Home Art Collection Works Collection Search Advanced search Works created 1940 or earlier (12,015) works on display (741) works with images (9,448) Filter by: Collection area Origin Media Date/period Artist A–Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sort by: artist surname oldest first (excludes undated works) newest first (excludes undated works) title image availability accession number C.H. Hunt Sydney from the North Shore 1888 6220 On display – Grand Courts William Holman Hunt Study of a bloodhound 1848 105.2002 On display – Grand Courts Iran Bottle late 12th century-early 13th century EC16.1965 On display – Lower Asian gallery Iran Lamp late 12th century-early 13th century EC20.1965 On display – Lower Asian gallery Adelaide Ironside St. Catherine 1859 35 On display – Grand Courts Adelaide Ironside The marriage at Cana of Galilee 1861, reworked 1863 74.1992 On display – Grand Courts Adelaide Ironsideafter Robert Scott Lauder Ruth circa 1853 63.2008 On display – Grand Courts Jaipur, Rajasthan, India Rama and Sita enthroned at Ayodhya 19th century 126.1986 On display – Lower Asian gallery Japan Amida Buddha 11th century-12th century 119.1984.a-b On display – Lower Asian gallery Japan Merrymaking in the Yoshiwara mid 17th century 41.1986 On display – Lower Asian gallery Japan Lacquer box with silver panels 19th century 197.2004 On display – Lower Asian gallery Japan The tenth rakan 14th century 323.2005 On display – Upper Asian gallery Japan Small Buddhist travelling shrine 68.2012 On display – Upper Asian gallery Japan Netsuke in the form of two clam shells 19th century 25.2002 On display – Lower Asian gallery Japan Netsuke in the form of a fox disguised as a woman dancing 19th century 40.2002 On display – Lower Asian gallery Japan Netsuke in the form of a toad 19th century 41.2002 On display – Lower Asian gallery Japan Man’s jacket (haori) 1920s-1930s 145.2019 On display – Lower Asian gallery Java, Indonesia Cloth with Islamic calligraphy (kain kaligrafi) and three central medallions early 20th century 137.2020 On display – Upper Asian gallery Jingdezhen ware with design of dragon, clouds and waves 1736-1795 EC1.1964 On display – Lower Asian gallery Jingdezhen ware Brush washer 1662-1722 303.1988 On display – Lower Asian gallery Jingdezhen ware Dish with design of He Xiangu 1621-1627 EC9.1966 On display – Lower Asian gallery Jingdezhen ware Abode of the Immortals; Isles of the Blest censer 13th century 250.1990.a-b On display – Lower Asian gallery Jingdezhen ware Dish decorated with the eighteen 'luohan' mid 19th century 174.2003.1 On display – Upper Asian gallery Jingdezhen ware Lotus pond bowl 14th century 106.1999 On display – North Building lower level 1 Jingdezhen ware Large dish with lion motif circa 1610-1630 60.1992 On display – Grand Courts Augustus John Reverie circa 1914 1134 On display – Grand Courts Augustus John Welsh mountains in snow 1911? 8178 On display – Grand Courts Henry James Johnstone A billabong of the Goulburn, Victoria 1884 5771 On display – Grand Courts Jômon ware Jar circa 6000 BCE-circa 3000 BCE 363.1977 On display – Lower Asian gallery J Llewelyn Jones The dry season circa 1889 868 On display – Grand Courts Jun ware Dish 0960-1279 189.1988 On display – Lower Asian gallery Kalighat style Balarama and his wife Revati 1880-1899 EP1.1959 On display – Upper Asian gallery Kalighat style Matsya, the fish incarnation of Vishnu 1880-1899 EP2.1959 On display – Upper Asian gallery Kalighat style Kamala Kamini nursing Ganesha 1880-1899 EP3.1959 On display – Upper Asian gallery Kalighat style Hanuman rescuing Rama and Lakshmana 1880-1899 EP4.1959 On display – Upper Asian gallery Kalighat style Kamala Kamini nursing a baby elephant 1880-1899 EP5.1959 On display – Upper Asian gallery Kalighat style Shiva 1880-1899 EP6.1959 On display – Upper Asian gallery Grit Kallin-Fischer Untitled circa 1930 201.1997 On display – 20th-century galleries (lower level 1) Wassily Kandinsky Study for 'Painting with white border' 1913 147.1982 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor) Kanō School The arrival of the Portuguese late 16th century-early 17th century 301.1996 On display – Upper Asian gallery Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Padmapani circa 13th century 117.2010 On display – Lower Asian gallery Katō Gosuke Jar with design of chrysanthemum, bamboo and sparrow late 19th century 2455 On display – Grand Courts Kawamoto Hansuke Lidded tripod urn with a lion dog (shishi) finial 19th century 2458.a-b On display – Upper Asian gallery Kawanabe Kyōsai Hell Courtesan (Jigoku-dayū) early 1880s-mid 1880s 6.2019 On display – Lower Asian gallery Kawanabe Kyōsai Tengu preparing food in the hollow tree 1863 138.2019 On display – Lower Asian gallery Gertrude King Hankerchief box with cicada and gum leaf design circa 1914 2351 On display – Grand Courts Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Three bathers 1913 158.1984 On display – 20th-century galleries (lower level 1) Max Klinger Love, Death and the Beyond 1881 6940.12 On display – Grand Courts Dame Laura Knight The frozen pond circa 1918 816 On display – Grand Courts Kobayashi Asaji Shiga highlands in snow at night 1938-1939 8.1997.17 On display – 20th-century galleries (ground floor) Justine Kong Sing Me circa 1912 WA9.1961 On display – Grand Courts Justine Kong Sing Chums 1911 345.2016 On display – Grand Courts Korea Jar 17th century 283.1989 On display – North Building lower level 1 Korea Double crane badge for a 1st to 3rd rank civil official circa 1850 171.2005 On display – Upper Asian gallery Korea Rank insignia with single crane worn by 4th to 9th rank 19th century 112.2005 On display – Upper Asian gallery Korea Buddha Amitabha and his pantheon 1931 179.2008 On display – Lower Asian gallery Kraak ware Kendi circa 1600-1610 208.1983 On display – Lower Asian gallery Utagawa Kunimune II/Kunimasa II Kuzunoha: writing a farewell poem to her child circa 1830 108.2019 On display – Lower Asian gallery Ohannes Kurkdjian Kelud volcano eruption no.1 (Eruption of Kaloet. Island of Java. Half this mountain fell into crater and caused the eruption) 1901 273.2021 On display – Lower Asian gallery Ohannes Kurkdjian Kelud volcano eruption no.3 (A closer view of crater) 1901 275.2021 On display – Lower Asian gallery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13