title: Lance Rest

medium: Steel, gold

country: Italian

subjects:
Italian
Armor parts-lance rest

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1927


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

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: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Basket of Flowers from the Book of Several Baskets of Flowers, Designed and Engraved by Baptiste Monnoyer (Livre de Plusieurs Corbeilles de Fleurs dessiné et gravé par Baptiste Monnoyer)

creator: Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer

date: 17th century

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Hexagonal dish

medium: Silver, partly gilded

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


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

creator: Ludovicus Siceram

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Lead ornament in the form of a bud

date: 6th–5th century BCE

medium: Lead

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-lead
Greek, laconian

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


title: Lidded bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Bronze

country: Korea

subjects: Metalwork Korea

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Paul Singer, 1977


title: Miss Nelson, Paris, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes: Band cups (drinking cups)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Rosette

medium: Brass

country: French

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
French

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Dish

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze blue; transparent, colorless glaze; unglazed base

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Button

medium: metal

country: British

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Mug

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Drawstring bag

medium: wool, silk

country: probably Austrian

credit_line: Gift of Stella Jolles Reichman, 1980


title: Silver bracelet

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Silver

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Pair of tassels

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

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


title: Mask

date: mid to late 19th century

medium: Wood, paint

country: Tolai people

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Tolai people

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


title: The Kaunitz Sisters (Leopoldine, Caroline, and Ferdinandine)

creator: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 1998


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Zelia de Lussan, from the Actors and Actresses series (N171) for Gypsy Queen Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Shirt

creator: Moche artist(s)

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Moche

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Moche
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bookcase door

date: 18th century

medium: Oak

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Shabti of Petosiris, son of Djedhor

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Nude female figure

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1933


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: Right and Part of the Left Half of a Design for a Cartouche

creator: Michelangelo Colonna

medium: Pen and ink, over faint traces of black chalk

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


title: Pair of sauceboats

creator: Worcester factory

medium: porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

date: 19th century


title: Plate 27: The female personification of Fortitude, holding a pillar and stroking a lion, from "Galeria nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma ... dipinta da Annibale Caracci"

creator: Carlo Cesi

medium: Etching

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


title: Limestone hand holding a phiale (libation bowl)

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot


title: The Misses McCandlish

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Sconce

medium: Maple

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Netsuke of Three Monkeys on the Back of a Fish (Sanbiki Saru)

medium: Wood

subjects: Fish Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Vase fragment

country: Roman, Gaul

subjects:
Vase
Roman, gaul

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Portrait of a Young Man

creator: Adolf Senff

subjects: Drawing Portraits

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


title: Annie Pixley Dressed in Modern Swiss Costume, from the set Actors and Actresses, Second Series (N71) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Quail and Millet

creator: Kiyohara Yukinobu

date: late 17th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Hibiscus and Bluebird

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Cup with birds and flowers

date: late 16th–early 17th century

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

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China Birds Flowers

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Canaletto frame

medium: Pine

country: Italian, Venice

subjects:
Frame
Italian, venice

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Interior of Westminster Hall

creator: Tony Beltrand

medium: Wood engraving on Japan paper; proof

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2016


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Broadside with 48 scenes depicting fables by Félix María de Samaniego

creator: Juan Llorens

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Max G. Wildnauer Fund, 1978


title: St. James Major, from "Christ, the Twelve Apostles and St. Paul"

creator: Lambert Suavius

medium: Engraving; second state of three

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


title: Textile sample

creator: Unknown Designer

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Spider Helmet

medium: Steel, pigment, textile

country: British or French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Helmet
British or french
Spiders & arachnids

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Stamp seal (octagonal pyramid) with cultic scene

date: late 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Blue Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: [Giovanni Boldini]

creator: Walery Frères

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Prophet

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

medium: Etching with drypoint accents

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927


title: Key

date: 15th century

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Plume-holder

medium: Jadeite, emerald green

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Ensemble

medium: wool, silk

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Lee Simonson, 1938


title: Relief plaque with two swallows, opposite side two quail chicks

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1911


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Europa and the Bull

creator: Petitpierre et Cie

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Gift of William Sloane Coffin, 1926


title: Vase fragment

date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Vase Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Augustus Washington Clason

creator: John Wesley Jarvis

medium: Oil on canvas

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Augustus Wood Clason, 1875


title: Footed vase (Vasenpokal)

medium: Glass: blown, applied mold-blown, impressed, and milled decoration, engraved, cold-painted, and gilded

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


title: Glass bowl in the form of a shell

date: 1st half of 4th century CE

medium: Glass

subjects:
Glass
Roman
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Purchase, Patricia and Marietta Fried Gift, 2007


title: Le Lever

creator: Pierre Antoine Baudouin

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1954


title: S. Edmond, évêque (St. Edmond, Bishop), November 16th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Shard:  Bird

date: ca. 4th–5th century

medium: Painted terracotta

country: Pakistan

subjects: Ceramic Pakistan Birds

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


title: Mosque lamp

date: 14th century

medium: Glass, colorless with brownish tinge; free blown; enameled with red, blue, white, yellow, and green; gilded; six loops for suspension and foot attached.


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Plate 37: Side view of the school of St. Roch at left and view of facade of the church of St. Roch, Venice, from "The buildings and views of Venice" (Le fabriche e vedute di Venezia)

creator: Luca Carlevaris

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Sampler

creator: Ann Magdalen Yates

medium: Silk embroidery on linen

credit_line: Friends of the American Wing Fund, 2015


country: Greek, Attic


title: I am a bird, see my wings. I am a bat, long live the rats (La Fontaine), from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, March 24, 1869

creator: Honoré Daumier

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

subjects: Print Birds

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


title: Bill of Sale

creator: William Rush

medium: Ink on paper

credit_line: Purchase, Sansbury-Mills Fund, and Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang, Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goelet, Annette de la Renta, and Vira Hladun-Goldmann Gifts, 2002


title: Wineglass

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


title: Temple Banner

medium: Plaques-silk, on silk, backed with cardboard;  streamers-silk, on silk, lined with cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Architecture
China
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Shoji Yamanaka, in memory of Alan Priest, 1979


title: Design for a Dome Compartment with Figures of Charity and Fortitude?

creator: Ercole Procaccini The Younger

date: 17th century

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

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558)

creator: Giovanni Battista Moroni

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


title: Teapot

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Cupboard

medium: Oak, pine, maple, walnut

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Long-tailed Tit on Autumn Ivy

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

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

country: Japan

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


title: Knife with winged putto handle

medium: Steel, ivory

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1962


title: Papyri Fragments

date: 7th century

medium: Papyrus and ink

country: Coptic

subjects: Papyrus Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Limestone statuette of a male votary with a plain headdress

date: middle of the 6th century BCE

medium: Limestone

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Au Moins Soyez Discret (At Least Be Discreet)

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of five (Bocher)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935


title: Coin

medium: Copper

country: Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Fragment

date: early 19th century

medium: Machine net

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Dish with Arum Leaves and Five Paulownia Crests

medium: Porcelain with underglaze blue and overglaze red enamel, gold, and silver (Hizen ware, Arita region)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Faust

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching; first of seven states

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


title: Raised relief fragment with hieroglyphs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Cow amulet

medium: Shell

country: Sumerian

subjects:
Sumerian
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Scarab Inscribed with Hieroglyphs and Symbols

medium: Bright blue glazed steatite

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


title: Bivalve-shaped Stone

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Bit Boss

date: 16th–early 17th century

medium: Copper alloy, iron

country: Italian or French

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
Italian or french

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Design for 4 seat Phaeton, no top, no. 3051

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: Minerva

creator: Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943


title: Mace

date: late 15th century

medium: Steel, wood, fiber (cord)

country: possibly French

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Possibly french

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Hermaphrodite

creator: Anonymous, Italian, mid-16th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of Joseph M. Lichtenauer, 1890


title: The bust of Seneca, in a niche

creator: Lucas Vorsterman I

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Chrysanthemum Blossoms

date: 19th century

medium: Lacquer, kinji, gold, silver and brown hiramakie, kirigane and nashiji; Interior: gyobu nashiji and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Woman and Child

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: lapis

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Flintlock Blunderbuss

date: dated Mauludi-era 1225/1796–97 CE

medium: Steel, wood, silver, gold, copper alloy

country: Indian, Mysore, Srirangapatna

subjects:
Indian, mysore, srirangapatna
Firearms-guns-flintlock

credit_line: Gift of Christian A. Zabriskie, 1936


title: Penannular Brooch

date: 10th–11th century

medium: Copper alloy, cast (loop); tongue wrought copper alloy

country: Scandinavian or Baltic

subjects:
Metalwork-copper
Scandinavian or baltic

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Ernest Harms, 1953


title: Catafalque for funeral in Pisa

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

medium: Pencil, pen and ink washes

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


title: Harlequin Series 2, a set of playing cards issued as premiums by Kinney Brothers Tobacco

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithographs

credit_line: Gift of James E. Mason, 1962


title: Border

date: 16th century

medium: Embroidered net, buratto, silk

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Christ Bearing the Cross

creator: North Netherlandish (Bruges) Painter

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: L'Ancre

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Helmet crest

creator: Grassfields artist

medium: Wood, iron, copper, pigment(?), wax

country: Kom kingdom, Laiko

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Kom kingdom, laiko

credit_line: Purchase, Walter H. Annenberg, Ernst Anspach, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Charles B. Benenson, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Brill, Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, Sigrid Galushka, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gerofsky, Marc and Denyse Ginzberg, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Milton F. Rosenthal, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff, Gustave and Franyo Schindler, Faith and Martin Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Wunderman Gifts and Anonymous Gift, 1977


title: Terracotta oil lamp

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

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


title: A Woman Spinning (recto); A Woman Holding a Bundle (verso)

creator: Giacomo Ceruti

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2002


title: Carrie Perkins, 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: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, gold, copper

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Belt hook

date: 4th–3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze inlaid with silver and gold

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985


title: Scent bottle

creator: Saint James's Factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1971


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Double Capital

date: Late 15th century

medium: Marble

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Journey for Eternity,  No. 2

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1965


title: Panel of Four Calligraphic Tiles

date: 14th–early 15th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed and carved

credit_line: Purchase, Leon B. Polsky and Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, in honor of Patti Cadby Birch, 1999


title: Four of Spades, Canoe Race, from Harlequin Cards, 2nd Series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.


title: Bowl

creator: Chimú artist(s)

medium: Silver

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-container Chimú

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1969


title: Il terzo libro di Sebastiano Serlio (Bolognese)

creator: Sebastiano Serlio

medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations on blue paper

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Ceramic Fragment

medium: Earthenware

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


title: Guqin (古琴 )

creator: Prince Lu

medium: Wood (wutong and zi), silk, jade, lacquer, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, Seymour Fund, The Boston Foundation Gift, Gift of Elizabeth M. Riley, by exchange, and funds from various donors, 1999


title: Teapot

creator: Ebenezer Moulton

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted (?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Case (Inrō) in the Shape of Wood Seal with Decoration of Pheonix and Paulownia Tree

medium:
Lacquer with red, black green, brown, and white painted lacquer
on gray ground
Ojime: kingfisher on lotus stem; wood, stained ivory and mother-of-pearl inlay
Netsuke: yamabushi and wood gatherers

subjects: Inrō Japan Trees

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


title: Piece

medium: Engraved roller-printed cotton

credit_line: Gift of Hannah E. McAllister, 1949


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

country: Greek, Attic


title: Buckle

date: ca. 5th–3rd century BCE

medium: Silvered bronze

country: Northern China

subjects:
Metalwork
Northern china

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Shabti of the Treasurer of Lower Egypt Pa-abumeh, called Psamtik-seneb

medium: Faience

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Candelabrum with figures of Summer and Autumn (one of a pair)

creator: Bow Porcelain Factory

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Jug

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Here you see the great celebrities of literary, musical, and artistic France; they are thirty-six feet tall measured below sea level (Vous voyez ici les grandez célébrités), from Les Saltimbanques, published in La Caricature, April 28, 1839

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph; second state of four (Delteil)

