Line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982 Object Number: 1982.60.197a, b
The discovery of vast quantities of West African ivory, called “white gold” in Europe, transformed the nature of African-Portuguese trading in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The design of the saltcellars ( 1972.63a,b); ( 1991.435a,b), with a round vessel
Dimensions: Overall (a: cope): 58 × 122 1/2 in. (147.3 × 311.1 cm) Overall (b:
Medium: Sandstone Dimensions: A: H. 27 3/8 in. (69.5 cm); W. 27 in. (68.6 cm) B:
Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Helen Cookman, 1964 Object Number: 2009.300.7336a, b
Join curators Sylvia Yount, Medill Higgins Harvey, Adrienne Spinozzi, Amelia Peck, Alyce Perry Englund, Stephanie L. Herdrich, Thayer Tolles, Patricia Marroquin Norby, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen along with Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO as the American Wing celebrates its 100th anniversary with a reinstallation of its extensive collection of art and design.
Kane Bequest, in memory of Berry B. Tracy 2020 (2020.7).
„Age of Empires,“ featuring more than 160 objects of ancient Chinese art, explores the unprecedented role of art in creating a new and lasting Chinese cultural identity.
Rhodes and Leona B.
[Before 1963, with Ayoub Rabenou]; from 1963, on loan by The Guennol Collection (Alastair Bradley Martin’s collection) to the Museum (L.63.10.2); until 1994, Alastair Bradley Martin’s family; acquired by the Museum in 1994, purchased from The Merrin Gallery, New York
[adapted from Benzel, Kim, Sarah B. Graff, Yelena Rakic, and Edith W.
Mihrab (Prayer Niche)This prayer niche, or mihrab, was originally an architectural element in a theological school (madrasa) in the city of Isfahan. An inscription in the courtyard of this former school, now known as Madrasa Imami, is dated to the year A
(b/w). Harari, Ralph, and Richard Ettinghausen.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Postgate and Linda B.
