title: Unidentified, ceiling plan (recto) Pont du Gard, perspective elevation (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Scaramuzza, Cardinal Trivulzio, Bishop of Como

date: 16th century

medium: Bronze

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 Ogden Mills, 1926


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Kameyama, 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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Cole J. Younger, 1975


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Head of a Man in Profile, from Livre de Têtes Gravées d'apres F. Boucher et Autres (Book of Heads Engraved after F. Boucher and Others)

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

date: 18th century

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Design for Landau, No. 3002

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: Mlle. Vogel, 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: Cartouche-Shaped Inlay with the Name of Thutmose I

medium: Wood

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


title: Bible

medium: Tempera and gold on parchment; leather binding

country: French

subjects:
Manuscript and illumination
French

credit_line: Gift of John L. Feldman, in memory of his father, Alvin Lindberg Feldman, and his mother, Rosemily Petrison Feldman, 1997


title: One of a Pair of Incense Boxes in the Shape of Dog Charms

medium: Porcelain with overglaze enamels (Minpei kilns)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Black-Throated Golden Pheasant, from the Birds of the Tropics series (N5) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bronze statuette of a sphinx

date: 5th century BCE

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Gift of Christos G. Bastis, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 1995


title: Fragment of  design for architectural frame

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

medium: Watercolor, pen and black and red ink

credit_line: Gift of János Scholz, 1943


title: Upper half of a woman from a pair or group statue

medium: Steatite or serpentinite

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Foundation figure of a deity

medium: Copper

country: Sumerian

credit_line: Gift of Norbert Schimmel Trust, 1989


title: Terracotta pyxis (box)

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Canosan

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian, canosan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Basket and lid

medium: Palm leaf basketry

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Small Shoulder Drum (Kotsuzumi) with Chestnuts for Noh Performance

date: early 17th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e, e-nashiji (“pear-skin picture”)

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2019


title: Document Sealing With the Throne Name of Amenhotep III

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Papyrus letter in Greek

date: early 3rd century CE

medium: Papyrus

country: Roman, Egyptian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-papyrus
Roman, egyptian

credit_line: Gift of M. Nahman, 1925


title: Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

creator: Phiale Painter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Guanyin Seated on a Lotus Throne

date: 15th century

medium: Ink on silk

country: Korea

subjects: Painting Korea

credit_line: Gift of Maurice Abrams, in memory of Leo Stein, 1918


title: Candle Stand

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

medium: Cherry, birch, pine

country: American, Shaker

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 1966


title: The Big Trees of California

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

subjects: Photograph Trees

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


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with crackled cream glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Page 10r, from "Eyn New Kunstlichboich"

creator: Peter Quentel

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Cockney, from World's Dudes series (N31) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

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


title: Bishop Saint in Bust-Length (Cartoon for an Altarpiece)

creator: Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)

medium: Brush and brown wash over black chalk

credit_line: Van Day Truex Fund, 1995


title: Stained Glass Panel with the Flight into Egypt

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

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Terracotta vessel fragment

country: Greek Neolithic

subjects:
Vase
Greek neolithic
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: Designs for Nave Standards, St. Jude's Southsea

creator: Richardson Ellson & Co.

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash and watercolor

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


title: Applique in the shape of a lion

date: ca. 6th–4th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Achaemenid

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Papyrus Fragments of a Letter from John and Pesenthius to Epiphanius

medium: Papyrus with ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: I Marmi

creator: Antonio Francesco Doni

medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Dish

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Glass Fragment

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Pot metal glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Profile du grande Sphinx, pris du Sud

creator: Maxime Du Camp

date: December 1849

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Dress

date: second half 19th century

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Carl A Loeb, 1954


title: Netsuke in the form of a Bell with a Boy

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Le Corbeau et ses Petits (The Raven and its Young), plate 5 from "Lux Claustri ou La Lumière du Cloitre" (The Light of the Cloisters)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching and letterpress; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: A Distant View of Yokohama Honmura, the Licensed District, Noge Bridge, and Yoshida Bridge, from the Entrance to Yokohama near the Mountain Pass at at Noge Village

creator: Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide

date: 3rd month, 1860

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Bottle

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Bequest of Constance R. Brown, 1939


title: Karamono-Style Basket

medium: Hemp palm

subjects: Basketry Japan Palms

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


title: Galloon

date: 19th century (?)

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Jurōjin (God of Longevity) Seated beside Stag (obverse); Sage with Crane and Fly Whisk (reverse)

medium: Lacquer, nashiji, hirame, gold and coloured hiramakie, takamakie; Interior: nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Fragment of a terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water)

creator: Painter of the Dublin Situlae

date: mid-4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Painted Wide-Mouthed Jug

medium: Pottery (marl A, variant 4), paint, linen, mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Fan

medium: ivory, silk

credit_line: Gift of Barbara J. Hazard, 1983


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Onesimos

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: District of Columbia, from Flags of the States and Territories (N11) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Card 6, from the series, Cigarette Making Girls (N46) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


title: Torque

date: 8th–early 9th 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: S. Sabas, abbe (St. Sabas, Abbot), December 5th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Garment hook in the shape of a phoenix

date: 19th century

medium: Jade (nephrite)

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Cuneiform tablet: private letter

date: ca. 20th–19th century BCE

medium: Clay

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, 1966


title: Shabti of Djedkhonsuefankh

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Allegory of the Triumph of the Church

creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

date: 16th century

medium: Point of brush and brown wash

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Vase

medium: Opaque glass with enamel decoration

country: British

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


title: Netsuke of Bat

medium: Rock crystal

country: Japan

subjects:
Netsuke
Japan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: mid-5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Henry "Heinie" Kappel, Left Field, Cincinnati, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Poetic Phrases

creator: Mu'an Xingtao (Mokuan Shōtō)

date: 17th century

medium: Set of three hanging scrolls; ink on paper

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Textile Fragment

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Linen, wool

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Byzantine
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of  Nanette B. Kelekian, in honor of Nobuko Kajitani, 2002


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: The Last Gasp, or Toadstools Mistaken for Mushrooms

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 1, 1813

medium: Hand-colored etching

subjects:
Print
Mushrooms & fungi

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


medium: Terracotta


title: Maffet Ledger: Battle at Adobe Walls

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and crayon on paper

country: Southern and Northern Cheyenne

subjects:
Paper-drawing
Southern and northern cheyenne

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Purchase, Nelson A. Rockefeller Gift, 1968


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Doctor Convex and Lady Concave

date: November 20, 1802


title: Evening vest

medium: silk, cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Dorothy L. Tapscott and Gladys L. Campbell, 1962


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st century BCE

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

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


title: Miniature coffeepot with cover (part of a set)

creator: David Clayton

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Le Char de Thétis (The Chariot of Thetis), from "Guerre de Beauté" (Guerra di Bellezza) (War of Beauty)

medium: Etching; first state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Earring

date: 7th century

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Chandelier

date: mid-18th century

medium: Rock crystal and steel

subjects:
Metalwork-steel
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Purchase, Jospeh Pulitzer Bequest, 1958


title: Design for a Choir Screen with a Cardinal's Hat

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

medium: Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

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


title: Mt. Broderick in Distant Centre, Piroyac, Falling Chrystals, Vernal Fall

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Peasant Couples Dancing

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Plate

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: (From Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Theodore A. "Ted" Kennedy, Pitcher, Des Moines Prohibitionists, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: View on Koolangsoo Island, Amoy

creator: John Thomson

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


title: O'Rourke, Catcher, Boston, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Jain Goddess Padmavati

date: ca. 10th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Purchase, Vijay K. Anand, M.D., Nanda Anand, Maya Anand, and Rohit Anand Gift, 2011


title: Water receptacle with cover

medium: Nephrite, light sage-green with a mottling of white and brown, and a heavy staining of variegated dead-oak-leaf

country: China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Whole cloth quilt

creator: Unknown

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Purchase, Frank P. Stetz Bequest, in loving memory of David Stewart Hull, 2015


title: Dish

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Porcelain with celadon glaze, Longquan ware

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Disegni Varii di Polifilo Zancarli

creator: Polifilo Giancarli

date: 1628 before

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: First Book of Vases

creator: Edme Bouchardon

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Sealing

medium: Clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Gendarme, French Army, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Candlestick (one of a pair)

medium: Cloisonné enamel

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Gift of Edward G. Kennedy, 1929


title: One from a Pair of Solid Undecorated Bangles

medium: Bronze

country: Thailand

subjects: Jewelry Thailand

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


title: Wine Glass

medium: Free-blown glass

country: British, probably

credit_line: Gift of Frederick W. Hunter, 1913


title: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

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


title: Fragment of a Bowl or Cup

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Jack A. Josephson, 1973


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory

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


title: Blade Fragment

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Albert M. Lythgoe, 1917


title: Box

date: 19th century

medium: Gourd

subjects: Woodwork Japan

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


title: Recumbent Ox

creator: Kiyozumi

date: late 18th century–early 19th century

medium: Ivory, horn

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Alvin H. Schechter, 1985


title: Piece

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Parasol

creator: Stern Brothers

medium: silk, wood, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Lillian E. Glenn Peirce in memory of Mrs. Luther G. Tillotson, 1944


title: Tweezers

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Pair of Doors

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: Engineers Corps, 12th New York State Militia, Camp Anderson, Washington, D.C.

creator: Mathew B. Brady

date: May–September 1861

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Vase (one of a pair)

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1955


title: Beaker

date: early 19th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Box

date: 15th century

medium: Leather (cuir bouilli) over turned-wood core

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Jeanne

creator: Morton Schamberg

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: Gift of Jean Loeb Whitehill, 1973


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Medal of John Quincy Adams

creator: Moritz Fürst

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Elevation Showing the Exterior of Saint Peter's Basilica from the South as Conceived by Michelangelo (published in 1569), from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Etienne DuPérac

medium: Engraving with etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Ceremonial Coat

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-woven

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Miser's purse

date: late 19th century

medium: Silk, metal

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


title: Scarabs from Hatshepsut Foundation Deposits

medium: Egyptian blue

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Lekythos

creator: Little Lion Class

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Pipe and Tobacco Box

medium: Mahogany

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Treble Viol

creator: Cabroly

country: French

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-fretted French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Star-Shaped Tile

date: 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted with touches of cobalt on opaque white glaze under transparent glaze

credit_line: H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1941


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Small Jar

medium: Porcelaneous stoneware with white glaze (Hizen ware, Arita 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: Winged putti at a banquet

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Oil on embossed card

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Farmyard Landscape (a), Seated Peasant (b), Beggar (c), Beggar (d), Little Beggar (e), Head of a Breton (f), and Fishing Landscape (g)

creator: Charles Jacque

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes


title: Fitting with two birds

date: 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China Birds

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Dish

medium: Nephrite, white with light cream tint

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Business and Pleasure

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: [1813], reprint

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: En plein soleil

creator: James McNeill Whistler

date: [1858] later printing

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on buff chine on white wove paper (chine collé); third state of three (Glasgow)

credit_line: Gift of William Loring Andrews, 1883, transferred from the Library


title: Mountain Retreat

creator: Unidentified artist

date: mid-16th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

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


title: Two Boys with a Helmet and Standard

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Netsuke

medium: Ivory inlaid

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Pair of frames

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Saucer

date: mid-18th century

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: L'Enfant blanc

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Study for Title Page to "Thesavrvs Antiqvitatvm Romanarvm", 1696

creator: Jan Goeree

date: before 1704

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

credit_line: Gift of Helen and János Scholz, 1958


title: Charles Edward "Charlie" Duffee, 2nd Base, St. Louis Browns, 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: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Dead Alive!

date: July 1795

medium: Hand-colored etching; reissue


title: Stone Pulidor

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-implement Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Priest in a leopard skin cloak with an inscription and Osiris on his skirt

medium: Leaded bronze

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Apostle spoon: St. Thomas

creator: William Cawdell

medium: Silver, partly gilded

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Mabon, 1967


title: The Rivals

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

creator: Gaetano Gandolfi

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 2015


title: Pin with head of a dog

medium: Bronze

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Card Number 60, Jennie Freeland, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Inrō with Herons among Reeds (obverse); Crow (reverse)

medium:
Silver, gold togidashimaki-e, black lacquer, hiramaki-e on gold ground;
Netsuke: Chinese scholars and house; ivory;
Ojime: flowers; metal

subjects: Inrō Japan Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Hope Skillman Schary, 1981


