
The Gloucester Candlestick
1107-1113 · Gilt copper alloy
Victoria and Albert Museum, London. On display, Medieval and...
Artworks made 500 to 1400. 64 recorded, each with a cited chain of ownership. The era is read from the year on each record; the record's own date line is what counts.

1107-1113 · Gilt copper alloy
Victoria and Albert Museum, London. On display, Medieval and...

c. 1300-1320 · Linen ground

Text completed 1154 CE at Palermo · Arabic geographical treatise
No single original survives. The text is preserved in roughly...

c. 700-721, most narrowly argued as c. 715-722 · Ink
British Library, London

c. 1250-1259 · Pen and ink line drawing with tinted colour...
British Library, London

Mamluk Egypt or Syria, first half of the 14th century · Hammered brass
Musee du Louvre, Departement des Arts de l'Islam, Paris, Room...

1150-1200 · Copper alloy
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gallery 116

500-1000 CE · Ceramic
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Michael C.

Traditionally dated to the Eien era, 987-989, during the... · Forged and folded steel
Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo

Glass beaker: c. AD 1200-1225 · Glass beaker
British Museum, London, Waddesdon Bequest gallery, Room 2A...

c. 1370-1391 · Solid gold
British Museum, London

Disputed. Radiocarbon results from three separate campaigns · Wool weft in soumak technique
Jamtli, the county museum of Jamtland and Harjedalen...
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