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: Philanthropic Society, The Chapel

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

source_id: met

rights: Public Domain / CC0

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

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


title: Glass Bell Beaker with White Trails

date: late 5th–early 6th century

medium: Glass

country: Frankish

subjects: Glass-vessel Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Slab and grinder

medium: Diorite

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


title: A Park with Figures at a Statue near Water

creator: Salomon Gessner

medium: Gouache, watercolour; framing lines in pen and brown ink

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 2009


title: Stucco mural relief fragment

date: 1st century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Roman

subjects: Miscellaneous-stucco Roman

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


title: Belt Plaque with Mythological Creature

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Gilt silver

country: North China

subjects:
Mythology
Metalwork
North china

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Mystery Flute (Tohono O'odham style)

date: late 19th century

medium: Cane, red and blue stain

country: Native American (Apache)

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

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Border Fragment, Figure

date: 2nd century BCE

medium: Camelid hair

country: Nasca

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Nasca
Textiles-sculpture

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


title: Sydney International Exhibition Medal

creator: Alfred Benjamin Wyon

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2003


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Damask

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Jockey Club or Newmarket Meeting

date: October 10, 1811

medium: Hand-colored etching


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (cup)?

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Falcon amulet


title: King

medium: Gouache on paper

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Plate

medium: Earthenware

country: Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1911


title: Esau Selling His Birthright to Jacob from The Story of Jacob series

medium: Wool, silk (18 warps per inch, 6–7 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Bequest of Amy Warren Patterson, 1981


title: Double Halberd

medium: Steel, wood (ash)

country: Italian

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Medal

creator: John A. Bolen

medium: Metal

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Portrait of a Man: Francesco Albani ?

creator: Andrea Sacchi

medium: Red and black chalk

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1978


title: Chiryu, Shuka Uma Ichi

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan


title: Studies for Grotesque Decorations (recto); Small Sketches and Writing (verso)

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


title: Bronze fibula (safety pin) with amber segment

date: 7th century BCE

medium: Bronze, amber

country: Etruscan

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Hammered Silver Miniature Crown

date: 11th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north or central coast (?)

subjects:
Metal-ornament
Peru; north or central coast

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


title: Men and women bathing, some embracing

creator: Giulio Bonasone

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1942


title: Card 47, from the series, Cigarette Making Girls (N46) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Portrait of a Lady

medium: Watercolor on ivory

country: American

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 2006


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3520

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Watch and chatelaine

creator: V. Blanck

medium: Gold, agate, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, carnelian

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


title: Proserpina, from 'Game of Mythology' (Jeu de la Mythologie)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching; first state of five

subjects: Mythology Print

credit_line: Gift of Robert Hartshorne, 1918


title: Lawyers in dispute

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Model of a Scribe's Palette Inscribed for Amenhotep

medium: Travertine (Egyptian alabaster)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Bolt

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

country: China

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness, 1941


title: Portugal, from the Natives in Costume series (N16) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print


title: The Arming of Bellona

creator: Laurent Hubert

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968


title: Plaque

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Christ Crowned with Thorns, from "The Passion of Christ"

creator: Jan Muller

medium: Engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1957


title: Decanter

creator: H. P. Sinclaire and Company

medium: Blown, cut, and engraved glass; silver

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Roger Brunschwig Gift, 1987


title: Summer (L'Eté), from 'The Four Seasons'

medium: Etching

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


title: Side Chair

creator: Duncan Phyfe

medium: Mahogany, brass

credit_line: Gift of C. Ruxton Love Jr., 1960


title: Wishing You a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, from the New Years 1890 series (N227) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Neferkhawet

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Bain-froid Chevrier (Chevrier's cold bath establishment, or The School Baths, Paris)

creator: Charles Meryon

medium: Etching; fourth state of five

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Christ Brought Before Pontius Pilate

creator: Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century

medium: Pen and light brown ink, brush and light brown wash, reinforced with pen and dark brown ink, highlighted with white gouache (oxidized) on figure of Pilate and throne, over traces of black chalk underdrawing. Lower border of composition outlined with pen and dark brown ink. On off-white paper

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


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

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


title: Flying Clouds Pavilion

creator: Jian Guzhai

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Pine soot and binding medium; inscribed in gilt

subjects: Ink China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Textile Sample from Sample Book

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Charles Sumner, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Laconian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, laconian

credit_line: Gift of A. J. B. Wace, 1923


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

date: mid-19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: "Conquest of Baghdad by Timur", Folio from a Zafarnama (Book of Victory)

creator: Sharaf al-din 'Ali Yazdi

date: Dhu'l Hijja 839 AH/June–July 1436 CE

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Earrings with Assyrian motifs

medium: Gold, enamel

country: British

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


title: Trencher (one of a set)

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Oak and sycamore woods, painted, silvered and yellow varnished; inscription: ink (animal or vegetable)

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Terracotta statuette of a horse and rider

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot

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


title: Joseph Brook "Joe" Gunson, Catcher, Kansas City Cowboys, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Yellow Daisies and Pink Wild Rose

creator: Antoine Berjon

medium: Green, yellow, black, brown, pink, and white chalk

subjects: Drawing Roses

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


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


title: Sugar spoon

creator: H. & T., Birmingham

medium: Silver, parcel gilt

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


title: Basin

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, inlaid with silver (bidri ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Hercules and Dejanira

creator: Francesco Francia

date: late 15th century

medium: Silver, niello

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Guitar

creator: Benito Sanchez de Aguilera

medium: Spruce or fir top, cypress back and ribs, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard and frets, ebony nut, gut strings

credit_line: Purchase, Clara Mertens Bequest, in memory of André Mertens, 1990


title: Pretiosa Gemma delle virtuose donne, page 22 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Curtain

medium: Linen, block-printed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Pair of Sword-Grip Ornaments (Menuki)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-menuki
Japanese

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1938


title: Horn

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Iron, copper-silver alloy (shibuichi)

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Lea Castle, Worcestershire, Dining Room Looking South

creator: John Carter

medium: Watercolor

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved, painted


title: Glass Fragment

date: 13th–15th century

medium: Pot metal glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Pendant

medium: jade, silk

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Portrait of a Woman Near a Rose-Bush

creator: Wallerant Vaillant

date: mid-17th century

medium: Mezzotint; second state of two

subjects: Print Portraits Roses


title: Plate 10: two heads of old soldiers wearing helmets, both facing left and looking downwards, from "The principles of design" (I principii del disegno)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1958


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

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

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


title: Statuette of a woman ?

