title: Shoe buckles

medium: Metal

country: probably British

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Arturo and Paul Peralta-Ramos, 1954


title: Percussion Longrifle

creator: Benjamin J. Kough

medium: Wood (maple), iron, steel. brass, silver

country: American, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania

subjects: American, huntingdon county, pennsylvania

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: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr. Gift, 2020


title: [John Pettie]

creator: John and Charles Watkins

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Rockaway #3104

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: The Creation of Durga: Page from a Dispersed Markandeya Purana: (Stories of the Sage Markandeya)

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India (Punjab Hills, Guler)

subjects:
Painting
India (punjab hills, guler)

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Findlay, 1978


title: Bowl with cover

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Cake Box in Three Tiers

medium: Faience, the sides pierced (Raku ware)

country: Japan

subjects: Ceramic Japan

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


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

date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Collar

medium: Cotton

country: American

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: Belt Buckle with Bovine

date: 3rd–2nd century BCE

medium: Gilded bronze

country: North China

subjects:
Metalwork
North china

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


title: Portrait

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass-painted Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1909


title: Terracotta fragment of an open shape

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek, South Italian?

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian


title: Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees

date: ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium BCE

medium: Chlorite

subjects:
Ornament & design
Palms
Trees

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Terracotta siphon

date: 6th century BCE

country: Greek, Boeotian

subjects:
Vase
Greek, boeotian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1957


title: Armor plates

date: ca. late 8th–late 7th century BCE

medium: Iron

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1959


title: Scenes from the Winter's Tale

creator: William Shakespeare

medium: Illustrations: color lithographs

credit_line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1978


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: late 5th/early 4th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan


title: Sample

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of F.J. Schaetzel, 1919


title: Clock, from the Novelties series (N228, Type 3) 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 kylix (drinking cup)

creator: Euaion Painter


title: Abram Harding "Hardy" Richardson, Left Field, Detroit Wolverines, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Trapeze, Flying Jump, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: View of Lake Como

creator: Francis Towne

medium: Pen and brown ink and watercolor

credit_line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2016


title: The Corrupt Judge

creator: Battista Angolo del Moro

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrenn, 1941


title: Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

creator: Eugène Cicéri

medium: Graphite, brush and violet wash, and gouache

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


title: Spouted water container (He

date: 11th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: Badge or Harness Pendant

date: 14th century

medium: Copper, gold, enamel

country: Spanish

subjects: Miscellaneous-badge Spanish

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1904


title: Osiris Shroud

date: ca. 125 CE

medium: Linen, paint

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. S. W. Straus, 1925


title: Dan-l. Lambert the Wonderful Great Pumpkin of Little Brittain [sic]

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Glass hemispherical bowl

date: 2nd–mid-1st century BCE

country: Greek

subjects: Glass Greek

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Anna Palmer Draper, 1915


title: Terracotta fragment of a bowl

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fragment

date: 18th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

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


title: Plate 27: Tomb of the three Curiatii brothers in Albano (Sepolcro delle tre fratelli Curiati in Albano), from "Alcune Vedute di Archi Trionfali ed altri monumenti inalzati da Romani parte di quali se veggono in Roma e parte per l'Italia" (Some Views of Triumphal Arches and other monuments erected by the Romans, some of which are in Rome and some elsewhere in Italy)

creator: Giovanni Battista Piranesi

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: Twenty-four-light chandelier (lustre) (one of a pair)

medium: Gilt bronze, rock crystal

subjects:
Metalwork-gilt bronze
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1971


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 5th century BCE


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Pitcher

date: 19th century

medium: Lustreware

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


title: Plate 14: Vendor of old clothes

creator: Simon Guillain II

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


title: Plaque with face of the demon Humbaba

medium: Ceramic

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Gift of E. S. David, 1955


title: The Triumph of Chastity from The Triumphs of Petrarch

creator: Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Massar Gift, 1986


title: Cœnotaphiorum (16)

creator: Hans Vredeman de Vries

medium: Etching; first state of four

credit_line: Purchase, Phyllis D. Massar Gift, 2011


title: Engaged Column Shaft

date: late 12th century

medium: Marble

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1925


title: Elvira

creator: Pierre-Louis Pierson

medium: Gelatin silver print

credit_line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1947


title: Banjo

medium: Wood, various materials.

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


title: Gabbeh

date: late 19th century

medium: Wool (warp, weft and pile); symmetrically knotted pile

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-rug

credit_line: The James F. Ballard Collection, Gift of James F. Ballard, 1922


title: Fan

medium: Mother-of-pearl, paper, gouache, metal

country: probably Spanish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of George Arents in memory of Annie Walter Arents, 1949


title: Double Spout Bottle, Felines

date: 2nd century BCE–1st century CE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Topará

subjects: Topará Ceramics-container

credit_line: Gift of Nathan Cummings, 1962


title: Base for a Cross

date: 11th century

medium: Copper alloy, cast, filed, reamed, and scraped

country: Byzantine

subjects:
Metalwork-copper alloy
Byzantine

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1962


title: Box (one of a pair) (part of a toilet service)

creator: Jean-Baptiste Boullemer

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Jar with a frieze of stylized animals

medium: Ceramic, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1928


title: Vase

creator: United States Pottery Company

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: The Generous Virtue Study

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: Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right

creator: Domenico Fossati

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash over traces of graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971


title: Four fragments of Orphrey Bands Made into a Panel

date: 16th or 17th century

medium: Silk; metal; paper;linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Spanish
Textiles-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Drapery Tieback

medium: Opalescent glass

credit_line: Gift of Harvey Smith, 1983


title: Proposition concernant le payement et la police des troupes du roy, qui produira à Sa Majesté une finance de six millions deux cens soixante mille livres inventée et proposée par le baron de Sparre, circa 1740

creator: Padeloup

credit_line: Gift of Jayne Wrightsman, 2008


title: Figure of a supernatural creature

date: ca. 8th–7th century BCE

medium: Ivory

country: Iran

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1951


title: Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre

medium: Limestone, paint

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


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: J. Spode

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

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


title: Commode Table and Candlestands, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

creator: Thomas Chippendale

medium: Black ink, gray ink, gray and brown wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Printed Book of the Text for A Long Tale for an Autumn Night (Aki no yo no nagamonogatari)

date: dated 1642

medium: Printed book of the text of the same tale in 56 pages; ink on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Purchase, Funds from various donors, by exchange, Fletcher Fund and Dodge Fund, 2002


title: Terracotta rim fragment of a skyphos (deep 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: Naues Mercatoriæ Hollandicæ per Indias Occidentales (Dutch West Indiaman)

creator: Wenceslaus Hollar

medium:
Etching; first or second state of two, the plate shows wear and the sheet is cut
where the number would have appeaered

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Blossoming Cherry Trees

creator: Sakai Hōitsu

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

subjects: Painting Japan Trees

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


title: Design for a Monumental Fountain

creator: A. Le Canu

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


title: Buckle

medium: Brass

country: possibly Italian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Miscellaneous-buckle & ornament
Possibly italian

credit_line: Gift of Bashford Dean, 1920


title: Chessmen (32)

date: late 18th century

credit_line: Gift of Gustavus A. Pfeiffer, 1948


title: Stencil with Pattern of Waves

medium: Paper reinforced with silk

subjects:
Ornament & design
Stencil
Japan

credit_line: Gift of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, 1953


title: Fragment of a wall decoration with a reclining youth

date: ca. 6th century CE

medium: Stucco

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Bowl

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

credit_line: Bequest of James T. Woodward, 1910


title: Pouch

date: early 18th century

medium: silk, metal, pearls

country: Russian

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: Afternoon dress

creator: House of Worth

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the Princess Viggo in accordance with the wishes of the Misses Hewitt, 1931


title: Portrait of Giovanni Antonio Santarelli

creator: Giovanni Battista Dell'Era

medium: Black and red chalk

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2012


title: Vase

medium: Jade

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Alfred W. Hoyt Collection, Bequest of Rosina H. Hoppin, 1965


title: Fragment

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

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


title: Vienne, St. Colombe

creator: Edouard Baldus

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, painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Pier Glass Frames, in Chippendale Drawings, Vol. I

medium: Black ink, gray ink, gray wash

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Farm Workers, Most Baling Hay; Leaning Woman, Bust Length (from Sketchbook)

creator: Thomas Sully

medium: Ink, wash, on paper

country: American

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Portrait of a Woman

creator: baron Antoine Jean Gros

medium: Black chalk with stumping

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Sperling Fund, Jean A. Bonna Gift, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, and Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2014


title: Knife Handle (Kozuka)

medium: Copper-silver alloy (shibuichi)

subjects:
Sword furniture-kozuka
Japanese

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


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: Bed curtain border

date: first quarter 19th century

medium: Drawnwork, embroidery, bobbin lace, linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Ella C. Woodward Memorial Fund, 1931


title: Piece

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V facing right

creator: Anonymous, Italian

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1993


title: Ornamental Lancet Heads

medium: Pot-metal and colorless glass with vitreous paint

country: Austrian

subjects:
Ornament & design
Glass-stained
Austrian

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1968


title: Portrait of Emperor Shennong

creator: Kano Tan'yū

medium: One from a set of three hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan Portraits

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


title: Piece of a dress border

date: first half 18th century

medium: Silk on silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1955


title: Ceiling

date: 16th century

medium: Wood; carved, painted, and gilded

credit_line: Gift of The Hearst Foundation, 1956


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

date: 18th century

medium: Steel

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Cuffs

date: late 17th century

medium: linen

country: probably Flemish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of the executors of the estate of Clara M. Blum in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Blum, 1966


title: Plate 1: a peasant checking the hoof of his mule by a stream, from 'Landscapes in the manner of Salvator Rosa' (Die Landschaften in Sal. Rosa's)

creator: Franz Joachim Beich

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Landscapes Roses

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed


title: Disk Brooch

date: late 6th–early 7th century

medium: Gold, copper alloy, iron pin, glass paste, glass paste cabochons

country: Frankish

subjects: Metalwork-gold Frankish

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Madame Decca, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Collar

date: 19th century

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Samuel S. Howland, 1906


title: Bottle

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Glass, metal

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1883


title: Drum

date: 500 BCE–300 CE

medium: Bronze

country: Indonesia

subjects: Metalwork Indonesia

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


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Terracotta fragment of a bowl

date: 4th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

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


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Triumphal arch, from 'Éloges et discours sur la triomphante réception du Roy en sa ville de Paris ...' by Jean-Baptiste de Machault

creator: Melchior Tavernier

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


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

creator: Allen & Ginter


title: Le Général Washington

creator: Noël Le Mire

medium: Etching and engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Charles Allen Munn, 1924


title: Tobacco box

medium: Brass

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


title: Standing boy

creator: Andrea Mantegna

date: late 15th–early 16th century

medium: Bronze, silver inlay (eyes), on a later porphyry and ormolu base


title: San Lorenzo, Library, Ricetto, portal from cloister, elevation; plan (recto) San Lorenzo, Library, Ricetto, portal from cloister, section; details (verso)

creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century

date: early to mid-16th century

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

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


title: Glass flask

date: ca. 3rd century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

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


title: Coin

date: dated 364 AH/974–75 CE

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1939


title: Hand

medium: Indurated limestone

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1957


title: Spear

date: 17th century

medium: Iron

country: Indian

subjects:
Shafted weapon
Indian

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


title: Spoon

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Small oval box with cover (one of a pair)

creator: Johann Martin Satzger I

medium: Silver gilt

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


title: Bead

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Faience, glaze

credit_line: Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1961


title: Paperweight

medium: Nephrite, white with very light greenish tint

country: China

subjects: Jade China

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Okitsu

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1914


title: Flower vase (cuvette Mahon)

creator: Sèvres Manufactory

medium: Soft-paste porcelain

subjects: Ceramics-porcelain Flowers


title: Terracotta fragment of a closed shape

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic


title: Sealing

medium: Clay (unfired)

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


title: Hurlacher (recto) and Rappold (verso) Families, from "Bericht und anzeigen aller Herren Geschlecht der loblichen Statt Augspurg"

creator: Christoph Weiditz

date: mid-16th century

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Votive Bed

medium: Pottery, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1931


title: Foliated dish with bats amid clouds

date: late 18th century

medium: Cloisonné enamel

subjects: Cloisonné China

credit_line: Bequest of Edward G. Kennedy, 1932


title: David with the head of Goliath

creator: Marcantonio Raimondi

medium: Etching with engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Watch

medium: Metal, enamel

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: A Dell, Helmingham Park, Suffolk

creator: David Lucas

medium: Mezzotint on chine collé; progress proof

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


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

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Goblet with cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Amelia B. Lazarus, in the name of Miss Emilie Lazarus, 1895


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


title: Latch Lock, Key, and Catch

medium: Wrought iron

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1949


title: Miniature Painted Bowl

date: 15th–early 16th century

medium: Ceramic, slip, pigment

country: Mexica (Aztec)

subjects:
Mexica (aztec)
Ceramics-container

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Tempio d'Ercole

creator: Giovanni Battista Altadonna

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Cup and Saucer

creator: Tucker Factory

medium: Porcelain

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1963


title: Necklace

date: probably 19th century

medium: glass, teeth, cotton, bone

subjects:
Indian
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Untitled

creator: Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching, before first state

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1939


title: Incense burner

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Dress

medium: cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick M. Godwin, 1953


title: Hood

medium: silk, cotton

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. D. Chester Noyes, 1950


title: [Two Plumbers in Overalls]

creator: Unknown

medium: Tintype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Seated Male with Vajra

date: 10th–11th century(?)

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Sculpture
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Block from an Arch with a Rosette

date: 6th–7th century

medium: Sandstone; carved in relief

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1910


title: Mercatoris Belgae Eiusque Coniugis Vestitus, from Fashions of Different Nations

creator: Pieter de Jode I

medium: Engraving; first state of two

credit_line: Gift of Isaiah and Lola B. Gellman, 2009


title: Ear Ornament

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

medium: Gold

subjects:
Ornament & design
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: The Scotch Ostrich Seeking Cover

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Etching

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


title: Terracotta rim fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Falcon surmounting box for an animal mummy

medium: Cupreous metal

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1915


title: View of Svenarum in the Province of Småland, Sweden

creator: Jacob Philipp Hackert

medium: Brush and gray and brown wash, over faint indications in black chalk; framing lines in pen and black ink

credit_line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff Gift, 1981


title: Tracery and Church Ornament

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite and watercolor

subjects:
Ornament & design
Drawing

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


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: late 6th century BCE


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: Woman's Informal Robe

date: late 19th–early 20th century

medium: Silk, metallic thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stefan Wolynski, in memory of her mother, Fania B. Sonin, 1979


title: Plate 9: The Pulley: a man and a woman conversing to right, a lantern hung on a post to left, from "Les soirées de Rome"

creator: Hubert Robert

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


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

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE


title: Jubilee Relief of Ramesses II

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905


title: Card Number 111, Miss Brush, 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: Scabbard slide

date: 3rd century BCE

medium: Jade

credit_line: Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1916


title: Crochet Work

date: 19th century

medium: Crochet

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Soldiers Around a Monument

creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Pair of medallions

date: first half 18th century

medium: Carved, painted and gilded wood

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Knot of ribbon

date: 18th century

medium: Gilded wood


title: Fringe

date: 18th century (?)

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


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

date: early 5th century BCE


title: Jar with Cut Maguey Leaves

date: 2nd century BCE–3rd century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Colima

subjects: Colima Ceramics-container

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


title: Bed curtain, fragment from a border

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered


title: Head of a Boy

creator: Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula

date: 15th century

medium: Metalpoint

credit_line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2008


title: Funerary Cone the Wab-Priest Aakheperkareseneb

medium: Pottery

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Jérusalem. Chapelle protestante et environs

creator: Louis de Clercq

date: 1860 or later

medium: Albumen silver print from paper negative

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


title: Frame

medium: Carved and gilded wood


title: A Horse Being Eaten by a Lion

creator: Théodore Géricault

medium: Lithograph; fourth state of four

credit_line: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed, 1950


title: Textile Fragment

date: 5th century

medium: Wool, linen; plain weave, tapestry weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Tile

medium: Delftware (tin-glazed earthenware)

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1927


title: Dish (coppa)

medium: Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware)

country: Italian, Gubbio

subjects:
Italian, gubbio
Ceramics-pottery


title: Glassmaking Mold

medium: Plaster-of-Paris

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1962


title: A female Saint

creator: Geoffroy Dumoûtier

date: 16th century

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937


title: From the Girls and Children series (N64) promoting Virginia Brights Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Design for a Clock

creator: Henri-Charles-Antoine Baron

date: mid-19th century

medium: Pen and brown and gray ink, brush and brown wash, with graphite underdrawing

credit_line: The Rogers Fund, 1966


title: Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

creator: Muhammad al-Zanjani

date: dated 531 AH/1137 CE

medium: Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper

credit_line: Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and Rogers Fund, 1996


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes (drinking cups)

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Plinth

medium: Wood, gilt


title: Dish

date: late 12th–early 13th century

medium: Stonepaste; glazed and luster-painted

credit_line: Bequest of Charles K. Wilkinson, 1986


title: Design for Pediment with Two Heraldic Crests, Lions and a Crown

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Graphite, pen and black ink, brush and gray wash.

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


title: Barbe

medium: Brussels lace, point d'Angleterre

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


title: Copper Pin

date: before 16th century

medium: Copper (cast)

country: Peruvian

subjects: Metal-implement Peruvian

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


title: Frontispiece, from "Variae tum Passionis Christi tum vitae beatae Mariae Virginis; Les Mystères de la Passion suite appelée aussi Mystères de la Vie de Jésus et Mystères de la Vie de Jésus et de la Vie de la Ste. Vierge" (The Mysteries of the Passion, also called the Mysteries of the Life of Jesus, and the Mysteries of the Life of Jesus and of the Virgin)

creator: Abraham Bosse

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Card Number 610, Lillian Baldwin, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-3) 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: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Pea Pods

creator: Okatomo

date: late 18th century

medium: Ivory

subjects: Netsuke Japan

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


title: Box

medium: Silver, silver gilt, enamel, moss agates

subjects:
Metalwork-silver in combination
Mosses & lichens

credit_line: Bequest of John L. Cadwalader, 1914


title: Armchair (fauteuil à la reine) (part of a set)

creator: Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot

medium: Carved and gilded beech; wool and silk tapestry

credit_line: Purchase, Martha Baird Rockefeller Gift, 1966


title: James H. "Jim" Devlin, Pitcher, St. Louis Browns, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company


title: Bronze navicella-type fibula (safety pin)

date: 8th century BCE

medium: Bronze

subjects: Bronze Etruscan

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Netsuke Basket

date: 19th century

medium: Bamboo

subjects: Basketry Japan


title: Ostrakon

date: 7th century

medium: Limestone with ink inscription

country: Coptic

subjects: Miscellaneous-stone Coptic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)


title: Scent bottle

medium: Enameled copper

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Marine, Spain, 1853, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Reverse ripple frame

date: late 17th to early 18th century

medium: Pine

country: Southern Italy (?)

subjects:
Frame
Southern italy

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Tea bowl

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Stoneware with golden-black hare's fur glaze (Tenmoku ware?)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Gift of Alan L. Wolfe, 1966


title: Necklace

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Jar with lid

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Bail Handle

medium: Brass


title: Delivery Entrance of Palais des Beaux Arts at the Exposition Universelle of 1855

creator: Eyre Crowe

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

credit_line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967


title: Parallel Bar, Handspring, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes


title: Franconi, Twirling Flaming Cones

creator: Abraham Louis Rodolphe Ducros

medium: Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and white gouache

credit_line: Purchase, Harry G. Friedman Bequest, 1967


title: Walking dress

medium: wool, silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of Emily Parker Schuette and Frances Parker Washburn, 1979


title: New Modelbüch allen Nägerin u. Sydenstickern (Page 12v)

creator: Hans Hoffman

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1930


title: Portrait of Franklin, after Vanloo

creator: Pierre Michel Alix

medium: Color aquatint, proof before letters

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Gift of William H. Huntington, 1883


title: Spittoon

creator: William Savage

medium: Pewter

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Stephen S. FitzGerald, 1962


title: Dagger

date: 1st millennium BCE (?)

country: Iran

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1956


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

date: second quarter of the 5th century BCE

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


title: Terracotta statuette of a siren

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Purchase, Renée E. and Robert A. Belfer Gift, 2000


title: Terracotta stamnos (jar)

creator: Barclay Painter

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Terracotta vase in the form of two cockle shells

date: 4th century BCE

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic
Shells & molluscs

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1941


title: Piece

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Earring with head of lions

medium: Gold

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Persian Gazelle, from the Wild Animals of the World series (N25) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes

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


title: Boyle, Pitcher, Indianapolis, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Lid with a Lion attacking a Bull

date: 12th century

medium: Earthenware; molded decoration, unglazed

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Viscera Figure of Imseti

medium: Wax

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H. R. Chamberlain, 1906


title: Landscape at Saint-Ouen

creator: Georges Seurat

medium: Oil on wood, mounted on wood

subjects: Painting Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Bernice Richard, 1980


title: Sample

medium: Textiles-Woven

credit_line: Bequest of Maria P. James, 1911


title: Plate

creator: Francis Bassett, I

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, in memory of her husband, 1941


title: Dish

date: 17th–18th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze painted

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Socks

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Louise M. Coleman, 1941


title: Comforts of Bath, Plate 8

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 6, 1798

medium: Hand-colored etching and aquatint

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


title: Galloon

medium: Metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-trimming

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Landscape

creator: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford

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

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1963


title: "She Turned her Face to the Window" (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. V)

creator: Winslow Homer

medium: Wood engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933


title: Two Angels or Winged Genii Carrying Torches

creator: Battista Franco

medium: Etching and engraving


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

date: 6th/5th centuries BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: William Beckford (1709–1770)

creator: Robert Sayer

medium: Enamel on copper

credit_line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964


title: Magical Figure

medium: Clay (unfired)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1933


title: Inrō with Auspicious Characters

date: late 18th–early 19th century

medium:
Seven cases; lacquered wood with silver hiramaki-e on gold ground
Netsuke: bone; lacquer and maki-e chestnut
Ojime: silver bead

subjects:
Inrō
Japan
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Design for a Cabinet with Glass Side Doors and Porcelain Plaques

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Graphite, watercolor and scratching on gray ground


title: Pendant in the form of a Latin Cross

date: late 19th–20th century (Byzantine style)

medium: Gold, emeralds

country: Byzantine style

subjects:
Metalwork-gold
Byzantine style

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1991


title: Lamp

date: 3rd–8th century

medium: Earthenware; molded

credit_line: Gift of Theodore M. Davis, 1914


title: Admiral, Norway, from the Naval Flags series (N17) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Commercial color lithograph

subjects:
Print
Ships & the sea

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


title: Murphy, Yale University, from the College Football Stars series (N302) for Mayo's Cut Plug Tobacco

creator: P.H. Mayo & Brother, Richmond, Virginia

medium: Commercial lithograph


title: Reclining mouflon

medium: Marble

country: Indus

credit_line: Purchase, Anonymous Gift and Rogers Fund, 1978


title: View Near Jessup's Landing (No. 3 of The Hudson River Portfolio)

creator: John Rubens Smith

medium: Aquatint printed in color with hand-coloring; second state of two (Koke)

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


title: The Four Angels Holding the Winds, from "The Apocalypse", German Edition

creator: Albrecht Dürer

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985


title: Battle Ground of Resacca, Georgia No. 2

creator: George N. Barnard

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Pfeiffer and Rogers Funds, 1970


title: Sherd

date: ca. 3rd–7th century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Sasanian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1932


title: Chamber candlestick

creator: Robert Hennell II

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Louise and David Braver, 2006


title: Heqanakht Papyrus Fragments

medium: Papyrus, ink

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


title: Miss Anna Sutherland as "Queen," from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Glass bead

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: Masonic Lodge and Church. Singapore

creator: John Thomson

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


title: Belt hook in the shape of a monkey

date: 1st–3rd century

medium: Gilt bronze

country: China

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Border

date: 18th century

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Ann Payne Blumenthal, 1936


title: Leaf from Aedes Walpolianae mounted with two prints: (a): The Loves of Venus and Adonis; (b): The Loves of Venus and Adonis

creator: Benoit Audran the Elder

date: before 1741

medium: Engraving and etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925


title: Box with Courting Couples

date: 14th century

medium: Elephant ivory with modern iron and cardboard mounts

country: French

subjects: French Ivories-elephant


title: Amerapoora: Wooden Bridge

creator: Linnaeus Tripe

date: September 1–October 21, 1855

medium: Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors, and Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2012


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; incised

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

medium: Silk on linen

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: The Painter

creator: Adriaen van Ostade

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of John J. Glessner III, 1948


title: Piece

date: early 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-velvet

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1940


medium: Terracotta

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


title: Fragment

medium: Glass, ceramic

country: European or Middle Eastern

subjects:
Glass-vessel
European or middle eastern

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


title: Castel Fusano—Near Rome

creator: William Stanley Haseltine

medium: Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on blue wove paper

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Roger Plowden, 1967


title: Miniature Tunic

date: 12th–13th century

medium: Cotton, feathers

country: Ica

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Ica
Textiles-featherwork

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


title: Creamer

creator: Jacob Frederic Granander

date: early 19th century

medium: Silver

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Ewer with Repeated Arabic Phrase, "Blessing"

date: 10th century

medium: Earthenware; black slip with white slip decoration under transparent glaze

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1953


title: Madame Guillaume Guillon Lethière, née Marie-Joseph-Honorée Vanzenne, and her son Lucien Lethière

creator: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

medium: Graphite

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


title: Oval sealing with one circular seal impression

date: ca. 18th century BCE

medium: Un-baked clay

country: Old Assyrian Trading Colony

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, in memory of George D. Pratt, 1936


title: Cameo of Hercules set in ring

date: cameo: probably late 18th century

medium: 18k gold, chalcedony cameo

credit_line: Bequest of Emmanuel and Janine Metz, 2023


title: Textile Fragment

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Linen and silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Valentine

creator: Anonymous

medium: Cameo-embossed open-work lace paper, chromolithography, die-cut scrap

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Miniature toilet box (one of a pair)

creator: Pierre François Rigal

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Pilgrim's Badge

date: 14th–16th century

medium: Lead

subjects: Metalwork-lead French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1977


title: Pair of Standing Nude Male Figures Demonstrating the Principles of Contrapposto according to Michelangelo and Phidias

creator: Auguste Rodin

credit_line: Gift of Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, 1987


title: Vase

medium: Parian porcelain

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


title: Madame la Comtesse de Boufflers and Thérèse

creator: Louis de Carmontelle

medium: Pencil, black and red chalk, watercolor with white chalk highlights

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


title: Mirror

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Bronze

subjects: Mirror China

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1936


title: Au Bon Marché-Comptoir des Modes, Chapeaux de Paille de Fantaisie, Éte 1890

medium: Wood engraving

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


title: Block of relief

medium: Limestone, paint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: Souvenir spoon

date: late 19th century

medium: Gilt and enamel

credit_line: Gift of Sir William H. Redding, in memory of his wife, 1908


title: Mosque Lamp

date: late 16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted and glazed

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Gemel flask

date: 18th century

medium: Free-blown glass

credit_line: Bequest of Helen Hay Whitney, 1944


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

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

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


title: Jar, water

medium: Pottery, marl C

credit_line: Gift of Peter Sharrer, 2003


title: Jug with Floral Decoration

date: second half 12th–13th century

medium: Stonepaste; underglaze slip-painted

subjects: Ceramic Flowers

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1970


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Flowering Peonies (obverse) Cat Biting into Peony Stem (reverse)

date: 19th century

medium: Lacquer, kinji, gold, silver, red and coloured hiramakie, takamakie, inlaid eyes; Interior: fundame

country: Japan

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


title: Fragment

medium: Embroidered net

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


title: Glass beaker with cut decoration

date: 4th–early 5th century CE

medium: Glass

country: Roman

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Smith Fund, 1913


title: Document Sealing With Multiple Seal Impressions

medium: Mud

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911, 1912


title: Hip-joint armchair (sillón de cadera or jamuga)

date: 15th or 16th centuries (textiles); late 15th or early 16th centuries (chair)

medium: Walnut, ivory, mother-of-pearl, pewter; red silk cut velvet, linen.

country: Spanish (Granada?), Hispano-Moresque, Italian (textiles)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Woodwork-furniture


title: Armorial panel

medium: Stained glass

credit_line: Bequest of George D. Pratt, 1935


title: Study for "A charm for democracy, reviewed, analyzed, and destroyed January 1, 1799" (recto and verso)

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)

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


title: Plaque with Adoration of the Shephards

creator: Monvaerni

date: 15th century

medium: Painted Enamel, copper

subjects: French Enamels-painted

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1945


title: Design for Ceiling with Cherubs

creator: Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise

date: second half 19th century

medium: Graphite, watercolor, and gouache

credit_line: Dodge Fund, 1967


title: Smith and Wesson .38 Caliber Double-Action Revolver, serial no. 70002

creator: Smith & Wesson

medium: Steel, nickel, silver

country: American, Springfield, Massachusetts and New York

credit_line: Gift of Gerald Klaz, M.D., Trustee - The Gerald Klaz Trust, 2003


title: Mme. Recamier, from Leaders series (N222) issued by Kinney Bros.

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Mud jar sealing

medium: Clay, mud

credit_line: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1912


title: Beaker (one of a pair)

date: dated 1605

medium: Lead-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1962


title: Bowl

date: ca. 1st century CE

medium: Ceramic

country: Nabataean

credit_line: Gift of the American Expedition to Petra, 1967


title: Piece

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1915


title: La Pratique de l'Aiguille, page 39 (recto)

creator: Matthias Mignerak

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Immortal Poet

creator: Kano Shōun

date: 17th century

medium: Unmounted shikisi leaf; ink and color on silk

subjects: Painting Japan

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Samuel Isham, 1914


title: Le Goût du Jour ou Des Chinois du Boulevard Coblentz, from "Caricatures Parisiennes"

creator: Aaron Martinet

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Beaker

creator: Chimú artist(s)

medium: Silver

country: Chimú

subjects: Metal-container Chimú

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


title: Table knife

medium: Steel, base metal

credit_line: Gift of R. Stuyvesant, 1893


title: Adze

medium: Wood, bronze or copper alloy, leather

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


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

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Compartmented stamp seal

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

medium: Copper alloy

country: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

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


title: Caius Marius and the Cimbrian Soldier (Plutarch, "Marius," 39; Lucan, "Pharsalia," XI, 75-86)

creator: Johann Heinrich Lips

medium: Outline engraving and etching

credit_line: Gift of Jenny Philippsohn, in memory of Siegfried Philippsohn, 1955


title: Flower Vendor

creator: Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

medium: Etching with some engraving

subjects: Print Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Jambhala, God of Riches

date: 9th–10th century

country: Sri Lanka, Anuradhapura

subjects:
Sculpture
Sri lanka, anuradhapura

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


title: Barbe

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Mary A. Witthaus, 1901


title: Empress's Summer Coat

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Costumes-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of Gene Ulmann, 1955


title: Cast Earring with Ruby

date: 8th–12th century

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Central Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (central java)

credit_line: Gift of the Eilenberg-Rosen Partnership, 2001


title: Shabti of Petosiris, son of Djedhor

medium: Faience

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1902


title: Vegetable dish with cover (part of a service)

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


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

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


title: Pierre's Return or The Soldier's Vacation

creator: Hippolyte Bellangé

date: possibly 1829

medium: Lithograph

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


title: Caricatured Austrian, 1 Ducat, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 1) for Duke brand cigarettes

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Commercial color lithograph


title: Paris Grippé, from Croquis Parisiens, published in Le Charivari, February 1, 1858

creator: Honoré Daumier

date: February 1, 1858

medium: Lithograph on newsprint; second state (Delteil)

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


title: Drinking and Composing Poetry

creator: Yao Shou

date: dated 1485

medium: Handscroll; ink on paper

subjects: Painting China

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


title: Roundel with the Temptation of Saint Anthony

medium: Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain

country: German

subjects: Glass-stained German

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1982


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

creator: Allen & Ginter

subjects: Print Birds


title: Head of Ptah

credit_line: Bequest of Nanette B. Kelekian, 2020


title: Piece

date: 18th–19th century

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Wine Cup

date: 18th century

medium: Nephrite

country: India

subjects: Jade India

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Portrait of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and The Dauphin

creator: Augustin de Saint-Aubin

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Anonymous Gift, 1924


title: Vase fragment

medium: Terracotta

country: East Greek/Sardis, Lydian

subjects:
Vase
East greek/sardis, lydian

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


title: Fan

date: late 19th century

medium: Lace, pink satin, feathers, paper; ivory

credit_line: Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948


title: Helmet

date: 14th–17th century

medium: Iron, gold, silver, turquoise

country: probably Mongolian

subjects:
Helmet
Probably mongolian

credit_line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2002


title: Keokuk, Sac and Fox, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N2) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands


title: When the Swallows Homeward Fly / A Tough Chick, from the Jokes series (N118) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco


title: Dish

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

country: Spanish

subjects: Ceramic Spanish

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1956


title: Terracotta oinochoe (jug)

creator: Knudsen Group

country: Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Canosan

subjects:
Vase
Greek, south italian, apulian, canosan

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1971


title: Wall in the Grand Cañon

creator: Timothy H. O'Sullivan

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986


title: Statuette of a man

date: 5th–4th century BCE

medium: Bronze

country: Italic

subjects: Bronze Italic

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Leather Shoe with Gilded Decoration

date: 4th–7th century

medium: Leather; gilded

credit_line: Gift of George F. Baker, 1890


title: Arlie Latham, 3rd Base, St. Louis Browns, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph

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


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company


title: Lauffenbourgh on the Rhine, part VI, plate 31 from "Liber Studiorum"

creator: Joseph Mallord William Turner

date: January 1, 1811

medium: Etching and mezzotint; first state of six (Finberg)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1928


title: [Morrell]

creator: Maurice Stadtfeld

medium: Albumen silver print

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


title: Two Cupids Wrestling Pan (Pan Vancu par les Amours)

creator: Antoine Coypel

medium: Etching; first state of two


title: Scissors

medium: Steel, gold; cast and damascened

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2022


title: Sample

date: mid-19th century

medium: Mohair

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Gift of Everfast Industries Inc., 1971


title: Piece

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Censer

medium: Silver gilt

credit_line: Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964


title: Ancestor Figure (Konumb or Atei)

date: 19th century

medium: Wood, paint

country: Kopar people

subjects:
Wood-sculpture
Kopar people

credit_line: The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1972


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: American

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979


title: Coin Weight

date: 12th century

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1908


title: Patrick "Pat" E. Dealy, Catcher, Washington Nationals, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes


title: Two Women Wearing Coats

creator: Anonymous, French, 19th century

medium: Steel engraving with hand coloring

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. H.J. Bernheim, 1958


title: Tumbler

creator: New England Glass Company

medium: Blown, pattern-molded glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Purchase, The Dietrich Foundation Inc. Gift, 1983


title: Piece

medium: Bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

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


title: Ornamento delle belle & virtuose donne, page 8 (recto)

creator: Matteo Pagano

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Edging

date: 16th century

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Cup

medium: Gold plate

country: Scythian

subjects: Scythian Reproductions-metalwork

credit_line: Purchase, 1885


title: Oinochoe

medium: Terracotta

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: Custard cup with cover and tray

creator: Royal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

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


title: Study for frontispiece for "Les Jeunes France" by Theophile Gautier

creator: Félicien Rops

medium: Graphite and ink

credit_line: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Albert Broccoli, 1979


title: Man and Young Woman with a Ball

creator: Kitagawa Utamaro

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Shaffron (Horse's Head Defense)

medium: Steel

country: German, probably Nuremberg

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-shaffron
German, probably nuremberg

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Archery equipment-arrowhead
Japanese

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


title: Jewel coffer on stand (petit coffre à bijoux)

creator: Martin Carlin

medium: Oak veneered with tulipwood, sycamore, holly, and ebonized holly; gilt bronze, soft-paste porcelain, velvet (not original)

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


title: [Cabriolet Carriage]

creator: Alphonse Le Blondel

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Flagellation of Christ

creator: Stefano Mulinari

medium: Etching and aquatint in brown ink

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953


title: Dress

medium: mull

country: French

subjects:
Costume & fashion
French

credit_line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1917


title: Peeples, Catcher, Brooklyn, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco (mortar); carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


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

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Hollow-Base Projectile Point

medium: Flint

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Jérusalem, Mosquée d'Omar, côté ouest

creator: Auguste Salzmann

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

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


title: Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Woodcutter

creator: Hon'ami Kōetsu

date: 18th or early 19th century

medium: Gold maki-e on black lacquer with mother-of-pearl inlay

subjects: Lacquer Japan


title: Tubular Bead

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Maya

subjects: Maya Beads-ornament

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: Helmet

medium: Hide, cane, lacquer, ivory (boar)

country: Singpho, Burma

subjects:
Helmet
Singpho, burma

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: Comforts of Bath, Plate 10

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

date: January 6, 1798

medium: Etching

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


title: Card Tricks

creator: Pierre Louis Surugue

medium: Etching and engraving; second state of two

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


title: Terracotta fragments of kylikes: Band or lip cups (drinking cups)

date: third quarter of the 6th century BCE

medium: Terracotta


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.


title: Terracotta rim fragments of stemless kylikes (drinking cups)?


title: Page from a Dispersed Kalpa Sutra (Jain Book of Rituals)

date: 15th century

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

country: India (Gujarat)

subjects:
Painting
India (gujarat)

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1955


title: Head of the Buddha

creator: Thai

date: late 18th–19th century

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

country: Thai

subjects: Metalwork Thai

credit_line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975


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

date: late 6th century BCE


title: Crown Prince and Attendants, Palace Courtyard

creator: John Thomson

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


title: Plate (part of a set)

medium: Tin-glazed earthenware

credit_line: Bequest of Mrs. Jean Mauzé, 1977


title: Lock

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Iron

country: European

subjects: Metalwork-iron European

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1955


title: Scarab Inscribed Hatshepsut United with Amun

medium: Egyptian blue

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1927


title: Table

medium: Walnut, pine

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Screven Lorillard, 1952


title: The Portico of a Country Mansion

creator: Hubert Robert

medium: Oil on canvas

credit_line: Bequest of Lucy Work Hewitt, 1934


title: Ladle (one of a pair)

creator: Isacq Samuel Busard

medium: Silver

credit_line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1992


title: "The Awakening of Kumbhakarna in the Golden City of Lanka", Folio from a Ramayana

medium: Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

credit_line: Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2002


title: Horse Tack Ornament

date: 2nd–3rd century

medium: Copper alloy

country: Roman-Germanic

subjects:
Ornament & design
Equestrian equipment-horse trapping
Roman-germanic

credit_line: Gift of Stephen V. Grancsay, 1942


title: Brick fragment with a guilloche design

date: ca. 9th century BCE

medium: Ceramic, glaze

country: Assyrian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1954


title: Base from a Purification Brazier

date: 15th–17th century

medium: Iron damascened with gold and silver

country: Tibet, probably Derge

subjects:
Metalwork
Tibet, probably derge

credit_line: Gift of Shirley Day, in memory of Anthony Gardner, 1992


title: Jasper intaglio: Standing Anubis

date: 2nd century CE

medium: Jasper, green

country: Roman

subjects:
Gems
Roman
Minerals & gems

credit_line: Gift of Miss Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Amduat Papyrus Inscribed for  Tiye

medium: Papyrus, ink

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1925


title: Stucco Fragment

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Terracotta fragments of a lekythos (oil flask)

