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Fragment of a Face 1301-1500 Eastern Java. Terracotta

Mace Made 1525-1555 Italy. Steel, iron, and gilding

The Old Leaders and the New 1858-1894 United States. Color lithograph on newsprint. Joseph Keppler

Sestertius (Coin) Portraying Emperor Trajan Conquering Dacia 104 CE-107 CE Roman Empire. The Emperor Trajan devoted his energy to military campaigns to enlarge the empire

Fragment of a Bowl 100 BCE-100 CE Eastern Mediterranean Region. Glass. Ancient Roman

Pricket Candlestick 1700-1899 China. Porcelain painted in underglaze blue

Madonna and Child 1600-1650 Southern Germany. Boxwood

Wine Can 1785-1795 Germany. Pewter

Child's Windsor Side Chair c 1790-1815 New England. White pine and other woods. Artist unknown
Child's Windsor Side Chair c 1790-1815 New England. White pine and other woods. Artist unknown

Family of Darius before Alexander; Prisoners before a Senator 1580-1599 Italy. Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on buff laid paper

Cup c 1813-1830 Boston. Silver. Moses Morse

Female Figure 300 BCE-250 CE Michoacan. Ceramic and pigment. Michoacan

Birds on Red Plum Artist's working dates 1887-1897 China. Ren Yi was among the most successful
Birds on Red Plum Artist's working dates 1887-1897 China. Ren Yi was among the most successful and influential among Chinese painters of the so-called Shanghai School

Ring Figure of Tawaret (Thoeris) 1390 BCE Egypt. Faience. Ancient Egyptian

War Hammer Made 1480-1520 Germany. Steel, iron, brass, and beechwood

Bottle-Shaped Vase with Globular Body 1800-1899 China. Porcelain with copper red peachbloom glaze

Statuette of a Horse 750 BCE-730 BCE. This small statuette was created in Greece around the time of the first Olympic games

Side Chair c 1722-1744 Newport. The reindeer hide that conservators used to reupholster this side chair in a period manner was salvaged from the Danish brigantine Frau Metta Catharina

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying King Mithridates VI Struck 90 BCE-89 BCE Greece. The front of this coin portrays King Mithradates

Monteith 1685-1686 London. Before the advent of modern refrigeration, wines could only be kept cool by storing them in well-insulated cellars, or in basins filled with ice and water

Paperweight 1801-1900 Munzthal. Technological improvements to optical scientific instruments in the mid-nineteenth century spurred a veritable obsession across Europe with identifying

Teapot with Symbols of England, Ireland, and Scotland 1825-1835 Staffordshire. Earthenware with copper lustre decoration

Beaker 1700-1725 Nuremberg. Glass

Imperial Edict Made 1856-1857 China

Amulet of Mut with Khonsu 1070 BCE-332 BCE Egypt. Faience. Ancient Egyptian

Ring Figure of Serpent Uto ( ) Wearing Crown of Lower Egypt 1390 BCE Egypt. Faience. Ancient Egyptian

Paperweight 1840-1865 France. Glass. Compagnie de Saint Louis

Vessel 2494 BCE-2181 BCE Egypt. Calcite. Ancient Egyptian

Teapot 1745-1770 Staffordshire. Lead-glazed earthenware (blackware)

Bottle 101 CE-400 CE Syria. Glass, blown technique. Ancient Roman

Statuette of a Priestess with Offering Table and Situla 945 BCE-656 BCE Egypt. Bronze. Ancient Egyptian

Gourd-Shaped Vase with Encircling and Twisted Rope 1665-1799 China. Dehua ware (blanc de chine); porcelain

Patten (Overshoe) Made 1700-1750 England. Silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts over leather; edged with silk

Caprice Artist's working dates 1755-1817 France. Etching on paper. Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup
Caprice Artist's working dates 1755-1817 France. Etching on paper. Jean-Baptiste de Grateloup

Shukongojin Made 1199-1399 Japan. Known also as the Thunderbolt Deity, this fierce protector of the Law of Buddhism brandishes a vajra that symbolizes the power of wisdom to penetrate ignorance

Model Field Cannon 1800-1900 France. Bronze, iron, and wood

The Courtesan Komurasaki of the Tamaya 1796-1806 Japan. Color woodblock print; hashira-e. Kitagawa Utamaro

Tetradrachm (Coin) Depicting the God Dionysos 146 BCE Roman Empire. Herakles was the consummate hero. Temples across Greece and South Italy were dedicated to him, the son of Zeus, and Romans

Wine Glass 1850-1899 Bohemia. Glass; blown, cut, stained red and engraved

Chalice 1827-1828 London. Silver gilt with spessartine garnets. John Bridge (Inscribed by)

Wishes, plate three from A Glove Made 1881 Germany. Etching and aquatint on ivory chine collE on off-white wove paper. Max Klinger

Covered Tureen and Stand with the Arms of French Impaling Sutton 1760-1770 China. Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamels and gilding

Wine Ewer and Warming Bowl 960 CE-1127 China. Qingbai ware; porcelain with underglaze carved and incised decoration

Illuminated Border with Grotesques, Grapes and Berries from a Manuscript 1401-1530 France. Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with Latin inscription in gothic in red ink, on vellum

Pair of Mitten Gauntlets Made 1490-1530 Spain. Steel and leather

Wheellock Rifle 1715-1725 Austria. Despite the invention of the simpler flintlock, the wheellock remained in use for hunting well into the 18th century, as the ignition was a split second faster

Paperweight 1800-1899 Luneville. Glass. Baccarat Glassworks

Warrior Fragments Made 100 BCE-200 CE Peru. Although small in scale, these figuresolikely fragments from a border attached to the edge of a solid-colored plain woven textileopotently convey the Nazca

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