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Victor Amadeus III of Savoy, IV of Sardinia (born 1726, reigned 1773–96)

date: late 18th century

medium: Wax, colored

credit_line: Gift of Captain and Mrs. William G. Fitch, in memory of their son, Clyde Fitch, 1910


title: Terracotta fragment of a pot


title: Pedestal

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Ebony, gilt bronze


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


title: Sketches of Figures and a Tile-Roofed Building, Seville, Spain

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2013


title: Bracelet

date: probably 14th–15th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Furniture Hardware

creator: Henry Kellam Hancock

medium: Gilt brass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Hunting Smith, 1968


title: Terracotta oinochoe:olpe (jug)

creator: Milazzo Painter

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Gardener (one of a pair)

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1952


title: Pilgrim's Badge: Saint Cornelius

medium: Lead/tin alloy

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Metalwork-lead
South netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1999


title: Street Scene in the Outskirts of Edo on an Evening in Winter

creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Exhibition Room, Somerset House

date: January 1, 1808

medium: Etching and aquatint, hand colored

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Man Preaching with Upraised Arm, Two Male Nudes, Man Playing Harp (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Wash, graphite, on paper

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Panels with Scrolling Floral Design

medium: Silk and metallic-thread tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Flowers
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Rodman A. Heeren, 1960


title: Evening gloves

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: leather, silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Katharine D. Kittinger, 1953


title: Textile Fragment

medium: Wool, silk, and metal wrapped thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: The Battle of Arbela from a set of The Story of Alexander

creator: Charles Le Brun

medium: Wool, silk (17-18 warps per inch, 8 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Knife

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Steel, gold

country: Persian

subjects: Knive Persian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Actress posing with two children, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Sculpture of a Wise Man (from a Group with the Adoration of the Magi)

medium: Limestone

country: Spanish

subjects: Sculpture Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection,1930


title: Lamp

medium: Free-blown lead glass


title: Ring-Pommel Sword

date: 14th century

medium: Steel, copper, ivy root

country: Swiss

subjects: Sword Swiss

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Heart-shaped snuffbox

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Limestone statuette of Herakles holding a lion

date: late 5th or early 4th century BCE

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Statuette of a woman

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek


title: Children and a Cow

creator: Aelbert Cuyp

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, in memory of her father, George Griswold, 1934


title: Two Sketches of Bay Scenery (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

subjects: American Landscapes

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Selling a Horse

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: December 1, 1791

medium: Etching

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


title: Japanese Fiddle

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, metal, skin

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Snuff Bottle

medium: Agate

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Fanny Shapiro, 1971


title: Statuette of a youth

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Greek, Cypriot

subjects:
Bronze
Greek, cypriot


title: Yoke

medium: Serpentine

country: Veracruz

subjects: Stone-sculpture Veracruz

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


title: Dish

medium: Porcelain with biscuit and incised decoration

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Richard E. Linburn Gift, 1987


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric

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


title: Jar

date: 13th century

medium: Stoneware with glue glaze and purple splash (Jun ware)

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


title: Initial letter P with children

creator: Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1959


title: Ornament

date: mid-19th century

medium: Silver, niello

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry

credit_line: Gift of Rebecca Mundel, 1960


title: Vase fragment

country: Neolithic, Thessaly

subjects:
Vase
Neolithic, thessaly

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1930


title: North Side of the West Wall of Nakht's Offering Chapel

creator: Norman de Garis Davies

medium: Tempera on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Stone Earflare

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Mexican

subjects: Stone-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Matelot, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


date: second quarter of the 4th century BCE


title: Covered Sauce Tureen

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Horse Muzzle

date: second half 16th century

medium: Iron alloy, copper alloy, tin

country: German, possibly Saxony

subjects:
Equestrian equipment
German, possibly saxony

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Man carrying bagpipes

date: 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta and wood; cloth, straw and leather

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1969


title: Dr. John Hunter

creator: James Tassie

medium: Glass paste

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Tiger's Claw (Bagh Nakh)

medium: Steel

country: Indian

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Portrait of Sir Francis Seymour Haden

creator: Alphonse Legros

medium: Mezzotint

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Molded plaque: bearded underworld god

medium: Ceramic

country: Babylonian


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Round Plaque

date: 3rd century BCE–2nd century CE

medium: Copper (hammered), gilt

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-ornament Vicú

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


title: Two Girls Talking Near the Hibachi (Fire-Pot)

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Ewer

creator: La Courtille

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum

creator: Andrea Pozzo

medium: Printed book with etched and engraved illustrations

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Relief of a Female Deity

date: 1st–5th century

medium: Terracotta

country: India

subjects: Sculpture India

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Fibula

medium: Bronze

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Buddhist Divinity

creator: Meissen Manufactory

date: made ca. 1715–20, decorated ca. 1718–20

credit_line: Bequest of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of his wife, Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1977


title: The Poacher

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Monuments and Chancel Steps, Tenby Church

creator: Francis Bedford

medium: Albumen silver print

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1971


title: Ring with bezel in the form of a bust of Serapis

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Gold

credit_line: GIft of Eleanor Morgan Satterlee, 1949


title: Earring-hook type


title: Insertion

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Eight designs for decorative borders

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gold paint on wove papers; mounted on wove paper

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Neu künstlich Modelbuch (page 26r)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Man

date: second half 18th century

medium: Polychromed terracotta head and wooden limbs; body of wire wrapped in tow; cotton and silk garments

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Carved panel and ornament (Smaller Italian sketchbook, leaf 9 recto)

creator: Joseph Wright (Wright of Derby)