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

country: Roman, Cypriot

subjects:
Terracotta
Roman, cypriot

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


title: "Zal is Restored to his Father Sam by the Simurgh", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1969


title: Ce qui nous prouve comme quoi il est... inutile..., from Croquis Dramatiques, published in Le Charivari, May 23, 1857

creator: Honoré Daumier

medium: Lithograph; second state of two (Delteil)

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


title: Console table

creator: Richard de Lalonde

medium: Carved and painted oak; white marble top

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Annunciation

creator: Johann Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011


title: Piece

date: late 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven


title: Design for Wallpaper "L'Innocent Badinage, or Boys at Play"

creator: Paul Sandby

medium: Etching

credit_line: Gift of Kee Il Choi Jr. and Svjetlana Kabalin, in cherished memory of their friend, Walter Liedtke, 2015


title: Design for Pony Phaeton, no. 3423

creator: Brewster & Co.

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

credit_line: Gift of William Brewster, 1923


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta


title: Slippers

medium: silk

country: British

credit_line: Gift of Estate of Mrs. Robert B. Noyes, 1943


title: Falcon inlay

medium: Faience, Paste

credit_line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926


title: Raised relief fragment

medium: Limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1923


title: Tankard

creator: Thomas Hamersley

medium: Silver

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Isaac Gibson Jaffray, in memory of her husband, 1898


title: St. Philip, from "Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed"

creator: Hendrick Goltzius


title: Edging

date: early 19th century

medium: Knitted lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Margaret Taylor Johnstone, 1908


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

creator: William S. Kimball & Company

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Armchair

date: late 17th century

medium: Carved and gilded wood; wool and silk Aubusson tapestry covers

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1929


title: From the Actresses series (N57) promoting Our Little Beauties Cigarettes for Allen & Ginter brand tobacco products

creator: Allen & Ginter

medium: Photolithograph


title: Fragment

date: 19th century

medium: Needle lace

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


title: 13th Bengal Lancers, Ind. Cont., Engalnd, 1879, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes

creator: Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company


title: Cuneiform tablet: record of payment for oxen, Ebabbar archive

date: ca. 562 BCE

medium: Clay

country: Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1886


title: Aeneas carrying Anchises on his shoulders while Troy burns in the background

creator: Master of the Die


title: Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 8 (recto)

creator: Federico de Vinciolo

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1939


title: Landscape with Mercury

creator: Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée)

subjects: Print Landscapes

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1962


title: Apollo Sauroktonos

date: 18th–19th century

medium: Bronze

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


title: Minoan body sherd

medium: Pottery

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


title: St. Jude Thaddaeus, from "Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed"

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Brunet. Felix. 21 ans, né le 21/2/73 à Paris XVe. Peintre en voiture. Anarchiste. 7/7/94.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Hungarian Infantry, Austria, 1886, from the Military Series (N224) issued by Kinney Tobacco Company to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Spoon

medium: Platinum

credit_line: Gift of Alexis and Nicholas Kugel, 1998


title: Fan

medium: Wood, paper, metal

country: possibly Spanish

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Emily T. Clay and Ellen Thomas, 1961


title: Gemma pretiosa della virtuose donne, page 19 (recto)

creator: Isabella Catanea Parasole

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


title: Piece

date: 18th century


title: Seated Kubera

date: 12th century(?)

country: Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)

subjects:
Sculpture
Nepal (kathmandu valley)

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


title: Chest

medium: Red pine, elm, willow

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. J. Insley Blair, 1945


title: Valentine - Mechanical - Cupid and Target

creator: Anonymous, British, 19th century

medium: Heavy card stock, chromolithography, narrow red ribbon, red string, red bead

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Richard Riddell, 1981


title: Page from a Scrapbook containing Drawings and Several Prints of Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Other Objects

creator: Charles Percier

medium: Pen and black and gray ink, graphite, black chalk

subjects: Architecture Album

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


title: Fragment

date: 16th–17th century

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


title: Piece

country: Japan

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Bronze relief of a veiled woman riding a sea-goat

date: 4th century BCE

country: Greek

subjects: Bronze Greek

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1925


title: Celt

date: before 16th century

medium: Stone

country: Maya (?)

subjects: Stone-implement Maya

credit_line: Bequest of Arthur M. Bullowa, 1993


title: New Künstlichs Modelbuch (Page 13 recto)

creator: Bernhard Jobin

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Pine Groves of Miho in Suruga Province

creator: Utagawa Hiroshige

medium: Woodblock print; ink and color on paper

subjects: Print Japan

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


title: Figure of Attendant Deity

medium: Mud, gilded and painted

country: China

subjects: Sculpture China

credit_line: Bequest of Gilbert H. Montague, in memory of Amy Angell Collier Montague, 1961


title: Pilaster

date: 16th century

medium: Wood, gold leaf

country: Italian or French

subjects:
Architecture
Woodwork-architectural
Italian or french

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1907


title: Stamp seal (oval conoid) with cultic scene

date: 7th–6th century BCE

medium: Banded and flawed neutral Chalcedony (Quartz)

country: Assyro-Babylonian

credit_line: Purchase, 1893


title: Gold glass base of a beaker

date: 3rd century CE

medium: Glass, gold

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1928


title: Funerary Cone of the Wab-Priest Amenemhab

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


title: Raising of Lazarus (Reverse Copy)

creator: Abraham Bloemaert

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


title: Bracelet

subjects: Bronze Roman

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Wine Warmer (Jiao)

date: 13th–12th century BCE; cover, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), possibly 19th century

subjects: Metalwork China

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1943


title: The Lime-Burner (W. Jones, Lime-Burner, Thames Street)

creator: James McNeill Whistler

medium: Etching and drypoint, black ink on fine ivory laid paper; second state of two (Glasgow)

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917


title: Architectural Capriccio: Courtyard of a Palace (recto); Saint Aloysius Gonzaga Holding a Crucifix (verso)

creator: Francesco Guardi

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

subjects: Architecture Drawing

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1937


title: Fork

medium: Steel, bone

subjects:
American
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Charles K. Bassett, 1926


title: Para (ou Parra). Henri. 38 ans, né le 16/5/56 à Paris Ve. Camelot. Anarchiste. 4/9/94.

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Ars moriendi 'Cum da praesentis exilii miseria mortis transitus' (Arte del ben morire)

creator: Domenico Capranica

medium: Printed book with twelve full-page woodcuts

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: S. Tite, évêque (St. Titus, Bishop), January 4th, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Saintes de L'Année" (Images of All of the Saints and Feast Days of the Year)

creator: Jacques Callot

medium: Etching; second state of two (Lieure)

credit_line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917


title: Piece

medium: Silk / Compound weave

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


title: Sealing

medium: Clay

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


title: Cover

medium: Glass

credit_line: Gift of Zita Spiss, in memory of her father, Julius Triger, 1990


title: Piece

creator: Lazareff

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of George D. Pratt, 1930


title: Eurus, 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: Panel with a Phoenix and Birds in a Rock Garden

date: late 16th–early 17th century

medium: Silk and metal thread tapestry (kesi)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
China
Birds
Textiles-tapestrie

credit_line: Seymour Fund, 1960


title: Jungle Knife (Parang) with Sheath

medium: Wood

country: Malayan

subjects: Knive Malayan

credit_line: Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935


title: The Virgin Mary

creator: Germain Pilon

medium: Gilt bronze

credit_line: Gift of Lois and Anthony Blumka, in honor of Olga Raggio, 1998


title: Small Dish

date: 15th–16th century

medium: Stoneware with cobalt underglaze

country: Vietnam

subjects: Ceramic Vietnam

credit_line: Gift of Betty and John R. Menke, 1991


title: Female bust in an oval medallion draped with a garland (one of a pair)

