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751534.txt | Bowl
Haida, Native American
ca. 1800–40
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 746
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50439.txt | Sacred Thread Clasp
Indonesia (Java)
8th–early 10th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 247
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3644.txt | Shovel
1795–1815
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 725
Most often consisting of a shovel, brush, and pair of tongs, fire sets also sometimes included pokers and a stand for holding the tools. This shovel matches tongs, 10.125.589b.
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38949.txt | Bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya
Northeastern Thailand
first quarter of the 8th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 245
This image of a standing male is difficult to identify securely, but the raised hand gesturing in exposition and the lowered hand granting boons suggests he is a Buddhist savior. He may r... |
464251.txt | Diptych with Scenes from the Lives of Jesus and Mary
French
ca. 1350
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 306
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189462.txt | Table
French
late 17th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 531
With its openwork decoration and X-shaped stretcher, this table bears a resemblance to tables recorded in a set of engraving by Pierre le Pautre (1660–1744) entitled "Livre de tables qui sont dans les apparements du roy sur lesquelles sont po... |
211495.txt | Head of a Bearded Elder
Augustin Pajou
French
1768
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 639
The precise meaning of this bristling elder remains to be determined. Suggestions for his identity have ranged from Aristotle to Moses to a retired pugilist. The work fits within the French academic tradition of modeling h... |
325042.txt | Bowl
Iran
ca. 9th century BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 202
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5235.txt | Furniture Hardware
Retailer
Henry Kellam Hancock
1820–30
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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562152.txt | Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre
Middle Kingdom
ca. 1981–1975 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 106
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22911.txt | Dagger with Sheath
blade, Turkish; hilt and scabbard, European, possibly Italian
blade, mid-16th century; hilt and scabbard, probably mid-16th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 379
Near Eastern blades were valued highly in Europe, and many fine examples were exported and mounted with European hilts. In... |
1053.txt | Butter Mold
American
ca. 1790
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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436271.txt | The Crucifixion with Donors and Saints Peter and Margaret of Antioch
Workshop of
Cornelis Engebrechtsz
Netherlandish
ca. 1525–30
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 607
Cornelis was the leading painter in the Dutch city of Leiden in the early sixteenth century. This strikingly symmetrical Crucifixion from his wo... |
7422.txt | Shelf Clock
David Wood
American
1792–1800
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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8077.txt | Table
American
ca. 1800
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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254877.txt | Terracotta neck-amphora (jar)
Attributed to the
Antimenes Painter
ca. 520 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 171
Obverse, Herakles, Athena, and Hermes.
Reverse, frontal chariot and archer.
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7344.txt | Sconce
British or Irish
1810–20
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 728
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194433.txt | Ewer (Brocca)
Manufactory
Medici Porcelain Manufactory
Italian
ca. 1575–80
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 503
The porcelain made at the Medici workshops in Florence was the first to be produced in Europe. Francesco I de’Medici (1541–1587) established a ceramic workshop in the 1560s with the intention of imi... |
460751.txt | Tazza
Venetian or façon de Venise, probably Tyrolean; possibly Venice
ca. 1570
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 954
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471884.txt | Saint James the Greater
Gil de Siloe
Spanish
1489–93
On view at The Met Cloisters in
Gallery 16
In 1486, Isabel of Castile, patroness of the explorer Christopher Columbus, commissioned an elaborate alabaster tomb for her parents, Juan II of Castile and Isabel of Portugal. This star-shaped tomb, still standing in the ce... |
1735.txt | Side Chair
Attributed to
John Henry Belter
American
or attributed to
J. H. Belter & Co.
1850–60
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 739
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555098.txt | Tally stone from Hatshepsut's Valley Temple
New Kingdom
ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 117
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437609.txt | The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)
Italian
ca. 1528
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 609
Andrea del Sarto was known as a meticulous draftsman. He displays this talent in the carefully choreographed gestures of these four figures, whose hands spiral around ... |
469013.txt | Gold Appliqué in the Form of a Cross
Langobardic
ca. 600
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 301
Once they were in Italy, the Langobards adopted the custom of sewing one or more crosses on the shrouds of the deceased. The origin and meaning of the custom remain uncertain.
This group of objects was found in the g... |
9369.txt | Vase
Ott and Brewer
American
1880–90
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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248286.txt | Terracotta skyphos (drinking cup with two handles)
Greek, Attic
ca. 750–735 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 151
The skyphos (drinking cup) belongs to a group of eight terracotta vases (10.210.1-.8) that are said to be from Athens. Despite the absence of archaeological record, they were probably found tog... |
51041.txt | Bottle vase
China
Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong mark and period (1736–95)
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 219
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569761.txt | Scarab
New Kingdom, Ramesside
ca. 1295–1070 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 122
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61182.txt | Part of a steamer (Zeng)
China
late 9th–early 8th century BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 207
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472355.txt | Column Base
French
late 12th century
On view at The Met Cloisters in
Gallery 03
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548977.txt | Scarab
New Kingdom
ca. 1492–1473 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 116
This scarab was found with twenty-three other scarabs and seal-amulets in the coffin of a young woman who was buried in Hatnefer's tomb (see 36.3.1 and 36.3 26). The base is inscribed with a decorative pattern resembling a winged-sphin... |
189304.txt | Figure group symbolic of Astronomy
French
ca. 1775
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 545
This sculptural group symbolizes Astronomy. A celestial sphere surmounted by an eagle with outstretched wings is flanked by two winged and kneeling putti as well as a floral garland. Its pair (07.225.14b) symbolizes Geogra... |
207591.txt | Self-Portrait
Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier
French
1902
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 556
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3122.txt | Demitasse Cup and Saucer
Union Porcelain Works
American
1885–87
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
Union Porcelain Works was one of the most important and inventive American porcelain manufacturers in the second-half of the nineteenth century. In addition to their imaginative works designed by the German-bo... |
464537.txt | Medallion with Christ
Byzantine
11th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 300
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248292.txt | Terracotta neck-amphora
Greek, Attic
ca. 710 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 151
The iconography of this vase is emphatically martial. On the neck, a warrior appears between two horses; on the body is a procession of chariots. Armed warriors, chariots, and horses are the most familiar iconography of the ... |
698734.txt | Amphoriskos (oil flask)
Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Gnathian
ca. 340–320 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 161
These two flasks, 2015.641 and 2015.642, undoubtedly for oil, have been known since the early 1880's, when they were purchased by the noted British archaeologist Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Ri... |
548963.txt | Cowroid Set in a Ring Bezel
New Kingdom
ca. 1492–1473 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 116
This ring bezel contains a cowrie-shaped amulet. The heraldic design inscribed on its base includes an ankh hieroglyph (life) protected by a falcon with outspread wings. Two bezels were found among the hand bones o... |
576655.txt | Vessel fragment
New Kingdom
ca. 1390–1352 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 120
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472341.txt | One of Two Doors with Ironwork
French or Spanish
12th century
On view at The Met Cloisters in
Gallery 04
Worked into the iron strapwork is a representation of Christ on the Cross, set against a wheel pattern and with geometric and leaf-form patterns and horses’ heads with stylized manes.
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2228.txt | Compote
Bryce Brothers
American
1876–85
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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464523.txt | Fragment with a Leaf Motif
Byzantine
10th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 300
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544181.txt | Statue of the Overseer of Stonemasons Senbebu and Family
Middle Kingdom
ca. 1981–1802 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 106
Senbebu, the central figure of this group, was an overseer of stonemasons, a title indicating that he supervised quarrying and/or stonecutting, professions also held by his father an... |
477239.txt | Ring Brooch
German
ca. 1340–49
On view at The Met Cloisters in
Gallery 14
This brooch comes from a treasure unearthed in 1969 on a farm near Lingenfeld, in the Rhineland, about sixty miles north of Strasbourg. Set inside a terracotta vessel were silver objects, including a double cup and a letter-shaped jewel similar t... |
471890.txt | Grisaille Panel
French
ca. 1265
On view at The Met Cloisters in
Gallery 08
These grisaille panels are part of a set of eight from a window in one of three chapels at the Norman residence of the French monarchs. They represent a mid-century transitional stage in royal French ateliers. The conventionalized acanthus buds ... |
460745.txt | Plate
Italian (Venice)
late 17th or early 18th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 954
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194427.txt | Tiles with the devices of Claude d'Urfé
Masséot Abaquesne
French
ca. 1557–60
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 502
Faience, or tin-glazed and enameled earthenware, first emerged in France during the sixteenth century, reaching widespread usage among elite patrons during the seventeenth and early eighteenth cen... |
193348.txt | The Savigny Arms
Valentin Bousch
French
1533
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 502
This window comes from a series of seven windows made for the choir of the Benedictine priory church of Saint-Firmin in Flavigny-sur-Moselle in the Lorraine region of France. The windows had been commissioned by the prior, Wary ... |
466334.txt | Capital with the Temptation of Jesus
North French
ca. 1175–1200
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 304
Probably originating from a cloister arcade, this capital depicts the temptations of Jesus. The narrative order is not sequential: the Devil tempts Jesus to change stones into bread; the Devil tempts Jesus wit... |
1721.txt | Side Chair
American
1770–90
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 718
This richly carved Gothic-splat New York chair is part of a set or sets of chairs that descended in the Verplanck family of New York. In addition, the museum owns an armchair and six other side chairs (see 40.137.1; 62.250.1–.3; 63.22.1-.2; 1984... |
14509.txt | Underplate
Chinese, for American market
ca. 1786
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 731
In 1786 the Salem, Massachusetts, merchant Elias Hasket Derby financed the voyage of the Grand Turk, one of the first to follow that of the Empress of China. He ordered a 272-piece dinner service for himself, possibly includ... |
855363.txt | Nuremberg church-warden Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1565)
Joachim Deschler
German
1553
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 520
This rare bronze medal by Joachim Deschler (German, active 1540–1569) shows the affluent Hieronymus Paumgartner (1497–1556) who held important offices in the Imperial City of Nuremberg.... |
6728.txt | Portable Desk-on-frame Table
American
1800–1810
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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552085.txt | String of 12 Eye Beads
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period
6th–3rd century BC
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 134
Mosaic glass beads had long been popular in Egypt. The period of large intercontinental empires beginning about 500 BC initiated a period of widespread trade of these small items. These are all modern s... |
1047.txt | Bureau table
Attributed to
John Townsend
American
ca. 1765
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
In eighteenth-century Newport, a thriving seaport ninety miles south of Boston, local cabinetmakers produced some of the most creative and uniquely American of all colonial furniture. One of their innovations was t... |
562146.txt | Relief fragment, tomb of Meketre
Middle Kingdom
ca. 1981–1975 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 106
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22905.txt | Armor
German, possibly Brunswick
ca. 1535
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 371
This is a fine late example of a fluted armor, made shortly before the style went out of fashion. It is distinguished for its unusually large proportions and impressive height. The bands of scales and the distinctive roping of the ... |
13500.txt | Eva Rohr
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
American
1872
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
The American singer Eva Rohr was studying opera in Rome when Saint-Gaudens depicted her playing the part of Marguerite in Charles Gounod’s opera Faust. The character was associated with innocence and purity – themes reinforced ... |
7436.txt | Shilling
John Hull
American
Robert Sanderson Sr.
ca. 1667–ca. 1682
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 750
In 1652 John Hull and Robert Sanderson were appointed mint masters for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Established in response to a chronic shortage of hard currency and the need for a reliable and efficient ... |
550692.txt | Box
New Kingdom, Ramesside
ca. 1295–1070 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 122
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11317.txt | October in the Marshes
John Frederick Kensett
American
1872
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
In 1874 Thomas Kensett presented the Museum with thirty-eight paintings found in the studio of his brother, John Frederick Kensett, after he died. Since the artist had executed most of them in the summer of 1872, ... |
249832.txt | Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Greek, Eastern Mediterranean
3rd–2nd century BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 158
Translucent cobalt blue with same color handles and base-knob; trails in opaque yellow and opaque white.
Uneven horizontal rim-disk with rounded edge; tall cylindrical neck; sloping shoulde... |
10009.txt | Work Table
F. J. Henkel
American
ca. 1860
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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5221.txt | Table Model
1770–1800
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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256912.txt | Terracotta vase in the form of a phallus
Greek
ca. 550–500 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 154
Phallus vases are a rare and distinctive feature of Archaic Greek pottery. They were used to store perfumed oils, presumably of an erotic or medicinal nature. This vase is the product of an East Greek workshop,... |
326577.txt | Openwork rattle bell
ca. early 1st millennium BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 684
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6700.txt | Porringer
David Melville
American
1788
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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14247.txt | Drapery Tieback
1810–60
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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575412.txt | Conical Loaf of Bread
New Kingdom
ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 116
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437153.txt | Oedipus and the Sphinx
Gustave Moreau
French
1864
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 800
The legendary Greek prince Oedipus confronts the malevolent Sphinx, who torments travelers with a riddle: What creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? Remains of victims ... |
13528.txt | Vase
Decorator
Faience Manufacturing Company
American
1886–90
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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192718.txt | Portrait of a Youth
Italian, probably Rome
late 15th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 602
The subject and author of this sensitive portrait have yet to be identified. When it belonged to the Borghese family in Rome in the later nineteenth century, it was thought to be by the Florentine sculptor Benede... |
42001.txt | Covered bowl with ring handles
China
18th–19th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 222
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544817.txt | Ax head with cynocephalus
First Intermediate Period–Middle Kingdom
ca. 2100–1650 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 109
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193406.txt | Watch
Watchmaker:
Grayhurst, Harvey & Co.
