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Coffin of Bakenmut

Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet

Code de Hammurabi

Censer with seated king

The King's Acquaintances Memi and Sabu

Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra and Eleven Volumes of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra

L'Européenne

Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude

Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings

Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides

Torso of Amenpayom

Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Statue of Amenemhat III

Le scribe accroupi

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

Armor (Gusoku)

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Relief: two servants bearing food and drink

Cabinet

White-Ground Lekythos (Oil Vessel): Atalanta and Erotes

Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)

Mask (mbap mteng): Elephant (aka)

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Cloth with Procession of Figures

Figure of a Warrior

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

Red-Figure Calyx-Krater (Mixing Vessel): Medea in Chariot (A); Telephos with Baby Orestes (B)

Bassoon

Xantil (deity censer)

Black-Figure Hydria (Water Vessel): Frontal Quadriga (Body); Theseus and Minotaur (Shoulder)

Ceremonial Knife (Tumi)

Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper

Standing Four-Armed Shiva

Cylinder seal with cultic scene

Funerary Portrait of a Young Girl

Guanyin

Sleep and Death Cista Handle

Accordion

Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees

Green Tara

Bassoon

Cabinet

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Bell (Lai Zhong)

Chair (Kiti Cha Enzi)

Cult vessel in the form of a tower with cylinder seal impressions near the top

Tánggǔ (堂鼓)

Ewer

Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)

Gigaku Mask of Young Persian Boy (Taikōji)

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

Sacrificer Container

Red-Figure Stamnos (Mixing/Storage Vessel): Komos (Musicians and Revelers)

Crucifix with Scenes of the Passion

Head Fragment

Terracotta kernos (vase for multiple offerings)

Dagger-axe

Knife Sheath

Quilt

Lidded Bowl with Iguana

Pair of Candelabra

Transverse Flute in D-flat

Sickle sword

Storage Jar

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Grand Piano

Nursing Woman with Child

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Cosmetic Jar in the Form of the God Bes

Mural Fragment Depicting a Maguey Bloodletting Ritual

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

A woman and child sit on an ornate gold, curving throne in front of a shimmering gold background in this vertical painting. Two winged angels in roundels at the upper corners and the woman and child all have peach-colored skin with a gray cast. The woman tips her head toward the child, to our right. She has almond-shaped eyes, a long, straight nose, and her small lips are closed. She looks into the distance over the child’s head. She wears a scarlet-red mantle that covers her head and drapes over her shoulders and body. The azure-blue of her dress beneath is visible at her throat and over one knee. The child sitting on her knee is as tall as a toddler but has adult proportions in his face and body. He holds up his right hand, on our left, and raises the first two fingers. He holds a red scroll in his other hand. He wears a forest-green robe over a salmon-pink garment. The clothing of both the woman and child have geometric gold lines indicating folds in the drapery, and both have gold halos. The child’s halo is marked with three red arms to create a cross above and to the sides of his head. The woman rests her feet on a low stool in front of the opening of the elaborately carved, two-tier throne that nearly encircles the pair. The winged angels in the upper corners have gold halos, brown hair, jeweled, gold garments, and each holds an orb and scepter.

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Oribe-Type Ewer

Corset

Courting flute (siyotanka)

Figural Pendant

Table Fountain

Kaftan

Memorial head (nsodie)

Ovoid jar with women with a yoke in scalloped panels

Ornament voor de houten steel van een ge

Doublet

Feast Ladle

Jewelry Elements

Helmet (Spangenhelm)

Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene

The Adoration of the Magi

Figure of a reclining woman

Hide Shirt

Dung-Chen

A winged angel with arms crossed kneels across from a young woman sitting and holding a book, both under an archway in a paneled room in this vertical painting. They both have pale, yellow-toned skin, blond hair, and flat, gold halos. They also have golden brown eyes, long, straight noses, smooth cheeks, and their pale, pink lips are closed. To our right, the woman sits in a throne-like chair with her body facing our left. Her head tilts down, and she looks toward the angel under lowered lids. Her hair is pulled back under the neck of the lapis-blue cloak she wears over a crimson-red dress. The dress and cloak are trimmed with gold, and a there is a gold starburst on the cloak over her left shoulder, closer to us. She holds her other hand up near that shoulder with her fingertips brushing her chest. With her other hand, she holds open the pages of a small book in her lap, so her fingers overlap some of the words. The entire Latin inscription would read, “virgo concipiet et pariet filium et vocabitur nomen eius emmanuel butirum et mel come dit ut fiat reprobare.” A slender, bone-white column separates her from the angel across from her, along the left edge of the painting. The angel has curly, shoulder-length hair and wears a robe with a gold, floral pattern against a burgundy-red background. Long, golden wings emerge from the shoulder blades and extend off the side of the composition. An open archway just beyond the angel is filled with streaks of flax yellow and burnt orange, possibly representing flames. Some of the walls in the room around the pair are pale olive green and other areas are darker spruce green. There are bands of coral-pink molding and inset panels of patterned mosaics. The flat ceiling of the space immediately over the pair is decorated with checkerboard panels in navy blue, hunter green, brown, and brick red. Gold lines create a ray coming from the ceiling toward the woman. At the back of the space, beyond the column separating the woman and angel, the room extends into an alcove with an arched hallway painted with gold stars against a midnight-blue background. Double doors open at the back of the alcove onto a room with a pale-yellow curtain with a mesh-like trim. We see the pair as if through a stone archway that lines the top and sides of the composition. The upper corners are filled with leafy decorations, as if carved into the stone.

Heavenly beauty

Lantern for a Lamp

Tomb Guardian with Animal Head

Ram Mask (Bolo)

Lamp with Hanging Head Dragonfly Shade and Mosaic and Turtleback Base

Tomb with Sphinxes and an Owl