Curator

  • Art Institute Chicago
  • Harvard art museum
  • My Exhibition
A work made of linen, bobbin straight lace.

Five Borders, 1620/40

A work made of earthenware with pierced and incised decoration.

Water Filter with Calligraphic Design, Fatimid dynasty (969–1171), 11th/12th century

Islamic

A work made of silver.

Denarius (Coin) Portraying the Emperor Maximinus, 235 (March)-236 (January)

Ancient Roman

A work made of linen, plain weave, front: embroidered in buttonhole, double hem, hem, overcast, and satin stitches; couching and eyelet holes; cut and drawn work with needle lace filling stitches; sides (replacement): 3 strips of cut and drawn work embroidered in buttonhole, coral, hem, and needle lace filling stitches; back: center panel plain weave with cut and drawn work embroidered in double hem, hem and needle lace filling stitches; center panel is a symmetrical scrolling floral motif; inner borders combine geometric and scrolling floral patterns outer borders geometric patterning.

Pillow Cover, c. 1600

A work made of linen and wool, tapestry weave.

Fragment (Border), Roman period (30 BCE– 641 CE), 1st/5th century

Ancient Egyptian

A work made of lithograph in black on white wove paper.

"- You are not having your bottle of beer with us this evening... I can tell you are having a private dinner party today, you scoundrel...," plate 81 from Les Bons Bourgeois, 1849

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A work made of silver.

Denarius (Coin) Portraying Didius Julianus, 193 (28 March to early June)

Ancient Roman

A work made of silver.

Denarius (Coin) Portraying Emperor Elagabalus, 218-222

Ancient Roman

A work made of lithograph in black on white wove paper.

A True Art Lover, plate 66 from Les Bons Bourgeois, 1847

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A work made of watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper.

Valley of the Loire (Sunrise), 1924

Arthur B. Davies

A work made of etching, drypoint and plate tone on cream laid paper.

Portrait of a Woman, n.d.

Paul-César Helleu

A work made of silk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, warp-float faced 2:1 twill weave with gilt-metal wire supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in twill interlacings and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loop pilesilk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, twill weave with gilt-metal wire supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in twill interlacings and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loop pilesilk and gilt- and silvered-metal-strip-wrapped silk, twill weave with gilt-metal wire supplementary patterning wefts bound by secondary binding warps in twill interlacings and supplementary patterning and brocading wefts forming weft loop pile.

Chasuble (Back Only), 16th century

A work made of wool, tapestry weave; embroidered.

Fragment, Roman period (30 BCE– 641 CE) /Arab period (641–969), 6th/8th century

Coptic

A work made of linen, tapestry weave.

Fragment, Fatimid period (969–1171)

Islamic

A work made of silk and gilt-animal-substrate-wrapped silk, weft-faced three-color complementary weft plain weave with inner warps.

Fragment From the Chasuble of San Valero, 13th century

Islamic

A work made of linen and wool, slit tapestry weave.

Fragment, Roman period (30 BCE– 641 CE), 5th/6th century

Coptic

A work made of silk, plain simple cloth.

Fragment, Arab period (641–969)/Fatimid period (969–1171)/Ayyubid period (1171–1250)/ Mamluk period (1250–1517), 9th/13th century

A work made of ivory.

Salt Cellar, 1625/75

A work made of silver.

Denarius (Coin) Portraying the Emperor Maximus, late 235-early 236

Ancient Roman

A work made of ivory.

Salt Cellar, 1625/75

<<<29303132 >>>