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Ivory Plaque with Enthroned Mother of God ("The Stroganoff Ivory")

Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene

Funerary relief

Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds

Sarcophagus

Ewer

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf

Fragment of a bowl with a frieze of bulls in relief

Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude

Cylinder seal with cultic scene

Icon of the Virgin and Child

Jar with Lion-Head Handles

Fragment of a doorpost

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Bronze rod tripod stand

Heavenly beauty

Fragment of a doorpost

Belt clasp

Relief: two servants bearing food and drink

Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Lantern for a Lamp

Rosewater ewer

Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides

Center table

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

Mural Fragment Depicting a Maguey Bloodletting Ritual

Cabinet

Plaque with horned lion-griffins

Censer with seated king

Saluting Protective Spirit

The King's Acquaintances Memi and Sabu

Christ Carrying the Cross

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet

Hanger met ruiter op postament

The Vicarello Goblet

Bell (Lai Zhong)

Sleep and Death Cista Handle

Wall fountain

Cravat end

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

Grafmonument met alliantiewapen en vier kwartierwapens

Corner Railing Pillar with Drinking Scenes, Yakshis, and Musicians

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

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

Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

Spiegellijst, beschilderd met vier allegorische vrouwenfiguren

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Raft Cup

Knife Sheath

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Heavenly beauty

The bodhisattva Maitreya

Saint Jerome and the Lion (From the former Church of St. Peter in Erfurt)

Lamellophone (chisanji)

Helmet (Spangenhelm)

Palampore

Door Guardian (Dvarapala)

Green Tara

Accordion

Cabinet of a Militia Company

Graven en gravinnen van Holland

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

About three dozen people gather in a grassy field to either side of a crumbling structure to kneel and pray before a woman and baby in the center of this horizontal painting. The woman, Mary, and baby, Jesus, have smooth, pale skin while the others have light or tanned skin. The structure has sand-colored stone pillars, a wooden triangular, pitched roof, and a straw floor. Mary, who has an elongated torso, sits facing us with her knees apart. She wears an azure-blue robe over a rose-pink dress. A shell-pink veil covers her head and body. Jesus sits on her left knee, his pudgy body angled to our left. He is nude except for a transparent cloth wrapped over one shoulder and the opposite hip. Mary’s left hand braces his torso. On Mary’s right, our left, Joseph, an older man, stands facing us. He clasps his hands at his chest and leans on a long stick. He has wrinkled skin, long, gray curly hair, and a full beard. Both Mary and Joseph tilt their heads to their right, our left, as they look down at Jesus. Joseph wears a golden yellow robe over a blue tunic. Joseph, Mary, and Jesus have faint gold halos. Behind them, a brown cow and gray donkey rest on the straw. People closest to Mary and Jesus kneel and bow their heads while the people to the left and right sides mostly stand. Three men kneeling closest to Mary and Jesus offer gifts, including a bronze vessel and a gold jar. One man has long dark brown hair and a beard, and wears a gold crown. Another man is bald with long gray hair and beard, while the third is cleanshaven with shoulder-length brown hair. These men wear robes in powder blue, carnation pink, or celery green with delicate silver and gold embelishments. Others in the crowd range in age from young and cleanshaven to older and bearded. They wear robes and tunics in shades of raspberry pink, butterscotch yellow, lapis blue, plum purple, or forest green. Several horses, their coats white or cinnamon brown, stand among the crowd, a few with riders. To our right, one horse rears its head and two others stand facing each other. Beyond the crowd, grassy green meadows and hills dotted with trees lead back to the horizon. A pale blue sky fills the top third of the composition.

The bodhisattva Maitreya

Processional cross

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

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Nautilus Cup

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

Hanger op voetstuk met Amphitrite op een dolfijn

Pair of Candelabra

Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat

Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

Code de Hammurabi

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.

Ovoid covered jar with a woman reading a letter and finial in the shape of a shishi

Waistcoat

Cheval retenu par un palefrenier

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.

Cloth with Procession of Figures

Terracotta kernos (vase for multiple offerings)

Mural Fragment with Elite Male and Maguey Cactus Leaves

Fire-flame Cooking Vessel (Ka'en Doki)

Table Fountain

Dozens of people form a line starting from an opening in a city wall or building in the background to a rustic shed-like structure close to us, to kneel before a seated woman holding a baby on her lap in this vertical painting. All of the people have pale skin tinged faintly with green. The top edge of the panel is shaped so it has two rounded sections like shoulders leading to a stepped, crown-like form with an inward curving triangle at the top. A nickel-gray, crenelated stone wall of a distant city is nestled into the top, stepped section, with a glimmering gold sky above filling the uppermost triangle. Tile-roofed and domed buildings and a few towers appear densely packed beyond the wall. People on foot and horseback create a line from an arched opening in the wall toward us and to our right. Three of the people on horseback in the distance wear long robes and have gold halos. The line of people winds behind a tall, narrow hill to our right and it continues close to us. Two horses, two camels, and several people wait to the right but our attention is drawn to the trio in the foreground, Mary, Jesus, and Joseph, and the three men near the infant, the Magi. Mary wears a lapis-blue mantle covering her head and shoulders over a petal-pink dress, and she sits on a wooden or stone chest in the center of the painting. Her body faces us but she turns her face to look with pale blue eyes off to our right. In one hand she holds a hexagonal gold vessel that tapers to a flame-like finial. With the other hand, on our left, she supports the blond infant sitting in her lap. He is covered only with a white cloth around his waist, and he looks toward the vessel as he holds up the index and middle fingers of his right hand. To our left and slightly behind Mary, a balding man with white hair and beard and wearing a blue garment under a red robe sits with his head propped in his hand, looking down. His other hand rests on what might be the handle of a crutch or staff. The man, woman, and child have gold halos with what appears to be writing. The three Magi also have gold halos and they all wear scarlet-red shoes. The oldest kneels before Mary and kisses Jesus's feet. He has a long, light gray beard and is balding. He wears a brocade-like gold robe over pale brick-red sleeves. A cleanshaven man with dark brown hair and wrinkles around his mouth kneels to our left as he raises a jewel-encrusted gold crown from his head. He wears a gold and red floral-patterned garment and holds a rounded vessel, also with a flame-like finial. A younger, cleanshaven man with smooth features and shoulder-length, curling blond hair to our right also wears a gold crown. A dagger hangs from the waist of his sky-blue tunic, and his leggings are pale plum purple. Both arms are bent to his hands are held up, and in his right hand, he holds another tabernacle-like gold vessel. The structure to our left houses a donkey and bull munching hay. A gold sunburst floats above the roof, which seems to be built up against the stone wall of a building. The hills and trees beyond the people is painted with pine and moss greens and brown.

Corset

Sideboard

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

Mask (mbap mteng): Elephant (aka)

Guitar

The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea