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"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2004-2005": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 63, no. 2 (Fall, 2005)
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART BULLETIN | VOLUME 63 | NUMBER 2

"Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2004–2005"

Ainsworth, Maryan, Dorothea Arnold, Carmen C. Bambach, Peter Barnet, Carrie Rebora Barratt, Barbara Drake Boehm, Stefano Carboni, Keith Christiansen, Elyssa S. Da Cruz, Malcolm Daniel, James David Draper, Helen C. Evans, Jean M. Evans, Kathryn Calley Galitz, Jared Goss, Navina Haidar, Johanna Hecht, Morrison H. Heckscher, Seán Hemingway, Herbert Heyde, Timothy B. Husband, Colta Ives, Julie Jones, Heidi King, Eric Kjellgren, Harold Koda, Steven M. Kossak, Alisa LaGamma, Charles T. Little, Lisa M. Messinger, Jeffrey Munger, Miyeko Murase, Nadine M. Orenstein, Carlos A. Picón, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Sabine Rewald, Nan Rosenthal, Perrin Stein, Anne L. Strauss, Zhixin Jason Sun, Gary Tinterow, and Beth Carver Wees
2005
55 pages
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Director's Note

Ancient World

Islam

Medieval Europe

Renaissance and Baroque Europe

Europe 1700–1900

North America 1700–1900

The Gilman Collection

Modern World

Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Asia

Donors of Gifts of Works of Art or of Funds for Acquisition of Works of Art

Met Art in Publication

Terracotta kernos (vase for multiple offerings), Terracotta, Cycladic
ca. 2300–1900 BCE
Terracotta jar, Terracotta, Cycladic
ca. 2300–1900 BCE
Terracotta jug, Terracotta, Cycladic
ca. 2300–1900 BCE
Canopic jar inscribed for Minmose, Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), paint, Egyptian blue
ca. 1450–1400 B.C.
Bronze pointed neck-amphora with stand, Bronze, Greek
ca. 500–450 BCE
Fragment of textile with horses, Silk textile, Sasanian
ca. 5th–7th century CE
Bifolium from a Qur'an, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on parchment
late 9th–10th century
Writing Box, Wood; veneered with ebony, inlaid with ivory and bone (partially stained), brass (sadeli technique)
late 16th–early 17th century
Goa Stone and Gold Case, Container: gold; pierced, repoussé, with cast legs and finials<br/>Goa stone: compound of organic and inorganic materials
late 17th–early 18th century
Silver Spoon, Silver, niello, traces of gilding, Byzantine
mid-6th–mid-7th century
Cross with Pearls, Gold and pearls, Byzantine
1200–1400
Ring, Gold with cloisonné enamel, German
10th–11th century
Head of an Apostle, Sandstone, German
ca. 1280–1300
Manuscript Leaf with the Annunciation from a Book of Hours, Jean Bourdichon  French, Tempera and shell gold on parchment, French
Jean Bourdichon
ca. 1485–90
Virgin & Child with Donor, Glass, vitreous paint and silver stain, German
ca. 1510
Madonna and Child, Duccio di Buoninsegna  Italian, Tempera and gold on wood
Duccio di Buoninsegna
ca. 1290–1300
The Annunciation, South German (Bavarian?) Painter  German, Oil and gold on linden
South German (Bavarian?) Painter
1440–50
Botanical Specimen (Motherwort or "Leonurus cardiaca"), Jacopo Ligozzi  Italian, Brush with watercolor and gouache on vellum
Jacopo Ligozzi
1577–91
Saint Thomas, Master FVB  Netherlandish, Engraving
Master FVB
ca. 1490–1500
Capricorn (section of a zodiac frieze), Bronze, Italian, Milan
1582
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