Platter
19th century · Lead-glazed earthenware
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Artworks
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316 artworks
The Ancient of Days
1794 · Relief etching printed in colour
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester
The Wine of Saint Martin's Day
c. 1565-1568 · Glue-size tempera
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Violin, the 'Lady Blunt'
1721 · Spruce top
Private collection
The Trumpets of Tutankhamun
c. 1336-1327 BC · Silver trumpet
Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza
Carta marina navigatoria Portvgallen navigationes, atqve tocius cogniti orbis terre marisqve formam natvram sitvs et terminos nostris temporibvs recognitos et ab antiqvorum traditione differentes, eciam qvor vetvsti non meminervnt avtores, hec generaliter indicat
1516 · Woodcut with letterpress text on twelve...
Library of Congress
Universalis Cosmographia secundum Ptholomaei Traditionem et Americi Vespucii aliorumque Lustrationes
1507 · Woodcut with letterpress text on twelve...
Library of Congress
Melencolia I
1514 · Engraving on laid paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
Astrolabe of 'Umar ibn Yusuf ibn 'Umar ibn 'Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari
690 AH / 1291 CE · Brass
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Armor Garniture of George Clifford, Third Earl of Cumberland
1586 · Steel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Corning Ewer
9th - 11th century AD · Cameo-cut glass
Corning Museum of Glass
Coronation Mantle of Roger II
1133 · Red silk samite dyed with kermes
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna