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Stele with Buddha and Two Attendants, India, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, Kushan period, early 2nd century AD, red Sikri sandstone - Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University - DSC00829

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Tiger Attacking a Peacock, by Antoine-Louis Barye, c. 1830-1840, plaster, wax - Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University - DSC01270

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Table set owned by Porto Bishop António de San José de Castro, China, Jiaqing period, c. 1800-1810, porcelain - Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis - Porto, Portugal - DSC00453

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The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver, by James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey, London, 26 June 1803, hand-colored etching with aquatint - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06800

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Ritual object (cong), China, probably Jiangsu or Zhejiang province, Neolithic period, Liangzhu culture, 3300-2000 BC, nephrite - Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University - DSC00793

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Tall case clock, movement by Reuben King (1777-1853), case by Fitch Skinner (1777-1844), Lansingburg NY, c. 1800, cherry with mahogany veneer, view 2 - Bennington Museum - Bennington, VT - DSC08789

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Tall case clock, Boston, 1785-1795, mahogany, mahogany veneer, holly, white pine, brass, painted iron - Concord Museum - Concord, MA - DSC05649

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Tailor riding a goat (Welsh tailor), Johann Joachim Kaendler, Meissen Porcelain Factory, c. 1740, hard-paste porcelain - Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, CT - DSC05174

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Tale of the Chrysanthemum Spirit, 2 of 2, attributed to Tosa Yukihide, Japan, Muromachi period, 16th century AD, ink, color, gold on paper - Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University - DSC01140

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Tenmoku teabowl, Japan, Karatsu kilns, Momoyama period, 1596-1615, stoneware, iron pigment under wood-ash glaze - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04760

Hunting of the Calydonian Boar, inv. 85, Tyrrhenian amphora, Prometheus Painter, c. 560 BC, ceramic - Musei Capitolini - Rome, Italy - DSC05911

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Incense burner with lion-shaped knob, based on a Ming dynasty original, Mino ware, Oribe type, Japan, Edo period, dated 1612 AD, ceramic - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC09003

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Interior of the Liebfrauenkirche in Frankfurt am Main, by Christian Georg Schutz the elder, Frankfurt am Main, 1769, oil on copper - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC01189

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Interior view - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07340

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Horse cover, Shahsevan people, northwestern Iran or Caucasus, 1850-1900 AD, silk, metal-wrapped silk, view 1 - Textile Museum, George Washington University - DSC09941

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Large Vase by Taizan Yohei IX (1856-1922), 1892 World's Columbian Exposition, bird and flower design in overglaze enamels and gold - Tokyo National Museum - DSC05571

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Last Judgment Throne (Hetoimasia), plaster cast from mosaics in the Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, from the time of Sixtus III, 432-440 AD - Pinacoteca Vaticana - Vatican Museums - DSC01253

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Lekythos in protogeometric style, Submycenaean Greece, c. 1050 BC, H 5057 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05623

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Large dish with cherry blossom and eagle design, Imari ware, Edo period, 1700s AD, porcelain, overglaze enamel - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC08955

Large jar with lotus petal design, excavated at Kanukiyama Sutra Mound, Numazu-shi, Shizuoka, Atsumi ware, Heian period, 1100s AD, ceramic - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC08821

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Le Perou, Grand Pays de l'Amerique Meridionale..., Pieter van der Aa, Netherlands, 1700, etching with hand-coloring - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC08117

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Neck amphora with boxers training, Attic, 490-480 BC, L 221 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05522

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Neck amphora with Herakles battling Triton, Athens, c. 510 BC, L 189 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05541

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Neck amphora with Athena battling the giants, Attic, c. 500 BC, L 195 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05569

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Neck amphora with Herakles fighting Triton, Attic, c. 520 BC, L 191 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05606

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Native Encampment by Michele Felice Corne, after Giovanni Battista Cipriani, based on a watercolor by Alexander Buchan, 1804, oil on wood panel - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07138

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Mowing machine, salesman's sample, made by Walter A. Wood's Mowing and Reaping Machine Company, Hoosick Falls NY, c. 1880, wood, brass, cast iron, painted - Bennington Museum - Bennington, VT - DSC09130

