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Mirror with triangular rim and dragon and tiger design, 7 of 12, Japan, Kofun period, 200s-300s AD, bronze - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC09176

Neck amphora with two combatants, Attic, c. 510 BC, L 189 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05539

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Mosaic glass, Hellenistic, late 3rd to late 2nd century BC, 6-S. 44-45 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05907

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Miniature locomotive which won a medal at the Milwaukee exhibition of 1855, made by Pierre Rodier, Saint-Hyacinthe, 1850, iron, brass - Château Ramezay - Montreal, Canada - DSC07567

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Miriam is cursed with Leprosy, Netherlands, mid 1500s, stained glass - Museum Schnütgen - Cologne, Germany - DSC09840

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Minuet, by Giuseppe Gricci, Capodimonte Manufactory, Naples, c. 1750, soft-paste porcelain, colored enamel, gilt - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 20180922 163128

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One-handled amphora, late 1st century AD, 1995.10.5 - Cesnola Collection, Harvard Semitic Museum - Cambridge, MA - DSC06267

Objects from the grave of Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor, lead scepter 1137 AD, gold ring 1100-1150 AD - Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum - DSC04578

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Mrs. John Stevens (Judith Sargent, later Mrs. John Murray), by John Singleton Copley, 1770-1772, oil on canvas - Cape Ann Museum - Gloucester, MA - DSC01068

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Mirror, probably Chippendale, with pier table, Thomas Chippendale, c. 1770, rosewood and marquetry - Cinnamon Drawing Room - Harewood House - West Yorkshire, England - DSC01949

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Myth of Prometheus, Esteban Agreda, Real Fabrica del Buen Retiro, Madrid, 1803-1808 AD - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08407

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Nancy Caldwell Church Robinson (1760-1845) by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865), c. 1820, oil on canvas - Bennington Museum - Bennington, VT - DSC08866

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Mounted crow cup, porcelain from Jingdezhen, China, gilded silver mounts by Peter Wiber, Germany, c. 1610 AD - Peabody Essex Museum - Salem, MA - DSC05220

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Our Lady of Cocharcas, artist unknown, Peru, 1751, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC08135

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Our Lady of Mercy, called 'The Pilgrim', artist unknown, Cuzco, Peru, 1730s, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC08156

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Our Lady of Characato, by Cipriano de Toledo y Gutierrez, Cuzco, Peru, 1771, oil on canvas, detail 2 - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC08130

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Upright serpent (serpent Forveille), probably made by Darche, Paris, France, c. 1835, maple, brass - Casadesus Collection of Historic Musical Instruments - Boston Symphony Orchestra - 20180113 175638

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View of Lintin Island (with American ships Milo and Levant of the Massachusetts Russell & Co.), Guangzhou, c. 1835, oil on canvas - Peabody Essex Museum - Salem, MA - DSC05239

Victory with the portrait medallion of King Henry IV of France, by Augustin Pajou, Paris, c. 1770-1780, gilt bronze - Bode-Museum - DSC02894

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Vessel with jaguar and monster head flanges, Maya, Ulua Valley, Hondura, Late Classic period, c. 600-900 AD, stone - Dallas Museum of Art - DSC04652

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Wladislaus IV, King of Poland, Peace with Russia, Sweden, and Turkey (View of Danzig), by Sebastian Dadler, 1642 - Bode-Museum - DSC02814

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Western groom figure, China, Tang dynasty, 7th century AD, gray pottery with painted ornament - Matsuoka Museum of Art - Tokyo, Japan - DSC07248

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Youth with dog, known as Endymion, S 36, Roman, 1st century AD, marble, detail, after a Greek work from the late 4th century BC - Musei Capitolini - Rome, Italy - DSC06136

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Captain Hamilton Leroy Shields of Bennington, with his trotter Mary Colgate, by Thomas Van Zandt, American, 19th century - Bennington Museum - Bennington, VT - DSC08502

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Bowl with arabesque design, Jingdezhen ware, China, Ming dynasty, 1300s AD, ceramic, underglaze black - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08364

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Cabinet, Catalonia, early 17th century AD, solid walnut with walnut and boxwood veneer - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC07965

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Dish, Cypriot, Late Bronze Age, Late Cypriot III, c. 1200-1100 BC, terracotta - Middlebury College Museum of Art - Middlebury, VT - DSC08011

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Delilah accusing the freed Samson of mockery, drauhtsman (checkers piece), German, Rhineland, 1100s, bone - Princeton University Art Museum - DSC06747

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Dish with white herons, Imari ware, Japan, Edo period, 1600s AD, ceramic, sprayed underglaze blue - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08975

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Container, Mangbetu-Zande peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo, lates 1800s to early 1900s, wood, back, plant fiber, string - Fowler Museum - University of California, Los Angeles - DSC02366

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Dish with molded carp, China, Southern Song period, 13th century AD, Qingbai ware, stoneware - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00722

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Dish with green dragon, China, Qing dynasty, 1662-1722 AD, porcelain - John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Sarasota, FL - DSC00728

Dish, attributed to Willem Jansz. Verstraeten, Netherlands, c. 1650-1660, tin-glazed earthenware - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - 20180922 152220

Drinking bowl with scenes from the Aethiopis epic, Attic, c. 540 BC, L 419 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05477

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Work table, decoration by Mary L. Poor, North Shore MA, 1820-1821, maple, birch, paint, brass - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC06878

Yukinoshita-do (chest armor), Japan, mid Edo period, 1700s, iron, silver, gold, lacing, view 1 - The Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum - DSC05467

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Woman in formal attire (haniwa), excavated at Yokozuka, Toyoshiro-cho, Isesaki-shi, Gunma, Kofun period, 500s AD, terracotta - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC09102

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Pan and Ceres, unidentified but apparently Real Fabrica del Buen Retiro, Madrid, 1790-1795 AD - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08395

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Plate with figures in arbor, Jingdezhen ware, China, Qing dynasty Yongzheng to Qianlong period, c. 1740, porcelain, 1984.224 - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC07435

Sermon by the Rev. Thomas Prince, giving thanks for a Hanoverian victory at the Battle of Culloden, August 14, 1746 - Old South Meeting House - Boston, MA - DSC05820

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Sacrament Tabernacle (fragment) by Andrea Bregno studio, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, 1501, marble - Bode-Museum - DSC03719

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Hebe Serving Wine, by Fatqua, Guangzhou, China, 1810-1815, reverse painting on glass after a European engraving - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07318

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Large tower reliquary, view 1, Köln, 1175-1200 AD, bone, wood, copper, bronze, brown varnish - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC00346

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Landscape with Saint Jerome and Christ Baptizing Saints, by Pietro Paulo Bonzi, called Gobbo dei Carracci, 1620s, oil on canvas - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC07873

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Jar with lid and incised design of lotus sprays, Korea, Gangjin or Buan kilns, Goryeo period, 1150-1200 AD, stoneware, celadon glaze - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04882

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Lion of Fo, c. 1790-1860, creamware - Fábrica de Cavaquinho - Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis - Porto, Portugal - DSC00420

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Plate with the coat of arms of Willem van Outhoorn, Japan, c. 1700 AD, lacquered wood, gold, silver - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC07682

Plate with winged Eros and tree, Apulia, 360-350 BC, H 6038 - Martin von Wagner Museum - Würzburg, Germany - DSC05837

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Plate, 18th-19th century, faience - Fábrica de Viana do Castelo - Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis - Porto, Portugal - DSC00390

Plate with pink Cereus, Chelsea porcelain, c. 1755, soft-paste porcelain - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - San Francisco, CA - DSC02957

Plate with Corinthian ruins, 1770-1775, hand-pierced Queen's ware with purple enamel - Wedgwood Museum - Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent, England - DSC09553