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Plate

medium: Gilded and embossed silver

country: Italian or Portuguese

subjects:
Metalwork-silver
Italian or portuguese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Wall painting on black ground: fragment of support/entablature, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase

date: last decade of the 1st century BCE

medium: Fresco

country: Roman, Pompeian

subjects:
Miscellaneous-painting
Roman, pompeian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


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: Cuff

date: early 17th century

medium: Needle lace


title: Oak Struck by Lightning, Badger, 1856.

creator: Alfred Capel Cure

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

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


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Card Number 390, Selina Delaro, 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: Border

date: 16th century

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, punto à rammendo

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


title: Spindle Whorl

date: 10th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic

subjects: Mexican Ceramics-implement

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Piece

date: 18th century(?)

medium: Silk, metallic thread


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


title: St. Osyths, Essex

credit_line: Gift of Paul F. Walter, in memory of Christopher Hemphill, 1987


title: Actress in profile wearing wide brimmed straw hat decorated with flowers, from Stars of the Stage, Third Series (N131) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers


title: Spear (Sangu)

medium: Steel

country: Indian, Maratha

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Indian, maratha

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Knob

date: ca. 8th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1958


title: Fragment of a Frieze

date: 11th century

medium: Earthenware; carved and painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Sword (Shamshir) with Scabbard and Belt

date: hilt, scabbard, and belt, early 19th century; blade, A.H. 1162/1748–49 CE

medium: Steel, gold, ivory, wood, enamel, velvet, silver, textile

country: hilt, scabbard, and belt, Indian; blade, northern India

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Sword


title: Peasant Lovers

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Chemical Lectures

medium: Hand-colored etching (partially colored)

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


title: Rabbit

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Album leaf; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Bowl

medium: Lacy pressed glass

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


title: Scarab Inscribed with the Name Maatkare (Hatshepsut)

medium: Steatite (glazed)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Luohan, after a set attributed to Guanxiu

creator: Unidentified

date: stone carved in 1757; rubbing 18th or 19th century?

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Rubbing China

credit_line: Gift of Miss H. C. Wagner, 1959


title: Violin

date: 18th century

medium: wood.

country: French

subjects: Chordophone-lute-bowed-unfretted French

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Henry William Bunbury Drawing his "Long Minuet"

creator: Thomas Ryder I

medium: Stipple engraving and etching; working proof

credit_line: Gift of the Guild of Book Workers, 1960


title: Designs for Four Chairs

creator: Charles Hindley and Sons

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Child's Cup

creator: Albert Coles

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Gift of William Forbes II, 1952


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Chlorite or hematite (?)

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1983


title: A Bacchante

creator: John La Farge

medium: Gouache, watercolor, and graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Manlius Torquatus Condemning His Son to Death

creator: Jean Simon Berthélemy

medium: Charcoal, brush and gray wash and white gouache

credit_line: Purchase, Harvey Salzman Gift, 2025


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Armor (<i>Nimai-Dō Gusoku</i>) with Box

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Iron, leather, lacquer, textile, wood, yak hair, boar bristle, hemp

country: Japanese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Armor
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Rosemarie and Leighton R. Longhi, in honor of John Carpenter, 2023


title: Ritual Basin

date: 6th–8th century

medium: Bronze

country: Afghanistan or Central Asia

subjects:
Metalwork
Afghanistan or central asia

credit_line: Samuel Eilenberg Collection, Ex Coll.: Columbia University, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1987


title: Armchair

date: third quarter 17th century

medium: Walnut and cane

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


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

country: Greek, Attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Vienna: Franciscan Church (Wien: Die Franziskanerkirche)

creator: Urban Janke

medium: Color lithograph

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Sommers, Left Field, Baltimore Orioles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Glass mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Stand

creator: William Sprats

medium: Cherry

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth B. Carrick, 1969


title: Plate

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver, cloisonné

subjects: Cloisonné Japan

credit_line: Gift of Muriel and Harry M. Goldblatt, 1973


title: Textile with Phoenix, Winged Animal and Flowers

date: 13th–early 14th century

medium: Silk and metal thread lampas

country: Central Asia

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Central asia
Flowers
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in honor of James C.Y. Watt, 1989


title: Saltcellar

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Square

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Christ before Pilate, from "The Passion"

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1919


creator: Painter of Brussels R 330

date: second quarter 5th century BCE


title: Quae Genus in the Service of a Miser

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: October 1, 1821

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Box

medium: Porcelain (Nabeshima ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: [Group of 18 Stereograph Views of the 1884/1885 New Orleans Centennial International Exhibition]

creator: Centennial Photographic Company

medium: Albumen silver prints

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


title: Lamp

creator: Challinor, Taylor and Company

medium: Pressed purple marble and colorless glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: St. Andrews. The Fore Tower of the Castle

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Vessel with cover

date: mid-18th–19th century

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Metalwork
Japan
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Six Lions in Various Poses

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching; only state

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Three men digging; folio 51 from the "Images of Spain" Album (F)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Brush with brown and gray-brown wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Watercolor of musician playing yunlo

date: late 18th century

medium: Watercolor on paper

country: Chinese

subjects:
Work on paper
Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Lawrence Creshkoff, 1990


title: Brisé fan with depiction of allegorical figure of Music

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

date: last quarter 18th century

medium: Pierced, gilded, and painted ivory; painted paper; printed and painted silk ribbon; glass

subjects: Mythology Fans

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Guy and Mealy, in Paris Qui Marche

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Crayon lithograph printed in dark violet on japan paper

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949


title: Sun Bittern, from Birds of the Tropics series (N38) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 15th–12th century BCE

medium: Steatite

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


title: Terracotta mug in the form of a Black African youth's head

date: late 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Gift of El Conde de Lagunillas, 1956


title: Evening dress

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Miss Eva Drexel Dahlgren, 1976


title: Mlle. Le Brun, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 8) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Songs of Experience: Introduction

creator: William Blake

medium: Relief etching printed in orange-brown ink and hand-colored with watercolor and shell gold

subjects:
Print
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Circe and the Companions of Ulysses

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Curtain Knob

medium: Brass, glass, wood

country: American or British

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


title: Veil

medium: [no medium available]

country: Belgian

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry S. Redmond, to mark the Diamond Jubilee Year, 1947


title: Contrat Alto Clarinet in E-flat (Clarone grande)

creator: Alessandro Maldura

medium: Grenadilla, nickel-silver

country: Italian

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Seated satyr, with enlarged head of same (recto); Head of a woman (verso)

creator: Pellegrino Tibaldi

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, with traces of highlighting in white gouache on faded blue paper (recto); black chalk and charcoal highlighted with traces of white chalk (?) (verso)

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Louise Adele Dickerson Gould

creator: Augustus Saint-Gaudens

medium: Marble

credit_line: Bequest of Charles W. Gould, 1931


title: Border Fragment

date: 10th–15th century

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Peruvian; central coast (?)

