April 30, 2025 | Steven G. Alpert
 
 
 
April 29, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Vishnou
Art khmer, époque angkorienne, seconde moitié 11e siècle, Mébon occidental, Angkor, province de Siem Reap, Cambodge, bronze, H.123 cm, Musée national du Cambodge, Phnom Penh, Cambodge
© Thierry Ollivier

 
 
April 22, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Shield, Amhara, Ethiopia, Embossed buffalo, rhinoceros or hippopotamus hide, engraved silver plates and red leather lining, Musée Barbier-Mueller, photo Studio Ferrazzini Bouchet

 
 
April 18, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Fragment (Spain); silk; H x W: 51.4 x 32.7 cm (20 1/4 x 12 7/8 in.); Gift of John Pierpont Morgan; 1902-1-222
© Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

 
 
April 16, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Openwork furniture plaque with ram-headed sphinx
Neo-Assyrian
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Assyrian
Ivory
Fletcher Fund, 1957
57.80.2
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
April 12, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Patiala Necklace, Cartier Paris, special order, 1928 (restored 1999–2002).
Commissioned by Bhupinder Singh, Maharajah of Patiala.
Diamonds, yellow and white zirconia, topaz, synthetic rubies, smoky quartz, citrine set in platinum.
Vincent Wulveryck, Collection Cartier
© Cartier

 
 
March 31, 2025 | Steven G. Alpert
 

Spinning Wheel | Gasieng
© University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

 
 
March 30, 2025 | Steven G. Alpert
 
March 26, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Octagonal cup with dragon handles
Late Ming (1368–1644)– early Qing (1644–1911) dynasty
17th century
China
Gilt copper alloy
Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2017
2017.20
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art

 
 
March 24, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Buddhist Priest’s Mantle | Jiasha
China
Silk; Metallic-Wrapped Thread; Paint
Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1949
51.66
Courtesy of the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum

 
 
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Waistcoat with Calligraphy of an inner Kiswah curtain from Mecca
© Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia

 
 
February 28, 2025 | Steven G. Alpert
 
February 26, 2025 | Editorial Team
 

Reclining tiger
Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE)
4th–3rd century BCE
China
Bronze
Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985
1985.214.10
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art