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

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Tiwanaku artist

Incense burner with feline head

500-1000 CE · Ceramic

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sanjo Munechika

Tachi, mei Sanjo (Meibutsu Mikazuki Munechika)

987-989 · Forged and folded steel

Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo

Unknown Jaziran glass workshop, with an unknown Parisian goldsmith's mount

The Palmer Cup

c. AD 1200-1225 · Glass beaker

British Museum, London

Unknown royal goldsmith, Parisian court workshop

The Royal Gold Cup

c. 1370-1391 · Solid gold

British Museum, London

Unknown weaver or weavers, Harjedalen

The Overhogdal Tapestries

1991 · Wool weft in soumak technique

Jamtli

Walter of Durham, called Master Walter, king's painter

The Coronation Chair

1297-1300 · Oak

Westminster Abbey, London

Unknown metalworker

Ewer

c. 1180-1210 · Brass

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Abu Zayd al-Kashani

Bowl

Dated 583 AH / 1187 CE · Stonepaste

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Goro Nyudo Masamune

The Honjo Masamune

First half of the fourteenth century · Forged and folded steel

Unlocated since January 1946.

Unknown Roman gold-glass workshop, location disputed between Rome and Alexandria

Brescia Medallion

c. 200-300 CE · Gold leaf fused between two layers of blown...

Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy

Goryeo dynasty celadon kilns

Bowl with two boys and lotuses

Early 12th century · Stoneware with mold-impressed design under...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Unknown goldsmith, Lower Italian or Sicilian workshop

Guelph Cross

First half of the 12th century · Cloisonne

Kunstgewerbemuseum

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