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


title: Card Number 39, Miss Jones, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) 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: The Deer Pond

creator: Charles-François Daubigny

medium: Etching; first state of four (Delteil)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Specimen

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Wedding stockings

medium: Silk

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Anna M. Everitt, 1931


title: Gloves

date: last quarter 19th century

medium: leather, silk

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. M. A. Gordon, 1942


title: Silver fibula (safety pin)

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Peter Cooper, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Court of Common Pleas, Westminster Hall

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Dog Cart # 899

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Award of the Massachusetts Humane Society

creator: Benjamin Wyon

medium: Bronze

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


title: Pendant

date: 4th–8th century

medium: Jadeite

country: Atlantic Watershed

subjects:
Stone-ornament
Atlantic watershed

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


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Portion of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with the Libyan Sibyl, Prophet Daniel, Jesse, David, and Solomon, from Sibyls and Prophets from the Sistine Chapel Vaults

creator: Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

date: 1577 (republished in 1628)

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Cylinder seal with cultic scene

date: 8th century BCE

medium: Mottled gray and cream Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyrian

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


title: Bamboo and Rock in Snow

creator: Kuwayama Gyokushū

date: late 18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Saucer

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

date: possibly 1845

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: Armor

date: 19th century and partially 15th century

medium: Steel, leather

country: German

subjects:
Armor for man
German

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Tureen (one of a pair)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1976


title: Knife (Bade-bade) with Sheath

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Brass, horn

country: Indonesian, Sulawesi

subjects:
Knive
Indonesian, sulawesi

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Model Spear

medium: Wood, copper

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Bead

date: 8th–13th century

medium: Black stone, probably jet; cut and drilled

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Hafted Fan-Shaped Ax with Design of Lattice and Circles

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

country: Indonesia

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

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


title: Stockings

date: 19th century

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Edgar Tallman, 1954


title: Card Number 127, Lillian Russell, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-4) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cameo Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Design for the Decoration of the Grip of a Pocket Pistol

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: Fireman’s Jacket (Hikeshi-Banten) with Susanoo-no-mikoto Deity Scene

date: mid-19th century

medium: Quilted cotton with tube-drawn paste-resist dyeing (tsutsugaki) with hand-painted details

country: Japanese

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japanese
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn and Alice L. Crowley Bequests, 1983


title: Tlaltecuhtli (earth deity)

creator: Mexica artist(s)

medium: Stone

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Mexica (aztec)

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1900


title: Bacchic nymph (one of a pair)

creator: Joseph-Charles Marin

medium: Terracotta; base: grey marble

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1945


title: Hatchet

medium: Jadeite

country: Switzerland

subjects: Jade Switzerland

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Plan of the City of Rome. Part 8 with the Castel Sant'Angelo

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching with some engraving, undescribed state.

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1983


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Finger Ring

medium: Silver, silver foil, gold foil, glass paste or garnet inlay

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Jewelry set

date: probably 19th century

medium: ivory

country: African

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Bonbonnière with King Charles Spaniel

date: probably early 19th century

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of Louise Knobloch, 1966


title: The Holy Family Resting

creator: Willem Pietersz Buytewech

medium: Etching; second state of two

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Tao Yuanming enjoying chrysanthemums

creator: Du Jin

date: late 15th or early 16th century

medium: Hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: The C. C. Wang Family Collection, Gift of  C. C. Wang, 2001


title: Oval Ornament Designs for Boxes

creator: Anonymous, French, 17th century

date: 17th century

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

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Terracotta juglet

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Folk Painting

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Marwar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, marwar)

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Findlay Gift, 1979


title: Harlequin

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Headdress ornament

date: 2nd century

medium: Gold

country: Nasca

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Nasca

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1999


title: Gold flower

country: Minoan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Minoan
Flowers

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Column of Antoninus and a Roman Obelisk, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: La Nativité de la Sainte Vierge (The Birth of the Virgin), September 8th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Religious Events of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)


title: Maffet Ledger: Drawing

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

creator: John Slack

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Piece

date: 16th century

medium: Silk and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Ornament

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Deity of Longevity (Jurōjin) (obverse); Boy Offering a Tortoise (reverse)

creator: Tachibana Gyokuzan

medium: Fundami sprinkled lacquer, gold and colored hiramakie sprinkled and polished lacquer, takamakie sprinkled and polished lacquer relief, and foil decoration; Netsuke: lacquered wood figure of Juro-jin; Ojime: zogan metal

subjects: Inrō Japan


title: Needlepoint valance (one of three)

medium: Silk and metal thread on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Skull

date: 16th century or later

medium: Bone

country: Tibet

subjects:
Bone
Tibet
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1991


title: Galloon

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Cohen, 1929


title: The Ascension of Christ

creator: Hans Georg Asam

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, gray wash

credit_line: Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 2003


title: Cravat

country: American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Nathalie Swift, 1969


date: 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Flower Vase

medium: Bronze

country: Japan

subjects: Metalwork Japan Flowers

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


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: Saxon Sharpshooter, Germany, 1880, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Band Fragment

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Linen, wool; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Design for Two Sides of a Dagger Sheath

creator: Eusebio Zuloaga

medium: Pen, ink, and wash on paper

country: Spanish

subjects:
Work on paper-drawing
Spanish

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, 2015


title: Taking Away the Military Belt or Girdle (John Beaver, Roman Military Punishments, 1725)

creator: William Hogarth

date: after 1725

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Jar fragment, Ahmose-Nefertari

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), discolored (gray)

credit_line: Gift of the Earl of Carnarvon, 1921


title: Bell Beaker

date: late 5th–early 6th century

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass-vessel Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Border

medium: Cutwork

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Trade Card for Dodd, Dealer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Cameo Ring

creator: William Brown

medium: Onyx and gold

country: British

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Design for Landau, No. 3300

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: Card Number 139, Marie Jansen, 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


title: Emperor Caligula

medium: Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt

credit_line: Gift of Coudert Brothers, 1888


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, point d'Argentan

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


title: Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, page 28 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

medium: Woodcut


title: Stamp seal (scarab) with animal contest

date: 9th–7th century BCE or later

medium: Jasper, green

country: Phoenician (?)

