Along the River During the Qingming Festival (Qingming shanghe tu), the Beijing scroll
12th century · Ink and light colour on silk
Palace Museum, Beijing
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Artworks
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316 artworks
The Benin Bronzes
c. 1500 · Cast leaded brass
Dispersed
The Bayeux Tapestry
c. 1067-1082 · Wool crewel yarn embroidered onto a...
On loan to the British Museum, London
The Trewhiddle Hoard
9th century AD · Silver
British Museum, London, Room 41
The Water Newton Treasure
Second half of the 4th century · Silver
The British Museum, London
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
1878-1881 · Pigmented beeswax
National Gallery of Art
Breguet No. 160, the Marie-Antoinette
1783 · Gold
L. A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art, Jerusalem
The Hope Diamond
c. 1668 · Type IIb boron-bearing diamond
Smithsonian Institution
The Unicorn Tapestries
c. 1495-1505 · Wool warp with wool
The Met Cloisters, New York, Gallery 17
The Concert
c. 1663-1666 · Oil on canvas
Unlocated
Dish
16th century · Stonepaste
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Magna Carta, 1297 (the Perot-Rubenstein copy)
12 October 1297 · Latin manuscript in a chancery hand on...
National Archives Building, Washington, DC