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Image	Title of Work of Art	Artist or Culture of Origin	Date or Style or Period	Materials and Techniques	Accession Number	Collection
	Printed cotton		1787	Cotton	37.170	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Rogers Fund, 1937
	Printed velveteen	C. F. A. Voysey	1890s	Cotton	1990.155	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1990
	Purse		early 17th century	Canvas worked with silk and metal thread...	29.23.15	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Rogers Fund, by exchange, 1929
	The Rape of Proserpina		ca. 1750	Hard-paste porcelain	1997.377	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Gift of Irwin Untermyer, by exchange, 1997
	Relief Allegory of Virtues and Vices at the Court of Emperor Charles V	"Monogrammed HD" for Hans Daucher	dated 1522	Honestone relief, touches of gilding	17.190.745	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	Relief portrait of Carlo Bertinazzi		ca. 1770	Hard-paste porcelain	66.92	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of James J. Rorimer, 1966
	Relief: Lamentation beneath the Cross	Adam Lenckhart	carved 1632	Ivory	24.80.87	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923
	Ring of Pope Paul II		1464–71	Blue glass mounted in gilt brass	1989.79	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, 1989, Bequests of George Blumenthal and Bernard M. Baruch, by exchange, and Rogers Fund, 1989
	The River Nile	Giovanni Volpato	ca. 1740–95	Hard-paste biscuit porcelain	2001.456	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, The Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation Inc. Gift, 2001
	Robert Fulton (1765-1815)	Jean-Antoine Houdon	ca. 1803	Painted plaster	1989.329	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Wrightsman Fund, 1989
	Sabine Houdon	Jean-Antoine Houdon	18th century (1788)	Marble	50.145.66	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Bequest of Mary Stillman Harkness, 1950
	Saint John the Baptist	Juan Martínez Montañés		Gilt and polychromed wood	63.40	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1963
	Saint John: One of a Pair of Figures from a Crucifixion		ca. 1560	Boxwood	47.3.2	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Rogers Fund, 1947
	Saint Joseph and the Christ Child	Attributed to Nicolaas van der Veken	second half of 17th century	Boxwood	1971.68	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Rogers Fund, 1971
	Saint Michael	Gaetano Fumo (probably)	mid–18th century	Silver	1976.46ab	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Bequest of Louis Einstein, by exchange, 1976
	Saint-Porchaire ewer		ca. 1530–50	White earthenware with inlaid clay decor...	17.190.1740	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	Salver	Frederick Elkington	1879–80	Silver, partly gilt	1991.229	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Art, 1991
	Sampler	Anna Buckett	1656	Linen worked with silk threads; long-and...	64.101.1327	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
	Satyr	Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari-Bonacolsi)	ca. 1510–20	Bronze	1982.60.91	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
	Satyr, Statuette	Il Riccio (Andrea Briosco)	16th century (ca. 1506–8)	Bronze	1982.45	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Gifts of Irwin Untermyer, Ogden Mills and George Blumenthal, Bequest of Julia H. Manges and Frederick C. Hewit...
	Scenes from the Life of Abraham		mid–17th century	Linen worked with silk thread; tent and ...	64.101.1306	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
	Seated Voltaire (after the original model of 1778)	Jean-Antoine Houdon	18th century (?)	Plaster, tinted to imitate terracotta	52.211	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Anonymous Gift, 1952
	Secrétaire à abattant		ca. 1815–20, with later additions	Walnut, parcel-ebonized and mounted with...	1991.470	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of Frederick R. Koch, 1991
	Secretary	Martin Carlin (attributed to)	ca. 1776	Oak; tulipwood, purplewood, holly, and s...	1976.155.110	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976
	Secretary (secrétaire à abattant)	Jean-Henri Riesener	1783	Oak veneered with ebony and black and go...	20.155.11	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920
	The Seehof garden furniture		ca. 1763–64	Painted and gilded lindenwood	1974.356.114-.121	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
	Set of four wall brackets	Made under the direction of Jean Hauré c...	18th century (ca. 1788)	Gilt bronze	1979.172.3-6	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1979
	Set of fourteen side chairs	Thomas Chippendale	ca. 1772	Mahogany, covered in modern red morocco ...	1996.426.1-.14	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and The Annenberg Foundation Gifts, Gift of Irwin Untermyer and Fletcher Fund, by exchang...
	Set of pruning tools		1575–1600	Steel, partly gilded, and mother-of-pear...	64.101.1470-.1476	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
	Set of three soup plates	Félix Bracquemond, Eugène Rousseau	1866–75	Creamware	1996.161.1-3	European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
	Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 1996

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