Casemaker: possibly
Louis Comtesse
French
1819–20
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 554
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568325.txt | Sickle Insert
New Kingdom, Ramesside
ca. 1186–1070 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 122
This small piece of flint was a key element to a successful agricultural season in ancient Egypt. Grain was a staple of the economy, as bread and beer made from grain were consumed daily. They also formed the foundati... |
4117.txt | Goblet
Bakewell, Pears and Company
American
1850–70
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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19763.txt | Pier Table
Charles-Honoré Lannuier
American
1815–19
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 726
This pier table blends French neoclassical furniture design with American traditions in its exquisitely carved caryatids and gilt-brass mounts. Lannuier was a talented, Parisian-trained ebenisté (cabinetmaker) who migrate... |
201862.txt | Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi)
Italian
ca. 1518–1524
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 536
In a legendary contest over divine beauty the Trojan prince, Paris judged Venus the winner. Paris is shown contemplating his choice as he holds the golden apple to be awarded to the goddess as her trophy. The... |
247837.txt | Terracotta rim fragment with hatched triangle
Minoan
ca. 2300–2100 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 171
From Gournia, Crete
Rim fragment with hatched spiral.
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435744.txt | Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels
François Boucher
French
1765
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 631
Boucher’s skill as a history painter is evident in this intimate, meticulously painted devotional image that might at first be mistaken for a pastoral subject. It subtly integrat... |
644111.txt | Vase with scenes of storm on land
Manufacturer
Dihl et Guérhard
French
Possibly painted by
Jean-Baptiste Coste
French
ca. 1797–98
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 553
In the closing decades of the eighteenth century, a number of porcelain factories were established in Paris that offered both commercial and ar... |
10021.txt | Writing Table
American
1760–85
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 752
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5209.txt | Curtain knob
probably American
1700–1900
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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247189.txt | Terracotta lekane (dish)
Greek, Boeotian
ca. 550–540 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 171
Interior, dolphin
Exterior, animal frieze
Interior, dolphin; exterior, frieze of animals.
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236770.txt | Brooch
Carlo Giuliano
Italian
and
Arthur Giuliano
Italian
before 1896
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 556
This object and the group to which it belongs (see also 2014.713.1–.10) reflect the keen interest in historical styles in nineteenth-century Europe. Artists and designers looked to various artistic perio... |
444803.txt | Vase with Landscape Vignette
19th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 461
This vase is typical of the objects that were displayed in open niches in reception rooms of Ottoman-period upper-class Syrian homes
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2200.txt | Compote
19th century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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472369.txt | Column Shaft
European or American (?)
20th century
On view at The Met Cloisters in
Gallery 03
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251933.txt | Terracotta Nolan neck-amphora (jar)
Attributed to the
Achilles Painter
ca. 470–460 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 159
Obverse, Eos (the goddess of the dawn) pursuing Tithonos
Reverse, bearded man
The winged goddess Eos will capture Tithonos, a young Trojan prince, as he goes to school in the early morni... |
546966.txt | Large Ball bead
Second Intermediate Period–Early New Kingdom
ca. 1635–1458 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 114
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718108.txt | Vase with daffodils
Designed by
Artus Van Briggle
American
Manufacturer
Van Briggle Pottery Company
American
1902
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
Artus Van Briggle began his career in ceramics at the Rookwood Pottery, but because of respiratory issues, moved to Colorado, where, with his wife Anna Van Bri... |
548793.txt | Ointment Jar
New Kingdom
ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 116
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4671.txt | Ladle
Roe and Stollenwerck
American
1800–1830
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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902207.txt | Jar with Thistle
Kondō Yūzō
Japanese
ca. 1950
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 231
Kondō Yūzō found inspiration in the rich ceramic traditions surrounding Kiyomizu Temple, in his birthplace of Kyoto. He studied first with Hamada Shōji (1894–1978), a leading figure of the mingei (folk art) movement, and then w... |
559846.txt | Cowroid Inscribed Lord of the Two Lands Maatkare (Hatshepsut), Living
New Kingdom
ca. 1479–1458 B.C.
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 116
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44316.txt | Seal with Knob in the Shape of a Turtle
China
ca. 1st–2nd century
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 207
So-called “seal script,” seen here, is an archaic writing style that was standardized during the Qin (221–206 B.C.) and Han dynasties (206 B.C.–A.D. 220). It is characterized by straight lines of uniform wid... |
7378.txt | Serving Spoon
Joel Sayre
American
John Sayre
1770–1800
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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1709.txt | Side Chair
American
1750–75
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 774
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254693.txt | Terracotta statuette of a goddess
Greek, Boeotian
6th century BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in
Gallery 171
The identification of the figure as a goddess comes from the high headdress that she wears.
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