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Print

creator: Utagawa Kunisada

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Jar

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with ox-blood glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

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


title: Fragment of a Scroll Depicting Banners

date: possibly 18th century

medium: Ink on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: The Duelliste aux Deux Sabres (The Duelist with Two Sabres), from "Varie Figure Gobbi, suite appelée aussi Les Bossus, Les Pygmées, Les Nains Grotesques" (Various Hunchbacked Figures, The Hunchbacks, The Pygmes, The Grotesque Dwarfs)

creator: Jacques Callot

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Bobbin

date: 19th century

medium: Bone, metal and beads

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Skeletons & bones
Textiles-method and material

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J.B. Johnston, 1910


title: Scarab seal

medium: Amethyst

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


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

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Mantel clock with alarm

creator: Franz Xavier Gegenreiner

date: case ca. 1710, movement ca. 1760–70

medium: Case: tortoiseshell backed with brass leaf, pearwood veneered with rosewood; and partly gilded silver; Movement: gilded brass and steel

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1946


title: Card Number 89, Fuller, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-1) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th century BCE


title: Purse

date: early 17th century

medium: iron, linen, silk, metal, paper

credit_line: Gift of Catharine Oglesby, 1959


title: Fragment of a Tile with the Name of King Khendjer

medium: Faience

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


title: View of Ancient Roman Ruins, an Arch and a Triangular-Pedimented Doorway

creator: Filippo Mochi

date: 18th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash and leadpoint; framed outlines in black ink and  blue wash

credit_line: Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971


title: Design for a Clock

medium: Pen and brown and black ink, brush and gray, yellow, and green wash

credit_line: Gift of Raphael Esmerian, 1960


title: The Dog on the Kennel

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching, printed in black ink on coarse fibrous wove paper; second state of two (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Sampler

date: first half 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


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

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Photograph
Flowers


title: Bowl Fragments with Menorah, Shofar, and Torah Ark

medium: Glass, gold leaf

country: Roman

subjects:
Glass-gold glass
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1918


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Tiger Lily (Lilium superbum), from the Flowers series for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects: Print Flowers Lilies


title: Dish

medium: Tin-glazed and luster-painted earthenware

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


title: Head from a figurine of a Woman

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Oboe in C

creator: H. C. Tölcke (Heinrich Carl)

date: before 1792

medium: boxwood, brass

country: German

subjects:
Aerophone-reed vibrated-double reed
German

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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


title: La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorti di recami, page 22 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Ostaus

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Gable seal

medium: Steatite, black

credit_line: Purchase, 1899


title: Length

credit_line: Gift of the Roslyn Landmark Society, 1987


title: Songs: "Ye Gentlemen of England That Live at Ease..."

creator: Henry Thomas Alken

medium: Soft-ground etching

credit_line: Gift of Wilbur Macey Stone, 1921


title: Jug

date: 15th century

medium: Earthenware

country: French

subjects: Ceramic French

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Gothia, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Saltcellar

date: 19th century, after 15th century original

medium: Silver, gilt

credit_line: Purchase, 1873


title: Virgin and Child

creator: Anonymous Mexican Artist

medium: Engraving printed in red

credit_line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930


title: Woman Walking beside a River

creator: Henry Farrer

medium: Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper

credit_line: Purchase, Bequest of Vera Ruth Miller, by exchange, 1983


title: Trade card for Henry Rielly, lithographer, illuminator, draughtsman, engraver, and ornamental printer

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Commercial lithograph

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926


date: mid-5th century? BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Hitoyogiri  (一節切)

medium: Wood, lacquer, gilt

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield, 1948


title: Meiping (Plum) Vase with Bamboo and Rocks

date: first half of the 18th century

medium: Porcelain with low-relief decoration and red glaze

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Harry Payne Bingham, 1974


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


title: Covered Jar

date: 20th century

medium: Marbled earthenware with amber glaze (jiaotai ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: A Cat Curled Up, Sleeping

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Clifford A. Furst, by exchange, 1995


title: Criger, St. Louis, American League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company

creator: American Tobacco Company


title: Ornament with Claw-footed Urn, Lynxes, Butterflies and Foliage above a Greek Meander

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

medium: Graphite with touches of pen and black ink

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing
Butterflies & moths

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


title: The Adoration of the Magi

creator: Hendrick Goltzius

medium: Engraving;second state of three

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Malay Cock, from the Prize and Game Chickens series (N20) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


creator: Makron


title: Ewer

date: 11th century

medium: Porcelain with crackled blueish white glaze (Jingdezhen qingbai ware)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Venus, from The Seven Planets

creator: Georg Pencz

medium: Woodcut

subjects: Astronomy Print

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


title: Tankard

creator: Richard Going

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: [View of House from Driveway]

creator: Unknown

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1946


title: Platter (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Wedding dress

creator: Fox

medium: silk, cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of William Kelly Simpson, Helen-Louise K. Simpson Seggerman, Elizabeth Simpson Bennett and Sarah P. F. Simpson French, in memory of their parents, Mr. and Mrs., Kenneth F. Simpson, 1983


title: Frontispiece: Before the Tribunal at Avignon, from "Journal of Sentimental Travels in the Southern Provinces of France, Shortly Before the Revolution"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: The Education (L'Education): in a forest, to right an old satyr instructor holding a wand, teaching a group of children, to the left a merchant of orvietan trying to attract spectators with his act, from "The lives of satyrs" (La vie des satyres)

creator: Claude Gillot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


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: Akhenaten chest with Aten cartouches

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Judas Aristobulus, 106 B.C. / Herod the Great, 37 B.C., from the Ancient Coins series (N180) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Galloon

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Life of Reverend T. De Witt Talmage, from the Histories of Poor Boys and Famous People series of booklets (N79) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Coverlet

creator: Harry Tyler

medium: Wool and cotton, woven

credit_line: Gift of Venila Burrington Willard, 1997


title: Waistcoat

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Effie Mason Stephens, 1924


title: Piece

date: 19th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Bath, from the Beautiful Bathers series (N192) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved


title: Half a Double Saddle Bag (Khorjin)

medium: Wool (warp, ground weft, and pile); asymmetrically knotted pile and closure border in complementary weft weave (front); slit tapestry (kilim) with border pattern in complementary weft weave, and twined and braided loop closures (back)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of Inger G. and William B. Ginsberg, 2015


title: Piece

date: 16th–17th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Gold boat-shaped earring

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Cup

medium: Earthenware, spatterware

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


title: Madonna and Child on Clouds

creator: Anonymous, Italian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880


title: Erste Zukunft from Eva und die Zukunft (Rad.-Werk  III)

creator: Max Klinger

medium: Etching and aquatint; seventh state of seven

credit_line: Purchase, Gift of A. G. Raskin, 1963


title: Embroidered Sampler

creator: Ester Wildes

medium: Silk on linen, embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Heart of the Andes

creator: Frederic Edwin Church

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Margaret E. Dows, 1909


title: Teakettle, lamp, and table

creator: Simon Pantin I

medium: Silver, wood

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1968


title: Bracelet

date: late 19th century

medium: metal

country: Indian

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: The Incurable

medium: Etching

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


title: Cap

medium: metallic, silk

credit_line: Gift of Miss Marion Hague, 1948


title: Breakfast Service (déjeuner)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Heineman, 1956


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Scarab Inscribed with the Name Ahmose