creator: French Painter

medium: Oil on canvas

subjects:
Ornament & design
Paintings-decorative

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906


title: Standing figure

date: 7th–8th century

medium: Earthenware with traces of pigment

subjects:
Tomb pottery
China

credit_line: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1913


title: Pieces (4)

date: 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1924


title: Mortar

date: 14th century

medium: Bronze; chiseled, applied decoration, originally gilted

credit_line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

country: Greek, Attic

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Scarab Finger Ring Inscribed for Hatshepsut

medium: Gold, glazed steatite


title: Cup with sail boats

date: late 18th century

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

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Purchase by subscription, 1879


title: Domed Pavilion

medium: Ink on fabric

country: India, Company School

subjects:
Painting
India, company school

credit_line: Gift of Subhash Kapoor, in memory of his parents, Smt Shashi Kanta and Shree Parshotam Ram Kapoor, 2008


title: Basin with Lotus Decoration

date: 11th–12th century

medium: Porcelain with carved and incised decoration under ivory glaze (Ding ware)

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


title: Case (Inrō) with Design of Daruma (obverse); Panel with Inscription (reverse)

date: 19th century

medium: Lacquer, roiro, black hiramakie, takamakie, incised, coloured pottery inlay; Interior: roiro and fundame

subjects: Inrō Japan

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


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

creator: Goodwin & Company

medium: Albumen photograph


title: Portrait of the Artist

creator: George P. A. Healy

subjects: American Portraits

credit_line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1891


title: Glass mosaic fragment

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

medium: Glass

country: Roman

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


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Piece

date: 18th century

medium: Silk / Compound weave

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Japan
Textiles-woven

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


title: Gulian Ludlow

creator: John Ramage

medium: Watercolor on ivory

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Cross-Section and Elevation of the Funeral Monument for General François Séverin Marceau (1769–1796)

creator: Anonymous, French, 18th century

medium: Pen and black ink, brush and gray, brown, and pink wash, heightened with white

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1968


title: Service of Thanksgiving for Recovery of Prince of Wales medal

creator: Joseph Shepherd Wyon

medium: Bronze

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


title: Pair of casters

creator: Joseph Ward

medium: Silver

credit_line: Bequest of Mary Strong Shattuck, 1935


title: Bobbin

medium: Wood and plastic

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-method and material

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


title: Terracotta oil lamp

date: 1st half of 1st century CE

subjects: Terracotta Roman

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


title: Clinton Ogilvie

creator: Paul Wayland Bartlett

medium: Marble

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Clinton Ogilvie, 1920


title: The Monkey Leader Angada Steals Ravana's Crown from His Fortress: Folio from the Siege of Lanka series

creator: Manaku

medium: Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

country: India, Punjab Hills, kingdom of Guler

subjects:
Painting
India, punjab hills, kingdom of guler

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1919


title: Incised Painted Bowl

date: 5th–2nd century BCE

medium: Ceramic, pigment

country: Paracas

subjects: Paraca Ceramics-container

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


date: mid-5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

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


title: Charles II de Gonzague-Clèves, duc de Mantoue

creator: Robert Nanteuil

medium: Engraving

credit_line: Gift of Mr. Lev Tsitrin, 2001


title: Satirical drawing:  Artist Painting an Old Lady's Portrait

creator: Pietro Antonio Novelli

medium: Pen and gray ink, brush and gray wash, and gray, brown, red, blue, yellow and green watercolor.  Framing lines in pen and brown ink

subjects: Drawing Portraits

credit_line: Bequest of Harry G. Sperling, 1971


title: Six Studies of a King for an Adoration

creator: Anonymous, Italian, Venetian, 16th century

date: 16th century

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash

credit_line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1956


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

medium: Etching and hand coloring (watercolor)

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Print

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


title: Sample

date: early 19th century

medium: Silk and metal thread on felt

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-embroidered

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: View of the Quarries at Cervara

creator: Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny

medium: Pen and brown ink over traces of graphite

credit_line: Purchase, Kristin and Gary Friedman and Karen and Edward Friedman Gifts, in memory of Matthew Rutenberg, 2021


title: Flounce

medium: Needle lace, gros point lace, bobbin lace

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-lace

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. William H. Bliss, 1923


title: Platter and Rack

medium: Porcelain

country: Chinese, for American market

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


title: A Phantasmagoria; — Scene – Conjuring-Up an Armed-Skeleton

creator: James Gillray

date: January 5, 1803

medium: Hand-colored etching

subjects:
Print
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Gift of Philip van Ingen, 1942


title: Panel with Christ Before the High Priest

date: early 16th century

medium: Oak

country: French

credit_line: The Cloisters Collection, 1950


title: Chariot group

country: Cypriot

subjects: Terracotta Cypriot


title: Button or Bead

date: 9th–10th century

medium: Bone; tinted, incised, and inlaid with paint

subjects:
Ivorie and bone
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1938


title: Panel

medium: Cotton

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-printed

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Small rimmed bowl

medium: Fossiliferous limestone

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1912


title: Noh Costume (Karaori) with Pattern of Fans Floating on Water

medium: Twill-weave silk brocaded with silk and metallic thread

country: Japan

subjects:
Ornament & design
Costume & fashion
Costume
Japan

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


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

creator: W. Duke, Sons & Co.

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: Petticoat

medium: [no medium available]

country: American

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. E. V. Anderson, 1943


title: Juglet

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Cypriot

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


title: Fan

date: mid-19th century

medium: Paper, gilt, mother-of-pearl

credit_line: Gift of Mrs. Thomas Hunt, 1933


title: Winter Landscape with Skaters on a Frozen Canal

creator: Vincent Jansz. van der Vinne

medium: Watercolor over black chalk

subjects: Drawing Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, Katherine Mondadori Gift, 2002


title: Obelisk Grave Monument, No. 84

creator: Alexander Maxwell

medium: Graphite

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: Glass jug

date: 1st century CE

medium: Glass

subjects: Glass Roman

credit_line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917


title: The Open Door

creator: William Henry Fox Talbot

date: before May 1844

medium: Salted paper print from paper negative

credit_line: Gift of Jean Horblit, in memory of Harrison D. Horblit, 1994


title: Portrait of the Duke of Alva, from a Series of Tazza Designs

creator: Theodor de Bry

medium: Engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

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


title: Pitcher

medium: Free-blown colorless and amber glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1920


title: Miniature meiping vase

date: early 18th century

medium: Porcelain with crackled glaze (Jingdezhen ware)

subjects: Ceramic China

credit_line: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


title: Landscape after Li Bai's poem

creator: Ike no Taiga

medium: Pair of two-panel screens, originally sliding-door panels; ink on paper

subjects: Painting Japan Landscapes

credit_line: Purchase, The Charles Engelhard Foundation Gift, 1987


title: Coin

date: ca. 7th–8th century CE

medium: Copper

country: Islamic

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1936


title: Terracotta alabastron (perfume vase)

date: late 7th–early 6th century BCE

country: Etruscan

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Purchase, 1896


title: 秋草に鹿図鐔 Sword Guard (<i>Tsuba</i>)

creator: 紫原壽良画 Murasakibara Toshiyoshi

date: 19th century

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

country: Japanese

subjects:
Sword furniture-tsuba
Japanese

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


title: Amulet of Two Birds on a Neb-Basket

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1904


title: Vase

medium: Bronze

subjects: Metalwork Japan

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


title: The Virgin with the infant Christ seated on a cushion and the young Saint John the Baptist at his feet, an oval composition

creator: Guido Reni

medium: Etching

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Plate 38, from "World in Miniature"

creator: Thomas Rowlandson

medium: Hand-colored etching

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1917


title: Dress

medium: silk

country: Italian

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1926


title: Piece (one of 116)

medium: Cotton

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: A Warrior Bold, from the Illustrated Songs series (N116) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco

medium: Commercial color lithograph

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


title: Bone implement

date: 2nd–3rd century CE

medium: Bone

subjects:
Miscellaneous-bone, ivory
Roman
Skeletons & bones

credit_line: Fletcher Fund, 1924


title: Ear Clip with Four Figures on a Foliate Ground

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

medium: Gold

country: Indonesia (Java)

subjects:
Jewelry
Indonesia (java)

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


title: Pouch

date: fourth quarter 19th century

medium: Glass, linen

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Margaret S. Bedell, 1930


title: Tumbler

medium: Glass

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1921


title: Dat boeck van dem leuen ons liefs heren ihesu cristi...

creator: Ludolphus de Saxonia

date: November 28, 1495

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Museum Accession, transferred from the Library


title: Terracotta fragment of a kylix (drinking cup)

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Goddess Sarasvati

medium: Lithograph, printed in black and hand-coloring with watercolor and selectively applied glaze

country: West Bengal, Calcutta

subjects:
Print
West bengal, calcutta

credit_line: Purchase, The Kipper Family Foundation Gift, 2021


title: A Visit to the Camp, and Recruits

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


title: Khew

date: late 19th century

medium: Metal

country: Burmese

subjects: Idiophone Burmese

credit_line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

country: Greek, Attic


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: Ceramic Fragment

date: 13th–16th century

medium: Stonepaste; painted under transparent glaze

credit_line: Gift of Jack A. Josephson, 1973


title: Spoon

date: 5th–6th century

medium: Silver

country: Byzantine

subjects: Metalwork-silver Byzantine

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1913


title: Allegory of Asia, from "The Four Continents"

creator: Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

date: 16th century (?)

medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; squared in black chalk

subjects: Mythology Drawing

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


title: Curb Bit

date: second half 16th century; 19th century

medium: Iron alloy, gold

country: North Italian

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
North italian

credit_line: Gift of Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1951


title: Amenemhat's Razor

medium: Bronze or copper alloy, modern wood

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1935


title: Limestone statuette of a beardless male votary in Greek dress with a wreath of leaves

date: early 5th century BCE

medium: Limestone

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Stone sculpture
Cypriot

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


title: Two fragments of a terracotta plaque

date: late 5th century BCE

country: Greek

subjects: Terracotta Greek

credit_line: Gift of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1953


title: Cope

date: 15th century

medium: Silk, metal thread

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Italian
Textiles-costumes-ecclesiastical

credit_line: Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941


title: Saucer (part of a service)

creator: Frankenthal Porcelain Manufactory

medium: Hard-paste porcelain

credit_line: Gift of Walter T. Rosen, in memory of his mother, Mrs. Flora Tower Rosen, 1932


title: Ring

date: probably 19th century

medium: jade

country: Chinese

credit_line: Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2008


title: Statuette of Horus, lord of Sekhem (Letopolis)

date: 664–332 BCE or earlier

medium: Bronze, arsenical copper, gold sheet

credit_line: Museum Accession


title: Evening dress

medium: silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
American

credit_line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of The Jason and Peggy Westerfield Collection, 1969


title: Bottle

medium: Blown, pattern-molded glass

subjects:
Ornament & design
American

credit_line: Gift of Henry G. Schiff, 1980


title: Scene from the Drama "Soga Moyo Aigo no Wakamatsu"

creator: Katsukawa Shunshō　勝川春章

date: dated 1769

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

subjects: Print Japan

credit_line: Gift of Louis V. Ledoux, 1931


title: Knife

medium: Nephrite

country: Canada (British Columbia)

subjects:
Jade
Canada (british columbia)

credit_line: Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902


title: Borders for Rooms, Plate 2

medium: Hand-colored etching

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


title: Bowl

date: 16th-17th century

medium: Glass; blown, a ghiaccio, applied decoration

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


title: Design for an illustration to Vanity Fair (recto); Sketch of young woman (verso)

creator: William Makepeace Thackeray

medium: Watercolor over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)

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


title: Maximilian Presented by his Patron Saints to the Almighty

creator: Hans Springinklee

medium: Woodcut

credit_line: Purchase, Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922


title: Cup

medium: Terracotta

subjects: Vase Etruscan

credit_line: Gift of L. P. di Cesnola, 1875


title: Textile Fragment

date: late 17th century

medium: Silk

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textile

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


title: Terracotta fragment of an undetermined closed shape

date: 6th century BCE

country: Unknown fabric

subjects:
Vase
Unknown fabric

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


title: The Virgin seated holding a rosary in her right hand, the infant Christ on her lap holding several rosaries, in an oval frame with flowers surrounding it and a tablet with inscription at the base

creator: Anonymous

date: 17th century

medium: Etching

subjects: Print Flowers

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926


title: Border

date: 19th century

medium: Textiles-Woven

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-woven

credit_line: Gift of The United Piece Dye Works, 1936


title: Earrings

date: 18th century–19th century

medium: metal

country: European, Eastern

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1909


title: Piece

date: early 18th century

medium: Silk and metal thread

credit_line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Friedman, 1958


title: Cornflower Pendant

medium: Faience

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1911


title: Ortiz. Léon. 25 ans, né à Paris. Commis d'architecte. Anarchiste. Voyage ordinairement en bicyclette.

creator: Alphonse Bertillon

medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative

credit_line: Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005


title: Bowl

creator: Louis C. Tiffany

medium: Favrile glass

credit_line: Gift of H. O. Havemeyer, 1896


title: [Seated Woman Wearing Glasses]

creator: Unknown

medium: Daguerreotype

credit_line: Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008


title: L'Homme Vu de Dos la Main Droite Tendue (Man Seen from Behind with his Right Hand Extended), from "Les Caprices" Series A, The Florence Set

creator: Jacques Callot

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 1940


title: Iltifat Khan

medium: Brush drawing with pigment on paper

credit_line: Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions, Harris Brisbane Dick, and 2020 Benefit Funds; Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Lila Acheson Wallace, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and funds from various donors, 2022


title: Mlle Pancaldy

creator: André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

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


title: Cap

medium: Cotton

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


title: A Midwife Going to a Labour

date: February 12, 1811

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


title: The Mock Phoenix!!! Or a Vain Attempt to Rise Again

date: December 10, 1813


title: Roses and Bamboo with Nightingale

creator: Teisai Hokuba

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

country: Japan

subjects: Print Japan Roses

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


title: Lydia Thompson, from the Actresses series (N665) promoting Our Knocker Cigars

medium: Albumen photograph

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


title: "Rustam Slays Esfandiyar", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

creator: Abu'l Qasim Firdausi

medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

credit_line: Gift of Richard Ettinghausen, 1975


title: Friedrich Wilhelm IV's Visit to London

creator: Benjamin Wyon

medium: Silver

credit_line: Gift of Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ada Peluso, and Romano I. Peluso, in memory of Ignazio Peluso, 2000


title: Frontispiece Portrait (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras)

creator: William Hogarth

date: April 1726

medium: Etching and engraving

subjects: Print Portraits

credit_line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932


title: Heart Scarab of Djedmut

medium: Dark brown stone

credit_line: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910


title: Plate 106: Peleus's Cattle, ad the Sea Wolf Turned to Marble (Psamantes Pelei, Thetidisq precibus expugnata lupum in saxum mutat), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

creator: Antonio Tempesta

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


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

date: late 6th/early 5th century BCE

medium: Terracotta

subjects:
Vase
Greek, attic

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


title: Stucco Fragment

date: probably 8th–12th century

medium: Stucco; carved

credit_line: Rogers Fund, 1948


title: Tunic

date: probably 5th century

medium: Linen, wool

subjects:
Costume & fashion
Textiles-costume

credit_line: Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1926


title: Curb Bit

date: mid-16th century

medium: Iron alloy

country: probably Italian

subjects:
Equestrian equipment-bit
Probably italian

credit_line: Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913


title: Piece

medium: Silk

credit_line: Museum Accession