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Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet

Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings

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Code de Hammurabi

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

Torso of Amenpayom

Green Tara

Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides

Le scribe accroupi

Funerary Portrait of a Young Girl

Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude

Statue of Amenemhat III

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

Sleep and Death Cista Handle

Relief: two servants bearing food and drink

Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Standing Four-Armed Shiva

Grand Piano

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Censer with seated king

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)

Ceremonial Knife (Tumi)

Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Figure of a Warrior

Bell (Lai Zhong)

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

Knife Sheath

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

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

Cabinet

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Helmet (Spangenhelm)

Dagger-axe

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

Head Fragment

Gigaku Mask of Young Persian Boy (Taikōji)

Ewer

Mask (mbap mteng): Elephant (aka)

Bassoon

Figural Pendant

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

Cloth with Procession of Figures

Guanyin

Accordion

Cabinet

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

Standing Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion

Armor (Gusoku)

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Ram Mask (Bolo)

Feast Ladle

Bassoon

Ornament voor de houten steel van een ge

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Cylinder seal with cultic scene

Crucifix with Scenes of the Passion

Kaftan

Sickle sword

Tomb with Sphinxes and an Owl

Tánggǔ (堂鼓)

Lamp with Hanging Head Dragonfly Shade and Mosaic and Turtleback Base

Two Ge

Corset

Transverse Flute in D-flat

Table Fountain

Chair (Kiti Cha Enzi)

Lidded Bowl with Iguana

Tomb Guardian with Animal Head

Storage Jar

Shiva as Lord of the Dance (Nataraja)

Fire-flame Cooking Vessel (Ka'en Doki)

Hide Shirt

Fire Screen

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.

Jewelry Elements

Bronze rod tripod stand

Pair of Candelabra

Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper

Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays

Terracotta kernos (vase for multiple offerings)

Figure of a reclining woman

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

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.

Doublet

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

Enthroned deity

Lantern for a Lamp

Arm Band with Man's Head

Memorial head (nsodie)

Processional cross

Oribe-Type Ewer

Uma

Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration

Headdress