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Tile with characters

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: William Benjamin "Shorty" Fuller, Shortstop, St. Louis Browns, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: The Black-Banded Underwing, from "The Butterflies and Moths of America", Part 2

creator: Louis Prang & Co.

medium: Color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick, 1948


title: Bowl with profile bird

creator: Wari artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Wari

subjects: Wari Birds Ceramics-container

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


title: Cup and saucer (one of a pair)

credit_line: Helena Woolworth McCann Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1968


title: Vase

date: 18th century

medium: Carnelian-agate

subjects: Hardstone China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Sealing wax case (étui)

medium: Varicolored gold

credit_line: Bequest of Kate Read Blacque, in memory of her husband, Valentine Alexander Blacque, 1937


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Votive Plaque with Amitāyus

date: ca. 8th century or later

medium: Clay

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1938


title: Robe of State

medium: Silk, metallic thread on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1944


title: Earring-hook type with sphere ends

medium: Gold

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


title: Designs for wall panels

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

date: early 19th century

medium: Pen and ink and watercolor

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Dr. Welsh

creator: Hill and Adamson

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Landscape with Fishermen

creator: Gaspard Dughet

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Jill Newhouse Gift, 2001


title: Textile fragment

medium: Linen

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: Cravat (one of a pair)

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Bequest of Anna Thalman, 1934


title: Life Drawing

creator: Carle (Charles André) Vanloo

date: mid-18th century

medium: Red chalk

credit_line: Gift of George S. Hellman, 1915


title: Elkwood, from The World's Racers series (N32) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pair of Pauldrons and Arm Defenses

medium: Steel, gold

country: Italian

subjects:
Italian
Armor parts-arm & shoulder

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Pretiosa Gemma delle virtuose donne, page 20 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929


title: Panel

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Wood; inlaid with plain and carved ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Caricature of a Man Carrying a Stick, Standing in Profile to the Left

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Oudin. Clovis. 49 ans, né à Saint-Hilaire (Marne). Mécanicien. Anarchiste. 2/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Miniature Stone Metate

date: 1st–8th century

medium: Stone

country: Mezcala

subjects: Stone-implement Mezcala

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Teapot

creator: Joseph Edwards Jr.

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Explication des tableaux de la galerie de Versailles, et de ses deux sallons

creator: Pierre Rainssant


title: Design for a panel ornamented with strapwork and rinceaux

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

medium: graphite and watercolor on wove paper; mounted on blue wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Tottenham Church

creator: British Painter

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Maria DeWitt Jesup, from the collection of her husband, Morris K. Jesup, 1914


title: VIEW FROM / PORT PUTNAM. / HUDSON. RIVER.

creator: William Ridgway & Co.

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: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Tubular bead

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Strip

medium: Cutwork

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Stand

medium: Rock crystal

country: China

subjects:
Hardstone
China
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Stool

date: 15th century

medium: Oak

country: French or South Netherlandish

subjects:
Woodwork-furniture
French or south netherlandish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1947


title: Stencil

medium: Paper

subjects: Stencil Japan

credit_line: Gift of Leon Dabo, 1955


title: Bowl (one of a pair)

medium: Porcelain painted in polychrome enamels, with white enamel on the biscuit

credit_line: Gift of Edwin C. Vogel, 1964


title: Peg tankard

date: last quarter 17th century

credit_line: Gift of R. M. Olyphant, 1957


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: Earring-loop type, plain

medium: Gold

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


title: Reel

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Border

medium: Linen, crochet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Ann Nyburg, 1974


title: Miraculous Draught of Fishes

date: early 20th century (original dated early 6th century)

medium: Tesserae, glass in wooden frame

country: Byzantine

subjects: Fish Byzantine Reproductions-mosaic

credit_line: Johnston Fund, 1924


title: The Despair of Hecuba

creator: Pierre Peyron

medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1965


title: Buff Coat

medium: Leather, string laces

country: European

subjects:
Costume & fashion
European
Costumes-buff coat

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


title: Stirrup-spout bottle with bird warrior

creator: Moche artist(s)

medium: Ceramic, slip

country: Moche

subjects: Moche Birds Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Jar containing mummifying materials

medium: Pottery, clay stopper

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


title: Card Number 46, Jennie McNulty, 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: Nouveau Theatre de la Grande Bretagne: Ou Description Exacte des Palais de La Reine, et des Maisons les plus considerables...de la Grande Bretagne

creator: Johannes Kip

medium: Illustrations: etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1952


title: Undersleeves

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of William J. Whittemore, 1939


title: Pitcher

medium: Free-blown green glass

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Schiff, 1980


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Container with a Satyr (Nécessaire de table)

creator: René Boyvin

medium: Engraving

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


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

date: late 5th/early 4th century BCE


title: Fish Ornament

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Silver

country: Peru; central coast (?)

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

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


title: Tile

date: second half 17th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed

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


title: Dress

creator: Josephine H. Egan

medium: silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1937


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter 5th century BCE


title: Straight staff

medium: Wood, cord

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Bowl

country: Cypriot

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Rug

medium: Foundation: cotton warp and weft;  wool knotting

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Textiles-rug

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. W. Thorn Kissel, 1950


title: Hercules and the Oxen of Geryones: with a club raised by his right hand, Hercules confronts a group of galloping oxen, from "The Labors of Hercules"

creator: Antonio Tempesta

medium: Etching

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Printed piece

medium: Cotton, roller-printed

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mayer Livingston, 1967


title: John E. "Scrappy" Carroll, Right Field, St. Paul Apostles, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Inscribed Adze From Foundation Deposit 2 of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

medium: Wood, bronze or copper alloy, leather

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1916


title: Horse and rider

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with  pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

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


title: Seal

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Gift of Edward B. Bruce, 1924


title: Samson and Delilah

creator: Lucas van Leyden

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Brazier of Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Muzaffar Shams al-Din Yusuf ibn 'Umar

date: second half 13th century

medium: Brass; cast, chased, and inlaid with silver and black compound

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Passage of the Tagliamento, where Massena Defeated the Archduke Charles, 1797

creator: Paris Mint

medium: Gilt bronze, struck

credit_line: Gift of Hon. Levi P. Morton, 1885


title: Document Sealing

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Sketch of a Painted Family Portrait "in situ"

creator: Anonymous, German, 19th century

date: 19th century

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

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


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

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Head of Dionysus

creator: Luigi Valadier

medium: Bust: red griotte marble; eyes: inlaid with white marble with black marble pupils; base: fleur-de-pêcher marble

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Fragment

date: first half 17th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Mexican

credit_line: Gift of Betty and John Menke, 1998


title: Netsuke of Bird Cage

medium: Ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan Birds

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Terracotta fragment of a mastoid (drinking cup with narrow base)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron


title: Portrait of Charles Baudelaire in Profile

creator: Edouard Manet

medium: Etching on blue laid paper, only state

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Toothpick Holder

creator: New England Glass Company

date: after 1883

medium: Blown glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Two angels supporting a cartouche or shield

creator: Orazio de Santis

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Purchase, Edward Pearce Casey Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Massar Gift, 1989


title: Pair-case watch

creator: Windmill

date: early 18th century

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of Laura Frances Hearn, 1917


title: Worker Shabti of Nauny

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1930


title: Lock

medium: Wood and rope.

