Acquisition Highlights 2013 - MetCollects - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Deer amid Pine Trees, 19th century

Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2013 (2013.29a, b)

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Ceremonial ewer, ca. 1520–50

Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2013 (2013.950)

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Eight-light chandelier, ca. 1710

Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2013 (2013.238.2)

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Sojourner Truth, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance", 1864

Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2013 (2013.54)

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Suit, 1770–80

Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2013 (2013.516a–c)

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Two Percussion Exhibition Pistols, dated 1849 and 1851

Purchase, Ronald S. Lauder Gift, 2013 (2013.514.1, .2)

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A Road in a Gorge near Naples, 1782

Purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Fund, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, and 2009 and 2005 Benefit Funds, 2013 (2013.451)

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Life's Symphony (Kyoku), 2011

Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2013 (2013.461.1, .2)

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Waistcoat, fall/winter 1989–90

Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2013 (2013.948)

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"Three Trees of India", Folio from a Baburnama (Autobiography of Babur), late 16th century

Purchase, Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art, Anonymous Gift, in honor of Amy Poster, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2013 (2013.576)

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Venus at the Forge of Vulcan (recto); Sketches with Two Putti (verso), ca. 1716–18

Purchase, Rogers and Harry G. Sperling Funds, several members of The Chairman's Council Gifts and Mrs. Howard J. Barnet Gift, 2013 (2013.116)

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Pitcher, 1882

Purchase, William Cullen Bryant Fellows Gifts, 2013 (2013.26)

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Torah crown (keter), ca. 1740–50

Director's Fund, 2013 (2013.443)

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Banjo, ca. 1845

Gift of Peter Szego, 2013 (2013.639a, b)

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Four Icons from a Pair of Doors (Panels), possibly part of a Polyptych: John the Theologian and Prochoros, the Baptism (Epiphany), Harrowing of Hell (Anastasis), and Saint Nicholas, early 15th century

Purchase, Mary and Michael Jaharis Gift, 2013 (2013.980a–d)

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Branches and Vines Quilt, ca. 1875

Gift of George E. Schoellkopf, 2013 (2013.958)

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[Male Pedestrian Smoking Cigar, Detroit (for Fortune Magazine Article "Labor Anonymous")], 1946

Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, 2013 (2013.246.1)

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Mishneh Torah, ca. 1457

Jointly owned by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2013. Purchased for the Israel Museum through the generosity of an anonymous donor; René and Susanne Braginsky, Zurich; Renée and Lester Crown, Chicago; Schusterman Foundation - Israel; and Judy and Michael Steinhardt, New York. Purchased for The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Director’s Funds and Judy and Michael Steinhardt Gift (2013.495)

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Love Letter I, 1969

Purchase, The George Economou Collection Gift, 2013 (2013.263)

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Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming, 1779

Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, Gifts of Mrs. William M. Haupt, Josephine Bay Paul, and Estate of George Quackenbush, in his memory, by exchange, The Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund Gift, and funds from various donors, 2013 (2013.155)

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Pin drop silence: Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, 2013

Gift of Andrew Cohen, in honor of Tenzing Rigdol and Fabio Rossi, 2013 (2013.627)

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U Turns, 2004

Purchase, The George Economou Collection Gift, 2013 (2013.260)

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Cased Pair of Percussion Target Pistols with Loading and Cleaning Accessories, Made for Henri Charles Ferdinand Marie Dieudonné d'Artois, Duke of Bordeaux, Count of Chambord (1820–1883), dated 1829

Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest and Irene Roosevelt Aitken Gift, 2013 (2013.511.1–.3a–k)

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Fragment of a figure holding a multistrand coil of beads, preceded by another individual, ca. 1961–1917 B.C.

Gift of Janice Kamrin, in honor of Nora Scott and Dorothea Arnold, 2013 (2013.433)

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Dress, 1999

Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2013 (2013.588a, b)

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Vault, 2012

Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund; Alfred Stieglitz Society, The Fledgling Fund, through Diana Barrett and Robert Vila, Joseph M. and Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc. and Hideyuki Osawa Gifts, 2013 (2013.163)

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"Butterfly", ca. 1955

Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2013 (2013.591)

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Appeal to the Great Spirit, 1913; cast ca. 1916

Purchase, Morris K. Jesup Fund and Jonathan L. Cohen and Allison B. Morrow Gift, 2013 (2013.441)

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Électricité, 1931

Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, 2013 (2013.1098.13 (1–10))

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Saints Procopius and Adalbert, ca. 1340–50

The Cloisters Collection, 2013 (2013.272)

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Juno Ordering Aeolus to Unleash the Winds, 1775

Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2013 (2013.504)

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Viola, ca. 1660

Purchase, Robert Alonzo Lehman Bequest, Fletcher Fund, 2012 Benefit Fund and Beatrice Francais Gift, 2013 (2013.910)