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Cast Earring, Oval Centre

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Decorated Bowl Fragment

medium: Blue faience, paint

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: Cup and saucer

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Valentine - Mechanical - scene of barge, troubadours, Temple of Hymen

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

medium: Heavy card-stock, die-cut scraps, chromolithography, white ribbon,lavender paper

subjects: Architecture Ephemera

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Ornamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 7 (verso)

creator: Matteo Pagano

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Bronze spit

date: ca. 550 BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

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


title: Plaque

creator: Ott and Brewer

medium: Parian porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Emma and Jay Lewis, 2011


title: Mortar

medium: Stone

subjects: Stone Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of a Trustee of the Museum, 1917


title: Meditating Buddha

date: ca. 3rd–5th century

medium: Stucco

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

credit_line: Gift of John and Evelyn Kossak, The Kronos Collections, 1984


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


title: Sheet with overall pattern of petals

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Necklace

medium: pearl

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alfred Schermerhorn, in memory of Mrs. Allen Schermerhorn Auchmuty, 1946


title: Terracotta fragments of closed shapes?


title: Idol Worship, Easter Island, from the Holidays series (N80) for Duke brand cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Tool

medium: Flint

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Textile Fragment

date: 3rd–4th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Cycling ensemble

medium: wool

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, 1962


title: Storage Jar

creator: Martina Vigil Montoya

medium: Ceramic

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


title: [Minaret of the Chief Mosque at Damghan, 1026–1029]

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Albumen silver print

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


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


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge British

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: [Palace of the Shah, Paying respects to the Shah/Fete de Salam, Teheran, Iran [same as 12] ]

medium: Photographs


title: Volute-krater fragment

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Rubbing Stone (?)

medium: Gritstone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Window with Flamboyant Tracery

date: 15th century

medium: Limestone

subjects: Installation French

credit_line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1935


title: Design for a Box-Lid

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink over black chalk underdrawing

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: Fantastic Subject: Five Nude Male Figures Punishing Another

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

medium: Pen and dark brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Ombi

date: late 19th century

medium: Wood, various materials

country: Fang/Pahuin

subjects: Chordophone-harp Fang/pahuin

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Piece

medium: Cotton, printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Textile Fragment: Offering to the Dioscuri

date: early 7th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1937


title: St. Stephen's Walbrook

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: November 1, 1809

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Mantle Border

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair, cotton

country: Paracas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Paraca
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1966


title: Glass ribbed beaker

date: mid-1st century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of Elias Kempner, 1934


title: Ladies in a Pavilion: Page from a Dispersed Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Marwar)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, marwar)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 9th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Madonna and Child and Saints

creator: John Singer Sargent

medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Actress leaning against ballustrade, from the Actresses series (N668)

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved


title: Mantel

medium: Marble

subjects: Architecture Sculpture-architectural

credit_line: Gift of The Hearst Foundation, 1956


title: Saint Jerome

creator: Pieter de Jode I

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Nose ornament

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Copper, gold

country: Colombia

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Colombia

credit_line: Museum Purchase, 1891


title: Inscribed Fragment of Vase

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


date: second quarter 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Sampler

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

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


title: French Cuirassier

creator: Edouard Detaille

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887


title: Castanets, from the Musical Instruments series (N82) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Entry of the animals into Noah's ark

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Guarded Dagger (Katar)

date: 17th century

medium: Steel

country: Indian, Thanjavur

subjects:
Dagger
Indian, thanjavur

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Disk

medium: Jade

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Octagonal ritual stand

date: 19th century

medium: Porcelain

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

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


title: Stamp seal

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Rock crystal

country: Sasanian

subjects:
Sasanian
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1962


title: Ralph Temple, Cyclist, Champion Trick Rider, from World's Champions, Series 2 (N29) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Architecture Print


title: Tool

date: 5th–3rd millennium BCE

medium: Obsidian

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Blackwork Print with Five Ornament Motifs, a Pair of Butterflies and a Grotesque

creator: Hans de Bull

medium: Blackwork engraving

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Mlle Rousseau; Mlle Fioretti

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Lawyer, from the Occupations of Women series (N502) for Frishmuth's Tobacco Company

creator: Frishmuth's Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Trousers

medium: wool

credit_line: Purchase, 1949


title: Plate

creator: American Porcelain Manufacturing Company

credit_line: Gift of Marco Polo Stufano, in memory of John H. Nally, 1997


title: Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld

creator: Arnold Houbraken

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, indented for transfer

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisah Whittelsey Fund, 2006


title: Set of four mounts

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Animal Hunt

medium: Linen warp, wool wefts

country: North Swiss

subjects:
Costume & fashion
North swiss
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Charles F. Iklé, 1963


title: Dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of George Coggill and James C. Coggill, 1968


title: Address-card of the printseller, Rochoux

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching from two plates; fifth state of five

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Paperweight (Bunchin) with Maple Branch and Bugaku Hat from “An Imperial Celebration of Autumn Foliage” (Momiji no ga), Chapter 7 of The Tale of Genji

date: second half 18th century

medium: Molded porcelain with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Mikawachi ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Vase (vase à monter) (one of a pair)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

date: vase ca. 1755–60, mounts ca. 1760–75

medium: Soft-paste porcelain, gilt bronze mounts

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


title: Tobacco Pipe

medium: Iron end piece

subjects:
Smoking equipment
Japan

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


title: An Artist at the French Academy in Rome (?), pl. XIII from "Recueil de caricatures"

creator: Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Carolyn Bullard Gift, in honor of E. John Bullard and funds from various donors, 2014


title: Fragment of Double Capital

date: late 13th–early 14th century

medium: Marble

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Saint Nicholas Accuses the Consul from Scenes from the Life of Saint Nicholas

medium: Pot-metal glass and vitreous paint

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1980


title: Miniature incense burner, Jun ware

creator: Chinese

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Stoneware with blue glaze.

country: Chinese

subjects: Ceramic Chinese

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Beaker

date: mid-17th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Munsey Fund, 1927


title: The Thinker

creator: Auguste Rodin

date: modeled ca. 1880, cast ca. 1910

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Thomas F. Ryan, 1910


title: Seated dancer holding skirt, 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: Textile

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Hydria, miniature

date: late 5th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Bronze statuette of a horse

date: ca. 2nd century CE

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Gruss, 2000


title: Glass portrait head of a woman

date: 1st half of 2nd century CE

subjects: Glass Roman Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1959


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


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

date: last quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Earring

date: 7th century

medium: Silver

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-silver Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi

date: late 15th–16th century

medium: Gilt bronze with inlaid turquoise

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Gift of the Kubicek family, in memory of Peter Kubicek, 2024


title: Fragments of Splashed Ceramic

date: 9th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Philosophy

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Junius Spencer Morgan, 1919


title: Statuette of a nude woman with moveable arms, one missing

medium: Boxwood

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1958


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


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

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Pair of Rowel Spurs

date: early 17th century

medium: Iron alloy, silver

country: probably German

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-spur
Probably german

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: River Valley in Mist in the Zen Manner

creator: Unidentified artist

date: 14th–15th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink on silk

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947


title: Sickle Insert

medium: Flint, adhesive (lime plaster ?)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Coronation of Maria Theresa in Hungary

creator: Anton Franz Widemann

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Snuffbox with allegorical figures of History and Time

medium: Copper, enamel

subjects: Mythology Enamels-painted

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890


title: The Figure of Sarah, Bride of Tobias

creator: Henri Lehmann

medium: Graphite on beige tracing paper

credit_line: Purchase, Karen B. Cohen Gift, 1990


title: Vase of Flowers on a Table

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

medium: Pen

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John H. Wright, 1946


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

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


title: Pitcher

date: 19th century

medium: Lustreware

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


title: Detail of Staircase at [Gerrard?] House, Gerrard Street, Soho, London

creator: Charles James Richardson

medium: Drawings

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


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes(drinking cups)


title: Harness Pendant

date: 13th–early 15th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: possibly Spanish

subjects:
Miscellaneous-badge
Possibly spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Phaeton #651

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Graphite, pen, and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Plate IX, from "Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés"

creator: Franz Michael Regenfuss

medium: Hand-colored engraving


title: Plate 11: Temple of Janus (Tempio di Giano), from "Antichità Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori"

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

medium: Etching

subjects: Architecture Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Saint Simon standing, supporting a book on his right thigh, from "Christ and the Apostles"

creator: Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Card 720, Miss Carroll, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Strainer

medium: Terracotta

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Creamer

creator: James Gillinder and Sons

date: before 1876

medium: Pressed glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


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


title: Piece

date: mid-18th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Stirrup Spout Bottle: Monkey Head

date: 12th–5th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Cupisnique (?)

subjects: Cupisnique Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Judith Riklis, 1983


title: Pair of chutes

date: early 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: The Third Sawamura Sojuro as a Man Standing in a Room

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1918


title: Steamboat Fleet

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Drypoint; first state of two (Glasgow); printed in black ink on ivory laid paper

credit_line: A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 1983


title: Miniature snuffers

date: 18th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Baluster

date: first half 17th century

medium: Walnut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Relief depicting an elaborate doorway - see 26.3.353-5

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Animals and Figures before the Ark

creator: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

medium: Brush with red-brown, brown and blue oil paint

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: The Coronation of the Virgin

creator: Peter Paul Rubens

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982


title: Trivet

medium: Iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. James A. Cole, 1978


title: Peters Phaeton (unnumbered)

medium: Colored lithograph with gum arabic

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: A Polish groom, from the back, holding a horse by the bridle

creator: Stefano della Bella

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb

medium: Etching with engraving; second state of three

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


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


title: Soeur Elize

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Village, Teepees, and Totem by a Bay (from Sketchbook X)

creator: William Trost Richards

medium: Graphite on off-white wove paper

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


title: Stamp seal (grooved oval conoid) with animals

date: 12th–7th century BCE

medium: Steatite, brown

country: Syro-Anatolian-Levantine

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


title: Sheet with two borders with lace atop floral wreaths and butterflies

creator: Anonymous

date: late 18th–mid-19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths
Flowers

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


title: M. Taglioni

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

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


title: Rattle?

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, 1968


title: [Countess de Castiglione as the Queen of Etruria]

date: before 1865

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color


title: Fifteen Architectural Subjects: Views of Munich

creator: Heinrich Adam

medium: Watercolor

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line:
Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1974
The Lesley and  Emma Sheafer Collection


title: Piece

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Pierced dish

date: late 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Joseph's Coat Brought to Jacob

creator: Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn)

medium: Etching and drypoint; first state of two

credit_line: Gift of Douglas Dillon, 1983


title: Solid Bangle with Applied "S" designs

country: Vietnam

subjects: Jewelry Vietnam

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


title: Sherd

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Inlay, hieroglyph

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Charles H. Taylor, The Boston Daily Globe, from the American Editors series (N1) 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: Jules-Paul de Lionne

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Armrests

creator: Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins

medium: Silk, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Edith Standen, 1999


title: Hartsel, Philadelphia, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company


title: Statuette

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Samuel D. Lee Fund, 1941


title: Stencil

medium: Paper, silk

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer, 1942


title: Plate

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Alfred Duane Pell, 1902


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (title page, 1r)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Candlestick

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

creator: Pier Francesco Mola

medium: Oil on copper

credit_line: Wrightsman Fund, 1993


title: Part of a Left Forearm Defense (Vambrace)

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

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


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

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Dish

creator: Gallus David Apeller the Younger

date: third quarter 18th century

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: [Merchants' Carnival Portrait: Photography Studio, Duluth, Minnesota]

creator: G. Collier

medium: Gelatin silver print

subjects: Photograph Portraits

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


title: Caricature of Jules de Prémaray

creator: Hippolyte Mailly

medium: Black chalk on brown paper

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


title: Fibula

date: ca. 8th century BC

medium: Bronze

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Purchase, Patricia and Marietta Fried Gift, 2021


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

creator: Johann Michael Leüchte

date: printed ca. 1750–56

medium: Etching

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Eccentric Blade

date: before 16th century

medium: Obsidian

country: Mexican

subjects: Glass-ornament Mexican

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Jupiter, Pluto and Neptune Offering their Riches to Fortune

creator: Pierre Brebiette

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Finial(?) in the Form of an Eagle's Head

date: ca. 1st century BCE–4th century CE

medium: Faience

credit_line: Purchase, Ludlow Bull Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Dulaney Logan Gift, 1975