country: Coptic

subjects: Woodwork-miscellany Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: [Yosemite National Park, California]

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Double-End Snake Bottle

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects:
Paraca
Ceramics-container
Reptiles & amphibians

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1963


title: Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, page 31 (recto)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Earring, baule type

date: 7th–5th Century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects:
Gold and silver
Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1895


title: Bowl

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Earthenware

subjects: Ceramic Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Sword-Hilt Collar and Pommel (Fuchigashira)

date: 18th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-fuchi-kashira
Japanese

credit_line: Gift of Herman A. E. and Paul C. Jaehne, 1943


title: Gaeta

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Francis L. Noble, 1935


title: Plate depicting Domenico de Massimo, from a series of twelve showing knights and their attendants dressed for a tournament (plate 4)

creator: Anonymous

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Large jar sherd

date: ca. early 2nd millennium BCE

medium: Ceramic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1972


title: Siam, from the International Cards series (N238), issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


date: 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


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


date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Offering table with hand, titulary of king

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1921


title: Glass alabastron (perfume bottle)

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Glass

country: Greek, Eastern Mediterranean

subjects:
Glass
Greek, eastern mediterranean

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Limestone head of beardless male votary with wreath of leaves

date: mid–3rd century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: The Prince of Tuscany and his chariots arranged around Mount Atlas in center, from "Il mondo festeggiante"

creator: Stefano della Bella

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Bottle with Two Handles

medium: Porcelain with celadon glaze

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Ceramic Fragment

date: 10th–12th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1975


title: Armband

medium: Copper alloy

country: European Bronze Age

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
European bronze age

credit_line: Purchase, The Kurt Berliner Foundation Gift, 2000


title: The Egg-Dance

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, late 16th century

date: late 16th Century

medium: Engraving; first state of two

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


title: Pair of single-light sconces

medium: Walnut, needlework, brass

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


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: Portrait of Christoph Mondragon

creator: Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

date: 17th century

medium: Black chalk, brush and brown wash; incised; tacked down to white board


title: Dish with Drunken Herakles Embracing Two Women

date: 1st century

medium: Schist

country: Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara)

subjects:
Sculpture
Pakistan (ancient region of gandhara)

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


title: Design for a ceiling painted with grotesque motifs

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: 19th century

medium: graphite, pen and ink, watercolor, and gold paint on tracing paper, mounted on wove paper

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Pendant

medium: Jade

country: China

subjects: Jade China

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


title: Rattle

date: late 19th century

medium: Metal, wood

country: Africa (northern)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: second quarter of 5th century BCE


title: [St. Pierre, Caen]

creator: Unknown

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1946


title: Red jasper ring stone

date: 1st century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Jasper, red

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Band

date: first half 19th century

medium: Drawnwork, bobbin lace, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Gherardo, from Scelta d'Alcuni Miracoli e Grazie della Santissima Nunziata di Firenze (Selection of Some Miracles and Graces that Occurred in the Church of the Annunziata in Florence)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Shipyard, Greenwich

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: before 1791

medium: Reed pen and brown ink

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


title: Ring with glass bezel

medium: Gold, glass

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

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


title: Dante Alighieri 1265-1321, Florentine poet

medium: Bronze

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


title: Landscape with a Tower

creator: Thomas Wijck

medium: Brush and gray wash

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1964


title: Kabuki Actor

creator: Torii Kiyonobu I

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Rogers Fund, 1949


title: I hope to prove one day that in the hands of a magpie, a feather is no less valuable than in the claws of a wolf or the legs of a fox, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

creator: J. J. Grandville

medium: Wood engraving


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Side table (one of a pair)

creator: Matthias Lock

medium: Carved gilded pine with modern scagliola top

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Roosevelt Aitken Gift, in memory of Russell B. Aitken; several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts; Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, Francis F. Randolph and Marion E. Cohn Foundation Gifts, and Bequest of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange; and Oscar de la Renta Ltd. Gift, 2007


title: Cape

date: mid-18th century

medium: [no medium available]

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Edward Luckmeyer, 1908


title: Specimen

medium: Needle lace, Point de Gaze

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Time Banished by Truth

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

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

credit_line: Gift of Michael Hall Esq., in memory of Ebria Feinblatt, 2000


title: The Cry of the Stag

creator: Suzuki Harunobu

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1922


title: Scarab Decorated with Crossing Lines

medium: Carnelian


title: Fan Vendor

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print (nishiki-e)

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Button

medium: metal

credit_line: From the Hanna S. Kohn Collection, 1951


title: Strip

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace, point d'Angleterre

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Finial

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Edging

date: 16th century

medium: Bobbin lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: An Arhat, a Buddhist Saint

date: 14th century

medium: Stone with color

country: Tibet

subjects: Sculpture Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Donald J. and Polly Bruckmann, 1994


title: Stove plate with the royal arms of George II

medium: Cast iron

credit_line: Gift of John Stemme, 1910


title: Sèriè à la Ristori

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975


title: Bottle

date: probably 18th–19th century

medium: Glass; mold blown, applied, tooled on the pontil

credit_line: Gift of Rodman Wanamaker, 1919


title: A Lady Walking at Night Holding an Oil Lamp

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Rajasthan, Bikaner)

subjects:
Painting
India (rajasthan, bikaner)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Uzi Zucker, 1977


title: Weight

date: 305 BCE–364 CE

medium: Copper alloy

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. G. W. Neville and Miss Cardwell, 1906


title: Somerindyck House, Bloomingdale Road, from "Scenes of Old New York"

creator: Henry Farrer

medium: Etching

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


title: Cabinet

creator: George A. Schastey & Co.

medium: Rosewood, mahogany, cherry, pine, pewter, brass, and mother-of-pearl

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Barrie A. and Deedee Wigmore, 2015


title: Watch case

medium: Gold, rock crystal, rubies, emeralds

subjects:
Horology
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Papyrus Lids from the Embalming Cache of Tutankhamun

medium: Papyrus fiber

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1909


title: Octagonal dish with flowering plum and magpies

medium: Black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

subjects: Lacquer China

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2011


title: Hines, Right Field, St. Louis Whites, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Coin Weight

date: 11th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Persians, from a set of costume plates of different nations

creator: Johann Wilhelm Baur

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Skeletons of the good defenders

creator: José Guadalupe Posada

medium: Type-metal engraving and letterpress on orange paper

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


title: Satyr and Nymph

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1929


title: Fringe

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Textile Fragment

date: 4th century

medium: Wool, linen; tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1889


title: Gin Lane

creator: William Hogarth

date: February 1, 1751

medium: Etching and engraving; third state of three

credit_line: Gift of Sarah Lazarus, 1891


title: Fantastic Rocky Landscape with a Farmhouse and Three Foot Bridges

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, with some brown wash, over black chalk

