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Mounted Carved Coconut Goblet Decorated with Scenes from the Story of Samson, Hans Peter Muller, Germany, c. 1600, coconut, gilt silver - Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University - DSC01364
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Mirror with triangular rim and dragon and tiger design, 9 of 12, Japan, Kofun period, 200s-300s AD, bronze - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC09181
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Mirror with chrysanthemum and paired birds design, Asahiyama Sutra Mound, Oka, Ito-shi, Shizuoka, Heian period, 1100s AD, bronze - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC09249
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Mirror, from the Mirror box with Mount Penglai, Atsuta Jingu, Aichi, Japan, Muromachi period, 1400s AD - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08867
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Our Lady of Cocharcas, artist unknown, Peru, 1751, oil on canvas, detail - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC08137
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Pataky polychrome tripod vessel with monkey head, Nicoya region, Costa Rica, 1000-1550 AD, ceramic - Meso-American collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC06084
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Pair of plates with Kakiemon decoration, 2 of 2, Meissen porcelain, c. 1735, hard-paste porcelain , soft-paste porcelain - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - San Francisco, CA - DSC03032
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Pair of radiate-head bow brooches, Ostrogothic, 2 of 2, c. 450-500 AD, silver, gilding, garnets, copper alloy, iron - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06626
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Pair of radiate-head bow brooches, Slavic, 1 of 2, c. 600-650 AD, copper alloy, gilding - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06618
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Oboshi kabuto, Japan, Kamakura period bowl, 1192-1333 AD, Edo period mountings, 1603-1868 AD, iron, lacquer, leather, gold, lacing - The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum - DSC05486
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Obelisk clock with Franklin movement, case by David Roentgen, clockmaker Peter Kinzing, Germany, Neuwid-at-the-Rhine, c. 1785-1790, many woods, 2015.504- Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC07663
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Oktodrachme, Alexandria, Arsinoe II, 285-245 BC - Bode-Museum - DSC02683
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Organ clock, probably Orpheus playing the flute, casing by H. C. Micheelis, Germany, c. 1785 - Waddesdon Manor - Buckinghamshire, England - DSC07617
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Plate with gothic inscription Ave Maria Gratia Plena, Valencia, Spain, 15th century AD, glazed lustre ceramic - Cinquantenaire Museum - Brussels, Belgium - DSC09096
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Pistolet owned by General Sir James Murray (1721-1794), made by T. Richards, London, 1710, metal, wood - Château Ramezay - Montreal, Canada - DSC07479
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Pair of radiate-head bow brooches, Ostrogothic, 1 of 2, c. 450-500 AD, silver, gilding, garnets, copper alloy, iron - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06624
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Pair of green vases, painted by Jean Georget, mounts by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, 1 of 2, Sèvres porcelain, 1809, soft-paste porcelain - Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, CT - DSC05493
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Plaque with nandina tree and bulbul in snowscape design, by Shoami Katsuyoshi (1832-1908), Japan, dated 1892 AD, silver-copper allowy with inlay - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC09253
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Planispheric astrolabe, by Muhammad Zaman al-Munajjim al-Asturlabi, Iran, 1654-1655, brass, steel - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC06977
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Harbor Island, Lake George, NY, by David Johnson, 1871, oil on canvas - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07473
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Hard pottery urn with double-f pattern, Bronze period, from Hai Dei Wan, Lantau Island, Hong Kong - Hong Kong Museum of History - DSC00743
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Julius Caesar sacrificing before going to the Senate, by Louis Laguerre, 1692-1694, oil on plaster - Entrance Hall, Chatsworth House - Derbyshire, England - DSC03002
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Ice-cream pail, from a partial dessert service, made by John Ridgway, 1830-1840, porcelain, hand-painted decoration and gilding - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC06634
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Grand Imperial Wedding of the Guangxu Emperor, vol. 7, leaf 8, Empress Xiaoding entering the palace in phoenix palanquin, by Qing Kuan, c. 1889, ink and color on silk - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07863
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Grand Imperial Wedding of the Guangxu Emperor, vol. 1, leaf 2, The future Empress Xiaoding exiting the Gate of Divine Prowess, by Qing Kuan, c. 1889, ink and color on silk - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07875
