"Ombelliferes" (Cow Parsley) Cabinet
ca. 1900 · Case and carved elements in stained beech
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276 artworks
Potpourri Vase (Vase potpourri a vaisseau)
1764 · Soft-paste porcelain
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
"Tahmuras Defeats the Divs", Folio 23v from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
ca. 1525 · Opaque watercolor
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Islamic Art
Twin Pines, Level Distance
ca. 1310 · Handscroll
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Asian...
The Devonshire Hunting Tapestries
c. 1425-1450 · Wool
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Dunlap Broadside [Declaration of Independence]
Night of July 4-5, 1776 · Letterpress printing in black ink from...
National Archives Building, Washington, DC
The Valley of the Shadow of Death
23 April 1855 · Salted paper print from a wet collodion...
No single print is 'the' object. Prints made from Fenton's...
Sword of King Goujian of Yue
c. 496-465 BCE, during Goujian's reign as King of Yue · Cast bronze
Hubei Provincial Museum, Wuhan, Hubei, China
The Sons of Liberty Bowl
1768, finished within five weeks of 30 June · Silver
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession 49.45
The Unicorn Tapestries
c. 1495-1505 · Wool warp with wool
The Met Cloisters, New York, Gallery 17
Antikythera Mechanism
Disputed. Proposed dates for construction range from c. · Cast and hand-cut bronze
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Grand Piano by John Broadwood and Sons
1817-1818 · Wood
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest