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Ancestor figure with slaves, carved by Siwis (George Nelson), Quatsino, c. 1906 - Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia - DSC08764
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An Indian Summer Morning in the White Mountains, by Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1857, oil on canvas - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07534
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Automaton in the form of a monk, probably Spain, possibly circle of Juanelo Turriano, c. 1550, hardwood, enamel, leather, metals, paint - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC07103
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Apollo playing a lute, inv. 2274, Roman interpretation of a Greek 5th century BC original, head reworked, from near Marino - Braccio Nuovo, Museo Chiaramonti - Vatican Museums - DSC00946
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Ars longa, vita brevis, WoO 193, third setting, Beethoven, probably 1825, musical autograph - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06679
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Ascension (left) and Pentecost with holy bishops (right), codex covers, Italian imitation of Byzantine work, late 12th to early 13th century AD, ivory - Vatican Museums - DSC00705
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Amber chest, Northern Germany, perhaps Konigsberg, c. 1675-1676, amber, ivory, plinth of oak and limewood, polyester resin for restoration - Germanisches Nationalmuseum - Nuremberg, Germany - DSC02730
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Acala, western Tibet, 13th century AD, bronze - Linden-Museum - Stuttgart, Germany - DSC03664
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Cinnamon Drawing Room fireplace with portrait of Edwin Lascelles, Lord Harewood, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, late 1700s, oil on canvas - Harewood House - West Yorkshire, England - DSC01938
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Chest of drawers by Jean-Louis Grandjean, France, c. 1765-1770, with porcelain - Waddesdon Manor - Buckinghamshire, England - DSC07675
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Coffer of Chinese Coromandel lacquer, with ceramics - State Drawing Room, Chatsworth House - Derbyshire, England - DSC03187
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Cradle, Southeastern Ojibwa, collected in 1904 on the Walpole Island Reservation, Ontario, made in 1862 - Native American collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC05815
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Cow, M.C. inv. 921, Roman, from the Horti Tauriani near the church of S. Eusebio, copy after the bronze by Myron, 460-440 BC, marble - Musei Capitolini - Rome, Italy - DSC05846
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Conrad Celtes presents his book 'Norimberga' to the Nuremberg City Council, artist unknown, early 1600s, presumably after original c. 1520, oil on wood - Stadtmuseum Fembohaus - Nuremberg, Germany - DSC02076
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Container decorated with the 18 scholars of the Tang Dynasty, China, Yuan or early Ming dynasty, wood with lacquer and mother-of-pearl - Linden-Museum - Stuttgart, Germany - DSC03515
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Courtyard Scene with Pregnant Woman, by Hendrick van der Burch, c. 1660, oil on oak panel - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06318
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Chawan with indented rim and incised poem, by Otagaki Rengetsu, mid to late 1800s, ceramic - Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon - Eugene, Oregon - DSC09348
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Coffee and tea set items, 3 of 3, designer Paul Burck, Gebr. Bauscher, 1900-1901, porcelain with overglaze decor - Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt - Mathildenhöhe - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC06373 03
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Cupid Inciting a Satyr, by Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, Italian, c. 1720, oil on canvas - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00815
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Compendium (nocturnal, vertical & horizontal sundials, compass, solar quadrant), probably Nuremberg, 1514 - Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Dresden - DSC08023
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Commode, Vile and Cobb, London, George III era, mahogany - Lord Harewood's Sitting Room - Harewood House - West Yorkshire, England - DSC01773
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Chinese boys, 1 of 2, Meissen manufactory, Germany, c. 1750-1755, hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels, gilt - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 20180922 150433
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Coptic papyrus, Egypt, late 3rd to early 4th century AD, papyrus, K 1003 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05382
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Couch, China, late Ming or early Qing dynasty, 1600s AD, huanghuali wood (yellow flowering pear), cane - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC08442
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Cup and saucer, Royal Imperial Porcelain Factory, 2 of 2, Vienna, early 1800s, hard-paste porcelain - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Montreal, Canada - DSC09172
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Cylinder seal with mythic combat scene, Neo-Assyrian Period, c. 9th-7th century BC - Harvard Semitic Museum - Cambridge, MA - DSC06189
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Cuneiform text on clay cone, excavated at Lagash, Iraq, Gutian period, 22nd century BC, clay - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08542
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Cup stand, Korea, Gangjin or Buan kilns, Goryeo period, 1150 to early 1200s AD, stoneware, white and black inlays under celadon glaze - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04880
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Chous with piper and reveler, Painter of Florence 4021, Greek, Attic, c. 475 BC, red-figure technique on earthenware - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06519
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Chinese-style Gardener's House and a Terrace on the Banks of a River, from Civil Architecture, by Jean-Jacques Lequeu, pen and black ink, washes - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06734
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Bacchus and Ariadne, by Francois Perrier, c. 1647-1650, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07842
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Baluster-form jar, Cambodia or northeastern Thailand, Buriram Province, 1000s-1100s AD, stoneware, iron glaze - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - DSC05248
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Bactrian camel, Shaanxi or Henan province, China, Tang dynasty, 675-750 AD, earthenware with sancai glaze - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC08428
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Bactrian camel, China, probably Northern Wei dynasty, 386-534 AD, ceramic - Linden-Museum - Stuttgart, Germany - DSC03587
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Beekman triangles, Bare Island points, Brewerton points (corner-notched, eared-notched, and eared-triangle)- Late Archaic collection - Robbins Museum - Middleborough, Massachusetts - DSC03808
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Belly amphora with young people talking, Attic, c. 550 BC, L 243 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05432
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Bodhisattva Maitreya or Avalokiteshvara, Northeaster Thailand, Khorat plateau, Prasat Hin, Khao Plai Bat II, 600s AD, copper alloy, silver inlay - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - DSC05168
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Boat or alms vessel (kashkul) with dragon-headed extremities, Iran, 1575-1600 AD, engraved brass, view 2 - Aga Khan Museum - Toronto, Canada - DSC06849
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Blue-painted vessel, XVIII Dynasty, 1552-1305 BCE, red clay with buff wash and blue paint - Redpath Museum - McGill University - Montreal, Canada -DSC08122 01
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Armchair, designer Joseph Maria Olbrich, maker Hofmobelfabrik Julius Gluckert, Darmstadt, 1900, walnut, restored seat cover - Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt - Mathildenhöhe - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC06245
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Armchair, Behrens House music room, designer Peter Behrens, Hofmobelfabrik L. J. Peter, Mannheim, 1900-1901, wood, leather - Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt - Mathildenhöhe - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC06248
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Bergere en cabriolet (armchair), one of a pair, France, c. 1775, beech, paint, upholstery - Hyde Collection - Glens Falls, NY - 20180224 123159
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Bernward Column from the Church of St. Michael, Hildesheim, Germany, c. 1020-1030, plaster replica c. 1900 by Gebruder Kusthardt - Adolphus Busch Hall - Harvard University - DSC05711
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Barber's bowl, Teruel, Spain, 18th century AD, ceramic - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08230
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Beak-spouted jar with incised ornament, Gilan district, Iran, c. 1200-900 BC, orange-red burnished earthenware - Matsuoka Museum of Art - Tokyo, Japan - DSC06988
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Biberons, 2 of 2, J. B. Carrington, for J. P. Morgan, London, 1890, silver - Fowler Museum - University of California, Los Angeles - DSC02637
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Bust of Emperor Joseph II by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Vienna, c. 1765-1770, plaster - Bode-Museum - DSC02931
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Busts of African women, Real Fabrica de Alcora, Castellon, Spain, second period, after 1742, ceramic - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08301
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Bowl with bird, Teruel, Spain, mid 18th century AD, ceramic - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08210
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Bowl, Iran, early 13th century AD, frit body, underglaze black and blue, turquoise glaze - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Montreal, Canada - DSC09693
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Bowl with design of flowering plants and blue pattern, Iran, 12th-13th century AD, luster ware pottery - Matsuoka Museum of Art - Tokyo, Japan - DSC07320
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Bowl with figures, excavated in Iran, Islamic period, 1100s-1200s AD, ceramic, glaze, overglaze enamel - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08589
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Book cover with crucifixion plaque, Limoges, France, 1190-1215, copper-gilt and champleve enamel - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06613
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Candlestick with verses by Molla Heyrati Tuni in Naskhi script, Iran, 16th century AD, brass inlaid with black compound - Aga Khan Museum - Toronto, Canada - DSC06995
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Candlestick with couplets from Sa'adi's Bustan in Nasta'aliq script, Iran, late 16th century AD, brass with inlaid compound - Aga Khan Museum - Toronto, Canada - DSC06806
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Carpet, Egypt, Cairo, Ottoman Empire, 1550-1600 AD, wool, view 2 - Textile Museum, George Washington University - DSC09813
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Carrying basket, Tlingit, Southern Alaska, collected c. 1878, fiber, spruce root, grass - Native American collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC05877
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Camels, Johann Joachim Kaendler, Meissen Porcelain Factory, c. 1750, hard-paste porcelain - Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, CT - DSC05160
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Chair of power (kiti cha enzi), Swahili peoples, Lamu Island, Kenya, late 1800s, ebony, ivory, string - Fowler Museum - University of California, Los Angeles - DSC02357
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Centaur, Etruscan red-figure kylix in superposed color, by the Sokra Group, 350-330 BC - Museo Gregoriano Etrusco - Vatican Museums - DSC01023
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Central Asiatic groom, China, Tang dynasty, 8th century AD, painted earthenware - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00675
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Charlotte Trottier-Desriviers de Montigny (died 1779), by Baron H. De Dirkinck Holmfeldt from a miniature, 1800s, oil on canvas - Château Ramezay - Montreal, Canada - DSC07445
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Castel Gandolfo by George Inness, 1876, oil on canvas - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC08760
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Canapé, Beauvais, Paco Episcopal de Leiria, 1700-1750 - Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro - Coimbra, Portugal - DSC00243
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Cap mask (pumbu), Central Pende people, Democratic Republic of the Congo, mid to late 20th century AD, wood, pigment, cloth, fiber - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06201
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Cavalier and lady, Johann Joachim Kaendler, Meissen Porcelain Factory, c. 1745-1750, hard-paste porcelain - Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, CT - DSC05348
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Ceiling with Illusionistic Trelliswork Cupola with Disporting Putti, attributed to Giovanni da Udine, 1500-1564, oil on panel - Kingston Lacy - Dorset, England - DSC03592
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Brown glazed jar with four lugs and dragon design, salvaged from the shipwreck of the Nan'ao No. 1, Nan'ao, Shantou - Hong Kong Museum of History - DSC00881
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Armchair by William Savery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, c. 1745-1760, maple, Atlantic white cedar, yellow poplar, rush - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04914
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Flat hu wine vessel with feather design, China, Warring States period, 4th-3rd century BC, bronze - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08445
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Four-gallon crock, J. & E. Norton Pottery, decorator probably John Hilfinger, 1855-1859, salt-glazed stoneware with cobalt decoration - Bennington Museum - Bennington, VT - DSC09005
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Fragment of an Angel playing the lute, Cologne, 1500-1525, stained glass - Museum Schnütgen - Cologne, Germany - DSC09866
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Footed bowl with Chinese children design, Kameyama ware, Edo period, 1800s AD, porcelain, underglaze blue - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC08925
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Enehey, excavated from Saqqarah, Egypt, New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty to early 19th Dynasty, c. 1300-1200 BC, limestone, view 3 - Matsuoka Museum of Art - Tokyo, Japan - DSC07013
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Dotaku (bell-shaped bronze), excavated at 1-15 Kamo, Kawanishi-shi, Hyogo, Japan, Yayoi period, 1st-3rd century AD, bronze - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC09156 (cropped)