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Nanban kabuto, modified English lobster-tail burgonet, Japan, late Momoyama to early Edo period, late 1500s to early 1600s AD, iron, lacquer, leather - The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum - DSC05505

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Nao (ritual bell), China, probably Hunan province, Late Shang to early Zhou dynasty, 12th-10th century BC, cast bronze - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC08434

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Museum's Natural History Album of Insects, Vol. 1 Arachnids and Insects 1, by Sekine Untei (1804-1877) et al, compiled by the Imperial Household Museum, Edo to Meiji period - Tokyo National Museum - DSC05521

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Newport, Rhode Island (Beacon Rock), by John Frederick Kensett, 1872, oil on canvas - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04807

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Oregon Still Life by Childe Hassam, 1904, oil on canvas - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC08729

Oakujo type noh mask, inscription 'One of the 23 masks of Master Aiwaka of Tango', Azuchi-Momoyama to Edo period, 1500s-1600s AD, wood, polychromy - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC09012

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Nocturnal, Erasmus Habermel, Prague, c. 1600, tell time at night by sighting Pole Star through central hole, then align pointer with Big Dipper - Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Dresden - DSC08017

Mounted vase, Sevres Porcelain Manufactory, Pierre-Philippe Thomire, bronzier, c. 1786-1788, porcelain, gilt bronze - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - San Francisco, CA - DSC02739

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Mantel clock by Julien Le Roy, 1790, glass, ormolu, vitreous enamel, on chimneypiece by John Devall the younger, 1793, marble - Blue Drawing Room - Shugborough Hall - Staffordshire, England - DSC00336

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Machine for Circulating Water throughout the Castle, from Civil Architecture, c. 1800-1805, by Jean-Jacques Lequeu, pen and black ink, gray and brown wash - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06737

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Madonna and Child with angels, triptych, reliefs from France, perhaps Paris, 1325-1350 AD, mounts and ornaments from Rome, mid 1600s, ivory, painted and gilt wood - Vatican Museums - DSC00712

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Madonna and Child, commissioned by Jesuit missionaries, Dehua ware, China, Qing dynasty, 1600s AD, stoneware - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00687

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Madame G. van Muyden by Amedeo Modigliani, 1916-1917, oil on canvas - Museu de Arte de São Paulo - DSC07280

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Mogamido gusoku armor, Japan, helmet bowl signed Efu Yoysuya no ju-nin Minamoto Kiyokuni, 1854, with bagai and bagu (horse armor & tack), Edo - The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum - DSC05536

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Model carriage, probably South German, 1650-1700, limewood, cherrywood, leather, silk, felt, sheet silver, gold and silver wire, paper, horsehair, steel- Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC06992

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Male figure, Cyprus, Proto-Cypriot period, 600-540 BC, limestone - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00658

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Letter from Col. John Salmon 'Rip' Ford to Gov. Francis R. Lubbock, September 18, 1863 - Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library Building - Austin, Texas - DSC08369

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Ottoman textile fragment with Cintemani (auspicious jewel) design, probably Istanbul, Turkey, late 16th century, silk, metal-wrapped thread, lampas (kemha) - Aga Khan Museum - Toronto, Canada - DSC06837

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Our Lady of Sorrows and Man of Sorrows (Lady), Lower Rhine, late 1400s, stained glass - Museum Schnütgen - Cologne, Germany - DSC09792

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Pl. IX, Papetterie, Formaire, Diderot's Encyclopedia, c. 1760 - Robert C. Williams Paper Museum - DSC00457

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Pear-shaped vase, 1769-1772, Queen's ware decorated with mineral oxides and applied floral swag, black basalt plinh - Wedgwood Museum - Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, England - DSC09598

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Painting of tapestry for the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales, workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1625, oil on canvas - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00505

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Pair of George III pedestals and urns, 2 of 2, England, c. 1790, mahogany - Great House - Castle Hill on the Crane Estate - Ipswich, Massachusetts - DSC06193

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Palanquin hook, Cambodia, Khmer empire, Bayon period, 1100s-1200s AD, bronze - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04975