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Animal Mace Head

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Stone

country: Jalisco (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Jalisco

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


title: Bottle

medium: Milk glass

credit_line: Gift of John Stemme, 1910


title: Arma Christi

medium: Wool warp;  wool, silk, silver, and gilt wefts

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1952


title: Plate 12: a group of people outdoors including a boy playing a flute, from "Customs and Pastimes of the Spanish People"

creator: Francisco Lameyer y Berenguer

credit_line: Gift of Mrs Henry J. Bernheim, 1958


title: Compote

creator: Adams and Company

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Netsuke

date: 19th century

medium: Ivory

country: Japan

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Key

medium: Iron

country: German

subjects: Metalwork-iron German

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1887


title: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

creator: Francesco Colonna

date: December 1499

medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1923


title: Program for the Evening of April 11, 1891

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: pen and ink, watercolor on wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1950


title: Boy (one of a pair)

creator: Niderviller

medium: Faience (tin-glazed earthenware)

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


title: Collar of Mail

medium: Steel, iron

subjects: Mail German

credit_line: Gift of Prince Albrecht Radziwill, 1927


title: Rattle

medium: bronze

country: Italian (Ancient Roman)

subjects:
Idiophone-shaken-rattle
Italian (ancient roman)

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Jar from the tomb of Sennedjem

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Funds from various donors, 1886


title: King of Diamonds, from Harlequin Cards, 2nd Series (N220) issued by Kinney Bros.

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: first half 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: Gustav Mahler

creator: Auguste Rodin

medium: Bronze

credit_line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998


title: The Horse Armoury in the Tower

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 1, 1800

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Terracotta fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)?

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE


title: Domestic Shaving

medium: Stippled etching


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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Coin (Thaler) Showing John George I, Duke of Saxony

medium: Silver

subjects:
Miscellaneous-coin and medal
German

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1922


title: Old Mission Church, Santa Barbara

creator: Carleton E. Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gift of Carole and Irwin Lainoff, Ruth P. Lasser and Joseph R. Lasser, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Marvin, Martin E. and Joan Messinger, Richard L. Yett and Sheri and Paul Siegel, 1986


title: Strip

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Needle lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Ring with intaglio of Harpokrates

date: 2nd century BCE–1st century CE

medium: gold

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


title: [Francis Danby]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Portrait, after David Teniers the Younger

creator: Jean Jacques de Boissieu

medium: Etching, drypoint, and roulette; third state of three

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of James David Draper, 2000


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: A Young Lady and Her Boy Servant

creator: Tosen

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Bequest of Julia H. Manges, in memory of her husband, Dr. Morris Manges, 1960


title: Poor old chap!, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: January 26, 1869

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

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Hammered Silver Ornament with Repoussé Disks

date: 8th–mid-16th century

medium: Silver (hammered), gilt

country: Peru; north coast (?)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Metal-ornament
Peru; north coast

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


title: Yoga Narasimha, Vishnu's Man-Lion Incarnation

date: 12th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: India (Tamil Nadu)

subjects:
Sculpture
India (tamil nadu)

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


title: Bronze lamp holder

date: 6th century BCE

country: Cypriot

subjects: Bronze Cypriot

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


title: Sheet

medium: Linen, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Part of a flail for a statue

medium: Cupreous metal, glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: English Channel Side-Wheeler, from the Types of Vessels series (N139) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Pelike

medium: Terracotta

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John van Benschoten Griggs, 1946


title: Violin Bow

creator: Dominique Peccatte

medium: Pernambuco, ivory, ebony, mother of pearl, silver, horsehair

subjects: French Chordophone-accessories-bow

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Fernand Vistreich, 1976


title: Grain Serving Vessel (Dui)

date: ca. 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects:
Metalwork
China
Ships & the sea

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Girl's Summer Kimono with Design of Sea Bream and Bamboo

medium: Ikat-patterned plain-weave ramie

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1966


title: The Birds of America from Drawings Made in the United States

creator: John James Audubon

medium: Illustrations: hand-colored lithographs

subjects: Book Birds

credit_line: Bequest of Emma Sheafer, 1974


title: Young Chief, Cayuse Indian

creator: Olin Levi Warner

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick S. Wait, 1906


title: A Siesta in Italy

creator: Henri-Charles-Antoine Baron

medium: Lithograph

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


title: Portraits of Maximilian's Relatives; and The Base of the Right Outer Column with the Date 1515, from the Arch of Honor, proof, dated 1515, printed 1517-18

creator: Albrecht Altdorfer

medium: Woodcut and letterpress

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: Carmelita Requena

creator: Thomas Eakins

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Cushing Fosburgh, 1978


title: The Torpedo Officer (Suirai shikan), frontispiece illustration from the literary magazine Bungei kurabu, vol. 1, no. 8

creator: Kajita Hanko

credit_line: GIft of Lincoln Kirstein, 1959


title: Thickets with Large Leaves, Flowers, Animals,...

medium: Wool warp;  wool wefts with a few silk wefts

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Flowers
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of the late James J. Rorimer, made by his widow Katherine S. Rorimer, 1967


title: Palette for painting of Vizier Amenemopet

medium: Wood, pigments

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pelerine

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York, 1978


title: Garment Clasp

date: 14th–15th century or earlier

medium: Gold

country: Visayas

subjects: Metal-ornament Visaya

credit_line: Gift of F. William L. Villareal, 1994


title: Valance

date: first half 18th century

medium: Silk, wool, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Bequest of Walter Carlebach, 1969


title: Mlle Rousseau

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

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


title: Ring with Square Bezel

date: Second half of the 8th–second half of the 10th century

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Terracotta drinking cup with two handles

date: ca. 550 BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Hunting jacket

date: late 19th century

medium: wool, silk, metal

credit_line: Gift of Jessie Leonard Hill, 1979


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape


title: Sheet with red diamond and zigzag pattern

creator: Anonymous

date: 18th century

medium: Relief print (wood or metal)

subjects:
Ornament & design
Print

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Outer coffin of Senebtisi

medium: Coffin: cedar, paint, gold leaf; Eye panel: gold leaf over stucco, travertine (Egyptian alabaster) and obsidian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Vase

date: early 18th century

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Textile Fragment

date: early 19th century

medium: Linen, silk; plain weave, embroidered

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Death and Bonaparte, The Two Kings of Terror

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 1, 1814

medium: Hand-colored etching; second issue

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


title: Bead

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1934


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: ca. 20 BCE–25 CE

medium: Terracotta

country: Roman

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Bush Warbler (Uguisu) in a Plum Tree

creator: Sakai Hōitsu

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

subjects: Painting Japan Trees

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015


title: Scarab

medium: Jasper

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


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: Valentine

medium: Cameo-embossed, open-work lace paper, colored paper,  die-cut scraps, ink