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

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1882


title: Allegory of America, from the Four Continents

creator: Edme Bouchardon

date: 18th century

medium: Red chalk

subjects: Mythology Drawing

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


title: Cassetta frame on a polyptych panel

medium: Poplar. Mitered. Gilt; red-orange bole; red, blue, and white color.

country: Italian, Siena

subjects:
Frame
Italian, siena

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Flint-Lock Musket, from the Arms of All Nations series (N3) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands


title: Piece from a Robe (Kosode) with Pattern of Maple Leaves

date: late 17th–late 18th century

medium: Stitch- and paste-resist-dyed and painted silk crepe

country: Japan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and dyed

credit_line: Purchase, Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts, 2000 Benefit Fund, and funds from various donors, 2001


title: Snuff bottle with stopper

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Rock crystal

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Earthenware; underglaze painted in brown slip under a transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Sketch for War, painting in the Museum of Picardy at Amiens

creator: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

medium: Black chalk touched with white and red chalk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Sleeve Band

medium: Silk, metallic thread;  on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Florance Waterbury, 1967


title: Cambyses Appointing Otanes Judge

creator: Peter Paul Rubens

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Gift of William E. Dodge, 1900


title: Hafted Ax

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

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


title: Two Designs for the Decoration of Barrel Tang Surrounds of a Firearm

creator: Nicolas Noël Boutet

medium: Pencil, ink, gray wash on paper

country: French, Versailles

subjects:
Work on paper-drawing
French, versaille

credit_line: Purchase, Clay P. Bedford Gift, 2004


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Le Souper d'Emmaüs appelé aussi Les Disciples d'Emmaüs (The Supper at Emmaus, also called the Disciples of Emmaus), from "Les Quatre Banquets" (The Four Feasts)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching and engraving; first state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Panels

date: third quarter 17th century

medium: Leather, mounted on canvas and wooden frames

credit_line: Gift of Eleanor Marquand Delanoy, Mary Marquand Hochschild and Sarnia Marquand, in memory of their father, Professor Allan Marquand, 1973


title: Effie Shannon, 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: Reticule

medium: leather, tortoiseshell, metal

country: European

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1986


title: Chestnut basket with cover

medium: Creamware

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Queen Anne frame

medium: Lime; beech feather keys.

country: British

subjects: Frame British


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Composite Lentoid Bottle and Beaker

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: A Medal Cabinet for Napoleon

creator: Jean Guillaume Moitte

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1998


title: Summer Day on Conesus Lake

creator: John Frederick Kensett

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


title: Watch

creator: Grayhurst, Harvey & Co.

medium: Case of gold, enamel, and pearls, with floral design; jeweled movement, with ruby cylinder escapement

subjects: Horology Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


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

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


title: The Pentecost; the Holy Dove appears above, below sits the Virgin surrounded by  Apostles, from "The Passion of Christ"

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Kakemono of Monkey, Wine Cup and Potted Plants

creator: Keisai Eisen

date: probably 1812

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

subjects: Botany Print Japan

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


title: Jizō Bosatsu

date: 13th century

medium: Wood; painted

subjects: Sculpture Japan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Native Pagoda and Coconut Grove at Penang

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: A Beauty

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

country: China

subjects: Painting China


title: Ewer

date: 11th century

medium: Earthenware; turquoise glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: [Young Man]

creator: Calvert Richard Jones

date: late 1840s

medium: Paper negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Joseph M. Cohen Gift, 2005


title: Sailors Maneuvering a Cannon, Possibly a Study for "The Death of Sir John More at Corunna"

creator: John Singleton Copley

medium: Black chalk and white-chalk heightening on blue laid paper

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift, 1960


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk on cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Aquilla, Warrior (?)

date: 7th–10th century

medium: Silver

country: Tiwanaku

subjects: Metal-container Tiwanaku

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


title: Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Self-Portrait in a Cocked Hat

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Pen and brown (iron gall?) ink on paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Fruit dish

creator: The Dreye Porceleyne Flesschen

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

subjects: Ceramics-pottery Fruits

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: Gold swivel ring with banded agate scarab

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Agate, banded, gold

subjects:
Gems
Etruscan
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Khonsu's anthropoid coffins

medium: Wood, gesso, paint, varnish

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Dish

date: ca. 6th–8th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian or Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: [Presidents House]

creator: James and Ralph Clews

medium: Earthenware, transfer-printed

country: British (American market)

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


title: Drunk with Flowers

creator: Torii Kiyonaga

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Plate

creator: Thomas Badger

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Design for a Cabinet

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor and gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Actress wearing military-inspired costume, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph

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


title: Papyrus burnisher

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Louis H. Twyeffort, 1981


title: Dish with floral decoration

date: 12th century

medium: Porcelain with incised design under ivory white glaze (Ding ware)

subjects: Ceramic China Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Stanley Herzman, in memory of Adele Herzman, 1991


title: The Adoration of the Magi

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque; Bequest of Thomas W. Lamont and Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange; and Rogers Fund, 1982


title: Dish with cover

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Panel

medium: Silk satin, embroidered with silk and precious metal-wrapped silk threads

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


title: Elbow Defense (Couter)

medium: Steel

subjects:
Italian
Armor parts-elbow plate

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


title: Terracotta alabastron (jar)

medium: Terracotta

country: Mycenaean

subjects: Vase Mycenaean

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


title: Rehse, Pitcher, Minneapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Vive la France, Balancier, Both in "Tow"

creator: Alfred E. Baker

medium: Lithograph, hand colored

credit_line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954


title: Cup-Hilted Rapier

country: possibly Spanish

subjects:
Sword
Possibly spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Silver fibula