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Palanquin fitting of a naga (sacred serpent), Cambodia, Khmer empire, Bayon period, late 1100s AD, gilt bronze - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04973

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Plate with 'Death of Marc Anthony' after a design by Angelika Kauffmann, Porzellanmanufaktur Wien, 1805, porcelain - Germanisches Nationalmuseum - Nuremberg, Germany - DSC03447

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Panel from Epistle Pulpit, Church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, by Lorenzo di Tebaldo and son, late 1100s to early 1200s, with scenes from life of Achilles, 4th c. AD- Musei Capitolini - Rome, Italy - DSC05828

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Pilgrim flask, Cypriot, Cypro-Geometric II-III, c. 950-750 BC, terracotta - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC07991

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Pillow box (makura), Japan, Edo period, c. 1750-1850, maki-e lacquer on wood - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Montreal, Canada - DSC09499

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Parochet (torah curtain) with Hebrew inscription from Psalms CXVIII-20, Egypt, Cairo, Ottoman Empire, early 1600s, wool - Textile Museum, George Washington University - DSC09735

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Saint James Vanquishing the Moors, by Giovanni Battista Crespi, called Cerano, Milan, c. 1630, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07926

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Il Devotissimo Viaggio di Gerusalemme... Rome, by Jean Zuallart and Natale Bonifacio, 1587 - Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon - Eugene, Oregon - DSC09475

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Justice Fulminating the Vices, sketch for Antwerp town hall ceiling, by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, 1717, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC08095

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Judgment of Paris (Dispatch of the Apple of Discord), by Louis Laguerre, c. 1688-1693 - State Closet, Chatsworth House - Derbyshire, England - DSC03233

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Jesse Tree with King David (left) and King Solomon (right), Circle of Heinrich Douvermann, Germany, c. 1520-1530, polychromed oak with traces of gilding- Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University - DSC01073

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Jar with Whorl-and-Checkerboard Decor, China, Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province, Neolithic period, Majiayao culture, Banshu phase, 2650-2350 BC - Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University - DSC00821

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Fragmentary quipu (khipu), a main cord with top, subsidiary, & tertiary cords, Inca, Peru, Late Horizon, 1476-1534 AD, cotton, plant & camelid fiber, indigo & red dye - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04704

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Festivals for the Marriage of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany and Christina of Lorraine - 4th Entry, St. Maria de Fiore, Orazio Scarabelli, 1589, etching - National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo - DSC08289

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Halberd, attributed to Ipsil-ri, Gyeongju, Korea, Proto-Three Kingdoms period, 1st century BC, bronze - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08204

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Jar with autumn grasses design, Atsumi ware, excavated at Minamikase, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa, Heian period, 1100s AD, ceramic - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC09268

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Sarcophagus of Hathor-Mut-Netcher, Egyptian, Late period, 26th to 30th dynasty, 664-343 BC, painted gesso on wood - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC08050

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Secretary, England, probably 1725-1750, oak, black lacquer, polychrome painting, gold leaf, brass - Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis - Porto, Portugal - DSC00604

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Seated nymph, Roman copy of Hellenistic original from Asia Minor, second half of the 2nd century AD, perhaps from Rome, marble - Cinquantenaire Museum - Brussels, Belgium - DSC09055

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Seated female figure, Jenne people, Inland Niger Delta region, Mali, c. late 13th to 17th century AD, terracotta - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06149

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Sacrifice of Isaac, by Jacopo da Ponte, called Bassano, c. 1574-1575, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07768

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Sodom and Gomorrah afire, by Jacob Jacobsz. de Wet d. J., probably Köln, c. 1680, oil on canvas - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC01149

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Sofa (sultana), Real Taller de Ebanisteria, Madrid, 1802, pine - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08347

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Sofa, maker unknown, part of the original furnishings of the Bradford House on East Main Street, Bennington VT, c. 1861, walnut, pine, reproduction damask - Bennington Museum - Bennington, VT - DSC09111

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Rustam kills the dragon, folio from Shahnameh of Shah Ismail II, attrib. Sadegi (Beg), Iran, Tabriz, c. 1576 AD, view 1 - Aga Khan Museum - Toronto, Canada - DSC06935