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Model dish

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Corset

medium: Cotton, metal, bone

subjects:
American
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of E. A. Meister, 1950


title: "Diving Dipper and Other Birds", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

creator: Mansur

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

subjects: Codice Birds

credit_line: Purchase, Rogers Fund and The Kevorkian Foundation Gift, 1955


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: Bronze elliptical leaf, perhaps a waist ornament

date: 5th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Etrucan, Vulci

subjects:
Ornament & design
Bronze
Etrucan, vulci

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Landscapes after Song and Yuan masters

creator: Lan Ying

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

country: China

subjects: Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: The Sackler Fund, 1970


title: Trumpet

creator: Mochica

medium: terra cotta

country: So. America, Peru

subjects: Aerophone-lip vibrated-trumpet / trombone

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Sword with Scabbard Mounts

date: 6th century

medium: Iron, gilt copper, silver

country: probably Japanese

subjects:
Sword
Probably japanese

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1932


title: Plaque from a Reliquary Shrine

medium: Champlevé enamel on gilded copper

subjects: German Enamels-champlevé

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Large Jar

medium: Pottery decorated in polychrome enamels (Agano ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


title: Desdemona (The Song of the Willow)

creator: Théodore Chassériau

medium: Oil on wood

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019


title: Insertion

date: 19th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1909


title: Seated Sibyl and Attendant Genius (recto); Study of the Head of a Horse in Profile (verso)

creator: Pirro Ligorio

medium: Red chalk on beige paper (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)

credit_line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1962


title: Card Number 223, Mlle. Hartwig, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) 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: Mold for Jewelry

medium: Clay, heavy white metal

credit_line: Gift of Sir Purdon Clarke, 1907


title: Opera Nova Universali intitulata Corona di racammi, page 38 (verso)

creator: Giovanni Andrea Vavassore

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Suit

medium: silk, cotton

country: British

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1966


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Sauce-tureen

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Design for knife handle to commemorate a marriage

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Miniature Vessel

creator: Middle Niger artist

date: 12th–16th century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Middle Niger civilization

subjects:
Metal-container
Middle niger civilization
Ships & the sea

credit_line: Bequest of John B. Elliott, 1997


title: Netsuke of Old Man with a Fan

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910


title: Figure Lime Spoon

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Copper

country: Inca

subjects: Metal-implement Inca

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


title: Conoid stamp-cylinder seal with monsters

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Variegated red and yellow Steatite

country: Urartian

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Vladimir S. Littauer Gift, 1980


title: Gold ring

date: 1st half of 6th century BCE

medium: Gold

country: Cypriot

subjects:
Gems
Cypriot
Minerals & gems

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


title: Ariadne, Cupid and Bacchus

creator: Francesco Bartolozzi

medium: Etching and engraving; fourth state of four

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Nine Guardian Kings

creator: Unidentified artist

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

subjects: Painting China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Needle, 1957


title: Glass Fragment

date: 13th–14th century

medium: Pot metal glass

country: European

subjects: Glass-stained European

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: St. Peter's Church at Walpole, Norfolk

creator: Anonymous, British, 18th century

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Netsuke of a South Sea Islander


title: Salt spoon (?)

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


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

medium: Iron, copper alloy (sentoku), gold, silver, copper

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Bookbinding

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1929


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Vulcan Presenting Arms for Aeneas to Venus from a set of The Loves of the Gods

creator: François Boucher

date: Designed 1749; Woven 1754

medium: Wool, silk (23-25 warps per inch, 9-10 per cm.)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Gift of Dr. Ernest G. Stillman, 1922


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: From the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 5) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes


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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Inscribed Stele

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Sandstone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Gold and pearl earring

date: 1st century CE

medium: Gold, pearl

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

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


title: Stamp seal

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

medium: Lapis lazuli

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

credit_line: Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1985


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Figure Dish

creator: McKee and Brothers

medium: Pressed opaque white glass

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Winter Morning on the Quai de l'Hôtel Dieu

creator: Félix-Hilaire Buhot

medium: Etching, drypoint, and aquatint; eleventh state of fifteen

credit_line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966


title: Seitei’s Picture Album of Birds and Flowers (Seitei Kachō gafu)

creator: Watanabe Seitei

date: [colophon page missing, but probably later printing of 1903 edition?]

medium: Woodblock printed book (Japanese-style binding); ink and color on paper

subjects:
Illustrated book
Japan
Birds
Flowers

credit_line: Gift of Anita V. Beenk, 2016


title: Orphan sampler

medium: Silk on cotton

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


title: Table ornament in the form of a monster

creator: The Saracchi, Milan

date: ca. 1575–1600, mounts with diamonds late 19th century

medium: Rock crystal, enameled gold mounts, set with diamonds and rubies

subjects:
Ornament & design
Minerals & gems
Natural substances-rock crystal

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Glass Fragment of a Devil

medium: Pot-metal glass, vitreous paint, and lead

subjects: Glass-stained French

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: A Study

creator: Julia Margaret Cameron

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1941


title: Riding coat

medium: silk, goat hair

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Alan S. Davis Gift, 1976


title: Silhouette of an unknown man in a top hat and tails

creator: William Henry Brown

medium: Cut paper against a lithographic background

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Martin, 1938


title: Qing  (磬 )

date: mid 18th century

medium: jade with incised gilding

country: Chinese

subjects: Idiophone-struck Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2016


title: Anklet, One of a Pair

medium: Gold

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1915


title: Little Imogene Washburn, 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: Eccentric Anthropomorph

medium: Copper

country: India

subjects: Metalwork India

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


title: Osiris

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Darius Ogden Mills, 1904


title: A catalogue of blue and white Nankin porcelain : forming the collection of Sir Henry Thompson

creator: Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet

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


title: Mug

creator: Richard Gurney

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Alphonso T. Clearwater, 1933


title: Blade

medium: Stone

country: Ghassulian

credit_line: Purchase, H. Dunscombe Colt Gift, 1978


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Madonna and Child

creator: Johann Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Knolle

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Alice C. Taft, Hope Smith, Marianna F. Taft, Helen Head, and Brockholst M. Smith, 1945


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

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


title: L'Homme Vue de Dos Avec une Grande Épée (Man Seen from Behind with a Large Sword), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1940


title: Vase

medium: Porcelain with turqoise-blue glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

country: China

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Roger Connor, New York Giants/Gothams, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Margherita, from Scelta d'Alcuni Miracoli e Grazie della Santissima Nunziata di Firenze (Selection of Some Miracles and Graces that Occurred in the Church of the Annunziata in Florence)

medium: Engraving; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: Vertical panels with garland

creator: Jacques Germain Soufflot

date: designed 1758–67, woven 1764–71

medium: Wool, silk (22-24 warps per inch, 9–10 per cm.)

credit_line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958


title: Two Oiran with Two Female Attendants in the Yoshiwara

creator: Chōbunsai Eishi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Mrs. J. Watson Webb, 1930


title: Mechanical watch

medium: Gold, enamel, diamonds

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Creamer

medium: Pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Emily Winthrop Miles, 1946


title: Terracotta fragment of an oinochoe (jug)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE


title: Creampot

creator: Paul Revere Jr.