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot


title: Sugar Urn

creator: Charles Faris

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Appliqué with Diomedes and Andromache

date: 4th century CE

medium: Bronze, Silver

country: Roman

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Purchase, J. Paul Getty Trust, and Mr. and Mrs. Michael Jaharis, Marjorie de G. Litchfield, Gawain McKinley, Shearson, and Nicholas S. Zoullas Gifts, 1989


title: Head of an old man looking down, facing left, from "Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headress"

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Pair of candelabra

medium: Gilt bronze, marble, ebony

credit_line: Purchase, Morris Loeb Bequest, 1959


title: Cream jug

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain


title: Cylinder seal

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Embroidered Mantle Fragment

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: India Peacock, from the Birds of the Tropics series (N5) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Mrs. James Brown Potter, from World's Beauties, Series 1 (N26) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes


title: Writing Box (Suzuribako) with “Dream in Naniwa” Design

date: 18th century

medium: Lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, and silver inlay

country: Japan

subjects: Lacquer Japan

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


title: Strip

date: first half 20th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-painted and printed

credit_line: Gift of Sidney Cardozo, 1962


title: Bull Run. Bridge near Union Mills (destroyed seven times)

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Birds

creator: Wilhelm Schimmel

medium: White pine, painted

subjects: American Birds

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


title: Tahiri ra'a (fly whisk)

creator: Mā'ohi artist

date: Early–mid-19th century

medium: Wood, coconut fiber ('aha), human hair

country: Austral Islands

subjects:
Wood-implement
Austral island

credit_line:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979


title: Snuffbox

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Isaac D. Fletcher, 1917


title: Priest's Robe (Shichijō)

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1919


title: Agrippine Sibyl, from the series of Sibyls

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Double Spout and Bridge Bottle with Bird

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

subjects: Paraca Birds Ceramics-container

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


title: Broadside with 48 scenes depicting carnival in Spain

creator: José María Marés

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: 'Uganda' Drum

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, cow hide

country: Ugandan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alice Lewisohn Crowley, 1946


title: Plate

creator: Zurich Pottery and Porcelain Factory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Pikeman, Palace Guard, Turkey, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Alabaster jug

medium: Calcite (alabaster)

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: Rim lock

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Chisel or ligula

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Who will he catch?, from "News of the day"

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1936


title: Young Ladies Paying Homage to a Shrine

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: View of a churchyard, Southborough, Kent

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Watercolor over graphite, with touches of gouache (bodycolor)

credit_line: Gift of Michael Hall Esq., 2000


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Pair of Wheellock Pistols

medium: Steel, wood, ivory

country: German, Nuremberg

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Sauceboat

creator: Elias Boudinot

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goelet, 1986


title: Design for a Frieze with Acanthus Scrolls and a Vase with Two Putti in the Center

creator: Le Roy

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Tea Caddy (Natsume)

date: second half 19th century

medium: Stoneware with polychrome overglaze enamels and gold

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Platter

medium: Stoneware

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Kimono Rack (Ikō) with Scrolling Foliage and Tokugawa Family Crest

medium: Lacquered wood with gold hiramaki-e on nashiji (“pear-skin” ground); gilt bronze fittings

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


title: Brougham #4038

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 fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Quwaytara

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, mother-of-pearl

country: Moroccan

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Study of a Standing Man with Headcloth and Two Studies of his Hands

creator: Wilhelm Schadow

date: early to mid-19th century

medium: Graphite, heightened with white chalk

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


title: Fragment

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Mustard pot with cover

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Seated Vishnu

date: 9th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: India (Tamil Nadu)

subjects:
Metalwork
India (tamil nadu)

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


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

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


title: Tunic

date: 7th century

medium: Camelid hair

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Card Number 119, Adelaide Randall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) 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: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Two miniature bowls (part of a service)

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue

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


title: Ostracon Depicting a Man's Head

medium: Limestone, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


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


title: Model of a Miquelet Pistol

date: beginning 17th century

medium: Steel, copper alloy (brass), gold

subjects: German Firearms-pistols-miquelet

credit_line: Gift of Jean Jacques Reubell, in memory of his mother, Julia C. Coster, and of his wife, Adeline E. Post, both of New York City, 1926


title: Ewer

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; luster-painted on opaque white glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wolfe, 1968


title: Landscape

creator: Pierre Nicholas Camus

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

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


title: Chessmen (32)

medium: Ivory

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Stole

medium: silk

country: Spanish

credit_line: Purchase, Gifts from Various Donors, 1983


title: Stamp seal (scaraboid) with deity (?)

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Banded neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Dish in the Shape of a Lotus

medium: Amber

subjects: Amber China

credit_line: Gift of George Coe Graves, 1930


title: Card Number 223, Nadage Doree, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes


title: Portrait of Charles d'Orleans, Abbe of Rothelin

creator: Nicolas Henry Tardieu

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Coin

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Libro quarto. De rechami per elquale se impara in diuersi modi lordine e il modo de recamare...Opera noua, page 9 (recto)

creator: Alessandro Paganino

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948


title: Suit

medium: wool, cotton

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. R. Drout, 1947


title: Coin

date: 5th–14th century

medium: Copper


title: God the Father with the Globe

creator: Hans Krumpper

date: late 16th–mid-17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2003


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Ogee frame

medium: Oak

country: French

subjects: Frame French

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Illustrated book

medium: Ink on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Fragment

date: late 16th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Pendant with Daoist divinities

medium: Fruit stone

subjects: Sculpture China Fruits

credit_line: Gift of Dwight P. Robinson, 1954


title: Decoration for a Plate: Notre Dame

creator: Félix Bracquemond

medium: Etching with watercolor

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Two Nymphs Bathing, One Washing the Other's Foot

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and stipple

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


title: Design for the Decoration of a Façade in Fresco or Sgraffito

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: early 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

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


title: Alpine Horn

date: early 19th century

medium: Wood, paper

country: Probably Austrian

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed open-work lace paper, chromolithography