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Head of bodhisattva, Binyangdon Caves, Longmen Grottoes, Henan province, China, Northern Wei dynasty, 500s AD, limestone - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08730
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Keyed monochord (monocorde a clavier), Marie Joseph Nicolas Poussot, Paris, France, c. 1890, beech, spruce - Casadesus Collection of Historic Musical Instruments - Boston Symphony Orchestra - 20180113 192146
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Kesi fragment with flowering plant, bird, and best design on red, purple, and black bands, China, Yuan dynasty, 1200s-1300s AD, textile - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08437
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Frieze with procession of women, Halikarnassos, c. 200 BC, H 4794 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05871
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Flowerpot with incised number 1, China, Henan province, Yuxian, Juntai, Ming dynasty, early 1400s AD, stoneware, Jun glaze - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04990
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Four-armed Palden Lhamo, Tibet, 1644-1911 AD, gilt copper - Sichuan Provincial Museum - Chengdu, China - DSC04415
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Japanned tobacco box with case, attributed to Johann Martin Heinrici, Germany, c. 1730, wood, imitation lacquer, mother-of-pearl, gilt copper, leather - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07743
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Picnic box in palanquin shape, Japan, Edo period, 1603-1868 AD, wood, black lacquer, maki-e, metal fittings - Linden-Museum - Stuttgart, Germany - DSC03551
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Rustam kicks back the rock hurled on him by Bahman, folio from Shahnameh, Iran, Shiraz, c. 1560-1580 AD, watercolour, ink, and gold on paper - Aga Khan Museum - Toronto, Canada - DSC06929
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Salamis-style amphoroid krater, Cypro-Geometric III, 1995.10.1324 - Cesnola Collection, Harvard Semitic Museum - Cambridge, MA - DSC06247
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Picnic set, Japan, Edo period, 1603-1868, wood, black lacquer, nashiji, gold and silver maki-e, gilt copper - Linden-Museum - Stuttgart, Germany - DSC03554
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Sacred Family by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, 1525-1530, oil on panel - Galleria Borghese - Rome, Italy - DSC04606
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Screen, Gustav Stickley, United Crafts or Craftsman Workshops, Eastwood, New York, designed c. 1902, made c. 1902-1903, oak, leather, brass tacks - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC05190
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Seated female musicians, figure 2 of 6, China, Tang dynasty, 7th century AD, straw glaze with painted ornament - Matsuoka Museum of Art - Tokyo, Japan - DSC07289
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Shoulder cloth (amice), Benedictine convent of Engelberg, Switzerland, c. 1300-1310, white linen fabric, linen and colored silk embroidery - Museum Schnütgen - Cologne, Germany - DSC09888
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Somen (full mask), signed Kato Shigetsugu, Japan, mid Edo period, 1700s-1800s AD, leather, iron - The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum - DSC05581
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Sewing machine, Wilcox and Gibbs, New York NY, 1877, cast iron, steel, wood - Bennington Museum - Bennington, VT - DSC08610
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Pier table, origin unknown, with cellaret by Thomas Chippendale, c. 1771, rosewood and ormolu - State Dining Room - Harewood House - West Yorkshire, England - DSC02030
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Periander as a Greek scholar, Roman, head 130-140 AD, statue 1st century AD, base 140-150 AD from a sarcophagus with Nereids bearing the arms of Achilles, marble - Galleria Borghese - Rome, Italy - DSC04882
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Periander as a Greek scholar, Roman, head 130-140 AD, statue 1st century AD, base 140-150 AD from a sarcophagus with Nereids bearing the arms of Achilles, marble - Galleria Borghese - Rome, Italy - DDSC04884
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Saint Catherine of Alexandria, circle of Veit Stoss the elder, c. 1510-1520, limewood - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00536
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Self portrait, after Hyacinthe Rigaud, French, detail, c. 1710, oil on canvas - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC08126
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Self-portrait of the Artist and His Family, by Paul Claude-Michel Carpentier, French, 1833, oil on canvas - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC05252
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Saint Ambrose denies Theodosius entry to the church, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1751 - Mainfränkisches Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC04571
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Sauce tureen, 1 of 2, from a partial dessert service, made by John Ridgway, 1830-1840, porcelain, hand-painted decoration and gilding - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC06630