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Untitled (Your Seeing Is Believing), 1984

Purchase, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel; and Stephen and Jennifer Rich, Anonymous, and Gary and Sarah Wolkowitz Gifts, 2013 (2013.42)

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The Sacrifice of Polyxena, 1647

Purchase, 2012 Benefit Fund, and Bequest of Grace Wilkes and Fletcher Fund, by exchange, 2013 (2013.183)

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Embroidery of a Thousand-Armed Kannon , probably late 15th–early 16th century

Purchase, Sue Cassidy Clark Gift, in memory of Terry Satsuki Milhaupt, 2013 (2013.114)

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The Village, 1914

Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 2013 (2013.271)

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Breastplate with Tassets, ca. 1530

Purchase, The Sulzberger Foundation Inc. Gift, 2013 (2013.28)

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Vase with arrowhead plants, ca. 1904–09

Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2013 (2013.1001.1)

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Plate with chrysanthemums, 12th century

Gift of Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, in memory of Ludmilla and Hans Arnhold, 2013 (2013.569)

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The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten), 1896

Purchase, European Paintings Funds, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, funds from various donors, and Bequests of Collis P. Huntington and Isaac D. Fletcher, by exchange, 2013 (2013.1134)

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Ewer and stand (présentoir), 1758

Purchase, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Gift, 2013 (2013.442.1, .2)

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Bifolium with Christ in Majesty in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary, ca. 1405

The Cloisters Collection and The Rendl Fund, 2013 (2013.38)

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Virgin and Child, from an Adoration Group, ca. 1515–20

Purchase, Audrey Love Charitable Foundation Gift, 2013 (2013.1093)

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A Wooded River Landscape with a Church and Figures, ca. 1613

Purchase, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and David T. Schiff and Annette and Oscar de la Renta Gifts, 2013 (2013.646)

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Ruyesh (Growth), dated 2012

Purchase, 2011 NoRuz at The Met Benefit, 2013 (2013.587)

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Album of Bit Designs, 1674

Purchase, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund; Joseph M. Scheuner and Kenneth and Vivian Lam Gifts; and Bequest of Stephen V. Grancsay, Rogers Fund, Helmut Nickel Gift, and funds from various donors, by exchange, 2013 (2013.590)

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Being Open and Empty, 2005

Gift of the artist, 2013 (2013.188.2)

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Jar, 7th–early 8th century

Purchase, Barbara and William Karatz Gift, in honor of James C. Y. Watt, 2013 (2013.231)

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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Périgord (1754–1838), Prince de Bénévent, 1808

Purchase, Mrs. Charles Wrightsman Gift, 2012 (2012.348)

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Home is a Foreign Place, 1999

Purchase, The George Economou Collection Gift, 2013 (2013.565a–nn)

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A New Record Comparing the Handwriting of the Courtesans of the Yoshiwara (Yoshiwara keisei shin bijin jihitsu kagami) 吉原傾城新美人自筆鏡, 1784, early spring (Tenmei 4)

Purchase, Mary and James G. Wallach Family Foundation Gift, in honor of John T. Carpenter, 2013 (2013.768)

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Tea Bowl with Splashed Decoration, 12th–13th century

Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2013 (2013.174)

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Saint Sebastian, 17th century

Purchase, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Fund, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, and Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill and Hester Diamond Gifts, 2013 (2013.36)

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Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), mid-fifth century BCE

Gift of Sylvia de Cuevas, 2013 (2013.158)

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Relief with a Bird, 10th–11th century

Purchase, Tianaderrah Foundation and Austin B. Chinn Gifts; Larry and Ann Burns Gift, in honor of Austin B. Chinn; Audrey and Martin Gruss Foundation, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, David H. Koch, Harry and Linda Macklowe, and Charlotte C. Weber Gifts, 2013 (2013.268)

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Armband, One of a Pair, late 19th–early 20th century

Gift of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf, 2013 (2013.968.4a)

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Landscape with Erminia, ca. 1630

Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2013 (2013.197)

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Morgenthau Plan, 2012

Denise and Andrew Saul Fund, 2013 (2013.429a–c)

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Burgonet, ca. 1610

Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, 2013 (2013.953)

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Marriage Panel of Gabriel Weydacher and his wife Juliana Wemis with the Virgin and Child and Saints Barbara and Catherine, 1519

The Cloisters Collection, 2013 (2013.156)

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Winchester Model 1894 Takedown Lever Action Rifle, ca. 1895–1900

Purchase, The Beatrice G. Warren and Leila W. Redstone Fund, 2013 (2013.901)

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Standing Female Figure (St. Anne; Cartoon for a Painting), ca. 1502–4

