Collections Highlights

The Meeting of Saint Dominic and Saint Francis of Assisi
The Meeting of Saint Dominic and Saint Francis of Assisi (ca. 1427–1429)
by Fra Angelico
St. John the Baptist
St. John the Baptist (ca. 1600)
by Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco)
After the Hunt
After the Hunt (1885)
by William Michael Harnett

Object Type “What is it?”

Print
"Port Chicago Vigil Benefit", Country Joe & the Fish, Steve Miller Blues Band, S.F. Mime Troupe, Robert Baker, February 19, California Hall
70,482 items
Drawing
X Wedge
8,548 items
Costume Accessory
Boy's necktie
3,697 items
Costume
"Peace" dress
2,789 items
Photograph
3G
2,740 items
Ceramic
Platter (plat à hors-d’oeuvres à rubans)
2,626 items
Glass
Flask
2,026 items
Painting
Personnage aux Cheveux Verts
1,828 items
Sculpture
Vessel #469
1,757 items
Book
Taos Pueblo - Book by Mary Austin with 12 original photographs by Ansel Adams (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930)
1,541 items
Tool Or Implement
Weaving box
1,504 items
Furnishing Textile
Wrapping cloth (pojagi)
1,439 items
Fragment
Fabric Lenth: "Women with runs in their stockings"
1,169 items
Silver
Serving Spoon
1,143 items

Century "When was it made?”

21st Century AD
Six Ear Drawings (Complementary Colors)
1,680 items
20th Century AD
Personnage aux Cheveux Verts
42,468 items
19th Century AD
Recinto Presso le Abitazioni degli Illinesi [Fence Near the Residences of the Illinesi], from Alessandro Sanquirico, Raccolta di Varie Decorazioni Sceniche... (Milan, ca.1817-1832)
28,618 items
18th Century AD
Platter (plat à hors-d’oeuvres à rubans)
10,399 items
17th Century AD
Porte-Torchere
9,205 items
16th Century AD
Prophet Reading A Scroll
3,570 items
15th Century AD
Vessel
573 items

Country “Where was it made?”

United States
"Port Chicago Vigil Benefit", Country Joe & the Fish, Steve Miller Blues Band, S.F. Mime Troupe, Robert Baker, February 19, California Hall
34,494 items
France
Personnage aux Cheveux Verts
19,569 items
England
Seven Yorkshire Landscapes, 2011
8,722 items
Germany
Faux bois covered pot
6,652 items
Italy
Recinto Presso le Abitazioni degli Illinesi [Fence Near the Residences of the Illinesi], from Alessandro Sanquirico, Raccolta di Varie Decorazioni Sceniche... (Milan, ca.1817-1832)
5,356 items
Japan
Dress
3,985 items
Great Britain
Textile panel
3,346 items
Holland
Portrait of Michael Mirevelt
3,219 items
Flanders
A Lame Beggar Playing a Hurdy-gurdy and his Wife Singing
1,886 items
China
Rug
1,214 items
Spain
Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew
1,088 items
Mexico
Huipil
1,083 items
Scotland
World War I Front Line
763 items
Peru
Belt
737 items
Bohemia
Mocking of Ceres, reverse copy of Hendrik Goudt’s etching after Adam Elsheimer’s painting
693 items
Egypt
Heart scarab
664 items
Switzerland
Catastrophe du Mont Cervin
622 items
Belgium
Entry into the Cabaret
529 items
Russia
Salt cellar
518 items
New Guinea
Skirt
483 items
Ghana
Man's Wrapper
453 items

Department “Where do we keep it?”

Achenbach Foundation
Six Ear Drawings (Complementary Colors)
83,843 items
Costume and Textile Arts
Boy's necktie
9,542 items
Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Lidded vessel
6,172 items
European Decorative Art
Platter (plat à hors-d’oeuvres à rubans)
4,286 items
American Decorative Art
Vessel #469
3,176 items
Ancient Art
Cuneiform tablet from Ur-Ishtaran by the official Dadaga
1,167 items
Historical
6 stereoscopic cards of San Francisco and California scenes
1,098 items
American Painting
Tulip Culture
946 items
European Painting
Portrait de Charles de Verninac
743 items
ORIE
Ginger Jar with Rosewood and Jade Lid
85 items
Personnage aux Cheveux Verts
2 items