Plate with male bust, Teruel, Spain, 19th century AD, ceramic - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08197

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Plate, 18th-19th century, faience - Fábrica de Viana do Castelo - Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis - Porto, Portugal - DSC00397

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Pallas's Illustrated Book of Animals, by Peter Simon Pallas, 1767-1770s AD, gift of Alexander Siebold - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC09110

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Pair of Tigers, 2 of 2, China, Warring States or Western Han period, 3rd century BC, nephrite - Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University - DSC00752

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Paddle-shaped object, Blaustein-Ehrenstein, Alb-Donau-Kreis, 4100-3800 BC, wood, vegetal cord - Landesmuseum Württemberg - Stuttgart, Germany - DSC02734

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Pair of Tigers, 1 of 2, China, Warring States or Western Han period, 3rd century BC, nephrite - Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University - DSC00751

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Pair of nautilus cups by Bartel Jamnitzer, 1 of 2, Germany, Nuremberg, 1588, nautilus shell, gilt silver - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC06915

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Pair of apple boxes and covers, 2 of 2, Bow porcelain, c. 1756, soft-paste porcelain - California Palace of the Legion of Honor - San Francisco, CA - DSC03015

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Pair of mask-and-ring ornaments, China, Han dynasty, 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD, gilt bronze - Portland Art Museum - Portland, Oregon - DSC08645

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Pair of pillow cases with loving poems, made by Eliza Gordon for Sarah Goffe Gordon, Bedford, New Hampshire, c. 1821, linen - Concord Museum - Concord, MA - DSC05839

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Palepai, Paminggir people, Indonesia, Sumatra, Lampung, the Kaliande Peninsula, 19th century AD, cotton - Textile Museum, George Washington University - DSC09490

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Pilgrim badges in the form of ampullas, Our Lady of Walsingham, 14th century, England, lead - Museum, Haddon Hall - Bakewell, Derbyshire, England - DSC02958

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Self portrait by Leonhard Posch, plaster, 1815 - Bode-Museum - DSC02819

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Set of sugar, tea, and biscuit boxes, view 4, Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1901, silver, amethyst - Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt - Mathildenhöhe - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC06334

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Self portrait by Leonhard Posch, tin, 1815 - Bode-Museum - DSC02820

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Serving plate with handles, 3 of 3, from a partial dessert service, made by John Ridgway, 1830-1840, porcelain, hand-painted decoration and gilding - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC06641

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Serving plate with handles, 2 of 3, from a partial dessert service, made by John Ridgway, 1830-1840, porcelain, hand-painted decoration and gilding - Peabody Essex Museum - DSC06639

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Scarlet Bird and Pushou tomb doors, 2 of 2, China, Eastern Han dynasty, 25-220 AD, stone - Sichuan Provincial Museum - Chengdu, China - DSC04752

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Sarung (hip wrapper) for woman of Peranakan birth, Indonesia, Java, Pekalongan, 19th century, cotton, resist-dyed - Textile Museum, George Washington University - DSC09536

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Partially nude female figurine, unknown origin, possibly Nippur, Hellenistic, 332-37 BC, ceramic - Harvard Semitic Museum - Cambridge, MA - DSC06121

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Pedestal and urn, by Thomas Chippendale, mid 1700s, for use as a plate warmer - State Dining Room - Harewood House - West Yorkshire, England - DSC02026

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Shallow bowl, probably Afghanistan, Sasanian period, 5th-7th century AD, silver, gilt - Arthur M. Sackler Gallery - DSC05096

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Sketches for the first movement of the Fifth Piano Concerto, op. 73, ('Emperor'), Beethoven, 1809, musical autograph - Morgan Library & Museum - New York City - DSC06701

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Sitting Buddha, China, unearthed from Wanfo Temple, Chengdu, the Liang of Southern Dynasties, 502-557 AD, sandstone - Sichuan Provincial Museum - Chengdu, China - DSC04552

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St John the Baptist and other saints, copied from a lost Byzantine diptych at the Battistero di San Giovanni in Florence, 1 of 2, Florence, before 1759, painted and gilt stucco - Vatican Museums - DSC00708

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Snuff container, Zulu people, South Africa, late 1800s, gourd, brass, copper, iron - National Museum of Natural History, United States - DSC00490

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Skating at Reiterstandbild Friedrich Wilhelm III - Cologne, Germany - DSC00378

Skating at Reiterstandbild Friedrich Wilhelm III - Cologne, Germany - DSC00380

Rustam rescues Bijan from the well, from the Shahnama by Firdawsi, probably Iran, Mongol period, dated February 1341 AD, watercolor, ink, paper - Freer Gallery of Art - DSC04684

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Saint Barbara, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Dorothea (Saint Dorothea), from Bartholomew's Church, Anhausen, Kreis Schwabisch Hall, 1506 AD - Landesmuseum Württemberg - Stuttgart, Germany - DSC03039

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Saint Augustine and Saint Nicholas with donors, Middle Rhine, c. 1250, stained and painted glass - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC00184

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Saint Catherine and Saint Anthony, Lisbon, 1717-1739, with silver and gilt bronze tabernacle, Late Mannerism - Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro - Coimbra, Portugal - DSC00115

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Sideboard, maker unknown, probably Boston MA, c. 1855, walnut, walnut burl veneers, marble - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07595

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Sleigh bed, Spain, c. 1820 AD, mahogany, pine, bronze - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08460

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Shinja type noh mask, with inscription 'By Master Tomoharu of the Hosho troupe of 74 years', Muromachi period, 1400s-1500s AD, wood, polychromy - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC08988

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Short-necked jar, Sue ware, excavated at Rurikozuka Tumulus, Kisarazu-shi, Chiba, Kofun (Asuka) period, 600s AD, stoneware - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC09179

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Sofa, maker unknown, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, c. 1810, mahogany, birch veneer, replaced horsehair upholstery - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07663

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Sides of an Alexander casket, 4 of 4, Constantinople, 850-900 AD, or Alexandria, late 500s AD, ivory - Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt - Darmstadt, Germany - DSC00326

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St. Jerome, Andrea Briosco (Riccio), Ulocrino, and circle, Padua, early 16th century AD, bronze - Bode-Museum - DSC02517

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Pilgrim flask, Venice or France, 16th century, enameled glass - Wadsworth Atheneum - Hartford, CT - DSC05053

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Pieces from a coffee service, Margravial Faience Manufactory, Bayreuth, c. 1730, glazed earthenware with silver decoration (now black) - Germanisches Nationalmuseum - Nuremberg, Germany - DSC02629

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Seated Shaka Nyorai (Sakyamuni), Japan, Heian period, 800s-900s AD, wood, gold leaf - Tokyo National Museum - Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan - DSC08652

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Seated Virgin and Child, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, France, 1300-1325, ivory, stain - Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon - Eugene, Oregon - DSC09455

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Seated figure with globe, Chantilly factory, France, c. 1735, soft-paste porcelain with colored enamels over tin glaze, gilt bronze, 2004.361.3 - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC07447

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Script detail, Buddhist ritual bell with five-pronged vajra handle, eight Sanskrit characters design, Heian period, 12th century, gilt bronze - Tokyo National Museum - DSC05192 (cropped)

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Pipe as sailor effigy, Haida, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, wood - Native American collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC06147

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Nicolò Zen (1515-1565) by Titian, 1560-1565, oil on canvas - Saloon - Kingston Lacy - Dorset, England - DSC03492

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Table cover or wall hanging, Peru, south highlands, 1675-1700 AD, cotton, camelid hair, silk, view 1 - Textile Museum, George Washington University - DSC09597

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Standing Vairocana, Korea, Unified Silla to Goryeo dynasty, 800s-900s AD, gilt bronze - Tokyo National Museum - Tokyo, Japan - DSC08265

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