
The Antioch 'Chalice'
500-550. Formerly published as second half of the first... · Silver
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gallery 300
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500-550. Formerly published as second half of the first... · Silver
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gallery 300

ca. 1560 · Spruce
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Musical...

Partially mid-16th century · Steel and gold
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1745-1746 · Silver
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

1910 · Gelatin silver print. The Library of...
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division...

c. 1489-1491 · Hand-drawn and colored manuscript map
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New...

c. 900 · Iron-gall ink on parchment
ANU - Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv

Dated AH 946, equivalent to 1539-40 · Wool knotted pile on a silk warp and weft...
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Room 42, the Jameel Gallery

Seventeenth century · Knotted pile
Museum of Islamic Art

1632 · Carrara marble
Galleria Borghese, Rome

second half 9th century - mid 10th century CE · Gold and silver on indigo-dyed parchment
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Islamic Art

c. 539-530 BC · Fired clay
British Museum, London, Room 52
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