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Satyr and maenad, with Dionysos, satyrs, and maenads, kylix, by Douris or the Painter of London E55, Attic Greek, 490-480 BC, red-figure terracotta - Sackler Museum - Harvard University - DSC01774
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Skyphos with a love chase, red figure, Nola, c. 450 BC, ceramic - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC01134
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Slit woven panel fragment with seated monkey figures in squares, Peru, Chimu, north coast, c. 1300 AD, cotton and alpaca wool - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06424
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Sleeping putto with skull, probably Netherlands, 1600s, ivory - Museum Schnütgen - Cologne, Germany - DSC09951
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Set of mukozuke dishes in shape of leaves, Imari ware, Edo period, 1600s AD, porcelain, overglaze enamel - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC08939
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Krater with scene from Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae, Apulia, c. 370 BC, H 5692 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05863
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Kartrika (ritual trumpet), Central Tibet, U-tsang, 15th century shell with 18th century additions, engraved shell, silver, semiprecious stones - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC08190
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Karl Asmund Rudolphi, anatomist, by Leonhard Posch, iron, 1825 - Bode-Museum - DSC02829
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Kotyle with birds, panthers, and goats in Wild Style, Greek, Corinthian, c. 580 BC, black and red slip painted on earthenware - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06543
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Molds for bronze swords and other items, from the Nordheimer Hohl, Neckargartach, Stadt Heilbronn, c. 800 BC, Lettenhohl sandstone - Landesmuseum Württemberg - Stuttgart, Germany - DSC02772
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Mercury Transforming Chelone into a Turtle, by Filippo Lauri, Rome, c. 1671, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07851
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Model paper mill, view 2, Papierfabrik Gmbh, vorm Bruder Kammerer, Osnabruck, manufactured for Parsons & Whittemore - Robert C. Williams Paper Museum - DSC00687
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Money tree base (yao qian shu), probably Yunxian, Hubei province, China, Eastern Han period, 100s AD, cast bronze, glazed earthenware base - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC08514
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Montgolfier balloon ewer with map of Japan, Japan, Meiji period, porcelain - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00692
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Lekythos with boxers, Attic, c. 520 BC, L 371 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05493
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Lady Elizabeth Yorke, Lady Anson, by the studio of Thomas Hudson, probably 1751, oil on canvas - Shugborough Hall - Staffordshire, England - DSC00066
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Leda with cupid, Roman, 1st century AD, head from Antonia Minor, c. 35 AD, marble - Galleria Borghese - Rome, Italy - DSC04955
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Lambeth Delft dish after La Fecondite by Bernard Palissy, Lambeth, England, c. 1650, tin-enameled earthenware - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06635
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Map seller, Johann Joachim Kaendler and Peter Reinicke, Meissen Porcelain Factory, c. 1753, hard-paste porcelain - Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, CT - DSC05183
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Madonna and Child with Angels, Giovanni dal Ponte, Florence, 1410s, tempera and gold leaf on panel - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07699
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Memorial to Duke Lamoral II of Thurn and Taxis by Mattheus van Beveren, detail 1 of 3 - Chapel of Saint Ursula - Église Notre-Dame du Sablon - Brussels, Belgium - DSC08135
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Memorial to Duke Lamoral II of Thurn and Taxis by Mattheus van Beveren, detail 2 of 3 - Chapel of Saint Ursula - Église Notre-Dame du Sablon - Brussels, Belgium - DSC08139
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Kasumigaseki - One hundred famous places and beauties of Edo, by Toyokuni III (Kunisada), 1857 AD - Edo-Tokyo Museum - Sumida, Tokyo, Japan - DSC06797
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Kawari kabuto (elaborately shaped helmet) representing a cresting wave, Japan, Momoyama period, 1573-1615 AD, iron, wood, papier-mache, lacquer, lacing - The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum - DSC05589
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Low-footed Dish with Scene of Diana and Actaeon, artist unknown, Italy, c. 1540-1545, tin-glazed earthenware - Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University - DSC01031
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Marshfield Meadows, by Martin Johnson Heade, c. 1878, oil on canvas - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07506
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Mary Magdalene, by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino, c. 1624-1625, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07761