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Covered jar

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Porcelain

country: Korea

subjects: Ceramic Korea

credit_line: Gift of the children of Lea R. Sneider, 2022


title: Terracotta conical lekythos (vase for oil)

date: ca. 700 BCE

country: Greek, Corinthian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, corinthian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Design for wallpaper featuring rinceaux and carouches framing figures

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: gouache on wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: A Glance at Miyosaki, Yokohama

creator: Utagawa Yoshimori

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Map of Ancient Rome Illustrating Major Monuments and the Seven Hills

creator: Jan Goeree

date: before 1704

medium: Brush and gray wash, pen and gray and brown ink over red and black chalk

subjects:
Maps & charts
Drawing

credit_line: Gift of Helen and János Scholz, 1958


title: Christine of France, Duchess of Savoy (1608–63)

creator: Guillaume Dupré

credit_line: Gift of Ogden Mills, 1925


title: The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be", Probable Results of The Industry of All Nations in The Year '51, Showing What is to be Exhibited, Who is To Exhibit, in Short How Its All Going to Be Done

creator: George Augustus Sala

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1963


title: Odalisque, from World's Smokers series (N33) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Tablecloth

medium: Linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Deposited by Mary D. Brooks, 1926


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Ecclesiatstical design for a window topped with angels

creator: Nicolas Jean Baptiste de Poilly

date: mid-18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, wash

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


title: Buddha Preaching the Dharma (Buddhist Law)

date: 18th century

medium: Ivory

country: Sri Lanka (Kandy district)

subjects:
Sculpture
Sri lanka (kandy district)

credit_line: Gift of Barry Fernando, M.D. and Coleene Fernando, M.D., 2010


title: Fan

medium: Parchment and mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, 1965


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: Crochet Work

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Heurteaux. Auguste. 31 ans, né à Paris Xe. Polisseur. Anarchiste. 3/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Textile Sample Book

medium: Textiles-Sample Books

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-sample book

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


title: Vase (from a garniture of three)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Tinted hard-paste porcelain decorated in polychrome enamels, gold

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Hip-joint armchair (Dantesca type)

date: 15th or 16th century (textiles); 16th century (chair, partly)

medium: Walnut, carved; red silk cut velvet.

subjects: Woodwork-furniture Italian

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Oyah (Bibilia)

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of Miss Meredith Hart, 1920


title: Eagle Pendant

date: 11th–16th century

medium: Gold

country: Veraguas

subjects: Metal-ornament Veragua

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


title: Tray

creator: William Gale and Son

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Catherine Halpert, in memory of her husband, Joseph Halpert, 1970


title: Study of an Apostle, for the painting of the Ascension in Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Paris (1839–1863)

creator: Hippolyte Flandrin

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Gift of Neal and Agnès Fiertag, in memory of Jacob Bean, 1993


title: Knife

creator: Vienna

medium: Hard-paste porcelain, steel


title: Textile Design with Alternating Rosettes of Pearls Flanked with Abstract Palmettes of Dots

creator: Anonymous, Alsatian, 19th century

medium: Gouache

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Drawing

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Arm Guard

date: 17th century

medium: Steel, silver

country: Indian, Thanjavur

subjects:
Armor part
Indian, thanjavur

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bowl

date: 13th century

medium: Porcelaneous clay

credit_line: Gift of R. H. Macy & Co., 1919


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Coach #3132

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: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

country: Peru; central coast (?)

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

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


title: Plate from Book of Vases

creator: Jacques de La Joue the Younger

medium: Etching

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


title: Vase with women and children

medium: Porcelain painted in polychromenamels (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Stephen Caldwell Markoe, 1942


title: Fragment

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Edfou (Apollonopolis Magna), Galerie Latérale de la Cour et Pronaos

creator: Félix Teynard

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1976


title: Jérusalem, partie occidentale des murailles

creator: Maxime Du Camp

medium: Salted paper print

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Necklace of Stone Beads

date: 3rd–6th century

medium: Stone

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Beads-ornament


title: Terracotta fragments of undetermined shapes

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

country: Greek, Attic


title: Capital

date: late 12th century

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Thetis Seated with a Triton

creator: Anonymous, Italian?, 16th century

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947


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

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Drawing of a Sword Hilt

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Pen and ink on paper

country: Western European

subjects:
Work on paper-drawing
Western european

credit_line: Gift of Mathew Rutenberg, 1987


title: Jar

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Design for the decoration of a beamed ceiling

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite and watercolor on wove paper; inlaid in blue wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Ribbon

medium: Textiles-Trimmings

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Long-Haired Turtles (obverse);  Stork with Pine  Sprigs (reverse)

date: 19th–20th century

medium: Lacquer, nashiji, gold, blue, black and red hiramakie, takamakie, inlaid eye; Interior: nashiji and fundame

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Seven Designs for Decorated Cups

creator: Alfred Henry Forrester [Alfred Crowquill]

medium: Pen and ink, watercolor

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


title: Victori Pacifico

creator: Charles Melchior Descourtis

medium: Color aquatint, etching, and engraving

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1969


date: first quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Three Allegorical Figures in a Roundel

creator: Battista Franco

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

subjects: Mythology Drawing

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Four cherubs and a small boy standing

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium: Etching, first state of two

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


title: The Molo, Venice, Looking West

creator: Luca Carlevaris

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Design for a ceiling decoration

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Graphite, pen, and ink with watercolor and gouache on peach wove paper

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


title: Wall painting on black ground: supports with 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: Evening cloak

medium: silk, metal

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Anonymous Gift, in memory of Mrs. John Roebling, 1970


title: Jupiter, from "Game of Mythology" (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Lingerie

medium: cotton

country: American or European

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward E. Harkavy, 1944


title: Badger, from the Quadrupeds series (N21) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Mammals


title: Mirror of the Beautiful Women of the Yoshiwara Brothels (Seirō bijin awase sugata kagami) 青楼美人合姿鏡

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

medium: Polychrome woodblock printed book; ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Sheet of border segments: vertical floral ornament, horizontal frieze, four corners

creator: Francesco Rosselli

medium: Engraving

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print
Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Cup

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

country: Coptic

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Mace head

creator: Vicús artist(s)

date: 100 BCE–500 CE

medium: Copper

country: Vicús

subjects: Metal-implement Vicú

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


title: Shield (<i>Peurise tuju bintang</i>, "seven star shield")

date: 19th century

medium: Cane, textile, brass, iron

country: Sumatran, Sultanate of Aceh

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Shield
Sumatran, sultanate of aceh

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Reinforcing Abdominal Defense

medium: Steel

country: Italian

subjects:
Armor part
Italian

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1927


title: Heart Scarab

medium: Green serpentinite

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Hair Ornament

date: late 19th century

medium: Silver, silver gilt and gun metal

subjects:
Ornament & design
Jewelry
Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Cap

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Lord Byron

medium: Black basalt, silver mount

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: A Catalogue of the Churches of the City of London:  Royal Palaces, Hospitals, and Publick Edifices, Built by Sr. Christopher Wren, Kt. Surveyor General of the Royal-Works, during Fifty Years: viz. from 1668 to 1718

creator: Sir Christopher Wren

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 196


title: Terracotta fragment from a kantharos: head vase


title: Scarf

date: early 19th century

medium: silk

country: Spanish

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. John C. Gray, 1913


title: M'lle Helen Lamont, 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: Frontispiece, plate 1 from "Varie Figure" (Various Figures)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; third state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: A Young Woman with a Tray of Sweetmeats

creator: Katsukawa Shunchō

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Jug

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Jesus before Pilate

medium: Etching, only state

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


title: Key

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: Catalan

subjects: Metalwork-iron Catalan

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Strip

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Trumpet in E-flat

creator: Henry Keat & Sons

medium: Silver

country: British

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, and The Barrington Foundation Inc., Laura Benedek and Mrs. Kay Krechmer Gifts, 1991


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Design for rock-work at Virginia Water, Windsor Great Park

creator: Thomas Sandby

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

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2008


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Sword (Flyssa) with Scabbard

medium: Steel, brass, wood, rawhide

country: Algerian, Kabyle

subjects:
Sword
Algerian, kabyle

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Bacchanale with Eight Figures, from "Ex Antiquis Cameorum et Gemmae Delineata/ Liber Secundus/et ab Enea Vico Parmen Incis"

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: published ca. 1599–1622

medium: Engraving; third state

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


title: Papyrus

medium: Papyrus, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Galloon

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: We will be at your door at noon without fail, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Yvonne Möen Cumerford, 1965


title: Ensemble

medium: silk, cotton or linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Main dress-womenswear

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


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


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

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, South Italian, Campanian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, campanian


title: Souvenir spoon with depiction of Bologna's medieval towers

medium: Silver, parcel-gilt

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1900


title: Scissors

medium: Silver, steel

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1970


title: The Fifth Month

creator: Ishikawa Toyonobu

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Rome emperor on a throne, vestal virgin Tuccia holding a sieve approaching from the left

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

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


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Orpheus, returning from Hades without Eurydice

creator: Marie Alexandre Lucien Coudray

date: 1893–99, struck in the 20th century

medium: Partially patinated iron

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Cat

creator: Whieldon type

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell S. Carter, 1944


title: Slippers

medium: leather

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Aline Bernstein, 1938


title: River or Creek View [Delaware?] (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Hewes Hinckley

medium: Graphite on beige paper

country: American

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


title: Spouted pitcher

medium: Ceramic

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Peasant costume fragment

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Wool on canvas

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Design for a Stage Set

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Drawings

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


title: Ornament

date: 18th century

medium: Gilt bronze

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metalwork-gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Flounce

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1934


title: Kris with Sheath

medium: Steel, wood, gold, diamonds, silver

country: Indonesian

subjects: Krisse Indonesian

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


title: Stone head of a Julio-Claudian youth, possibly of Gaius Caesar

date: ca. 5 BCE, or later

medium: gypsum alabaster

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman

credit_line: Gift of George P. Tetzel, 2011


title: Sealing

medium: Mud

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


title: The Priest's House, Rouen

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Transfer lithograph with stumping and scaping; second state of two (Chicago); printed in black ink on medium weight cream laid paper

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Gabbro mace head

medium: Gabbro

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Cypriot

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


title: Vase with flowers and birds (one of a pair)

creator: Meissen Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels under transparent glaze

subjects: Birds Ceramics-porcelain Flowers

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


title: H.B. Johnston, R.S.A.

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Chaplain, Royal Navy, England, 1869, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Cruet

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Fragment

date: 16th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Silk on canvas

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: The English Jesuit

creator: Matthias Darly

date: October 7, 1771

medium: Etching

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


title: Portion of a dress border

medium: Silk on linen

credit_line: Bequest of Richard B. Seager, 1926


title: Parasol Top Phaeton #973

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Vessel lid

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Marble

country: Sasanian

subjects:
Sasanian
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Page from Shi Zhu Zhai

medium: Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: China

subjects: Print China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Romanesque Style Font and Plan

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: mid-19th century

medium: Pen and ink, brush and wash, over graphite, on pale blue paper

credit_line: Exchange, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1960


title: Adze (Hootar)

medium: Nephrite

country: North America (Alaska, Sitka)

subjects:
Jade
North america (alaska, sitka)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: The Grand Review of the Juste-Milieu Passing La Caricature, October 30, 1832 (Grand revue passée par la caricature le 30 Octobre 1832), from "L'Association Mensuelle no. 3"

date: October 1832

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Profile Sketch of Young Girl (from Sketchbook)

creator: John Quincy Adams Ward

medium: Graphite on paper

credit_line: Gift of Edward R. Grove, 1985


title: Glass pendant in the form of a jar

date: 3rd–4th century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Landscape with Tree in Foreground (from Sketchbook)

creator: Albert Bierstadt

medium: Graphite on wove paper

subjects: American Landscapes Trees

credit_line: Bequest of Marguerite H. Rohlfs, 1995


title: Chip

medium: Red quartzite

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Deign for a ceiling a a trompe l'oeil sky