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Oil Dish

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

country: Fijian

subjects: Wood-container Fijian

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


title: Pin

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck's Conchology; Contained in His Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Sans Vertèbres: Being a Literal Translation of the Descriptions of the Recent and Fossil Genera.

creator: Edmund A. Crouch

subjects:
Book
Fossils
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, transferred from the Library


title: Entry into the ark: Noah and his family walk toward the ark in the background, pairs of animals walk up a ramp leading into the ark, from "Liber Genesis"

creator: Crispijn de Passe the Elder

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Snuff bottle with stopper

medium: Agate, jadeite

subjects:
Snuff bottle
China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Turtles

creator: Katsushika Hokusai

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Annette Young, in memory of her brother, Innis Young, 1956


title: Head of a child

date: possibly late 15th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: One of a Pair of Wine Cups (Sakazuki) with Willow and Swallows

medium: Red lacquer ground with gold hiramaki-e on black lacquer

subjects: Lacquer Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Stephen Whitney Phoenix, 1881


title: Atreus Farnese, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Trapeze Exercise, from the Pretty Athletes series (N196) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Mary Magdalene, penitent in the desert

creator: Raphael Morghen

medium: Engraving; first state of six

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Rapier with Scabbard

creator: Gasparo Mola

medium: Steel, gold, silver, leather, wood

country: French or Italian

subjects:
Sword
French or italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Pius V (Michele Ghislieri 1504-72) Pope 1566-72

creator: Gian Federigo Bonzagna

medium: Gilded Bronze

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


title: Vase with cover (vase à gland) (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Fragment

date: 17th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Sherd

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Woman with Traveling with Attendant

creator: Kubo Shunman

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Marjorie H. Holden Gift, 2012


title: Glass Fragment

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Colorless glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Box

creator: Magdalen Feline

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Thirty paintings of birds, flowers and landscape

date: late 18th century

medium: Album; silk

subjects: Painting Japan Birds Flowers Landscapes

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


title: Tobacco box

creator: I. H. Hamer

date: second half 18th century

medium: Brass

credit_line: Gift of C. Gustave Mourraille, in memory of his sister, Miss M. Mathilde Mourraille, 1957


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 7th century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: [Tigers Presented to the Countess Canning at Agra]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Porringer

creator: Samuel Vernon

credit_line: Gift of Sylvester Dering, 1915


title: Adoration of the Magi

medium: Engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1947


title: Landscape

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Edgar Worch, in memory of his uncle, Adolphe Worch, of Paris, 1954–1955


country: Greek, Attic


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Tea caddy (one of a pair)

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Seal

date: 18th century

medium: Soapstone (tianhuang type)

subjects: Seal China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: St. Lawrence

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, first state of four

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Morning cap

medium: cotton

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Kyoto Costume Institute Gift, 1979


title: Figure of a horse

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Elizabeth D. Bowen, in memory of Florence Winifred Blyth, 1967


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

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Sauce Dish

medium: Lacy pressed opalescent glass

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


title: Rank Badge with Silver Pheasant

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929


title: Actress posing with tilted chair, 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: Terracotta fragments of a kylix: Droop cup (drinking cup)

date: mid-6th century BCE


title: Pair of Book Covers for a Buddhist Text

date: 12th century

medium: Wood with traces of paint; decorative mounts of silver with gilt semiprecious stones, and gilt-copper alloy

country: North India and Tibet

subjects:
Ornament & design
Woodwork
North india and tibet

credit_line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, 2005


title: Scarf

medium: silk

country: probably European

credit_line: Gift of Margaret S. Crane, 1977


title: Pair of royal German silver four-light candelabra

creator: Christian Heinrich Ingermann

medium: Cast, chased and engraved silver

credit_line: Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Acquisitions Fund, 2023


title: The Residence of Mr. William Inman, Sampitts, Westchester County (from McGuire Scrapbook)

creator: Henry Inman

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

credit_line: Gift of James C. McGuire, 1926


title: Falconer's Horn

date: 16th–18th century

medium: Horn, brass

country: German?

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
German

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Gemma pretiosa della virtuose donne, page 20 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

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


title: Landscape with Mountains in the Distance

creator: Ciro Ferri

medium: Brush and gray wash, over traces of black chalk

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Search through the Luggage of Joseph's Brother

creator: Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1996


title: St. Francis of Assisi Adoring the Christ Child on the Virgin's Lap

creator: Claude Mellan

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: second quarter of 5th century BCE


title: The Artist's Sitting Room in Ritterstrasse

creator: Adolph Menzel

medium: Oil on cardboard

credit_line: Purchase, Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Funds, Leonora Brenauer Bequest, in memory of her father, Joseph B. Brenauer, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, and Paul L. and Marlene A. Herring and John D. Herring Gift, 2009


title: River Scene (Columbia ______?) (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Turkish Soldiers Resting

creator: Claude Augustin Duflos le Jeune

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Fragment

medium: Jadeite

country: Tibet

subjects: Jade Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Bulb Pot

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: Landscape with Mountains and Hills (from Sketchbook)

country: American

subjects: American Landscapes


title: Kaftan

date: late 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress

credit_line: Gift of George R. Dyer, 1941


title: Vase

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Fichu

date: mid-19th century

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mary Pierrepont Beckwith, 1969


title: Bit Boss

date: first half 17th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: probably Netherlandish

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
Probably netherlandish

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Turhi (trumpet)

medium: Metal, paint

country: Indian or Nepal

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Spiral Candlesticks (4)

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Tea Spoon

creator: William Moulton, IV

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Sigismunda

creator: James Basire, the elder

medium: Etching; unfinished (proof)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Figure Studies

creator: Francesco Guardi

medium: Pen and brown ink, light and dark brown and grayish brown wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Mirror frame

date: third quarter 17th century

medium: Satin worked with silk, chenille threads, purl, shells, wood, beads, mica, bird feathers, bone or coral; detached buttonhole variations, long-and-short, satin, couching, and knot stitches; wood frame, mirror glass, plush