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Mask, possibly of Tlaloc, Mixtec-Mexica (Aztec) culture, Late Postclassic period, 1350-1521 AD, wood, turquoise, shell, lignite, resin - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04563
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Square mirror with auspicious flower and suan'ni beast design, excavated at Yamadasakuratani-cho, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan, Nara period, 700s AD, bronze - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC09319
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Spaniel, Rockingham Pottery, Bennington VT, 1850-1900, mold-cast stoneware with manganese mottled brown glaze - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06649
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Two athletes with trainer, column-krater, attributed to the Pig Painter, Greek-Attic, c. 470 BC, red-figure terracotta - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07645
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Three-handled trophy cup with images of Payson Tucker and Portland's Union Station, Tiffany and Company, c. 1896, silver, gilt interior, view 1 - Portland Museum of Art - Portland, Maine - DSC04081
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The Flaying of Saint Bartholomew, by Juan Carreno de Miranda, Spanish, 1666, oil on canvas - Meadows Museum - Southern Methodist University - DSC05399
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The First Steps, by Jean-Honore Fragonard and Marguerite Gerard, c. 1780-1785, oil on canvas - Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University - DSC02003
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The Adoration of the Magi, with the Nativity and the Presentation in the Temple, Master of 1518, Netherlandish, c. 1520, oil on panel, detail - Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University - DSC01065
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The Virgin and Child, Circle of Cenni di Pepo, called Cimabue, Italy, c. 1295, tempera on panel - Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University - DSC01009
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The Wounded Achilles by Filippo Albacini, 1825, marble - Sculpture Gallery, Chatsworth House - Derbyshire, England - DSC03531
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Sui-tengu at Akabane - One hundred famous places and beauties of Edo, by Toyokuni III (Kunisada), 1857 AD - Edo-Tokyo Museum - Sumida, Tokyo, Japan - DSC06789
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Study by Albin Muller, 1 of 4, Hofmobelfabrik Ludwig Alter, 1914, American nutwood, palisander, renewed seat coverings - Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt - Mathildenhöhe - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC06014
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Stylized Fan-Shaped Pendant with Decoration of Birds and Flowers, Japan, Kamakura period, 13th century AD, gilt bronze - Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University - DSC01157
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Study by Albin Muller, 3 of 4, Hofmobelfabrik Ludwig Alter, 1914, American nutwood, palisander, renewed seat coverings - Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt - Mathildenhöhe - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC06018
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Stele fragment of Renseneb, Egypt, Mahasna, 18th dynasty, 1550-1450 BC, limestone, H 36 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05334
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Table by Emile Galle, France, c. 1900, wood, marquetry - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Montreal, Canada - DSC09299
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Tea and Coffee Service, Dejeuner chinois reticule, Sevres, Jacinthe Reginer designer, Pierre Huard decorator, marks for 1839 and 1842, hard-paste porcelain - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - DSC02923
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Tanko cuirass, from Etafunayama Tumulus, Nagomi-machi, Kumamoto, Kofun period, 400s-500s AD, horizontal iron bands, leather - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC09173
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Tazza, Netherlands, Delft, De Gieksche A. manufactory, Samuel van Eenhooorn, c. 1678-1686, tin-glazed earthenware - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - San Francisco, CA - DSC02856
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Tavern and Hammock of Love, from Civil Architecture, by Jean-Jacques Lequeu, c. 1810, pen and black ink, gray and brown wash, watercolor - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06780
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Portrait of Terajima Munenori by Kuroda Seiki (1866-1924), 1900, oil on canvas - Tokyo National Museum - DSC05557
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Portrait of Philipp von der Pfalz, Bishop of Freising, by Bartel Beham, c. 1538, oil on panel - Hyde Collection - Glens Falls, NY - 20180224 122435
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Portrait of the Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine, by Franz von Stuck, 1906-1908, oil on cardboard - Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt - Mathildenhöhe - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC06144
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