Partial and Promised Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey, in honor of George R. Goldner, 2013 (2013.641)

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Balaskandha, The Youthful Skanda, Undated, 1920–30

Purchase, Gift of Mrs. William J. Calhoun, by exchange, 2013 (2013.16)

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Lamba Tselatra (Spark), 2010

Purchase, James J. Ross, William B. Goldstein, Holly and David Ross, and James J. and Gladys W. Strain Gifts, 2013 (2013.23)

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Multitude 10, 2008

Purchase, 2011 NoRuz at The Met Benefit, 2013 (2013.258)

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Thetis Transporting Arms for Achilles, ca. 1804–12

Purchase, Assunta Sommella Peluso, Ignazio Peluso, Ada Peluso and Romano I. Peluso Gift, 2013 (2013.35)

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Woman with a Veil, 1545

Purchase, Barbara and Howard Fox Gift, 2013 (2013.945)

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Candle Dancers (Kerzentänzerinnen), 1917

Purchase, Susan Schulman Printseller Gift, in honor of Catherine Jenkins, 2013 (2013.935)

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Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Peleg K. Dunham (1794–1822), 1817

Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Gift, 2013 (2013.622a, b)

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A Mounted Grey Horse Being Schooled in Piaffe, after 1646

Fletcher and Frits and Rita Markus Funds, 2013 (2013.144)

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Pair of Percussion Target Pistols Made for Display at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851, dated 1851

Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, 2013 (2013.513.1, .2)

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Smith and Wesson New Model No. 3, .44 Caliber Double-Action Navy Revolver, serial no. 23060, ca. 1891–92

Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, 2013 (2013.902)

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[Mourning Corsage with Portrait of Abraham Lincoln], April 1865

Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2013 (2013.46)

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America Today, 1930–31

Gift of AXA Equitable, 2012 (2012.478a–j)

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Marble pillar with Neo-Attic reliefs, late 1st century BCE–early 1st century CE

Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2013 (2013.911)

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The Refusal of Time, 2012

Jointly owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2013. Purchased for The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Roy R. and Marie S. Neuberger Foundation Inc. and Wendy Fisher Gifts and The Raymond and Beverly Sackler 21st Century Art Fund. (2013.250)

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Statuette of an Official Who is a Dwarf, ca. 1961–1917 BC

Purchase, Elaine A. Evans Bequest, in memory of Dr. Henry G. Fischer, and Friends of Isis Gifts, 2013 (2013.626)

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Smith and Wesson .38 Caliber Safety Third Model Double-Action Revolver, serial no. 83097, with Case, 1892–93

Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, 2013 (2013.903a, b)

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Study of a Standing Woman, 1792–96

Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013 (2013.64)

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Figure (Hampatong), Late 19th–early 20th century

Gift of Fred and Rita Richman, 2013 (2013.1137.8)

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Figure of a Male Rice Deity (Bulul), 19th century or earlier

Gift of George R. Ellis, in memory of Nancy L. Ellis, 2013 (2013.1105)

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Mynah Birds, early 17th century

Purchase, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation and Anonymous Gifts, 2013 (2013.21.1, .2)

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Soldier on Horseback in Catoptric Anamorphosis (after Hendrick Goltzius), ca. 1620–40

Purchase, Brooke Russell Astor Bequest, 2013 (2013.203)

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Spoon, 1906

Gift, Silver & Metalwork of the Twentieth Century from the Margo Grant Walsh Collection, 2013 (2013.959.4.2)

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David Young and Unknown Man, Newhaven, 1845

Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012 (2013.159.23)

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Electro–Physiologie, Figure 64, 1854–56, printed 1862

Purchase, The Buddy Taub Foundation Gift, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors, 2012 (2012.140)

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Nicolaas Henneman Showing an Album to Charles Porter, ca. 1845

Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2012 (2013.159.63)

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Alexander Hamilton, 1792

Commissioned by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of State of New York, in 1791; aquired by Donaldson, Lufkin, Jenrette, Collection of Americana, New York, 1983; acquired by Credit Suisse, New York, and Zurich, Switzerland, 2000 (2013.454)

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Plaque with the Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew, ca. 1160–80

The Cloisters Collection, 2013 (2013.508)

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Ensemble, fall/winter 1997–98

Purchase, Friends of The Costume Institute Gifts, 2013 (2013.564a, b)

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Panel painting of a woman in a blue mantle, A.D. 54–68

Director's Fund, 2013 (2013.438)

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Adonis, ca. 1723–25

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts and Director's Funds, 2013 (2013.432)

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Vessel with Women and Goats, ca. 1887–89

Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Purchase, Acquisitions Fund; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and 2011 Benefit Fund, 2013 (2013.471)

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Buddhist disciple, or luohan, holding a peach, 17th century

Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2013 (2013.167)

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