‘Fortune teller’. early 1870s.
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Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japanese, 1797 - 1851) - One of the Daughters of the Dragon King Who Lives in the Bottom of the Sea
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Gold Head), 1986. Crayon and graphite on paper
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Mary Wigman’s Dance School, 1935, photograph by Albert Renger-Patzsch
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Flying a Kite, Miniature, Mughal India (circa 1740)
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Franziska Sibylla of Saxe-Lauenburg (1675-1733) Margravine of Baden-Baden in fancy dress costume as a magician, 1705
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Glass Inlay of Pharaoh Akhenaten, Egypt, New Kingdom, c 1353-36 BCE. Cast, then cold-worked to refine the sculptural quality of the portrait
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Michelangelo
Cleopatra (verso)
Cleopatra (recto)
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Girl fastening her peplos (Peplophoros), 1st century BCE-1st century CE, Herculaneum, Villa dei Papiri, bronze
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Alberto Giacometti
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A Chancay textile doll from Peru, circa 1000 - 1300 CE
(I'm sure it belonged to as a child)
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Statuette of a naked woman, maybe Ishtar. Necropolis of Hillah, near Babylon. 3rd c BCE-3rd c CE. Alabaster, gold, terracotta and rubies
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Harry Burton, Two 'guardian' statues standing on either side of the entrance to Tutankhamun’s Burial Chamber, 1922
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Said it before - Thank you for nourishing my soul & sanity especially on a day like today. 👏👏👏👏