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Birds
Corals & anemones
Shells & molluscs
Skeletons & bones
Textiles-embroidered


title: Pitcher

medium: Lustreware

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


title: Study for "The Siege of Gibraltar": Figure Astride Cannon Pulling Down Spanish Colors

creator: John Singleton Copley

medium: Black chalk, white-chalk heightening, and graphite on blue laid paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1960


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle with Tattoed Head

date: 2nd–5th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Ceramics-container

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


title: Cloisonné Strap Mount

date: first half 6th century

medium: Gold with garnets (medallion); gilded copper alloy (frame)

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-copper Frankish

credit_line: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1951


title: Sacred Verse (Gāthā) from the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment (Engaku-kyō)

creator: Zekkai Chūshin

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Calligraphy Japan

credit_line: Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection, Gift of Mary and Cheney Cowles, 2022


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Plan for a Menagerie

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1970


title: Elevation of the Altar Wall in the Royal Chapel at Kronborg Castle, Denmark

creator: Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll

medium: Watercolor over graphite, with white heightening and details in gold

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2019


title: The Basilica of Constantine (Veduta degli avanzi della Casa aurea di Nerone, detti volgarmente il Tempio della Pace), from "Vedute di Roma"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Actress wearing military-inspired cap, from Stars of the Stage, First Series (N129) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Plate

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: The White King Receiving His Daughter Margaret and the Children of King Philip, from "Der Weisskunig"

creator: Hans Burgkmair

medium: Woodcut; proof (Hollstein)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943


title: Buckle

date: 13th century

medium: Bronze, gilt

country: French, Haute-Savoie

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French, haute-savoie

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Vase fragment

credit_line: Gift of Gisela M. A. Richter, 1923


title: Saucer with floral pattern

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Ceramic
China
Flowers

credit_line: Avery Fund, 1909


title: Slippers

medium: silk, leather

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1910


title: Card Number 8, Miss Hall, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Cup

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Volute-krater fragment

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Our Lady of Guápulo

creator: Peruvian (Cuzco) Painter

date: 18th century

medium: Oil on canvas

country: Peruvian

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


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: Netsuke of Group of Animals

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Cover

medium: Pineapple fiber and linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Miss Susan D. Bliss, 1936


title: Omophorion

medium: Metal and silk thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1960


title: Design for woodwork and painted panels

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite, pen and ink, watercolor on wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Casket

date: late 14th century

medium: Poplar with copper alloy fittings

country: German

subjects: Woodwork-furniture German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Ensemble

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. J. C. Hawthorne, 1946


title: Earring with pendant

medium: Gold

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


title: Bronze Garden Vase with Two Dragons from the Gardens of Versailles

creator: Claude Ballin the Elder

date: 1673 or after

medium: Pen and ink with gray wash over ruled lines in graphite

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2014


title: A Walking Musketeer, seen from behind

creator: Anthonie Palamedesz.

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk, brush and brown ink, brown wash, some spots of blue watercolor along the edges; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2000


date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Teapot

creator: Höchst Manufactory

credit_line: Gift of Mercedes Bass, 2007


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938


title: French Colonial West Indian Colonies, from Flags of All Nations, Series 2 (N10) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Plate 3, from "Friezes with Birds, Flowers and Meandering Wreaths and Scrolls"

creator: Theodor Bang

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Birds Flowers

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund 1950


title: Terracotta fragments of an undetermined shape

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Cascade of the Aray at Inveraray (Scotland)

creator: John White Abbott

medium: Watercolor, pen and gray ink; laid down on original paper mount with brown wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Minerva and the Arts and Sciences

creator: Giulio Bonasone

date: 16th century

medium: Engraving

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


title: Beaker

creator: David Moseley

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Casket

date: late 16th century

medium: Verre églomisé, wood, metal gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a kyathos (cup-shaped ladle)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

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


title: Plateau

date: probably 19th century

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)


title: The Half-Starved Boy

creator: F. Sykes

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Jar with a spout and punctate decoration

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of the Robert Haber family, 1993


title: Sealing

date: ca. 7th century CE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Stencil

date: 19th century

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

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


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

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Terracotta squat lekythos (oil jar)

date: early 4th century BCE

credit_line: Gift of Francis Neilson, 1942


title: Theatrical Performers

creator: John Thomson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Camp Fire

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Gift of Josephine Pomeroy Hendrick, in the name of Henry Keney Pomeroy, 1927


title: Berthe

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

date: January 22, 1862– April 1862

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


title: Valance

medium: Silk and silver-gilt strips (now tarnished)


title: Shoulder bag

medium: Tanned leather, porcupine quills, dye, metal cones, deer hair, vegetal fiber, and wool yarn

country: Anishinaabe, probably Ojibwa, Native American

subjects: Anishinaabe, probably ojibwa, native american

credit_line: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 2018


title: Cottage at the Entrance to a Forest

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching; first state of four

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


title: Holy Family at a Fountain

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Basin, from basin and ewer set

medium: Arsenical copper, surface enriched in arsenic

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1926


title: Renard Wants to Find a Rooster from Hendrick van Alcmar's Renard The Fox

creator: Allart van Everdingen

medium: Engraving; third state of four

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


title: Slippers

medium: [no medium available]

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Claggett Wilson, 1941


title: Figure Pendant

date: 5th–10th century

medium: Gold (cast)

country: Calima

subjects: Metal-ornament Calima

credit_line: Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1966, 1977


title: Shield Depicting Saint George Slaying the Dragon

medium: Steel, gold, silver

country: Italian, Milan

subjects:
Shield
Italian, milan

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: William Henry "Harry" Wright, Manager, Philadelphia, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta statue of Eros holding a swan

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Bracelet (?) fragments

medium: Tortoise shell

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Skull and crossbones

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, wood, mirror glass, metal pins

subjects:
Ceramics-porcelain
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, in memory of Bill Rieder, 2014


title: Actress holding rose, from the Actresses series (N664) promoting Old Fashion Fine Cut Tobacco

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph
Roses


title: Plate

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Charles K. Davis, 1948


title: Piece

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: [Mosque at Sultaniye]

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Beaker with cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: Bowl (from a set of four)

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1954