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Diana on the stag, Joachim Fries, c. 1615-1620 AD, Augsburg, silver, partly gilt, view 3 - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany -DSC00522
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Diana on the stag, Joachim Fries, c. 1615-1620 AD, Augsburg, silver, partly gilt, view 1 - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany -DSC00516
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Dining room set, designed by Peter Behrens, made by Möbelschreinerei Anton Blüggl, Berlin, 1902, oak, slate, brass, glass, view 2 of 3 - Bröhan Museum, Berlin - DSC04077
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Finials, 1 of 2, excavated in Luristan, Iran, late 2nd to early 1st millenium BC, bronze - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08566
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Drinking bowl with a young couple, attributed to the Meleager Painter, Attic, c. 390 BC, L 493 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05830
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Double-body Vajradhara, Tibet, 1368-1644 AD, gilt copper - Sichuan Provincial Museum - Chengdu, China - DSC04380
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Dotaku (bell-shaped bronze), excavated at 1-15 Kamo, Kawanishi-shi, Hyogo, Yayoi period, 1st-3rd century AD, bronze - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC09109
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Empress Deng Admonishing Her Clain for Extravagance, from Virtuous Empresses and Empresses Dowager in Successive Dynasties, by Jiao Bingzhen, early 1700s AD - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07924
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Emperor Hsuan-tsung of Tang Dynasty and Imperial Concubine Yang Yuhuan, China, Qing dynasty, 1644-1911 AD, cowhide - Sichuan Provincial Museum - Chengdu, China - DSC04568
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Emperor Gordian III, by the Gordian Master, Roman, 238-241 AD, reworked 241-244 AD, marble - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC07913
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Figures from the High Altar of Cologne Cathedral, 1 of 2, Cologne, c. 1310-1320, Carrara marble - Museum Schnütgen - Cologne, Germany - DSC00006
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Funerary stele of Ankh-Hapy, with Aramaic inscription, Memphis, 27th Dynasty, 525-404 BC, limestone - Museo Gregoriano Egizio - Vatican Museums - DSC00800
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Froehlich and Schmiedel, Johann Joachim Kaendler, Meissen Porcelain Factory, c. 1741, hard-paste porcelain - Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, CT - DSC05296
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Federal dressing chest with mirror, Thomas Seymour, 1805-1810, mahogany, birds-eye maple - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07649
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Fire bucket no. 1, made for Robinson family by unknown maker, probably Bennington VT, 1790-1820, painted leather and iron - Bennington Museum - Bennington, VT - DSC08876
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Female mask, architectural decoration, 3 of 4, Athribis, Tell Atrib at Benha, Egypt, 100-150 AD, marble - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC00004
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Female statue, M.C. inv. 1125, from the Horti Tauriani, Roman, from original by the school of Praxiteles, 4th century BC, marble - Musei Capitolini - Rome, Italy - DSC05838
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Enehey, excavated from Saqqarah, Egypt, New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty to early 19th Dynasty, c. 1300-1200 BC, limestone, view 5 - Matsuoka Museum of Art - Tokyo, Japan - DSC07016
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Enehey, excavated from Saqqarah, Egypt, New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty to early 19th Dynasty, c. 1300-1200 BC, limestone, view 4 - Matsuoka Museum of Art - Tokyo, Japan - DSC07014
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Flora by Jan-Baptist Xavery, Holland, 1742 - Waddesdon Manor - Buckinghamshire, England - DSC07797
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Fragment from a curtain, Spain, Granada, Nasrid dynasty, late 14th century AD, silk, view 2 - Textile Museum, George Washington University - DSC09859
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Ewer with phoenix head, China, Tang dynasty, 600s AD, porcelain - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08384
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Face of Dzunukwa feast dish cover, Kwakwaka'wakw, Kingcome Inlet, British Columbia, c. 1900, red cedar, paint - Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia - DSC08748
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Hat, Haida or Tlingit, spruce root - Native American collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC06140
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House-shaped offering stand, Yorghan Tepe, ancient Nuzi, Iraq, Stratum II, ceramic - Harvard Semitic Museum - Cambridge, MA - DSC06061
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