoli (Morning)

creator: Thomas Cole

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Pair of candlesticks

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Strip

date: early 17th century

medium: Textiles-Embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Vase (one of two)

date: mid-18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Half Pint Measure

date: 19th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Robert M. Parmelee and Mrs. William L. Parker, 1916


title: Hat

medium: Leather, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Louis E. Birdseye, 1941


title: Fan

date: 18th century

medium: Parchment, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1963


title: Tetradrachm of Prusias, 180 B.C., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: with Wine Bottle Applique on Skirt, Tacoma, Washington]

creator: M. F. Kelly

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Gift of the Shimshak Brenner Family, in memory of Robert Shimshak, 2024


title: The Diggers

creator: Jean-François Millet

medium: Etching on thin laid paper; fourth (final) state

credit_line: Gift of David Keppel, 1917


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Telegraph Instrument

credit_line: Gift of George Hutchins, 1876


title: Vita B. Virginis Teresiae

creator: Adriaen Collaert

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943


title: Ring

medium: Gold

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


title: Length

date: first half 18th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Dressing gown

medium: silk

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Bachoo Woronzow, 1981


title: Soup plate


title: Fan

date: late 19th century

medium: Paper, paint, mother-of-pearl, gold, silver, glass


title: Design for wall panels decorated with Chinoiserie scenes

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite and watercolor

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Piece

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Palm Tree

creator: Elihu Vedder

medium: Graphite and gouache on brown wove paper

subjects: American Palms Trees

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1973


title: Annie Boyd, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Ladle

creator: John Vernon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Grima Johnson, 2005


title: Capt. Hall’s Stables, Camp Nelson, Kentucky

creator: G. W. Foster

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: For Success in Art

creator: William Wyon

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Margaret Crosby Munn, 1909


title: Patch box

creator: Jean Formey

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


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

date: 5th century BCE


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Chinese Musicians

creator: Anonymous, Chinese, 19th century

medium: Watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William M. Lybrand, 1942


title: Tabernacle frame

medium: Carved, gilt and painted poplar

country: Italian, Marches

subjects:
Frame
Italian, marche

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: A Snow–clad Landscape with Gray Clouds

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan Landscapes

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


title: Plate 3: Bertoldo holding a hare in his hand, from "Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno"

creator: Giuseppe Maria Crespi

medium: Etching

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


title: View of the column of Trajan, shown with its pedestal dug out from the earth, surrounded by buildings at the base of the Quirinal Hill, Rome, plate 31 from "Ruins of the antiquity of Rome, Tivoli, Pozzuoli, and other places" (Vestigi della antichità di Roma, Tivoli, Pozzvolo et altri luochi)

creator: Aegidius Sadeler II

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


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: Rubbing of the Churning of the Sea of Milk

date: 20th century

medium: Ink on paper

country: Cambodia

subjects: Rubbing Cambodia

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Jean Laur, Curator of Angkor, 1959


title: Plaque representing a Greco-Roman type temple with Corinthian columns

date: 1st–2nd century CE

medium: Bronze or copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: Plate 10: The King of Hungary and Ferdinand on horseback; from Guillielmus Becanus's 'Serenissimi Principis Ferdinandi, Hispaniarum Infantis...'

creator: Pieter de Jode II

medium: Engraving

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)


title: Bronze figure of a recumbent lion

medium: Bronze

country: Italic, Etruscan

subjects:
Bronze
Italic, etruscan

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Vase with cover

creator: Saint-Cloud factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Shawl

medium: silk

country: probably British

credit_line: Gift of Claire Rumsey, 1988


title: Jar

date: ca. 9th–10th century CE

medium: Ceramic, glaze

country: Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Pair of Torah finials (Rimmonim)

medium: Silver, partially gilded, rubies, emeralds, freshwater pearls, enamel, colored glass

credit_line: Purchase, Dina Axelrad Perry and Ruth and Andrew Suzman Gifts, 2023


title: Sword Stand (<i>Katana Kake</i>)

medium: Wood, lacquer

country: Japanese

subjects: Japanese Swords-accessorie

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2003


title: Robe Volante

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2010


title: Avignon, Pont St. Bénezet

creator: Edouard Baldus

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


title: Fragment of a Dish

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Earthenware; gritty body, brown and yellow streak decoration under glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Fragment

date: 15th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Dish

creator: Bernard Palissy

date: late 16th–early 17th century.

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Julia A. Berwind, 1953


title: Watercolor

creator: Eugene B. Cunningham

medium: Ink and watercolor on paper

country: American, Shaker

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1966


title: Window seat (one of a pair)

medium: Walnut and chestnut, gilt

credit_line: Gift of Madame Lilliana Teruzzi, 1969


title: Furniture Hardware

medium: Brass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Rapier

date: late 16th century

medium: Steel

country: Spanish

subjects: Sword Spanish

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Puzzle Card Number 10, The "Overlap" Puzzle, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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