The Hardwicke Soup Tureen and Cover
1737-38, the London assay year running from late May 1737... · Sterling silver
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
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One canonical page per artwork: what it is, where it was found, every owner it passed through, where it has been exhibited, what has been written about it, and what it has made at auction. Every claim carries a cited public source.
276 records
The Rosetta Stone
196 BC · Incised granodiorite stele
The British Museum, London, Room 4
Yongle Dadian, juan 10,110-10,112 (Chester Beatty Library, C 1757)
1562-1567 · Hand-copied text in red and black ink on Xuan paper
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
Girl with a Pearl Earring
c. 1665 · Oil on canvas
Mauritshuis
The Aldobrandini Tazze
c. 1587-1599 · Silver
Dispersed across seven countries. Two are in the Metropolitan...
Sir John Herschel
April 1867 · Albumen silver print from a wet collodion glass negative
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Photographs
Harpsichord
ca. 1650 · Wood and various materials
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Musical...
The Rhinoceros
1515 · Woodcut on paper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam