Along the River During the Qingming Festival (Qingming shanghe tu), the Beijing scroll
12th century · Ink and light colour on silk
Palace Museum, Beijing
Medieval
Artworks made 500 to 1400. 74 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.
74 artworks
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
Magna Carta, 1297 (the Perot-Rubenstein copy)
12 October 1297 · Latin manuscript in a chancery hand on...
National Archives Building, Washington, DC
The Franks Casket
First half of the 8th century AD · Carved whale bone
The lid and four of the five carved faces
Wells Cathedral Clock
1392 · Iron-framed
Dial, automata and the current
The Diamond Sutra
868 · Woodblock-printed ink on seven sheets of...
The British Library, London
Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies
5th-8th century AD · Handscroll
British Museum, London, Room 91a
The Sutton Hoo Lyre
Early 7th century AD · Maple wood body with willow and alder...
The British Museum, London
The Mocking of Christ
c. 1280 · Egg tempera and gold leaf on poplar panel
Musee du Louvre
The Wade Cup with Animated Script
c. 1200-1221 · Brass
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
The Ardagh Chalice
8th century AD · Silver
National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology