Food Platter with Carved Human Figure Handle
© LACMA
Legation of the Lower Mahakam to the Bloeoe River, Central Borneo. Sitting from the left to the right: Dr. A. W. Nieuwenhuis, Si Ding Ledju. Besides standing Mohammed Raib. Borneo expedition led by dr A.W. Nieuwenhuis, between 1896 and 1897. Demmeni, J.
© KITLV
Outer anthropoid coffin lid of Thuya. Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Yuya and Thuya (KV 46), New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, reign of Amenhotep III. Wood, gilded stucco with inlays of blue glass, obsidian (eyes), light blue, dark blue, and red glass, 86 x 26 ½ x 37 in. (218.5 x 67.5 x 94 cm). Egyptian Museum in Cairo, JE 95232.1&2, CG 51006.1&2, SR 4/8.1&2. Photograph by Massimo Listri
The Water Margin
Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
ca. 1610–40
China
Woodblock-printed book; ink on paper
Gift of Julia and John Curtis, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2020
2020.73.4
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Box with dragons, Qing dynasty, 18th century, Carved lacquer
© Museum Rietberg, Zurich
Tekoteko (gable figure), 1850-1900. Te Papa (ME011429)
© Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Garment hook (daigou) in the form of a tiger
China, Eastern Zhou, Warring States Period, 475-221 BC
Bronze, gold, silver
H. 11.4 cm; L. 24 cm; D. 3 cm
ATC601
© The Al Thani Collection 2018. All rights reserved.
Photography by Todd White Art Photography.
Bronze plaque
AD 900–1500
Atacama Desert, Argentina
Copper alloy
20 x 15 cm
Purchased from the Maryland Historical Society
20/8192
© National Museum of the American Indian
Odalisque in Grisaille
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
ca. 1824–34
Oil on canvas
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1938
38.65
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hunting cheetahs and their keepers
Colonel Eugene Impey, Rajasthan, 1858 - 1865, photographic print.
Made for the Museum, c. 1980-1990.
© Ashmolean Museum
The Main Gate, New Yoshiwara
c. 1745
Torii Kiyotada (Japanese, active c. 1716–51)
Hand-colored woodblock print; toku-oban yoko-e, beni-e
Clarence Buckingham Collection
1939.2152
© The Art Institute of Chicago
Powder horn
India, 18th century Ivory, copper alloy
Bequest of Pierre Jourdan-Barry as a sign of friendship for Henri Loyrette, 2013
Musee du Louvre, MAO 2257
Department of Islamic Art, MAO 2257 © 2013 Musee du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Hughes Dubois
Bentwood Hat
© Suomen Kansallismuseo
House on Nias, circa 1895.
© KITLV
Punan Ba'a Baby Carrier
© Borneo Cultures Museum
Ear ornament with winged runner
400–700 CE
Moche
Gold, turquoise, sodalite, shell
Gift and Bequest of Alice K. Bache, 1966, 1977
66.196.40
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ornement en forme d'aile pour couronne.
Corée du Sud, Gyeongju, tombe de la couronne d’or, 5e siècle, or, H. 40,8 cm, Gyeongju, musée national, Bongwan 9435
© Musée national de Gyeongju
Lion dit "de Monzon", 10e et 11e siècles, Cordoue, métal (bronze) coulé, décor gravé,
Musée du Louvre - Département des Arts de l'Islam
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Hughes Dubois
Ancestral Spirit Pillar of the Family House of the Zingur Leader of the Jiaping Old Society
© The Museum of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 中央研究院民族學研究所博物館
Etruscan, Votive statuette of Hercle, 320‒280 B.C. Bronze. 9 9/16 x 2 3/4 x 3 7/16 in. (24.3 x 7 x 8.7 cm). Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 96.AB.36