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Seated hollow baby, Gulf Coast Olmec culture, Tenenexpan, Veracruz state, Early Formative period, c. 1100-900 BC, ceramic - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04574

Seated Bather by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, detail, c. 1883-1884, oil on canvas - Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University - DSC00723

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Screen with tiger and sericulture design, by Kato Kanshiro, exhibited at the Second National Industrial Exposition, c. 1881 AD, ceramic with underglaze blue - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC09257

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Ship Monterey of Boston, H. Crowe Master, Entering the Port of Genoa, May 9th 1851, artist unknown, Genoa, Italy, c. 1851, oil on canvas - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07198

Small jewellery cabinet, detail, by Johann Zignah ebeniste, Paul Soyer enamel, Paris, 1877-1878, ebony-veneer on oak, enamel plates, silver, ivory - Germanisches Nationalmuseum - Nuremberg, Germany - DSC03098

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Small tray (tabaqcheh) with scene of young prince and two officials at a wine banquet, Iran, early 13th century AD, lustre painted fritware - Aga Khan Museum - Toronto, Canada - DSC06649

Sketch for Le derviche tourneur (The Whirling Dervish), by Jean-Leon Gerome, French, c. 1868-1889, oil on paper on canvas - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC08129

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Sketch of Maua, Apia, One of Our Boat Crew, by John La Farge, 1891, oil on canvas - Addison Gallery of American Art - Phillips Academy Andover - Andover, Massachusetts - DSC05275

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Single spout strap handle vessel with standing figure, 2 of 2, Chancay culture, Peru central coast, Late Intermediate Period, 1100-1300 AD, ceramic and slips - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04658

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Six Mythological Scenes, 2 The Death of the Niobids, Antonio Gentili, Rome, c. 1600 AD, modelled c. 1552-1555 AD, gold plate with precious stones - Bode-Museum - DSC02536

South American Scene (Vespers, Guayaquil River, Ecuador), by Louis Remy Mignot, American, 1862, oil on canvas - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC06955

Saint Michael, Saint Bruno, and (perhaps) Saint Louis of Toulouse, by Andrea D'Aste, after c. 1709, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07929

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Safe-conduct for Mr. and Mrs. Walker, signed by Samuel Chase, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Benjamin Franklin, 1776, ink on paper - Château Ramezay - Montreal, Canada - DSC07486

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Sailor's cap, Tlingit, c. 1790-1840, grass, spruce roots - Native American collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC06142

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Belly amphora with Herakles wrestling Triton, Attic, c. 540 BC, L 263 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05543

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Basin with dragon and phoenix design, Jingdezhen ware, China, Ming dynasty, Wanli era, 1573-1620 AD, ceramic, overglaze enamel - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08359

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Battle scene with three hoplites, neck amphora, attributed to the Leagros Group, c. 510-500 BC, black-figure terracotta - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07642

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Beaker illustrating tale of Bizhan and Manizha from the Shahnama, Iran, early 13th century, composite body painted over glaze with enamel - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04677 (cropped)

Alabastron with African warrior, Group of the Negro Alabastra, Greek, Attic, c. 500 BC, white-ground technique on earthenware - Krannert Art Museum, UIUC - DSC06531

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Bacchanal krater from trousseau of Queen Cristina of Naples on her marriage to Fernando VII, view 2, German school, 1650-1700 AD, ivory, silver - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08051

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Apis Bull carrying Mummy, coffin foot panel, Egyptian, Third Intermediate or Late Period, Dynasty 22 or later, after 945 BC, painted wood - Sackler Museum - Harvard University - DDSC01853

A_Fete_Champetre_During_the_Grape_Harvest,_by_Jean-Baptiste_Pater,_c._1730-1733,_oil_on_canvas_-_Dallas_Museum_of_Art_-_DSC05242

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Filing cabinet for Philip V of Spain, by Hendrick van Soest, Antwerp, c. 1713, marquetry of tortoise shell, jacaranda, ebonized wood, tin, bronze - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08451

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Guanyin, China, Northern Qi dynasty, 568 AD, gilt bronze - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC08185

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