Collections: API

1st Floor
Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
2nd Floor
Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
3rd Floor
Egyptian Art, European Paintings

4th Floor
Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
5th Floor
Luce Center for American Art

On View: Statue of Nefer-Tum Standing with Sickle Clasped in Right Hand and Conventional Headdress

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The OBJECT element represents a single piece of art.

Note: If using cdwalite or dublincore format, the xml structure will reflect those specifications rather than the properties given below. See this page for details.

Returned in the context of calls to collection.search, collection.getItem

Attributes

id (Required): The numeric ID for the object.
uri (Required): A link to the item on the Brooklyn Museum Web site.
type (Optional): In some contexts OBJECT elements will include a type attribute with value "object" to make the element type determinable in JSON responses.
title (Optional): The title of the object, if available.
accession_number (Optional): The accession number of the object.
object_date (Optional): A string representation of the object date if available. The format of this field varies wildly. Use object_date_begin and object_date_end for specific comparable values.
object_date_begin (Optional): An integer representing the the first year the object may have been created. B.C.E. years represented as negative numbers.
object_date_end (Optional): An integer representing the the last year the object may have been created. B.C.E. years represented as negative numbers.
medium (Optional): The object medium, if available.
label (Optional): The official object label if available - as displayed in the museum. May contain minimal HTML.
signed (Optional): Information about signatures found on the piece, if any.
inscribed (Optional): Information about inscriptions found on the piece, if any.
credit_line (Optional): Information about whom should be credited for the acquisition, if any.
classification (Optional): The category of the object.
collection (Optional): The name of the Brooklyn Museum collection responsible for the object (e.g., "Asian Art")
location (Optional): If the object is on view, this attribute will give the museum location (e.g., "Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th floor")
description (Optional): The catalog description of the element. Note that when the label attribute is available it generally contains a more polished description of the object.
dimensions (Optional): The object dimensions as a string (e.g. "32 1/2 x 33 x 35 in. (82.6 x 83.8 x 88.9 cm)").
rightstype (Optional): The name of the rights type for this object. For the complete list of available rights types (and full explanations of their consequences) see collection.getRightsTypes. Note that objects with rightstype "copyright_artist_or_artists_estate" may include an additional "copyright" attribute giving the specific copyright line.
copyright (Optional): Works under copyright (i.e. works with rightstype "copyright_artist_or_artists_estate") may include this attribute, which gives the specific copyright applied to the work.
rank (Optional): In many contexts where an OBJECT element has many siblings (e.g., calls to collection.search), the rank attribute can be used to determine relative order for the current sort (see sort_field and sort_direction parameters).