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frank V. Burton, 1967


title: View of University Park looking towards New College, Oxford

creator: William Turner of Oxford

date: after 1825

medium: Watercolor over graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2000


title: Design for 2 seat Phaeton, no. 3043

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Marble portrait of the Empress Faustina the Younger, wife of the emperor Marcus Aurelius

medium: Marble

country: Roman

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Roman
Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Shelby and Leon Levy, 1986


title: Mountain Sketch (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: Fob

medium: silk, metal

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Two pikemen walking towards the right, each with their pikes in their right hands, plate 13 from "Various Figures" (Agréable diversité de figures)

creator: Stefano della Bella

medium: Engraving; undescribed state between second and third of five

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Marble diskos

date: 6th century BCE

subjects:
Stone sculpture
Greek, attic

credit_line: The Bothmer Purchase Fund, 1985


title: Heraldic panel

date: 16th century

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Verso of a Sheet with Philip the Belle, from "The Genealogy of Emperor Maximilian I"

creator: Hans Burgkmair

medium: Woodcut; first state of two (Hollstein)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Piece

date: second half 15th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1946


title: Bathers in a Wooded Landscape

creator: Donato Creti

medium: Pen and two shades of brown ink

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Terracotta fragments of a kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Makron

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Ane attaché à une charette

creator: Unknown

medium: Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946


title: Piece

medium: Silk and cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Plate with engraving

medium: Copper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Afternoon ensemble

medium: silk, abalone

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. A. L. Eaton, 1939


title: Courtiers in a Rose Garden: A Lady and Two Gentlemen

medium: Wool warp; wool, silk, metallic weft yarns

country: South Netherlandish

subjects:
Costume & fashion
South netherlandish
Roses
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Curtain Knob

medium: Lacy pressed glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Adoration of the Magi Triptych Panel

medium: Wood with tempera, polychromy, and gilding

country: German

subjects: Sculpture-wood German

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Tray for a dessert basket

creator: Worcester factory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1894


title: A "Watership" Carrying Water for Salt Works and Another One Carrying Water for the Breweries

creator: Reinier Nooms, called Zeeman

date: 17th century

medium: Etching; second state

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Qur'an Juz' XXVII

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Gold, ink, and opaque watercolor on paper with a stamped leather binding

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2022


title: Miss Barrie, from the Actresses series (N669) promoting Big Four Cigars

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Kabuki Actor Nakamura Shikan Backstage (Nakamura Shikan rakuya no zu)

creator: Juyōdō Toshikuni 壽陽堂歳国

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2011


title: Inscribed Stele

date: 3rd–12th century

medium: Sandstone; incised

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Jar

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Passementerie

date: 19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming


title: Saint Matthew

creator: Johann Georg Libigo

date: late 17th–early 18th century

medium: Linden wood, gilded and polychromed

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1962


title: Piece


title: A Votive Picture to Be Donated to the Kannon of Asakusa (Asakusa Kannon hō kakegaku no zu), by Takigawa of the Ōgiya, Kamuro Menami and Onami, with Tomikawa, Kumegawa, Tamagawa, Tsugawa, Utagawa, and Kiyokawa

creator: Kitagawa Kikumaro

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Village Scene with Figures

creator: Jan van Ravenswaay

medium: Watercolor over black chalk; framing lines in pen and gray ink

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006


title: The Descent from the Cross, from "The Little Passion" (copy)

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Watch

creator: Nicolas Massy

medium: Leather, gold

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Young Shoot of Bamboo

creator: Totoya Hokkei

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

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


title: Earring with nail head pendant, 12

medium: Gold

subjects:
Gold and silver
Cypriot

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


title: Okhta Milkmaid

creator: Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


title: The Death of Saint Anne

creator: Andrea Scacciati

medium: Etching with brown wash

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Strip

medium: Needle lace, point d'Alençon

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1879


title: Two Angels with a Peapod

creator: Master HL

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1929


title: Cup

medium: White porcelain with designs in relief (Hirado ware)

subjects: Ceramic Japan

credit_line: Gift of Charles Stewart Smith, 1893


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 14th–15th century

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

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Erbstein (1757–1836)

creator: Anton Scharff

medium: Nickel

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


title: Ceramic Vessel in the Form of a Seated Man

date: 6th–13th century

medium: Ceramic

country: Rio Napo

subjects:
Rio napo
Ceramics-container
Ships & the sea

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


title: Plate 65 from "Los Caprichos": Where is mom going? (Donde vá mamá?)

creator: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)

medium: Etching, aquatint, drypoint

credit_line: Gift of M. Knoedler & Co., 1918


title: Balustrade fragment

medium: Wood, gilt

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Xian Ying Ji

date: 20th century

medium: Ink on paper

subjects: Rubbing China

credit_line: Seymour and Rogers Funds, 1977


title: Cabriolet Sleigh  #3891

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Graphite with red crayon details (on sweep below ground line)

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Bottle

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot


title: Cylinder seal

date: ca. 15th–13th century BCE

medium: Hematite

country: Mitanni

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


title: Red jasper amulet of tyet

medium: Jasper, red

country: Egyptian

subjects:
Gold and silver
Egyptian


title: Weehawken from Turtle Grove

creator: William James Bennett

medium: Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

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


title: Block from an Arch with a Cross

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Sandstone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Cassone

date: second half 16th century

medium: Walnut


title: Plate 20: Wolf, from "Various animals" (Diversi animali)

creator: Anonymous, 17th century

date: after 1641

medium: Etching; reverse copy

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Figure of Girl playing Tsuzumi

medium: Porcelain decorated with colored enamels (Hizen ware, Kutani type)

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


title: Cup with cover

medium: Nephrite, white with very light greenish tint

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Ewer

creator: Franchi and Son

date: 19th century, after 1617–18 original

medium: Silver on base metal

credit_line: Purchase, 1873


title: Fox and crow in a group

creator: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Iron horse bit

date: ca. 550 BCE

medium: Iron

country: Etruscan

subjects: Miscellaneous-iron Etruscan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1903


title: Tureen, plateau, and cover

creator: Louis-Joseph Lenhendrick

date: 19th century, after 1769 original

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Chessmen (32) and box

medium: Olive wood; leather, glass

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Sketch of Two Children

creator: William Pitts

medium: Pen and brown ink

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


title: Silver statuette of a draped lady

date: ca. 1st–2nd century A.D

medium: Silver

subjects:
Gold and silver
Roman

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Dwarf

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Schloss, 1985


title: Kohl stick (?)

