The Benin Bronzes
Plaques probably 1500 to mid-1600s · Cast leaded brass
Dispersed. Digital Benin recorded 5,246 objects across 131...
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The Records
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 Amaravati Collection
c. 200 BCE to c. 250 CE, with later pieces of about the 7th... · Carved limestone known as Palnad marble
The Bayeux Tapestry
c. 1067-1082, on the evidence of the Domesday connections... · Wool crewel yarn embroidered onto a tabby-woven linen ground
On loan to the British Museum, London, 10 September 2026 to...
The Bobrinski Bucket
Muharram 559 AH / December 1163 CE · Cast bronze
State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
The Holy Thorn Reliquary
Sources vary within a c. 1390-1410 window: Google Arts &... · Gold
British Museum, London, Room 2A
The Messiah
1716 · Spruce table
Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, on display in Gallery 39
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen
1878-1881 · Pigmented beeswax
National Gallery of Art
Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies
5th-8th century AD · Handscroll
British Museum, London, Room 91a