Mask, Perú, North Coast, Chan-Chan, Chimú Culture, A.D. 1100-1500 C.E. Gold repoussé
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Al-Iṣṭakhri, Ṣurat al-Arḍ (Picture/Map of the World), Kitab al-Masalik wa-al-Mamalik (Book of Routes and Realms). Persia/Iran, 1193 CE
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Marble relief with Herakles carrying the Erymanthian Boar; Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 27 BCE-CE 68.
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
The Meeting of Solomon and Sheba,1452, Florence Baptistery (perspective lines) gilt bronze relief
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Relief plaque with face of an owl, made in Egypt, Ptolemaic Kingdom, ca. 400-30 BCE
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Anonymous Iranian - Four lions sharing a single head, amid floral sprays, one morphs into a leopard’s head. 17th cen
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Andy Warhol, "Cherub & Horse" 1956.
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Composite Horse with Female Rider
Opaque watercolor with gold on paper
Murshidabad, late 18th century
8.5 x 11.5 in
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Libra - from the Book of Wonders, Kitab al Bulhan, composite manuscript in Arabic, late 14th century C.E., Abd al-Hasan Al-Isfahani
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Mantle. from the South coast of Peru, 1st cent C.E.
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The Book of the Faiyum. Egyptian 1st century B.C.E.- 2nd century C.E., Greco-Roman, Egypt, Faiyum, Red and black ink on papyrus
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Unidentified Chinese weavers, a Kesi 'Hundred Boys' panel, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period (1735-1799), ink on silk on wood
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Thangka of Green Tara. Tibet. ca. 1260. Ink and color on canvas.
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