medium: Wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Ensemble

medium: silk

credit_line: Gift of Kate C. Lefferts, 1973


title: Yang Guifei Playing a Flute

creator: Kano Tsunenobu

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

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


title: Salad Plate

creator: Union Porcelain Works

medium: Porcelain

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


title: Mahasiddha Damarupa

date: 18th century

medium: Distemper on cloth

country: Tibet

subjects: Painting Tibet

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1931


title: The "John Horn" Medal

creator: Charles E. Barber

medium: Bronze

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


title: Terracotta fragments of skyphoi (deep drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: After a Few Days of Seige with the French Army, Francesco I d'Este Takes Prossession of Mortara, The Last of his Great Victories, from "L'Idea di un Principe ed Eroe Cristiano in Francesco I d'Este, di Modena e Reggio Duca VIII [...]"

creator: Bartolomeo Fenice (Fénis)

medium: Etching

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


title: Design for Panelled Ceiling with Figures and Carving

creator: John Gregory Crace

date: 19th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black and brown ink

credit_line: Dodge and Fletcher Funds, 1967


title: Terracotta fragment of an amphora (jar)


title: The Descent of Man into the Vale of Death, from "The Grave," a Poem by Robert Blair

creator: William Blake

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Portrait of Louis XIII

creator: Simon Vouet

medium: Black and white chalk with touches of pastel on light brown paper

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and Stephen A. Geiger Gift, 2012


title: Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: parts of two female attendants (see 26.3.353-1)

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Michel Le Masle

creator: Robert Nanteuil

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

credit_line: Gift of Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Samuel Finley Breese Morse

creator: Horatio Greenough

date: 1831; cast probably 1928?

medium: Painted plaster

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Egyptian Revival Triptych

creator: Sarah Freeman Clarke

date: 1874 or after

medium: Oil on canvas, ebony stained pine, gold leaf, velvet

credit_line: Gift of Noah L. Butkin, 1978


title: Filling a Tub, from "Elles"

creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

medium: Crayon, brush and spatter lithograph printed in five colors on wove paper

credit_line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949


title: Pillage et Incendie d'un Village (Looting and Burning of a Village), plate 7 from "Les Misères et les Mal-Heures de la Guerre" (The Miseries and Misfortunes of War)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; first or second state of three (Lieure)

credit_line: Bequest of Edwin De T. Bechtel, 1957


title: Stamp

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: The Annunciation; on the left the archangel Gabriel approaches the praying Virgin Mary in her bedchamber, over her head a dove representing the Holy Ghost, in the sky above a figure of God the Father, from "The Passion of Christ", after Dürer

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Engraving; second state of three

credit_line: Gift of Henry Walters, 1917


title: Dress

medium: wool, silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Purchase, Irene Lewisohn Bequest, 1984


title: Shell with traces of blue paint

date: 7th–10th century

medium: Shell; lapis lazuli pigment

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Shells & molluscs
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Fan leaf depicting a couple and butterflies

creator: Henri Patrice Dillon

medium: Lithograph printed in black, red, and white

subjects:
Print
Butterflies & moths

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938


title: Low cabinet (meuble à hauteur d'appui) (one of a pair)

creator: André Charles Boulle

date: late 18th century

medium: Oak and pine veneered with ebony and marquetry of tortoiseshell, brass, and pewter; gilt bronze; Porto marble

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1974


title: “Jūmantsubo Plain at Fukagawa Susaki,” from the series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

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

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Spartan Soldier

creator: Charles Nègre

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Harriette and Noel Levine Gift, 2005


title: Turkey, from the Natives in Costume series (N16) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Scarab

medium: Steatite

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Inlay, hieroglyph

medium: Faience


title: Collar

date: late 19th century

medium: Applied

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of David Dows, 1952


title: Cup

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: The Vision of Joan of Arc

creator: Eduard Jakob von Steinle

medium: Graphite, brush and gray wash; framing lines in graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013


title: Landscapes and botanical subjects

creator: Hongwu

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

subjects: Botany Painting China Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Matthew J. Edlund, 2024


title: String of Beads

medium: Carnelian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Ensemble

medium: silk, cotton

country: French

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Russell Atwater Jr., 1949


title: Part of a tabernacle frame

date: late 16th century

medium: Poplar. Yellow bole, red and blue color.

country: Flemish, Antwerp (?)

subjects:
Frame
Flemish, antwerp

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Sword guard (<i>Tsuba</i>) With the Motif of Plovers and Waves (波千鳥図鐔)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Tile

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of W. R. Valentiner, 1908


title: Abbey Gateway, Tewkesbury; Figure from Tomb at Great Malvern (verso)

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963


title: Niagara

creator: John Thomson

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


title: Bronze mirror

date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Praenestine

subjects: Bronze Praenestine

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1896


title: Head of Buddha

date: mid-8th century

medium: Limestone with traces of pigment

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Gift of Cornelius von Erden Mitchell and William Mitchell Van Winkle, 1930


title: Figure: Head

creator: Temne or Bullom artist(s)

date: 16th century (?)

medium: Steatite (?)

country: Temne or Bullom

subjects:
Stone-sculpture
Temne or bullom

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


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


title: Still Life with Cake

creator: Raphaelle Peale

medium: Oil on wood

country: American

credit_line: Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1959


title: Andiron

creator: Niccolò Roccatagliata

date: 17th century or later

medium: Copper alloy with a warm brown patina under a partly worn dark brown to black patina, cast in three segments.


title: Cup (part of a service)

creator: J. Spode

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Rev. W. P. Eigenbrodt, 1894


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Four Wheel Game Wagon  No. 4193

creator: Brewster & Co.

medium: Pen and black ink, watercolor and gouache

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Design for a Box-lid

creator: Hubert François Gravelot

medium: Pen and brown ink over graphite underdrawing

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1944


title: Portrait of Muramatsu Sandayu Takanao

creator: Utagawa Kuniyoshi

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan Portraits

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: Fragment of a Bowl

date: 9th century

medium: Earthenware; opaque white glaze, splashed polychrome glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


title: Theuriet. Jean Baptiste. 30 ans, né à Lyon. Gérant-coiffeur. Anarchiste. 2/3/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


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

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Trooper of the Plains

creator: Frederic Remington

date: 1908, cast before 1939

credit_line: Bequest of Jacob Ruppert, 1939


title: Large Cover with Four Trees of Life Inhabited by Rabbits and Birds

date: 4th–5th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile
Birds
Trees

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes: Lip cup (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: Girl Feeding Pigs

creator: Richard Westall

medium: Watercolor

credit_line: Gift of Regina Slatkin, 1955


title: Plate (Assiette à palmes) (1 of 102) (part of a service)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

credit_line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934


title: Coffret

date: 15th century

medium: Leather, (stamped and tooled) with polychromy, metal fittings

subjects: Leatherwork French

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Netsuke of Boar

date: 19th century

medium: Wood

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Porta d'entrata alla ruine de Persepolis

creator: Luigi Pesce

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Kay Gregory, 1967


title: Standing Man Holding a Lance

creator: Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg

medium: Etching

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