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, gouache, and watercolor

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Suit

date: fourth quarter 18th century

medium: wool, silk, cotton

country: European

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1986


title: Miniature Relief of a Saint Luke at His Writing Table

medium: Wood, polychromy, gilding

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-miniature-wood German

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Horse Racing at Kamo Shrine

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, gold and gold leaf on paper

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Plate (tagliere)

creator: Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Head of a Man Wearing a High Collar

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


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: Bead


title: Snaphaunce Pistol Made for Wilhelm, Duke of Kurland

date: dated 1615

medium: Steel, gold, silver, wood (brazilwood)

country: Scottish

subjects: Firearm Scottish

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Alexander McMillan Welch, in memory of Alexander McMillan Welch, 1946


title: Oracle bone

date: 19th century or earlier

medium: Fossilized bone

subjects:
Bone
China
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Ice cream cup (tasse à glace) (one of thirty-one) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Padlock and Key

date: 18th century or later

medium: Brass

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: The Petit Pont, Paris

creator: Charles Meryon

date: 1850 and later

medium: Etching and engraving on green laid paper; fourth state (of nine)


title: [America and Independence]

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: Viola da Braccio

date: mid-18th century

medium: Spruce and bird's-eye maple

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Virgin and Child with Saint Anna

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, highlighted with white

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Watch

date: early 19th century

medium: Gold, enamel

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Book cover with overall pattern of dots and circles

creator: Anonymous

date: 19th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th–4th centuries BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric


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

date: mid-5th century BCE


title: Charles V (1500–1558), Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (1519–56)

date: 16th century

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Bequest of Rupert L. Joseph, 1959


title: Square

medium: Cotton, silk, and metal wrapped thread; plain weave, embroidered

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Netsuke of Woman and Monkey

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Poll of Plymouth's Prayer

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: September 20, 1801

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Venus attended by cupids

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Card Number 26, Miss Elton, 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: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: The Swimming putto

creator: Dominique Sornique

medium: Etching and engraving


title: Strip

date: 18th century

medium: Linen; embroidered in silk and silver thread

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Leonard E. Opdycke, 1928


title: Salt

medium: Blown pattern-molded glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American


title: Jar handle with seal impression

date: ca. late 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ceramic

country: Israelite

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


title: Bowl

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; white slip, incised under dark green glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: The Lady of Monsoreau (La Dame de Monsoreau)

creator: Jean Charles Pardinel

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Heinrich(?) vom Rhein zum Mohren (1477–1536)

creator: Conrad Faber von Creuznach

date: late 1520s

medium: Oil and gold on oak

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Portrait of William Thompson Walters (1819–1894)

creator: Louis-Oscar Roty

medium: Silver, cast

subjects:
Medal and plaquette
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Henry Walters, 1897


title: Velvet with Pattern of Butterflies and Flowers

medium: Silk, metal wrapped thread; cut and voided velvet

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Butterflies & moths
Flowers
Textiles-woven

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


title: Design for a Funeral Monument

creator: Italian, Lombardy

date: early 16th century

medium: Pen and ink in two shades of brown, brush and brown washes.

country: Italian, Lombard

subjects:
Drawing
Italian, lombard

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: The Grâces au Bain (The Graces at the Bath)

creator: William Wynne Ryland

medium: Etching and engraving, printed in red ink

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


title: Relief with floral and fructal wall decoration

medium: Limestone, paint (mostly modern)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Rosen, 1991


title: Too Hot, from "Illustrated London News"

creator: James Collinson

date: February 28, 1863

medium: Color wood engraving

credit_line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019


title: Fragment

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: [Photo Collage: Two Men with Mop and Water Bucket]

creator: Juan Pedro Chabalgoity

medium: Albumen silver prints, lithographs

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


title: A Columbine or Granny's Bonnet (Aquilegia), with Additional Studies of Flowers

creator: Pieter Holsteyn II

date: mid-17th–late 17th century

medium: Brush and gray ink, watercolor, gouache

subjects: Drawing Flowers

credit_line: Purchase, Daniel Ergmann Gift, 2014


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Hat Ornament

medium: Silk, metallic thread, seed pearls

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Henry George J. McNeary, 1966


title: Pelerine

medium: cotton

country: probably American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Inlay fragment, network pattern with centers

date: 100 BCE–100 CE

medium: Glass

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Terracotta neck-amphora (jar) with twisted handles

creator: Lykaon Painter

date: ca. 440 BCE

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1906


title: Alabaster alabastron (perfume vase)

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Gypsum (alabaster)

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Miscellaneous-stone vase
Cypriot

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


title: String of 13 beads

date: 30 BCE–364 CE

medium: Green glass and stone

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: An Actor as Sadakuro in the Forty–seven Ronins

creator: Katsukawa Shun'ei 勝川春英

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Tumbler

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Blown glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Piece from a Kosode with Auspicious Treasures

medium: Silk and metallic-thread embroidery on plain-weave silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennan Ford, 2008


title: Shofar

date: 18th century (?)

medium: ram's horn

country: Jewish

subjects:
Aerophone-lip vibrated-horn
Jewish

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Studies of Twelve Greek and Roman Coins

creator: Eugène Delacroix

medium: Lithograph; second state of four

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931


title: Glass cup

date: 1st century CE

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman


title: Comforts of Bath, Plate 9

date: January 6, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Ewer

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy/bronze

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Purchase, Mary C. Reed, Mrs. Peter Oliver and Mrs. Vladimir Littauer Gifts, 1978


title: Cover

date: 19th century

medium: Pineapple fiber

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H. McKnight Moore, in memory of her mother, Mrs. James Suydam, 1924


title: Miniature knife

creator: George Manjoy

date: late 17th century

medium: Silver

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


title: Mask of a woman with cosmetic lines and gilding

medium: Plaster, paint, gold leaf

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1900


title: Bronze statuette of a priest or offrant

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Panel with the Angel Appearing to Zacharias (from a Retable depicting Saint John the Baptist and scenes from his life)

creator: Domingo Ram

medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground

country: Spanish

subjects: Spanish Paintings-panel

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925